You are not alone - I have 25 yrs exp and some want to pay me 7 or 8 cpl. I just laugh and say "

• 6 cents a line!?!?! - Jen
  • IC is the one who offers a rate and the company accepts - or rejects it. They don't know IRS regs - NM
  • You are not alone - I have 25 yrs exp and some want to pay me 7 or 8 cpl. I just laugh and say " - ExpMT25
    • It's not the cpl that matters (sm); - Purple-Hair MT
    • Yeah... - Jen
  • If they are only charging the client - MTbird
  • For IC status, that's an insult. Can you give us a company name? - Dan
    • I am not working for them anyway, so - sure.
      • Just because companies don't know how to sell a contract, - sm
      • I got offered 7 for typing and 3 for editing - and I'm still rolling on the floor laughing

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Ive been an MT for 13 years. I was an IC for 10 years, and a FTE for a local hospital for the last 3 years. I came back from vacation in June to discover my lovely boss was interviewing companies to outsource the MT department. He lied to us - told us not to worry - and then a month later our union received the '60 day notice' letter and we were out on our assess. I took a job as a unit secretary - and a $5 an HOUR paycut along with it, working 3-11 and alternate weekends. Am I crazy to do this. Well yes and no.  I now have unlimited O/T, I'm keeping my awesome union benefits, building toward being vested in 2 more years, and just landed an IC MT job doing guess what: MY OLD JOB. The company that outsourced us hired me. I plan to rake in the bucks in the AM and do the b.s. job at night. 3-11 is half the work as a day job - plus you get the shift differential. Wish me luck ! Joanne

I used to work in a hospital too.

but I just Googled it and the first hit was a newt--a salamander type thingy.  Killed me!  Was the company named with that intention?  Your company's name was a 3rd hit...if it's any consolation.  

Our insurance went up and was nearly impossible to understand.  I checked AARP's plans, they're comparable to what the company offers at about $25 more including dental and eye, and a lot less confusing.  If the insurance goes up again next year and becomes more incomprehensible, it's AARP for me. 

You have totally ruined any credibility you possibly started out having (thought it wasn't much with the way you were ranting on the first post) by all of the childishness. 

To respond to the just me comment, I think the just me is this person's way of saying just my opinion not that they have no self-worth.  And to that point, you have not once used your fname at all, just SM, which to most of us means see message.  Maybe it's your initials, who know, who cares really.

Yes, we all feel bad for your friend - but I don't know what's worse, being screwed out of $5 grand or having someone like you call me friend.

On 1 hand, the no work thing is horrible and something bad does seem to be coming down the road here. But looking at it from your angle, that was funny and put things in perspective.