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VBC pay versus with spaces pay - wondering

Posted: Jun 15, 2011

What would 4.4 cents editing VBC average out to if compared to transcribing with spaces?

Or, in other words, is 4.4 cents VBC a decent rate? - still wondering

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VBC pay is approximately 30% less - hmmm

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so 4.4 cents based on VBC would be about 3 to 3.5 cents paid on a 65 count/line that includes spaces.

Would you take that pay if you were guaranteed - the hours you wanted plus

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no weekends?

I don't "do" VR or VBC - hmmm

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Maybe someone else can answer. I have a personal boycott against VBC unless someone were to offer a decent wage. I did VR at 3 cpl in 1995 for about 6 months. It doesn't work for me.

edited to add: They can guarantee me the hours I want, but it doesn't mean a thing unless they guarantee work during the hours I want.

Yeah - sm

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I don't do VR either. Perhaps if everybody refused to do it unless the pay goes up for it, things might change. Too many are willing to do it and accept way smaller paychecks. I really don't care about the hours they promise, I want a paycheck to match the work I do. If I do VR that I can type just as fast, why would I want to do it and accept half the pay. Makes no sense to me. Of course, there are the people that say if I don't accept it, I might as well quit because this is the wave of the future. Oh well, I guess when I run out of typing work I will find something else. Just because the company tells me I can do twice as much as typing doesn't make it so, and I refuse to do it. I just refuse to do it. So far, I am doing just fine with typing and will continue to do that until there is no more typing. If everyone would do that, maybe they would get the idea that we aren't going to take it.

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