Don't take what MQ says with a grain of salt
Posted By: fatcat on 2009-03-30
In Reply to: In my opinion, take what MQ tells you with - a grain of salt. (NM)
.....take the whole salt mine.
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Take what you read here with a grain of salt
I work for one of the most bashed companies on this board, and let me tell you, I have no plans to leave. Why? Well, I rarely run out of work, have great accounts, make a good line rate with differential for weekend work, have 8 paid holidays a year (whether I work or not), 5 paid sick days and 15 days of paid vacation. In return, they expect me to work my shift and make minimum line count. Not a hard thing to do.
Look closely at what some of these companies have to offer and ignore some of the sour grapes posters on here. Judge for yourself. It seems like the most vocal posters on this board are the negative ones, and we rarely hear the positives of some of these companies.
sorry - for grain of salt post.
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Take it all with a grain of salt. My co. doesn't
guess what? I now work 7 days a week because its the only way I can make enough lines to keep my health insurance. Every time I think Ive found a way to up my lines and earn a little more money one month, it 'mysteriously' gets shot down the next month, through sporadic work, or unintelligible accounts, or schizophrenic software that malfunctions daily. Face it, these crooks are going to milk every last drop of work they can out of us, for as long as we accept their mealymouthed lies and paltry paychecks, until we finally quit in disgust (as it appears here that many are in the process of doing). Then, of course, their claim of 'no American MTs to do the work' starts to actually have some truth to it. It's quite the racket, if you ask me. But someday, SOMEday, their ill-gotten gains will be scrutinized by the government, and I think a LOT of them are going to be in very deep doo-doo.
Best advice ---- take everything on the boards with a grain of salt. sm
For every positive post, you will have 10 negative posts (often the same person). For every negative post, there is often either a troll or a disgruntled ex-employee or one who was not hired.
For every great post, there is often a referral bonus or other leading factor.
Just like your post and mine were anonymous, anyone can say anything under the cloak of anonymity.
Make your list, narrow it down to 3 or 4 and talk to each of them to get a feel for what is best for you. There are huge differences in pay, how pay is calculated, benefits, type of work, methods of doing the work, flexibility, etc. between the company.
Good luck!
Any manager worth a grain of salt wouldn't even reply here. How unprofessional.
nm
Are you kidding? If it were me I'd tell them to pound salt.
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TransTech upper sent out email for blackout on vacation for several days, so only a grain or 2 jobs
available due to some MT's on vacation *probably looking for job*. We are TAT up-to-the-minute, so NOTHING to get excited about at TT.
Same ole grab-it-while-it-is-there workload. LOW, LOW, LOW.
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