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Double pay cut - WW

Posted: May 31, 2010

It seems to me that when you pay "weighted lines" which equal about two thirds of lines actually produced, and then pay less for those weighted lines, it is a double cut in pay. They would already be paying less because of the "weighted lines", and then to pay less per line seems criminal. Twice as productive should equate to twice as much pay.....I'm about to go under.....

please explain - weighted lines

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more thoroughly. I have seen this mentioned in the past from MTs who have been in the business for many years, but I don't fully understand it. Thank you.

Weighted Lines - WW

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Apparently the company I work for thinks speech recognition is easier and because the machine transcribes apparently one-third of the work, we only are paid for two-thirds, so they deduct approximately one-third of the lines that we actually produce in speech recognition, and pay us for what is left, hence "weighted lines", and then they pay less per line on those also.....double loss in pay to me. It still takes the time to listen to the report and you still have to know something to know if it is correct, but that is apparently worth nothing. Just production. Do more, make less.

That is a rotten deal... - sm

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Pretty soon, we will be paying them to work! NOT! I'm going back to waitressing here shortly, I can make more money.

I don't think you understand how your pay works - SpherisMT2

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Your pay is not cut twice. If you figure on weighted lines, you would times that by your normal line rate. If you figure on all SR lines, you get paid the SR rate. Maybe you should ask your supervisor to explain this to you as you obviously don't understand how it works.

weighted lines - wondering

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I was wondering about this as well!

Please tell us which company--this is horrible! - workingMT

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Surely you have misunderstood. This is ridiculous! Wonder if they charge the hospital/clinic for all the lines?

I know MTSOs get paid less for VR lines, but they still charge for all of them!

No misunderstanding - WW

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Don't you wonder?? I think the company is making plenty of money....they must be for what they are paying (one third of my voice recognition lines are free apparently) and I surely am not the only one with this drastic cut in pay. I wish I had a legal recourse, but alas...

definitely time to find - a new job!!!

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too bad there isn't some way we could all stand together to stop these constant pay cuts and get back the respect/ability to earn a living that we used to enjoy...... it's getting worse all the time

S1 Transcription - jumaji

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if your're planning to work with S1 Transcription owned by Debra/Tony Herrin, well... good luck! This company SUCKS! they dont pay their transcriptionist

Which company? - BH

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This is Medquist that does this. When I was hired by Spheris, we talked about weighted lines, but since Medquist took over, they have decided that because of the weighted lines policy, they are increasing SR lines required to 192 per hour.

Correct, Spheris/MedQuist - WW

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It has to be a crime...

Weighted lines versus weighted dictation - oldschool

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I understand what you are saying about the double-dipping into your pay in the circumstance you describe, and I agree that policy is horribly skewed.

However, for those who remember weighted dictation, we remember the pay was increased. At one place where I worked, harder dictators received a percentage of time added on to their dictation. If they dictated 10 mins, we were credited for maybe 25% more (around 12.50 mins). We had a daily quota of 125 mins per day, so this helped us meet our quota without penalizing us for taking more time with those dictators.

I do not believe I could work for the company that you do under the current system they have.

Most companies pay less for VR/SR lines. Weighted - sm

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lines means that you are paid more for those lines for difficult dictators, don't see much of that any more.

It's time to quit! - Jean

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It's time to quit and move on to something else. It's also time we did something about the abuse these MTSOs dish out. I wish there was some way of organizing all of us into a union! Cutting your pay twice is outrageous. Cutting it even once because of VR is outrageous. Whatever happened to the days when the ordinary worker got to share financially in an increase in productivity? Which MTSO is this, anyway? I sure don't want to work for them. "Weighted lines".....what a bunch of crap! Who is this company, anyhow?? I lost $200 every twice-a-month pay period when they brought in editing and I quit after enduring it for a year when I couldn't make any more money (after giving it time to learn, which it did not). And of course management didn't care because they were paying cheap wages, while all the while the continued to charge their customers the same amount of money! When I asked for a raise, I was told no. Repeatedly. That's when I figured out for certain that MTSOs NEVER give pay raises, they just cut your pay ik they do anything. But "weighed" lines? It's time to quit. Because of that kind of pay cut, I would really have to think hard about giving them the courtesy of giving notice. And I've never done that to an employer! But enough's enough. They don't deserve notice.

Double pay cut - BH

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This company is Spheris/Medquist.

The company I work for does something like this - tiredoftyping

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They gave me some kind of formula they use to figure out our lines, but I know we don't get paid for all of them, just a percentage. I would love to find someplace else to work, but as everyone knows, that is easier said than done. So, less than one year of school left and I am out of this career, so just going to try and ride it out.

No, this is not right - Spherite

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The weighted lines is just used as how to figure out your quota requirement. They do pay for your actual SR lines produced at your SR rate.

The weighting is just the formula to show you how many lines you need to get to make minimums and/or the paycheck you are used to seeing. Which means 127 transcribed lines equals 192 SR lines.

It still sucks because the VR is so bad you can hardly ever get 192 lph so your paycheck stinks. It's a double pay cut in THAT sense for sure, not to mention all the spaces that Cornerstone steals from us.

The "formula" - WW

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means one-third of your SR lines are done for FREE.....Those lines were actually produced by you, you still had to look at and listen to the whole report and correct all the stupid errors, and spend the time to do the reports properly, yet the "formula" only gives you credit for 2/3 of them.....If you are paid, for example 0.07 for transcription (and there is less of that), then paid 0.05 for speech recognition, then only paid that 0.05 for 2/3 of the speech recognition lines you actually produced, your pay is cut twice. They already pay less for speech recognition and then they simply take one-third of those lines away from your production, hence company profits. I do not believe it has to do with lines per hour. I find speech recognition more tedious and time consuming than just typing the report from scratch, but I wouldn't mind doing it if I were being paid for all the actual lines I have produced in a day's work. It sucks no matter how you look at it.

but they DO pay for all your SR lines, sm - Spherite

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I agree with you about all that how awful it is. It sucks. It's a pay cut and it takes me longer to edit than transcribe. All that I agree on. My paycheck has declined to the point that I am quitting before summer is over.

But anyway, all this 2/3 line talk, that is only to calculate production requirements. They PAY for every SR line in your finished document. Ccheck your lines every day, add them up, and look at your paycheck. Mine is right. Yours should be too.

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