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10 cpl with no spaces, is that a good wage or no? I have always been paid with spaces, thx, nm - anon

Posted: Jun 03, 2011

No - me

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that averages to about 8-8.5 cpl without spaces based on prior posts. Hate VBC pay.

It's about 8 cpl with spaces - I get 10 cpl without spaces...sm

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for one of my accounts. Being 8 cpl with spaces is average, I'm not excited about being paid 10 cpl without spaces, but that's what I get for staying in this field. :--(

Not paying for spaces is just one thing: CHINTZY! - MT Wordz

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The last I heard, the space bar is still a part of the keyboard, and our thumbs are still a part of our hands. Not paying for spaces is a rip-off. If my company were to stop paying for spaces, I would stop typing them.

After all, you get what you pay for.

Not paying for spaces - Old Pro

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Itellthemthatiftheywantspacestheygottapayforthem.

Old Pro . . . WELL SAID!!! - nm

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nm

lol...nice - nm

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No spaces, no money, no fair! - Work for a living

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Funny but so true!!!

Amen! - LOL!

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nm.

VBC - Scoobie

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I worked VBC for 2 years at 9 cents per line. It was not the fact that I was only actually getting paid 7.5 but the TIME involved. I liked the company, and I liked the account, but having to type 1000 lines EVERY day (no ifs, ands or buts) as an IC (with no benefits, rewards or time off for good behavior) really took its toll on me. That turns out to be 1200-1300 lines per day at 7 to 7.5 per line. Just time consuming. With the mandatory weekly and weekend overtime (no pay incentive) I just could not handle the stress anymore.

1000 lines a day VBC is actually about 1200-1300 lines typed per day. That is about a whole day's worth of typing just to account for the spaces. This was with a decent account, too, and I just could not justify it 1 more second.

Ifyoutakeit,donottypeanyspacesforthem. - Givewhatchaget

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NOT PAYING FOR SPACES IS CRAZY! I would tell them if they want a space, they better pay for it.

Spaces - SS

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I wish someone would explain to me why hitting the letter "a," for example, is labor deserving of compensation and why hitting the space bar is not. A space between words is as necessary as the words the space is separating.

Maybe there should be National MT ONEBIGWORD Day, where all MT's who are not compensated for hitting the space bar don't hit the space bar.

Manyatruewordisspokeninjest.

I need my space...give me some space.. - SS

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Thisismytwo-weeknoticeofresignation.

I always laugh at the "no spaces" replies - just funny to see a sentence that way

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It really would get the point across!

haha

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