Yeah, donate your vacation time
Posted By: cynic on 2005-09-09
In Reply to: Where did you hear this? - giving MT
A neighbor of a relative of mine, being the nice person that he is, set up a booth at the Astrodome for temporary work as a plumber for $15 an hour. No one came. Go ahead, give up your vacation. Not me.
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can now donate your vacation time
The IRS will now let you donate your vacation time to the evacuees. They will convert it to cash and you can deduct it at the end of the year. For those of you feeling so generous, this is for you.
Yeah. Sounds like you could use a vacation. Maybe a couple days? nm
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Vacation time
I am an IC. Contracted with just 1 drs. office since they generate plenty of work. There is another at home IC, who works there, too. We have been backed up quite a bit lately, so they hired another IC to work prn. My question to any other IC's out there is--Do you ever take family vacations? How do you accomplish this? Do you tell them your office will be closed for a week? What do they do about work while you are gone? What usually happens to me is they punish me the week before by giving me extra work. While I am gone, they just pour all of my work on the other IC and she gets backed up, and then when I returned I have twice as much work to do. I feel like--why did I bother taking vacation?! I get burned out prior to vacation, and after returning to work I get burned out again from trying to catch up. I mentioned today that we need someone to cover when we, the 2 IC's take vacation. I was told the other IC "never takes time off" with a smirk. I felt like saying, "Well, I am sorry, but I have a family and a life and it doesn't revolve around this office!!!!" Got any advice? I am so burned out and need some time off!!!!  
doctors vacation time
I am an IC for a clinic. I really like it but for one thing.
I have to wait around all day to see if he is going to upload that day. I have to work some at night and during the day so it's not like I can plan to do anything at all because I don't know when I will have a report. Also with holidays. On Thanksgiving he stated that he was going to be gone but the people in the office wouldn't/couldn't verify so I was kind of stuck waiting to see if he was going to be in.
Is this normal? Does anybody have it set up so they know when their doctor is going on vacation? I really don't think it is too much to ask for.
Thanks
My docs seem to take vacation time...sm
every other week. I have never seen doctors take off so much as these docs I type for. I work for a national and assigned my own docs and these two are always taking weeks off. I so need another part time job but do not want to waste my time on a horrid account where I will NOT make any money.
On vacation for the first time in 2+ years - YAHOO!
I am with you..When I was hired I was very up front about wanting vacation time...sm
during the holidays. I told my boss when hired 1 1/2 years ago that I would be taking the last two weeks of December off. I have four kids and they are always off for Christmas break at that time. Also, my husbands company has a two week shut down at that time, so I take it also. We have done this for about 9-10 years now. It makes the holidays so much more enjoyable. I am sure I will get some flack for this and about how someone has to pick up my slack for two weeks, but honestly I am not to concerned about it. Everyone has the right to schedule their vacation when they chose...mine just happens to be at the holidays. My boss told me to enjoy, relax and have fun...and that is what I did. Happy Holidays!
Yeah, our choc. lab does that from time to time - makes it interesting!- nm
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Only if they're paying 20+ per/hr with cheap benefits, 401K, and generous vacation time.
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Yeah, but full-time lines does not necessarily mean full-time hours, so I would do it if your produc
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Yeah, she does it all the time
I feel sorry for her. I guess she doesn't get any attention in real life. They say negative attention is still attention....
Yeah, I know it happens all the time,
I had just never actually experienced it before. Oh well, like you said, one more line to get paid for! It just seems wrong to me, but I will do what he asks as that's my job. :-)
Oh golly, take the kids on a vacation later. They need this vacation alone Sm
and there is not one thing on earth wrong about their taking it.
Oh yeah FAMILY TIME
Don't have to be at Mom's until noon and THOUGHT about typing an hour or 2 in the morning. But not going to unless a good incentive/bonus is offered.
Going to eat and de-stress.
I'm happy for you RadGuy! You surely deserve the holiday off!!!
Yeah for Time Warner
I actually just saw a commercial on television about customer service from TW, the end being they were making a point about a company with customer service in the United States. It had a guy calling for service, showed an overturned vehicle in a foreign country with the guy walking and the voice says something like stick with Time Warner, where when you call customer service, you get someone in the United States.
Yeah, comp time!
I used to deliberately work in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep because it was an extra $2 per hour plus production incentive. Those were the days. We also got quarterly bonuses if the hospital transcription stayed within TAT and accuracy was 98% or better.
