What about time and a half and/or bonuses for holidays?
Posted By: typingfool on 2007-12-05
In Reply to: MDI Maryland question - fa la la la la
Does MDI ever offer any incentives? TIA
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Yes we do get bonuses. It varies. Line and a half or so much $$ for so many reports.
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Nothing here either, not even an e-mail and no bonuses for working holidays.nm
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Full time but no work half the time-nm
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Yes, and if they are in a bind they PAY time and a half, so (sm)
what is your problem?
In the past year and half, I have always been paid on time. --nm
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I always have been there several years and it wasnt always so bad but now with no work half the time
communication I am no longer happy there and moving on.
spheris has a hard time paying their referral bonuses as well.
Spheris has a hard time paying for referrals too...just put you in a drawing for some prize. if you win, great if not, then who cares.
Can you take vacation time and holidays
off? Can you work part-time or do they only have full-time MTs? TIA
P.S. I am full-time too and they have paid holidays. (nm)
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Webmedx has 6 paid holidays a year, separate from PTO, for full time employees.
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What I mean is, to be paid for holidays, even if you dont work. Major holidays.
Sorry. What I mean is, to be paid for holidays, even if you dont work. Major holidays.
Very few MTSOs pay for holidays. Some give you 6 days you can use for holidays or regular PTO, but
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Holidays - Is there any company who pays holidays?
Are there companies (like in the old days) who pay you for Christmas, NY, Thanksgiving, etc., MAJOR HOLIDAYS?
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?
NO BONUSES
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Bonuses
You missed the point completely. This is a profitable MT service with over 600+ MTs. There is nothing thoughtful at all about sending an item that cost less than $4 (no exageration on that figure by the way), with no letter of recognition, no Happy Holidays, no nothing. It certainly sent a message to me of how much they valued the job I did this year for them. Furthermore I have gotten very inexpensive gifts in the past from both large and smaller MTSOs that were not expensive but thoughtful and totally appreciated, so please do not interpret this strictly as a money issue.
Bonuses
One very nice bonus from some local docs I take care of. One extremely tacky cheap bonus from my main employer. While I don't think anything is owed, and did not even expect anything, I am struggling with the fact that this was absolutely insulting.
bonuses
Once in a blue moon they will offer a bonus if an account is in severe backlog, but no regular incentive bonuses. They already pay pretty well, so I'm not too concerned about production bonuses.
Why would they pay bonuses when they don't pay OT?
Bonuses
Too many people such as you tend to feel they are ENTITLED to a bonus no matter what the economy is. You should be very thankful that you even have a job (even one you complain about at every opportunity) when so many people are so much less fortunate than yourself.
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!
I was only half joking s/m
I've always worked so I'm sure that I'll continue to make extra money. We, as MTs, have more talents than we usually give ourselves credit for. For one thing, I have a website http://www.ozarkmountainmemories.com that right now is used for a nonprofit event but by the first of next year or so I expect it to be making money. I never thought I could build a website and it took me awhile but I got 'er done!
No, half of what you make as an IC does not
go to taxes, but 30% is a good percentage to work with at this time, but that is likely to change with a Democratic president. Not trying to make a political statement here, just state facts. As an IC, you will have deductions you can take, home office expenses, a percentage of your utilities based upon the square footage of your home office, any expense that has to do with your business, DSL, extra phone lines, etc.
This job is going to the dogs. If you read the ads on the boards, most of the big nationals are nothing more than sweat shops these days, trying to get blood out of a turnip, and paying less and less and giving nothing in return. Oh, they say they offer benefits, but you can't afford them. Not to say that they can make it more affordable in these economic times, but the fact remains that they are in business to make a buck, and they are making their big bucks on the backs of transcriptionists. They expect sacrifice, but it is YOUR sacrifice they want, not theirs. That is evidenced by the fact that you, the MT, will work on the weekends, you will neglect your family, you will have no life, and they don't give a rat's patootie. I remember when we didn't work weekends or holidays. Don't give me this 24/7, 365. THEY, the muckety mucks DON'T work weekends. When they negotiate contracts, they sell your soul to provide 24-hour coverage, but their big asses are at home on the weekends.
I am an IC because I cannot stomach working for a national that wants my blood, my children's blood, and my life sitting and waiting to hopefully grab a job and if I don't have work today to stay up 24 hours so I can make line count to keep my benefits! Benefits???? What benefit is there for me and my family working for these companies if I never see my family, never have the time to take a leisurly day to do the things that normal families do, going to a ball game, a movie, having their friends over for a cookout, going to church together, sitting and watching a DVD together?
I am afraid we have allowed this to happen to this profession. We bowed to their demands of Tue. thru Sat. or Sun. thru Fri. We accept poverty-level wages. We say it is okay that our benefits are based on our production, but when we don't have work, we don't scream and yell when they take away our benefits.
