Work as usual on holiday - sm
Posted By: MT-IC on 2006-12-20
In Reply to: New to this. Are you bound to work..... - GaPeach
As an IC, if I can find time, I will work as usual on a holiday. Being an IC means you kinda need to fulfill your client's needs. So, if they need me to work a little extra or work on the holiday, I will do my best to meet their needs. Sometimes, I can not, but most times I will do what they need.
Mind you, I have my own clients, not an MT company. It is my philosphy that I need to keep my clients happy and exceed their expectations in fulfilling their needs or they will look somewhere else for my services.
Hope this helps you, even if in a small way.
I would like to say, it is an adjustment going from employee to IC. Some need to change their way of thinking and start thinking like a "business" owner. It is not just a job, but your business and your career.
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Seems like usual holiday slow-down period. Should pick back up this week or next. nm
steady work...gearing up to start new account....but there was no work on Tues as it was a holiday
Be patient with your eyes open....
No Holiday Work
I work for a small local nephrology office. There is no weekend work (I work 40 hours during the week) and we get all the major holidays off, so Monday was a non-working day for me.
Pressured to work Holiday
Anyone else feel pressured to work holidays? When hired, I made it clear I would not be working holidays, however, the inevitable e-mail about being out of TAT comes my way today and how if scheduled, you are expected online. Don't plan on working it because it was made clear at time of hiring, I would not work holidays. Another benefit of working at home -- pressured to work Holidays. I'm just venting and I guess I'm crabby too!
Pressure to work holiday
I don't think you're crabby and appreciate the venting. Usually work volumes sink really low to almost nothing around the major holidays. They certainly are aware of this every time they pressure their employees to work a holiday. Just a thought.
What religious holiday was yesterday in which one could not work???
He said his religion was celebratting a special day, yom kippur? ramadan? Anyone know? I have never heard of a week day religious holiday when one could not work.
I might use that excuse.
Anyone else having low work volume? Maybe due to holiday on Friday?
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I work every holiday -- don't really mind, but would be nice to have extra pay. sm
When I worked for YOG, we got holiday pay and weekend differential. I guess those days are gone. Now, I'm just expected to work every holiday and every weekend and smile and say thanks for letting me be your slave.
I should probably stay away from the boards today ... Guess I'm Bad Mood Betty! (ha)
Why the stupid idiots called everyone to work on the holiday to make sure they meet their 1 hour TAT
time.
AS USUAL
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The usual (sm)
eggs, rabbit, all that good fertility stuff. Why o why do you assume everyone celebrates the same Hallmark holidays in the same benefit-the-American-manufacturer way that you do?
I don't think so...no more than usual anyway
Our system is back up at MQ, and we have the largest backlog in MQ history. So apparently...it didn't go anywhere.
*a little longer than usual...
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PIZZA, it's the usual.
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What is YOUR USUAL English?...sm
the SLANG English?
Unfortunately, this is business as usual - sm
I was a lab supervisor in Pathology for many years. I watched my lab downsize from 27 people to 7 in 5 years, all because of the almighty dollar. We still had to do ALL the work that 27 people used to. They kept the best and hardest-working, and showed the door to the rest. In our economy, this is the reality of business now. Through the years I have learned to accept this. My only option is to find a new employer and hope that the new job doesn't go the way the other did, but the reality is, it will. So I have to continue to adjust if I want to make it financially. I am a long-divorced mother of 3, have a good work ethic, and by God, I WILL make it! It's sad that we have to work harder just to make the same money, or even less, but this is not a phenomenon unique to our careers. Everyone else is feeling it, too. I feel the responsible thing to do is to provide the services demanded by my employer or seek employment elsewhere.
Usual ratio is 3:1 of dictation, so 2-1/2 to 3 hrs NM
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Are you sure it is a google ad? It's where the usual paid ads
are but it might be a Google ad. Maybe it is a yahoo ad. I am looking at a yahoo ad now up there. Google ads are smaller but I guess I have never seen yahoo ads that I paid attention to.
