Thank you TechSupport......

• Slipping Backward - Line Rates and Cost of Living - TechSupport
  • economy - another long-time MT
  • AND many are lowering the rate NOW - .
  • That is truly depressing - TTer22
    • Just for thoughts -- - Amanda
      • But think of the fringe benefits........... sm - m
        • The way I see it ------ (sm) - Topaz
          • Droll. Very droll. - But accurate!! NM
        • Of course, we've always had those 'benefits' - anyway.
          • There is no need of any of this - swiftsail
            • I worked for a company that the 'COO' (cough!) was a - former restaurant manager.
            • MTSO's need to know this: If the PAY isn't - there, then the QUALITY won't be, either. N/M

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Like you said, the costs of the new technology are tremendous to the MTSOs.  We MTs also have skyrocketing costs.  What other industry can you think of where the employee, not IC...but employee, provides their own workplace, their own desks, their own computers, their own reference materials, their own printers for the tons of paperwork that needs to be signed and returned, their own ink, pay for their own internet, their own phone, etc.? Keeping up with the latest reference materials and the BOS DE jour costs money. 

Cutting the line rate for SR is one way the MTSOs cut our throats.  Have you noticed the new trend where more and more MTSOs are only offering IC positions...and that at 7 or 8 cpl???  Another thing that seems to be catching on with MTSOs now is that if they DO offer employee positions, you have to have a quota of 15,000 lines per 2-week pay period to qualify for bennies. 

I still cringe when I think of our last conference call when our TL was blowing the company's horn and telling us all about the record profits for the last 2 quarters, how the company is strong, and how there were all these new accounts coming on board and how we should be proud of ourselves for making the business what it is.  Wasn't even a month later we hear that it's all going to SR at 3.5 cpl.  What a nice reward for our hard work, huh?

related to tech support - don't care if it is only your posting name;-)  You give some very valuable advice.  THANK YOU. 

I cannot believe, however, that it has come to this while we work in our home offices, generally on our own computers, trying to make a decent living.  Good Grief, Charlie Brown.