I always volunteer to work holidays, weekends, etc. because my husband is off
Posted By: NOT true on 2005-07-20
In Reply to: BRAVO! The mothers never want to work SM - the original no pity
so he can watch the kids while I earn incentive and holiday pay. Plus, I'm the one who has to cover so the childless women can go on cruises with their latest boyfriends or husbands, or they didn't show up for work because they met a guy at a bar and have the bottle flu. Oh, poor you. Life's unfair. Suck it up and get over yourself.
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Before needing to work, I did volunteer work through the Junior League where I am from in Texas. lm
Junior League was like a full-time job sometimes, but I loved it. Now that I have to work, even though it is from home, I still volunteer through my son's school. I am a school teacher in my previous (pre-MT) life, so I volunteer my tutoring services for children who need the help beyond what the schools are able to provide but whose parents cannot afford to pay for private tutoring. I also know how you felt about being afraid. I was strangely afraid before I joined the Junior League. It was just the unknown. But I was SO blessed by being able to help. Honestly, I am sure that it helped me just as much, if not more, than I helped others. Go for it. You won't be sorry. (Just remember that you have to say NO when you have to say no, okay? Remember that and you will be richly blessed by the experience!)
How many of you do volunteer work? I am considering volunteering..sm
to help in an outreach store where donated items are dispensed to those in need and while I really want to be of service, I keep dragging my feet and putting off making that call. I don't know if it is just because I am afraid to step out of my comfort zone or what, but so far all I have done is think about it and don't get any further. I am so blessed and really feel the need to give back whatever I can, but I still have not made that call. What is wrong with me?
Since you don't believe in Christmas, can we expect you to volunteer to work that day? nm
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Anybody know of a place you can work just weekends (sm)
With going to DQS looks like the OT/bonus is gone. Personally I can't make it without the extra (supporting 4 on one salary). Need to fine a place to work weekends only. Anyone have any suggestions? 
IC being asked to work OT weekends
I'm new to the IC business, always been a employee in the past. Can a MTSO ask you as an IC to work overtime on the weekends if that was not what you signed up to do originally? Do labor laws require an employer to pay overtime over 40 hours a week? With the summer months and the other MTs obviously on vacation, we are backed up at work but I don't want to work every weekend when I've put in a 40 hour week (my regular scheduled hours). I have always volunteered but its getting old and since they cut our pay scale for ICs 6-7 months ago, I'm really not motivated to break my fingers as it were. Does anyone know the legality issue of an IC being asked to work more hours?
I work graveyard on weekends
I can't say there's any real way to prepare for graveyard shift other than going to bed earlier the night before, this way you are well rested for your shift.
I work day shift and evening shift Mon-Thurs, but come 3 pm on Friday, it's bedtime for me. I work graveyard shift on weekends, and I love it. I don't really have a problem adjusting my schedule, as I have massive sleep deficit accrued all week.
The problems that I do find are with:
Family not getting it through their heads that I wake/work early on weekends.
Deliveries (UPS, FedEx) normally take place during the hours I would be sleeping.
Phone usually rings during the hours I sleep.
Other than those outside factors, no problem for me adjusting back and forth between shifts.
wants to work weekends and they need weekend coverage.
Most companies now are going a Tu-Sa shift of Sun-Thu. Clinic work usually is M-F.
If they want to pay me 20 cents a line to work weekends.. I'm
and no I'm not making it up or exaggerating.. with 26 years experience you really CAN make excellent money in this business.
10K for 12 hour weekends, work privately
How does it work full-time to have rotating weekends
My brain is fried with all this job hunting and I can't think. All MTSOs want weekend commitments now. If I offer to do rotate every other weekend for Saturday and Sunday, what does my schedule look like so that I still have two days together off, and without working 7 straight days (hope this makes sense...I'm so tired :(.
I also work from tapes and pretty much plan my day/weekends the way you do. sm
Agree with posters below-you owe nobody an explanation/excuse. It is your business/career to do as you see fit. Good luck.
You mean they work OUR holidays. They just had a big one that lasted 5 days and WE had work for a w
You think Indians don't get sick? They have to be constantly sick in that disgusting place.
I work holidays and I am an IC
dont blame it on that
I take my job very seriously and worked all Thanksgiving week, the day of, the day after, and will work all Christmas week, the night before, the day of, the night after, ETc etc etc
I value my job and I do a good job, it just sucks that there is no loyalty or respect for that from some companies.
I used to work all holidays but came
up with an idea that has worked for several years now. Even though I am on an account with only one other person, I was stuck with all the holidays. I now work Thanksgiving and have Christmas off. All the other holidays we take turns rotating. Good luck to you!
