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Wow, what a disappointment I have had. I thought that I had (sm) - anon

Posted: May 27, 2011

found a really decent company to work for as an IC only to finally receive the "offer" this morning. It is .06 CPL and .03 for VR and that is with 25 years experience. Again, this is as an IC! Sickening, just sickening. And the search continues ....

I hope you told them why you don't want the position.... - sm

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They need to know why people are turning down positions and that we aren't out here to make peanuts!

So sorry, Anon. I suspect companies like that are willing - to operate a revolving door operation

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for employees, hiring whoever will take the job for as long as he or she will stay. Some may feel they have no choice as they struggle to hold onto clients. Could rates offered correlate, at least in part, with client stability?

I so wish we'd get to that upturn where rates go up again. I actually saw on our seeker's board here a well-known company offering the possibility of hourly pay for remote work. I'm guessing I wouldn't be interested in the rate offered, but it does at least seem to be a response to the very real problems we're living through.

I'm surprised they haven't figured out they need to - keep their MTs, in order to keep their clients!

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The only silver lining to all of this is, should doctor-operated electronic records end up putting all MTs out of work, it will ALSO put all MTSOs out of business. Now THAT would make my day.

this being the Company Board-which company was this??? - no message, just asking

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I received the same email after applying. It was Precision ... - SillyMTer

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They state that the pay will "increase" after you prove yourself but they do not state how much it will increase.

if that is Precyse - they have been like this at least 7 years. - I quit after 1 week NJAs 7 or so years ago. NM

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Abominable Pay - Jean

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They are taking full advantage of the economy. This is a golden era for employers, especially MTSOs since most of them are already cheap and use any method possible to cheat MTs as well as pay as poorly as possible, and it is going to get much worse when all the people still getting unemployment get cut off in January, 2012. Once they are no longer getting unemployment, they will get really desperate and take anything, including jobs that pay so poorly you are still officially poor even though you bust your butt (the "working poor"). 6 cents for typing and 3 cents for editing is abominable but unfortunately they can (probably) get away with it for now. It will probably be 4 cents and 2 cents shortly after the first of the year. Sorry to be so pessimistic but we are headed more and more into being a third-world country, having to live on third-world wages, which is what big MTSOs want to pay MTs anyway. Of course, the prices for necessities such as rent, food, heat, etc. are first-world. They don't care. And I suspect that whenever they want to give their other personnel, other than MTs a raise (which we never get even after years) they simply cut MTs' pay once again to pay for the raises for their other people. There ought to be some way to unionize. Pay of that level, 6 cents and 3 cents and independent contractor to top it off, where you lose an additional nearly 8% to the other half of the social security tax, is abusive.

With all your experience, they should've told you - right off the bat how low their pay was!

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It would've saved both of you a lot of time and trouble.

I mean, REALLY!!! Did they REALLY think anyone with your expertise was going to settle for .06/.03 cpl? Are they really THAT stupid????

had the same thing happen to me only after I signed the paperwork - sm

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Agreed to 12 cents per line. Did a day of work and got called and told "Oh, it's 12 cents a line for what you type, 2 cents per line for everything you just cut and paste from templates." Surprise surprise, almost everything was considered "pasted from template" even if it wasn't. Told them to stuff it.

There are some seriously problematic MT companies.

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