That would be an extra 50 to 100 dollars in addition to lines and a half. nm
Posted By: TT2 on 2008-02-09
In Reply to: Okay, this is turning ugly. These kind of comments are unprofessional - TT2
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uh - that's 200 dollars the first day, not lines. nm
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4000 lines a month of dollars? Either of which is not that great! So, what are you bragging about?
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you said 446 for half an hour of VR LINES SO... DUH....SM
I just did x2. I don't care if you typed after that, it still would be doubled for an hour. this is REALLY idiotic all right and I'm not wasting any more time on you. You already lost credibility by saying you type 130 wpm and would rather VR. Simply a lie miss L.
Last I heard 10,000 lines PPP gets half your insurance paid.
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Yes but that means hiring a lot of extra people and paying out a lot of extra money when they can
have SE without all this. Their last report said they are making less money now than before and expect to make less in the next quarter so what does that say. We shall see. As part time employees you would still have to adhere to a schedule and I think people are SE for flexibility at least I am.
In addition (sm)
TRS is one of the worst companies for scheduling -- they expect you in your seat, emailing if you leave it for 15 minutes (and the emails go to all your coworkers, not just your supv). Supposedly there is a 12-hour window in which to do one's 8 hours, but this varies by account: my friend's account required a very strict 8-hour shift with no variations, but there was never enough work, so she ended up working 12 hours to make her line counts. Frequent platform crashes also impacted her work flow.
But don't you think in addition to
the fines the employer pays, the IC will have to go back and re-file all past tax returns? There are going to be implications for taxes on both parties. You have to file a form SS-8 with the IRS about why YOU think YOU are an employee and not an IC. It is done on a case-by-case basis and you have to sign the form. The MTSO will then have to respond to the inquiry and the IRS may or MAY NOT think the IC is an employee. Either way, you are without a job.
In addition, they want to do an 'FBI'
I think this is ludicrous. All of that paperwork so they can check into every little detail of your past so you can work in your house. I said forget it.
Addition to resume
Hi Mari,
Well said! I'm going to include your first paragraph on mine and see what they think!
Wow, in addition to your check?
That sounds like a sweet deal.
I have a question in addition to the OP's
I'm thinking about purchasing Stedman's spellchecker. Does anyone else use their personal spellchecker with Bayscribe. If so, does it work well with it and which one do you use?
I'm also thinking about purchasing my own personal Expander at the same time. I'm looking at InstaText. Any comments on it?
To the OP: All transitions are uncomfortable at first, but don't give up. I've only been with them a couple of months, but I like it. As for getting my line counts, I'm up to 1000 lines a day. It takes me a little longer than it did at my other job - but my other job used voice recognition, which helped a lot but paid less. I'm also doublechecking my reports before I send them in because I was told the account I'm on is scrutinized very closely. As I said above, I'm looking into my own expander and spellcheck software. I've had a few spelling errors that the spellcheck didn't catch. But at least you can add those in the expander to spell correctly. The people at the company are great and QA staff is wonderful. They treat like humans, not machines or numbers. Good luck. Feel free to email me if you want.
Wonderful addition -sm
Thank you for adding it to the list. The two of you need to represent all of us. How about forming a union? I'll join. Just tell me when and where to sign up. Thanks again!! 
Agree 200%!! In addition,---sm
Exploitation is nothing new in the home MT business, but I think that since our economy has taken such a nosedive recently, a lot of companies are using this to their advantage and pushing it to the limit. Their attitude is, LUCKY YOU HAVE A JOB, SO LIKE IT OR LUMP IT. My response to them would be, AND YOU'RE JUST AS LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB (TO THE MTSOs) AS WE ARE. Would the companies have been able to push this VR fiasco on us before, before the market took a nosedive? I doubt it, but they thrive on the desperation of many MTs who have no other options at this point.
Any relationship, busines or personal, thrives on old-fashioned give-and-take. MTSOs need to realize they can't just TAKE and TAKE and TAKE and TAKE indefinitely. 
In addition you forgot to mention...sm
that the sky is falling and we'll all lose our jobs fears were prevalent back when PCs were introduced, and we're all still working. With the government requiring more and more documentation to be made electronically there's still a ton of work to be done and no VR system is going to have it perfect, ever.
In addition to that I wonder if test files
are not a way to get some transcription done. Some of the testing is so long. I've had where the company will send practically a whole day's worth of work for testing purposes. 
In addition, all kinds of innuendos .sm
by them (i.e., sexual; suicide, etc) before any sort of investigation, autopsy, or in short, before they know the facts.
Hats off to his brother, Keith, for demanding an FBI investigation.
Do you mean in addition to your reg Friday work? When do they give it to you?
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one of MANY reasons, in addition to living expense,
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*just two thousand dollars*...
... minus attorney's fees, right?
Okay, 400 LPH is 16 dollars and hour,
Not for me.
it says 64 dollars a pay period, below
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I just won a million dollars!
I found one on her computer! Now I can buy out Medquist and return it to pre-2006! No more ASR, no cesspool and each of you only will have one primary and a secondary and generous quarterly bonuses which you can actually GET! 
dollars to donuts...
that Nuance is also Indian owned. Just a feeling I get. They just have a better U.S. store front.
I just hate to see other MT/QA people get snookered by them. Time will tell, though. Time will tell.
Wow, buy hundreds of dollars
worth of equipment for 6 cpl for them to decide during the probationary period that you weren't going to work out for them? No thanks.