Yeah I used to spend time carefully (sm)
crafting tactful feedback only to realize later that the MT had apparently not read it, deleted it, tossed it, whatever. You get to where you hear the same old excuses time and again and you realize that some people just don't care.
Another poster made the comment on how she didn't want someone to mother her; well, a lot of the MTs I worked with apparently did. They wanted me to be like a longsuffering mother and overlook their mistakes, take their excuses over and over and over again and offer tea and sympathy. They would repeatedly not write down what I told them, not look in reference books ("oh, I forgot you said to look there") ad nauseam.
So you get to the point where you're just sending to-the-point messages and you quit handholding. And then some people get angry because you're not "nice." Can't win for losing.
Yeah, take the time to do it, and once you do you'll never forget the name of that catheter!!
Don't always look for the EZ way out.......
Don't donate!
The donations are NOT for the person who started this petition. Since most MTs are national, it is nearly impossible to reach all of you except for an online "E" petition. If it asks for any donations from you, those will go to the people who run the website hosting an epetition (ipetition.com). Don't donate. It doesn't affect the outcome. If you feel strongly against the cause, please submit your E signature. I myself will print out all the signatures and send them to various committees and elected officials in DC. I would like to send thousands of signatures but we will see. You don't have to work in this field to sign; it is mainly targeted to people who have concerns about their private information and medical charts being sent to foreign countries; so please share with friends/family if they wish to sign! Thanks!
Actually, if you want to donate sm
You take payment for the service you render, then deposit it into your account. When you write a check donating it back to the church, THEN it becomes a charitable donation and tax-deductible.
I serve as an organist for two small churches and this is what I do when I want to contribute to them, rather than "play for free," at least this way I get the tax benefits and they still get their donation.
can I donate more than once and get more than one prize?
I'm greedy
I signed, did not donate
Red Cross donations= Research before you donate to ANY NPO
I, for one, will NEVER donate to the Red Cross. Why? My father was NEVER notified his mother died. He never got to attend her funeral or say goodbye. . . He found out after he came home from the service. I could tell you other horror stories, but won't. Sure, I'm bitter, but don't need to be flamed. Would you like to come home and find your mother has been dead and buried and you didn't even know? Think about it.
The Salvation Army is my choice. I KNOW all the money is going to the Katrina Victims. If anyone has a chance, they should look at the statistics on how much money donated really goes to victims of a disaster. The sites escape my memory right now, but they are/should be all online.
After we donate (I just did) how do we "pull from the bag"? Sounds fun AND for a great cause!
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Please click on Santa's House for Christmas Angels above to donate and help
for Christmas. MTStars is matching your donation, dollar for dollar, and on Dec. 1 everyone who has donated will be able to pull a gift from Santa's Bag!
Thank you!
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No, we're both tossers. Hate clutter, if it isn't used, we donate or trash it.
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OKAY! I need a vacation. Frank and fans of Frank/MQ who won the Hawaiian vacation?
Does anyone know?
Yeah, yeah, that should be "your work..."
Is it possible that everyone was on vacation
due to the holiday? Also, you do need to be pretty aggressive if you really want the job. Call them, don't just email. Show them that not only are you experience, but you're also interested in working for them.
Vacation
Find where you want to go and look for an Embassy Suites. They seem like a little more cash, but it includes a happy hours at night with free drinks and snacks and an excellent free breakfast in the morning. They have a pool and 2 rooms with a fridge and sink. This is great if you have kids and actually pretty economical. We have stayed in several different ones around the country and my husband won't stay anywhere else.
PT VACATION
Try Transolutions! They pay vacation time to part time, I believe, over 20 hours -- have to check my employee manual. They also give yearly bonuses on anniversaries and have numerous incentives for overtime. Very professional company. I switched from MQ, best decision I made in 20+ years of MT'ing!
What's a vacation????
It's been so long since I have had one, I can't remember what one is. I am too busy working and trying to survive.
Vacation
We just got back from California and Las Vegas. Didn't care much for Disneyland, but the Disneyland California Adventure and Universal Studios Park were great! My son is 13 and my girls are 10, and they all loved the trip!
What's a vacation?
