You WHAT???? That's your paycheck. You should figure it out on your own. sm
Posted By: SHEESH on 2006-06-13
In Reply to: It appears to do only the document you are in. As I trust my co. to tally for me, I don't know m - katz
Do they hold your hand all day too?
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Wrong. What counts is the figure on your paycheck. SM
That should remain about the same for middle-level producers, drop for people who won't learn or are unsuited to editing, and increase for people who are talented at it or simply apply themselves to working smarter.
I said on another thread, I've been through this before at another company. If WMX does as they say, they're treating us very fairly as we implement this inevitable change.
BTW, there will undoubtedly be more technical changes in coming years. Best get used to adapting.
Before someone hops on and say "why are you living paycheck to paycheck (inside)
I had a great saving account this time last year when the company I had been with 2 years took me off my primary (never would tell me why, just said me being shut out was a glitch in the hospital's system) floated me around (not telling me anything of course) because they were getting a Meditech account and wanted me on it (you wouldn't put someone not very experienced on it would you?). It did not take a rocket scientist to realize as soon as I got the C-phone what had happened. Also 80% ESLs. I spent the whole year supplementing my salary until it was gone and have been trying to find a decent company since. That is why I am living paycheck to paycheck and I hate it. I have 20 years in this business and it is getting worse. Speech is great but not for the money. It just does not justify being paid half. You cannot retrain doctors and I don't think management telling them they need to be considerate to us is going to work. Telling them we are making half just does not move them. They still rumble through files, change sentences, have long pauses we are not paid for, speech leaves out words or sentences so tell me why we are paid half? Also, I usually seach a company before I come on and ask for opinions, it saves a lot of space. I know I sound grouchy but I am tired and scared.
I'm just SO tired of living from paycheck to paycheck, and always (nm)
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Personally, I live paycheck to paycheck because...
I enjoy the constant worry about how to pay my bills and always getting to say I have some lines to make up so I won't be there. Social lives are overrated. I like getting up at 3:00 a.m. and jumping online so I can wrestle a few more jobs out of the system. I don't mind hearing that my supervisor is on vacation again because I know I will be able to use my PTO to make up for my downtime. It's kind of the same thing. I think Ramen noodles aren't just for college students, and one pair of jeans is all you really need for 3 years. I believe very strongly that all the recruiters and managers in the transcription business are taking wage cuts every year, too, so I don't want to feel like I am asking for more than my share.
Living paycheck to paycheck...it's my right darn it.
no paycheck
yet since I started end of June. Great =(
A paycheck
I thought I wanted a career in medical transcription... now it turns out I just wanted a paycheck.
i'd just like to get my PAYCHECK
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Did you get your paycheck?sm
I work there now and afraid to quit because I am worried I will not get pay due me. My pay is always late in and incorrect too.
paycheck
Anyone have experience with first paycheck bouncing? radmt
paycheck
e-mail me and I'll give you the details.
For just the 1st paycheck or all of them?
After the first check, do they usually come about every 2 weeks then?
Last paycheck with OSI
Did you receive your last paycheck on time? I have not received my last paycheck (2 days late so far) after quitting with them.
My first paycheck
was delayed 6 weeks - I later found out this was done on purpose because I was new Garbage! This caused me really big problems with cash flow. They may be better managed now, but my experience was poor.
KS - First paycheck (sm)
I checked my bank balance early this a.m. and no check posted from KS yet. (My first one). When do they normally get posted and how do you see your check stub? Is it mailed to you? Thanks!
paycheck
Mine was in my bank on Saturday like it always is.
Or what does it do to the MT's paycheck?..SM
 This is literal abuse. They are taking food out of the mouth of the MT. She/he is either qualified or not. This does not happen in hospitals or working for a private MT. You take a pre-employment test, either make it or not, then do your work. This 100% QA...released from QA... is industry-specific to the home-MT and MTSOs don't care if the MT is held back in productivity.
paycheck
I work as an IC as well and I usually have to wait a week or more for my check.. end of pay period on the 10th doesn't arrive until 10 days later. How about some STAT TAT for paychecks? How would they feel if we treated their dictation the same way?
Paycheck
They mail the check on Thursday and I get mine Friday or Saturday, like clockwork. I don't make enough to get DD. They offer overnight shipping for a fee, but it is not necessary with the prompt mail delivery in my area.
looking at my paycheck...
