Whoever posted TT pays 1.5 for holidays worked or not is TOTALLY WRONG !

TT pays for NO holidays any day of the year.  It is paid at 1.5 line rate ONLY if you work those fingers to the bone that day.

Only those who work inside the office building GET PAID and GET TIME OFF, too.  LOCKED DOORS !  Who made that policy?   Great policy for mgmt. and other office staff.   sigh

• Whoever posted TT pays 1.5 for holidays worked or not is TOTALLY WRONG ! - TransTech 1.5
  • You are wrong on both counts and here is why sm - TT tooter
  • Your posts make my eyes bleed - - I seriously question your MT skills. N/M
    • I have never heard that -- it truly made me laugh -- thanks. :-) nm - LTMT
  • Be grateful you even have a job. nm - DS
    • I have a job because I am GOOD at it !! thank you nm - TT low work
  • So get a job in management or the office and - quitcherbitchin
    • Amen.... - and Amen!
  • That is what I meant - sorry - 1.5 paid for lines typed on holidays - sm
    • Lots of companies pay 1.5 times line rate - me

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Are there companies (like in the old days) who pay you for Christmas, NY, Thanksgiving, etc., MAJOR HOLIDAYS?

on these boards, it's indexed and cached through Google and other sites.  I've been stalked and harrassed twice through MT boards due to information I posted.  One was a woman who totally disagreed with me and thought she needed to set me straight.  She was right and I was wrong, and she was going to scream and cuss at me until I saw things her way.  She Googled everything she could find about me and my business, then tracked me down through Anywho.  The other was a man who called my business number at 2:00 a.m. wanting to talk about sex because he needed a sex-cretary to do his transcription in person.  I know they got the information from the other MT board I used to go to because that was the only place I posted anything in the directory.  The scary thing is that information can still be found all these years later because it's been cached.  I had to change phone numbers, but those people still know my full name and address.  That's why I don't use one nickname to post now.

home and at a hospital and I found it true for both locations.  I'm starting clinical next week and will only have to deal with doctors that are assigned to me.  I already know who the doctors are, so I can get a feel for them.  I'm tired of acute care and the BS these companies tell you.  I've had enough ESLs to last me a lifetime!  As soon as I exceed my quota and get into incentive range - they PLOP the ESLs on me so I don't make more money. 

With clinical I know where I stand. 

for Futurenet and warned others about this company.  I just want to say this - she was absolutely RIGHT!  One supervisor tells you one thing, QA tells you another, and their software won't allow you to do anything that the instructions tell you.  I have never worked for a company that had so many issues with picking the correct patient visit and problems with the software.  It takes 4 minutes to download a 1 minute file and when you save it takes even longer!  What a joke. 

Looking elsewhere - any suggestions?

Sorry.  What I mean is, to be paid for holidays, even if you dont work. Major holidays.

The service owner fees are posted in a UnionNow post (below), but here they are again:

SERVICE OWNERS CHARGE:

$0.115 - $0.25 per line for full transcription of acute care on 24/7 accounts

$2.75 - $7.65 per report for full transcription of pathology, lab, specialty operative notes, plain film and interventional radiology

$0.097 - $0.125 per line for VR editing

OF THAT MONEY, MTs ARE RECEIVING

$0.85 - $1.25 per report full transcription

$0.06 - $0.115 per line full transcription

$0.035 - $0.06 per line for VR editing

AS OUR PRODUCTION BRINGS THE MONEY IN, WE DESERVE A LARGER CHUNK OF THE PROFITS - OFFICE STAFF CAN BE TRIMMED INSTEAD OF THE PRODUCTION STAFF.  IF A RECEPTIONIST MISSES A DAY OF WORK, ANYONE CAN ANSWER THE PHONE IN HER PLACE.  IF AN MT NEEDS A DAY OR SO OFF, PATIENT CARE CAN SUFFER BECAUSE AN INTEGRAL MEMBER OF A HEALTH CARE TEAM IS UNAVAILABLE.

WE ARE STILL EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN THE HEALTH CARE PICTURE.  DO NOT SELL YOURSELVES SHORT.

IF YOU ARE AGAINST UNIONS OR INITIATIVES, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY RESPECT YOUR OPINION, BUT BEG THAT YOU RESEARCH, SPEAK TO OTHERS, EDUCATE YOURSELVES ABOUT WORKERS UNITED.  WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE HERE; THEY'VE TAKEN ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM US. 

WE PROPOSE:

$1.25 PER REPORT TRANSCRIBED IN THE U.S.A. BY A U.S. MTs

$0.10 PER LINE TRANSCRIBED IN THE U.S.A. BY A U.S. MTs

$0.075 PER VR LINE EDITED IN THE U.S.A. BY U.S. MTs

Start training with Webmedx in a few weeks and wondered how they were with taking holidays off, namely Thanksgiving/Christmas.  I was told to make sure to put in a request for those days, which I will do.  Don't have my equipment yet.

Thanks!! Really excited to start, will be part time.

I do know that you are expected to work every other Christmas and every other Thanksgiving.  I don't think they give you time and a half for holidays either. 

From what I got from the paperwork and conference calls is that holidays are not paid, you have to use your PTO if you want the holiday off.  Then again, you do get paid a good bit more per line for working a holiday.  With only 10 days PTO per year, I would rather work the holiday and save my PTO for an actual vacation or when I'm sick.

I did get a raise with the merger, since they do not pay incentives or shift differentials (they merged them together to give us a higher line rate than we were originally getting).  And, I like that the quota is a dollar amount averaged over three pay periods instead of a line amount.  The line/time reporting site makes it easy to see if you are on track too...that is one thing I really, really like.

I would not mind being given another tertiary account for those slow days (which are usually major holidays...like it was on New Year's Day -- twiddled my thumbs most of the day).  I also like that they are a lot closer to where I live than DeVenture was (just in case another hurricane decides to hit and knock out power for a week or more...I hope to be allowed to go there and get my work done...still waiting to get an answer on that).

I've worked at places where we had to work holidays if it was our regularly scheduled day (we did get double time for it), and if we wanted it off, had to arrange to have it off (would get holiday pay).

But most places I've worked, we had to choose to work 1 holiday out of T-giving, Christmas, or New Years to work and also had to choose 2 holidays out of July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and I forget the other one.  (We had to decide this in January, though, which makes it tough to try to coordinate with when other family would be available to get together for the holidays.  We have other medical workers in the family, so they go through the same thing in January as well.)

MTs required to cover for a set number of holidays (2 or 3 per year) one of which must be Thxgiving or Xmas, even though it may not be one of his/her regular weekly work days.  Last holiday, Memorial, were told who was committed to that particular day, but they wisely (to legally cover their behinds) added that we were not required to stay at PC if there was no work.  Well, that's the same as being engaged to work even though there may not be any work crap.

But that holiday is REQUIRED ... when that M.Day, Thanksgiving, or Xmas could be spent with family, away from computer, which cannot be done, i.e., no travel possible ... but MT still REQUIRED to work the holiday.  Go figure.