EX-MQer maybe its time to make a change in your name and get on with your life
Posted By: anon on 2008-02-12
In Reply to: Did you say MQ???? - EX-MQer
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You fill out a time sheet. If you need to make a change sm
to your schedule, you just email them. They seem pretty flexible about everything.
Hope this helps.
Where is this information coming from about new MQ line rates? I'm a long-time MQer and have nev
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life is just what you make it
life is just what you want it to be - that was a song, I think. ..
Nothing will change unless we make it change..SM
As long as we accept the exploitation that this MT profession has reduced us to, it will keep going on. The top of this is the outsourcing.... well, get your legislators involved....better yet, the MEDIA. How many patients know their private medical information is being outsourced to halfway around the world? The squeeky wheel gets the grease. Do the patients know that their info won't be sold by some unscrupulous MT (halfway around the globe) to insurance companies, etc., making all this Medical records privacy a joke. It's not just our T-shirts being made in other countries; it's our most personal, private medical information, of which the public is not being made aware of. Not to speak of undercutting out profession to the bare bone. Granted, most US MTs are willing to work below market wage just to have a job, especially in economically-deprived areas, where outside jobs are scarce, and kids need to be fed and mortgages need to be paid. MTSOs know this. I'll bet they'll be the first to lobby against any action against outsourcing. (Wouldn't you be...if you got people to work for pennies while you're raking in the big $$$'s ? Still, notwithstanding the outsourcing problem, we're still going along with all the BS...working for pennies, whatever the client wants, he gets... ever notice how all of the MTSO flak seems to be re. unpaid work...mostly, demographic issues we're not even paid for... bec. It has to be done.. Part of the job... The client put the wrong info but we have to correct it...all unpaid work. Just give me a job with nothing but straight transcription, w/o the unpaid/demo. flak..I'll take it even at the present, absurd pennies-per-line state of the profession.
Dont agree. It is never to late to try to make life
wasted. With your attitude, it probably is too late for you, you dont seem to have the initiative to try to make it better. If you want to be a victim, go ahead. Maybe you should find a Victims-R-Us board.
Has anyone ever noticed how DQS picks up noise terribly in the background. Doesnt make my life any
easier trying to hear the dictator.
Great tip! Change, delete, or add as you go to make
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I hope DSG doesn't make the change
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No PTO for part-time. Not sure if you can work part-time or not since recent rule change. sm
You do pay a deposit for their equipment.
Time change info......sm
Go to Microsoft.com and look for patch for time zone edit...easy to find..should be on the top. Download and you'll be fine.
Okay. Flex your time. Change your schedule if necessary. sm
If you have been in this business any length of time, you should know how work volumes fluctuate, especially around the holidays.
I took the plunge too ... definitely time for a change. Thanks to all for the input. nm
all the time. Can change it to be played on Express
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I'm thinking............Time to change careers.
Why do people struggle so hard until they are so miserable that they live, sleep, and breath misery. You are right though about struggling, it's never going to change so I am taking classes to get my coding degree. I am choosing NOT to be miserable anymore.
Time change is earlier this year so computer
probably will not ask you to change now, may ask you at the usual time.
When is an SE allowed to change to employee (full-time) status?
Is it 11/01/2005 ?????
Thanks so much for informing us who have not received the packet as of yet.
Weren't they at one time OmniMed? If so, they were terrible then! Leopards do not change their
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companies change all the time - her info is old, she said. (sm/small message)
A turnover in managers,QA, leads, even recruiters can make an impact and happens all the time, so you never know; old info - grain of salt. newer info more reliable and needs to be found while considering.
Yes I thought it sounded nice. Just hard to change but it is time. Always a little bit of anxiety
about another company and leaving what you know and sort of starting over but sometimes it is time. You know, the fat lady sang.
Nope, more like a matter of time before we're all working for chump change.
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Your puter should ask you Sun. morning about making the time change. Just follow the 'custom'
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To Old MQer
Are you in the same predicament I am? All these companies will hire me on the spot, however, no one will match my pay!
EX-MQer
Thank you.
Also soon to be ex-MQer
As of 8/31... After 12 years, losing so much money, the cesspool of work, I am off to another company. Hopefully, it will work out for all of us... It's hearbreaking to have to leave, but I honestly believe in less than a year, MQ will either be belly up or so fragmented and sold off, even the PS will be out of a job.
soon to be ex-MQer
I started today. I had training this morning and typed a few reports, then logged off to send an email with some questions. I love it!!!! Have you heard anything yet? You may want to try emailing them if you haven't.
ex-MQer
I applied to Oracle (I have a lot of experience and great skills) and they did not even acknowledge my resume. I was quite disappointed in them. I hope your work picks up soon.
To MQer
I am one of your co-workers.
I don't care for the Q any more than you. However, in all honesty...my line count doubled when I went into DQS. It was ASR that turned it into a flaming downward spiral.
DQS is all about shortcut functions and typing speed. It does take about a month of like full time killing yourself to get used to it. I have worked on 3 different platforms before.
As an aside, you have to remember this was back in the VERY BEGINNING of DQS before they added all the templates and standards into the system. Now it sucks almost as bad as ASR. I think it will depend for them on what they are doing with DQS. If they don't have all that stuff they have to do like the Q makes us do, they may actually improve.
