If you are an employee of a company that provides

• If you are an employee of a company that provides - equipment and works with dialup besides Precyse,
  • Dare I say it? Okay, I will - MQ. - mtroadie
    • I have sent them my resume 3 times and have - gotten no reply whatsoever. Guess they dont want
      • You have to go to the website and apply - or you wont' get a reply. - NM
        • They may require that you don't have dial up nowadays. - mt
          • That's because DQS and dial-up don't mesh. - no message
            • I work for them, and I have dial up internet access. - nm----MQMT
              • Yes, I know some still do. My message says they may not hire new with - dial up service. nm------mt
                • Sorry. You're right. I guess I should have read that message more closely. - nm--------MQMT
                  • LOL---no problem:-) We all read too fast sometimes:-) - no message-----mt
  • Transolutions - ME
    • Thanks for sharing but I applied with them, was - scheduled to begin, then got a call from the train

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and they have NO benefits package yet.  I've been told for months that they are working on one.  I also was told you get PTO if you type 1100 per day.  Got news for ya.....it's impossible unless you work a couple weekends a month, which I will NOT do.  I found the job on this website, now when they need MTs they advertise elsewhere.  Shhhhh, guess it's a secret.  I'm making 0.085 cents/line and they are advertising elsewhere for .12 cents per line.  Nice eh? 

I'm hoping they fire me so I can collect unemployment. 

provide your computer, which you have to have to do the job, every company doesn't provide a C-phone or foot pedal, which you have to have to do the job, they don't reimburse your internet, which is most cases you need to do your job.

In my case I had DSL, a land line as required by DSL, but which I rarely used and then I needed ULD once I was hired by KS.  I tried to go through my ISP, but they never could get it to work and I was tired of dealing with India.  I switched from DSL to cable internet and then I got digital phone through my internet provider.  Making the switch from land line to digital phone saves me $10/mo on my phone bill and switching from DSL to cable for six months I'm saving $15/mo on my internet expenses and will only save $5 after that 6 months. 

I don't see that I'm out anything as I came out better, but having an additional expense of $25/mo in order to be able to work at home is hardly a financial burden and I don't feel it is unreasonable.  You can always claim it on taxes.  Keystrokes clearly puts in their ad what equipment you need and if you need a C-phone they also state you will need ULD.   If an MT doesn't want to deal with that then there are other companies. 

If you filled out your W9 form and put down for 10 dependents you would also owe or if your marital status changed or your deductions changed.  All I am saying is that people think that because their employer is taking their taxes out for them they are not paying their own taxes.   When you handle your own money, you just have to be structured enough to take out what an employer takes out.   See your paycheck before and after taxes and see the percentage you are paying.  When you get a tax refund that is YOUR money that the government has had for a year.   You just underpaid.  You can also overpay as a business owner or an IC and get a refund.   But with the amount of deductions I have, I will never go back to an employee full-time as I would lose another 20% to the government and not ready to give that over.

Definitely need to clarify that.

I'm interested to learn the average difference in pay between IC and employee--such as, if as an IC I earn 9 cpl (65 char with spaces), as a regular employee what would be the equivalent?  I'm guessing about 2 cpl less, so it would be 7 cpl as an employee.  I don't need insurance though.

Thank you in advance!

And yes, taxes are ultimately the responsibility of the employee, but most legitimate companies withdraw taxes from the employee's paycheck.  I found it difficult enough just paying my regular bills with the very low rate of pay this company offered, and it was impossible for me to also put aside extra money to pay for the taxes they refused to take out.

One of the reasons I decided to accept employment with them was because I belieevd of all the hype about them being best employer, etc., and I refused to listen to all the little warning signs that frequently popped up in my brain.  I won't ever do that again.

why shouldn't she get paid for downtime?  If you worked at Burger King and no customers came in for an hour, yet you were required to be ready to service the customers, wouldn't you expect to be paid?  JMHO

Now, if she is IC, she's out of luck.

I know this subject has been broached before... but, how can a company seek an IC, and then assign work each day and expect you to put in X amount of hours, etc.  I don't understand this...  I was under the assumption that as an independent contractor, you work when you want.  You are providing the company with a service, you are not their slave and do not have to answer to them at a certain time of day.  IC means work is done and returned in the manner the IC sees fit.  When asked part-time or full-time, what is the answer when you are an IC?  Anyone else having this trouble?  I would love to hear from you...   

I also do not see how a company can put you at edit status, and then never give feedback on blanks, etc.  How do you ever get out of editing?  Is it the IC's job to ask about blanks when you are already receiving a smaller pay rate to be in editing and trying to make some money while learning a new account. 

I was offered a position by them within the last 6 months.  The recruiter was so busy I.M. people during the interview that she couldn't keep a train of thought and I was distracted.  I felt red flag #1.  I'v heard from many people that you're questions go unanswered, despite the fact that management seems to I.M. each other all day long.  The recruiter told me about this account that was fabulous and there was rarely an opening  because the MTs loved it and there just wasn't any turnover.   She also denied offshoring.  She put me in touch with the team leader for this wonderful account and it was an account that I had worked on with another company and it was a horrible account.  The TL said it was a horrible account and they could never keep MTs on it.   The TL also told me that they indeed did offshore and not only that, but they offshored the good work and left the crap here.  

I just felt like I couldn't trust them and turned them down.  Their pay scale is based on lots of things.  There is a base pay, then extra for so many years of experience, extra for 2nd and 3rd shifts, extra if you have CMT, etc.  I can't remember what their benefits were like. 

I worked for this company for three years and they are in this predictament only because they do not separate company earnings from their own money. They can't keep their hands out of the business money. They always have lots of work coming in, but they don't know how to handle money. They have to impress their friends by buying everything the neighbors have and by throwing parties all the time for their family and friends. The employees that make the money for them are left with rubber checks and stress. They have broken many laws in my eyes