The employee should be informed (sm)
Posted By: Ex-MDI-FL on 2007-01-17
In Reply to: on again, off again - justme
it is overflow and not be told there would be plenty of work. Can't pay bills some weeks and not others. Work being offshored takes away from US line counts any way you slice it. No thanks.
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Informed MQ MT
Sorry, I pitched it out since it was the same as the email. Fromwhat I can remember, it was from Frank...telling us that they would be "informing" us of the new pay plan, etc that all the upper crust have worked so hard on "after" getting so much MT input.
Bottom line though, IMO, it was more to do about document preservation for the attorneys on all the legal issues...even had a note from the atty's on what is/is not important.
The snail mail came from corporate and again, I just got mine Saturday..so maybe yours will be there this week
Be Informed
The pros so far for me as an IC are setting my own schedule and no set times I have to work, just getting my lines in for the day
Please make sure what *YOU* think IC means is also what your service means. For many services it means- I can make you work like I need you to but don't have to incur headache or expense of withdrawing and submitting taxes.
If you are a TRUE IC, you go out and get your own CLIENTS, and make up your own schedule, etc. When you are working for an MT service you are NOT an IC. You're a statutory employee and still don't get to name your own hours apparently. Please see my post above.
Has anyone been informed of a pay cut in their MQ packet? nm
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Informed decisions
You're looking before you even get your info clear? Interesting.
The changes take place Jan 1. Your paperwork has to be submitted by 12/1.
The "firm" schedule is actually MUCH more flexible than any I've ever seen with MQ as you're looking at choosing from 24 hours in 7 days.
Count me in as one who would like to be informed! Thanks. nm
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It took 3 weeks to get an ID, but they kept me informed. sm
I agree with the other poster. You should call or email.
After just being informed by Embarq that I was using my (sm)
unlimited long distance too much (they knew why I needed it when I signed up for it), I just called my digital provider and had it installed on my second line which will save me about $50 a month. And they said there were no restrictions!
Your "take" is ill-informed
MDI has never sent work to India, never will. It is an AMERICAN company that respects its AMERICAN workers.
Work has gone bye-bye since they informed us we ...sm
needed to be doing speech editing as part of our daily routine. I said fine to that but have heard nothing about it since. I never have work the last day of the pay period and end up being a few hours short and a couple hundred lines short for what is required for full-time and then accrue no time off during that pay period because of that 1 day. I gave my notice yesterday because I am not going to be jerked around anymore and go broke while they sit there and send out emails we must do speech editing and then cut my work load in half. I got a job at a local clinic part-time making the same amount at TT full-time!
Oh my. I just don't think you are very informed about IRS stuff.
Let's say the standard deduction for your state is $5000. This means in order to claim deductions you need to come up with more than $5000 business deductions to take those deductions. Say you have DSL costs of roughly $273 a year. Do you think the average IC MT has that much to claim. If not, you swallow that $273 for DSL.
If you have your own small beans dictators and say you still have to pickup and deliver you have mileage to claim,maybe some ink and paper costs, but most other stuff like equipment has long ago been prorated or taken in lump sum.
I provide and I am sure many/most IC MTs provide most everything the standard stuff. (other than paying to use their software).
I still don't feel you are much informed, you think so, but not so. I can tell. I had my own small beans for about 20 years, did my own IRS stuff too.
Make informed decisions
I had worked for TransHealth and they did pay for the spaces/headers but I would advise to seek other opportunities. They kept changing mgmt staff and you did not know who was coming or going. A lot of ESL dictation; no incentive whatsoever working wknds or shift differential. They will pay you 10 cpl if you are willing to sacrifice every weekend. Also you might get condescending emails from couple of the QA staff and when there is a huge backlog they send their "panic" emails but when there is no work, you don't hear a peep out of them.
Not informed Professional MT Recruiting Service
As a student in a business law class and working on my AA in business administration, I can tell you this strange poster by Professional MT Recruiting Services is not well informed and smells of a troublemaker. Recently my law professor and another professor who is also a vice- president of a bank and deals with employees both discussed this topic a few months back. The current temperament and laws in most state make it very, very difficult for a former employer to say anything bad about a former employee because it makes that former employer open to big law suits. One would have to have committed a serious crime such as major theft from a company, and been convicted for a former employer to say anything negative about a former employee. In fact, both professors tell us that it is not worth the time or trouble to say negative things about a former employee for fear of law suits. Our law professor is a practicing attorney and a CPA who runs his own business, and if he is telling us he would not take the chance of saying something bad about a former employee who was less than an idea candidate, I am going to go with their expert advice. Both professors tell us it is better to be neutral and keep law suits at bay.
