Why can't they hire a salesperson? sm
Posted By: they're just being cheap on 2008-11-13
In Reply to: DocXpress????? - ICMT
Seems to me that it's pretty cheap of them to ask MTs to go foraging for accounts for them. If they had an ounce of professionalism, they'd hire a professional salesperson, pay them a good salary, and have them produce contracts.
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Tell them to hire a salesperson & leave u alone. nm
And you can now accuse me of being a used car salesperson sm
To all of those who think that we sell ourselves short at 8.5 cents base rate, this is yet another reason we aren't.
Consider, the only people at an MTSC who generate income ARE THE MTs! WE do the work that pays for ALL salaries and benefits. IT and managers and QA people generate ZERO income for the company. Keep this in mind as I go on.
Now, since you pay the benefits in full, whether that is out of your wage or the company pays for it, or both, YOU are still paying for 100% of it through YOUR work. IT IS NOT FREE.
Given that insurance rates went up and the company will now cover a higher percentage of the MT's premium at TT, that is worth money, and it is MY money.
I made 10 cents at my last IC job. Last year I typed on the order of 350,000 lines or so, but not all of it at that rate, I worked a couple of places. No health insurance and I can't afford to buy any privately, I have tried. There were no incentives anywhere I worked, no bonuses, no differential for shift work, no PTO, nothing. Did I mention I paid 22% of my income in taxes?
Employment, a real job job like TT has...they have to pay part of your FICA for you. TT pays a high percentage of the health insurance premium. There are so many incentives I can't keep it straight and I have benefited from more than one of them and I have been there a month. But you need to see numbers:
22,000 lines a month at 8.5 cents: $1870 (company minimum)
Company portion of health insurance: $200 (just an example, NOT a fact)
Shift differential for 1/5 of lines: $12
Internet reimbursement: $40
PTO at 7 hours per month (based on 11 days per year): $81
Total: $2203 compensation
Less insurance premium of $200 (just an example)
Total net before taxes: $2003
2203 divided by 10 cents: 22030 lines (actually more)
BUT
private health insurance to equal what is offered $625 (an insurance quote I was given for $2500 deductible no less)
Dental and vision: $60 (a discount plan, not insurance)
Internet: $40
UPTO (based on 10 days a year, 1100 lines a day at 10 cents: $110 month (you'd have to save your money for this)
take that $2203 minus $935= $1268
This is what you have left to live on with an insurance benefit that is not as good as the company offers and either saving up for time off or not having any break all year.
It isn't your line rate, it is HOW MUCH OF THE MONEY YOU MAKE THAT YOU GET TO KEEP. After all, we are MTs and we, as a group, generated 100% of the company's income.
Of course, you can go without insurance and if you get sick or need surgery you will have even less to live on because you'll have pay those bills. Group rates are always better. You get no holiday pay unless you work them. Your tax rates are higher and you work just as hard FOR LESS.
Now, you can use similar figures to come up with the real story behind benefits, line rates and income for your situation. This is one time that less is actually a lot more.
Call me a used car salesman if you want to, but this is well reasoned and on target. I might only get 8.5 cents A LINE, but my compensation is ohhh so much more. If you can't see where this all makes sense, you are an ignorant fool and move over YOU are selling YOURSELF short!
Me too. As soon as there is a little extra work they hire and hire and then noone has any. This
goes on all the time. I get sick to death of it. I think having 2 part time jobs is better so you have 2 jobs to count on.
Does KS only hire employees or do they hire ICs too? nm
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LOL!!! They would hire anyone, they just need to get
YIKES!!!
DSG does hire ICs
hire-on?
no, I took their test on-line though...I am shopping around right now for a fair well-known company with a simple format -- I just want to transcribe and be paid for it, none of this tier stuff
Yes they hire IC as well, which is what
I would suggest as this company is not very loyal to their employees.
Do you know if they hire nm
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Do they hire FT and PT? Thanks! nm
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they either over hire or have a lot
of MTs leave because they have been running ads for several months now. I would be leery of that.
Do you know if they hire IC's? nm
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Yes, they hire ICs.
xx
Why? You want to hire us??
do they only hire FT or do they hire PT as well?
