Unfortunately, I have to agree that her e-mails and tactics are quite....

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I know many of you were low on work this week (get those every week) we are busy now (the weekend of course) and we expect you ALL to be making up your lines ....ummm??? Should I not have a life? Drop my Saturday plans and work all day?

Watch out, they only require 1 weekend day a week, but basically expect that you work all weekend because... you aren't being a team player like everyone else who works every weekend.

They didn't even answer IMs lol! Never nonsense IMs either, just asked if I could log on and make up work. Since I was always getting e-mails about my line counts.

If they changed and I had a different supervisor, might consider going back if I wasn't happy already.

I think that *more benefits to come* is a downright sales tactic, not accurate or truthful, but not necessarily illegal, just immoral.  My opinion is that there are few real benefits, if any.  As a matter of fact, I hear that their newest plans include much more strict and frequent QA/QC evaluations, leading to the possibility of being deactivated; in other words, fired, if the highest level of perfection is not achieved and maintained daily.  In my opinion, Focus is not a company that respects or values its MTs as anything other than commodities to be manipulated to its benefit.  However, I am certain that Focus Infomatics is not the only MTSO in existence with these same standards of operation.  It's all about what they can do, what the majority of their workers allow.  Obviously, if zero MTs agreed to perform under such tactics, the company would not survive.  Right?

in addition to all negative reports from other posters.  I would say don't, unless you can afford to gamble that all the posters were indeed crackpots as the recruiter will tell you. Good luck whatever choice you make.

I cannot, however, use Iscriptor, so that one is out.  I don't have enough memory for Iscriptor, so I am told.  I'm running windows XP.  I was told by another company that I do not have enough memory to run Iscriptor.  Thanks bunches for your replies!!!!! 

In recent experiences for me, I have found that supervisors rarely answer e mails.  I find even if they ask something in an e mail or on a phone message, and you answer, there is no response.  If an MT needs advice about QA, scheduling, etc. and e mails there is no answer.  Is this a new trend? I have found this with recruiters as well.  After hired, if you ask the recruiter anything, there is no response, and you get voice mail if you call.

Is this a new form of etiquette among corporate individuals that we at home do not understand? This is something I have found working for companies which I consider not so good, and one which I consider to be wonderful, but since MTs are isolated, it seems that at least an answer now and then would be nice.  Even to let us know if they got the message to begin with.

My DH said not to worry, if I don't hear anything no news is good news, and yes it is rude, but I need to get over it. I am starting to agree, and not ever getting answers from team leads, or sups are the norm.  Anybody else have this experience? Thanks in advance for your response.  I just want to know if I am the only one feeling slighted.  I don't want or need my hand held, just need to know they got my schedule for example, or my query regarding QA.  After all, I don't want to make a mistake over and over again, for example.  Perhaps no news is good news, but are we MTs in the field a bother?

Just an FYI. Companies might not get ISP addresses from this site to cross reference who we are... yesterday, after I had posted several comments about a certain company I won't mention (because I will get in trouble for slander, no doubt). I got 2 suspicious e mails and cross-referenced where they came from and they were both from Texas.  1 e mail was insulting someone who was putting good info out on the company and another was responding to a post I put saying I loved the place...and that one was from Texas too.  Both were in the same state the company is in.  If you are management and you did it you know I figured it out and don't appreciate it.  If management or anyone from this company did not do it, my apologies but it is fishy or phishy that people in the same area wrote to me.  These claims are absolutely false and libelous against MTStars.  No individual nor company receives ANY information about posters from MTStars in any way. 

This board is for freedom of speech which I might add is a right under the constitution.  You say we can't slander on the board, you will get us.  You may just possibly be phishing to see who we are, this is invasion, and I don't appreciate.  This board is NOT about freedom of speech or your constitutional rights.  This is a privately owned board.  We are allowing all opinions but there are still posting guidelines.  You are making serious false allegations. 

Bottom line is, don't respond to any e mails you get here unless you know for sure who it is...because there are a lot of cheesy MTSOs who don't want us to know the truth and want to squash freedom of speech.  Just wanting people to know to be careful and preserve the rights of this board.  Without it, we'd have no one to talk to and compare notes, and with any kind of monitoring our civil liberties would be squashed.  Thanks in advance for reading this note.

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Hi guys,

Just wondering if any of you have experienced this.  I use to work for this company full-time.  I went to part-time because we were running out of work and I decided to go back to school (because I am tired of this game with having work and then running out).............

Anyway when I dropped to part-time, my insurance was cancelled (which I know happens) but the premiums are still being taken out of my check.  I have 2 checks now with those premiunms being taken out.............I have called payroll and left e-mails (this lady never responds)............now I am thinking this illegal...........

Feedback please.  I would like to stay on with this company part-time but...........

I agree also.  I do think that each company has its MTs that have not one thing good to say about the company and on the flip side, there are many that love it.  I have worked at a few different companies in my time and find through experience on this forum to be true.  I absolutely love Transcend.  There are a few things that aren't perfect in my book, but the good far outweighs the bad.  The thing that I hate, though, is if you have anything good at all to say about your company, you are either management, lying, or a cheerleader.  I think that people love to believe the worst. 

I also have found out through my travels that things can vary greatly from one employee to another even though they may work at the same company.  There may be a rule for you that does not apply to another, example - below one says Spheris would not allow someone to work at MQ also but there is an MT who is doing it with permission.  An MT can get on here and argue all day long that this or that doesn't happen at their company but it may very well happen for another MT.  It is so humerous to me to see that we believe that being employed at a company, in our remote homes, that we think we know everything about that company and how it operates with the other remote MTs - MTs that more than likely we don't even know.