They're probably paid on production, too,
Posted By: rather than for making intelligent choices. on 2009-02-11
In Reply to: over-zealous recruiters - aren't they cute? (no message) - anon
Too bad that's the standard
M.O. for most companies these days. Quantity over quality.
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I am paid production only. Believe me, SM
I am not taking my time with these documents. The problem is that even when the system is trained, you have to read EVERY LITTLE WORD and fix really stupid things like the dictator said "are" but the VR typed "were"---that kind of stuff. It's horrible with things like that.
Yes, but you also get paid for your production..
better than nothing
This person obviously isn't paid production
Which means it's someone from mgmt who gets paid a salary and doesn't have to work much except to do damage control on here.
Their editors are paid by production
which is not ideal for QA. However, DSG was a nice place to work and made a good springboard for bigger, better things.
Hope QA DOES get paid on production - sm
the same as we MTs do. I'm assuming, of course, that they were previously paid hourly. Many felt they had to justify their jobs/salaries to the point of nitpicking the MTs to death about trivial things no one reading the report might notice except someone that NEEDED to find fault -- and as more & more was required of the MT as far as quality was concerned, regardless of the garbage dictation -- there was less & less for them to find faut with, which threatened their job security.
Many of them became so intimidating to the MT, with their just a little feedback for you (also thoughtfully CC'd to everyone in management)... This really should have had a semicolon ... There's an extra period at the end of this sentence, you idiot! So, now they've shown mgmt that they're really earning their oats.
I, myself, after 30+ years, will always stand behind the quality of my work, but have gotten so that I'll listen to a bad dictation 10 times, or spend extra time on the thankless task of looking up unspelled MD names ...rather than send it to QA for more than 2-3 blanks ... more often than not, I've gotten the job back without the blanks filled in but an extra e-mail in re. to an omitted hyphen.
It seems more & more QAs are paid on PRODUCTION ...But with many MTs too intimidated to even send anything to QA ... where's their production IF THEY GET NO WORK GOING TO THEM? Having dug their own graves ... No more hourly $$ , where they were just able to nitpick at their leisure while being paid for their nitpicking time, while the hardworking MTs got hard-earned pennies per line. 
Being paid by production is a slap in the face of quality. Bills due
determine the work ethics, from what I have witnessed. For an MT who has to come up with the money to live and the work available limited, there is a race to grab the best work, produce it as fast as possible and get on to the next job (which one may cherry pick simply because, well, they need the cash and have only so many hours to work, a limited amount of work available to them and, one might conclude, why not grab the easier work). It sucks. If there were ample work available to give the 8 hr a day MT her/him line count and provide her/him with a salary that one could live on modestly with a fair share of the good/bad, it would certainly make our days much more pleasant and then, quality would improve.
So you guys feel you're getting paid what you're worth with VR?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've never done VR, so I'm trying to understand.
You're happy with your paycheck with VR? Do you find the files to be as bad as the original post implied?
Maybe when we're paid more than...sm
the bare minimum, we'll be happy to learn more than the bare minimum. And what MT on these boards do you think knows just the bare minimum as you stated?
You're wrong. Never have been paid for OT. Many others
have said the same thing. I don't know how other accounts work, but there is no way to even submit OT on transnet, you can only submit the number of lines.
Paid for the whole report and you're right about
why you'd likely be fired after the adjustment time if you're not making at least min wage. The employer would need to supplement your income to bring you to at least min wage for your state.
Or you're paid by the hour/not line
Or, you are paid by the hour/not line.
Absolutely! We're no longer being paid enough sm
to transcribe and edit the stuff we hear day after day after day.
If you're paid by the line, and not for checking - sm
demographics, then the more time you spend checking demographics, the more you are working for free. A little bit of it is one thing, a lot of it is quite another.
The reason MTs get paid nothing and treated like doormats is they're
Expect nothing, and you GET nothing.
You're supposed to get 12 hrs of paid training even though it doesn't take that long to learn
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It's "well." You're paid "well," not "good."
You get "good pay," and you're "paid well."
And the use of an apostrophe is required in ALL "n't" words. Not even going to try to tackle the balance of the punctuation.
Transcend obviously prefers quantity over quality these days.
Training on the system, not paid, but if you are physically typing reports then you are getting paid
nm
Oh, yea -- PAID, too. Grandmother PAID LEAVE would be a great drawing card to TT !!
Just love that PAID TIME OFF !!
Any company that makes you wait to get paid until they get paid by the client
is not a company you want to get involved with. That's part of being an MTSO, figuring out how to cover your payroll while waiting to get paid. I would stay away!
Is this a live count of lines paid for or same as CTRL I that we do not get paid for ?? nm
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Me too.. the outsourced company was paid for and paid me for headers, but OSI does/did not.
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I have always paid yearly and have never paid or been assessed a penaltly. nm
nm
Be glad you get paid tomorrow. We are paid on the 1st and the 15th, so sm
since the 1st is on a weekend, we don't get paid until Monday. It will happen again on the 15th of August …sigh. It is the only thing I do not like about the company, though, so I guess a few weekends of poverty a year is not too much.
Lori never paid me and now ETC has not paid my friend.
What is WRONG with these companies?
Is it still being paid on time if you are paid on the 1st and 15th.....
and if the 15th falls on a Saturday getting paid on the 17th? My bank is open and posts on Saturday that means I am not being paid on the 15th doesn't? This has happened a lot lately.
