Copytalk reviews about "minimum wage"

It's for the sake of security, but you can't have bags or phones at your desk. They have to be stored in a locker (free, with your own lock). So you might miss some notifications or emergencies. Good thing is if you're expecting an important call, leave your phone with a shift leader and they'll come get you when it rings. But the absolute WORST thing about this is their break policy. When you log off, even to go to the bathroom for 2 minutes, the system keeps you out for at least 30 to 32 minutes. This really sucks for students who are on tight schedules and can't be dallying there for too long past their scheduled time. Make sure you go to the bathroom and are ready to sit down for at least 3 to 5 hours straight, OR schedule in an extra 30 minutes to 1 hour if you think you'll need to get up once or twice for whatever reason. (I asked the reason why, and they said breaks less than 30 mins have to be paid. So they force you to take breaks that are at least 32 mins to avoid paying you, otherwise people will be taking paid 29 min breaks all the time.) Another point is the pay. It starts off at minimum wage, $8.10 an hour, and there's not much room for advancement. You get 25 cent raises for hitting the 200, 500, 1000, 3000 hour marks. That's a LOT of hours for only 25 cents extra. You get a productivity bonus, an extra $2 for every dictation hour, so in a 32 hour pay period (two weeks), you could get about $15-$30 extra, depending on how fast you type. But that is barely enough for this job. It's actually quite tiring on your fingers, sitting for long hours at a time hurts your body, listening to all the same stuff gets boring, and the long headphone use damages your hearing. It's not a job some people can do long-term, bc it's stressful to the body and taxing to the brain. I don't know if it's just me, but I don't like wasting time taking forced 30-min breaks whenever you get up from your computer. So I go in and try to do all my hours at once, usually 4 - 5 at a time, no break. Which HURTS my fingers, shoulders, legs, everywhere, from sitting still and typing for so long. And ears, from the headphones and audio. So consider the strains of this job, and the minimum wage that it pays. It's not enough, to me. I was offered a position of QA, which is a step up from scribe. 25 cent raise, you clean up tough, garbled jobs. But I turned it down bc it required a 6 month commitment at least, and I don't think I can stay there much longer.

if you need to pee you have to stay an additional 30 minutes. if you pee twice, you need to stay an hour. as a girl who needs to pee a lot, this is really tough. don't bring a drink! the pay is....pretty insulting (minimum wage) for the amount of focus and skill you need to have in order to perform the job properly. similar jobs pay $10 or more starting out. hard to care about your job when you can walk down the street at any time and get a job that pays more that is less strenuous mentally and physically (your fingers will HURT) copytalk has EXTREMELY poor standards for client dictation, you will have to decipher nigh incomprehensible dictation and will be penalized for not being able to tell what they are saying. clients often dictate while driving 80 MPH on the highway, making the job even more frustrating than it already is. imagine having to be able to tell the difference between '15 thousand' and '50 thousand' while you hear WHOOOSH in the background and the client is eating a mouthful of food at the same time. one can only laugh away the frustration while dreaming of a better job. zero downtime.

Pay starts at minimum wage and can increase if you're extremely productive, but it's difficult to reach the threshold of productivity that ensures higher pay. The break policy is terrible. If you log out for more than 2 or 3 minutes, you're locked out for 30 minutes. So no going to the bathroom unless you schedule it before hand (who does that?), no checking your phone if there's an emergency going on, none of that.

No breaks, no talking (or social interactions in general), minimum wage, mentally taxing. You have to constantly work so by the end of it, you want to "garble" yourself.

- They take advantage and exploit workers by paying them minimum wage for very painful, disorienting work. Most people work 3-4 hours a day and I honestly can't see how you can do more than that. I worked for eight straight hours once and I legitimately thought my arms were going to fall off. It's not like management really does a lot to remedy this either. You stop being a person when you start at Copytalk and you start being a cog in a machine. - I said in an earlier post that bathroom breaks come out of your paycheck (which I see was the only post that Copytalk personally came out to defend themselves against since let's face it, they only care about looking like a good place to work rather than actually being a good place to work - BTW, you said that I could reach out to you but left no way for me to contact you. Nice one.) So, let me rephrase the last post. No, they do not deduct from your paycheck for going to the restroom. However, unless you can do your business in record time, you will be logged out of the system for a half hour and you will have to stay another half hour to make up for "lost time". So while it's not "technically" stealing your hard earned money, it is definitely stealing your time. Keep in mind that the only time you're making money is when you're sitting at the computer logged in and typing. But again, we're talking about a company that doesn't really care about its employees, rather unabashedly I might add. - The pay is garbage. I'm looking at my little employee handbook thing as I write this, so I'm quoting it verbatim. You start at $8.25, minimum wage, and they go on and on and on about these "incentives". Okay, let's talk about the incentives. If you somehow start typing like a superhero and knock out these transcriptions without any issue, your pay will be bumped up to a great, fantastic, whopping.... $0.25 or $0.50 more.... after a couple hundred hours of working there. Hooray? I honestly can't see how this place is still legally running. Whenever I explain how it works to friends, I'm met with a quizzical "Uh, is that legal?" stare. So until they start treating me and the other employees with more respect, I'm going to keep telling people the truth about this place. Sorry, not sorry.

- minimum wage - extremely difficult to make the already crappy bonuses - supervisors push you very hard for a job that only pays minimum wage