A few years ago my secondary went to another company and (sm)
Posted By: SM on 2007-04-29
In Reply to: Job loss from account loss - tolaorbison
evidently some of the office people as well, they in turn gave the new company the names and phone numbers of us who had worked the account and the new company actually called many of us to solicit us as employees. I felt it would have been okay for me to switch, since I had had no control over the account coming or going, but I didn't feel it was right for some of the higher ups to be involved in soliciting us for the new company. If anyone was in the wrong, they were. They shouldn't have shared records and personnel information like that from one company to the other IMO.
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OSi because they ignore me about a secondary
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You must ask for the new account as a secondary
You won't run out of work anytime soon. Ask Debbie about it. They are begging for people to work on it. How did you miss that email?
If it is your secondary that has OT offered how do you do it? nm
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I do not work my secondary if it is also low (sm)
which it has been. I know we're told to work secondary if primary is low, but I don't think it's right for me to take away from somebody else's primary account if it's scraping the bottom of the barrel too. I guess that's why I'm spending 12 hours at my computer a day to get my line count.
No secondary/OT posted too long..
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Webmedx secondary accounts
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One of my secondary accts has very little work , but they..sm
stat every blessed report they do, so I always get those immediately. It is TAT, but your STM can explain it in more detail.
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You weren't offered secondary accounts?
That's unusual.
TT gives you primary and secondary, how do they do work pools? sm
Do you get primary one work type (BORING) or do you get a fairly good mix or how do they set it up? TIA
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Webmedx ? secondary, tertiary accounts. sm
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webmedx tertiary secondary accounts
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Holy Cow -- all 3 of my accounts have work. One even OT. The secondary (sm)
one had been particularly low for weeks now and today there is a massive quantity. I wonder if maybe that hospital was trying out another service and just sending us a small amount. Whatever the reason, the work, at least for now has picked up greatly.
We are having KFC for supper so I can get in there and get a few of those OT lines while they last.
Hope everyone else is having good luck with their accounts also.
surely they knew your secondary was that low - why did they crosstrain for it? NM
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I was out a couple of minutes, mostly getting secondary and tertiary accounts. (sm)
I know when I hired on I was excited I could get days so easily, maybe we are just too many on one shift.
I agree, we need our own board where we can chat without being chastised for monopolizing the board.
I think the next time I run out I am switching to my part time job and trying to get back in here this evening.
I've asked repeatedly for a secondary account. nm
About 6 years ago this company did the same SM
stuff with the pay (and for a period of time didn't pay anyone) and MM from the paid site had to intervene.
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Highly recommend applying!!
I don't understand it. We've been consistently running out of work primary and secondary the
I quit.
Usuall plenty of work - demand a secondary or tertiary acct. nm
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There is so much wrong with that company that 100 years
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The company I work for NEVER gives PTO, even after 5 years. I would be willing sm
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I've been there for 3 years - yes, good company
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Worked for them a few years ago. Not a bad company. You could do worse. -nm
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Established company, started six years ago. They have
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I just left a company after 10 years, making only
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Kelly is a temporary service company that's been around for years. sm
You may not be old enough to remember Kelly girls. They used to be strictly secretarial, but do all branches of temporary work and job placement now. It may be a temp or temp-to-hire position through them, or then I could be totally wrong.
Bravo! Well, said Anna. TT is the BEST company in my 17 years of MTing.
Thank you for standing up for them!
I have worked there for a few years now. Not a lousy company but a very good one. sm
Perhaps you did not meet their standards or perhaps they did not meet yours, but there is no reason for you to be on here bashing those of us that love working for KS. If you have specifics, please share. I will:
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Good account with plenty of work.
Good benefits.
Managers that are human and know that the employees are too.
Owners who care about the company and employees. They are involved but less and less with employees as they grow. Instead, they have hired managers that are great so that they can concentrate on sales and customers.
Growing company with no lost accounts, which is more than most can say.
Opportunity for advancement.
IT helpful and caring, especially since the major change in that area a few months ago.
I love my job and I'm not in Illinois either; I'm in Florida.
Haven't found a great place yet . . ., was with last company three years.
Just new this internet thing.
My company lost the account I had worked on for 5 years. Webmedx got the
account so I followed it. I have interviewed with about a dozen companies the last year and out of all of them the only ones I considered were Keystrokes and Webmedx.
I left MQ after years and went with a highly rate company on this board (sm)
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I'm at Webmedx after 10+ years at MQ. Good company. Plenty of work. SM
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8+ years for me (Rodeer days pre-Wbmx merger) and best COMPANY EVER. NM
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