It is based on lph, not total lines sm

• If given the chance would you go hourly or ... sm - passing through
  • I would take the hourly rate. - Bellsa
  • Yep - in a New York minute
  • I also went hourly... - MK
    • does your per hour pay - carm
    • Make much more cpl - Patti
  • No. MTs who are not motivated end up talking and we did all the work - It was very unfair
  • I went hourly - Melissa
  • At 9.5 cpl, 200 lph, you're already at... - UTMT
    • are you an employee or - carm
      • See inside for answers...>>> - UTMT
  • I would go with the line rate. At less than 9.5 cents per line sm - A liTTle less?
    • Inquiry to A Little Less - MedCat
      • I make 8.5 cents per line sm - share what?
        • Share What? - MedCat
        • But isn't the increased incentive JUST on whatever is over 300 lines? Not applied to the first 3 - nm
          • It is based on lph, not total lines sm - that is silly
          • It is for a consistent production lph over the pay period. All lines. - no
        • Per line - could never make much per hour. - Green-Eyes
        • It's posts like this that make me curious - sm
          • Transcribing is not typing. sm - Maybe that is the problem
            • thanks... - MTBlab
          • Well - been MT for 25 years and have always been - Green-Eyes
          • Whatever shows up on my screen. The work sm - no
  • Option 2 - MontanaMT
    • Never go back to hourly, if you adequately use macros, a typing program why would you want to sit fo - CatNap

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it was supposed to be your errors by either total characters or total words, but total lines just doesn't seem right.  You do a 90 line report and have one error (that is counted as two points) and you have a 97.78%.  I put an instead of a (on accident of course) and got docked two points and failed the review for that patient.  That just doesn't seem right. 

Is this normal?

What company do you work for?  Give me a name! 

I am being very careful. The videos online are very instructional and I am going slow and easy at first. I also have a Tony Little "gazelle" and do 1/2 hour at a time and at a good pace now that I have used it for more than 1 year. Hope to do Pilates once a day and the "gazelle" later in the day, but will pace myself.

Thank you for your concern. I did also consider the Total Gym, but went to our local Play It Again Sports store and found this Pilates for $59 so thought I would start here. If I really, really use it and like it I will possibly invest in a better one, but for now this is where I am.

p.s. Most any exercise equipment is available "used" so you might shop around before investing too much money, see how it works for you, and then think about perhaps spending your money on something either better or new.

Do not kill them....unless poisonous or unless they strike!  They can be caught and released or given to someone or some group who specializes in handling snakes.

Killing is the coward's way out...killing something that you are 10 to 100+ times bigger than......unless of course it's about to strike or is poisonous!

I have plenty of clients, no shortage of work. Recently I started picking up some extra legal transcription from a company who is swamped & always begging for help. It's not something I've had much opportunity to do and it's fun to do something different. But they're totally out of the technological loop. I bill all my clients by an Excel spreadsheet attached to an email, and I have a master spreadsheet set up that keeps track of all my invoices for me. They are the only ones who can't open it. I know they can because someone who used to work there could, but now they have a new person and no one there can open it. Of course they can probably right click and "open with" some kind of viewer, but why is it my problem to teach them that? (here's where the "am I being a total a$$ question comes in!)  I'm tired of their clueless clerk emailing me five times every time I send her an invoice asking me to resend it and having to respond "If you can't open it, it's not going to help to resend it."  Sure I can mail it, but why should I when I have plenty of other clients?  Do you think I'd be an a$$ for unceremoniously dumping them? would you do it in a quieter way and leave the door open for further work? 

They are so technologically out of the loop, it's not even funny. I asked them for an electronic copy of one of their style guides for easy searching, and they said they don't do that and they "don't keep" things.  They just have one hard copy they are xeroxing over and over.  I knew it was somewhere, it had obviously been typed it on a computer. It's a .pdf file on the web! Someone had downloaded it directly from the court's web site. They are supposed to provide me with the names of judges and attorneys on the tapes but they don't and I have to struggle to hear names and spell them phonetically or designate unidentified voices somehow so I can tell them apart and then go back and globally replace them when I hear the name or I'm sure of the spelling. This adds countless time to transcribing their cases AND THEY HAVE THAT INFORMATION. I've asked them for lists or links for judge's/attorney names so I can at least search when they don't give them to me.  No dice. I have since found good links on the web, of course.

I'm worried about getting in deeper with them, I'm not overly familiar with legal work and I'm just going to keep coming up against their not being able to provide me with the tools I need. Every time I have to find something for myself it's costing me money, obviously, being paid on production.  They annoy me and I seem to have a very low threshold for that.  But it's valuable experience and they are desperate, the owner won't be happy.  But she's as clueless as her staff.

about dentists in Maine...I haven't been to a dentist since I was a kid, strictly out of fear factor.  I tried to find one yesterday because I think it's time I see someone whether I like it or not.  Of the 4 I could find, only 1 is accepting new patient's and where I don't have insurance and would be be a self-pay, they don't cut any breaks....just the initial visit and cleaning is going to run $310 buckaroos!  I asked if that price included a happy ending and the voice on the other end just went dead.  (No sense of humor apparently.)

No wonder why people are losing their teef up heyah!  

As long as I get the work done, I can do it when I want to without being chained to my computer. 

Plus, I don't know why you think ICs net 50% less than if they work on an employee basis.  I've worked as both an IC and employee and, although I don't have benefits, I make much more as an IC.

What a total shock!!!!  I can't believe he is going home.  Chris rocked the house.  I actually predicted him to win!!!!  How sad.  I guess my vote now turns towards Taylor. 

If someone knows how, let me know!  I know I have at least 300 if not more and I'm like you, I add to every single day.  I use ESP only and the normals function in EXText for anything too big to fit in ESP.

I'm not sure why someone would use both autocorrect and ESP.  I think it would just get confusing and heaven knows I doesn't take much to confuse me!  I do good to remember all the ESP entries I have.  I have a system I've been using back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I used PRD+.  I remember when I first started using an expander, the PRD, I was completely lost as far as where to begin.  It just took years of trial and error before I found a system that worked for me.

In case any one is interested, here's how organize my expansions:

For headings that are bolded, I put an "x" in front of the abbreviation.  Example:  xhpi=HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS:

For doctor specific normal blurbs, exams, etc. I put "$" in front of the abbreviation.  Example:  $smithpe= HEENT:  Pupils equal round reactive to light.  NECK:  Supple.  CHEST:  Clear.  etc.  Putting the "$" at the begining of your expansion, puts all your normals at the top of your list if your list is sorted by abbreviation.

Then for generic expansion, I just do it normal.  wnl=within normal limits, etc.

Anyway, just thought I'd share.