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$3.25 per hour so far today (give or take a few pennies) - It is so exciting! A raise from $2.50!


Posted: Jun 24, 2014

I note number of characters in a report, divide by 65 (per line), then divide that by hours worked. I can buy a whole gallon of milk with my morning's earnings! 

Me, too, but - it has to be 2% milk

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Not enough money for whole milk

You must be talking about generic-brand milk - Not name-brand!

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$3.25! I don't even know if that would cover WalMart-branded milk here! It certainly wouldn't cover the gas to get to the grocery store and back.

And I feel your pain. I can't say too much, but I was recently shown a document comparing other MLS's and noticed that the greater the amount of straight-typing on your account (which generally means that those doctors are so bad the VR system can't understand them), the lower the line count was for that person, meaning the lower the pay.

I remember when some of us got a differential for particularly difficult physicians. No more!

milk - Fatigued Fingers

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Well, that would certainly explain why my pay has gone down over $300 a month since January. My accounts are all straight typing, but from what I hear about voice wreck, it's not much better.
Voice wreck scrambles my brain - sm
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after about 15 minutes of every-other-word corrections needed. I'm no good for the rest of the day, which makes for a difficult 7 hours and 45 minutes.


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