Can of worms

Posted By: crystal salvo on 2007-09-05
In Reply to: you're not alone - been doing this a long time - mdlfcrs

Thanks for being nice and replying. I never dreamed asking a simple question could open up such a can of worms.

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Out of Work at TT - crystal salvo
- Work load at TT - kittytoes
  - MT for 14 years - crystal salvo
    - Hmmm - kittytoes
    - you're not alone - been doing this a long time - mdlfcrs
      - Can of worms - crystal salvo
- Add 1 more to what others have said - wsd
- Holidays and OT offered on the weekend - always makes a difference (sm) - Recent TThire
- You should have taken advantage of bonus all weekend - most did. - My 2 cents
  - I think a lot of us were caught off guard with no work - because of the bonus weekend. nm
    - I'm always amazed (sm) - nm
- Slow start yesterday - out of work for about 1 hour - - TT'er
- Different company but no slow down, swamped but we were before holidays. Nice having work.. - Transcender
- I asked for ANOTHER backup. No problem. - Not out of work for me
- Did you not get the e-mail regarding the lull? sm - phillychik
  - Whining - crystal salvo
- It will pick up. My account is 2 hours behind me timewise, so I figure sm - LTMT
- We are all out of work this week looks like. nm - OUT OF WORK AT Transtech, too
  - Not out of work here...it was a slow start yesterday - New TT MT
- Can't email. Invalid.(nm) - Newer TT'r
  - Whoops! that should read (SM) not (nm) - Newer TT'r
    - Knew this would happen !!! Did it in October, too. nm - Transtech overhire !
      - Hmm. Did in Oct and it is Sept? I dont think thats too bad - LOL
      - They did not overhire. New accts coming, and it's a holdiday week.(sm) - Oh, please stop it!!
        Thank you, my point exactly...sm - phillychik
      - For Heaven's sake, they did NOT overhire. It was a holiday weekend when dictation practically st - Sheesh
        I agree. Have people not learned its always slow after a holiday?! - nm
        Shouldn't the companies learn not to - overstaff on holidays??
        And fall out of TAT? - LOL
        Must be 1 of 2 things (sm) - Evidently not
        Bad additudes - crystal salvo
        meant attitudes (sorry) - crystal salvo
        I am replying about the over hire comment. - nm
        Work is trickling in here at a totally different place. - Hayseed
        Thanks for replying! - crystal salvo
        Generally, with holidays, patients put off elective procedures, sm - LTMT
        The voice of reason. - Refreshing

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Again, VR is opening up that can of worms.
I answered on the other board, but mine was not moved so am reposting. As far as VR, I love it, others dislike it, even saying the hate word. I can make $20 and up per hour on the platform I use. From what I read here, some are not so lucky to have a very good system and it slows them down to where their pay has been cut to a large degree. I love escription, have used it now for about 4 years and really hate to straight type anymore. I find the ESLs, at least where I work, are so much easier with VR than having to sort through what they are trying to say. I will say how a system is trained and who works on it has all to do with what kind of reports you have. You could have almost perfect reports with a good system that has learned well and then you could get a clunker with loads on teaching the machine various ways and that is where the problem lies with VR.

I give up. Go eat worms. NO MORE.
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Opening up that can of worms, once more
I stayed with a job that went to VR but not for 3 cpl. That is really low and I hate it is coming down to this at so many places. My straight pay is 8 cpl. Escription is a really good system. You will find all kinds of answers on here back and forth. This will never be settled, seems like. Some love, others despise. Some have good systems, others not so good. From just what I gathered reading MQ site, I don't think their platform was that good as many talked about how it always had same errors and never seemed to be different. I have been accused of being software promoter but like you and others I do MTing but just happen to like my job and VR.

I suppose if CEOs had their way, we would be eating worms
and be thanking them for paying us the few pennies to afford our tasty worms, lest they give us another cut in pay while increasing their profits...

Not to open a can of worms, but is Meditrans of Norcross, GA an Indian company? nm
nm

Whole other can of worms...Illegal on company's side illegal, but (sm)
Retaliatory firing for contact with government oversight agency is illegal in all cases (Whistleblower's laws). It is hard, however, to prove retaliation because company can fire for breech of policy (working overtime when not approved, etc), can railroad you until you quit or they pick up enough nitpicky things to justify termination, or in most states for no reason at all (shaky if you've been to labor board). Whether reported or not, it opens a whole can of worms, and not everybody is going to be happy with the consequences (just look at the MQ saga). IMO solely, if OT is not specifically approved, don't work it. If you want to work it and not put it on your time, feel free (but that is fraudulent records if you're caught - again grounds for termination if anybody cares, which they usually won't unless under scrutiny by oversight agency). If you ask for and get approval beforehand, everybody's happy.