Can I come join you in La La Land?
Posted By: frost on 2005-09-24
In Reply to: Company with no QA? - cm
Your dreamin.
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you can join, no problem. If you write, you can join. nm
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How is it possible that I could land a job..sm
right after finishing my MT school, but now that I have more experience and have worked in-house, I can't? I am getting so frustrated right now. If I don't land a job soon, we will go into foreclosure on our house. I have applied to over 25 companies, and I am still applying and testing.
Okay, I just needed to vent for a minute.
How'd you land that interview?
Did you work for the company already? I'd love to be a trainer or tech person for an MTSO. I'm very qualified, but I'm stuck typing boring reports. As for hourly wage, I'm not sure what the going rate is for trainer in the MT world. I make $30 an hour teaching adult ed and online classes, but I don't have enough classes to replace my MT income. Plus, there's so much work outside of the classroom, grading papers, lesson plans and reading that it's really NOT $30 an hour.
Fantasy Land
Can you find the MTSO posts?
OT can be collected retroactively through Dept of Labor if you kept records.
You are one of hundreds. Follow up on it.
Agree. Got any swamp land to sell her? nm
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Well, I don't know if I'd call India a "terrorist land."
And why are you calling yourself spectator? Enjoying the sport, are you?
and I have prime land in the everglades for sale.
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Oh to live in that nice little fairy land :)
Yep, that is why I got into this business. I have my days (like when I started this whole mess the other night) when I feel so down about how hard this business is, but I obviously have it in my bones because I've tried going outside the home a few times over the years and always end up coming back. It definitely has major ups and downs, but all in all, there really isn't a better way to work and be there for your children (at least somewhat). Praise the Lord they aren't coming home to an empty house every afternoon or being alone all summer. Most days I'm able to appreciate my life and be thankful for this job/line of work - but there are days I just want to scream. I do think this industry takes major advantage of us and find it getting worse and worse each year, but I am grateful for not having to deal with traffic; getting to wear comfy clothes to work; and have the flexibity to take my kids to school, pick them up, and go to their school functions.
:) Happy typing!
MTSOs are going into la-la land, losing the grip on reality!...nm
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Consider yourself a free bird and move on. Lots of stories like this out here in MT land. nm
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Oh, ok. Thanks. Maybe I will join you soon.
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We can do even more... we have to join
To all my fellow MDI'ers, I think it is time to tighten up the bootstraps and starting thinking out of the box. Let's get together in private, put our thinking caps on, combine resources, and see what we can do for ourselves and each other. Every email will be confidential... we still have our integrity! Write to AmericanMT@yahoo.com
Are the people who join
and currently work for them kept confidential??
Hey can i still join the survey? nm
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There is a Union for MTs to join
MTs have been able to join the National Writers Union http://www.nwu.org/nwu/ for several years, though very few have done so. Perhaps if more of us joined we might get somewhere. Worth a try anyhow, don't you think? We certainly don't have much more to lose.
how do you join it? When I clicked sm
on join, it just came up a message that this was private or something like that. What process do you go through to join this group?
join forces
Hi, I'm a fellow MDIer and am interested in hearing from others who are interested in a private group. I am kicking around the idea of trying to start a Co-op of something of the sort, I'm looking for resources and ideas from others who might be interested in starting our own company... not me personally, but as a group creating our own company. Surely it can be done! Americanmt@yahoo.com, spread the word and I hope to hear from you!
OK, on the home page i am looking at, there is NO Join Us.
I'm dead serious. There is NOTHING on the site I am looking at for Join us or send a picture. www.synthescribeofamerica.com 
So you will tell a person to join, knowing they won't
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You could try to find out if account gone and then try to join
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Link for who can and cannot join a union
http://www.nlrb.gov/Workplace_Rights/i_am_new_to_this_website/
how_do_i_file_a_petition_to_start_or_remove_a_union.aspx
Its all one link, but I had to split it to get it to show up. Sorry about that.
If IC's can't join EXISTING unions, then maybe
it's time for MTs to form a union that DOES include IC's, especially since they are a large part of this industry. They deserve better wages, too.
I will join you at the bottom, no jobs for me either..nm
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I'm not exactly sure - feedback from those who would join an MDI forum?
I don't know that I can answer that directly. I know I would be interested in participating and (maybe) even trying to set it up... I was just trying to encourage all of us to come up with something, as I thought the original poster had a great idea. Your idea sounds like one that would work.
So the poster who got the thread started seem to want to be able to talk privately without any mgmt of MDI being able to see. But, even with a Yahoo group and using anonymous emails, really there is no way to monitor who is who. I'm not sure I would want to be the one excluding anyone anyway. The bottom line, it seems to me, that even with the most private of groups such as this, what we share still may make it out of the privacy of that group, and all would just have to be aware.
Feedback from others who would join - What kind of group would be ideal? Would you feel any more safe to share in the kind of group mentioned above?
join forces, anyone game?
To all my fellow MDI'ers, I think it is time to tighten up the bootstraps and starting thinking out of the box. Let's get together in private, put our thinking caps on, combine resources, and see what we can do for ourselves and each other. Every email will be confidential... we still have our integrity! Write to AmericanMT@yahoo.com
MDI'ers we need to join forces
I am brand new to MTStars and can't seem to figure things out. I am floating the idea of maybe we join forces, perhaps try to form a Co-op, and maybe if we combine we could start our own company. Maybe a pipedream, but I believe it can be done. We all have resources, we all have brains, and we have been told we are the best in the business. Please help me spread the word, please contact me privately, and let's figure out a way that we can get off of MTstars, start communicating privately so that we can actually be productive. We do have options but time to do away with the anger and starting thinking out of the box. Will you guys please help me?
Time to join forces
I am a fellow MDIer. I am trying to refocus what little energy I have left in getting us organized, getting us together so that we can collectively put on our thinking caps and try to figure out our next step. I am thinking that if we can contact enough people, combine our brains and resources, maybe we will be able to do some constructive, like maybe start our own company/CO-OP. Please contact me T my private and confidential email address which I have set up exclusively for this reason. Thanks! AmericanMT@yahoo.com
I'm so glad you decided to join us, Jeannal! Welcome to Diskriter!
Glad you're having as good an experience as I've had.
Join the club, I quit a few weeks ago. Good luck...nm
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Since it's a private group on Facebook, you have to click on "request to join group" sm
It takes about a day to be added after the request is put in.
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