It's RAINING here in San Francisco, as usual!
So far in April we have had only 2 sunny days. In March we had 27 rainy days. It's getting ridiculous!
Another assumer, as usual wrong!
By the way you sign in, MTmom, hmmmmmmmm sounds like the ones I have been talking about, trying to supermom it and work and complaining all the time. If you had read the post above mine, the person stated MTing was boring as sin and yet saying I was whining? I lead now the most perfect existence I could never have imagined and it has taken me years to get to where I am in life. Everyone should be so blessed! Oh by the way, what a really bad thing to do is to call another human ignorant. I just let Karma handle things like that. I am saying what I read here all the time and if you are offended, then you probably are one that the shoe fits.
obvious management post here as usual nm
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Need alternative to usual Labor Day cookout
We are having a family get-together on Labor Day. We usually grill hamburgers and hot dogs, but I was trying to think of something different this year. Any suggestions? There will be young kids there, so it would have to be something they could enjoy as well. Thanks!
Right as usual Hayseed! And what about British dialects - sm
such as a strong Cockney accent compared to upper-crust Londoners.... it's like a different language. Every country in the world has similarities in their respective languages as well. Has less to do with color than it does social class, location, education (or lack thereof), etc.
blame the victims as usual shame on you
Profession has turned into a prodution line and its the MTs themselves that are turning it into that, not the MTSOs.
Just the usual clerical crud that temp companies have. nm
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Ditto. Go to hospital. Not usual symptoms for a migraine. nm
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The usual green grass and blue sky that looks like the Teletubbies backdrop. :) nm
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Oh yeah, I did 2800 lines last Thurs and I had 10,500 for week to my usual 8K sheesh I'm a
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holiday day
at my company we don't get paid for holidays either...guess that is the price of being able to work at home....sucks...we can get paid by taking PTO time but I usually just work extra when I know a holiday is coming up, but frankly who wants to work during x-mas time with the hustle and bustle....
Holiday Pay
I recently began working for a service who only pays for a holiday IF you work that day (compensation of 10 cpl). However, if you don't work that day, you don't get paid. I am full time with all full-time benefits. I realize production pay is entirely different than hourly, but is this common for most transcription companies? I'm an old transcriptionist, but new to the ways of production pay. Thanks for any input!
Holiday pay
It it a little hard for me to payfor holidays when the accounts don't pay the owner for holidays. Wish I could for my help but just can't afford it. I sympathize with you truly. Guess I could pay a cheaper line rate to them year round and then be about to do it, but that does not seem fair. It is hard in this business to offer many benefits as we do not get paid unless the work is done, just like truck drivers, hair stylists, manicurists, etc.
No one ever has to pay you holiday pay.
It is a generous gesture but it isn't mandatory, you know.
There is no excuse for you to feel it is necessary to be paid for time not worked. If you want that, go back inhouse.
PTO is generous enough.
No, you will not get holiday pay until...
I was told that you have to be hitting your 11,000 per pay period for at least 90 days before you get holiday pay, benefits, etc. You can confirm this with the HR lady. They do pay for holidays once you get past this.
Holiday pay
I guess I should have stated that my gals are I/C's and they get 75 to 80% of what I get from the docs on a gross line. If I charge more to the docs, they will go elsewhere. They just type and I do all the pick up, delivery, invoicing, etc. I also just got hit by the city for my business license which just went up to 3.3% of GROSS receipts BEFORE any expenses. If your business makes less than $25K you dont have to pay for a business license but if you make $1 over the 25K you have to pay on the entire amount. So I have to pay this even on the amount that the gals make. Am not sure I can stay in this for long. The city is saying that all IC's that make over $25K should pay for a license.
Do you get holiday pay?
How many of you work for companies who give holiday pay premiums or time off with pay? Mine doesn't give either and it sucks!