At least you get paid, I would rather be paid late than not at all. Just my 2 cents.
nm
Yea, at least u got paid. Everyone who worked for TSI is STILL waiting to be paid
I don't understand how Jayne cannot pay us. We have christmas coming up. I bet her family has a fantastic Christmas because she is using OUR money to pay for it. I worked so hard for her and I know the other girls did too. How insulting that she will not return phone calls or emails or PAY us. How does she look at herself in the mirror knowing that the MTs who did all the work FOR her did not get paid. She even sent me an email saying I give you my word HAHAHA her word is nothing, obviously. Well, I will call the attorney for the THIRD time and see what is going on.
To the poster, at least you got paid even if it was late. I sincerely hope you get your last check.
Hope you're enjoying those slave wages you're earning.
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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.
VR production
To NM - VR lover: You responded to my question about increased production expection when going from transcription to VR. You inquired to as which platform. We use Editscript.
Will not do QA on production. I have been
paid anywhere from $14-$16.50 per hour. With present company making $16.50.
You will get along great with the MTs if you give them feedback in a positive constructive way and not come off as you are better than them. No need to be arrogant and snotty when giving feedback. When doing QA you also need to be willing to mentor.
MQ does, but it is on production.
sadddd
...production. nm
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The new ones are production only, believe me. nm
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Can I ask what your production is like?
As in how many lines you can do per hour etc or what the requirements are for Transcend on these accounts that use Beyond Text. I know with Escription I averaged 400 lph. Is this similar?
production
I can easily do 400+, which is what I was able to do with Editscript but not so much with EXText.
production
I use SR and I'm averaging 550 to 600 lph, with 99% accuracy.
Production pay...
...took the career out of the MT's hands and put it into the hands of greedy, money-hungry owners and managers who have quite capably learned out to use and abuse those who CAN actually perform quality medical transcription to make them hordes of money. If they had to work in the trenches they'd likely drown.
Sad, sad, sad.
Production
I have had a terrible time with production ~ same amount of experience as you. I have tried saving some things said repeatedly, but my accounts don't really do that either and I'm always getting new people. On one account I have to go in and change the voice speed each time I get one of theirs. I have a folder I've tried to make some macros with, but they change all the time. I am now a part timer, as I could not keep my line count where it needed to be. So, I have no solution, just verification that I have problems too. We also don't get paid for headers or footers any longer, it seems, in this business. I feel if we have to check information and verify the patient, as much as we do, we should be credited for that, as the doctors certainly don't make the greatest efforts (not on my accounts anyway). Hang in there ... lol.
I just put my production up, I am sm
ashamed to do it, but I really want people to see what lies they have told.
Production benefits? What are those?
Raises? What are those? Thank you? What does that mean? An answer? The only one you will get is "I don't know". Training? Forget it.
Well I did that kind of production too.....
Until going on the VA account. It's a whole other ball game and a totally different story.
Are you hourly or production?
I have a lot of questions and I'd really rather ask an employee than a recruiter because recruiters sometimes don't give a complete answer. Are the hourly jobs only with certain accounts. If you work hourly do you still have to produce a certain amount to qualify for benefits? Please email me if you don't feel comfortable posting here.
JLG shift/production
Not sure what you mean by work by the shift versus production. JLG has several different software platforms and some c-phone accounts as well and pay scale and other account requirements vary. As for the accts I have, we are paid by production, 65-character line NO SPACES. I noticed that recently they posted an ad where they were offering to pay spaces for whatever account they were trying to staff, so even that is not uniform.
They say they pay a shift differential. I can tell you that when I hired I had to negotiate that with them specifically...otherwise they were not voluntarily forthcoming in specifying exactly what the shift differential is. Also, about four months later, they adjusted my pay rate DOWN, claiming that everyone in the company was taking the same hit...no way to know for sure. I still make a decent line rate, but it seems to me that my shift differential dried up when the reduction was made and the reduction has never been restored.
With regard to shift, when I hired, there was no universal requirement to work weekends (I hired as an IC). I was told I could work as much or as little as I wanted to. However, later on they did REQUIRE that we all work at least one weekend day (including ICs). Of course, again, I have no way of knowing if that has been enforced across the board.
Beyond that, at least in my case, they have been very flexible with my hours and days, just as long as I put in eight hours on the weekend. That eight hours does not necessarily have to be on the same day...can be split between Saturday and Sunday if you like. I don't work 5 days straight (Tuesday through Saturday or Sunday through Thursday). I like 2 days on, 1 day off, 3 days on, 1 day off...and that has been no problem. From time to time, I switch my day off and that has also never been a problem.
I am not sure how this works for fulltime employees and keep in mind, this may not apply to other accounts.
They don't pay production incentive?
The hospital I used to work for did. We had one gal who could type double what the rest of us could, so she got more pay. She used to work part-time for a national, too, because she could never find a national with benefits comparable to the hospital. I don't think you're going to find a national with decent benefits. You also run into their lousy platforms affecting production, low pay, demo screens, ESLs, poor sound quality, etc. I wish I had stayed at my hospital. I thought I could make more working for a national but I haven't been able to yet. Chalk that up to another stupid career decision on my part.
SInce production can vary
depending on the dictator, available work, your energy level, etc., I would take the $15.00/hour. Good luck to you.
Webmedx production
Let me start by saying that I love working for Webmedx. I feel like I have a great supervisor and I generally like the work. However, lately I am on multiple accounts and my production is really going down. Is anybody else experiencing this?
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.
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