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Silent Type MTs - sm

Posted: Feb 14, 2014

Do the latest emails mean we are officially part time? Who can live on this?

this is discussed below - in thread dated 02/05. nm

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Yes, it was - anon

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I think OP is referring to this week's emails.

02/05 thread includes comments on this week's emails - nm

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By golly, I think you're right - anon

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However, I don't think this changes the fact that we have been reduced to part-time status. Here we are on 2/14 and now what? Any suggestions? Partial UE?

suggestions - yes, we should ALL file for partial unemployment b

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human nature being as it is, we will probably just all continue to bury our heads in the sand. I myself wouldn't know where to begin as far as filing for partial UE. If anyone has been through it, please share.

I applied and received partial UE from Transcend - Rachel

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a few years ago. It was very easy to do. I was able to do it all over the internet. I live about 20 miles from the UE office so I don't know if that is why it was done over the internet or if it is all done that way. Transcend was bent out of shape about having to give it but the UE office was not working for them. It was pretty black and white. No work, you get paid.

I think that if we filed UE, there would be work on a more regular basis and less over hiring. As it is, if we do nothing they will continue to walk all over us. What more can they do to us for filing?

The services have ways because they can. - anon

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Since you are not getting your line count, they tell the UE office that it is a case of "misconduct." Remember the UE office personnel know nothing about 3 cpl for voice recognition and 250 lph, 7 cpl and a 65 character line and not counting spaces and 1500 lines a day on ESLs! They just know you are misconduct and not doing your job!! Good luck...file...construction workers do when there is no work.

That's why you need to document everything. - Every single clock in/out to check for work. SM

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If you can prove or show you've been checking for work and there is none, as evidenced by constant clock in/out as per their rules, how in the world can you even come close to making line quotas??

Document any use of all your earned time or whatever it's called, because of no work and not enough hours in the day to make it up and no work available if there were 30 hours in a day to use for makeup time.

You guys have to start doing screen shots, digital cam photographs or copying your emails or something/anything to help and protect yourselves.

I did that when I was terminated from a big hospital. I had nothing but 99% and above quality and only one 98.8% in the past year, so that showed I definitely was trying to do the job and was not a case of "misconduct." That was even on my judgement from UC, they found no evidence of misconduct and I was awarded UC benefits.

I strongly suspect they tried to show "not performing to standards" or some such thing in order to not pay, just for spite.

To Rachel - sm

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I did some Google research but could not find the answer to my biggest question. The rules vary from state to state. In the case of a remote worker, which rules apply, the state of the company or the state of the employee?

UE - SM

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UE goes by your state. So if you are working for a company in another state, however, physically performing the work in your state, the employed state should be paying (deducting from you) UE that is paid to your state.

I filed against Synernet several years ago. They tried to fight it. However, it turned out they were not paying my state UE insurance and they were held liable for payment. I collected with no problem once the arbitration was held.

It could not be easier - x-ST

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You can do it online in most states.

You go to the website, fill out some information and wait to see what happens.

question - sm

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what website?

I just tried it. I typed in unemployment - Rachel

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my state and it came right up to the state site that you need. There were several times I received full UE and the wages I received from Transcend. If I made too much at Transcend because there was actually more work, they would decrease it somewhat but not dollar for dollar. If I had a full week of work at Transcend then I would skip that week for filing but the next week would file again if need be. Well worth it. We would work if there was work. We are hired as employees. Employees can collect UE for lack of work. And this was without juggling shifts to make it work for them but working the agreed upon shift. They would complain plenty if we were not at our desks at the agreed upon time. Let them provide the work or pay UE is my way of thinking.

Silent Type - Broke MT

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" program installed on all computers to monitor your keystrokes, web visits, etc. (and this actually works to our advantage NOT hers, not to presume to speak for

pretty outrageous allegations - sm

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just wondering, how do you know about this "watchdog" program and how do you know about and how can you document the video cam recording you? My company-supplied laptop does not even have a video cam!

.. - Broke MT

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I was originally concerned about virus/stalking/predator as it had been on the news about others watching folks via webcam. I use their supplied computer strictly for work, no play, so couldn't see how a stalker could have gained any access.

watchdog program - sm

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I have no clue how to search for such a program and couldn't care less if it does exist, I have nothing to hide. What I DO care about is having enough work to pay the bills.

To Broke MT - years of unpaid OT?

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This really surprises me. In my years at ST, I have never once been asked to work OT. Have you? If you were working more than 40 hours a week, was it your own decision to do so? Seems to me that just takes away work from the rest of us.

OT - Broke MT

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Gee, I try to offer something helpful, and I get attacked. I will not respond after this, and will fend for myself. And YES, I have been asked to work OT. And also, my point WAS, that when you sit there for 12 and 14-hour days to get what is usually made in an 8-hour day due to lack of work, THAT EQUALS OT. Or alternatively, they could pay "minium wage" for the time we sit and wait. And yes, it was my decision to work OT to get what I was making in normal days. (AGAIN, I REITERATE, as in my original post, what I generally made in 8 hours when work was available) versus sitting there with her nastygrams telling us to wait for work to come in. That is my point, legally that is still OT even if it takes 10 hours to get her stinking minimum, by law, OT is to be paid). I have never taken work from another, I'd much prefer to have a LIFE instead of sitting at that stupid desk in pain all stinking day.

To Broke MT - my sincere apology

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I was not attacking you in any way. I totally misunderstood what you meant by OT, thought you meant more than 8 hours a day of actual work. I know you are trying to be helpful and we all appreciate it. We have to stick together, and I think we both misunderstood each other. I'm so sorry.

I apologize too - Broke MT

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I apologize too; I read your response as accusatory, and in reading it again, it is not. No harm done, misunderstandings happen when discussions are done via "print." It is hard to read another's intent.

Broke MT speaks the truth - anon

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While I don't agree with the webcam thing, all keystrokes and possibly web visits are monitored by ST. Be sure to keep all of her emails.

videocam! wow! - ex-STMT

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I worked there a couple of years ago, and luckily the laptop she gave me did not have a webcam on it. But I'm not surprised that she has started doing this. I would put a piece of black tape over the camera so she can't see anything. Her control issues are really over the top. So glad I left!

I'm also sending you a private email.

my opinion - just guessing

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I have suspected all along, based on job numbers, that work is not necessarily slow but that we are overstaffed. The number of jobs available this morning, and the number of jobs I was able to do before running out, seems to confirm this. I'm wondering if there were new hires at the end of last year or beginning of this year, and if this is the case, things will never get better even if work does pick up, because there are too many of us. Of course, this is all conjecture and we will never really know, but has anyone else thought of this?

just guessing - I tend to agree

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Unfortunately, it's all about the TAT these days. MTSOs just don't seem to care about their MTs and that's a shame. Hard work and dedication used to be appreciated. I also think that the hospital(s) may be experimenting with other options such as speech wreck/editing their own cases, etc.

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