Working weekends and holidays
Posted By: LinK on 2007-07-22
In Reply to: tell me where, i'm not paid for 4 weeks off - no holidays and four weeks vacation? is that paid
Thanks, I'd like to think of myself as a nice person. Unfortunately, the place I work at is a local clinic doing nephrology work. Have you tried locally, maybe you could find something where you wouldn't have to work weekends. And oh, yes, it is paid vacation. After 5 years I get 5 weeks. I have great benefits and a 401K plan, so I'm very thankful.
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MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
Working holidays/weekends? I would certainly hope you are committed to
your convictions. Many people do not work holidays but it is not always a choice. If you do not want to work weekends or holidays, but the work must get done. If you are anti-working holidays and weekends, then I hope you do not expect to receive medical care or emergency treatment of any kind, that you do not shop or buy anything on weekends/holidays, do not attend any type of functions where employees must work to create a good environment for you to enjoy your life, do not go to movies, do not go out for dinner, etc. Did you ever think that these people may not want to have to work just to make your life sweet? What hypocrits.
I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm)
so no more big bucks, at least from them...looking for second job to make ends meet, don't have husband to help...this sucks.
Maybe, but she specifically says no weekends or holidays
Didn't want her to waste her time when I know one day per weekend is a requirement where we work. Figured she was better off with a company that would accommodate her needs.
Are you requied to work weekends and/or holidays
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I don't work weekends or holidays. MT FOR 10 YEARS
NM
MID SIZED COMPANY, NO WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS NM
KRAZY BUT TRUE
My MT job doesn't require holidays or weekends
So I feel incredibly lucky. Not all MT's have to or want to work holidays. It's just a matter of finding the right match.
It is refreshing to see Job Posts offering 10.5 cpl and 12 cpl on weekends and Holidays. sm
On the job board, SA Wynn Inc is hiring and sound pretty decent. The pay sounds great compared to the others. Go for it!
I know nothing about them, as I am on the East Coast, but I was happy to see the line rates going up from 7 cpl from the other posts.
transcend and differentials, weekends, nights, holidays
what does Transcend pay for these, anyone know?
Oops! Meant to say above 'evenings and weekends,' although it happens on holidays too.
Sorry. Just worn out right now.
NOT working weekends
i really don't understand woman in this profession. You are in a 24/7 365 day a year job but you don't WANT to work weekends. You are going to a new company and becoming the low man on the totem pole but you think you shouldn't have to work weekends. Wake up and smell the coffee ladies. Try going to Walmart, Target, or your local grocery store and telling them you do not want to work weekends. Go work in an office or a factory and expect to have all the holidays off for your vacation. Get real and grow up. When you are NEW you get the weekends and the night shifts, the rest of us who have been with the company awhile and paid our dues are entitled to the weeknds off and most of us are willing to work the weekends when it is needed. Those of you who want your cake and eat it too need to wake up to the real world.
I like working weekends. There is always
I also have a family and responsibilities, but b/c I have a family I need to take this kind of shift. Works for patient care and for TT and me. Seems like different strokes for different folks, but I am happy to do both days on the weekend every week. I get time off during the week while everyone else has to work and fight for lines.
You're working weekends, though. nm
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Re: working weekends and nights
I already do work Saturdays and nights (or try to, but it's a little hard when there is no work). I do not work on Sundays. It is my only day for my family to be together. I work six days (or nights as the case may be) a week as it is. Saturdays and nights are fine and I am happy to work them, but no work then, either. But there is also no work early mornings, hardly any during the day, almost none at night. It is as if it has all evaporated??????? I remember when all three of my accounts were plentiful and I could work as much as I wanted whenever. I do not mind flexing my schedule, but there is just no work no matter which way I flex it. What happened?
You Might get 11cpl working weekends only, third shift, as an IC. nm
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Working Holidays
If you don't want to work holidays, has anyone considered working for a local MTSO? I do clinic work locally and I get all the major holidays off and four weeks vacation and I've been here just short of a year.
Working Holidays
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?
Au contraire, working in-house usually means weekends
or rotating weekends. I've been doing this 30 years and I've yet to not have to share in the weekend coverage, whether rotating or a fixed Saturday or Sunday workday.
No one is delighted to work weekends, except maybe for the differential (which isn't much but helps), but it's part and parcel of the profession, at least in my experience.
