Copytalk reviews about "schedule"

General scribe work is extremely monotonous and repetitive. Most jobs cover the same exact topics (stocks, insurance, retirement, etc.)

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.

You can take breaks whenever but must stay logged out for 30 minutes which can put you behind schedule to complete your hours.

Never intended to be full-time employment, difficult to maintain work for more than a few hours at a time, pretty depressing office environment

easy to get hurt (wrists, etc.) from repetitive and fast typing work. Pay could be better.

Takes a while to earn more money and a decent bit is deducted.

Minimum production goals a bit high for most average typists to maintain. At only 20 hours a week, I started flaring with carpal tunnel way before hitting their minimum production goals to start receiving raises. Some indication it has changed since then, but they also provided very little leeway for shift break / lunch breaks - if going to the bathroom took longer than 5 minutes, you were automatically clocked out for a 15-minute time period, having to then work longer to cover your minimum work time agreed to that day.

- 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.