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OMG, I hope not. You work over 50 hrs a week

Posted By: SM on 2006-07-24
In Reply to: I make $36,500 but I am available 24/7. The perks sm - MT supervisor for service

for 36,500? Sounds like a very big national I know. lol. BTDT and I quit real fast. Glad you are happy, I guess that's all that matters, but you're being taken advantage of IMO. And 2 weeks vacation is not that great either.


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I hope you have more work than most have been seeing lately.

hope you don't need a lot of work
I was there 2 weeks and had only 11 reports, AND they refused to pay the training bonus. They said they could not release me to other accounts until I had completed so many reports for my primary, but there were none to do, so no backup.
Hope it's where I work!!
nm
Why would anyone work 8 hours a week. The poster above said 16 or 24 hours a week.
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I dont work for MDI-FL but I would certainly hope
that the rude poster below does not work for them. I would not want to work with people that rude. The original poster just asked a question, isnt that what these forums are for???
I hope it continues to work out for you.
I sincerely hope it continues to work out for you if you are truly a new Editor and not either of the 2 lead people posing as a happy employee. I have nothing nice to say about Shapin. I am one of the disgruntled ex-employees that never even said anything about them on this site! BUT.. I was certainly smeared around here and the most horrifying thing was it wasn't even true. I never even came into this forum until I was contacted by another QA they also did a number on. I kept quiet as I feel it is better to take the high road. Since I was enlightened I have visited this site frequently and have seen how many negative remarks there are about them. I have also visited some others and they were pretty bad also. I am not trying to stir the pot, but there are two sides to every story. The bigmouth is usually spewing there bull edition. Good luck to you with them.
hope you dont run out of work-- nm
nm
Hope you like to work on Christmas
You have to work holidays and weekends.
Hope you like to work Christmas
and Thanksgiving
ALSO my pay was usually wrong and never in my favor.
Well I hope you get an account with work
>:(
I sure hope so! I'd never want to work for someone who chewed me out.
and I am sorry if indeed the above poster did get chewed out. Mutual respect and customer service goes from supervisor and employee just as employee is to respect supervisor. Chewed out, sounds like a parent to a child, and even then criticism should be dealt with carefully.
Oh I sure hope not - no work for weeks
nm
hope your spelling and grammar on work are better than this.
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I hope it gets better! Can't afford to sit here much longer with no work. nm
nm
thx, hope the foot pedal will work oh boy nm
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Lets just hope they are not overhiring lately and we will find we are all going to be out of work
especially after Summer.
Well, I HOPE they're a good place to work...
... since I worked for TRS and thus got acquired by Transcend when TRS did.

Interestingly... when I was job-hunting about 7 months ago, I basically read every entry in the MT Companies section of another forum (M T Chat)looking for companies that got good reviews. Because it got very good reviews there, Transcend was the second-to-last company I applied to, just before TRS. At that time, Transcend was only testing for acute care (my 36 years of clinical in multiple specialties wasn't good enough, I guess) so they told me no thanks. And now they've got me anyway.

I am still reserving judgment because the merger only happened 2 weeks ago; and I am still working on my same accounts, under the same supervisors, on the same platform, so there have been no visible changes as yet....
Sincerely, I do hope you're prepared to work for 8 cpl now
Apparently MDI was one of the companies that paid their experienced MTs pretty well.

With the merge, you'll be making less eventually. If you quit and look for a new job, you'll be making less, way less, than you were making at MDI.

I'm another one who's BTDT, too. I went from making 11 cpl to now making 8 cpl. I tried HARD to find any company, obscure to well known, that will start off more than that. Couldn't find 'em. Probably won't ever go up, either.

Just sayin' that you should be prepared to budget your living costs for the amount of money you'll be missing each month compared to what you were making at MDI. It's awful, I know, been through it. Going to school now to do something else, getting out.
You are fortunate. I hope you always have work and it stays that way and doesnt change.
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Good luck to you. Hope they are lenient with the benefits with all the low work. nm
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There's plenty of work. Hope you like working every weekend and holiday. nm
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I am glad to hear that a lot of money can be made with MT work. This gives me hope for the future.
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I hope the not meeting line count was due to being on your part and not due to lack of work or I'
be ticked off. I can see if someone just didnt do their line count for whatever personal reasons but I have heard of people saying they couldnt do their line counts due to lack of work. That would stink if it was through no fault of their own that they were punished.
Hope Transtech is NOT still hiring, because we are all fighting for work right now OVERHIRE big time
Be careful right now, because TT has much overhired, promising something big coming up, but nothing seen by the MT's yet, just LOW WORK load.
I did to. Work late shift and did not check msg in time. Hope to get recap
nm
Looks like another week of no work at MDI-FL. And they
say they don't overhire?  Don't believe that one for a minute. 
We are all out of work this week looks like. nm
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4 day work week?
Does anybody working for Transtech work a 4 day work week (10 hours a day)?  I would like to do this, but don't know if they would be receptive to this. 
There's less work every week
That's what some of us thought - if some people got fired last week, this week might be better.  Nope!  Its worse! 
NO work -- running out of work this week! Anybody else?

