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Backlog Incentive - sarmt

Posted: Mar 09, 2012

Check e-mail. Impossible-to-reach line count incentive offered March 9-12. Why is the backlog so high? What's going on, anyone know?

Why offer an incentive - mom2huskies

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I have to reach a minimum of over 5,000 lines just to make a few more cents. Even if I did make the 5,000 plus lines I would only make a couple dollars at most.

Ill run out of work before Saturday morning - almost out now

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Just flippin dandy.

We had the same thing on my region a few weeks ago - $10 for every additional hour you work.

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I took advantage and made an extra $150 bucks. Still got OT going on, but no incentive.

Not sure about the reason for high backlogs. New accounts maybe, folks quitting? who knows.

Seriously? Why not offer me $10 for every hour worked? - shoot

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I always get the crappy 3 cpl extra if you can first do a million lines in 1 day.

Yes, it only lasted a week. - guess the goal was to

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Get everyone motivated to get the volumes down. Plus we had "new customers" and they really needed the help. Can't disappoint your new customers.

meant to say it lasted for the pay-period - not a week.

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nm

A whole flippin pay period? OMG. - I coulda made MEGA BUCKS

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So, you only put in an extra 15 hours in 2 weeks? I woulda worked an extra 5 hours a day!!!!

Hey thats a lot for me, I work 40hrs a wk already. - But I catch your drift.

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nm

Seriously, I would have hopped on for the 10.00 - what about me?

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That 000003 cents per line would make you have a heart attack. I always just forget about it and just do what I can do. There is no way I could try and beat the figure they give to us. Why stress myself over it. I would rather have the easy 10 dollars an hour. They probably figure they would go broke if they offered it to everybody.

what is the line count they want you to reach - in order to get incentive?

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nm

you have to read e-mail - everyone is different

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They calculate it based off your usual lines.

Oh, not on your region I guess. Checked - and didnt get that message.

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nm

Because they can't - keep help

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There goes all the work to finish shifts for the weekend.

Never out of work in my region - always plenty

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nm

There won't be now - after all the

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new people who don't know any better try to get that incentive.

I think that varies from region to region - not company wide, we got plenty

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of work and always have plenty. Maybe your region is different. Are they calling for OT for your area?

Yep - It will be gone

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though, due to the newer people typing their little hearts out trying to reach that incentive only to end up with no work for the middle of the weekend. Good luck to you.

They do this every year - String of incentives

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I believe they did this last year around this time and I think the year before that. They offered an incentive nearly almost every week to get the backlogs down. I believe there is a deadline or something that they want the backlog near empty. This really probably has nothing to do with losing people as they don't care if you don't have work during the incentive, they just want to make sure it's cleaned out.

I think - Just Me

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I think the transcribers are getting smarter.

Why can't they - Dallas Ink

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Why can't they use their wonderful "offshore" MTs? Don't they type so amazingly well (NOT)??

Read on another - board

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it's an Indian holiday.

well this indian holiday has been going on for - a long time, been on OT for weeks.

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dont bother me, more work, more money.

Yeah, us too, but this incentive - just this weekend

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believe the plain OT is just due to can't keep help.

I know we did lose some people because of a - we have some very picky

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clients one of the clients had to be put on 100% QA because there were so many complaints. Lucky me it wasn't one of my primaries, so they barely come into my que, so I know they lost some from that particular account, dont know about others.

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