"How to avoid your child while you work"
Posted By: Leaving OSi on 2007-08-23
In Reply to: an honest question for you - anon
I had forgotten about that. I was so disgusted about the other OSi tactics but that little jewel was in the back of my mind. My baby means everything to me and I will avoid OSi while I work is the bottom line.
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Agree. Child at work. Run along, little Initial Capser. nm
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Maybe they dont answer because there is no work to get.Best way to avoid things I guess.
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Would I tell my child
I would tell my child that determination is a necessary start. I would also tell them that a PROPER education is key and to beware of shoddy or inferior schools, especially in the field of MT. The field is just too competitive and there are too many good schools. I do not care what sacrifice I had to make (second mortgage, second job, borrow from family), I would see that my child went to any 1 of the big 3. I have done recruiting and I know how some of these lesser schools are viewed .
You must have seen the ad that has the woman with the child on her lap - sm
That's a joke. All the pictures show the moms with the kids on their laps transcribing away. DOES THIS SEEM REALISTIC TO YOU?? But yet, people fall for it! I have been doing this for 15 years and make $62,000, but I PAID MY DUES AND WORKED MY BUTT OFF to get there. I worked in a hospital with others around me to help me out, when I was confident I left and worked at home, now I'm doing my own thing.
Nothing wrong with a 70's child!
Who are you to say that her apology shouldn't be accepted? Wow, yourself.
My taxes pay for your child
Here again our taxes are paying for you having children -- tired of it. People that get money back or even more than they pain all due to having kids -- we pay for their children. No wonder we have such a deficit and such a work ethic, -- they want everyone to take care of them -- so tired of that.
Hot Child In The City
But just think how much easier it'll be to look at that electric bill! I keep ours over 80, but I'm the opposite...65 and lower and the heat is ON!
I'm an uneducated child who..:
Makes $5000 consistently! LOL. BTW, it helps to learn teenage slang so you know what's going on with your kid. Did I finally shut you up or what? Cheers!
or a selfish child...
that's what my kids used to say until I taught them that they need to care about other people, too. We need to work together, folks.
I have 1 child at home
I used to try to work very early, but my accounts have no work early any more, so now I work through the day around nap times or whenever I can squeeze a minute in. It is not easy at all, but the alternative is paying for daycare, so I keep struggling through. I keep hoping it will get easier.
I love my children but having a child does not mean
everything is honey and sunshine. I really think nothing anymore about people who say they do not want. I think they are being realistic about a job you give yourself to for 18+ years, sometimes with not the most pleasant of outcomes in a relationship when a person who wants other things strives to have what they want and what they need. I used to think people who said no children were selfish- I understand their statements now. Motherhood is very much played up as far as I am concerned. Most of these posts are speaking from having young babies, toddlers before teen years and grown- those are the really good years. No pity needed nor wanted. My children had a very priviledged upbringing.
Yes -- we are all so very aware that you are their Golden Child. NM
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golden child! LOL! good one. nm
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Was your child so sick you have to permanently
stay home or could you have returned to your job with just a small amount of time off? A good inhouse job would be hard to give up unless totally necessary but by now that inhouse might have outsourced anyway. I had 2 that did. I do not read the board but what is the going price now? I work parttime now and make over $20 an hour as independent for a national.
FMLA for the birth of a child
I work for Spheris and am questioning their FMLA policy. They are telling me that while I'm eligible for UP TO 12 weeks of FMLA, they are only approving 6 weeks after the birth of my child. According to what I read and understand about FMLA, for the birth of a child you are entitled to the full 12 weeks but HR is telling me that it's up to them to decide what I am able to take off and right now they feel I only need 6 weeks unless they have a doctor's note to extend it (which my doctor will not provide as there is no medical reason at this time). Everyone else I know gets the full 12 weeks and has never had a problem with their employers so I'm wondering who is right.
I also have a special needs child, but my company routes
our work so that one person can't do lots and lots of minutes and there not be any for the others. Usually there is plenty of work for everyone to do lots and lots of "extra" minutes. There have been rare days where there wasn't a lot of extra work, usually due to the hospital system being down, and I may be a couple of hundred lines short because there needed to be some work for everyone, but usually the next day there was plenty to go around. Unfortunately most companies just want the work done and doesn't care who does it. If someone stays up all night to work that is better for TAT, which is a major concern with most companies these days.
If ya think $877/month for empl+child is fair..go for it
Just thing of ABducting a child..take a way. ADDuc
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Child labor laws haven little or nothing to do with it. sm
If children aren't developing a decent work ethic, or expect things handed to them, that's something they're learning at home (or, rather, /not/ learning at home). I'd look first to the parents before I'd start blaming outside influences.
