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My thoughts regarding a company paying 6 cent per line for transcription. - Please read
Posted: Oct 20, 2010
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wages were more than that 15 years ago!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Tee hee hee hee hee. You just might get a newbie but you certainly will not keep them long!!!!
Oh, ho ho ho ho. HA HA HA HA! Why don't you hire a brain surgeon for $30,000 a year? He he he he he. Above minimum wage; he should be impressed. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Wait - there is more. Hohohohoho, hahahahahahahahahaha.
I just can not address this anymore because I am ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forgot to add that they want EXPERIENCE too! - Still laughing so No Message
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Still laughing - Nick
[ In Reply To ..]I would tell them that the people in hell want ice water, too.
And I bet they want 100% accuracy from that 6 cpl MT. - What a joke! NM
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If people wouldn't work for that - Ugh
[ In Reply To ..]But they will and that's the sad part and that's what hurts so many others.
enough with blaming MTs for the low pay - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Many MTs have to make a choice to either work for low pay or not work at all. You want them to sacrifice and go without any paycheck just so MAYBE the industry will pay 7 or 8 cents a line instead? HA! The industry will just offshore more work, move to VR even faster, or get newbies straight out of school.
It's the industry that's the problem. I am so tired of people saying that the fault lies with MTs! It's blaming the victim and it needs to STOP. Put the blame where it really belongs.
Agree with stop blaming the MTs - Geez
[ In Reply To ..]Like MTs want to work for less. Totally agree with your post.
I agree. If they can get MTs to type for peanuts, why - pay more? Sad.
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If it's 6 cpl GROSS, that's a different story - MTer
[ In Reply To ..]Actually, the most money I ever earned was with a company paying 6 cpl GROSS. I would get about 2,200 lines per day. This went on for a couple of years. Same doctor, day in and day out (ortho),lots of lines, and EVERYTHING constituted a line. Well, I was abruptly taken off this one doctor and saw my pay cut in half. I had to quit, almost immediately to find something I could survive on. The owner insisted it should not matter, but the numbers didn't lie. No other physician in the practice generated as many lines.
I saw it. It was 65 character line. - HaHaHaHa NM
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Oh....65 character line - that's pitiful - MTer
[ In Reply To ..]As bad as it is, it's the exact rate for somone willing to work for 8.5 cpl VBC. Same difference. A shame, but a lot of people fall for it.
My first MT job 20+ years ago I was paid 6 cpl/gross. I - me
[ In Reply To ..]got vacation, but no other benefits. Didn't need insurance because I had through my DH's job. Three years ago was making 8 cpl/gross, 401K with partial match, vacation, bonuses. That company went out of business. Now making 10 cpl/65 character with great benefits. Company in the process of switching to VR now and don't know how long the 10 cpl is going to last. I haven't read all the posts but if 6 cpl is for an IC that is a slap in the face and they might as well send the work offshore.
I'm very good at what I do. I can do pretty much any work type, the most challenging ESL, excellent QA scores. I'm worth more than 6 cpl, but 6 cpl is better than 0 cpl and if I need to keep a roof over my head and feed my kids I'd do it.
A few months ago I was looking to make a change. Sent out several resumes and posted my resume on a couple of job boards. I haven't received one single offer, though I was selective on which companies I sent my resume too. Fortunately things have straightend out at my company and I've decided to stay, but there are a lot of displaced experienced MTs and a lot of newbies. Neither group is able to find work right now, one because they have too much experience and one because they have none. I sure wouldn't fault them for taking a job that didn't pay well because you have to do what you have to do.
You say you wouldn't work for that and I'd sure turn it down quick, but if I needed to work and couldn't find anything else I'd sure take it while I continued my search.
6 cpl for transcription - nn
[ In Reply To ..]I recently started with a company doing clinic for that amount -- the ESLs are horrid and most of the clinic notes are 2 pages long. When I emailed and spoke with the HR person regarding the pay with clinic notes, she explained to me that the owner would not pay any higher and it was "because of the prima donna MTs." They have me on 2 clinics, but it seems like the majority of the work I get is "the garbage clinic." I took this job because most of my work experience has been as an IC and therefore, could not collect unemploymemnt and I have to try to survive some how -- stressed right now, with the way my financial situation has become. However, this company does have acute care, paying 8 cpl, and have told HR personnel that that is more my area of expertise and to please put me on acute care -- no response after 2 days. Thank heavens, I received a phone call yesterday from another company, tested and passed and was offered employment as either an employee at 8 cpl or IC at 9 cpl.
I definitely agree that these companies are doing "whatever" to we MTs. When I started working from home back in the late 80s early 90s I was making 5 cents a line and that was with casette tapes.
I love this post and I agree. - hahahahaha
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Here we go again - *insert bored eye roll here*
[ In Reply To ..]Yawn.
GROW - UP!
[ In Reply To ..]We want the ads here, so please.... calm yourself down before you lose it all the way. If you don't like it then move past it, but darn we want the companies posting here whether we like the pay, hours, equipment, or whatever else... if you are so above it, then why do you post such nonsense?? You seem really immature which is so sad!
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Oh, come on. It is just a little humor. Maybe you should try some. - What a hoot. No M
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I was making 6 cpl in 1977. Will I work for that in 2010? - No frackin way. nm
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Were you using an expander to type 45% - of your keystrokes for you in 1977? NM
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I so agree!! It is pathetic what this (sm) - sm
[ In Reply To ..]"career" has come to. I have 15 years of experience and was offered that....with NO spaces. I don't think so!! AND they acted like I should be grateful to get that. I really wish we all could do something along the lines of walk off the job.
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