I would just like some time off to get caught up on everything around the house. I am so overwhelmed by it all right now. The clutter is piling up again. The garden has been ripening before my eyes, so everything needs to be picked and put up for winter. Instead, I've been giving it away because I don't have time to deal with it. We're building an addition to give me my own private office, so I spend my weekends at the hardware store, holding boards, and cooking for our construction helpers.
As for money, I stash money from selling stuff on ebay and from a little side job in my checking account to have a cushion in there. I need to get more stuff listed on ebay because I just bought a new computer, which has been sitting behind me still in boxes for nearly two weeks now. What's that saying? The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
At least I have a messy house to gripe about, right?
Vacation
 I started doing this three years ago when I got divorced and at first it was only change in a jar, then I would add $5 out of every paycheck from my accounts, then it was $10 a paycheck (have 4 accounts). This was hard as I was going through a very expensive nmasty divorce but I did it. So I wouldn't spend it when I deposited my checks I would buy a roll of quarters or dimes and put it in my change jar. This year I was actually able to start putting aside more and I took my 17 year old nephew with me to San Francisco for 5 nights, 6 days, all paid with my little slow savings. My accounts are good to me and let me know ahead when they will be on vacation and so I was able to plan it when three out of six docs were gone so I would have missed out on that money anyway. The other three held the dictation until I came back and gave me a week to get caught up. But you can do it, just gotta plan. I did work many extra hours before and after though but it was worth it and the vacation was paid in full, no credit card bills coming in.
You need a vacation ALONE.
I've taken those occassionally. You fend for yourselves, I'm outta here for a week. Go visit family or friends that live away. Totally enjoy yourself. Maybe if you blow up before they leave and tell them why you're going, you won't come back to an even bigger mess. Best of luck.
If you visit family or friends you can always take your computer with you and have a working vacation. Thank God for a job that travels with me!
On vacation
Hi, I'm a beginner home based MT. I'm gonna be out of town for 2 weeks and was just wondering if anybody would know if I have to notify anybody about my absence? Thx for the reply.
Vacation, what's that?
Vacation? What's that?
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What's a vacation?
Any Vacation?
Do the kids get any type of vacation? Around here I think they get too much time off in between and then two months of summer vacation on top of that.
Vacation Pay
I am thinking about quitting my job with a national but wondered about sick/personal/vacation time that I have earned. Does anyone know if any or all of this will be paid with my last paycheck, as I have almost 150 hours coming. Is this different from one company to the next, or are there federal or state laws that govern this?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I used a lap top on vacation -
I went to the local library and got horrible reception and was so slow I could not work. I ended up having internet installed at my father-in-law's home for the 2 weeks I was there.
There never was a Hawaiian vacation!!
Frank just told us he was giving away Hawaiian vacation to pacify us for the chapstick/keyring we got for MT week.
Can I come live with you? We need a vacation! LOL
We like to ski, swim and golf.
Or did somebody or on vacation, or did somebody get sick, or
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On vacation last year (sm)
two of the places I had reserved didn't have internet access as advertised. "Oh, our server is down and I think someone has called it in." The next time I went I purchased a wireless card and subscribed to Verizon broadband and had internet access when I needed it.
Is the Administrator on Vacation??
It used to be that any post mentioning MQ was deleted, because all MQ related issues are to be discussed on the MQ board, thus, a seperate MQ board.
In addition, one of the moderators says it's ok to post and post and post about pets, when there is a Pet board under the 'General' boards tab.
Vacation coverage
I have five accounts and two I have IC's who work for them -- psych accounts no problem when I leave town. But my other three, have asked that I have NO ONE work on the account but me and they hold the tapes and I do them when I come back as fast as I can and sometimes wishing I had not taken time off. No they work with me but then I don't take off much time and when I do it is usually a couple of days and the weekend so we are all not stressed. If I were to have surgery or something I have friends that would help out and the accounts realize that it would be necessary. That is one of the drawbacks of having your own accounts. No work --no money. But it does make you appreciate your time off.
re: Really needing a vacation
I'm in WV too. We generally went to either Cape Hatteras, NC or Myrtle Beach for vacations, but Myrtle has gotten so commercialized it's pretty expensive. Hatteras is really nice, quiet, super clean and really not that expensive.
Vacation and benefits - really!
Is there really a company out there that provides long-term benefits such as insurance AND VACATION and that will be around when we get ready to use it Just wondering if anyone out there really has any benefits doing at home MT work.
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