I would have to say that just about anything the Q touches these days goes sour.
BTW, I was reading on a posting in the SEC filings that the Q has some sort of patent infringement suit going on over DQS.
ex-Mqer is right.
Makes a good back up but I'm tired of trying to struggle to make a living. If you are hired full time, expect to work part.
i'll 2nd MQer
thought maybe i could do better -- wrong!! Either they couldn't/wouldn't give the flexibility, couldn't offer the good platform, other offer no equipment or reimbursement for DSL, some don't have enough work volume... MQ is the place for me!
You are talking to an X-MQer
and I was not alone in making 11.5 a line for years before the company went sour. MT companies used to charge the doctors 18 cents a line and now they are cut throating, and selling the false benefits of ASR to the hospitals to charge the hospital 14-15 cents a line, so don't tell me that we should not be earning a good 10 cents a line - AT LEAST
Ex-MQer, now KSer. . .
I wouldn't take it to small claims. My original lead in ortho did call me today and we straightened it all out. She has always been honest and fair to me and so has my other lead. They offered me another account within the company. I was hoping they'd come through. I never meant to bash the whole company because they all don't deserve it. It was just miscommunication.
MQer from Orange, CA also......without work
another day, but not another dollar :(
Last year $36K part time, going to make more this year full time BUT sm
I AGREE it IS getting harder to make money. I used to make $24 very part time 10 years ago and now...well it is Word and platforms versus WP5.1. I got 7.5 cents a byte line then and I get 9.5 cents a character line now. That IS a huge different in point of fact.
OH I WANT MY WORDPERFECT 5.1 BACK!!!!! Bwaaah!
Yes, I make my time up later in the week when possible
or the weekends. I'm not tied to my computer. I do other things in between and check every 15 minutes or so for work.
I really don't care about the slow period. It was so busy for so many months that I am enjoying the slow down....but hopefully, it won't be much longer. I'm getting used to having these breaks. 
Is it a given you can flex and make up time or (sm)
do you have to have specific permission from your supervisor? I know when I worked for MQ it was always designated when you could and couldn't make up time.
Make sure that you save & replace it every time
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The only time I don't make my line count
it is my own fault for wasting time, surfing the net, etc. It's always my fault. Even when we had a dry spell with work trickling in I still hopped on when most people weren't working and I still made my required count for the pay period.
How long before they make you part-time?
I have had a terrible couple of months. The first time I didn't make my line counts a person from HR emailed me and suggested that I type a bit faster. Gee....why hadn't I thought of that?
Now you can not make your lines in 9 hours! More time for 2nd Job.
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Of course we do. This will make time #5 that I do just that. Glad you have good luck.
Not everybody does. Ummm...you do know you don't always get what you ask for/want, right? And if you try sometimes, you still don't get what you need.
I believe they mean that you have to make $900 per PP to be full time, still paid by line
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I work at AMphion part-time and make as much there in 20 hours as I do at my FT job in 40
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Not easy to make 1000 - lots of ESLs or time
spent looking up addresses, etc. They kept you on because they can't find anyone to put up with the low and steady income.
not to mention, this feels like a push to make this just a part-time
job because it seems to be happening already. My partner drives a school bus and they do that to the drivers, they only allow them to work so-many hours a week, with absolutely NO benefits, other than the few the union has gotten them, and the bit higher pay scale. My partner also has had the union fight for his job many times especially when new managers would come in and right away want to 'clean house', get rid of the higher paid, senior drivers. It costs him 37 dollars a month though for 10 months and that is a drag too but in the long run, he does have some protection and the union is only as strong as its members. they are also in bed with management most of the time but these managers are usually nasty, aggressive, and would rather just hire their friends and family, and that is one thing I appreciate the union for, if nothing else...
you have to have an advocate - someone has to have our best interest in mind if we are ever to keep our jobs...
I am curious about the amount of money I am making at this time. I make around $700 every week and
I am wondering if this is average or if I am selling myself short as an IC.
WWWaah. I used to make good money til the health problems hit, now it seems hardly worth my time!
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
Nasty, rude, unprofessional.
I spent most days watching TV because there was supposedly no work, and when I quit they screwed me out of the money that they agreed to pay to ship their equipment back.
EVIL
You need to get a life.....
I guess you had a bad experience, but that says nothing for the more than 400 MTs who are happy at OSi. I don't understand why you spend so much time running down a company instead of being a productive citizen. What you give comes back to you in the future. NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE.....I hope you are happy in your life because the reflection here shows some real issues you probably need to work on.
Get a life.
I too have "worked" for them, as a slave I might add. I work my tail off and do not get paid what I should. You, apparently a company suck up, get paid what you deserve. Some of us do not. You are not in the know. I am looking elsewhere as we speak because I cannot and WILL NOT take it any more. Get a life. It is not just me as other people have the same complaints. Unless you WALK in our shoes just SHUT UP.
You must have no life. No wonder lol
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me get a life?
ha ha ha ha. That's original!! Spelling police?? You have such an original way with words!!!! Things that make you go hmm? What year was that? I am so laughing and laughing.
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