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New compensation plan - my view - Smarter than they think

Posted: Dec 04, 2014

To set things straight, first of all, I am not new at this game. I have been in this business for 25 years, so I have seen a lot come and go as far as the transcription game. But I have to say this tops them all. I have been able in the past to make a decent salary, help support my family, pay my bills and have a little left over, just like the rest of you. When I saw the words, "new and exciting" I cringed. Never good words to hear. I tried to give it a chance and see what the new plan was. Well, I did and oh boy, what a big fat mess this is. When I read the first couple of paragraphs, I knew it was bad. Anytime you take AWAY lines, by half, there is no way you can make them up. My account is 99% editing. If you take away half of those lines, there is nothing in this compensation mess than will make those lines up, nothing. Basically, we have been told that for the majority of us, we will be working for minimum wage. That's all this new and exciting plan amounts too. All the rest of the garbage is just what it is, garbage, unobtainable garbage at that for most of us. So, if I am going to be making minimum wage, I will no longer work my backside off to try and fill in all the blanks I have on a really bad dictator, I'll just go on and send it to QA. Why try if all I am going to make is minimum wage? They can figure it out. From what I can tell, I guess there is no required line count? So, I'll just take my happy time and try to do the report the best I can (that comes from years of doing this) and if I come across a word I don't know, will not spend the time or effort to look it up. Just move on. BUT, I will certainly be looking for another place to work. More than likely, not in this industry any more. My fear before I find something else is having to go to the bank to make a loan (I need a new car) and when they ask me my salary, I hand them a 7 page sheet explaining how I am paid, and have to tell them, "I have absolutely no idea, maybe you can figure it out".

Nuance is sinking its own ship - Not smart

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With all the MTs quitting, they will not be able to keep up with the hospital's TAT, so they will ship it all to India. I think that was the plan in the first place. I have seen this coming for the past year.

What's the old saying? - smarter than they think

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Give a person enough rope and they will hang themselves? Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it? I could go on and on. It will be well deserved in my humble opinion. That ship can sail on and sink, but I won't be aboard.

The sad thing is - so many will just

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accept and adjust to this what sounds like yet another punch in the MT gut and there have been too many to count over the last few years) and just keep keeping on after a few days of squawking on a message board.

I don't work for N (another of the other terrible 3) but hoping my company does not see any success with this "exciting" new plan (aka yet another way to screw the workers) and follow suite. I feel your pain.

True, and what's really sad is that most of the - smaller companies watch every move - sm

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that Nuance and M*Modal make. Then they pattern their pay & performance formats after theirs. Acusis has always been a major Nuance groupie. Whatever Nuance does, that company does exactly the same soon afterward. I also think a lot of the owners of these smaller companies purposely align their business patterns after the Big Ones, in the hopes that they'll be the next one bought out. Then they can collect their hefty paycheck from selling out, and retire happily ever after.

May they all ROT before they ever get to enjoy a single penny of it.

DO WE GET MINIMUME WAGE FOR HOURS WE SIT WAITING FOR WORK - CINDY

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Damned if we do, damned if we don't. My boss told me to get more lines per hour, so I did, I started punching out everytime I ran out of work and my line count automatically went up. But now I don't get the MUP which I get for sitting there waiting for work. Make my line count look better, certain lines per hour, which I am able to do when I punch out and when there is no work, but I don't get paid for the 20 hours I am missing from punching out when no work. I would rather get the 8 x 20 hours, what 160.00, so I imagine my next check will be really, really less than ever, but my line count will meet the minimum standard amount per hour.

Ditch the all-caps, please! - nm

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