I work at a hospital and am paid hourly.
$24.79 base rate + $1.25 per hour shift differential = $26.04 per hour. I had 2 hours of OT totaling $80.37.
Total gross earnings (taxes, insurance not taken out) = $2203.57
We get paid every 2 weeks, on Friday. It works out so that there are 2 months per year where we get 3 paychecks.
I know how to figure it,
how do you qualify for it? The account I work on never offers that, the most they offer is an additional 0.05 per line when they are behind.
Let's figure this out. sm
I am currently working for 10.5 cents per line, equipment furnished, and I get two weeks PTO per year, plus health insurance for $21.00 a payday and that insurance includes health/dental/vision/life, and direct deposit. Compare that to FN, no insurance, no bennies, no direct deposit and, at most, 10 cents per line. There are several small MTSOs out there who provide benefits and pay as I am describing here. Why in the world would you work for a company who provides no benefits at all, not even direct deposit, for 10 cents a line? I just don't get it.
I don't think anybody has been able to figure that out yet
You'll find a few people posting that it didn't affect their line count, but the majority of posters did lose big going to the platform.
Nothing to figure out, really. sm
They no longer pay for demographic info, headers (client letterhead), footers (signature line and DD/DT block/initials), CCs, etc. Add that all up times each page and that is a lot of lost lines, possibly hundreds of lines per day.
GO FIGURE!!! That is what is
what is wrong with our society, no one wants responsibility for there own actions. If you screwed up, and I know for a fact that some of you were not doing your work, because i am the MT that turned you in, then take responsibilty for your screw up. Quit blaming everyone at Shapin for your laziness. And now that your gone, I have your job and I absolutely love it. So I guess I owe you a thank you.
Not sure how you figure that one
Never heard this one before - trying to convert minutes to lines!
.9/line is not a bad rate, depending of course on the specifics of the work (type, difficulty of dictators, TAT, etc.
200 minutes could actually be very few lines if the dictator is a pauser... or a lot of work if they dictate like Robin Williams talks...
Ask for more details.
How do you figure your cpl?
How do you figure your cpl for editing? I don't get it.
D&L - go figure
Poor them, to hear them tell it, every body is lying on them and telling stories. I do not understand how they have Transcriptionist working for them. I have not heard a one that has gotten a check on time and one that they know will clear. Living from paycheck to paycheck and fearing a bounced check would scare me off for sure. Yes they have client's - they do not know what is going on - but I say let the owners type the reports, for sure the clients would not last a week with her skills. Everybody complains, but they remain there - can I just ask why - i would rather work for less than work and worry about a check.
here's the way I figure it
Okay, so 45 minutes of dictation equal 2700 seconds, say 1 hour per 1000-1200 seconds on average typing between 150 to 200 lph, counting referencing time and proofing time, I would say about 2-2-1/2 hours average of actual transcribing time.
It would seem that if you can't figure sm
out correctly how to calculate $25 an hour, you're not going to be able to reach that. 
how do you figure that? If i'm doing less
the company makes less off of me as well.
Cheating out of money would more likely come from charging the client by the line and paying the Transcriptionist per report, among other ways.
Hon, if you can't figure out how to
do that, you need to work on your computer skills - LOL.
I figure...
...NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS! I would assume that I am doing such a good job that they have no reason to contact me.
how do you figure that?
Just curious
what I can't figure out is why any sm
interviewer/supervisor/owner or whatever would even tell that story to an employee much less a new-hire. I sometimes wonder if folks just do that to make themselves sound important. Personally I could not care less what goes on with other employees. I do my work, do it well and expect a paycheck. If that doesn't happen, then I am outta there.
you can figure that one out. Just figure sm
out what you make working at home and the number of hours your put in to make it. Compare that with the hourly wage in a facility. Most facilities still pay hourly and some have incentive plans.
I figure around
30-35% for all taxes.. For myself, I figure I'm saving gas, clothes, time, and car repairs by being an IC at home.
