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gross versus custom lines - ctype1

Posted: Jan 29, 2013

Gross versus custom lines... - anon

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A gross line is counted as anything on that line as a line, be it one word or a full line.

A custom line is what constitutes a line, be it 65 characters per line, 60 characters per line, etc.

Gross lines usually pay more. My contract is 60 characters equals 1 line, including spaces.

Was your question?

That was the first slash in wages thanks to AAMT - Angie

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AAMT, which I considered just a front for an organization that CLAIMED to be FOR the MT, slashed our income 30% when they decided that we would all conform to their standard of the 65-character line. Newbies didn't know the difference between a gross and character line so they just followed their "orders" from AAMT, essentially undercutting those of us who had been making a living doing MT by gross line count.

Then comes the MTSOs, slashing the MT's salaries in half, but fortuntely back then only newbies had to start with an MTSO to build experience. It wasn't until the idiots who created VR, that will never work for MT without editing by a human, that we had another slash in income by 50%.

For those of us who are single, living on less than half the income we did 30 years ago, and having to pay twice as much as married couples who can split expenses in half, it's hard to even pay for medications or groceries, let alone see a doctor or keep your house.

I'd just like that move by AAMT to the character line to be remembered as one of the first attacks on MTs, followed by their sending the AAMT personnel to travel to India to train them in MT with the money they made off of our with our dues of over $100.00!

The T stood for transcription not ist.. they also - IMANMT2

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certified the Indians cheaper than American MTs. Probably still do as AHDI.

They were definitely dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Wish states would take over the certification/licensing process and cut them and their "proctors" completely out.

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