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is anybody else finding this new AP line count A LOT harder to attain? - curious
Posted: Mar 06, 2015
I am typing A LOT harder than before.
In short, yes. - anon
[ In Reply To ..]I'm working a lot harder as well. Maybe I'll stop hitting the space bar since they aren't paying us for spaces anymore. I'm looking elsewhere for employment (not MT).
sometimes - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Some days have been better than others. I've even gone over the requirement a couple of days, but those were with dictators that I'm really familiar with and have shortcuts, etc setup for in Instant Text.
It's harder because the new LPH quota is actually - higher than the old one
[ In Reply To ..]even given the adjusted difference according to the new definition of a line. You can check it with any word document by looking at the difference between the number of lines in the document when spaces are counted and the number of lines in the document when spaces are not counted.
I have to assume management did the arithmetic, so this looks like an underhanded way to pay its MTs less money.
maybe - calculator
[ In Reply To ..]They could loosen it more when they see how many reach about only 165 LPH every pay period. Some reports, you have to use the space bar a lot for formatting.
I think 155 LPH would be a lot more manageable.
a lot harder here too - Tired fingers
[ In Reply To ..]How many lines do you strive for in a day? 1000 use to be my goal or about 5 billing hours. Sadly, I am no where near that now.
Billing hours? I thought AP had VA accounts and - everyone was paid an
[ In Reply To ..]hourly wage as an employee.
hours - sm
[ In Reply To ..]We are paid an hourly wage but only for "keyboard time." That's only for time spent typing. Anything else such as research, proofing reports, reading work-related e-mails and account specifics, etc. is done "off the clock."
so in essence you're actually taking, say, 10+ hours sm - wondering
[ In Reply To ..]to get in 8 hours of actual keyboard/work time? And getting paid only for the 8 hours?
yes - nm
[ In Reply To ..]-
That is theft of wages - nm
[ In Reply To ..]xx
how is this different - anon
[ In Reply To ..]It seems MTs everywhere get paid by the keystroke/typing time.
Because hourly employees are supposed to be - paid for ALL time spent
[ In Reply To ..]doing their job. That includes emails, research, training, etc.
If you worked somewhere as an hourly paid employee, like a cashier, for instance, wouldn't you expect to be paid for all your job related tasks in between ringing up customers? Tallying up receipts, counting your drawer, putting receipt paper in the register and so forth are all things apart from actually scanning merchandise and taking payment and giving change for which you would be paid. It seems like so many of us are used to working for free as ICs that we forget that we're supposed to be paid for EVERYTHING we do on the job when we're hourly employees.
pay - anon
[ In Reply To ..]They should have just said that your reported hours must equate xxx LPH (minimum). Most employees at MT companies have such a minimum. If you can't do it, you are let go.
But it sounds like a lot of ppl have trouble reaching AP's standard with counting only typing time, much less everything else.
That's because the minimum required LPH - is unreasonable
[ In Reply To ..]especially given that many of these accounts probably consist mostly of doctors the quality of whose dictations are not fit for SR. If there is not at least a mix of good and bad dictations, there is no way an MT can maintain a minimum straight typing LPH of 198-211, which is approximately what the new standard of 165-175 LPH (not counting spaces) comes out to. The previous minimum was 190-200 LPH (counting spaces) so this is definitely an increase.
Curious--Has anyone left AP? - mt2long
[ In Reply To ..]Just curious if anyone has left AP after all of this or planning on leaving. I don't know how much more I can put up with this. Also, did anyone really turn them into the DOL again as someone had suggested they were doing in a previous post?
sm - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I'm looking for something non-MT now. I saw the previous post about the DOL and the way it read, they had talked to their local DOL and the complaint was being forwarded to the Baltimore DOL.
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