My child is insured by her father, but I do not have insurance
and as far as work availability. I have worked for about 4 different companies in the last year. Things start off well, plenty of work, and then all of a sudden the work dries up. Currently, I have 3 backup accounts, and yet still out of work. Tired of hearing about slow downs. When I worked directly for hospital, both while I was in-house and at home, we had slow downs. They lasted a day or two at specific times of the year. We could use our PTO to take time off. With these companies, there is no backup for no work...no work = no pay. I cannot depend on my income at all since losing my hospital job. I have not made anywhere close to what I used to make and Im just totally frustrated. The economy of the state I live in is such right now that jobs are few and far between and the unemployment rate is very high right now. Feel like I am running out of options.
Who was this with? I am looking and want to avoid! nm
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Avoid them!!!!!
This is probably one of the worst MT companies out there. I worked for them a year ago for only a month. They are ALL in India, including account managers, QA and tech support. They treat their MTs horribly. When I was getting 98% and above QA scores, they kept telling me that I needed to improve or I would be off the account, and I know that I'm far from the only one who had that experience with them. After they told me that, I quit immediately. I have several years of experience and I had never been so insulted in my life! I could see them saying that if I was scoring below 98%, but I wasn't! Their software is horrible and it was always crashing, causing me to lose several reports that tech support was never able to help me get back. There are MUCH better companies out there. As someone else said, don't waste your time with this joke of a company.
Avoid them!!!
I worked for Focus about a year and a half ago for one month and ended up quitting. While their main office is in Massachusetts, you will be dealing directly with India. The QA, account managers, etc. are ALL in India and they treat their MTs HORRIBLY! I could never understand them when they were trying to train me, so I never learned how to use their software, and they would get annoyed with me if I ever asked for help. I never got below 98% on QA and they kept telling me that I needed to improve or I would be off the contract. I was always running out of work and they kept harassing me about why I was not getting many lines done..duh!!! Also, when I was there, they deducted pay for errors. I quit right away. I don't know if things have changed since I left, but that is how it was when I was there. Proceed with caution.
AVOID THEM!
I worked for Cymed for a year, and then they were bought out by SPI, which is a Phillipine phone company. A few months after CyMed was bought out by SPI, I quit. They don't care at all about their MTs in the US and treat them horribly. Communication there is horrible. A ton of people left, including everybody in management. They don't pay for spaces and lines are VERY hard to make in an 8 hour shift. Before I left, I was always running out of work. They were always screwing up on my pay checks and would never return my phone calls or e-mails. They are the worst company I have ever worked for and I am so glad to be out! The reason you probably got an e-mail from them is because so many people have quit and they are losing accounts and desperately need MTs. I would totally avoid them!
Exactly! There is no way to avoid them!
ESLs are everywhere and are on just about every single account anywhere you go! If you don't want to do ESLs at all, you may be in the wrong field! We all deal with ESLs almost every day!
AVOID TTS!!!!
 Awful company!!!!! Their manager I guess is what she was - ****- I went to the bathroom, made coffee and poured myself a refill and she fired me!! MY BREAKS ARE TOO LONG!! HELLO!!! WE WORK AT HOME TO AVOID CORPORATE SHACKLES AND CHAINS!!! I can only imagine what would have happened if I took extra minutes for a bowel movement!  What a sorry company!! They are nothing but a sweat shop that could care less about family, kids, bladders, colons and caffeine!!! AVOID THIS COIMPANY AT ALL COST!!!!111
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I don't think it is acting like a spoiled child to share your experience...
the original poster asked the question, we are just sharing our side of the story...
AVOID Medware! (sm)
The recruiter will tell you anything you want to hear, but wait until the flakes start getting involved. Expect many delays in getting set up.
Medware is basically another MQ, a top-heavy company with levels and levels of Directors of this and Vice Presidents of that, all of whom are making thousands more per month than the people who are actually earning the income.
They also offshore extensively, but don't worry, you'll be offered the opportunity to proof the Indians' work at a fraction of your pay!
Tell her to avoid OSi like the plague
"Whether we think offshore labor is right or wrong, it has become a fact we cannot escape from. OSi will not actively pursue offshore labor contracts, but we have made the decision to experiment with using some offshore labor to save this large OSi client from going elsewhere. We believe this is the best decision for our employees assigned to this account and the company because this account is growing and we can assign the offshore part to the future increases and not have to reassign any OSi MTs. OSi is committed to continue using US MTs for the majority of their work and we will continue to resist going offshore."
