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Posted: Apr 09, 2015

I have to say 9 months ago when I hired in, I was very skeptical of all the nay sayers on this forum. The new pay scale came out and a month into it, I was like awesome! I was getting 100% most every week and a decent paycheck. Now...........I have been under 99% consistently for 6 weeks! I continuously watch, I will get a 100%, another 100% and then the game is on! They are going to keep auditing until they find one that will knock me off the pay scale and have succeeded. Of course, none of the errors are threatening to patient safety. He instead of she. 98 instead of 90 on a pulse rate, but of course they always sound the same and we can't listen to back ourselves up, etc, etc. Sick:(

Know how you feel - Backwoods Typist

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I know how you feel. I did pretty good last week, but then this week I got knocked down to the bottom of the grid to 7 pennies. Talk about something that makes you feel like a failure. On week you're on top, the next picking yourself out of the ditch.

I got really peeved thinking about all this earlier. Seems that somehow all this is not right, that at 7 pennies per line we are not being paid for all lines done, typed or edited. Yet, they fuss about giving us MUP. I honestly do not see how those higher than us grunts (MLS) can sleep at night knowing what they are helping to perpetuate. Karma is coming, Nuance. You can't buy your good fortune from her and you can't fire her. Hope you're ready.

My New Year's resolution was to find a job outside of MT, or just plain away from Nuance. This place is no longer good enough for our skills or talent.

Remember they take away half of our lines going in - Anon

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That is the part a judge would find intriguing. Can they legally disregard half of the work you produce and then pick apart what's left. It also affects our speed equation when someone asks you how fast you work because you're figuring it on way less lines produced. They are robbing from us 2 ways.

I am by no means a fan of the pay grid. However, we have - wannie

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to remember that for those lines they half, they pay us the same rate as for the lines they don't half. Once again, I DO NOT LIKE this pay grid. I think they way they figure our pay is demeaning, unfair, not at all a means toward improving patient safety; but, we DO get paid for all the lines we do. We would make the same amount if they still paid the same way as before (i.e. 7/3.5) instead of counting only half the edited lines and paying the full 7 (or wherever we fall in the grid for any given week) cpl for them. Just for the record, I've been at 100% a few times and below 99% a few times, so it's not like I always make top of the grid pay. I'm not management in any shape, form or fashion. I am simply an MLS trying to make a living like everybody else. :)

wannie - you explained that well - anon

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I am not a grid fan either, but get so tired of people posting on here that N "takes half our lines away" or "doesn't pay us for half our lines." It's just simple math.

I agree with that, but... - cracked

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some people insist that they are making twice as much, not taking into account the lines are cut in half for VR.

Even at 10 clph, that is 5 for VR and I made 5.5 for VR 4 years ago.

I believe the grid was designed hoping people would think they are making more per line, but with all the metrics, it is meant for us to earn minimum wage or just above.

Wasn't there supposed to be something about compensation for the difficult dictators? Has anyone seen that?

I'm definitely not making twice as much. Somtimes - wannie

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I make more, sometimes I make less. I agree that the whole idea was to try to fool us into thinking we are making more. I haven't heard anything else about compensation for difficult dictators either.

Consider loss of incentive and quarterly bonus.... - MY

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MLS making the same or more most likely qualified for at least the weekly incentive which is gone.

WE are not getting paid more.

Wasn't there supposed to be consideration given to MLS who worked on no blank accounts as well?

10% QA - anon

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Also, when you were assigned to a new account so you had 100% QA at first it was not supposed to count towards the 10% QA percentage

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