There is a good reason why we work on production . . .
Posted By: Alice on 2007-04-14
In Reply to: MTs don't get raises b/c you want to work for - production, not wages.
and that reason is production is the only way we will make money. You don't get raises with wage pay and you're basically locked in with no chance to increase your earnings.
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Same here -- my production is low, too, because of that very reason!
What also makes me almost ill is the careless/thoughtless dictators who are dictating in the ICU and all those bells going off, banging their pipe on the table, their cells phones ringing right in my ear, the overhead paging system louder than the dictator, and on and on. I will be so very intense on hearing/interpreting what this horrible dictator is saying and those MONSTROUS NOISES hit me in the ear so loud that it literally gives me a headache. It seems that every night I am working with a terrible headache caused from the dictators. I am totally in a stress wad during my entire shift. When working inhouse, the supervisors will go to the dictator and call them on the carpet, but not these nationals. They are SO afraid of losing an account or irritating someone at the hospital, that we MT's catch all the flack.
I know, I know, I am obviously in the wrong profession now. BUT when I started in this field, the profession was not like this -- and I have been in the field for many years now! Other suggestions welcome.
But if COMPANY is reason cant meet production,
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You hit the nail on the head! Main reason why MT went to production pay.IMO nm
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Do they pay hourly or production for QA? Is it good pay? nm
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They are good production and interesting, but hard to learn. nm
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Good reason????
No one ever has good reason to give out personal info, especially if illegally done. You cannot justify this action. Also I am the OP of the fact or fiction post. You are WRONG. You are dead wrong. There were 2 pay cuts at KS within the last 3 years. It is in the archives. They are there publically for any one who wants to take the time to research it. You are foolhardy to call someone out when they are speaking the truth and it can be documented. Before you take a stand, take the time to make sure your information is correct! Also, as I said before, I have every email from the day I was hired to the day I left. I have every bounced check stub and I have every piece of information to back up my posts. They are public records as far as I am concerned and I can back up ALL of my statements and that is a FACT.
There is a good reason.
Not a stable environment to work with.
Probably for good reason SM
you may think it's a wonderful company, but wonderful doesn't get reported to the Dept of Labor. I hope every person who gets a questionnaire FILLS IT OUT and RETURNS IT. These are hard economic times, folks, it could mean money for you.
If you worked overtime every week, BE HONEST. Don't protect the company, they should comply with the law like every other company has to.
Very good company. Incentive pay for production plus shift and weekend differentials. sm
Their platform is stable (proprietary, I've been on it for about a year and a half now). Pay is always on time. Good support staff. Their insurance changed this year. Plenty of work. They don't overhire on their accounts from what I can see. If anything, there is always plenty of work, which I like because I can hop on outside of my regular shift and get some more lines. Now that they pay extra for weekends, I like to pick up some extra hours then.
Ha! I knew there was a good reason why the
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Very true. Good reason to never burn bridges in this biz.
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I work there also and my production is low but.. sm...
I've always thought it was due to the high ESLs on my account. Seems like 80% of them are ESL.
Well, you should have no reason to check if you're one of the MTs who gets good line counts.
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Does JLG work in shifts or by production? TIA
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High turnover rate with good reason; email for info.
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I only work part-time, and my production sm
depends on the reliability of my connection. On most days I do 30 minutes of dictation, which will yield 300-500 lines depending on everything. I have over 30 years' experience. FC uses Chartscript which is so simple to use. Just run a macro, type in patient's info as dictated, and you're on your way. Reports follow one after another in the document file for that account. As far as lot of work, I only know what's going on in my little world. I have plenty of work. Hope this helps. FC is IC only, BTW.
They weed out, if you don't have work you can't make production. (sm)
Or are you talking about weeding out quality wise?
They use Emdat. Only paying 7-8 cpl + production. Clinic work. nm
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You need a 2nd line and Cphone to work for them. 800 lpd is PT production. Someone posted a
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Are some of their production bonuses tied to the amount of work to QA. I wasnt sure about that. I
think that must be a different bonus.
Ah, a random work load can really kill production. Can they be routed
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I just stated with them. Nice people, work out of Word, and pay increases with production. nm
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No, not enough work.... that is the reason why
I am looking to leave. We have been out of work for over a month now! Also, back in November. Also, back in August, etc. My sup is nice. No complaints about Quality. Equipment is okay (big-time old monitor). Platform leaves a lot to be desired - SUPER slow and locks frequently. Pay is decent WHEN THERE IS WORK!
That TT is getting all the work now for some reason or another ! n/m
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The reason there is little to no work
A practice of a few of my fellow MTSO owners, particularly the large MTSOs, as well as employers in general these days.
They do behind-the-scenes deals with businesses related to MT, such as MT schools and MT equipment/software dealers, to benefit financially, if not save themselves, including sending work from US-based employees directly to overseas divisions and operations, without informing the US employees. Can’t blame them for looking out for their financial interests! CAN blame them for 1) sending work overseas when there are well qualified MTs right here in the States, and 2) not communicating with their employees. You MT employees who are out of work for longer than a day and do not have another gig need to file for unemployment, period. I know it can be complicated for MTs to get unemployment, but if you signed up for FT work and don’t get to work FT, you get unemployment. I guarantee that filing for unemployment is something us MTSO owners, or any employer for that matter, does not want to deal with. But get ready - you may find that your work will increase, but most likely you will be given the bad dictators (they send the good ones to the overseas folks who won't work for X amount of money to transcribe the bad dictators).
