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NOT GETTING PAID FOR SPACES - kim

Posted: Jan 22, 2011

Ithinkitisnotfairtonotpayforthespacebarkey!!

to Kim - Frustrated

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Youhavetherightidea.Weshoudplaytheirgame.Itwouldsaveourthumbs!!!

By character pay can be figured to pay more for characters - than would be paid for characters in sm

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a job where you get paid for spaces. Say you get paid 0.1 cent per character in a 65 count line with spaces. In a job that doesnt pay for spaces, it can be configured to pay 0.1.5 cent per character in a 56 count line with no spaces. Clear as mud, huh? Maybe someone else can explain it better.

But must say, not many MTSO pay the extra. Most pay VBC - on a 65 char. line with no spaces. nm

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Really? I thought VBC was the less common way - There Is a Hole in my SpaceBar

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How do you know "most" MTSO pay that way?

No, what I meant was of the MTSOs that pay VBC, most do - it on 65 chara line and dont SM

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figure it with a higher rate paid per character and on a 56 chara line. But all you have to do is ask and will be told how you are getting paid, but of course, you did this before you hired on, right?

"MOST" don't - just the skeevy ones! IMHO (nm) - hecknojoe!

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What in the world do you mean? Do you have any idea what - post that you seem SM

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to be replying to is saying? It is scary to think that some posters work with words when they seem to have trouble understanding them.

here's your definition - - hecknojoe!

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from disgusting or distasteful; nasty, sleazy

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skeevy

i know EXACTLY what it means and I meant what I said - disagree if you like but don't start word wars with me because i can back my words up missy

Missy?? ROFL - Really?? nm

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Not talking about the word, talking about the entire - post. Seems rather irrelevant. nm

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this whole tiff is irrelevant, subject is VBC. - justsayin NM

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you must have accepted the Teletrak position? (nm) - hecknojoe!

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VBC and VR - xmtso

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When you are negotiating pay (if you're an IC) for a new transcription gig, make sure you negotiate an HONEST VBC for straight transcription. You should be paid MORE than the 7-9 cpl generally being paid.

HOWEVER

If you are doing VR and being told you will not be paid for spaces, there *IS* some logic in that. You aren't putting the spaces in more often than not. If a document has 10 spaces per line, includes 40 lines, that's 400 spaces. However, you're READING 90% of that document. So you need to negotiate a VBC rate for VR that is fair to both you and the service.

Personally, I think we should be paid per keystroke! - NKC

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Data entry clerks are paid per keystroke, why shouldn't we be? That is what we do --- stroke keys all day long. They could count all key strokes except the back space and delete keys, and the cursor movement keys.

It's not about what prints out on the paper, it's about the workout our hands get on the keyboard every day. I've been in this biz for 20 years and have been fairly lucky with respect to carpal tunnel and other repetitive injuries, but I'm getting older now and all those thousands of miles my hands have ran across the keyboard are starting to catch up to me. I have got arthritis. I have developed carpal tunnel that has starting getting worse rather rapidly since I took on a second job, and have neck and shoulder arthritis and spasms.

When MTSOs starting doing crap like stop paying for spaces, it's like telling a marathon runner after the cross the finish line that for every mile they ran, they are going to be deducted a half mile, so they need run farther to make up the difference.

It is a bunch hooey!

Not me baby! - ShortcutShirley

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I often type a few keystrokes and get paragraphs of text, so NO THANK YOU for this lame-brained idea!

This would only work if you didnt use an expander. - nm

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Not necessarily... - SM

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I get paid by the keystroke, but they count shortcut expansions as though they were typed manually.

Thank you! I guess some people need everything spelled out for them. - NKC

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For the purpose of medical transcription, a keystroke is defined literally and figuratively. Meaning that each printed character on a page constitutes a keystroke and each literal stroke of a key constitutes a keystroke -- ommitting of course the backspace, delete, and cursor movement keys as I stated in my earlier post.

I would hardly call the concept of paying per keystroke as a "lame brain idea." It actually makes perfect sense in relation to what we do for a living.

thank you - kim

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First of all, I was really so surprised to receive so many responses. I actually meant my post to be a little FUNNY. I also use expanders. I just thought it looked funny and actually is a selling point as to why we should be paid for the spacebar. Thanks again for all he responses and sorry to the ones that found this irrelevant.

Kim - in my experience, - How VBC works out

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On a 65-character line, VBC works out to be almost exactly 2 cpl less than being paid for spaces. When my company went VBC per the client's request, we all got a 2 cpl raise. When I calculated this on my usual 2,000 lines per day, it worked out to be the same.

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