Are there any companies out there who let you get away without working your schedule?
Posted By: suprmommy3 on 2008-09-27
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I'm looking for a second job.  I could use some more $$$, but I think I would prefer to work for one that's laid-back. I heard of one once but have no idea what its name was.
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Working my schedule..PLUS some.
I DO work my schedule. I'm asked for more so I do more.
And yep, I work in Dallas/SW office, too.
Not working that schedule, but because they have people
working that schedule two days of my shift I can't get even half my time in and then even if I work my off days there isn't enough work to make up for the shortages those 2 days. I already work what seems like 12-hour days just to get in 7 hours with that stupid clocking in and out.
That is *.11 for all lines typed* when working agreed-upon schedule.
Making less per line is not a raise.
As an IC you set your schedule. Most companies
want a line commitment, either per pay period or per month. With IC you don't get any benefits, no insurance, vacation, and you pay all your own taxes. As an employee you get benefits, they pay taxes, but they also dictate the hours you work and there may or may not be much flexibility in those hours. A lot of companies that only hire IC want to tell you the hours to work because they need to be sure they have coverage to keep in TAT.
which companies that don't require a set schedule? nm
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What companies don't make you follow exact schedule?
Looking for a company that allows some flexibility on what time I type each day instead of a strict schedule that I set up. This is just to deal with occasional appointments or if the kids have a class play I want to see, etc. Most days a schedule would be fine but I also don't want to be stuck with it!
The company I used to be with was like this but they now require schedules to be followed. I see the point in that but I also know that some exist with more flexibiity!
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Does anyone find it interesting how companies want ICs and then give you the schedule you are to
work. I thought by law you are not allowed to set a schedule for an IC. Seems to me they are getting the best of both worlds for a whole lot less because of benefits they are getting out of paying and all the things the government requires.
Companies with flexible 12-hour window schedule
What companies offer a flexible schedule where your work can be completed within a 12-hour window?
Loyalty to Companies Who Have No Work and Expect a Schedule from YOU
There have been many discussions about MT's sitting around waiting for work to file into their queues.. many being told to get more than a few accounts and work on their backups (which, we all know, is someone's primary account) when their primary is out of work.. so we go 'round in circles.
Then we have discussions about companies putting us in work pools as opposed to assigning us work daily...
I have been sitting here thinking, if I were a painter, wanted to paint fences, and I showed up with my brush and paint bright and early in the morning, and was told to come back tomorrow, the fence has already been painted, but there will be another fence ready to paint tomorrow, please come back, we want you to paint our fences.. I say, OK, I understand, and so I come back tomorrow and when I get there I see that half of the fence has been painted already, someone came before me and painted it, even though I was promised the work of painting the fence. They say, try again tomorrow. How many days would you show up to paint a fence? Every day? Don't you (eventually) feel like an idiot standing there with your brush and paint with nothing to do??
Does the company owe you any loyalty at all?? If they don't want your services, why don't they just say so instead of keeping you coming back ready to paint every day? Then when it DOES get busy, they call and say WHERE IS EVERYBODY??? DONT YOU CARE ABOUT PAINTING THE FENCE? Like we havent been standing there with our brushes all week waiting to paint.
What I don't understand is the lack of shame from the people who behave this way. Once in a while things happen..NOT AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
I really don't understand the logic of the people who have no problem with this. You do understand that by doing this, you are simply helping these companies to continue in this fashion, not feeling that they owe you ANYTHING.
Overhiring is really the finaly insult. If you don't see that.. you are closing your eyes.
working for 3 companies
Do you find that keeping up with 3 different invoices is difficult, or do you manage without getting confused? I've done that before (worked for 3 different companies) and I had some trouble remembering when to send invoices for each as they were all different, until I got used to it.