Yes a Holiday
Holiday for me. 6 cents a 75-character line kind of seems a bit low, though. Was that perhaps a mistake I am wondering?
holiday
Actually, there is no solution to this problem - there are no solutions to any questions about the MT world... it's always something and I don't say that lightly.
What is everyone doing for the holiday weekend? sm
We're not doing much - probably will go and see the Herbie movie at some point and of course cooking out on the grill is mandatory. 
This is ONLY because of 4th of July holiday...sm
and not unheard of in the industry. You really should call your acct mgr and ask for a secondary acct. My acct mgr has been VERY accommodating. Before long all accts will be booming again, as mine has picked up today.
I am, too, wonder if it's just because of the Labor Day holiday?
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Jewish Holiday
The orthodox Jewish community celebrates Succoth - harvest feast 5 days after Yom Kippur
http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fiszer/succoth.htm
Regular pay on a holiday? (sm)
I wouldn't do it. No offense intended but I'm wondering how many places do that? I've never heard of not getting 1.5 on a holiday for working? Hey, if I could, I would give you mine since I'm not using it. Have been an MT for a long time (16+ years) and have never and will never work a holiday for straight time. As I mentioned when hired it was agreed I would not work holidays and I plan to stick to it.
Is July 4th a holiday for you?
I don't think the company I work for observes this holiday. After checking my handbook, it looks as if it is not even on the list. We have to alternate holidays and then only have to work a half shift, so it is not so bad. I was just checking to see if it was my holiday and was surprised to see that it is a regular day. I'm sure I saw it when I started with them last year, but it just didn't register with me. We had Memorial Day and will have Labor Day. I'd rather have July 4th than either of those two holidays. Is anyone else having to work that day as a regular day?
What you doing over the Labor Day holiday?
Well today is a holiday......
And if my memory serves me right that means low work until maybe mid-October? LOL!
Venting on a holiday
Anybody out there working today, LABOR DAY? Expected to work the holiday, and guess what, no work! And then when it trickles in, of course the crummy junk bottom of the bucket type which add up to no lines, and getting lots of comments from QA (who is looking for something to do, no doubt).
How about we don't work a holiday, and everyone comes to work Tuesday with stuff to type, everyone makes money?
Bad idea of course, we have to remember the TATs.
Sorry to be so crabby, but thanks for listening to he vent.
Jewish holiday
Just checked with my Jewish S/O and he said maybe Purim
holiday schedule?
Just wondering how other companies/hospitals handle the holiday schedule so as to where you will not be working the same holidays two years in a row. I am working at a hospital and this is my second year in a row working Christmas. I have worked two July 4ths in a row, too. When I asked about it, was told it is just how it falls, but if i could come up with an easier solution, to let her know. There are some companies that ask you to choose 1 winter holiday and 1 summer holiday to work, and the next year you do another. Any other suggestions on how this can be handled fairly? TIA
See Holiday/Recipe board.
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i had 2 docs off for the religious holiday. nm
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Family holiday plans (sm)
I just had to post this as it reminds me so much of a lady who posted about her family, saying that they were ungrateful.
I was going to take the Amtrak train to visit my family on Thanksgiving, it's only about an hour on the Amtrak, and about $80.00 for the ticket! My stepmother says to me that it would be way to much trouble for them to drive the 15 minutes to the station to pick me up, they are having company that day. My father would spend his whole Thanksgiving day going back and forth to the train station. But I was welcome to come the day before Thanksgiving and stay until the day after Thanksgiving, that way they could drop me off at the train station when they didn't have company. Company meaning her children, who have always come first. So I am supposed to go to their house at an alloted time? I'll be darned if I'm going to do that.
Now I'll be darned if I am going to pay $80.00 for a train ticket to spend a day with a family with this attitude. I told them I won't be coming, I haven't had the time to spend 3 days there and have to work, and they said it would be too much trouble to pick me up at the train station on Thanksgiving. Am I right or wrong in not going on Thanksgiving? Any opinions?
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