Most of us at OSI don't mind working holidays here & there
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Well, someone has to be working holidays...ERs are open 24/7/365
If you are doing acute care I think it is just a given that you are going to have to cover some holidays. Just like the doctors, nurses, admissions, and the rest of the hospital staff... someone has to work it. The only holiday I'd mind working actually is Christmas, the rest can be adjusted to fit my schedule. But I am lucky and live close to family and don't have travel concerns. Guess I'll take my extra cpl and be happy with it.
I've been working weekends for 7 years and haven't heard of this.
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Nothing here either, not even an e-mail and no bonuses for working holidays.nm
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Which companies pay for holidays -- not working the holiday but OFF
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.
Hmm....working on the holidays, PMS, kids home from school, wanting to find a better job but can'
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My mom was a lab tech, so I grew up knowing about working holidays in the medical field sm
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.
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?
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
Weekends?
And no, I don't work weekends, only if I want to get on the OT or the incentives.
Weekends
You work in the medical field, which is a 365-day-a-year business. Why would you expect that you would not have to work on weekends? The hospitals that provide the work that provides us a paycheck expect their charts back in the contracted time. If you aren't willing to help provide that service, then either get out of the field or find your own physicians to contract with so that you can set your own hours.
Weekends
I worked weekends for the Harpy MTSO and OT whenever it was needed. Did she appreciate it? No. I happen to like working weekends! An oddity, I know, but I AM a professional.
DSG used to have no weekends. Don't know about now. nm
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Weekends
Almost every company out there now requires a weekend day....and GIMT is soooo flexible..you are not HELD to certain hours. Get them in when you can that day and everyone is happy.
Weekends at TT
I have just recently started at TT and was told I had the choice of Sun-Thur or Tue-Sat; when asking for M-F, they laughed. Also, their ads say Tue-Sat and Sun-Thur. What gives?
Weekends
Except if my memory is correct you did not have to commit to a set schedule for the weekend as long as you covered your 20% line commitment.
no weekends
No way do I want to work weekends. Is it really required or are they flexible?
weekends
I only did M-F. I know someone else who just started with them and will only do M-F.
weekends
when I worked there you either did Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs. Or if you wanted Monday-Friday, you did every fourth weekend. Only fair in this business.
weekends
It used to be people were hired with a 2 weekend days a month requirement. Now they are hiring on Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs schedules (as are most companies). It sounds like the info packet hasn't reflected that change. Probably best to clarify your future schedule with the recruiter or your supervisor.
Weekends......
Check with FutureNet. I work weekend option there, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and have more work that I know what to do with. They are always needing extra help on weekends. Pay is good too and people are super-nice.
To Weekends Off
Thank you for that positive feedback. If you would be willing to share the names of these companies I would appreciate it and you could contact me by e-mail.
To No Weekends Here
If you would you be willing to share the name please e-mail me. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
weekends
If you don't want to work weekends, shouldn't have picked the medical field. Maybe you should try a doctor's office, though most of them these days are open on Saturday.
I love working 1 weekend day and having 1 day off during the week to myself. That's my sanity day.
There are plenty of ways to work a weekend day and still have time for family. It might take some creativity on your part but it can be done.
OPs, weekends, as an IC... 7 cpl.
That's equivalent to roughly 4-5 cpl as an employee with benes. It takes years to become a good MT. I can't believe the low pay rates posted lately.
Weekends
The account I'm on, because it is a clinic account, tends to be done for the week usually by Saturday night. Occasionally there will be a backlog and work available on Sunday, but that's rare.
I don't know about the acute care accounts. I would assume that they would need people on the weekends- that type of account usually does. They started me at .0875 cpl which is just fine for my needs and expectations.
I don't know about the not getting a response. I got a response from them right away last year when I applied, so I'm not sure what that's about.
TT weekends
I work 4 hr/day Sun-Thur by choice. Some work Tue-Sat and others rotate weekend days.
The weekends
We have always had busier days on Thursday and Friday but this is waaaaay busier. Of course, people could be on vacations, etc. as well. It is summer. It just seems funny that there is NO work for three days and then a ton of it.
Weekends?
Just curious...what is the typical weekend requirement for Transcend? Also, how strict is your scheduling? Those really are my main concerns at this time.
Weekends
It does help somewhat, but I'm really just wondering if they do require 1 weekend day per week. I don't mind working every other, but absolutely cannot do 1 weekend day per week. I guess I'll have to wait until the first of the year. Thanks for answering though!
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