Don't twist my words. I said that I type 1600+ lines per day. sm
Posted By: KS'er on 2008-08-13
In Reply to: what????? - me
I do. My personal requirement for myself is 1600 lines, 1400 lines if I am not feeling well or have kids home without a babysitter. MOST days I type in the 2500-3000 line range. There are days I do more than that, but not many. I do not work overtime very often; I have 5 kids and it is impossible for me to do so. Don't read more into this than there is.
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I said that I do 1600+ per day. Most days, I am over 2500-3000 lines per day. 1600 is the personal
I do not work overtime except very, very occasionally. I use my Expanders and know my account inside out. It IS possible no matter how many people try to say that it is not. I rarely post here because I see people chopped to pieces when they say they make good money, no matter who they work for. It is as though only the negative voices are heard here.
You misinterpret what was said, twist words--sm
and thoughts. YOU said you did not personally give $..and I said, yes you do and explained by what means. I am not suggesting anything beyond that. YOU come up with a solution. You are looking for an argument and I am not going to give it to you. Take it to the politics board.
1600 lines is too much
Unless you have all good dictators, never have to stop to look up anything, and happen to type at warp speed. Those people who type at warp speed make lots of typos, although you would have a hard time convincing them of that.
1600 lines of transcription
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Is that 1600 lines a day in editing or transcription?
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Post from a year ago said 8 cpl with 8.75 cpl for 1600+ lines
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so, you are saying if a person is not typing 1600 lines, KS is coming down on them???
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It's not 1600 lines -- it's 16,000 lines...and
I've got my contract right here and have already gotten 2 checks and YES, I am getting 9.5 cpl base rate.
I don't know what other people are getting. Don't really care. I work for MY paycheck. Gosh.
I took that to mean you can get to that rate after 1600 lines and that is not the starting rate.
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Yes it is possible to double your lines. I cant type 460 lines an hour but I can get those with VR
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If you figure out the math, 135 words equals 12.5 lines a minute...sm
12.5 lines a minute equals 750 lines an hour. Anybody make that?
If you can only type 500 lines a day- LOL
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That should be the more lines you type sm
sorry, long day already.
No, for every 100 lines you type you get paid 100
The ctrl-I counts headers and footers in the line count on the Extext document. However, you get paid for what you type, not the headers which were already in place. Maybe one day there will be a perfect line counter where neither of them counts headers but for now there are two different counters, the one that comes with the Extext document itself (including headers) and the one that comes from WHAT YOU ACTUALLY TYPE AND ARE PAID FOR. How much simpler does this need to be explained? You get paid for what you type - everything you type. Period. Okay? Just because Extext counts the header doesn't mean a thing because ichart counts what you type and that is what you are paid by. So far, there is no system for Extext to NOT include the header because it is reading the entire document including the header (that you didn't put type in the first place). Extext count is wrong (although a little higher). ichart count is correct.
If you type 200 lines that is only $4.00 an hour?
Not even minimum wage. Tell them to go on to India if that is all they are paying.
I do get holiday pay PLUS all the lines I type
My company pays for holidays and if you work them, you still get your holiday pay plus what you type.
you type 250 to 350 lines per hour?
you type that fast?
Do you always twist everything to fit what you want? I bet they are glad they did
not hire you :)
Wow, what a twist on my intent.
Wow, I never imagined this response. I truly was posting only with an intent to help. So many MDI MTs complained on and on about not having work. I refuse to play a victim but certainly do NOT see myself as vulture because I take responsibility for myself. There are 30 or more accounts at MDI. Long gone are days of having 1 to 3 accounts. There are no personal accounts, again, those are long gone. I do think that fact stinks, and I agree with a poster below that it has encouraged us to turn on each other. I never dreamed I would be labeled a poacher, a bottom feeder, or a vulture - but I shouldn't be surprised, as this forum has nasty floating karma that always crops up somehow. Most companies have valued MTs being cross trained, NOT to pit us against each other but to get good coverage for accounts. I have always believed cross training was a good plan and love learning new accounts.
