39 hour work week

• Did you read in the MQ packet where it said... - sick of working holidays
  • Get over it - check it out
    • That is not true. Many use 37.5, I have seen as low as 32 - MTLyn
    • well here is my problem with that.. - tired
      • yep - no name
      • I would be afraid to lose my safety net if I needed X amount of dollars to live. I am sitting here - MQMT
      • For what it's worth ... - Busy MT'ing
        • I don'thave a problem if MQ - I have a second job too
          • Oh, I understand. I wasn't condoning the practice - Busy MT'ing
    • 39 hour work week - my mistake
  • What is the new status. I dont understand what it means. I dont need their benefits nor do I want - MQMT
    • 16 hours a week or 8 a week and get - then sign up for
      • Why would anyone work 8 hours a week. The poster above said 16 or 24 hours a week. - MQMT
  • Doesn't matter - ALAMT
    • it did say that we get paid if - tired already
  • But look at it this way, maybe there will be enough - I hear ya
    • I did go home from an inhouse MT service - you didn't upset me but

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  Anyone apply for the 12-hour day, 4-day week they are offering? 

I had to laugh when I saw their ad for a four-day week, 12-hour day.  In order to get in enough lines to make a 12-hour day, with all the clocking in and clocking out for every little thing like blowing your nose, you will be sitting at that computer 24 hours a day for four-days in a row.  And when are you suppose to eat?  What happens when there is no work during those days -- you end up working on your days off anyway!!! So much for a 4-day week.  Even overtime will have to be on your days off. 

If anyone is working that schedule now, please let us know if it is working out well for you.  GOOD LUCK.  I admire your stamina. 

Happy Holidays

I'd be editing VR all day though as she sends her standard transcription off to some MTSO.  I forgot to ask which.  Those wages are not bad really for this part, but nothing to scream about.  I was making $14 an hour at the in-house hospital job and the peak there was $17.50.   The bens are wonderful, $150 for family and that includes dental, vision.  We also get a 401k. 

But just from the interview, we only get yearly raises.  She doesn't do merit increases.  There are no quarterly QA audits.  Her standards are low, 1100 lines per day for editing.  She told me I was at the top of her list to hire but she is still interviewing.  I took it as she was looking for someone who would work cheaper.

Seemed like we all had enough work to go around.  Perhaps this is more beneficial for the company, but the 35 hours makes it easier to work in a part time job if necessary due to low work. 

Last time my accounts were low for a while I picked up an IC gig, then like a fool when OT was offered on my main job I quit the IC job and went for the bucks.  That lasted about 2 weeks.  Will not be that foolish again.

This is the slow period. Most MT's know this. After working 9 1/2 years at a hospital, this happened there, too. Don't get in a tizzy. Once it picks up, you'll not be able to breathe.

One year at TT and this is a breath of fresh air to me after working all the hours I did. Sure, I need the money, but it can be made up later, so I'm not worried, and I don't think the naysayers answering should worry either. Soon you'll all be complaining of TOO MUCH work.

TT Rocks.

I'm not sure if they have clinic work, though, but they might. 

Good luck in your search! 

I am wondering if there are any companies that let you work anytime you want as long as you get your daily or weekly line count in?  Thanks....

I have many, many years experienced and was just told a little while back, even though I am an IC, that I have to have a set schedule...And I am struggling to follow the set schedule due to family illness....

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Anybody else running out of work this week?

The sweetie, honey, sweet words to us just don't pay. Lines transcribed is all that pays us.

TO WORK BANKER's HOURS and DAYS and NOTHING ELSE !!   Poor baby . . .

then pray tell us how you are doing it.  I certainly would like to share this with MQ because I also have done this many years, know my work, and there is no way to do 2400 lines because most days all the accounts are out of work.

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