Just wait till you're 10+ years into it and getting paid half of that.
Posted By: Cuz that's the way it's headed. Good luck 2 on 2008-10-24
In Reply to: Well I make 7.5 cpl and I have 1-1/2 ...sm - blondie_1147
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Unbelievable. Just wait till she gets to
be an old timer.
I plan on doing this till I am in a wheelchair on a Roho Cushion, Foley Catheter, IV fluids and therapy massaging me.
SS won't do it.
So wait till I send in my resume claiming 50 years experience.
Thanks! I can't wait till they get it hooked up.
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Wait till they steal our information, sell it and
our identities are stolen. This is not right because if any of us had a choice, we would not want our records of any kind going overseas to be managed or transcribed, etc. I think this violates our privacy big time and should be actively brought to the attention of all the stupid government officials. Wait till they have someone steal their identity or money or whatever. Think they will rethink this. Shame something has to happen to the rich folks before anyone will do anything about tightening things and even if they did enact laws, would these overseas companies abide by them. NOT.
I just think when the whole population ends up on the street, they won't be able to hide it then. I feel sorry for the generations to come. How would they save anything for retirement. I can't even do that.
If you disliked Wal-Mart before, wait till you hear this..
I can't find a link yet, but this morning on cable news they did a story about a "glitch" on their website. You know how if you click on a DVD title, many websites will say "you might also like" and then they show a list of titles that might be of the same genre or interest as the title you requested. It's a marketing tactic to get people to perhaps buy something in addition to what they're looking for. Well, apparently if you click on The Planet Of The Apes series (original movies) you get a list of movies featuring black actors only *they probably corrected it by now). Wal-Mart claims it was a computer glitch, but I'm not buying it for a second. Probably a lone prankster did the links but who knows. Either way it's baaaaaaaaad.
How can we learn this neat stuff if it's not in the help menu? We have to wait till
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If you bought it new go for half of what you paid or it - sm
If you bought it used then try to get back what you paid for it unless it is not in good shape. If you don't remember what you paid for it, look it up on the internet what it sells for now so you can get an idea what the value is.
My personal goal is when my mortgage is paid off by half - just 125K to go!
Then I will cut back to part time and let hubby carry me. :-) He makes lots more than I do now anyway.
and get paid for every um, uh, wait, etc...nm
I mean doing same job but make about half what I did years ago....grrrr!
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I think you're right. I can't wait to get out of (s/m)
this stinking office and start working at home. I don't like people, so I know I won't get lonely. I can take short breaks to do useful things, like vacuuming or laundry, instead of sitting in the lunch room munching cookies. It's noisy at the office, my home is QUIET. I can see my pets more than just a couple hours a day. I can eat a healthy lunch and breakfast. No more wasting time with makeup, or wondering what to wear. No annoying coworkers/boss, etc. Yes, you are right, and I for one am looking forward to the peace & solitude.
The Dorland's Cardiology Word Book is good, too. Might find books at half.com even if a few years
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Just wait until you start racking up some more years experience
You will be just as bitter as all the rest of us MTs who've been in this business for 10, 20, 30 years. It will happen to you, too. Slowly but surely, 7 cents a line will become the prime pay for experienced MTs. Forget about 8 cents, forget about 9 cents and 10 cents will be nowhere to be found let alone more. You may even be forced into VR and then only receive 2 to 4 cents a line for all your experience and knowledge of MT. It's not pretty. It hasn't been for quite a while. When you're new, it seems like it's a good choice and you're making good money. That will change, mark my words. Sorry but it's true.
Signed,
Debbie Downer
Who gets paid that much, been wt MQ 8 years
and only getting 9 cpl
I'll bring the dip and the half and half ;)
getting paid what (we think) we're worth
You may chuckle at what you're being offered, but there's a possibility that the company you're applying for a position with cannot offer more than that. If they're billing the client 13 cpl but after all of the overhead (401K plans, paid time off, software programs for MTs, employer's share of the SS tax, etc), comes out 5 cpl (which leaves 8 cpl), how are they going to keep enough for company expenses (i.e. lawyers, accountants) and still pay a decent line rate to the MTs.
So, unless you have access to the accounting books and have access to the profit and loss statements, you don't really know why MTs are not offered more than they were in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
We're usually paid by the line SM
I think MTEC is worth it, at least from what I hear.
If you're paid on production, SM
I'd very strongly recommend buying a program. Looking things up in a book takes so, so much more time, and wild card searches are the pits at very best.
If you're not paid for your time
you shouldn't account for your time. It's none of their business if you have to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water or even load the washer or pet the cat. They just want control which they don't want to pay for.l
So true. We should be getting paid MORE as the years go by! sm
I remember when JLG started me at 11 cpl for an IC - 4+ years ago. Now they only want to start at 9 and 10 if your LUCKY.
Think they are getting paid less from hospitals? heck no! It's people who were either desperate or just plain suck at MTing who have driven this field wayyyy down.
Years ago I was paid $1 per minute.
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Actually, no, it's poor you! You're the one who paid all the money
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Why does that bother you? You're getting paid to type
what is dictated. What does it matter if it is "Mrs. Smith" in paragraph 1, "Ethel" in paragraph 3, or "the patient" in the recommendations? LOLOLOL
Of course not, and that's why we're paid the BIG BUCKS to transcribe.
