And this is why every company overhires - MTs don't stick it out - the plain truth

• Another day of NO work at OSI. - DJ
  • Hmmmmmmmmm, could be they - are outsourcing much much
  • You should ask for another account until the slow......sm - MT
  • Suggestion - another MT
    • Please email w/ name of EXText company - Disgusted with OSi
      • TransTech also uses ExText, but think they were running out of work, too. Any comments? nm - nm
      • I hear ya, that's why I left. Well, also the offshore issue - another MT
      • And this is why every company overhires - MTs don't stick it out - the plain truth - Long Time MT
        • We have to make a freakin' living - !!! nm
    • ADMINISTRATOR, MODERATOR, please explain (sm) - (OSi banned from MTStars for offshoring)
    • Thanks. I dread the thought of..... - DJ
  • My account has been low as well...sm - Fellow OSi'er
  • If you didn't know before - know it now - It's going to India!!!!!!!!!!!! (nm)
    • spheris outsources also nm.. - radspherismt
  • My account has lots of work..ask for another account/nm - OSi

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with my company we have been on OT for months, with the last week there being a significant slow down in work.  My company is content not being the biggest, isn't constantly seeking new accounts, hasn't had a new account in more than a year, so any fluctuation in the work is due to holidays/vacations/economy.  My company pays downtime though so having them pay me to do my housework is fine with me.  The slow period doesn't last week after week though. 

When I worked there the account I was hired for was an overflow account, only they didn't tell me.  I hung in there for 5 months, but there was only 1 pay period during that time that I got in 40 hours.  I requested and was given 2 more accounts, but they had even less work than my primary and still not enough to be 40 hours, despite sitting in front of the computer literally 12 hours a day, getting up at 3 a.m., working my weekends, etc.  

This has been an ongoing issue for at least the last 2 years and they don't seem to care.  They may have new accounts coming on, but then they again will hire too many.  Some will be fired for whatever reasonn and some will quit due to lack of work and then it may all even out, but how many months to get to that point.   

The IRS has EVERYTHING to do with this.  IRS defines criteria for employee vs IC status, MTSOs laugh all the way to the bank at IRS and MT ICs because MTSOs have been on the non-legal side, pushing the limits, with little to no work force resistance.  Factor in the lack of employee benefits and although ICs may work as hard and put in as much hours as employees, ICs  make significantly less per unit than MT employeese.  Company owners have taken the risk that we are all just so grateful to have any income, that we won't fight IC vs employee status.  In fact, these company owners make millions of dollars annually filling employee jobs with IC employees without benefits, confident that no one will blow the whistle.

IRS laws clearly distinguish between independent contractor and employee status:
 
ICs:  Enter into a signed contractual agreement with Contracting Party, providing service of completing projects (work). 

-  Contracting Party CAN define begin/end deadlines, length of time IC service is required, basic guidelines, definitions of project and expected outcome.
-  If Contracting Party demands IC adhere to step-by-step instructions, supplies training, or insists IC work during specific hours of the day, specific days of the week, 30 or more hours per week, IC is an EMPLOYEE, entitled to all benefits afforded by definition, INCLUDING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

ICs: ICs purchase, procure and use their own tools, equipment, software, lbooks and other learning materials and training programs to carry out contracted project. 

- If Contracting Party loans, sells, leases, provides or pays for arrangements for loan, sale, or lease of tools, equipment, software, reference materials or books necessary to the project IC is an EMPLOYEE entitled to all benefits afforded by definition, INCLUDING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

ICs invoices Contracting Party for payment of services, arranging for CP financing, up front partial payment with final payment at completion of project, or payment submitted @10, @30, @60, day terms. 

- If a Contracting Party pays ICs on a regular biweekly or bimonthly  basis, through scheduled direct deposits, ICs most probably are employees robbed of the benefit of matching employer funds contributed their Social Security funds, as the law provides for Employees.  ICs (business owners and other self-employed) are solely responsible for payment of their individual quarterly state and fed tax installments, their own Social Security with no SS contribution by employer.

The IRS has EVERYTHING to do with this and by collective silence, MTs continue to allow MTSO's continue rob them.  After the lack of appreciation MTs have suffered, loss of jobs to VR, overseas, I think it's time to stand up and demand what is rightfully ours. As they've already dropped our wages to 0.06 - 0.08 cpl, and turned us against each other as we have to fight for our share of the work, we can only benefit from saying, Enough is enough.

(To poster:  You've been ill-advised.)

they want to make $$ - meet their turnaround times (for which they get paid more), take on clients, hire more MTs, perhaps lose clients, leave us all hanging with no work and as long as they can make a profit off of us, they could give a darn about all us lowly MTs.  Run out of work, too bad, and they don't need to give an explanation or they can just say they have new accounts coming and please be patient  and string us all along.  Plain and simple, they are in it for more profit, don't care about the MTs, kinda know we are all at their mercy cuz we have to have a job, but plain and simple just giving us all the runaround. 

Somebody prove me wrong - please. But unless you work for a company, can honestly say you never run out of work and never get bounced around on different accounts - spending YOUR  time logging in and out to scramble for work, please don't respond with how good your company is to you.  Yup, you guessed it, I am having a bad day, bad week, and bad past months working for MTSOs.  Unless you are making a decent wage, every hour of every shift - as management and owners are - you are being used and abused.  Feel more like I am on-call lately than an FT employee. 

Thank you, me, for the info in your previous posts.