RIPOFF
Posted By: mt2long on 2008-07-11
In Reply to: No. - MQer
What a ripoff. Your 1.5 should be your baseline line rate x 1.5, NOT what you average for hourly. Geez.
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Yep, ripoff.
I worked for 8 cents/line on a 55 BCL plan. My line count was about half of what it is with a 65 character line including spaces. I guess it's because of all the small words that have spaces; I counted an average of 2 spaces per 10 black characters.
No. They lie. It is a ripoff.
I despise ASR with a purple passion. It sucks. I hate it, hate it, hate it. I would make more at McD's and am seriously thinking of going that route. Can't stand this anymore.
They are a big ripoff for QA for sure
For QA they pay only 15 lines even if you have to fill in 100 blanks, 15 lines per report - period. Now if the MT is on 100% QA and you review the entire report only then do you get credit for the whole report.
It wouldn't surprise me if they jacked around the MTs that way too. I couldn't wait to leave and earn a real living again.
Tech support is in India. The managers were in India when I worked for them. I could barely understand them and they would not answer emails, etc. It was awful. I understand they have domestic supervisors now.
If $300/mo for single that is a ripoff and
you'd be much better off with a private policy. My family of 4 pays less than $400.00/mo for good insurance.
The cut in pay is the biggest ripoff because VR is just
x
even 6 a ripoff $7,50 hr/1000 ln/day 125 ln hr
that is $60 a day. Take longer than 8 hours, less hourly. Com'on. Com'on. Wake up, lesser of the 2 evils acceptable. Nope, not me.
BOS is a ripoff, as well. If your MTSO requires - sm
you to have it, do like I did and buy a used CD of it on ebay instead of that expensive book. (OR, if you've got a friend with the CD, maybe they could make a copy for you).
Home-based MT is often a ripoff.
If you owned a factory and a supplier sent you defective or substandard raw materials what would you do? Send them back of course. You certainly wouldn't pay for them and use them to build your product.
In home-based MT this happens constantly and the MT is always forced to pay for the substandard raw materials (dictation) that the client sends. Not only with independent contractors but home-based employees usually have a quota and may have to work for nothing some days to meet it if they get a lot of crappy dictators. As an IC, my income may drop by up to 50% on a bad day of plodding through terrible dictators just to dig out common English words and phrases.
All these crappy dictators should be done by in-house MTs who are paid a fixed salary no matter how much they do. In that way the client that hired the crappy dictators without any language standards and that couldn't care less about their substandard raw materials would be the ones forced to compensate for their own bad behavior.
Home-based MT is often a ripoff.
If you owned a factory and a supplier sent you defective or substandard raw materials what would you do? Send them back of course. You certainly wouldn't pay for them and use them to build your product.
In home-based MT this happens constantly and the MT is always forced to pay for the substandard raw materials (dictation) that the client sends. Not only with independent contractors but home-based employees usually have a quota and may have to work for nothing some days to meet it if they get a lot of crappy dictators. As an IC, my income may drop by up to 50% on a bad day of plodding through terrible dictators just to dig out common English words and phrases.
All these crappy dictators should be done by in-house MTs who are paid a fixed salary no matter how much they do. In that way the client that hired the crappy dictators without any language standards and that couldn't care less about their substandard raw materials would be the ones forced to compensate for their own bad behavior.
Yes OSI Xpress biggest line ripoff ever
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