subway divided by 3

Uh, let's see, ASR already is divided into tiers [2008-07-10]
Nothing you can do, but find another job!

Does it sound like MQ has divided and the 30% part is charging the 70% part (sm) [2008-07-01]
with having gone through some shenanigans to make the sale go through? I will re-read later today after I have had a pot or two of coffee.

subway divided by 3 [2008-05-10]
ah ha ha ha ha. Teehee MT, thanks for the morning chuckle!

The fam and I are getting a $5 foot-long from Subway and [2008-05-09]
dividing it four ways between us, I guess that's 3 inches each, not bad... We'll probably go ahead and eat in the restaurant but will need to bring our handy water thermos with us and ask for water cups (sometimes they'll give you them for free if you ask nicely). Big treat Family Night! Can't wait!

One of my past PS told me her group was divided into 2 sections (sm) [2008-03-31]
One had a large primary and seemed to get the poopoo-pool less. The other one had a large group of smaller accounts and theirs was almost always a mixture of 8-10 accounts. Don't know if that is still that way or not. I just felt lucky to be in the one with large main and felt sorry for the second group.

Double check with your PS. The bonuses are divided into 2 separate weeks. If you normally do [2007-11-13]
2000 per week, (4000 ppp) your bonus for the first week should kick in after the 2000, then you start over again for the next 7 days.

That is peanuts. If they just divided the $400,000 between alll....sm [2007-10-25]
6000 transcriptionists, that would be about $67 each. I got $63 and change. I guess I am average.

isn't this divided from the maximum [2007-07-10]
amount available by the number of MTs that qualify? Thereby - it could be less if you are a high producer.

No, it is divided by that number. You will earn incentive on [2007-07-10]
nm

I was stating that divided into an hourly wage [2007-05-09]
terribly - yes it is salaried.

All characters/spaces are counted then divided by 65. [2006-05-18]
This is how they count lines. You can look up each individual report and see this in DQS.

They base PTO on average of prior 6 mos; lines divided by hours for last 6 months equal average line [2006-05-02]
nm

$4.00 divided by 69.23 lines = 5.78 cpl [2005-10-24]
nm

the answer is not 75% - sm [2008-09-03]
since i can only compare by the minutes and not the line count, For the ASR you were doing 57.77 sec/min. For non-ASR, you were doing 43.33 sec/min. This leads to an increase in production of 33%: It's the change divided by the original number. 57.77 minus 43.33 all divided by 43.33 equals 33%. However, a 33% increase in production along with a 30% decrease in pay (which is the same as 70% of original pay) leads to a pay REDUCTION of 7%: 133% x 70% = 93%. So if you were making 7 cpl on the non-ASR job, you were only making 6.5 cpl on the ASR job. GOOD JOB Medquist - WE JUST LOVE YA!!!

Tired of theft, or why I'm quitting [2008-08-29]
I'm looking at ASR reports that take longer to fix than they would to type. This is a trick. It's a scam. It's the same as if somebody was lifting my wallet in the subway. I'm a shareholder, you know. I sure hope the next prospectus notes that profits are increased because the company is scamming their employees. It's a scam because this tool is not a tool to increase our speed. It's a tool to keep production the same at a lower cost. If the prospectus doesn't note the fact that ASR fails to improve worker speed, the company will belying to the shareholders by omission and I will inform the Securities and Exchange Commission. I will get you back, Medquist, if aren't honest with your shareholders. By the way I won't be working for Medquist at the time, but I will still be a shareholder. And it will be payback time.

Case in point...danger of ASR [2008-08-27]
I'm typing a cholecystectomy, and the dictator is going along, dividing the cystic duct, etc., and the next thing ASR picks up is, The aorta was similarly identified, ligated and divided. Wow, for the patient's sake, I hope not! But I almost missed it (brain on autopilot), and I have 20 years experience, so how could a newbie be expected to do?

Case in point...danger of ASR (moved up from below) [2008-08-27]
I'm typing a cholecystectomy, and the dictator is going along, dividing the cystic duct, etc., and the next thing ASR picks up is, The aorta was similarly identified, ligated and divided. Wow, for the patient's sake, I hope not! But I almost missed it (brain on autopilot, as so often happens on ASR), and I have 20 years experience, so how could a newbie be expected to do?