I don't have the luxury of sitting back and being happy with 12 jobs to do at my leisure, as I am a breadwinner and my full time paycheck is required like most of us. I can see all of your points, but it's kind of like many debates occurring here - how many of us have the luxury to stand up on principle - against offshoring, against VR, or now, what, against being cross trained? So that we can honor some kind of now antiquated view that every MT gets to have one personal account that no one else should be able to work on? I can't imagine sitting back and saying, no way am I going to cross train, if I run out of work, so be it. Who can do this?! Someone who does not need their full time paycheck maybe. If it's going to be implied the cross training is now somehow unprincipled, then remember if you point the finger you got 3 fingers pointing back at you. I don't think any of us have a right to point at EACH OTHER for trying to make a living when we most of us are still here, complaining about no work/offshoring/VR, we haven't quit, we haven't stood up for our principles and banded together, no, we are picking at an MT like me. Go figure.
If the company was a small one and had a few accounts, well, that would be how it was. If there was no other work to back up, then I would HAVE to find a part time job somewhere else. Don't worry, I won't come take your 12 jobs out from under you. For goodness sake.
Wow. I'm actually flabbergasted. I guess no matter how you look at it, everyone has the feeling that someone is screwing someone over. If I sit with here no work, I get to complain (over and over and OVER on this board) that it is MDI sending my work to India or to Transcend or overstaffing, or, now, is it actually because your fellow MTs DARE to cross train, increase their chances of actually having work???... and watch my bills pile up? That seems pretty short sighted to me and is not the route I choose as many on this board seem to have chosen. But, if I take control of the situation and eagerly learn new accounts that seems to be appreciated by the company and helps pay my bills, well, I'm a poacher, taking my sisters work, a vulture just waiting to snag YOUR personal jobs. Wow. As I said, when my account is slow, I have enough accounts that I only go to the ones that are busy. There ARE MDI accounts that are busy and will absolutely absorb other smartly cross trained MTs to get in some work - you just have not found them yet. Nobody can win here on this board. I wish you all the best of luck.
On the new plan, if I type at 1500 lines a day at
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I know you need to type 1800 lines a day in order to get 11 cpl.
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if you type 1500 lines plus per shift
with what seems to be the most popular company to work for. I'm job looking. I do believe I may have to apply! What's the difference between Meditech magic and Meditech XL?
Lines to type would be nice for MT week.
Wait, you can only type 1200 lines a day?
You can't type more?
Are you required to type 2400 lines in eight hours? Only
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I started at 0.08 but am at 0.085. The lines are easy to get. For some reason, I type sm
more lines in 6 hours than I used to in 8 hours at a small company in Tampa. It might be because I have two doctors that I am responsible for and am the only ones that do them. I also help on two others when their Transcriptionist is off or has too much.
Current Transcend employees...what type of lines...sm
What type of line counts are you getting as far as VR on the Beyond Text platform? I am rather new and not getting a very good line count and was wondering if there is light at the end of the tunnel. I have gone through all the resources on the main website to help enhance line count, but not seeing much of a difference. Thanks. 
2000 lines, I havent done that in years. What work type do you do? nm
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Who here is required to type 1800 lines on a daily basis for FT work?
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but if you did 1600 lpd at 11 cpl -
then you would have earned $176 for the day. I would rather not lose the income just so MDI can get more lpd and pay less for my day so they can pad their pockets like they have been, but hey, that is just me. BTW, I have done eScription before and know I will not be tripling my production versus the current system.
Definitely need the Sted's Derm&Immuno Words and a Path&Lab Words to do derm. Lots of weirdness!
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They want 1600 lpd and have had some negative posts here before. nm
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Sted's Ortho Words, a lab words book, at least 1 drug book, and your AAMT BOS 2nd
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Older posts said they still use a DOS-based software and have a 1600 lpd requirement. nm
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Made 1200-1600 per week paid on a gross line for 5 years!
It CAN be done. The key is either a really high line rate or canned text over and over again with very small accounts. I had a little of both and then some harder stuff thrown in. It also helps if you work like you are on fire most of the day. Needless to say, that gravy train ran out of juice and now I am back to *normal* pay of around $750 per week at another company. SO many variables out there with the *how much do you make?* question.
1800 lines is easily achieved. I average 300-340 lines per hour. nm
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Webmedx watches every min you type or don't type.
