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It's time to start drawing some lines. Please DO NOT apply - to companies using the "VBC" pay scheme.
Posted: May 13, 2015
This is not only a reprehensible and indefensible pay scheme but it defies logic. Why is the thumb any different from the other fingers, or the space bar any different from the other keys that have to be pressed to create a document? In fact, if you check any table of computer character codes, you will find that THE SPACE IS A CHARACTER, complete with its own code. The space is REQUIRED IN ORDER TO MAKE SENSE OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS.
We get no respect at all from the MTSOs in this industry, from medical records directors, from most physicians or even from our own trade organization.
Hardly surprising, seeing that we've done nothing to demand the respect that WE DESERVE BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THAT THIS WORK DEMANDS. We should have downed tools LONG AGO, MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS!!
Maybe we can at least draw the line here: DO NOT APPLY TO ANY EMPLOYER THAT USES THE "VISIBLE BLACK CHARACTER" PAYMENT SCHEME - PLEASE!!
How stupid! - So
[ In Reply To ..]Iguessalltheirreportswilllooklikethis.
Not long ago I read a post - sm
[ In Reply To ..]on this site about an MT who was on an interview, and the person conducting the interview told her he did not want to pay for spaces. This very witty MT (I always liked that in a person) answered him quickly stating she could leave them out. I laughed my arse off when I read that. I think we should all borrow this answer whenever a company tells us they won't pay for spaces. Okay, we'll leave them out!
or.put.a period.after.every.word.so ya.get.paid - for.every.visible.character
[ In Reply To ..]At.least.the.hospital.staff.can.still.read.the.report!
They.have.some.nerve.not.paying.for.spaces!
I'd say something else - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Whatever you're smoking, it's time to share. 
Getting back to business, the rock bottom minimum anyone should accept for VBC is 9.5 cpl. That would translate into 8 cpl for the 65-char line with spaces.
that is still - not enough
[ In Reply To ..]We should have refused to accept that years ago. That is why it is half that now. No one in management at MTSOs is on food stamps. The offshore MTs create the mess we are cleaning up. Let them and management figure out how to do transcriptionist correctly first time through and let it go to hospitals a mess. Everyone just leave. Do that for yourself. Let's have some self-respect.
I say if they are not going to pay you for the work that you have to do - dont put them in
[ In Reply To ..]I believe not paying you for work you have to do is against the law. So give them just what they pay you for:
Thepatientisa20-year-oldwoman.
I work on a VBC pay scale and I actually like it. - Nn
[ In Reply To ..]I have done the math and I actually make more. I think that when you break it down into exactly how much you get payed on either pay scale per character it is pretty comparable.
The bottom line is that one should get paid - for all the work
[ In Reply To ..]one performs. The pay rate is beside the point. That's like a musician getting paid for each note played, but not the rests in between--ridiculous.
that is not even - remotely possible
[ In Reply To ..]You must have been in remedial math. You make more???? Lol.
payed????? - nm
[ In Reply To ..]x
Payed???? - Anon
[ In Reply To ..]Before you post about a person's grammar skills maybe you should educate yourself on the rules and regs of this forum.
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