MDI-MD has SE status, commited lines/day, and own schedule
Posted By: nm on 2008-10-17
In Reply to: Really unhappy at Webmedx, but don't know where to go (sm) - Tired
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0.09 per 65-character IC status with schedule.....nm
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Yes, if EMPLOYEE, but IC status no schedule
can be dictated. They can tell you what work to do; they cannot dictate when or how you get it done.
9.5 cpl for employee status, flexibility in schedule,
at least 70% of transcribed line rate for VR, and PTO. Let your employees do the jobs you hire them for without micromanaging them. Be honest in your communications. If you know you are going to lose an acct, say so. Don't let your employees eventually surmise it when they have been out of work for weeks. Good luck. I really hope you make it. Nothing better than working for someone who used to be an MT.
Question about lines and schedule ...
If I get my lines done before the number of hours I am scheduled to work, do I have to finish my hours? Can I just stop working at that point?
MDI-MA does not require a set schedule- you do your required lines in 24 hours. nm
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That is *.11 for all lines typed* when working agreed-upon schedule.
Making less per line is not a raise.
12,000 lines per pay period for FT status
NM
it is 12,000 lines per pay period for FT status...
nm
Question about SoftScript. Strict schedule, can you quit when you get your lines? (sm)
I saw a posting before that said you were good to go as long as you signed in on time and did your lines. Is this accurate?
Also, I have seen they are offering 7 cents per line regardless of experience. Is this still true?
Question about SoftScript. Strict schedule, can you quit when you get your lines? (sm)
I saw a posting before that said you were good to go as long as you signed in on time and did your lines. Is this accurate?
Also, I have seen they are offering 7 cents per line regardless of experience. Is this still true?
Anyone know what full time is at Transtech? Lines or hours? Do they flex schedule? nm
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I went to PRN status & then just left completely so I wouldn't take lines from FT/PT MTs sm
My FT job was drying up so I had gone with MDI PT to help out and then left the FT job. I hadn't even been FT with MDI for 2 weeks when the work there started drying up, and this was actually a couple of months ago. I found another FT job and was going to be PRN with MDI, but when I saw how little work there was, I completely left so I wouldn't be taking even those few lines per month away from anyone else. I hope things pick up for you all there. It is a bad time to be trying to stretch paychecks even more than usual.
Full time empoyee status only -- 1000 lines/day, 10,000 per pay period.
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They want you to keep your schedule for TAT purposes but will work with you to find a good schedule
I love working there.
Agree..with IC status, equip. is your responsibility; employee status - you should SM
not have to pay out-of-pocket for use of their equipment. I would never work employee status for a company who required me to purchase or lease their equipment. The only thing I would find acceptable is to have a small security deposit taken out of paycheck when starting with a company. This will protect the company from those few who might abuse the equipment.
Anyone know of Escription companies that offer IC status. I do not want employee status but would
like to stick with the Escription platform at all possible.
Employee status w/benefits vs IC status??? Dilemna enclosed
I am caught between a rock and a hard place and figure this is the place to get the best advice from those in the know. I have been an IC for the past 5 years and love the flexibility but was interested in a job with benefits. I started a new job about a month ago with good pay (2 lph more than I was making) and benefits......very happy with company but as an employee, obviously have a schedule. I am working both jobs currently and starting to burn out. On the new job, I am struggling to get the 1200 lines per day required but on my old.... I can easily get 150-400 lph depending on the dictator but again, it is IC and less lph than the new job. Obviously, the platform is different and not paid for template headers/footers wheras the old one, I am paid for those. Now to my question. Is it just me? Is it because I really enjoyed the freedom of ic status and therfore seem to be struggling? Anyone else experienced this before? Tempted to go back told job and lose benefits/more pay because in the end, maybe it works out be the same pay because of amount of time I spend getting the job done? Not sure if this makes sense but hoping you can all offer some advice!! TIA
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.
1800 lines is easily achieved. I average 300-340 lines per hour. nm
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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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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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Regular lines, not weighted lines
was what I got paid for....
12K lines payperiod is 6K lines a week.
nm
0.8 x 1000 lines = $80.00 - 0.8 x 1500 lines = $120.
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
nm
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.
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