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Just within the last 2 weeks, I was unable to "pick and choose" the reports that I loved doing in my queue anymore. WHY? I wasn't sure at first. Then after 2 weeks, I finally IM-ed the trainer for our company and asked her, thinking SURELY she would know since she was the one who trained us in Escription to begin with, what was going on? I was told she didn't know and referred me to my immediate supervisor. Ok.. so I wrote her an email and she came back with the reason they did that was because the OLDER jobs were being missed and the TAT was in jeopardy (I knew this was a crock because most of those reports have dates on them that were dictated 3-4 days earlier) and she said it was also because they weren't able to "send" us the STAT reports that needed to get through to a random Editor to do in a hurry. I knew THAT was a crock too because I never had a problem with them sending those in my queue as well and did them whenever they wanted me to. Okay.. so I deducted those 2 replies as meaningless and was still left wondering WHY they did it. No one had an answer for me, but... lo and behold.. this past pay period was a real eye-opener. I was given a WARNING letter by my supervisor because she said my production per hour fell short of my rate per line and they had to give me minimum wage (according to what it is in my state of course) and that 3 of those WARNING letters in a 6-month pay period were cause for termination. She said it was in the manual. I looked and found nothing in there pertaning to any of that. This is actually what she emailed me:
If after payroll is processed your lines per hour multiplied by your line rate is less than minimum wage, that is what puts you at minimum wage where our company, by law, needs to pay you at least minimum wage. It is possible that one can type 4000 lines, for example, in the pay period and not be paid minimum wage, so long as the number of hours they worked did not put them in a minimum wage situation, i.e., 80 hours compared to perhaps 40 hours.
Okay so why didn't someone say this to me a while back and where in the manual does it say this? In any case, aside from being "monitored" after wondering WHY we can't pick and choose our reports, I started thinking back to the days when I made 9 cpl for editing for another company.. then I was talked into coming to the present company I work for now and was given 8.6 cpl because they were just starting a new "Speech Team" and I was excited to say the least.. I finally have the dream job I wanted! Well.. there again, I spoke too soon and then my immediate supervisor, the one who tried soooo hard to get this going, was demoted to QA with a cut in pay because they wanted to do away with speech forever. Needless to say, she left.. I was the only one left on the Speech Team and DID stay at my rate which was fine. It was then that I left for a month to try another company and I found out they were worse. Long story short, I came back to present company and then ESCRIPTION came into play... 5.5 cpl.. well.. okay.. the platform is better and I think I can do okay.. then more people were hired and NOW it's 4 cpl. I am struggling every day to make ends meet. Even if you were to get 15,000 lines per pay period, that is only 600.00 BEFORE taxes.. that's still poverty pay. Part time, you need only 6,000 per pay period and full time at 12,000. You aren't making jack crap. My co-worker and I get picked on and singled out when we ask questions or challenge them about our pay and find errors in the way the ADJUST it for Escription. Yes, they adjust our pay and we just figured out that our PTO time isn't the 10.00 per hour as promised but they calculate it on the last 6 pay periods.. Didn't use to be like that either.. it was always at 10.00 per hour. Back to the pick and choose thingee.. Yes, I think they DO keep the good ones for the "clique." It's like high school.. you are either with the "IN" crowd or you're an "OUTSIDER" and not good enough to join the "GANG".... it's sickening... I have looked high and low for a decent paying editing job out there and there is none to be found.. There has to be a better way than this?? |
ESCRIPTION INFORMATION - Renee
