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Performance review and increase - NuanceMT

Posted: Aug 28, 2012

I have a feeling I am going to get laughed right off of this page, but here goes. At any point does Nuance offer a performance review and/or pay increase?

Also, has anyone ever threatened to quit and were offered an increase to stay?

Im interested in reading the responses. From what - I have heard, everyone is paid the same.

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Which is ridiculous. I have never heard of a job in my life that didn't give raises or pay based on experience until I found this board.

It wasn't Nuance, but when I first... - ...started working for an MTSO...

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...instead of for the actual hospital where I had worked for years, I was trying to figure out how this strange "pennies per line" thing worked. (haha) I had only ever been paid hourly, with annual (small) pay raises until I was at the top of the range; but then, we got a lump sum each year after we were at the top of the range, to correspond with the percentage of pay increase the facility had given that year.

No mention was made by the MTSO of any kind of pay increase after a certain period, annually, or whatever. So, after thinking about it for a while, I kind of realized what that meant; but I asked my manager, just to be sure: "How does one ever increase their salary in the future, after being with the company for a few years? Does this mean I just have to produce more and more if I ever want to earn more?" Of course, she said, "Yes, basically, that would be how you could earn an increase in pay."

Kind of awful, isn't it.

raise - tired MT

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Not that I am aware. You keep the same pay. Been here for over a year. I do not believe any MTSO ever gives a raise. You just have to type more to make more.

performance review and increase - tired MT

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They would never offer a raise to keep you. We can always be replaced.

raise - anon

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Asked or better yet commented about needing a cost of living raise in a survey and was told they are constantly looking into competative rates and such.....whatever

I think we have all heard the phrase - poor

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"Our industry is undergoing a lot of changes..." then nothing good after that ever. The changes are coming from the huge MTSOs themselves who have other lines of revenue calculating how much chopping of pay they can get away with, then all the smaller MTSOs following suit to compete and/or getting swallowed up by the big ones anyway. There oughta be a law.

US Antitrust Laws, but - Des

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These laws protect American buyers from price gouging, rather than American workers from â��wage gouging.â��

As long as the rich buyers are happy, the American worker will continue to suffer.

Please SM - anon

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I started to type a very long, involved message and then thought better of it. I don't want them to have the satisfaction of knowing how much they have hurt me. They will never, ever offer you more money, no matter how wonderful and experienced you are (and I, for one, believe that you are wonderful and experienced and awesome at what you do). Bring yourself to a different level and value yourself because they never will. I sincerely hope that you will take this to heart, because it is the God's honest truth. I could say more, but why give them the satisfaction? They are horrible and disgusting and could not care less about any of us. Cut your losses and move on.

no raise, - no pay increase

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The only way you can make more money with this company is to type faster, edit faster, work faster....many cases this cannot be done w/out sacrificing our QA..which is a complete different little game they play in itself.

I left this company when it was Focus for no work/lack of pay. I was promised more to come back and I didn't get crap but the same as what I was making. This is the only job that I know of that you do not get a raise, no matter how wonderful you are. Heck you can work at McDonald's or even Target, etc and you are given at least a few cents raise a year, but sorry not hear at Nuance.

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