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.


 


The reason there is low work/no work during the week is because so many of YOU at TT want

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


Yes. You must work 1 weekend day every week. nm
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ARE THEY AWARE THAT YOU DON'T WORK 40 A WEEK?
jUST CURIOUS IF THEY CARE.
39 hour work week
is what it says. Sorry, 39 not 40 for those counting.
Unfortunately they also keep running OUT of work every week. nm
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I work three days a week ...

8 hours a day, but I often times have to be physically at the computer longer than 8 hours because sometimes the work is slow.  I have two accounts.  I work no weekends. 


 


 


how may hours a week do you work
or maybe a better question is how many lines a day do you do?
how many hours a week do you work to get this?
so, you don't really know what it's like to work a national.
At least we don't have to work 7 days a week (unless we want to)
nm
How many hours do you work a week? (NM)
nm
work a week off payroll?? PLZ sm

Yas know what, there are probably a lot of  valid complaints here on the board but is really of no value unless the name of the company is shared.  What good does it really do, no one else can be alerted and informed to make future decisions. Change can perhaps be implented on the other side when as isolated MTs can learn the fact and not be taken in (because the info is shared from which decisions can be made.. 


I have taken to sending an email (at times with the resume but also without) and ask if they would mind sharing the highest to the lowest line rate offered for the position as --I mention (to them)  this would save valuable time on BOTH sides.


I have also taken to asking if this position is for VR. (cuz I'm not doin it) 


This gives a better playing field as I don't want to spend all that time on testing on 7 files, going through an interview to find some ridiculous offer I would have never considered had I known up front.


I think the JOB OFFER BOARD here should have all the facts listed up front.  


unbelievable. Work for a week sm
without getting paid? What a nice way to clean up their back log for free!

Back a few years ago this profession started being advertised by the schools and in the rag magazines as a work at home job to make tons of money. That is when this profession started down the tubes.

Because it sounds like an easy work at home job, everybody is coming out of the woodwork. Folks who can't spell the word HOSPITAL practically are trying to open MT companies to make big money.

It is very very sad!
They also only work 4 days a week.
 
HOW DO YOU GET OVER TIME IF YOU DON'T WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK?
That is a great gig you have going. Do you have to work weekends?
How many hours in a week do you normally work to get your lines in?
Just curious. I work 50-plus hours here to make it work for our family, would love to cut back
Yep, my work is low this week too. Previouly, however, we could not catch it up. Is it all the ..SM

new hires, do you think?  They haven't told me to take the day off or anything, but there are big gaps in my downloads.  I love QT but it's times like these that make my eyes wander to the ads.  Funny how when we're busy, I type faster, too.  When it's like this, I just casually and nonchalantly go about typing during the day, getting up and down as I please, no hurry at all.  Maybe I'll start looking at part-time supplements -- then if work runs really dry, I'l already have my foot in the door somewhere else. 



I work 1 job, about 36 hours/week and make at
least that amount, plus have vacation and PTO, also an employee so they pay taxes.   I found that working multiple account keep me from making money because I have to learn so many doctors and be aware of the different formats/platforms and account specific stuff.  I used to work a bunch of jobs part-time and was working 7 days a week and lots and lots of hours and not making very much money.   If I worked the same hours on one account I could have easily made $80,000+/year. 
I work very hard, usually 7 days a week.
I work any hours needed. What is my reward? I get stuck on the garbage accounts, the ones who bellyache get the easy accounts and get put on steady accounts. I think I have learned 8 new accounts in the last 2 months, and none of them were decent accounts. My line count is good, but would be wonderful if I ever had an account I could get used to. These companies beat you up and then throw you to the dogs.

The scum that plays kiss-$$$ get paid more, take off when they want, and get choice of days off, holidays, so they can be with their ill-behaved brats whenever they want to be.

Don't tell me about ethics, tell the MTSOs they need to improve their ethics and then then they could have decent employees.
I know that two are starting next week. I work on one of them right now and they called and sm
asked me if I wanted more work or knew anyone who has heme/onc experience.
The MTs can't be forced to work over 40 hours in a week
unless paid OT pay. If the work is not getting done, maybe they need additional help on the account or MTs who can actually do the work in a reasonable time to stay in TAT.
I work 12 hr/day, 6 days/week, and my take-home pay - sm
comes out to around $6.50/hour. Is that about in the same ballpark as what you're making, and if so, how can your employees afford to work for you for less than that?