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You Might get 11cpl working weekends only, third shift, as an IC. nm

Posted By: happy hunting on 2005-09-27
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I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm)
so no more big bucks, at least from them...looking for second job to make ends meet, don't have husband to help...this sucks.
MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
If you want to work the graveyard shift, weekends,
and holidays, then have at it! But don't others to want to do that too. Some of us have a life. This job doesn't pay well enough to go through all that. If they want to pay me as much as a nurse, then I'll work those horrible shifts like nurses do, but not for the lousy wages they pay MTs these days. No thanks. I'll be at the lake on the weekends & holidays and enjoying dinner with my family during the week! You're more than welcome to work the crap shift if that's what you think you deserve.
If this is true that you offshore only for night shift and weekends, then PLEASE

explain to me the statements in your SEC about going to 35% by end of 2009 and the plan to continue to INCREASE the amount you offshore.  How can those be the company's goals if you only offshore nights/weekends when you cannot find US MTs to cover?  I can't make the two mesh in my mind.  I have seen this question asked a few times now with no response.  One of the posts even vanished from the board, which I found quite disturbing in and of itself.  If someone at Transcend would address this, I might feel a bit differently about their offshoring, but when they continue to ignore this question about their own statements, it is very unsettling. 


I also saw a Transcend MT post and say they DO work the night shift and they canNOT make their lines because they see their work vanish around 10 p.m. nightly.  This would suggest that the work is TAKEN AWAY from the U.S. MT and sent to India, when there is a U.S. MT sitting there ready, willing, and able to work the night shift.  If you want the confidence of MDI MTs, then PLEASE give us straight answers about this hugely important issue.


We have also repeatedly asked if we would be able to have SE status, maintain our flexible scheduling, which is imperative for some of us, pay range, line definition, insurance questions, etc., and have received NO information, only vague statements about the foreseeable future, a case-by-case basis, etc.  Surely Transcend knows what their insurance plan entails, what their pay scale is, how they definie a line, whether or not they have any intention of honoring our current pay rates, whether or not they intend to allow us to write our own schedules or work a set shift, or keep SE status. 


I can't for the life of me believe that NONE of these issues were discussed between the two companies before the merger, nor have they now been discussed when the questions were specifically set before them by the MTs and again reportedly brought to Transcend by Carlotta.  And yet we STILL have no more information than before the original conference call, only very vague statements.  So no, this does NOT inspire confidence to stay and give Transcend a chance. 


I can deal with just about anything if I am given the facts and the truth.  It is the mushroom treatment that I simply cannot abide.


NOT working weekends
i really don't understand woman in this profession.  You are in a 24/7 365 day a year job but you don't WANT to work weekends.  You are going to a new company and becoming the low man on the totem pole but you think you shouldn't have to work weekends.  Wake up and smell the coffee ladies.  Try going to Walmart, Target, or your local grocery store and telling them you do not want to work weekends.  Go work in an office or a factory and expect to have all the holidays off for your vacation.  Get real and grow up.  When you are NEW you get the weekends and the night shifts, the rest of us who have been with the company awhile and paid our dues are entitled to the weeknds off and most of us are willing to work the weekends when it is needed.  Those of you who want your cake and eat it too need to wake up to the real world.
I like working weekends. There is always
I also have a family and responsibilities, but b/c I have a family I need to take this kind of shift. Works for patient care and for TT and me. Seems like different strokes for different folks, but I am happy to do both days on the weekend every week. I get time off during the week while everyone else has to work and fight for lines.
You're working weekends, though. nm
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Working weekends and holidays
Thanks, I'd like to think of myself as a nice person. Unfortunately, the place I work at is a local clinic doing nephrology work. Have you tried locally, maybe you could find something where you wouldn't have to work weekends. And oh, yes, it is paid vacation. After 5 years I get 5 weeks. I have great benefits and a 401K plan, so I'm very thankful.
Re: working weekends and nights
I already do work Saturdays and nights (or try to, but it's a little hard when there is no work). I do not work on Sundays. It is my only day for my family to be together. I work six days (or nights as the case may be) a week as it is. Saturdays and nights are fine and I am happy to work them, but no work then, either. But there is also no work early mornings, hardly any during the day, almost none at night. It is as if it has all evaporated??????? I remember when all three of my accounts were plentiful and I could work as much as I wanted whenever. I do not mind flexing my schedule, but there is just no work no matter which way I flex it. What happened?
Working holidays/weekends? I would certainly hope you are committed to
your convictions. Many people do not work holidays but it is not always a choice. If you do not want to work weekends or holidays, but the work must get done. If you are anti-working holidays and weekends, then I hope you do not expect to receive medical care or emergency treatment of any kind, that you do not shop or buy anything on weekends/holidays, do not attend any type of functions where employees must work to create a good environment for you to enjoy your life, do not go to movies, do not go out for dinner, etc. Did you ever think that these people may not want to have to work just to make your life sweet? What hypocrits.
Au contraire, working in-house usually means weekends
or rotating weekends. I've been doing this 30 years and I've yet to not have to share in the weekend coverage, whether rotating or a fixed Saturday or Sunday workday.

