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July 12, 2014 02:30PM
Many schedulers and editors are independent and get paid per shop. When a shop is rejected, do they get paid?

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July 12, 2014 02:43PM
I don't think so.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
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July 12, 2014 02:57PM
It depends. Most outside schedulers are paid for the successful completion of shops only, so they will do their best to get the shops accepted.

Editors are not liable to make sure the shop goes well, so they would almost always be paid for their time either way. Part of their job is to look for things that may lead to rejection and act on it, so it would not make sense to penalize them for rejected shops.
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July 12, 2014 03:02PM
Steve - well, of course. Brain fart here.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
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July 12, 2014 11:44PM
Generally speaking, when a shop is rejected, no one gets paid. Scheduler, editor, MSC, etc.

As an independent scheduler, you're not paid unless the shops is accepted by the client. I've never had to edit a shop that was rejected.

If you're an employee and on a salary, I assume you have a quota of shops to schedule, so I'm assuming it doesn't count towards your quota as a scheduler, as an editor I'd assume it is.

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July 12, 2014 11:55PM
When I was an editor I was paid if I edited it. It did not matter if the shop was rejected or not.
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July 13, 2014 12:51AM
MickeyB Wrote:
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> When I was an editor I was paid if I edited it.
> It did not matter if the shop was rejected or not.

That seems much more fair. Part of the editor's job is to point out problems and inconsistencies, right? So, it'd be massively counterproductive to penalize people for doing their job properly.
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July 13, 2014 01:08AM
…and would also potentially give them incentive to push through reports that were problematic. That's not a good business practice.
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