MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
Posted By: MT on 2005-08-13
In Reply to: Several reasons - Another ex-employee
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
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Working weekends and holidays
Thanks, I'd like to think of myself as a nice person. Unfortunately, the place I work at is a local clinic doing nephrology work. Have you tried locally, maybe you could find something where you wouldn't have to work weekends. And oh, yes, it is paid vacation. After 5 years I get 5 weeks. I have great benefits and a 401K plan, so I'm very thankful.
Working holidays/weekends? I would certainly hope you are committed to
your convictions. Many people do not work holidays but it is not always a choice. If you do not want to work weekends or holidays, but the work must get done. If you are anti-working holidays and weekends, then I hope you do not expect to receive medical care or emergency treatment of any kind, that you do not shop or buy anything on weekends/holidays, do not attend any type of functions where employees must work to create a good environment for you to enjoy your life, do not go to movies, do not go out for dinner, etc. Did you ever think that these people may not want to have to work just to make your life sweet? What hypocrits.
I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm)
so no more big bucks, at least from them...looking for second job to make ends meet, don't have husband to help...this sucks.
NOT working weekends
i really don't understand woman in this profession. You are in a 24/7 365 day a year job but you don't WANT to work weekends. You are going to a new company and becoming the low man on the totem pole but you think you shouldn't have to work weekends. Wake up and smell the coffee ladies. Try going to Walmart, Target, or your local grocery store and telling them you do not want to work weekends. Go work in an office or a factory and expect to have all the holidays off for your vacation. Get real and grow up. When you are NEW you get the weekends and the night shifts, the rest of us who have been with the company awhile and paid our dues are entitled to the weeknds off and most of us are willing to work the weekends when it is needed. Those of you who want your cake and eat it too need to wake up to the real world.
I like working weekends. There is always
I also have a family and responsibilities, but b/c I have a family I need to take this kind of shift. Works for patient care and for TT and me. Seems like different strokes for different folks, but I am happy to do both days on the weekend every week. I get time off during the week while everyone else has to work and fight for lines.
You're working weekends, though. nm
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Re: working weekends and nights
I already do work Saturdays and nights (or try to, but it's a little hard when there is no work). I do not work on Sundays. It is my only day for my family to be together. I work six days (or nights as the case may be) a week as it is. Saturdays and nights are fine and I am happy to work them, but no work then, either. But there is also no work early mornings, hardly any during the day, almost none at night. It is as if it has all evaporated??????? I remember when all three of my accounts were plentiful and I could work as much as I wanted whenever. I do not mind flexing my schedule, but there is just no work no matter which way I flex it. What happened?
Working Holidays
If you don't want to work holidays, has anyone considered working for a local MTSO? I do clinic work locally and I get all the major holidays off and four weeks vacation and I've been here just short of a year.
Working Holidays
Not expecting to have to work ANY holidays or weekends is out of the question in our business. However, I decided to educate myself and put myself through college to have a career. I paid a lot of money for my education and I worked really hard to get it so that I could find a better job than what I did before, cleaning hotel rooms, waitressing, etc. As a waitress, it would be easier than this to find somewhere to work making more money and having a better chance of having holidays off. My point is having to work every holiday and every weekend with no reward; no extra pay, no floating day off, nothing. That is what isn't fair. Trust me, I've worked my share of holidays. In 14 years, I've maybe had a total of 6-10 off; that's 6-10 over a period of 14 years. It is possible there are some companies who simply don't care and don't make it worth your while.
Maybe when Medical Transcription education started becoming advertised on TV by Sally Struthers the quality of the Transcriptionist has declined. Everyone thinks that they are able to do this. In my experience, most are SHOCKED when they find out they can't walk in off the street and do this. They cannot believe they have to have an education.
A lot of you who have been doing this longer than me, got taught the old way. Right on site. Those are great MTs. I came in between that and the learn-at-home MTs. In my time, we actually had to go to some college and get an education.