No one is delighted to work weekends, except maybe for the differential (which isn't much but helps), but it's part and parcel of the profession, at least in my experience.


Is your shift key not working???
What's with the 'all lowercase' posts?
I've been working weekends for 7 years and haven't heard of this.
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If you are working a scheduled shift, you are an
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Anybody here working second shift hours at Oracle?
I see a lot of negative regarding this company and am wondering if the work load is consistent when working second shift hours there.  Thanks much.
been working a split shift for a month just to try to maybe get my lines in
Which is slowly draining the life from me. I can get their minimum NO problem at all if they provide steady work. However, it trickles in now and most of the time I have to wait between jobs for work. Also really tired of their dumb e-mails patting us on the back because everything is in TAT. Well, with not enough work and too many MTs, what do you expect?? I am heading for the way out pretty fast!
So what is guess for average pay? 10 cpl, 11cpl? Is
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More than 11cpl?? I had a recent contact with Ax tell me they get 8.5 cpl. Hmmm...nm
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This is true. Shift does matter. I work 2nd shift and really have not had any issues with not havi
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3rd shift radiology can be like that. Feast or famine. Same with 3rd shift sm
ER work. Sometimes the doctors are too busy to dictate, so they do it at the end. Why don't you talk to them and ask about a different shift?
Ya know, even if I spend time during my shift or after that shift

it is still MY time, expected by the company, and I am not getting paid for it regardless.  I don't answer my phone while I am working, never did, never will.  What other profession, while probably punching a clock, do folks work for free?  If I worked in an office doing this, that time would be paid - say 15 minutes a day x 5 days a week at even $10/hour =   $50 a month - and it is more time spent than that to deal with the email thing and the reminders and the changes in specifics and logging in and out of 3 different accounts when primary is out of work.  GRRR. 


I don't change jobs easily either, glad you are happy where you are - but producing 1400 lines of ACCURATE text will end my career soon (and probably yours also) and then what are we all to do?  My goal is not to work more, work harder and longer hours to produce a salary I can live on. 


 


They pay well 10 cpl days, 11 cpl 2nd shift, 12 for 3rd shift
1300 lines a day required, 65 character line. They have benefits. Don't know much else.
I have worked both 3rd shift and day shift (SM)
including what you call banker's hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). I ran out of work more often on 3rd than I do now on the day shift.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
Weekends?
And no, I don't work weekends, only if I want to get on the OT or the incentives.
Weekends
You work in the medical field, which is a 365-day-a-year business. Why would you expect that you would not have to work on weekends? The hospitals that provide the work that provides us a paycheck expect their charts back in the contracted time. If you aren't willing to help provide that service, then either get out of the field or find your own physicians to contract with so that you can set your own hours.