Not working for these companies and
Like I said, all potential candidates are strangers aren't they? I certainly cannot make a company hire anyone. They were looking for PT and I happen to know of a couple who hire PT and a couple I have worked for that are good. I can't call it referring them.....more like giving them the info and they can contact the company for themselves. They will have to do the testing just as I did. I didn't leave them my name and there was no Oh by the way, tell them so and so referred you. Why do you find it odd to give a company name to someone who is looking for a job? Like I said, they have to do the testing and if they pass and a job is offered, that is between the company and the poster, nothing to do with me. I have never acted like a friend but I am a caring fellow MT and I do hope the company info I gave will work out for them.
I think they are working for the companies they advise us against!!
I am beginning to think they are working for the companies they advise us against so we won't take their work !!
Is anyone working on DQS for 2 different companies and how does this work out for you. nm
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Anyone here working with 2 different companies who both use DQS but different versions. Can you
tell me what happens with this or can this be worked out reasonably without a lot of trouble. One uses the older version and the other uses the most recent version with Qasar.
They want you to keep your schedule for TAT purposes but will work with you to find a good schedule
I love working there.
you are working slave wages! Companies sm
were paying that wage in 1980 where I lived at and that was on the gross line not 65 character. I just got hired by a company today that their base rate is 8 cpl and goes higher for experience. You are getting ripped off for sure!
Fingers not working. I meant between companies. sm
On rereading my post, I should have said often times the negative posts and great posts. Not all.
There are some bad companies out there. There are some great companies out there. It is hard to sort through the trolls and cheerleaders.
sick of working for crappy companies?
I have been thinking about starting my own company. I have done some research and it looks like all I really need is an FTP site, handhelds (that the doc's purchase themselves), and to get accounts. If anyone is interested in doing this with me let me know...or if anyone has any other information on starting a company input would be appreciated!
Why are we working as IC's and the companies are making profits off of us? Let's cut out the middle man and make the money we deserve!!
My idea is that a bunch of us get together and create a business. We put together a good sales letter...we all do our part in mailing these letters out, i.e., finding accounts.. We decide how much we want to charge per line, (I believe the going rate is around 11-14 cents a line).
These are just some ideas....Anyone interested??
Anyone working with companies that use DQS that also use Qasar and opinion on this. nm
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Which companies pay for holidays -- not working the holiday but OFF
I'm talking like the office (in-house employees) do -- LIKE LOCKING THE DOORS -- want to lock my at-home office door and know that I am GETTING PAID for the holiday as I lock the door behind me and enjoy the day off as my fellow in-house office employees do.
I understand keeping a skeleton crew of at-home MT's working the holidays, but we should be paid for those holidays just as the in-house employees get paid for those and don't have to worry, but go home and enjoy the holiday. What is the reason behind management's thinking on this?? Just because they know the in-house people face-to-face, does not mean that we at-home employees of whom they have never seen our face, should not get paid for holidays. I think the in-office employees should wear our shoes for a year (working ALL holidays WITHOUT PAY) and see how they feel about the subject. I can assure they would be pressing management to make a policy change in a HURRY.
Conflict of interest working for 2 companies?
Has anyone ever come across a company that makes you sign paperwork stating that you are not working for another company. I need a second part-time job, finally found one and while filling out the paperwork I came across this. I didn't tell them I was working for another company during the interview but also did not deny it. Should I give up the second or just not tell?
Y don't companies with employee and IC status stop the ICs from working
when work is slow? Is it because they don't want their FT employees to get enough lines to keep benefits? The ICs can say when they will work, when they will take off, so the companies should do the same for them. No wonder there is no loyalty to companies.