You know, unions were created because of just such conditions. These companies are taking advantage of us, and if you don't think so, just look at the demands being made if you apply and are one of the chosen ones.
Lord help us all. When the economy really tanks (quite soon, I'm afraid), you'll see them drop like flies, all of them, to 3rd world countries. You think they care about the American MT? Heck no. They only care about themselves.
not paid the second half
Ok, about a month ago, I posted about a service who would not answer emails, phone calls, about paying me what was owed. She paid me less than half of what she owed, and now I have waited patiently to get the balance and once again she will not answer emails or phone calls. She is blatantly ignoring me. I emailed her and asked her WHEN she plans to pay me. She has in her contract that she pays twice a month when the docs pay her. Well, this is going into the 3rd month now. I have gotten that ONE check which was less than half what she owes. I no longer work for her, as she locked me out of her system when I kept emailing her. (GO FIGURE!), who would want to work and not get paid anyway!
I have tried to work with her and give her the benefit of the doubt, but at this point, I think that I am going to have to take other measures.
What is the other half of the company?
Signed on contracts like hospitals and stuff? I'm not following what you all mean. If it covers it for now does that mean lay offs might happen?
Thanks Travelin! I think half the sm
battle is finding the fit for you! Not every company is for everyone.
Yea my job offered me less than half....
of my salary accompanied by the e-mail saying how I would be getting 3 times my lines with this wonderful VR system. I'm not overly concerned because it is my part-time job. I barely make any money with them anyway, so I will take the opportunity to learn it and just see how it goes I suppose. It's ridiculous though.
Quarterly bonuses
Are the quarterly bonuses still being offered for SE's and what about the SE's who have been here for years??
SE's still get quarterly bonuses
I still get quarterly bonuses as an SE..I also have gotten extra for tier work. I dont know what that is all about, I havent asked (dont like dealing with the office much)..What I think, however, is as a part timer, if I do more than 6,000 lines/pay period, I guess I move to a higher tier. I got approximately $30.00 extra a few pay checks ago. It was listed on my pay stub.
6-8.5 cpl. Don't know about bonuses or benefits. nm
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Signon bonuses
I agree. There are so many MTs flooding the marketplace, they do not need to offer bonuses. (Sadly enough.)
SIGN-ON BONUSES
Not all companies that offer a sign-on bonus are bad news. Typically a company will offer a sign-on bonus if they are looking to fill positions quickly. A lot of times, this is interlinked with a new client/account go-live. The company wants to make sure they have enough MTs for the go-live. A sign-on bonus also draws more MTs to apply.
Thx. Do they have incentive or bonuses?
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Where did you read that about bonuses? nm
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More TransTech bonuses
More Transtech bonuses: If less than 10% of reports goes to QA, you get 1/4 cent to line 1.
Also - shift differential & weekend differential to line 1.
MDI Maryland -- Bonuses?
It was my understanding that MDI does not have production incentives or bonuses. However, when I looked at their website it says this:
. . . And we show it to you through appreciation, excellent pay, bonuses and, more importantly, respect for your work.
Does any MDI MT have any info concerning the bonuses? I would appreciate it.
Saying that bonuses for quality sm
and production along with working what are for a lot of people unpopular shifts should not be making up for not being paid for headers/footers if the MT is doing the work to get that information.
A bonus paid for other things (not sending to QA, working midnights or reaching very high line counts while doing the other 2 things) should not be replacing pay lost, it should be IN ADDITION.
No bonuses that I'm aware of - s/m
Only been there a couple of months, though. Schedule: You pick either a Sun-Thu or Tue-Sat schedule. You have a 24-hour window to make your daily line count. Minimum required line count is 700 lpd. Need a day off - just tell your supervisor.
Sign on bonuses
I got a job with WebmedX with a $250.00 sign on bonus. Then, they charged me $250.00 to use their equipment. I quit 2 months later. So much for the sign on bonus. Anyone actually get one?
Sign on bonuses
How do sign on bonuses work? Has anyone ever received one? I have seen a couple of companies say a $500 sign on bonus and was wondering, do you get this when you start or after you have been there a designated amount of time? Was just curious. TIA.
Oh heavens. Sorry about that. Half awake. nm
NO, you are wrong. They deduct half of the 15%
the other half. So 7.5% is deducted from your check, then they pay the other 7.5% themselves. My company does not withhold any federal or state taxes, only 7.5% for SS and then Medicare tax.
If half of these companies were worth
a rat's butt, there would be no need to hop.
I hopped right into a fine job paying 14 cpl, so I say hop away.
Plus, your line rate is up to half of what it
would be transcribing and there are so many corrections since the machine has no brain like a human does and spits out all kinds of crazy things. It wastes one's timI with all of the correcting. I feel it is INDEED a big threat.
Can't even get half of that with my current company...
:(
bout a year and a half ago
been awhile.
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