As long as anyone's work schedule is

• Re Keystrokes, looked in archives, want to know - if they accept Mon-Thurs 10-hr schedule?nm
  • A 3-day weekend every weekend? Wouldn't that be nice. Good luck with that!..nm - MT2
    • I have those days and hours. What's so amazing about it? - Exp MT
      • Probably because most of us are expected to do our share and work at least one sm - LTMT
        • No family? sm - Nothing to do with topic
          • LOL ... well, you got me there. She is very much my "baby." Someone rules this place, sm - LTMT
        • Thanks, and for the record, I do my share of work too. - Happy w/my 4-day work week nm
          • Think his/her point was the share of the WEEKEND work. What makes you so special? sm - jmo
            • Nothing special about it. I'm an IC, and those were my requested days - to work. The 2 companies I'm with had no prob
            • I would think it would depend on the account. - lj
            • As long as anyone's work schedule is - jd
            • Lots of people work PT on the weekends - sm
    • I work four 10s. It was an adjustment, but - Not KSer
  • All accounts are different. sm - sonicfingers
    • I think they would. Those are good days for 10-hour days. sm - KS MT

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that they need to be available 24 hours a day to be there when the work is there.  Transtech has a lot to learn about being family friendly for domestic MTs.  After all, that is what they hire right (domestic MTs)? 

Also, maybe they ought to stop overhiring and get over themselves!  JMO and I don't even work for them and probably wouldn't looking at this board.  Boy, they were a hot number a while back, but now they've shown their true colors. 

Don't be mad OP; everyone is entitled to their opinion.  If you like working all hours of the day and night, then have at it, but don't bash the MTs that aren't in a position or don't want to be abused in that fashion. 

if you get your lines in.  OT is paid at the standard 1-1/2 times your rate, but you don't get OT for typing over 1200 lines a day, unless you do the lines outside your normal schedule.  If you are scheduled to work 9 to 5 whatever lines you do are at your line rate.  If you work before 9 or after 5 those lines will be paid at 1-1/2 times your rate, so if you make 10 cpl, then OT will be 15 cpl.  Also there is a shift differential.  I'm not sure the exact hours are per shift, but if you work anything other than first shift there is a differential. Third shift pays a higher differential than second.

They also pay for downtime, so if the servers are down or there is a lack of work (which we have been on OT for months), then you keep track of your time and they pay an hourly rate.  If you are a productive MT you would make more money typing, but at least it is something.  You aren't required to make up lines outside your shift either.

The pay is a bit on the low side for IC work, but the work is easy, the people are great, and the pay is always on time, once a week, direct deposit.  Hope this helps.

They should not be hiring an abundance of MT's to cover schedules just to provide client with such tight TAT, yet not have enough work to cover that MT's schedule that TT approved.   A service cannot keep MT's that way.  TT has so few accounts anyway, that it is hard to provide enough work for a whole lot of MT's.  That is really where the problem lies.  They should get out and seek more accounts, rather than hiring and hiring.

 I hate to go to the trouble of filing unemployment, but it is getting to that point.

...then I am obligated to work that schedule. 

If I happen to get all my lines in during 4 hours, then fantastic for me - but if I have contracted to be on for 6 hours, I still need to be on for 6 hours.  A schedule is a schedule. 

I was just making the point that I do not have to actually punch in and punch out.

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.

there? Is it recently or in the distant past?

Thanks

We all know that with this industry the work is feast or famine.  Have you had times of feast, too, with Transcend?  Has it just been the summer months that have been bad for you with your accounts?  Or, has work just been dwindling down now for many months in a row on every single one of your accounts?

Do you do a variety of work types?  Do you do VR and straight transcription. 

Please understand that I am not trying to be a jerk.  I am an MDI-er and I really, really want to know what to expect.  I remember last summer at MDI I nearly had no work and I was infuriated.  Then, along around September or so, it started to pick up again.  Go figure.  Thanks in advance to your reply

no one really has a right to tell you that you cannot work for as many people as you want.  However, as someone pointed out, most companies nowadays have you sign a contract with a no-solicitation clause, stating that you cannot solicit work from any of the accounts you have worked on for them for 1-2 years.

Still, I do not broadcast to either company that I am working for someone else.  I simply let each company know the days I am available to work for them.  

Hope this helps.  Try not to let the nasty/negative posts get to you.  There are always those in every group who take more joy from tearing someone down than listening and possibly lending a helping hand.  Fortunately, they are NOT in the majority.

Good luck!