I actually switched from a M-F schedule to a S-T schedule...sm
because of the financial situation. I was offered a lot better money to work this schedule on a particularly picky account. I can live with working on Sunday evenings because that is when my 2 teenage kids, also very active in sports, band, church, driving, dating, social life, etc., etc., are vegging on the couch, relaxing for the evening before it all starts again. It was worth the sacrifice to me to be able to afford all the activities, and it really is not much different than working the M-F shift. I do have Fridays off to kind of catch my breath while the kids are at school or go and take care of business. I do not feel I have given up any of my life to work on Sundays. Most companies will be flexible on the schedule for Sunday because of church, family dinner, whatever. The way I look at it is later on, I may be able to switch to a M-F schedule if I am willing to give a little now. Even if I don't, to me it was worth it for the extra money and mommy time I get on Fridays. I am widowed so I do put a lot of time into my kids. This is just what works for me. On the other hand, it is ok to only want to work M-F, there is nothing wrong with that. You have to do what is best for you.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
working from home is awesome but working for DSG is not...
horrible dictators, sound quality is bad, no answers to emails and they run out of work consistently...that is just my experience though...
schedule
Do you give them a set schedule or a window of when you will work? What confuses me about the "set schedule" is that we are contracted to produce certain # lines, not hours. So if you are satisfied with your line count but are scheduled for 8 hours, do you still have to complete all 8?
Also, I haven't asked them yet, but are we allowed to work extra hours/days outside our schedules?
How are they with time off? How much notice would you give for a 1-week vacation?
Right now I have no set schedule, so I will
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I never ever have the same schedule sm
and it's worked fine for years now. I don't know what I can do - this flexibility is the only reason I have stuck with MQ this long.
schedule
I read through all the posts below yesterday, and a couple of them mention a grid with all days and hours listed and you have to mark what hours you will work (but that this has to be approved by supervisor). It didn't sound like it had to be continuous hours and you could work several split shifts.
I agree about needing the flexibility. It's the only reason I have stayed with MQ. I am a part time SE too and I have another full time job. Half of the time I am available to work, there is no work to do, so I have had to be flexible to even get in my quota. I know if I give them a set schedule, there won't be work half the time, so what do you do then? Another thing, my schedule changes from week to week, and from what I read below, it sounds like it is just one grid, so that would mean that your schedule would have to stay the same from week to week -- doesn't work for me either.
It's too bad -- they are going to lose a lot of good MTs over this 
No, not still with them. No set schedule.
You are an IC with them. You have 24 hours to complete your work and return via FTP site. At least that was my routine on my account. Don't know if every account is the same.
I no longer work for them as I went out and got my own accounts and the account I was on with them was lost to a larger national - go figure!
They are pretty decent company, but I don't know what kind of work load they have - you will have to talk with them.
Like I said, pay is always on time, correct and accurate, and you work as an IC, last I knew.
All you can do is give them a try.
As far as work load, 1200 lines a day +/-. Not enough for me!
Not too bad, if you like a schedule
I worked for them for about 2 years. I had worked as an IC and thought I would try switching to employee status. They were great in the fact that they sent all my equipment, training was even fun (great trainers), supervisor and tech support always responded quickly. However, once you set a schedule you must adhere to it. You are actually only allowed to deviate once a month, depends on your supervisor though. For me, that was a problem. After being an IC for many years it was hard to go back to a schedule. I'm working as an IC again now and hope I never have to go back to being an employee. I wish you luck!
They ask you the schedule you will be
working. It works out well for me because I work in the morning and again at night.
MDI-MD schedule
When I was hired, I was told I could make my own schedule as long as I worked two Saturdays a month. It works for me. They get the needed coverage and I get time with my family.
Do ICs have a set schedule? sm
I've never really worked as an IC but now am considering PT IC work but honestly doubt I could adhere to a set schedule because I have a FT QA job as an employee. Are there companies that hire without having one?
Thanks!
schedule (sm)
It is really not that rigid. They would like to know when you are on; for example, should they have a stat or something and want to route it to you. I have never encountered a problem there even though I have been there less than a year. I take a lot of breaks, but not really long ones. If I have to go out for something, they only want you to let them know. I guess the main reason would be, like if you are scheduled for 5 a.m. start and you work on preops, that could potentially cause a problem if you don't get on till 7. I have never had a problem with this, though.
schedule (sm)
I pretty much stick to my schedule also. I do take a lot of breaks, cause at my age, I stiffen up if I don't - LOL - there have been several occasions where something has come up and they have always been nice about it and let me make it up. I'm also happy there.
