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MedINK offering to pay $.50 per QA file?? OMG! - Incredulous MT

Posted: Jul 07, 2014

I truly hope that this company receives ZERO response to their RIDICULOUS job offer. For the work I've done this morning in approximately 2 hours, working for them I would have made $12.50. That would have garnered me MUCH less than minimum wage instead of the just under $50 I thankfully made NOT working for MedINK.

UGH! I feel better now having vented LOL!

How could that much work need to go through - QA?

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For an average decent near-acceptable salary, QA person would have to do 30 reports an hour, right? 30 x 0.50 = $16. So 30 reports x 8 hours would be 240 reports to QA? That seems like a lot of reports that MTs have problems with. Maybe every report goes thru QA? Or maybe I'm missing something or my math is off?

At any rate, it does seem way low...

In my case... - OP

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...the account is newly acquired and all the MTs are on full QA, so every single report has to go to QA. Perhaps that's the same way with this MedINK. 50 cents per report is less than a pittance.

QA - QA

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Honestly, that's not a lot of reports going to QA. I work for a company and we have many large accounts and small accounts. We are required to do a minimum of 120 reports a day as QA and I do between 120-140+ a day in order to meet our hourly rate we are paid. But, if I got paid .50 for each report and only did 120, which is our minimum that would only give me $7.50 per hour which is a joke! I make twice that where I am on a set hourly, which still isn't enough in my opinion.

Ridiculously low pay - Bear2

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Not to mention this is for holidays and weekends!

Refusing to work for ridiculously low wages is - the best thing we can do to fight them. nm

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nm

I completely agree! - nm

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Looks like they pulled the post - OP

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Oh dear... LOL

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