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4.5 cpl for a gross line? - ml

Posted: Aug 19, 2012

Considering taking a new job but wondering if I'd be getting screwed. Owner is offering 4.5 cpl for a gross line, and they use the line count function in Word to count their lines. On the sample test document they have their margins stretched about as far as they can go. I make 8 cpl right now on a 65 character line, typing in Word, and by the formula I'm paid by now it looks like 4.5 cpl would be almost half of what I'm making now for the same document. Owner is saying that since this is an employee position and not IC it all comes out about even after she pays my taxes. I'm thinking not.

Thoughts?

Is this staright typing? Please dont fall for it. - She should be ashame of herself

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for even trying to tell you that it will even out to 8cpl if she is paying your taxes as an employee.

Yep, straight typing - sm

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Thanks for the warning. I was having a hard time figuring out how this could work out.

Well - Word

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uses a 65-character line to count, so you would be making 4.5 cpl. You are making 8 now. What do you think?

I didn't know that was how - -sm

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Word counts lines. I've never had my lines counted using Word's line counter before.

I think I should run!

Gross lines are different from 65-character lines - CB

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Unless it's another instance of an MTSO changing things, a "gross" line has always been different from a "character" line. A gross line is one line of type, no matter how many characters. For example if you type a few words, return and type a few more, Word counts that as two gross lines, no matter how many characters. A standard address would be three lines. In the good old days when I started in the 80s, this is how we were paid on a DOS system, and made good money (every return was counted as a line). Paid double though when I started out - 9+ cents - per gross line.

The same as getting paid by the page. More money for the company - anon

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It is all just different ways of cheating you and getting more for themselves, any way they can. Those people who come into the grocery store and try to short change you....same thing. Only one service used the Word counting and then divided by 9...?...she payed 5 cents and said the same thing about taxes. Bottom line...we are working for pennies and below minimum wage and the companies get away with it.

4.5 cpl - me

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1. 4.5 cpl is a slap in the face.
2. SHE DOES NOT PAY YOUR TAXES. *YOU* pay your taxes. She pays 7.5% as her share of your SS/Medicare. So please don't let someone act like they are doing you a big favor by "paying" your taxes.
3. If that 4.5 cpl is for an undefined line, that's even more insulting.

Keep looking. There are jobs that are better out there.

It really is - a shame

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what these companies are paying. What needs to happen is that people, even new people, need to stop taking these jobs. Unfortunately there is always somebody fresh out of school or that desperate to earn some money and accepts it. Until people stop taking these jobs and start refusing the VR wages, they are going to keep doing it. I realize this is a typing job that you are talking about, but the VR scam is what really took things down. I for one refuse to do it.

Just curious (sm) - Morgan

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Did this con artist even tell you that the margins were made wider?

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