Thought TX was "at will" employment?? or fire/quit immediately w/o reason

• Fired from position for NO reason. - sm
  • Update - saw my attorney and filed for - unemployment today.
  • Um, a few things... - QA
    • Pound sand - no msg
  • You had an argument about her professionalism? - Do you think maybe you overstepped
  • Is the name of the company AMT in Houston? /nm - wondering
  • Hmmm - sm - Fired or Quit?
    • So she verbally "fired" you? Hum.. - if she offered you work an hour later and
      • If she fired you - mt
  • 3 guesses - mt
    • What are your guesses? You lost us. - NM
    • No Texas and will be seeing my attorney tomorrow. - no msg
      • Thought TX was "at will" employment?? or fire/quit immediately w/o reason - nm
      • P.S. He briefly told me on Friday - that I DO have a leg to stand on.
        • LOL - Maybe you should pass his - name around if he is aware of
          • You sound like the brown noser that - shares an office with her.
  • I don't know how you think as an IC - you're getting unemployment. As an IC
    • Wrong - mt
      • Well the IRS has nothing to do - with unemployment. That is a (sm)
        • MTSO or just plain stupid - mt
          • What about charging a fee (employees)..sm - TX MT
          • I understand what you are saying regarding - IRS and the employee versus IC, BUT (sm)
            • Never too late - sm
        • zackly. thank you! :)) nm - deni
      • multiple personalites of ex-boss? - oldie but goodie
        • That totally a different story! - Dahhhh
  • IC/UE - MyMT
    • If filing - mt
  • IC and unemployment - Anna
  • Fired - in the same boat
  • Anyone can be fired for anything at any - sm
  • You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. - sm

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for income taxes.  That doesn't include Social Security, does it?  Can you pay your own Social Security if you are an IC?  I don't get it.

So, that would lead me to think that you should be able to draw on it, like SS.  I really have no clue, though.  I am a statutory employee, so they take out my FICA.

I did all the hiring, training, scheduling, and QA by myself for a small company.  When I started, there were strict rules regarding the number of lines per day that must be done.   I would get emails from people saying they were desperate to work, were losing everything, ready to start today, etc.  I'd send out a couple of files for them to type and some would say How about I do these another day or I'd get them back (if at all) a week later.  Several claimed to be CMTs.  We started people at a lower rate until they came off 100% QA and once they made their lines, they got a raise.  The problem is that these were very easy accounts, it just doesn't get any easier.  I had people who claimed to have 10 years of experience, yet their work was no better than a new grad (actually I had new grads who did better).  What few remained never ever got their line requirements, some only doing less than 200 lines per day.  The company decided with the shortage of people, to just let them go so at least something was getting done, and hire more.  Ok, hired more.  Guess what happened?  During the low work periods we had too many people and the people who did their jobs had to try and get enough work.

Today was the last straw for me.  We had one lady who was always disappearing for a few days.  She would claim everything, terminally ill relatives, storms, phone issues, you name it.  This time after her vacation, she disappeared for 9 days.  No word, nothing.  She was another one who only did 200 or less lines per day.   I hired a replacement.  She finally emails and said she didn't have the phone number of the company (guess her email was broke too) but she's ready to work again.  I let her know we hired a replacement already.  She calls the office clerk whining about family emergencies and gets her job back.  Meanwhile, we have new people hired and mark my words, the work will run out again, punishing the good people. 

I don't get it. I hire people, new grads, who are supposedly thrilled for the chance and then they quit because they didn't know it would take 4 hours a day to work part time.  Or they don't show up at all.  I try to explain to people this is a job, just like any job you get in your car and drive to.  Out of 25-30 people, I might get 1-2 good ones.

I was raised you work for what you want, you don't expect it to get handed to you.  Sure I could stop working, get on public assistance, and probably my health would improve...it's gone steadily downhill due to the long hours and 11 years without a vacation, 5 without two days in a row off.  But what would I be teaching my children?  One of my sons is still in school but got a job in fast food.  He is such a hard worker, he's already gotten a raise and he's only been there 3 weeks.  He is the one they ask to fill in when others don't show up, he is the one who stays over to help the manager of a night because nobody would stay.   Another son is studying in a foreign country on a scholarship right now because he worked so hard in college.  He'll go far and somebody out there will resent him, thinking he had everything handed to him.  Well he didn't. He worked and earned everything he got, with little help from me because I didn't have it to give.  My 14-year-old daughter is nearly blind from RP and she's already asking me if I will sign the papers so she can get a job. 

So here I am depressed and once again looking for a job.

I saw the ad they have on mtjobs and find it curious. 

They state:

At this time, we are unable to offer employment to persons living outside of the U.S.

Sounds like they have some non-US MTs working for them.  Do they off-shore?   Most ads just say NO NON-US Applicants, not AT THIS TIME? 

Any insight? 

Thanks. 

Obviously more than one person has come forward and said they were told work is going to India.  The person who told me was not a "mere" MT.  Everyone knows they're sending work to India but no one on this site is going to stand by their promise of USA companies only!  I'm sure Webmedx is not far from turning into another Medware and trying to turn all us MTs in to janitors to clean by the C**P that these Indians put out.  This is just another example of the big companies turning our jobs over to India and then waving their flags trying to hide what they are about.  I can't believe this site actually expects companies to "publish" they're stabbing us in the back while they're smiling to our faces asking us to come to work for them (until they decide they want editors and not MTs).

Wake up Administrator!  No one is going to admit they're the "bad guys"!  When are we Americans going to start standing up for own jobs!!

questions, bam, bam, bam.  so have a cup of coffee about 1/2 hour before. When I took it the recruiter actually apologized for their line rate.

I want to change from MQ to save my sanity, but every week when I check out the postings, there is another company that is being lynched.  This is a tough crowd, isn't it?  I don't know how to weed through and figure out what is hype good and bad versus what is real.  I think I would be better off spinning a wheeling or flipping a coin than trying to balance out what is true here. 

Does anyone else feel this way?  Where can we go for real answers?

it has nothing to do with free speech but it MIGHT have something to do with defammation of character or slander, whichever is appropriate.

...IF you dont hit 98%.  they are just unreasonable in this manner.  Totally ridiculous, like the ones firing you are not human and never had to learn anything to get WHERE THEY ARE!