Equals $21.44 US dollars nm
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TransTech does - Hourly in addition to line rate
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I currently do this kind of work in addition to my medical accounts...sm
The rate seems pretty low, at least compared to what I make, and I can tell you from my experience with this type of work, it is very tedious. Expanders aren't nearly as helpful as in medical transcription, so it's pretty much straight typing. On the other hand it is a nice change of pace from the medical aspect, but for what they want to pay, probably best suited to a newbie.
Cymed Dictation Dollars
Does anybody know what these are? Is this something new that we haven't been told about yet? It seems that since they are posting this as a benefit for new-hires that they should inform their current employees about it, or am I dreaming?
"Just two thousand dollars"
I hope you are joking right. That is a lot of money. As a single mom that would probably get me kicked out of my house for not paying rent and get me in trouble for my car payment, cause my utilities to be off, etc. To most of us that is a lot of money. Simple two grand does not describe it for me if that happened to me.
Yes, is that 4000 dollars a month? If so,
At 6 cpl, you must've transcribed around 67,000 lines in that month. Now, do you have any idea what you could've made somewhere else? Well, at 8 cpl, you would've made around $5,360 and at 9 cpl, you would've made $6,030. You are soooo undercutting yourself by staying at a job that only pays 6 cpl.
Oh, and by the way, assuming you work approx. 40 hours a week, you must transcribe upwards of 400 lph. Most companies would LOVE to have someone that fast on board and would pay a whole lot more than 6 cpl for such a high producer!!! You should really check your options.
Anywhere from 13-15 dollars per hour to start
depending upon whether you are working in a hospital or a private practice. Private practices are going to pay more, but will probably use Word as opposed to Meditech. I'm on the East Coast. 
Okie. Just trying to save someone a few dollars. nm
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Wouldn't do QA again for a million dollars. (sm)
Biggest challenge - keeping your sanity while having to fix crappy work over and over and over again while meeting impossible deadlines for really low pay. Believe me, if you can be an MT, you'd be better off financially and mentally. Oh, and no one is going to pay me a million dollars, so I feel confident in saying that. :) Why on earth would you want to transition to QA? Did someone tell you it's a step up??? Reevaluate that statement by searching the archives for commentary on QA problems. There was a long discussion on here a few weeks ago about it. Good luck to you. Choose wisely!
yeah, but wouldn't you really like your holidays paid in addition to PTO? sheeeesh
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TransHealth has 6 paid holidays in addition to PTO and sick pay for fulltimers. nm
in addition, while the office staff are partying, visiting with each, breaking whenever they want to
with pay, we are struggling to pound those cold keys with our cold fingers with our break drinks, meals at our desk . . . no time to take off due to no pay for any time taking off for a break or lunch. We are grabbing all the work we can get now before another MT gets it, as our paychecks continue to dwindle due to VR/ASR and leads and others taking the easier dictators from us (those who have ever transcribed a word in their life) and passing all the other down to the piecemeal worker, the MT.
Ok it is about 64 dollars a pay period for a single person. This is from sm
someone who works here. That also is for the gold plan like I have. That's pretty good.
that must be a typo. 3 dollars and 50 cents a line???
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what company pays 17 dollars an hour?
JLG pays 21 dollars an hour, that is a fact.
Old posts say they pay late and only in Canadian dollars, not US money. nm
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8.5-9 means cents per line, not dollars per hour. nm
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How hard is it to get to the 900 dollars a pay period on Beyondtxt VR to keep the benefits?
Thank You! 
As below, they do to full time people making 900 dollars per pay period. nm
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I would be afraid to lose my safety net if I needed X amount of dollars to live. I am sitting here
now out of work with 3 major hospitals in my pool and I think if a lot of people all want to work the same hours this may be a big problem because they cant keep it straight now so I would be very leery of this until you see how it is going to go. I work for Amherst and this is a chronic problem with no work.
They only pay half, so if you were
say 8 CPL, you would only get 4 CPL. I am not doing ME for them but you would have to do twice as much to make the same money. I have already decided if they try to force me into it, I will move on.
Half
A lot of companies like mine pay half. If I had to do ASR full time for that price, I would go to work at a store or something easy.
about half. However, you might be one of those sm
people who really excels on ASR once you get going on it and figure out ways around it. I know people who now prefer ASR and are making more than they did with regular and don't want to go back to regular. Keep in mind you have to do 2.5 to 3 times the lines on ASR as regular to recoup what you were doing on regular. Some people can do that, I can't, because I read too slow. Even with ASR, it's all in the macros/shortcuts. 1200 lines a day at 10 cpl is $120. You'll need 2600 ASR lines at 0.045 cpl to get $117. Can you opt to do both regular and ASR?
one-half cent
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I'm a little confused. Do you mean 3/4 of a cpl or 7 and a half cpl? sm
Because if you are meaning 3/4 of a cent per line that seems REALLY low. Maybe I'm just reading your post incorrectly.
I got mine within about a day or a day and a half.
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I was only there a year and a half, but
did the same, got a secondary job as an IC back in August when things were crazy with the 15 different CPs I was making NO money and was so frustrated! Before that, I was at the same hospital for 11 years and only left cause they went over to MQ. I am still keeping my IC job, I love it! But am doing 40 hours for KS. Training was today, kind of confusing after working on DQ, but I'm sure I'll get it. Smart move, I hope you find the new job much more profitable so you'll be able to switch over for good!
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