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Why do supervisors ask for more?

Posted By: lac on 2008-09-03
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I work 37 hours a week which is full time.  After the last upgrade I finally got my line count up to the minimum last pay period which is 10,200 lines a pay period.  This week I am on my way to 12,000 lines a pay period. 


I was notified by my supervisor that my editing hours are only 20 hours a week and that if I do not bring this up I will be asked to consider moving to part time status! 


Also, corrective actions will be sent out if we do not produce the minimum on a daily basis.  We have been out of work for a few hours every day for the past 3 weeks! 


What?  I am doing more than the minimum lines in my scheduled time frame but they want me to do more.  I have to clock out for breaks but I have to work a schedule and make up the time I clock out.  So, basically they want 300 lines an hour to maintain a PTO rate of $380 a pay period. 


This is some kind of weird and I do not see why, if my line count is up, QA percentage is down, that they want more.  They never did address the fact that we are low on work how is that going to factor into this problem. 


P.S. I work for Spheris.




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nm
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Open message to team leaders/supervisors: sm

When there is ZERO WORK available for us, and it is less than a month before Christmas and our paychecks are hundreds of dollars lower than they used to be, please don't email your team to tell us there's no work and then close it with HAPPY HUMP DAY!


YOU may be paid on salary and don't notice the slump, but it's KILLING us! Happy Hump Day is completely inappropriate!


Open message to team leaders/supervisors: sm

When there is ZERO WORK available for us, and it is less than a month before Christmas and our paychecks are hundreds of dollars lower than they used to be, please don't email your team to tell us there's no work and then close it with HAPPY HUMP DAY!


YOU may be paid on salary and don't notice the slump, but it's KILLING us! Happy Hump Day is completely inappropriate!


I agree - speak up. Most companies / supervisors want to hear sm
what their MTs want, to make them happy - or at least mine does!
I agree. Bad supervisors are common at Spheris it appears. NM.
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Have you asked your supervisors why no work? Which account are you on? You can email me privately if
you want..
run as fast as you can. decent line counts are had by double dippng supervisors.
REAL JUNK!
How do people cherry pick on accounts? You mean like supervisors assigning jobs?
I did not know you could do that, but is that what you mean? I need to know because I will not work for that.
Why do supervisors who insist they are not paid to transcribe cherry pick accounts to death?
They could really show some leadership ability if they took the bad dictators and left a few easy reports for those of us who would appreciate an easy report once in a while.