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Transcend - no work last day of pay period - 2BadMDI

Posted: Jul 16, 2010

I've noticed this repeatedly over the last several pay periods, particularly with one of my accounts, since Transcend took over. The last day (or two) of the pay period, there is no work - 0 for every work type! Next day, work levels back to normal. Is this due to off-shoring, account hogging to get that last pay check boost...? Or do patients just stop showing up at the hospital on the 15th of every month?...right.

Do you suppose it could be the ICs? - no message

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Blaming the ICs?!?!?! - sm

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As opposed to every "employee" there who is either struggling to get lines that were not available on their shift or an "employee" who needs new tires so is trying to get some extra money on this check?

Can't say for sure about Transcend, but it happened at my company all of the time, not just bec - houndlady

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because of ICs but also employees that took advantage and waited until the end of the pay period to get in their lines.

Normal - nm

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It's normal. Lots of MLS wait until the last few days of the payperiod to make sure they have enough lines instead of working steadily. It's crazy. Happens all the time.

I learned a long time ago to get as many lines as I could at the - Try this

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beginning of the pay period. You can never count on the last day or 2 to pick up anything. It is a nice feeling to sit back and coast on those last days without worrying while everyone else is fighting for lines and it is a bonus if there just happens to be some work then that I can do.

This "no work" is not unique to any company or any account, it is an age-old problem that the MLSs have created themselves by waiting until the last minute to do stuff.

NOT a Transcender, but I do the same thing - Breakneck speed first week of pay period

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I get as many lines as I can the first week of the pay period, too, and since everyone else seems to forget they're employed the first week of a pay period at my MTSO, it's easy to get an entire pay period's worth of lines if you can focus on it and have as few distractions as possible.

The second week of the pay period is the cherry on the top and, as you said, it's nice to not have to worry about that last-minute scramble to get enough lines in the second week, when everyone on my account seems to wander back to work and decide they'd like to pay their bills.

I will never understand the MTs on my account who coast or don't even bother to show up the first week of the pay period. My OCD would have me scratching paint off of my walls if I didn't show up for every single shift in a pay period (unless I were sick), lol!

I guess some of us work better under the pressure and some of us prefer the security of knowing we're covered for the entire pay period. Different strokes and all...

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