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Throwing bad stuff back! - FrustratedMT

Posted: Jan 27, 2014

It is so frustrating to be working when only a few others are working and having the job#'s progressively increase, but then have a really horrible dictator's file come in that was hundreds of jobs before the rest in your box! In other words, being thrown back.

If you have your client set to show TAT, you can see it in the TAT too! Like file 1 being at 18:05, file 2 being at 18:05, file 3 being at 18:03, but then file 4 being at 16:55.

If this happened with any of the "good" docs, I'd think it was just random files getting stuck, but it ONLY happens with the bad ones.

I know what you mean - MTT

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My supe knows about and does nothing. I think she's afraid her high producers will quit. Well, gee I wonder why they are high producers? If there was no cherrypicking, maybe we could all share the wealth instead of the chosen few.

throw backs - stupid me

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Happens to me daily. I wonder if the sups aren't doing it half the time as they have production to meet as well. That would explain nothing being done about it. So, so tired of doing this crap which further reduces my pay. This job stinks.

Cherrypicking by "team lead" - Not stupid

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Especially aggravating is that the "team lead" obviously has the power to pick and choose and steals the better reports that are coming up and leave the crumbs for the rest of us. They do get extra money for being "team lead" but seem to think it is fair for us slugs to wallow at the bottom of the pay scale.

Happens in my accounts quite frequently too....sm - LoveMT

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And it happens most often during the hours that the offshore team happens to be working... Imagine that! My TSM actually noticed it before any of us said anything simply because our particular platform had some kind of glitch and the jobs that were "thrown back" ended up stuck WAY down at the end of the list of jobs for whichever account it was thrown back into, making that job end up being extremely OTAT by the time someone was able to get to it. If the job was sent back untranscribed, then it didn't go back to the proper place/order in the queue but instead ended up at the end of the line, so to speak.

Turns out that it was the offshore team pulling the jobs and then sending back the horrible ones obviously because they couldn't do them or didn't want to do them. Sad, but oh so true....

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