Avoid mouse if possible
If your software gives you the option of using keyboard commands instead of picking up your hands to use the mouse, use them. Avoid doing anything that takes your hands off the keyboard and your eyes off the screen if at all possible. But it can be helpful to write down your new shortcuts and tape the list to your monitor until you can remember them. If you have internet, make use of OneLook Dictionary. Many common medical phrases are in there as well as single-word entries. It might be quicker than using even a specialty book.
Several reasons to avoid them
You start out great but after a while you may get bounced around on different accounts because they cherry pick to the MTs they like and you get left with harder work.
The owners are paranoid someone might say something negative about them. Ask them about their employee handbook and its contents. You cannot participate in organizing or join an MT union. You cannot communicate anything at all about them either in private email or pubically without the written consent of one of the owners.
You will get bombarded with emails to get work caught up and then even if you are a good producer, you will get the emails that chastise everyone for not being good workers.
QA is arbitrary and you may have to prove you did the right thing when you get your monthly score by providing them copies of their own emails. Of course this makes you look bad and you will be punished for standing up for yourself.
Your mileage may vary.
AVOID MEDQUIST AND SPi
I work for SPi and hate it. I keep running out of work, so they keep moving me around to so many accounts, I can't even remember them all. It sucks and I'm miserable. Am looking...
I WOULD AVOID TTS LIKE THE PLAGUE
Unless, of course, you like to work and not get paid
What company did this to you so I can avoid them
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avoid them like the plague
This used to be a fabulous company to work for, then suddenly it all went down the tubes - operation flush - they won't be around much longer...writing is on the wall
Avoid MQ and Spheris
I am sorry to hear you lost your job. My story is very similar to yours. I had worked for an HMO for over 20 years when they ended up outsourcing my job 3 years ago. Since then I have been working at home.
From what I hear Keystrokes might be worth a try. You will want to avoid MQ and Spheris though.
I hope things work out for you.
Avoid Lee Perfect - nm
Run as if you're running from the plague!
Avoid like the plague (sm)
I worked for this company full-time for 6 years, ending in 2001. Perhaps they've changed, but I googled the company just now and see it is owned by same person. On the up side, they paid right on time, never any problem. I had some great accounts too. However, I was charged $60 per pay period to rent their equipment. I had to provide a separate phone line and then pay the phone bill, to the tune of about $200 a month. I never felt the owner really cared about his employees. He lost my account to a competitor and then let me twist in the wind for 3 WEEKS waiting to be assigned a new account (yes, I put up a fuss, but to no avail). . He didn't believe in back-up accounts unless it suited his purposes. I kept asking for a back-up account and they just kept shining me on until one Christmas Eve morning his assistant called and said, Great news! We have that back-up account you've been wanting! We're really behind on it, lots of work for you, can you work extra? He installed it and I struggled for the rest of the day trying to learn this new account, plugging through horrendous dictators. Well, funny thing. That was the last I ever saw of that account and I realized they were just using me that one day, on false pretenses, because they were in panic mode. The real kicker was when I started, as a new employee, he refused to install an expansion program on my computer, stating that a few days before another Transcriptionist had made a very bad error while using the program and it hadn't been caught before it went to the client. Therefore, no more expansion programs for anybody. I really needed the job and didn't want to argue so I put up with this for about 18 months until a tech guy was working on my program and said, Hey, how come you don't have...? and he installed it. As I said, I really needed the job, so I put up with a lot. There's more but you get the idea. I work for a great company now (the professionalism has been refreshing, to say the least) and I would hold out for one of those. Good luck to you.
My method to avoid
buying foreign-made clothing - THRIFT/RESALE/CONSIGNMENT shops. It has been a very long time since I purchased any clothing new/retail, but I have managed to assemble a great professional wardrobe (in case I have to go get a ''real'' job - which is becoming a distinct possibility.) I hit several nearby thrift stores every Tuesday when they open after restocking. I don't keep up on where designer label clothes are actually made but I suspect that like most things they are assembled in third-world countries. However, I can own a guilt-free Ann Taylor suit by buying secondhand. I like to joke that I am not buying the clothing, only renting it. Because when I'm tired of it, the stuff usually goes back to the place I got it.
Avoid them like the plague (sm)
I worked there for more than a short time. They are disorganized (and they lie). They yank you around from account to account so that you never become proficient on a particular account. Different accounts are on different platforms. And every account has its own style requirements. You may or may not receive your paycheck on time. For a while they had direct deposit, then they didn't because apparently they couldn't keep the reserve funds in the bank to cover payroll. The owner sees to it that she takes care of herself first and foremost. Gets a brand new Mercedes every year while continually trying to find ways to squeeze some more blood out of her staff. Oh, and even though their website says something about they only hire American MTs, that's just for show to impress the clients. They absolutely outsource to India.