Are you getting extra for weekend work and holidays.
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Geesh! What's up with you people who refuse to work holidays?
Don't you think people get sick, have accidents, etc on holidays too? What about the doctors and nurses that have to work holidays? Did you forget about them too?
How about police officers, firemen, paramedics...
Do you think you are the ONLY people out there with family and would like to spend time with them during holidays? We would all love to do that but this chosen career requires some sacrifices.
If you can't give a little you should have never started doing this kind of work.
Work some holidays - don't really mind during the winter months, but
when summer rolls around, I am at the beach on the holidays and do not work them. As an IC, we get nothing extra as far as $$ just the extra work.
Can't complain - have plenty of work all of the time.
I would charge more per line for working holidays or if asked to work scheduled days off. SM
But did you address that in your contract?
If he's too disabled to work, he should be too disabled to do volunteer work....
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Husband interferes with my work
I am working out of my home transcribing for a medical practice located in another state. Currently my work station is in my bedroom, just outside of my living room. My husband is only in his early 40's and out on disability due to his morbid obesity (500 lbs+) and complications from this. He has a very smothering-controlling and manipulative personality to boot. (which surfaced after we got married last year) Every morning I try to get up very early while he is still sleeping to knock out what I can before he gets up. I never know what each day in going to bring once he gets up. Mostly, though, he is wanting me to stop typing to make him breakfast, or hand him this item or that item. He rarely gets up from the couch to be self-sufficient because of his size.  If he isn't watching T.V. the majority of the day so loud that you'd think you were in a movie theater (and I am in the next room trying to type), he wants to go out at some part of the day to either run errands, go out to eat, etc. Every day there are different road blocks that he creates that pull me away from what I am doing and at EVERY juncture I have to explain to him that I have responsibilities to my employer, as if he is just hearing it for the first time. When I answer him back in a frustrating tone then I have "an attitude problem", according to him. He wants the added income coming in to the household, but he shows no respect for what I do and my responsibilities.
husband interferes with my work
I should also add that my husband helps also with the printing of some of my work, on Tuesday morning and Friday morning. He sometimes will ask, any files to print or he will just look, as we have 2 computers. So I send them to my email and he just prints them. We have to do that way because it is a different printer that we have to use. I do only private accounts, thank God. Sometimes we even go out to dinner. I thank God for the way he is now. He wasn't always. He used to be very angry and used to even hit me and break dishes and be demanding, but he didn't know he was sick. Like I said, thank God.
Just pray that somehow things work out.
y best to you.
Husband interferes with my work
Your husband has a dependency problem. Talk to him that he needs to leave you alone for the time you are scheduled to work. For this duration you can do the housework and cooking by getting up early as he is physically disabled. After that lock yourself in with a bottle of water and some beverages.
Else, get him admitted into a physiological clinic for weight loss. Drop him there before you start your work and see that he remains there for the duration of your work.
Else, take up full time employment as MT or team up with a friend who is working as MT from home and work from there.
No, though my husband does use it to print out his work schedule for
but that is it. He has his own work laptop but no printer to it. Kids have my old computer to use for now but Santa is bringing a new one supposedly (Uncle and GPs say they are buying one, we will see).
No kids, husband gone 12 hours, you work at home? SM
Priceless! That sounds like the perfect arrangement to me. I'm not kidding, either.
Totally agree. My husband has been out of work for 1 year. sm.
In that time he has graduated college. We have applied to close to 100 places with NO responses. I work two jobs (one of which just got cut back). Its tough but I don't ask for help. It drives me to the point of wanting to hit someone when they say "Tell you husband to just get a job". I just took out 30,000 in student loans to help him get a "career" because that is what they tell us to do in a recession but guess what..NOBODY IS HIRING. If you have a job, your lucky, keep it. If you quit your job just because you want state aid, your a fraud and a liar and a poor parent. HOW could you teach your child values, responsibility and work ethic, if you have none yourself.
Here is part of the email my husband received from his IT department at work..sm
It has been widely reported that a newly discovered Windows flaw will result in several new computer viruses over the next few days.
This new virus is launched by visiting web sites that are infected with this virus or by receiving infected e-mails. You will not be able to know if the web site is infected.
The anti-virus software vendors are working on a system update to fix this issue, but as of now, it has not been provided. Also, Microsoft is working on a patch that will fix the root cause of this problem.
Makes me very nervous also!
Volunteer
It may be more dignified to retire from MT workforce and take up editing or transcribing as a 'volunteer' stating we would simply do it for free.
To accept a paycheck for a very low paying job may seem insulting to the profession itself, the skills it demands, the stress it endures, the tenure and experience it comes with. Unfortunately, it also gives out the wrong message about the profession conveying a simplicity that it does not bear and understating the practice it takes to excel.
