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• why would a recruiter give me - Just another MT
  • No - Happy MT
  • Not all companies have toll-free numbers. - jd
  • Some companies do have toll-free numbers. - MTTTT
    • We do not have an 800 number either. The reasoning is that sm - Recruiter

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mine. I have ten years experience, but normally I only work part time, so I haven't reached that high of a salary yet.

Again, I have to ask, is $47,000 with or without benefits?

I tend to also agree with you on the leaving blanks, looking up terms, etc. When you know your doctors, you know what they are saying. With years of experience, you know the vocabulary and you don't spend as much time looking things up.

You all bring up valid points to ponder, I am definitely going to think.....what would l look for in an employer and what am I worth based on my experience. Then I need to figure out if I am making/earning that based on the hours that I work.

My current pay for straight typing is 10 cpl.  Now, let's say I average about 160 lines per hour for an 8-hour day.  For a 2-week pay period, my pay before taxes is $1280.  If I double that, at 320 lines an hour at what my company is offering for VR (3.5) my 2-week pay before taxes is $896.  Even if I produce 2.5 times my straight typing production at 400 lines per hour, my 2-week pay before taxes is still only $1120. 

How am I making more money???

services, in fact I used one last week.   Most do have limits on how often you can use and how many pages though.  You obviously would have to scan pages into a document, but maybe she doesn't have a scanner either.

She could have mailed paperwork back. 

of money will be paid for the service of having someone's records subpoenaed. I have read this entire thread and I see nothing that anyone can really do.

IP addresses are not definitive either. Groups of people can share an IP address particularly on places like AOL and there are other companies that do it that way also, so someone would really have to go to lengths to find out the definite ID of someone. I don't believe I have read anything other than independent opinions presented on this topic.

These boards are to share opinions and not all opinions are fair, but this is the United States and we do have freedom of speech. Presenting an opinion about a company is ok. Libeling a company is not. I do not see libel at all in this topic.

If you translate old LPH rate into lines, they restructured the tiers so they start at a lower amount of lines, and pay at a higher bonus rate than before.  So management's intent was to give us a bonus raise, and that is how it will work out for me (going by the lines I typed the last couple of pay periods).

As far as not getting the bonus when you take PTO, that is pretty much standard for companies with line-based incentives.  Its just another downside of production-based pay.  Only if a person was paid hourly could they expect to get paid exactly the same for PTO (but they'd also get paid the same all the time, and no ability to make more by working harder).

I feel they had good intentions when they made this change.  The LPH system had its problems (like when Enterprise would fbe slow or reeze up you'd have to keep adjusting the time clock because your LPH took a dive) and this was a way to eliminate some hassles.  They already received some complaints yesterday that they needed to add another tier, and they did.  I'm sure they will continue to tweak it if people have complaints.

There are certain factions who have profited greatly from having us believe that unions are corrupt and useless.  Yes, there have been abuses of power in unions, and the auto industry is paying for that.  However, that is only one of there problems and probably not one of their biggest. 

Who needs unions?  Look at the average American worker, barely able to live paycheck to paycheck, and corporations making record profits.  How bad do things have to get?  Are you willing to just sit back and let the corporations continue to take over?     

Unions are about giving workers a chance, a chance to stand up for themselves.  It is only through organizing that we can create a united front and stop this trend of abuse to the American worker.  It is not about being militant or greedy.  It is about human decency.

I don't feel comfortable publishing them here, but email me privately and I will send you a comparison of the old rates and the new rates that obviously proves its a raise.  I'm working tonight but will gladly send it tomorrow to anyone that asks.

Also they sent an email to everyone yesterday stating PTO will be calculated just the same as it was before, based on what you made the prior pay period, bonus and all.

I guess quite a few people that are freaking out about this are going to feel silly in about a month when they are making more money and find out they were wrong.

in upper right hand, I think the numbers might be line count, what is the other one in the blue box? 

but when they would call from India, the number showed up as a KY or IN number, even though indeed they were in India.

They are basically nice people to deal with.  I am just amazed and a bit outraged that they would lie to people in their ad.  It shows a lack of respect for us as MTs, I think, to try to deceive us in such a manner.

both sides have been running a little low, may be due to the emphasis on tight turnaround time.

Buh bye OSI!!! 

I will miss all the good MT's there but at least I will be getting paid for holidays from now on.  Maybe, just maybe the good MT's still there will be right behind me.  Or maybe not, and you can enjoy your little mug of candy for Christmas. 

Yes!  Yes!    Yes!  Yes!

It costs us 10.00 for every applicant we test online.  Out of 50 people I might refer who look promising, about 80% will get to the actual transcription part and say I couldn't finish, it wouldn't let me when the actual qualified people have no trouble whatsoever. 

How many of you get the emails with the cover information not spellchecked?  I get them that say I am very qulity conscience.  I got one from a lady who worked in the surgical stockroom of a hospital and was furious when I told her that didn't qualify her to be an MT.  I had a welder who wanted something different,  several from people claiming to be med students or doctors, one dentist in an extremely remote part of Alaska.   I get stories of I have children and I'm about to be evicted and I quit my job.   I get my hospital went bankrupt and closed (yet the phone number still works).   I can advertise for ops and get people asking for an ER account.  I needed an Editor for a particular work type and had a lady apply who said she had 18 years experience so I let her try to edit a document.  I would have had to hire somebody else just to edit her work!!!  It really makes it hard for the experienced people because it's like we've heard it ALL...so you don't know who is good and who isn't!!!

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