And it's not just ASR [2008-08-27]
I once had a doctor, during a hip replacement surgery, indicate that the sciatic nerve was ligated and divided. Once again, anybody who does not know anything about medicine would simply have let that one go. (For those of you who might not know, ligating and dividing the sciatic nerve would have made the hip replacement moot, because the patient would then be permanently paralyzed in that leg). The point that should be made is that we are NOT just typists; we use our brains to VALIDATE each and every word that is dictated, which is something a computer can never do. And as soon as a few more lawsuits result from shoddy transcription by ESL transcriptionists, computers, etc., then our true value will once again be apparent.

it does make sense. [2008-04-29]
It's true because it makes sense. The monthly bonus was out of a pot of a set amount of money. Anybody who makes it in that pot will get a certain percentage of the pot based on how many lines over they type. There is no set monetary value on what you get, it is a percentage. That said, if more people qualified, more people get money out of the pot, and lower the amount you get. To put it very simply: $100 pot divided by 10 people equals $10 each. $100 pot divided by 50 people equals $2 each. Therefore, if many people got pretty close to what they usually earn for a monthly bonus, it is because their madness incentive is tacked on.

Per my PS... [2008-03-20]
An average just as you said...hours clocked in divided by line count, per pay period. At her suggestion I clock out for anything over 5 mins and make up the time later as to not skew my minutes of actual typing time.

I'm pretty sure all days are equal whether worked or not sm [2008-03-19]
PTO, etc. but if the bonus stops tonight, your target, I think is lower. If I understood the email correctly (and please no one jump on me if I didn't LOL): Let's say your target is 8000. 8000 divided by 7 (days) would be 1143 per day and then multiply that by 6 (days the bonus ran) would come out to an adjusted target of 6858.

Should probably keep mouth shut, but actually only about a dozen. (sm) [2008-01-21]
My old PS told us her people were divided into 2 groups, one for my main account and the rest for her BOB which consisted of multiple smaller accounts. She admitted those of us on my main were luckier than the other group.

You would have to do...sm [2007-12-10]
$40,000/yr divided by 52 weeks = approx $770/week. $770/week divided by 7 cpl = 11,000 lines per week. Remember, this is GROSS, not calculating in witheld taxes or any insurance, etc., taken out. As the other poster mentioned, if you qualify for bonuses, of course, this will be increased, but with the state of everything today and the probable chance that they'll find at least one reason for you not to achieve this bonus, I wouldn't count on it. Also wouldn't count on any overtime... you just never know when or if it will be available. So without OT, you'd have to do those 11,000 a week in 40 hours, meaning approx 275 lines an hour consistently. Of course, you more than likely will get some straight transcription, which means, if you are getting 7 cpl ASR, you are getting 10 cpl for transcription. So this also will increase your per-week earnings. So, if you can do 11,000 lines a week all ASR, no bonuses, and no OT, then yes, you can make $40,000 a year gross... add in a little straight transcription, possibly some OT and the possible bonus, I think you could do it. I don't do any ASR, work 40 hours a week plus OT almost every time it's offered, average 8000 lines per week if I'm on my regular accounts, 9 cpl, and I'm not going to hit $34,000 gross this year...just too many changes. Previous few years I topped $40,000, but since being made employee, it dropped down to less, and now this year with the national pool it's another few thousand less. I have 17 years of transcription experience and 12 of them at MQ. Hope this helps your decision.

Not sure of your question... [2007-11-19]
But for my target number.... i went into etime and wrote down my line counts for each week all the way back to september (whatever dates they said they were going by). I scratched out the highest and lowest line counts and added the rest up and divided by 6. Then I multiplied by 2% and add the 2% to that number. I then got confirmation from my PS that my target number was right. As far as pay... I am not sure exactly what you are asking.

It is based on what you typed this week. For example, they take the hours you worked overtime and [2007-11-16]
pay you based on lines divided by hours x line rate to get your hourly rate and then half of that rate will be paid for OT hours on your check. It is not based on your base rate that you get for PTO time.

Sorry, that's incorrect... sm [2007-11-16]
You can find it in the Harmonization booklet, but basically the formula is: Total lines x base pay to get total $$ per week. Total $$ divided by total hours to get $$/hour for the week. $$/hour rate divided by 2 to determine what the *1/2* part of time and a half would be. Overtime *1/2* rate x number of hours of overtime to equal what your overtime will be. So if you produce 8000 lines in 43 hours at 8 cents: 8000 x .08 = $640 $640 divided by 43 hours = $14.88/hour $14.88 divided by 2 = $7.44 $7.44 x 3 hours of OT = $22.32 of OT pay. So your total pay for the week would be $662.32 including your OT and regular pay... if I did the math right!... but you get the idea. Hope this helps. Note that this changes every week based on the number of total lines you do and the total number of hours you work. If you are a higher producer per hour, your rate will be higher, and the reverse for lower production. Just remember that we need to maintain our minimum lph, either 150 or 100 depending on our employee status. Good luck... the OT really adds to the bonus this week if you work the extra.

the bonus times run from...sm [2007-11-13]
09/09 thru 09/15, then a separate bonus starts 09/16 thru 09/22. Take advantage of it now as next week it may not be there. Remember if the bonus is cut short, you get to deduct lines by 1/7 for each day. Ex: Your requirement is 6000, the bonus is cut by one day, then the requirement would be 5143 (6000 divided by 7 which is857), anything above the 5143 is paid at bonus pay.