I thought I seen a post somewhere on here that said only FT. I really don't want to work more than 30 hours a week and I know most places cut FT at 32 hours a week. Not that I couldn't put in 2 more hours, but if I had a choice....
Does MDI-MD hire PT
Thanks :)
Also do they all hire from within?
nm
they hire from within if possible. nm
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they hire only SE's, which is almost
like an IC or independent contractor. Therefore, no, they provide no machine, no benefits, etc. You pay most of your own taxes too.
I believe they do hire ICs
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new-hire
I just took a position with MD-IT Portland. I am very optimistic about this! It was a much higher line rate than I had with MedQuist, and for now they pay the same for straight transcription as they do for Speech Recognition. They are providing all of my equipment - as I am going to one of their accounts where they do, and it is mostly my favorite work type, ERs.
If you do not do ops they will not hire you.
I hate ops and have never had a problem getting hired and paid decent but this company will not even look at you if you do not all 4 acute care. I wish I liked ops but do not. I applied for this company and this was the first time in my 9 years experience that I have had a company turn me down so their loss as far as I am concerned....
They hire both but I don't believe there are any...sm
benefits other than them paying the taxes for you when your a employee...
They do hire for less than that
They hire PT and there is still
8 hours be done on one weekend day though.
So would you hire....sm
Someone to paint the entire interior of your house - as an independent contractor - and allow him to do it any hours he pleases as long as he does some painting every 24 hours?
no, but I would hire
someone to paint the exterior of my house - as an independent contractor - and allow her to do it any hours she pleases as long as she does a previously arranged percentage of my house within a 24-hour time period. I think this is closer to the way being an IC works. At least, this is how it is for me. I have to complete x number of lines within 24 hours, but whether I do it in the first hour or the last hour or anything in between is up to me.
Do they only hire ICs?
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Why hire me just to get rid of me?
Bizarre. I don't think that's it but who knows at this point.
New Hire
I have 2 years experience and passed their test the first time and was recently hired. I have heard bad and good. I intend to do my job and as long as I am compensated for my work, it is a job.
REMEMBER THE COUNTRY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS IN THE DOUBLE-DIGITS PRESENTLY AND BE THANKFUL YOU CAN FIND A JOB.
do you know if they hire prn?
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Why would you hire on as an IC
Not sure I'm following you?
They don't hire PT
Somebody said they should hire me to do PR. :)
But seriously... I was exactly where you folks are, not quite 6 months ago... working for a company that I really loved, one that treated us all very well and actually kept every single promise they made (go figure), and then to find out we were being sold to another company....
Yep. Some real Maalox moments there, and some real fear and loathing going on in TRS land. They assured us until they were blue in the face that nothing was going to change for us. I do know that a couple of people on my team quit, although they could have quit for other reasons; I don't really know.
Now, some 5 months later, I am happy to report that I'm still sitting here working the exact same accounts, on the same platform, and actually for higher pay. Go figure. I thought that sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen in this racket..... :D
7.5-8 cpl -see post below for 9.5 new hire
I don't understand it! Someone else said they were just hired at 9.5 cpl and the production plan was different. If this is MQ's idea of making things more consistent ----- well, I just don't know! They are going to lose A LOT of people at this rate!
They will not hire MTs living in CA or CT.
nm
Do they hire ICs or employees?
LOL!!! Of course they did. OSi wishes they could hire 2 MTs
Too funny!
Does Medware hire PT? IC?
Does Medware hire IC?
nm
Does Spheris ever actually hire?
Because I have applied several times, and have never received so much as an email from them. Weird, because I usually hear back from everyone I apply with.
TIA!
I'd hire you in a NY minute. nm
nm
Does MDI-FL hire IC status?
Thanks
Companies who will hire for Sat-Sun only?
nm
They hire U.S. editors - says it all right there.
How many MTs did FutureNet hire?
I haven't been able to get a decent line count in weeks! Have they overhired, or is it really just that slow?
they took months to hire me
By the time they were ready to train me, I had another job.... just too slow
So they mostly hire editors?
Does Hypertype hire IC MT's? Thank you.
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Companies on FTP who hire ICs? nm
nm
RE: Companies on FTP who hire ICs? nm
Your question is not so simple, i.e., FTP is acronymn for file transfer protocol which is a function of internet transferring of encrypted information - internet based companies use this process to transfer files from point A to B.
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