Diskriter off off offshores - and on some hospital accounts - they have not informed the hospital
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Statuatory employee versus regular employee....
Can someone tell me the difference between a statuatory employee versus a regular employee? My company offeres IC or SE status....I am confused about whether switching over the SE would benefit me more than IC status that I have been for some time with them? What are the benefits and disadvantages of being an SE versus IC? Thanks for all of your help!
They hire both IC and employee. I am an employee (see message)
and I have full benefits. I am very happy that I came to work here. I came as a statutory employee from a large company. Everyone at MDI has been great to me.
Depends on if you are employee or statutory employee (sm)
Employee, 8th and 23rd of month
Stat. Employee, 15th and 30th month
Diskriter - Anyone go from their employee to hospital employee with them?
Thinking about giving up on being their employee and applying for a hospital employee position through them, they have one in PA right now that looks good. How is it for scheduling? Do you keep your line rate or get whatever the hospital pays? Who manages those accounts, is it the same PM and DR that are on the other ones? I have DR and feel like she doesn't have a clue what she is doing and it is so annoying, but I just don't have the guts to let the company know she needs to step it up a notch because the transcriptionists are not happy under her. Are QA the same people or through the hospital. They have 1 QA that is constantly asking us questions on doctors and format, things we should be asking that QA person. Annoying that new people move up to QA but people who've been there 2 or 3 years get treated like dirt and jumped account to account.
Only employee and statutory employee..no IC
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As an employee
I average about 8.5. They have an incentive if you type 12,000 in a 2-week pay period and that's not too hard to do on their system. Plus they pay higher on the weekends and at night (which I do on a split shift). I also figure the benefits are worth it because they use United, which I like the coverage in my area. All in all I am happy with them and I really like my team leader, that's a big plus to me.
Is this IC, SE, or employee?
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Yes they do, also employee and PT
positions were available when I interviewed 6 months ago.
Every employee is different.
I have found OSi to be very flexible. I personally do not work weekends. We are required to work holidays if they fall on your normally scheduled days; although, getting paid at 5 cpl extra. You can also request holidays off, which has never been a problem for me. I have never been denied on a request.
IC vs Employee
You will pay more taxes as an IC because of SSI, whereas as an employee, you do not (your employer pays half of SSI.)
You said you are an employee? Where?
Where are these 4 companies that pay $8K a quarter for bonuses?!?! Please, do tell!!
And provide enough work for you alone to do that much work?!?! Please, do share!!
When you are an employee, do you
If so, you are better off being an employee. Otherwise, the so-called self-employment tax cuts heavily into your earned income credit. It did for me at least, without having made a huge amount of self-employment income.
You can owe as an employee also
If you filled out your W9 form and put down for 10 dependents you would also owe or if your marital status changed or your deductions changed. All I am saying is that people think that because their employer is taking their taxes out for them they are not paying their own taxes. When you handle your own money, you just have to be structured enough to take out what an employer takes out. See your paycheck before and after taxes and see the percentage you are paying. When you get a tax refund that is YOUR money that the government has had for a year. You just underpaid. You can also overpay as a business owner or an IC and get a refund. But with the amount of deductions I have, I will never go back to an employee full-time as I would lose another 20% to the government and not ready to give that over.
employee or IC.
IC or employee?
I just checked their website and it states they only hire employees? It is possible to be an IC with them?
Yes, you can be IC or employee, nm
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Employee
Their platform is very productive and they offer full benefits to full-time employees. For that they do expect you to work an employee schedule as they try to have the coverage issues worked out. There have been some growing pains with work flow, but my experience has been they have been resolved quickly and certainly nothing chronic. They do not pay for spaces but I took that into account negotiating the line rate. The efficient platform and getting paid for headers also helps offset the spaces issue for me.
Is this as an IC, or are you an employee? nm
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They must be as I don't do employee (nm)
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Sorry.. Employee, soon to be EX, at MDI-FL..
Definitely need to clarify that.
Pay for IC vs. employee
I'm interested to learn the average difference in pay between IC and employee--such as, if as an IC I earn 9 cpl (65 char with spaces), as a regular employee what would be the equivalent? I'm guessing about 2 cpl less, so it would be 7 cpl as an employee. I don't need insurance though.
Thank you in advance!
IC vs employee
An employer generally pays about 20% in benefits and overhead for each employee which includes medical insurance, paid vacation, income taxes, 401K, equipment, fringe bennies. So yes, in the example you gave it would equate to about 0.2 cpl.
