The scenario you are describing is often (sm)
Posted By: giddy pc guru on 2008-01-05
In Reply to: have account one day not the other - blondie
encountered when working the graveyard (3rd) shift. If you can steer clear of that shift, despite the shift differential, don't take it on. Long ago, company hierarchy coined these workers "the clean-up sweepers."
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In this scenario..sm
I would venture taking a guess at one hour of typing per 10 minutes of dictation. I can do 2 hours of dictation in about 12 hours of typing, and that is with knowing my doctors and using expanders. This may take longer with it being a meeting type format and probably various people. Good luck.
What about this scenario:
I am a company employee working at home being paid production, NOT hourly. I have set hours because the company claims I need to be available "if something comes up from the client" and I'm needed. I understand that. When there is no work though, I am still expected to be here for my scheduled hours though I am not being paid to do so. This lack of work has been going on for weeks, my paycheck is no where near what it should be, but I am expected to be available, regardless. Is this the norm?
Not even close to the same scenario.
Oh, please... that's like saying you should put your dog into a little cage that's only 4x his size, and give him a little exercise wheel and that he'll be fine... after all, that's what people with hamsters do, right? Apples and oranges. Again, talk to your vet.
Me too, thought they were describing me
LMAO especially at all of the stuff that needs to be done, but can't because I have to sit here and type while there is no work to type, but I still must sit here. I sat once for 19 hours waiting for work, catching a job here and there, to get my required line count for the day of 1,000+ and ended up with 600 lines of work for 19 hours of sitting and not getting paid. Then had nerve to email me and tell me I did not get my line count in for the day??? My whole 8 hour shift only had 2 jobs to transcribe and the other 5 jobs I stole from the 1st shift. I couldn't jump through their hoops anymore. It is hard to transcribe work that is not there. Then they call ya...and remind you that you are not on transcribing on your shift. Sometimes after sitting for 4 hours of no work and emailing everyone in the company directory looking for work to make a complete shift, you log off, take a shower, do dishes or laundry, cook and come back in an hour or so to check and if still no work, maybe take a nap. It was like I was an on-call Transcriptionist 24/7 and only paid for what I transcribed, but want you to sit around 20 hours just to meet the required line count with no work to transcribe!! Calculate that 600 lines in 20 hours (still not reaching the 1,000+ line count because they had no work to transcribe). That is $60 for 20 hours of sitting and baby-sitting a computer to transcribe only 600 lines at $3 an hour???? I think the people overseas may be making more than me here in the US. :-(
You're describing my DH!...sm
He's all those things too and really did cry watching Notebook. Still excites me when I look at him. Corny but still adore him after all these years.
Don't forget you are also describing
yourself if you are an MT, which I am sure you are.
What about this scenario, folks!
What do you think of a manager of many MTs, who shares intimate details with each of us regarding her situation as a wife as well as sharing details of other MTs with each other, some extremely complicated and highly personal, which I believe were given to her in confidence. Then, having her turn into a professional zealot and alienate us with her emotionless response to us which is such a contradiction to prior interactions that it leaves us spinning and feeling as if we do not know her at all.
I have come upon this before early in my career. And I would say that changing ths subject in the conversation is the answer so to not end up in this web. What do you think though? It is awkward and confusing.
She is new at supervision and maybe it can be chocked up to that but she holds a lot of power over us and some whom she confided in during long emotion-filled conversations, word has it, she has turned against to the point they had to transfer to another department.
It is placing a shadow over the job for me 
ONE Virginia scenario
SCENARIO: You and your husband jointly own a home, both names are on the deed. You both technically own the home 100%. That's right, 100% plus 100% equals 100%. He has NO WILL, but dies, taking his 100% with him. You are left with 100%. If he dies with NO WILL and your name is not on the deed, the house is divided between you and any children. My grandmother, mean-spirited woman that she was, was widowed. Husband had no will. Grandma had a will, and left $1 to one of her children. However, her name had never been on the deed of the house. So, she really did not have the right to only leave that child $1.00, and when she died, all of her children received equal portions of the estate. Because her name was not on the deed, the house was not 100% hers upon grandpa's death, even though she was legally married to grandpa.
Yes, and FEMA went through this exact scenario
for this storm with the same demographics and destruction level almost a year ago with NO and they were told they would not survive, given a list of procedures and policies to put into place, etc., and a hefty grant to initiate all the action...almost a YEAR ago. Nothing was done by NO authorities. Nothing.
He will have his share of blame for this, I'm sure.
Wow, you are describing me! I have to use the kind of headphones that SM
do not cover the pinna of the ear.
They are dictation describing operations? Are you sure
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Awesome! Yeah, thanks for describing it
I've been curious about how they did it now that it's all online! And yeah, that sounds like a great investment in your case. Congratulations!
but if the same scenario you describe existed 30 years ago, you would not know because
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Yep, and that's exactly the type of person I was describing in my posting above.
Some people are just mean, bossy, and hurtful by nature.
As this is the best case scenario. They aren't allowing
anyone on the first level at all and CNN says only 30,000 people and that the transportation to the dome has been shut down, but they will take people in if they come.
They lost me. That bomb scenario was just too stupid. nm
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I was very spooky reading your post because you are describing me and you have no idea who I am.
I have tried over and over the diet thing and I hate how I look, although, I think there are some heavy people out there that do not care and are very outgoing even though they are heavy, unfortunately that is not me. I tend to not want to go to social things because of it. I am very lucky too in that I am almost 6', I could not imaging weighing my weight and only being 5'4".
The raise you're describing is a merit-raise, - (SM)
and I agree that a worker has to go above and beyond in order to get them. But what doesn't seem to happen in this industry is COST-OF-LIVING raises, which should automatically come to workers either in small increments yearly, or in larger increments every 2-3 years. Without wages that are at least somewhat *realistic* (and modern-day MT wages are a pathetic joke), it's no wonder quality workers are harder and harder to come by, and much harder to retain. An MT should not have to work sweatshop hours for 7 days a week just to keep their head above water financially.
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