I worked for 2 wks and when paycheck was not there
I did not more work until I got check, which did not happen until 3 months later. I hear it is still the same. The people were great in the office but to have to go through what you do in order to be paid, that is ridiculous. I found the account I did to be pretty good. It was out there in the valley near LA and I would have loved to continue working for them, but when I am new with someone, I will not go on a limb and continue working if the pay does not happen. There were always excuses by them as to why they did not pay and all were unwritten rules. Again, I did get paid but waiting for 3 months was a bit much. I don't like to be a day late much less that far down the road. A year later they called me and asked if I would come back and I said no. lol
When to expect first paycheck?
For those you have undergoine training at Medware, I am just wondering when should I expect my first paycheck? I have been in training with Medware for almost 4 weeks now. Thanks
To A Paycheck Would Be Nice, please see msg
I think this lady (Karen Kirby I think her name is) is on the up and up. Don't ask me why but I do. I think she is in a bind. I may be completely wrong about it.
A C-phone is a phone/headset/pedal that is used to dial into a system and transcribe. I have seen them on the boards here for about $200. New they would be much much more. If you are interested and could do the work, why not ask her if she could provide you one.
If you look at the posts from last night, late, she and I had a discussion of sorts about her work. She started the post under the Execuscribe (sp?) post and I responded. This was on the company board.
I was thinking of contacting her to offer my services on a temporary basis (she has a backlog of 500 reports by an ESL, from my understanding of it). I hesitate because I already have two services I work for as an IC and they both pay me very well. But I may contact her anyway and see what she has to say. 17 cpl is nothing to sneeze at - ESPECIALLY in this day and age. Granted, it is without spaces, but STILL is a lot of $$$$$$.
Please post back if you contact her. I would be interested to find out how it went.
Have a good and productive day!
And you won't get your first paycheck for about a month. sm
Otherwise, it is a great company -- easy work, pay is 11 cpl.
Good luck!
$250-$300 gets deducted every paycheck for 2
depends what you consider affordable
still waiting on my paycheck
this company is a joke
No one "provides" a paycheck
Following this thread, I just have to comment that I have never thought of an employer as a provider, but more as a person or company I have agreed to perform a service for in return for money.
I had to pay $300 deposit, they take $50 out of each paycheck, sm
it is supposed to be refundable
Go off of your last paycheck stub
If you are so anxious to do your taxes, go off of your last paycheck stub, also electronically don't need to send in W2.
Is that per paycheck or per month? nm
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Cashing my paycheck . . .
One man's coal is another man's diamond! I have worked hard to be able to transcribe all different types of work that some consider crap work; ESL doctors, docs that talk the speed of light, docs that chew gum while dictating, docs who string lots and lots of dictations together into 1 document, and docs who just plain take patience to get to know and learn. I have learned that this has served me well. While others are waiting for the good work to come through, cherry-picking what they consider to be the best, I am typing happily and cashing my check in the bank.
I love Transcend. I'm a lifer! No complaints out of me. If you want success . . . you have to work for it. It feels much better when you put in the effort!
I work for a paycheck, not because I don't have
anything better to do. I went to work for a company that overhires when they get a new account because they figure some people may leave or they may fire some, etc. Anyway I tried to be patient and give it time for things to settle down, but was having to dip into savings every month to pay bills. I was willing to work, was available for my shift, was willing to adjust my schedule to some degree, was willing to work my days off, holidays, etc. and there was still no work.
If you have bills to pay, kids to feed, you need the lines. If they company requires you to work FT, you expect FT lines. The company requires you to commit to a schedule and I don't think it unreasonable to expect work during that time frame. You can't just rearrange your life around work availability. If you have kids you have responsibilities to them, people still have to eat, clothes have to be washed, doctor's appointments, etc.
NO PAYCHECK FROM JLG TODAY EITHER . . . sm
What a joke. If there is anyone out there who believes there WILL be a paycheck, I have a bridge to sell you. I was told some companies work ahead, we work behind, okay so what if us MTs did that????? I will believe the paycheck when I see it. Mad, mad, mad
GOT MY JLG PAYCHECK TODAY . . .nm
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You should have to pay to get your paycheck. I have yet to hear
of another company stop DD because of the banking situation. It is business as usual, the name may just have changed, so that excuse wouldn't cut it with me. Maybe some people don't have an extra $40/month to spare and if their mortgage is due on a certain date they need payment on a cetain date to meet their obligation. Fortunately our money situation isn't so tight that a day or two isn't going to make a difference in getting my check, but I still want to know what day I can expect it and for it to take 3 days one time and 5 the next is not acceptable.
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