I personally didn't like logging off to go to the bathroom or get a drink or whatever. Drove me nuts. They were too regimented for me. Not sure if you are aware they do that. Part of working at home is the flexibility and they just weren't. Good Luck
10 lines per minute = 1500 lines for 150 minutes - average. nm
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I average 1200-1400 lines per day with a national, and am only getting around 600-800 lines per day.
It's been this way since the day before Thanksgiving. I've been doing this for almost 30 years now, and more often than from Thanksgiving until the new year is the slowest time of the year. I have some months where I am swamped with up to 2000 lines per day. I stash that little extra money, and take advantage of a handful of extremely slow days this time of the year to actually cook dinner, decorate for Christmas, or do Christmas shopping. I actually anticipate this slow time every year and have grown to enjoy the breathing time. Any time I have attempted to pick up extra work with another company to supplement these slow times, the minute I get adjusted to the new accounts, etc. I have no time to finish all of my work because my full time job with national gets slammed again. Hang in there if you can, and hopefully your work will pick up significantly around New Years.
They work with you to make sure you get the lines required or the amount of lines you want...
I have never had a problem getting more work
Minimum lines for FT used to be 60,000 keystrokes a day, about 925 lines. Pay was good. Just not a
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Regular lines, not weighted lines
was what I got paid for....
12K lines payperiod is 6K lines a week.
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0.8 x 1000 lines = $80.00 - 0.8 x 1500 lines = $120.
In other words
at least on my reports it is counting each character and space correctly, yet line counts remain much lower on DQS. Numerous others have posted the same thing here.
WORDS R' US
Hello-- I do know for a fact that the company is legit, as I live in the same city as the company. Dont know much about pay, although I do remember that they pay by the dictated minute. Hope this helps!
WORDS R' US
That would be Belleville, IL.
a few words
I don't know how much you know about the internet but posting in all caps is the equivalent of screaming and you seem to be screaming alot in your post below..
Just briefly, you seem to be posting as an MT, citing your experience with platforms, difficult QA programs, transcribing off the clock - yet you write about concerns that are definitely those of management, getting staff to show up for work, work flow, if you can't work that shift don't apply, we created offshoring so all of you MTs out there… Most MTs I know are concerned with work pools, fair treatment, honesty, timeliness of payroll, quality of dictators, line rate, etc. I have enough respect for the MTs and management that read this board to be able to intuit whether you are an MT or not or exactly what the motives of your post were; maybe to score points, I don't know, but whatever your motive, your post does not address my post at all..
In a very few words without any caps I told the MT asking the question about my experience. My post was truthful and I went out of my way to tell her that my experience didn't mean it would be the same for her and even indicated such things are hard to determine. I don't know if she was an Editor or MT I posted to warn someone who asked for guidance about my experience simply because I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I and others have. And I would want someone to give me the same heads ups if I had asked for guidance on a board about a certain company. It was measured, thoughtful, and brief and not an embellishment or downright lie to make a company look bad. I think you took care of that pretty well with your post.
I am not going to get into any debate with you or follow up any response you might make as you seem to have a lot of anger you are carrying around and maybe even an anger management problem but mostly because you seem to deal in absolutes that most reasonable people do not. Because you don't know of a situation does not mean it doesn't exist, because you have not had a similar experience does not make it an embellishment or lie, but mostly your generalizations and judgmentalness are breathtaking. MTs brought offshoring on themselves, download work and then go shopping, do laundry and dishes all day - that's a lot of laundry and a lot of dishes! - most do not take their jobs seriously, no work ethic, go back to the doctor's office and on and on… I just know that my experience has been MTs, editors and management in the transcription field pretty much run the same as most other professions, a lot of them are serious thoughtful professionals, a lot of them aren't, and painting them all with the same broad stroke because you happen to disagree with them or with what someone posts on a board doesn't give a lot of credibility to you or what you are saying.
As I waded through your derisiveness and sarcasm and anger I just felt bad for you and maybe you ought to think about the fact MT might not be for you…and if you are a member of Alltype management, oh wow…
Words R Us
Does anybody have info on Words R Us out of Illinois? Do they pay on time; how is their QA; voice quality of their files?
key words here are Used To.
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In other words, the
p.r.n. racket..................NEVER!! 
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