Then came the learn-at-home programs (a lot cheaper than what I paid and a lot faster). Now in my own experience, some of these MTs are okay. Most are not. I'm sure with time, they would be better, but I've seen a slow decline in the last 5 years of how the MTSOs treat the employees and how poor quality a lot of the learn-at-home MTs produce.
So....holidays? You know, I work them all. But gees it would be nice to get a small token of appreciation just once for doing it. As far as some of the other advice, absolutely. Look locally. I'm so fed up with the MTSOs, that I am looking locally.
If I was an MTSO and come to this board, I would have no respect for any MTs myself. We cannot even unite together on anything. One person brings up an opinion and 100 follow with their outrage and nasty comments!
We all have a lot in common with each other, yet we can't even get alone. How can we expect respect from employer and yet we don't even respect our peers?
You Might get 11cpl working weekends only, third shift, as an IC. nm
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Most of us at OSI don't mind working holidays here & there
nm
Well, someone has to be working holidays...ERs are open 24/7/365
If you are doing acute care I think it is just a given that you are going to have to cover some holidays. Just like the doctors, nurses, admissions, and the rest of the hospital staff... someone has to work it. The only holiday I'd mind working actually is Christmas, the rest can be adjusted to fit my schedule. But I am lucky and live close to family and don't have travel concerns. Guess I'll take my extra cpl and be happy with it.
I hope that you, too, are working to get the situation changed! nm
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Au contraire, working in-house usually means weekends
or rotating weekends. I've been doing this 30 years and I've yet to not have to share in the weekend coverage, whether rotating or a fixed Saturday or Sunday workday.
No one is delighted to work weekends, except maybe for the differential (which isn't much but helps), but it's part and parcel of the profession, at least in my experience.
Nothing here either, not even an e-mail and no bonuses for working holidays.nm
nm
Which companies pay for holidays -- not working the holiday but OFF
I'm talking like the office (in-house employees) do -- LIKE LOCKING THE DOORS -- want to lock my at-home office door and know that I am GETTING PAID for the holiday as I lock the door behind me and enjoy the day off as my fellow in-house office employees do.
I understand keeping a skeleton crew of at-home MT's working the holidays, but we should be paid for those holidays just as the in-house employees get paid for those and don't have to worry, but go home and enjoy the holiday. What is the reason behind management's thinking on this?? Just because they know the in-house people face-to-face, does not mean that we at-home employees of whom they have never seen our face, should not get paid for holidays. I think the in-office employees should wear our shoes for a year (working ALL holidays WITHOUT PAY) and see how they feel about the subject. I can assure they would be pressing management to make a policy change in a HURRY.
I've been working weekends for 7 years and haven't heard of this.
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Hmm....working on the holidays, PMS, kids home from school, wanting to find a better job but can'
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My mom was a lab tech, so I grew up knowing about working holidays in the medical field sm
so it is no big deal to me. I do not have any children, so I have pretty much always volunteered to work the holidays so that others can be with their families. As someone pointed out, when you work at home for the holiday, you can jump off and on whenever you want, so it does not really feel so much like working. 
Sorry that you are unhappy about it, but unfortunately, people still get sick on the holidays, and part of being in the medical profession is accepting that you will work some holidays.
Hope the New Year brings you lots of things to be happy about.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
working from home is awesome but working for DSG is not...
horrible dictators, sound quality is bad, no answers to emails and they run out of work consistently...that is just my experience though...
Maybe, but she specifically says no weekends or holidays
Didn't want her to waste her time when I know one day per weekend is a requirement where we work. Figured she was better off with a company that would accommodate her needs.
Are you requied to work weekends and/or holidays
xx
I don't work weekends or holidays. MT FOR 10 YEARS
NM
MID SIZED COMPANY, NO WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS NM
KRAZY BUT TRUE
My MT job doesn't require holidays or weekends
So I feel incredibly lucky. Not all MT's have to or want to work holidays. It's just a matter of finding the right match.
It is refreshing to see Job Posts offering 10.5 cpl and 12 cpl on weekends and Holidays. sm
On the job board, SA Wynn Inc is hiring and sound pretty decent. The pay sounds great compared to the others. Go for it!
