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I've got news for everyone - old and burned out

Posted: Jul 10, 2011

Most of the companies are paying 8 cpl for transcription and 4 cpl for editing. MQ is not going to stop until they reach that rate even though they may do it gradually as they have been doing.

They won't stop there either - sm

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They will now tell us this is the going rate in the industry which it unfortunately is. The next pay cut will be when they only pay us for VBC. I wonder if the ex-Spheris employees are getting a decrease also. I'm sure some of them were making decent money.

what is VBC? - dumbdumb

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Visible black characters. Essentially no pay for spaces and such. - sm. Nickname/Alias

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I think full pay for canned text will be coming to an end soon as well.

Ex-Spheris employees - upset

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Are getting pay cuts too. I was not happy to open my email this morning. It is already getting hard to make decent money and they keep making it harder.

Spheris - Anon

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I'm not a former Spheris MT, but how long ago was tke takeover? It seems like they waited until you had time to settle in before dropping this most recent bomb.

Oddly enough - Upset

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The takeover was mostly final in May/June of last year. Kind of them to wait! I have been waiting to jump ship. Didn't think things would go from bad to worse!

Pay cut e-mail - BH

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I am an ex-Spheris employee and I haven't gotten this e-mail yet and today is Sunday.

ex spheris employee - foot out the door

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I worked for Spheris and was "sold out" to MQ. Came over making 0.045 CPL for SR and about 0.072 for transcription. I was frustrated even at that rate because NEVER a REAL raise, but was doing okay, also had a small production bonus and Internet reimbursement. Now that is all gone, and my pay was already cut last August along with the bonus and Internet pay. So yes, I got the same Email you all did. Though one of my friends who I was at Spheris with has not, but she is on another platform- DocQscribe or whatever they call it.

Devil's Advocate - sm

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I know the pay cut is a horrible thing. I've endured it myself when changing platforms, changing counting methods, etc.

However, I do have to say that it does seem fair to bring everyone into some kind of sync. Why should someone who was fortunate enough to work at a very well paid company for five years come into MQ and make more than someone who has been there for 10+ years while doing the same work? Even for MQ's own employees...why should someone who has been here 15 years make that much more than someone who has been here 12 years? And in some cases people in lower tiers were making more than people in higher ones just based a previous pay rate or having been hired by MQ during the hay days.

And, realistically, if you didn't see this coming back when your company was originally bought, you haven't been reading this board (or even the company board) very long, because this eventuality was predicted all along.

Devil's Advocate - sm

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The theme of your post is that this is a more fair way of doing things. This does not give anyone an increase, it only decreases the pay of many of us who have given many years to this company. This is fair? To who? Why should an MT who just signed on with this company make as much as someone like myself who has been here for 15 years? I have not had a raise since this place bought out the company I loved working for many years ago. I was always told I was at the top of the pay scale. Now the "top" is even lower. Why should we have seen this coming? Did MQ warn us and I missed it? If you were not being fairly compensated and were not being compensated according to your tier level, that's your fault. The rest of us shouldn't have to take a paycut to "bring everyone into some kind of sync."

The ones making more still weren't making enough! - And the MQ ones were really getting gypped.

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We know where this is headed. It won't stop until there isn't an MT left in America that'll work for them. THEN, they'll just pat themselves on the back for having STARVED EVERY AMERICAN MT OUT, and not had to pay a dime of unemployment. And of course, they'll probably just get an even larger monetary perk from our country's assinine government for making sure that Third World countries get all of our livelihoods. Maybe for every American who ends up unemployed because of this travesty, it should be required that the Indian who got our job should be required to pay our rent/mortgage payments, and our healthcare costs.

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