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You don't care WHAT you're paid???? Gee, that's real sad........
Depends on where you work and how you're paid
kj
But we're not paid by bytes anymore..sm
in case you haven't heard lately, am I am being honest about it. We're paid half of what we were paid 10 years ago, salary is going down yearly on a more or less geometric level...this is line by line, got it?
If you're paid by the hour, and not by the line, YES.
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I was paid by the dictation minute for almost 3 years. sm
Most general transcription is paid that way, but only a few MT. Some dictators are fast, others waste a lot of time hemming and hawing and shuffling papers. I though it evens out in the end.
I definitely wouldn't do it for less than $1.00/minute, a bit more if you have lots of experience.
We're paying 9 cpl and everything transcribed plus spaces is paid for.
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Why would they care? Management is paid salary and that's all they're concerned with.
We're an expendable commodity to those people. If we quit, we're easily replaced.
Yes. Three months paid training? That's just ridiculous unless you're working
in the office. What service can afford to pay an MT for three months of training?
You're expected quota depends on whether you are paid hourly or per line. SM
I'm paid hourly and I was told the requirement was 50 or more reports per day. I've never worked QA per line, but I'm sure their line quota is pretty high, at least 2000 or better per day, as you get credit for every line in every report you QA.
Hope this was the answer you were looking for.
Yes at PHNS-- this was a few years ago....was paid initially on how many lines you averaged an hour
the highest you could get was .085 which is what I averaged, however they restructured and it plummetted to .07.....you could get .085 again but you had to really work your butt off (something like +1500 a day). I was PT so I was only doing 500 lines or so a day, at most 1000, so it basically sucked after that. Plus the company totally changed, they started to outsource to the Phillappines, work dried up big time and we fought over the lousy crumbs. Many of us left and moved onto to better things though!
What a lame excuse. Move forward on your lawsuit, cuz you're not gettin paid.
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For QA consulting I'm paid per hour; QA instructing (college) paid salary, QA editing paid per li
I am an IC and work for two different MTSOs as well as instruct at a business college.
If you're good enough, I don't think those years
will matter.
Sorry, I don't know of a specific company. Hubby gets benefits, so that's never been a factor for me. I work for MQ right now, which I'm trying to get out of and have started another PT job. That one's good, but it is IC with no benefits. MQ does have benefits, but I really don't know how they are.
I would suggest posting on the company board and asking more specific questions, i.e., what are some companies that have decent insurance, do any companies give paid holidays, etc.
In all honesty, you probably won't find a company that fits all you want. You may have to decide which are most important and go from there.
You're okay making LESS than you made 10-20 years ago?
I'm not. No, every "job" doesn't work itself DOWN the ladder of success. I'm working to earn a living, I'm working to have goals, to better myself and my way of life. I would never settle for a job that keeps paying less and less. Sorry, but I disagree with you but to each his own.
Not till August 30 here
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You don't really know what you'd do till it happens. I know how you feel SM
now, but you just wait until you have the traumatic amputation. It's not a death. It's losing a part of you. It feels so horrible as to be indescribable. I was wishing I could get married again after a month, just so I'd have something else to think about.
Of course I got over that pretty quickly, but it sure made me understand why people do that.
Never say never.
Exactly what my DH used to say till he hung out with me for a while. - nm
I worked 6:00 p.m. till 2:00 a.m. doing
were young; that way I was home with them during the day and once DH got home, I would go to work. My advice is not to do it. You miss out on too much. Be there in the evenings with your family and if your MT job dries up, you'll find something else when the time comes. For now enjoy being able to be home with them. Insurance isn't everything.
It's _always_ done that to me. Till today, LOL. nm
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Also-my attitute has been positive till now-
Hope this doesn't happen to you
We're at 19 1/2 years, and this week he already backed brownies and ironed a shirt for me!
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You're incredibly fortunate. Many of us aren't even getting offered 8.5 cpl for years of exper
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(good job on "methinks"). I never had an opinion about this till SM
my friend hit the charts. I know people do it. I never have because I'm just not that much into music.
High horse or no high horse - you can't just say you're "owed music" because you've bought CDs in the past. You can't say it's not stealing, because it is.
Now if you don't mind stealing, that's another thing, and most people don't appear to think this is stealing for one reason or another.
But even if you think record labels are greedy hogs and you resent the amount of money they make when you buy a CD, it still doesn't make rationalizing your theft right. No matter what you say.
I do a LOT of things wrong. I am so NOT on my high horse it isn't even funny. But I have strong feelings folks working and starving for ten years just to get picked up by a record label, only to have their work stolen. You can call it what you like and you can say I'm not a cool person all day long (I'm really not!) but you can't say you aren't stealing what doesn't belong to you.
i dont blame you at all. If you buy a product you should be able to use it till at least the foot p
I wonder if you can copy it from one computer and burn it on a disk so you can have a backup. I will try that and see.
Everyday thing for me. I work till sleepy, then set my SM
phone not my clock to ring. I get about 5 hours every night, have for years.
Betsy - used to be my name till I legally changed to Elizabeth.
I like MT - wasn't gonna answer till I saw the board cop here. :-) nm
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Since you are new, just wait. Newbies have to wait. sm
Just because you said a "doctor's office" that narrows it down. No national work for private doctor's offices. It is all acute care. Just wait. They will let you know how you are doing.
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