I know nothing about them, as I am on the East Coast, but I was happy to see the line rates going up from 7 cpl from the other posts.
transcend and differentials, weekends, nights, holidays
what does Transcend pay for these, anyone know?
Oops! Meant to say above 'evenings and weekends,' although it happens on holidays too.
Sorry. Just worn out right now.
I wonder how many hours she works or weekends
NM - that's BS or she owns her own company
So how is that working out for you?
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Really? I'm working, too.
However, I'm working at the part-time job I was forced to get as soon as I figured out Transcend was screwing me. I have nearly 1,800 lines in so far today. How many do you have?
Are you still working for them? LOL
If you are, why don't you take your own advice -- leave. You're no victim except of yourself.
If you're not working for them, what's it to you? We're all adults.
Whether or not a company is "good" or "bad" (such juvenille generalizations, lol) is a matter of perspective and there are PLENTY of us who don't share your views.
Are you working for them now?
I just interviewed with them yesterday and have not heard back. Are you working for them now? How is that working out for you? Are you happy? Thanks
working
I, too have worked for other services. I think Transcend is excellent. You can make as much or as little as you want. I agree with you everyone is very nice and helpful and easy to talk to and most helpful. I have a different job at Transcend now and I think that very much, but I also transcribe whenever I get a chance.
are you still working for them?
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I liked working for them but there
wasn't enough work on the 2 accounts that I was on to justify the fee for leasing the equip and I don't make enough yet to make purchases like dictaphone, lanier, etc. they always pay on time and CORRECTLY! if I ever purchase equipment like that I'll definitely be contacting them again.
And how would you know who is working and
I sure don't!
She could have another job and working before she would even
begin to qualify for unemployment. Why put herself through that anguish. She should resign and move on. She'd have a job in one day it is my guess. Unemployment should not even be an issue here. Most people can find jobs in this business very easily.
Who are you working for now? nm
nm
Yes, it's working now.
NM
I am not working for them anyway, so
PTS Dictation in Florida. They said that they only get 8 cpl, and that is why they only pay 6 cpl, and yes based upon a 65 character line. That is not my problem they don't get paid like they should. I don't work for anything less than 8 cpl.
Working for nothing
You must not be in desperate need for making any kind of money because that company paid me terrible! $4.25 per 1,000 words. I can make more money working at McDonald's flipping hamburgers!!
Not a good company to work for! Would not recommend it to anybody!
been working with them 5 yrs now - sm
owner is not very organized and was getting paid 15th and end of month but she has stretched it out to every 3 weeks now but accounts are SUPERB and once you get past the disorganization they pretty much leave you alone to work.
Oh like you are working....
If you have to keep replying obviously you are unemployed. I am not bashing anyone. You are a few others are the only ones calling people names. I never called you a name but you called me a loser. And I do think it is funny, no hilarious, because you so angry and frustrated? Do like the above poster said, take a pill!!
I don't know what you mean - it's working for me. nm
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I have been working for them for 6----
months. They are very nice people. Pay is on time. Good communication. QA is excellent. I am happy with them. If you have any more questions you may email me.
Still, would be like working for nothing....
I like what I do for a living but not that much!
You must be one of the ones let go for not working??!!
I know we do have a few sour employees who chose not do complete their files within TAT and thought they could just keep going. So yes, i'm sure they are angry they got fired and they will be angry at the next company that fires them for the same thing. Sad, really!
For those working for OSI...
How do you like it? I am considering doing their mentoring program, but it says you have to commit to a year full time following mentoring training. What is their scheduling like? Is there always a weekend day included? Is it set hours every day? Is the pay pretty good? How about the accounts and platform?
I'm sure there is info out there on them, but trying to search this forum is frustrating. I don't want to see messages from two years ago!
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light so that I can see if this is a worthwhile investment to make (in having to commit to a year full time).
For anyone working for QED...sm
Would someone currently working for QED please e-mail me? TIA
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