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math fun for medquist employees - math lover

Posted: Sep 15, 2011

search for the cpi calculator. Type in what you originally started making when you first worked for Q converted to dollars - like I started at 6 cpl, so I type in 6.00. then type in the year and calculate. Mine comes up a little over 9.00. converting that to cents, I should be making a little over 9 cpl -- that amount has the same "buying power" as 6 cpl did when I started. But actually I'm making a little over 7 1/2 cpl -- This works out to that I now have about 80-some percent of the buying power that I did when I started working for the Q -- oh, thank you Medquist!

ok...but, - sm

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I started at 7, went up to 10.5, got cut back down to 10, but none of that matters cause I only make 6 on ASR and that is if I have work!

So, started at 7, now paid 6 and thats 15 years later.

i almost always have work, maybe cause I'm at 7.../4... for editing - nm

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65% increase - MQR

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Actually overall productivity has increased by 65% over the past few years. This should account for more earnings regardless of line rate. With the improved technology and M*Model merger the skies the limit:)

MQR, as a new employee - how do you know

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that productivity has increased by 65%? Did you read that in your "research" of this company? Don't believe MQ's hocus-pocus figures. BTW, Is this Joe Troll?

Troll - MQR

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No I'm not Joe Troll lol. Is that a real name? I'm just a new hire learning the ropes:)

the ropes!!! - Former MT

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Hope you learn the ropes before they use it to hang you....or it turns into a snake and "bites" you. :-( That is, assuming you're not "the Troll.

improved technology? - North MT

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Ah MQR you are a hoot. Are you talking about the technology that still puts in cabbage or At a van? Or has triple lines showing up on every report? The technology that got outsourced to India to work on- that is why we now have the German umlaut (the two dots over letters) showing up over certain words? Sky is the limit all right, for testing my patience with incompetence. Yours included.

to: 65% increase - MQR - wooly bully

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If you are the same MQR who posted above as a new employee, OMG, take those rose-colored glasses off. Do you fully understand what the M*Modal merger is about?

Don't ya think it's really bad when MTs who work here now with all of the pay cuts did make more when they started in transcription many years ago and I mean like 50%-plus more? Doesn't that tell you something about the company? Whatever you got offered to come to work for them get used to it because it will not go up and it will certainly go down at some point.

If you're lucky I hope you do have a good CCM because a lot of MTs don't and that will make it a little more bearable, but that along with the fact like one other poster said the only positive thing about MQ is that the pay is on time, what little there is of it.

I'm not bashing you, but the best thing that you can do is keep looking while you are working here and think about a different career because the writing is getting bolder on the walls about the future of any MT/ME at Medquist.

the rose colored glasses will eventually fall off on their own. - .

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after enough years of pay staying the same or decreasing in some cases and seeing the prices rise, it happens

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