Employee only. nm
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Are you and employee or IC? (nm)
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An employee. nm
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Really? I am a former employee of one of those
companies and I know one of them do.
are you an employee? sm
if so they are bound to take out state taxes. If you are an IC, of course not. Oh-- and by the way-- you would have to pay your state taxes yourself anyway :)
P.S. And, yes, I was an employee.
And yes, taxes are ultimately the responsibility of the employee, but most legitimate companies withdraw taxes from the employee's paycheck. I found it difficult enough just paying my regular bills with the very low rate of pay this company offered, and it was impossible for me to also put aside extra money to pay for the taxes they refused to take out.
One of the reasons I decided to accept employment with them was because I belieevd of all the hype about them being best employer, etc., and I refused to listen to all the little warning signs that frequently popped up in my brain. I won't ever do that again.
Not the OP, but is she is an employee, sm
why shouldn't she get paid for downtime? If you worked at Burger King and no customers came in for an hour, yet you were required to be ready to service the customers, wouldn't you expect to be paid? JMHO
Now, if she is IC, she's out of luck.
Are u an employee or IC? nm
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I am an employee
I have written a demand for payment and have not worked since not receiving my check.
Any advice on who one contacts regarding those in the legal end to contact would be most helpful if anyone knows this info.
Thanks!
IC vs Employee
I know this subject has been broached before... but, how can a company seek an IC, and then assign work each day and expect you to put in X amount of hours, etc. I don't understand this... I was under the assumption that as an independent contractor, you work when you want. You are providing the company with a service, you are not their slave and do not have to answer to them at a certain time of day. IC means work is done and returned in the manner the IC sees fit. When asked part-time or full-time, what is the answer when you are an IC? Anyone else having this trouble? I would love to hear from you... 
I also do not see how a company can put you at edit status, and then never give feedback on blanks, etc. How do you ever get out of editing? Is it the IC's job to ask about blanks when you are already receiving a smaller pay rate to be in editing and trying to make some money while learning a new account.
Are you looking for employee or IC
CIT employee
I presently work for CIT and wouldn't work anywhere else. There definitely is work out there to be done--almost too much work. Bottom line is that I firmly believe your job is what you make it. If you think it's too tough and can't be done, then guess what... It will be too tough for you and you won't be able to do it. In regards to ESL dictators... I look at it as job security. They are not going to change or go away, so my goal is to learn to master them. Any good Transcriptionist knows that a short-cut program is the way to go--work smarter, not harder. At least our platform offers you one if you do not have one of your own and it is very easy to learn to use. I presently use my own, SPEEDTYPE, with my own standards for the dictators. As for communication, if there is a breakdown in communication--maybe all parties involved are not communicating with mutual respect?? Basically I don't expect my boss to have to contact me unless it is necessary. I was given what was expected and am allowed to accomplish it without having anyone breathing down my neck, but help is there if I ask for it. As for a small company, yes, we are at this point. Sam Walton didn't start Walmart with a boatload of people, each with one single specialized job, but a few very multitalented people who were flexible and able and willing to do what was needed in order to get the job done. Look at the number employed there now--YEARS later. My point is we are growing--fast. Bottom line though, is that there is no job that is perfect for everyone, so you need to find your niche in life, determine your goals and what YOU are willing to do to accomplish them, and you may be surprised how your dream job could be exactly where you are today.
Are you an employee
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Are you an IC or employee? nm
I am not now, nor have ever been an employee, but
I was offered a position by them within the last 6 months. The recruiter was so busy I.M. people during the interview that she couldn't keep a train of thought and I was distracted. I felt red flag #1. I'v heard from many people that you're questions go unanswered, despite the fact that management seems to I.M. each other all day long. The recruiter told me about this account that was fabulous and there was rarely an opening because the MTs loved it and there just wasn't any turnover. She also denied offshoring. She put me in touch with the team leader for this wonderful account and it was an account that I had worked on with another company and it was a horrible account. The TL said it was a horrible account and they could never keep MTs on it. The TL also told me that they indeed did offshore and not only that, but they offshored the good work and left the crap here.
I just felt like I couldn't trust them and turned them down. Their pay scale is based on lots of things. There is a base pay, then extra for so many years of experience, extra for 2nd and 3rd shifts, extra if you have CMT, etc. I can't remember what their benefits were like.
IC to employee......
You are so very right!! I absolutely hate! being an employee. It really is a hard transition.
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