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Dont they make you feel like a child with the threatening emails?
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They also offer paternity leave and also both leaves for adoption of a child.
I love these people.
go with Webmedx - avoid Diskriter if you can - sm
When I worked for DKR it was a nightmare. I would be overloaded with work and then nothing for days and I was supposed to sit around and wait for work to come in, back and forth it went. I also had problems getting responses to my questions and then when I would, they would respond in the snottiest tone in emails AND on the phone.
I liked my accounts at WEB, had steady work, steady income, occasionaly some difficult doctors and occasionally would have to wait a day or two for a response to an email I would send, but I really had no problems whatsoever.
I wouldn't have left WEB but when my family and I moved to another state, I happened upon a great local hospital job working at home.
One Company to Avoid Like The Plaque
(if you live in north Louisiana) is Answer-Med. It is run by two vindictive fools with no life that show favoritism towards a few select MT's and ride the ones that actually work are ridden hard and treated like crap. Thank goodness for MT's around the rest of the country, this company is local and not national. Some MT's screw around and don't do all their work (the pets) and either the supervisor that pets on them does it for them or another MT who isn't a pet gets it dumped on them. Before I quit they expected me to almost work every weekend. Thank goodness I grew a brain and told them where to put it, FINALLY. Anyone else have an experience with this place? If you haven't, again, AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE!!
I would totally avoid Focus
I worked for Focus about a year and a half ago for a very short time and ended up quitting. It is entirely run out of India. They treat their employees horribly and, as far as MTs, they deducted pay for errors. I quit right away and ended up at another company, which I have been at since I left Focus. I have now just accepted a full-time position with Keystrokes and can't wait to begin! At least they do not offshore at all and pay more.
Avoid this place like the plague - sm
slow pay, no pay, poor management and ownership
I agree- avoid TTS at all costs (yours)
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Please avoid reading between the lines.
Believe what Carlotta said here. MDI values its top-notch workers, and I highly doubt they would make any statement or decision rashly. It is rash when people read between the lines. Reading between the lines is just that, it is a person trying to guess the truth. Why not just read the e mails sent, and do what they ask? Is it really that hard. You say there is no game-plan. I see it written clearly on these e mails.
Why is it so difficult for people to do the best they can every day when they transcribe. If you are doing the best you can, then I believe there is nothing to worry about. I actually felt that what was said needed to be said.
In my world, what we type is as critical as what the doctor does. For instance, if a doc rushed through a procedure, did less than 100% quality, relied on someone to come in and clean up the mess for him, well he'd have malpractice suits and have his profession taken away.
Why are we any different? Don't you see that when you give less than your very best, you can be damaging very badly the patient.
How is it I rarely see patient care mentioned on these boards. I see at least 99% of the posts talking about the money, the bad accents, the lack of flexibility, etc. Well, if you were the patient, how would you feel that someone who took care of their very important medical record listing life threatening allergies and life saving medication dosages only cared about the money and was careless????
The hospitals do care. They see the patient and they get the lawsuits. They pay top dollar for us at MDI, we are supposedly the cream of the crop. So why not act that way.
If you have time to read between the lines, why not read the lines, and make a list of what you need to do to be more flexible to be there for the STATs, and be more caring about the drug dosages instead of rushing to the next report.
If you have an issue with lack of work why not call Carlotta on the phone and tell her instead of sitting there and griping here. Bottom line: The patient. Bottom line for MDI: The patient and their preserving OUR paycheck. Thanks for listening to my post.
Lori Boone...avoid...
TRX/Lori Boone infamous for not paying. She was a Transcriptionist in the department at OHSU and started a service TRAINING PEOPLE ON THE JOB (i.e. hiring inexperienced people and paying nothing/ endangering client product) and she shorted a lot of people, including the well-seasoned MTs, on pay. Some are still waiting to get paid. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
ADVANCED Transcription in Portland are awful too/do the same.
There are several good companies in Portland though, any of those not mentioned. =)
Can you say which company so we can avoid them like the plague?
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pregnancy is a disability when you have complications/C-section/ and even child birh is a procedure.
So just because you didnt get money for your pregnancy, then just get over it.
I had a horrible time with both of my pregnancies and could not work even though I wanted and needed to.
People can get off of work for 6 weeks for drug treatment, mental angious, etc. Those are not disabilities but are conditions that warrant time off.
I think someone is turning green with envy and doesnt handle life well.
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