Weekends
I worked weekends for the Harpy MTSO and OT whenever it was needed. Did she appreciate it? No. I happen to like working weekends! An oddity, I know, but I AM a professional.
DSG used to have no weekends. Don't know about now. nm
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Weekends
Almost every company out there now requires a weekend day....and GIMT is soooo flexible..you are not HELD to certain hours. Get them in when you can that day and everyone is happy.
Weekends at TT
I have just recently started at TT and was told I had the choice of Sun-Thur or Tue-Sat; when asking for M-F, they laughed. Also, their ads say Tue-Sat and Sun-Thur. What gives?
Weekends
Except if my memory is correct you did not have to commit to a set schedule for the weekend as long as you covered your 20% line commitment.

no weekends
No way do I want to work weekends.  Is it really required or are they flexible?
weekends
I only did M-F. I know someone else who just started with them and will only do M-F.
weekends
when I worked there you either did Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs. Or if you wanted Monday-Friday, you did every fourth weekend. Only fair in this business.
weekends
It used to be people were hired with a 2 weekend days a month requirement. Now they are hiring on Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs schedules (as are most companies). It sounds like the info packet hasn't reflected that change. Probably best to clarify your future schedule with the recruiter or your supervisor.
Weekends......
Check with FutureNet.  I work weekend option there, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and have more work that I know what to do with.  They are always needing extra help on weekends.  Pay is good too and people are super-nice.
To Weekends Off
Thank you for that positive feedback. If you would be willing to share the names of these companies I would appreciate it and you could contact me by e-mail.
To No Weekends Here
If you would you be willing to share the name please e-mail me. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
weekends
If you don't want to work weekends, shouldn't have picked the medical field. Maybe you should try a doctor's office, though most of them these days are open on Saturday.

I love working 1 weekend day and having 1 day off during the week to myself. That's my sanity day.

There are plenty of ways to work a weekend day and still have time for family. It might take some creativity on your part but it can be done.
OPs, weekends, as an IC... 7 cpl.

That's equivalent to roughly 4-5 cpl as an employee with benes.  It takes years to become a good MT.  I can't believe the low pay rates posted lately.


Weekends

The account I'm on, because it is a clinic account, tends to be done for the week usually by Saturday night.  Occasionally there will be a backlog and work available on Sunday, but that's rare.


I don't know about the acute care accounts.  I would assume that they would need people on the weekends- that type of account usually does.  They started me at .0875 cpl which is just fine for my needs and expectations.


I don't know about the not getting a response.  I got a response from them right away last year when I applied, so I'm not sure what that's about.


TT weekends
I work 4 hr/day Sun-Thur by choice. Some work Tue-Sat and others rotate weekend days.
The weekends
We have always had busier days on Thursday and Friday but this is waaaaay busier. Of course, people could be on vacations, etc. as well. It is summer. It just seems funny that there is NO work for three days and then a ton of it.
Weekends?

Just curious...what is the typical weekend requirement for Transcend?  Also, how strict is your scheduling?  Those really are my main concerns at this time. 


Weekends
It does help somewhat, but I'm really just wondering if they do require 1 weekend day per week.  I don't mind working every other, but absolutely cannot do 1 weekend day per week.  I guess I'll have to wait until the first of the year.  Thanks for answering though!
Weekends...
Thank you.  That's what I needed to know.  We do a lot of camping on the weekends, or we did anyways, usually every other weekend.  So, there is no way this is going to work for me.  Like I said, I have no problem with working every other weekend, but if I have to work one weekend day per week, I'm either going to have to sell our camp or find another job.  This is depressing.
more $ for night and weekends
0.005 per line from 6 pm to 11 pm. from 11 pm to 6 am 0.01 per line. How the heck can we keep track of this stuff? More time will be spent calculating the time sheet than earning it!!
Yep, I can see for me that weekends and OT will go by the wayside. nm
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weekends and stuff
Actually, when you get your little chart to fill in (24 hours, 7 days) it clearly has marked the hours where there is a shift differential. You could choose to work ONLY during those hours if you want. There will still be incentives and bonuses. The bottom line is, the jobs will still need transcribed and SOMEONE has to do it.


Some may want to work weekends. A lot don't.
for that rate of compensation.  There was a time 10 cpl was average to below-average rate working Monday through Friday.  Then it started changing to working at least one weekend day to make that kind of rate.  Now it's the whole weekend, EVERY weekend on nothing but ESLs just to make that kind of rate.  I'm not the OP, but I think that might be part of the complaint when s/he says it's a bit rigorous and might be time to leave.
I believe they do have rotating weekends available. sm
  It would be worth contacting them to find out for sure.