Just think how many supervisors there are for over 6000 MTs...sm [2007-11-11]
If each supervisor has say 50 transcriptionists, that would be 120 supervisors divided over the 3 areas, an average of 40 each, north, south and west. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the numbers sometimes. Each of us is really so miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

See inside (sm) [2007-11-09]
Use Sunny's calculation below to get your average weekly amount (see her post below): ---------------------- If you go into DoQmanage and total each week separately from September 2 to October 27, then eliminate your highest and lowest weeks. Add the other 6 weeks that are left together and divide by 6 to get your average. -------------- You then take this number and multiple it by 1.02 (2% increase) and you have the weekly amount you need to surpass. ---------------------- Now here's my post using an example of someone below who calculated using Sunny's formula an average line count per hour of 164 before the 2% increase (basically they took their weekly average from Sunny's example above before the 2% increase and divided by the number of hours they are scheduled to work in one week to get this number, 164, which was their average line count per hour): If you average 164 lines, then: 164 x 1.02 (percent) = 167.28 (round down to 167), so far, so good (this is the line count you need to beat, which is 2% above your average). Then say you bust your butt to get 200 lines an hour: 200-167=33 lines per hour Say you work 39 hours in a week, you get: 39 (hours) x 33 (extra lines per hour) = 1,287 lines/week 1,287 lines x 10 cents = $128.70. -------------------- Now they can at any time stop doing the bonus, at which point the days become prorated, so if they stopped the bonus after 5 days, they would take your weekly averaged number (which is your average weekly line count + 2%), say 5,000, and times that by 5/7 to get 3,571 and whatever lines you had typed over that amount at that point you would get the bonus for. --------------- This is the math the way I see it. If anyone has a better explanation or if this looks wrong in some way, please post.

OT is not figured at rate and a half...sm [2007-11-02]
Sorry, but 8 cpl is not 12 cpl on OT. It is not figured that way. It is based on your production earnings for the week divided by hours worked to determine $$/hour, divide that by half to determine what the 1/2 of your 1-1/2 OT hourly rate would be, times number of overtime hours. In my experience, it comes no where near 1/2 base rate, the best I've seen is maybe 1 or 1.5 cents. I do see your point, however, and again, not to say that PT MTs don't work hard, but full-timers have already put in 40 hours a week and are really going above and beyond that to help out, not just for the extra money. In my opinion, since they are the backbone of this company, they should get that little extra because they are taking more time away from their families and their life to give more to this company than a part-timer is. Again, I appreciate anybody, PT or FT, who puts in more work to help out, I just think any extra bonuses should be dished out equally no matter what their employee status is. Also, as some others have said, some PSs don't approve overtime during a bonus weekend, so some FT MTs don't even get the opportunity to work for them. That is also not fair. If one area allows OT during a bonus weekend, I think they all should. Just my 2 cents.

Kind of. sm [2007-10-29]
You have to work your minimum hours each week regardless. PTO doesn't count against that. But if you're short 1 hour 1 week, that's not fulfilling your time. Be careful and watch your time. The lines/hour is an average over the quarter. Take my total production divided by my total hours worked (no PTO, no training, no downtime). I get my average lph. Subtract 150. Multiply by the # of regular hours. This is my total bonusable lines for the quarter. The BONUS portion is the 150 lph average. Your employment status/hours worked requirements are the ## hours per week you committed to. It is part of your job performance fulfillment. Has to be done. Did I make it more muddy or clearer? lol