Blue
My husband just signed up for group life insurance with work which will give him 10x his salary if
he dies which will leave the kids and I with almost a million bucks if he dies. Of course I would much rather have him here more than anything. He had just 150,000 in insurance but for some reason just opted for this group thingie. When talking last night I asked him if he died if I could marry again and this man got so upset with me I thought he was going to cry! He told me absolutely, positively NOT that I could not remarry ( am 31!). He is 35. LOL
Poor guy. Leaving me all this money and I supose the thought of me sharing his wealth with someone else makes him sick!!
I told him he could go ahead and marry if I should happen to die. I want my kiddies to have a great mom and person who loves them very much. Wouldn't you agree?
How do you feel about your spouse or partner remarrying if you or he dies??
Volunteer at the Astrodome
You can pick up after people who are making a mess and not cleaning up after themselves, and maybe you could hand them their food, since they don't seem to be able to get it for themselves. I'm sure they'd love to have you. I know, blast me, go ahead, but I am so sick of seeing these people being waited on, on TV. I know they have been through a terrible, terrible thing, but come on people, it's time they started picking up after themselves and helping each other. If that's what you consider "helping", then get on with it. It's like doing too much for your kids when they are small, they never learn to do anything for themselves.
We're MTs, we volunteer every day.
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I am planning to volunteer today.
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Yup, I think so - do the worst dictators volunteer
... to work holidays? I'm actually still on yesterday, so I'm  for now. But in about 2 hours, probably lots of   and 
Hang in there! I feel your pain!! Hopefully you're getting a higher, holiday rate to offset some of the frustration.
DH is dear husband or any number of colorful adjectives preceding husband. (no message)
;)
Mothers volunteer as "aides" at their children's schools
supposed to help, not hinder.
Thank you. For anyone else interested the website is: https://volunteer.ccrf.hhs.gov/
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Maybe you could volunteer at the 1st grader's school one morning a week? sm
You can be the "cool mom" and see a little bit of what your child's day is like when you're not around. I did this and it helped a lot. Also, after a couple of hours with a roomful of kids I was anxious to get home and make some money!
weekends
job seekers board -- one from 10/13 that says IC - op reports/genetics etc -- I talked to her -- is looking for weekend people. :} Hope helps.
weekends
I think it's because everyone prefers M-F shifts and there just aren't enough people to pick up the load on the weekends. Personally, I get on and transcribe as much as I can but my kids aren't here, they're in college. Makes it tougher if you have little ones at home. I think it would be wise if you can for the money and especially now with the holidays coming up.
I volunteer a couple of afternoons a week -- gives me that social contact I need. :-) nm
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I LOVE weekends........sm
Weekends not only pay more, the work is mostly ER.. chests, bones, etc. After MRI's and Specials all week, it's like being on vacation!
I went to the Red Cross to volunteer locally and was told that I needed to apply to the state for a
background check, which will take from 2 weeks to a month to get back. I understand red tape as well as the next person, but is this really necessary? They are asked for people to help load trucks and pack and sort supplies right now, but only from people who are already in "the system." I guess I'll go another route and go to one of the local churches and volunteer, without the red tape.
Keep busy out of the house in addition to your job. Volunteer. Take a class. Walk a dog. Be open
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Who loves working weekends?
I DON'T!!!!!
Poll: Who is going to be working weekends more
It seems like there is more work on the weekends, and I guess this question is for SE/IC, more than employees, though it may apply to employees too.
Lots of companies seem to be advertising for mainly weekend and evenings, or shifts over the weekend, or actually giving preference on a bigger workload to people who do decide to work weekends every week. Who has decided to go for that, since the work is there and so is the money? With the economy the way it is, this MT was just wondering if it makes sense to just grab the work when it comes in and less worry about the bills and the holidays.
Thanks in advance for your conversation on this topic. This MT wonders because it is hard to get a gauge what is going on outside of this MT's company and wants to see how people are handling their workloads/wallets.
Have always worked weekends and second shift. nm
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Me too. We get called all the time, especially on weekends....
It seems some people do not want to work at all on weekends, but if everyone would just get on and do 300-400 lines, the ones at our MSO would not be called every weekend.
I'd be alot more interested in working weekends, -
overtime, holidays, etc. if what I got in exchange for that actually made any difference. Unfortunately it does not.
Probably people aren't too thrilled about being sick on weekends either. nm
I prefer weekends. I find most cherrypickers also avoid
weekends, so I at least get a decent selection of work to do.
1700 during the week, 2500-3000 on weekends
:-)
working 3rd shift and weekends sometimes gives you bonus incentive pay. nm
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