Working Holidays

• PLEASE NAME COMPANIES THAT WANT YOU TO WORK CHRISTMAS OR THANKSGIVING - Mae
  • Probably 99.9% of them. We are in a 24/7 business. nm - Know
  • 365 days a year - Vikas
  • Working holidays/weekends? I would certainly hope you are committed to - Not an MTSO
    • Working Holidays - jazzer
    • ??? some people do work weekends and some don't - why do you say hypocrite
    • I agree with your post. If you want a job where you can... - lmmt
      • by golly - I do not work weekends unless i want to
        • why be snippy over by golly...would you rather... - lmmt
  • Holidays - CTRYGRL
    • They are just called holidays, but - NO paid holidays either at TransTech
      • Very little PTO and it is to be used for everything, including - No sick days or vacation days at TransTech
        • With all the griping about having to work holidays, little or no - lmmt
          • Haven't heard one of those in a long time ! - Transtech EXSpeech gets the English speaking
            • Not true - TransTechMT
          • Yes, no work situations which have been occurring lately have given us the chance - Days off without pay at TransTech
            • The most I have ever gone w/o work is about 1 hour (sm) - HUH?
        • That is not much when MT's required to use those days for sick, vacation, and holidays. - From their ad, MT's at Transtech get 11 PTO day
          • I'll switch with you. You take my insurance plan and I - will give you my PTO.
            • better explanation than that. Makes no sense ....... nm - Huh ???
              • Do you use the expression HUH? as much in - real life? It is quite rude.
              • Ms. Huh?: I rather have good health insurnce, than - PTO as a benefit of my job.
          • FYI, 11 days PTO is just the 1st year - Newer TT'r
          • Y'all want some cheese with that whine? - MSMT
          • 11 days is more than you would get inhouse...usually 10 days. - You're sounding a bit unreasonable here.
            • I have to agree. Considering TT is a fairly - celestialmls
              • Not only that, but (sm) - TT3
              • So do I - TT2
  • Any acute care facility. sm - Anon0
  • Supposed to alternate the big holidays at MW, but they're willing to - be flexible and work with you on that. NM
  • I always volunteer to work holidays (sm) - Hayseed
    • Ditto. :-) nm - Msla MT
    • They do sound like a good company (sm) - Misha
  • If the company handles acute care work, - Me
    • Very true - Casey
  • Medquist - anon
  • Medscribe Florida - Jeeter
    • Holidays at MedScribe - you can pick. Karen
      • I don't work weekends or holidays. MT FOR 10 YEARS - MAKE $30,000 PLUS
        • Care to tell us - where? nm
          • MID SIZED COMPANY, NO WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS NM - MAKE $30,000 PLUS
        • How nice you leave it all for the rest of us to do. I guess sm - Welcome
          • I GUESS SO, !!! - I do not work weekends unless i want to
            • Because I know it is my responsibility to help out as well. sm - Welcome
              • you overreact - IMHO
          • Working Holidays - LinK
            • tell me where, i'm not paid for 4 weeks off - no holidays and four weeks vacation? is that paid
              • Working weekends and holidays - LinK
            • I worked both ... - wsd

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Not expecting to have to work ANY holidays or weekends is out of the question in our business.  However, I decided to educate myself and put myself through college to have a career.  I paid a lot of money for my education and I worked really hard to get it so that I could find a better job than what I did before, cleaning hotel rooms, waitressing, etc.  As a waitress, it would be easier than this to find somewhere to work making more money and having a better chance of having holidays off.  My point is having to work every holiday and every weekend with no reward; no extra pay, no floating day off, nothing.  That is what isn't fair.  Trust me, I've worked my share of holidays.  In 14 years, I've maybe had a total of 6-10 off; that's 6-10 over a period of 14 years.  It is possible there are some companies who simply don't care and don't make it worth your while. 

Maybe when Medical Transcription education started becoming advertised on TV by Sally Struthers the quality of the Transcriptionist has declined.  Everyone thinks that they are able to do this.  In my experience, most are SHOCKED when they find out they can't walk in off the street and do this.  They cannot believe they have to have an education.

A lot of you who have been doing this longer than me, got taught the old way.  Right on site.  Those are great MTs.  I came in between that and the learn-at-home MTs.  In my time, we actually had to go to some college and get an education.

Then came the learn-at-home programs (a lot cheaper than what I paid and a lot faster).  Now in my own experience, some of these MTs are okay.  Most are not.  I'm sure with time, they would be better, but I've seen a slow decline in the last 5 years of how the MTSOs treat the employees and how poor quality a lot of the learn-at-home MTs produce. 

So....holidays?  You know, I work them all.  But gees it would be nice to get a small token of appreciation just once for doing it.  As far as some of the other advice, absolutely.  Look locally.  I'm so fed up with the MTSOs, that I am looking locally.

If I was an MTSO and come to this board, I would have no respect for any MTs myself.  We cannot even unite together on anything.  One person brings up an opinion and 100 follow with their outrage and nasty comments! 

We all have a lot in common with each other, yet we can't even get alone.  How can we expect respect from employer and yet we don't even respect our peers?

I'm talking like the office (in-house employees) do -- LIKE LOCKING THE DOORS -- want to lock my at-home office door and know that I am GETTING PAID for the holiday as I lock the door behind me and enjoy the day off as my fellow in-house office employees do.  

I understand keeping a skeleton crew of at-home MT's working the holidays, but we should be paid for those holidays just as the in-house employees get paid for those and don't have to worry, but go home and enjoy the holiday.  What is the reason behind management's thinking on this??  Just because they know the in-house people face-to-face, does not mean that we at-home employees of whom they have never seen our face, should not get paid for holidays.  I think the in-office employees should wear our shoes for a year (working ALL holidays WITHOUT PAY) and see how they feel about the subject.  I can assure they would be pressing management to make a policy change in a HURRY. 

so it is no big deal to me.  I do not have any children, so I have pretty much always volunteered to work the holidays so that others can be with their families.  As someone pointed out, when you work at home for the holiday, you can jump off and on whenever you want, so it does not really feel so much like working. 

Sorry that you are unhappy about it, but unfortunately, people still get sick on the holidays, and part of being in the medical profession is accepting that you will work some holidays. 

Hope the New Year brings you lots of things to be happy about. 

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

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

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. 

Doesn't matter to me--with all the overtime available at Amphion, it's pretty easy to whittle down using PTO to a couple of hours instead of 7 or 8.  But more importantly to me is that as long as I don't have to work the major holidays that are most important to my family--Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's--I'm a very happy camper.  I was an IC for a long time before Amphion and was able to take my very first vacation in 5 years last year.

It just depends on what is most important to each individual.   

I think it all depends on the amount of PTO that you accrue per pay period.  Some companies allow you to accrue more, but then you are expected to use your PTO for holidays.  Some may pay for holidays separately, but then you don't accrue as much PTO; it basically all balances out in the end.

Since OSi has taken away holiday pay unless we turn into dancing bears -- all the MT's I know are planning to leave ASAP.  Don't most MTSO's with employee status offer paid holidays?

Are there any other MTSO's with employee status that DON'T pay for holidays so we will know where not to apply? 

TIA

I work for one and if I do work that holiday, I get my holiday pay, plus the lines that I type.

...usually there is no work at all.  I was told that this depends on the account though.  And your rate is x1-1/2 is paid for work done on the 6 major holidays.