Failure [2007-10-27]
Of course they set everyone up for failure! Think about it! Someone was certainly using their brain when they came up with this whole 'bonus' situation. They base the bonus mostly on speed, but then make sure that you're almost always typing on different accounts so that you're not as capable of reaching such speeds. Then the other part of the bonus is based on accuracy--which again, is hard to achieve when it's nearly humanly impossible to remember all the details of each CP that you transcribe for. And then stressing each MT out because of all the 'points' that they lose! For crying out loud! And that stresses QA out even more because they know that their 'dings' could possibly attribute to someone giving up and quitting or just flat out not getting the bonus. On top of that, they have to shell out more $ to pay for extra QA because QASAR slows QA down so much. I agree that it's a good idea for the MT to be able to see what changes were made so that they can learn from their mistakes, but this whole 'point' situation is really just a Bad Idea Gone Worse! They need to just go back to the way things used to be. Giving bonuses based on accuracy sounds reasonable, sure! But they should give 'incentives' and not 'bonuses' for total amount typed in a certain period of time--not hours! Or even simpler than that, pay all the MTs slightly more and get rid of bonuses and incentives completely--then they only get paid what they actually work for--and no more sweating over 'will I get a bonus or will I not get a bonus?' And as far as the whole 'national cesspool' goes, I think that everyone should be put back on primary and secondary accounts and then some MTs who are willing and qualified should be put on a 'floating' status--perhaps make their base pay a little higher to compensate for all the bouncing around that they'd do--but I think that this situation would be more ideal and less of a hassle. And let's not forget about those poor payroll people who have to sit down and do all these bonus calculations or at least making sure that the computer is doing it correctly. (Total number of lines divided by total number of hours, minus 150--then total number of qualifying points divided by total amount of bonus pool--then times number of qualifying lines over 150, but not over 0.02--and then MQs pockets the rest!) Give me a break!! Think of all the money they would save on payroll/computer programming alone if they just went back to a simple calculation of (x lines times x cpl equals $x).

I think we will get them [2007-10-25]
I think we just need to be patient. Unless they accidentally divided all the money up among the people who have received them and now there is none left for us.

I'm afraid [2007-10-25]
I really am afraid now that they have divided up all the money among those they thought should receive bonuses, and there won't be any left for the rest of us. $2200 is incredible.

its on Qnet [2007-10-24]
Total lines divided by total hours. Take that number and subtract 150 - that gives you total lines per hour. Take total lines per hour divided by total hours worked - not including OT or PTO hours. That gives you eligible bonus lines. Divide eligible bonus lines by 21,697,450 x 598,000. Maybe I'm wrong though - check QNet.

cut and paste into Word sm [2007-10-21]
Check it there. You might have to do characters divided by 65. Keep in mind we are no longer paid for QA markers.

A rant...a vent..call it what you want.... [2007-10-07]
This morning, I ran out of my primary group and bounced into a new one again. Had a report from a client I rarely get. Dictator was ESL and baaaaaad. I spent over an hour on it. He gave a doc's name...sounded like it started with PO, went through Pa,Pe,Po, Pu, etc. Tried the T's, the D's, etc. Spent over 15 minutes in the physician drop down. No luck. Put in a marker. His med dosages were not extremely clear...18 could have been 80, etc, so I double checked all the doses I heard to verify I had them right. He gave a med that reverse benzos....he combined the generic and brand name together...I searched forever, found the right medicine name..... I just got it back from QA. I was given an abuse of flagging for the physician name (which, by the way, was the ONLY marker in the whole mess), and then apparently, the QA person thought it should be divided into more paragraphs (the dictator did NOT say paragraph or new line or anything, and docked me twice for 0.5 points and made new paragraphs. Not new headings, new paragraphs. Now, I know, I know..appeal. I did appeal all 3. But my vent is more than that..... I am done with my morning shift for today. Normally, if I am asked to help out extra, I will. Well, since the account I got dinged for is one that needs help today....forget it. I am not going to bring down my line count average and QA score if that is how I am going to be treated. I have a decent primary that I know like the back of my hand. I can type almost 300 lines an hour on it. Since I have been doing all the new accounts, my line count average is down to about 140-160 because I dont abuse markers...I bust my butt trying to find things and read profiles, etc. I am part time, but I work 40 hours a week, without the added benefits. I was happy to help out, to give a little more to MQ, to work harder to keep my QA submissions as low as possible to help THEM out. Now....screw it. I am cutting my hours to the minimum of 24, starting another job end of the month, and possibly quitting for good after that. No more help from me when other accounts are out. Especially that particular group, since now I see what will happen to me if I do. I hope management does read these boards. Companies want MT's who are willing to go the extra mile, do more, try harder, take pride in their work. I did until this morning. I was willing to accept their changes, do more...but I see that all that gets me is petty dings on my reports. This is, by the way, only the second report I have been given feedback on since 10/1. Why? because it is only the second one I have sent in to QA. Abuse of flagging, my a.......

Got a new job! [2007-10-05]
I just got tired of agonizing over every blank and being given critical feedback. Even if it was downgraded, I don't like it being called careless or deliberate. Also don't like the voo-doo bonus where they put in X dollars divided by X MT's minus if your moon is in the seventh house. Found a small company that pays the same as I am making here, plus tier bonuses that you can actually achieve. Anyway, good luck to everybody who is staying; I just couldn't take anymore.