There's some that let you schedule...sm
8 hours in a 12-hour window. Maybe someone else knows more.
Schedule
They like a schedule or idea when your are going to be working so they can staff the account properly but sometimes I will work a few hours in the morning, take off a few hours and come back in the evening. In other words, your not tied to sitting there 8 hours straight. The jobs are put in your queue when you ask for them. They usually just come up a few at a time and say you had 3 in the queue. You finished one and had to go somewhere then it'd just throw the other two back into the queue for someone else to pick up. Not a big deal. I have never worked for a company so flexible. I love it. I get my lines in but I do it around my schedule with kids and other things in my life. Hope that helps some.
KS schedule
What is your schedule like? Do you have to work whenever they need you or do you have any kind of regular schedule?
Schedule
The schedule seems pretty flexible to me. They ask me to provide them a monthly schedule of the hours I am planning to work. This is so they can plan their workload. It seems pretty fair and reasonable enough to me. They do not dictate a schedule to me. I merely let them know when I am planning to work.
if NO schedule...sm
then why do they advertise that they want a schedule?
well, I don't think you could get a M-F schedule unless sm
it was like 3-11 pm or 11-7 am. Yes, you get raises. There are 6 paid holidays. If you work you get extra money, no PTO necessary for holidays.
schedule
might work if you can actually get to sleep when you come home and if you can really take a nap later. It's very difficult for me sleep during the daytime. I work until 12 pm or 1 am and get up about 7. Sometimes I am tired but can't nap
MDI schedule
You get a 24-hour window to schedule the line count you provide to them. They need an idea on how much we each are doing to properly staff the different accounts. I'm not sure about now, but in the past they also had p.r.n. status, without a schedule, but the work would not be guaranteed and the rate would be lower.
So it you want to get a feel for MDI, start lower to see how it goes, and then increase as needed.
Good luck!
No set schedule, just TAT that is met, is the
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TT PT schedule
I do Sun-Thur PT, my choice, 4 to 8 pm. Some PT'ers do rotate weekends and take a day off during week.
IC with schedule also!!!
I really hate to post this because I know I will be told that I should be greatful or if I do not comply, the Indians will take my job, but I have applied to several jobs this month and each one I told I wanted to be an IC. Well, I was hired in and guess what, now they want me to commit to a schedule and even on the weekends. I have been told at this one particular company to log in immediately and the manager called today to see what the heck I was doing not being logged in. I am sick to death of this situation and I too am in nursing school and I cannot wait to be done with this because the days of being a true IC is over. I know these companies have to meet TAT, but there are rules to being an IC also. I have found that if you cannot commit, they will not hire you or if they hire you, they try to make you commit.
IC with a schedule
If I were in that situation I would remind them that one of the definitions under the United States Tax Code is that an IC sets his or her own hours. This company apparently wants to have its cake and eat it, too--if they get away with not paying you as an employee but as an IC, they CANNOT BY LAW require a schedule. Go to the IRS website and see their publications about what truly constitutes an IC.
IC AND SET SCHEDULE....SM
Of course, they know this (or should). So if the subject comes up during the interview process and they do ask for a schedule, ask them to either give you a schedule or request a schedule from you in writing, preferably in your IC contract. Betcha they won't do it! Ever notice when they ask for a IC/set schedule, it's always by phone.... they know if any sort of legal issue every came up, you have nothing to back up this demand of theirs. Of course, you can always print out any e-mail re. schedule requirement for IC from them.
You still have a set schedule and (sm)
work your 40 hours, but in order to qualify for FT benefits you must meet a MINIMUM of $900 per pay period. Depending on your line rate you figure your minimum lines over the 8 hour day. You can always do more than that when work is available and believe me, it's always available. They also offer OT sometimes when accounts are backed up.
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