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Advice for those w/ companies asking you to hop on to make up lines - Report them

Posted: Oct 28, 2011

... Because you've already put in your 40 hours. It is illegal to change your timesheets so they don't have to pay overtime. If they can't give you sufficient work and keep hiring people who take your work away from you, find a company that will give you enough work. Save the emails and send them to the department of labor.

But often, the case is the MT is too slow to get their - lines in 40 hours

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That is my main problem in MTing. I care about quality and seldom get my lines in. I haven't been fired as yet, but if given the chance to make up some lines, I do it. What you are saying is unrealistic, and I know you fancy yourself a great civil rights activist, but it is misplaced. They have us over a barrel, and you are just going to get more work sent to India.

You are a participant in illegal activity. If the work is going to go OS, - it is going OS. Fake OT wont stop that. nm

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Sorry, I have bills to pay. - UCANGOTOUNOWHERE

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Your grandiose ideation is not realistic, and I will do what I d*amn well please. It is my business, not yours. You don't listen to reason, anyway.

How can you let yourself be treated this way, be taken advantage - of stolen from? There are other companies. nm

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I guess you have been living on another planet. - We have a bad economy

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I doubt I would be able to get another job at my age, and I like the people I work for. They are not cheating me at all (no reason for OT if we are mostly caught up), but they are helping me to stay caught with my production, and I appreciate that.

I live in bad economy too, but there are just somethings one shouldnt - do on a moral basis. nm

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It is not immoral to take care of yourself. - I like my job

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I doubt you are really concerned about morality, anyway. Most that pull that card have just been backed into a corner and are grasping at straws.

My granddad made his fortune during Prohibition with his still. We have to recognize opportunities for what they are. While you are out there morally starving to death, I won't be.

What? So you would murder, if needed, to support yourself? - Murder, theft, both immoral, not okay. nm

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Who is talking about murder or theft? - tangentialthinkingisasignofmadness

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LOL. You need to stick with the subject matter. It is not so serious as you suppose. Besides, I don't care what you think at all.

Theft is what this thread is about. Duh. - nm

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I think you just like being self-righteous - lording it over others

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If my boss determines there is enough work for me to "hop on," then why not? I know it will not be paid overtime, but I don't care about that.

Doesnt matter if you care about that. It is illegle! Against the - DOL laws. Theft is against the laws of God. nm

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I don't believe in your god. - I have my own way of seeing things

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This is not a religious issue, just a practical one. I like my way of seeing things better than your angry god.

Moral bancrupcy is why the world is in such a sad state. - nm

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LOL. Grasping at straws, are we? - ubfunny

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Not at all. Why do you think the world is in the horrible shape - it is in? nm

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Not in a corner here. The world is my oyster and all its - opportunities are my opportunities. I just SM

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have to go out and get the one I want. Btw, I am over 50, if that matters.

I have the one I want. - Ib57

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Bad economy doesnt mean you should debase yourself, lower - your moral compass. nm

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It is not debasing yourself to have a good job. - And to want to make it work

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See above.

Not sure if you are following this thread. Not talking making good - job work, talking stealing from the MT SM

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No job that steals from you is a good job. Whether it be stealing time, as in expecting employee to log in over 40 hours to make your line count but not being paid OT for those over 40 hours. Or whether it is job where MTSO is skimming lines off the top. Stealing is stealing and it is not okay, ever.

I go for quality, but I'm not slow. My co's software, - however, is ridiculously slow. s/m

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It takes forever to open a new window or a new job. The carbon copy section frequently takes up to 10 seconds for each letter you type to appear in the window. The whole system freezes frequently, and also gums up Explorer, which crashes about 5 times a day. And then, of course, there are all those nitpicky account specifics to pore over for each hospital. I get so few opportunities to even type a few lines fast, that I feel my overall typing speed has decreased due to lack of practice. My company's transcription platform reduces even the best typists to hunt-and-peck through sheer sluggishness.

Hop on - sounds very familiar. :)) - BTDT

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How it works - Just Another MT

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From the experience I have had is this is how they do it. You are only to log the hours you are physically typing/editing. When there is no work you are not to log your time. Even if you are schedule i.e. 9-5 Mon-Fri, which equals 40 hours, technically if there was no work you did not work your 40 hours. I called DOL and apparently this is how they are legally doing this. It is all because we are paid by the line not paid by the hour.

NJA and Department of Labor rules - Alice

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Does the DOL understand that you are required to work your schedule even if there is NO work, even if you are paid by the line? I thought it was illegal for them to not pay you at least minimum wage when you are required to be "engaged to wait."

How it works - anonytoo

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Ok, then if that is accepted, everyone should be able to type whenever they want. They shouldn't be able to insist in a schedule if there is no work during the schedule. Of course, they wouldn't want that chaos either.

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