No I don't know - but that is the big reason why I don't take work from them anymore -
They would just send a check in the mail and nothing else - I wanted a breakdown, I got nothing. What the heck???
Little to no work was the main reason.
I kept asking for backup accounts and for weeks couldn't get any, despite there being several accounts with OT on them. Talked with upper management and finally got 2 backup accounts, neither of which had any work on them. I was getting tops 20 hours a week and that was having to sit in front of the computer for 12 hour stints and check every 5 minutes to see if a report came in. I was working 7 days a week and trying all shifts to get in lines, so it wasn't a matter of me not making an effort.
Enterprise has lots of bugs in it and despite promises that the most current update would take care of the problem it never did. I would lose jobs, the system would freeze up and I had to reboot. All the while you are clocked in so your line count goes to heck. The system was so slow most days that I would sit a minute in between reports, which affects your line count because you're on the clock and not being productive. They have nice incentives but because of the above there was no way to reach them.
They denied overhiring, but they did way overhire and they lost several good MTs about the same time I left because there wasn't enough work. Lots of people were frustrated and posted on the boards here and then we were reprimanded for doing so. The internal boards were so heavily monitored that anything the least bit negative was deleted. Talking to my STM was like banging my head against a brick wall, so basically there was nowhere to go. We also got several e-mails with the threat of having to go to India and I wasn't going to have that dangled in front of me all the time. I was doing my part.
I cried every single day I was there I hated it so much.
The reason there is low work/no work during the week is because so many of YOU at TT want
TO WORK BANKER's HOURS and DAYS and NOTHING ELSE !! Poor baby . . .
The reason Transcend is offshoring is because no one here wants to work for them! nm
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YEP...Just want I suspected as the reason we have very little work OVERHIRING
They repeatedly hire yet we have hardly any work. Course, I suppose it could be the revolving door as the cause.
I quit twice. Both times for the same reason...low/no work. nm
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Easy platform, PTO if you are employee, production incentive, direct deposit, work flow varies on
different accounts, but usually have enough to keep busy, lots of QA feedback.
At least she gave you a real reason and not just "seasonal" low work. n.m
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The best co. ever! Good work, good people, good pay, good bennies.
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Right, I'm Enterprise. On our side, vacations aren't the reason for 0 work.
Good luck to us all.
I have heard they will have three main offices. Is there a reason Amherst is so short of work. What
is it they are trying to accomplish. They must be losing MTs if there is no work. No the new ASR rate is not out yet. If it goes low you will see an exodus off ASR I guess so that will mean more MTs on the regular work. It will be a big shock for some of them to see what that is like now.
I have heard other people comment on lack of work and have left for that reason. How much of an
issue can this be. Also, is the sound on these accounts poor. That is the other problems I have heard people comment on. I was really looking for uptodate comments. How bad are these issues at present. I dont want to leave one company with no work problems and go to another one with the same problem. I cant be available 24/7 to get work with having a family.
I have heard other people comment on lack of work and have left for that reason. How much of an
issue can this be. Also, is the sound on these accounts poor. That is the other problems I have heard people comment on. I was really looking for uptodate comments. How bad are these issues at present. I dont want to leave one company with no work problems and go to another one with the same problem. I cant be available 24/7 to get work with having a family.
I guess this explains part of the reason we keep running out of work. My office lost a lot of huge
accounts in the past year.
I'm with them. Good work environment, easy accounts and I'm making really good money. nm
Does anyone recommend a pretty good company that is good to work for, pay always on time and plenty
of work. I know that is asking a lot, but just curious?
Is Transcend a good company with a good platform to work on. They are advertising.
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U.S. only, very steady work, some VR, good pay, good insurance, no PT, schedule. sm
That should cover it!
You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.
No one HAS to employ you. No one MUST keep you in employment.
As an IC, your unemployment isn't coming from the account of your contracts! It comes from YOUR tax payments!
NO WORK at Transtech -- did no good to work the holiday for 1.5 lines, did it?
I am sure the office staff will share their PAID HOLIDAY MONIES with us who sit here with no work. This has gotten to be such a frustrating profession. I guess I need to relocate to Houston so that I can work in the office, too, and reap those wonderful paid benefits that us at-home piecemeal workers do not get.
Much good work going to India. Bad work left
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I work 2 accts, always work available, pay as IC is good..
They offered me more than Transcend did, I work 2nd shift, work always availble, OT usually available. Staff is very responsive to questions, very helpful.
Go for production
I currently get 8 cents a line and I certainly make more than $15/hour. I guess it would depend on your speed now. Good luck!
production !
Typing only 167 lines an hour would get you $15.00 - I would definitely go production.
it's better than production
$12/hr is better than 2-4 cents per line!!!
Production QA
Companies perhaps choose to pay per line for editing because when some editors work hoursly perhaps they do not do their work? Maybe run errands to often, don't stick to their schedules. As an editor, I would make more money per line. I've had experience with quite a few other QA who don't do their 8 hours a day but they bill for it.
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