2 choices: Continue to call/write repeatedly or move on. nm
Posted By: MT on 2006-01-24
In Reply to: called and wrote - BOTH
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Too easy to be ignored on email. Call repeatedly and sent a registered letter. nm
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As your accounts move to India, they move you to another account. NM
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I've answered your questions repeatedly.
You have also answered mine by getting so defensive. If you worked for TT in the past and were so unhappy there, as the previous post seems to indicate, then why would you be, and again I am QUOTING your original post, looking into TT.
I'm through going round and round. Good luck. I hope you find or have found a place that makes you happy!
I've asked repeatedly for a secondary account. nm
As I have stated repeatedly, although very unfair, leads have line counts too.
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I repeatedly tell you leads and QA have quotas obtain dictation too. That is where the good dictatio
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Why are those your only choices?
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your choices
You are obviously new. Please search archives for the companies you are chosing between. It is not the sunshine and roses you are expecting, unless you think $12 an hour is living wage. This is from a fast reader and a good Editor also.
your choices
It seems immature to be rude to someone asking a question, especially to someone who may be new to the board. We are all just here for a little information, not to be slammed. Hopefully you will have a better day tomorrow! :)
So I have two choices
Work for low pay and drive the Editor nuts, which seems to be fine with the owner who makes this arrangement of paying more than one person peanuts...or I can try to search out a company who will compensate me for a meticulous work product. Thank you.
Sounds about right.
Choices
What I see is a lot of posts about Keystrokes and Transtech so people tend to go with one or the other and then come right back here to bash these companies for one issue or another. It seems to be a cycling of MTs over and over again. There are other companies out there besides these two you know so I would not limit a job search to these two. These companies are promoted on this board by the same small group of people over and over. I will say I was very very apprehensive about going to work for KS for this very reason. However, seeing more positive posts than negatives, I decided to go with them. I have found that they are a great company to work for. No one ever bothers me and my pay is correct and on time. I have had to take unexpected time off due to some urgent situations and they have never given me a hard time about it. Sometimes life can be so stressful so its good to find a company that understands that family comes first and situations do arise that are beyond our control.
Choices
If you work for someone who is insisting you store PHI on your computer you need to make sure YOU are following the law and doing it correctly. I would suggest you look up what those requirements are as they're pretty much a PITA.
Also, MTs are puppets-- It really *IS* okay to say- I'm sorry, but storing this data will cost $$$ in order to make sure I am HIPAA compliant.
Just cause someone says do it, doesn't mean you have to break the law and do as they say.
TT gives 2 choices, your PC or theirs.
Insurance is with BCBS and very reasonable. PTO is good too. The best part about Transtech is that they treat everyone as an equal, no big I, little U mentality.
I think you have two choices in this situation.
Since you have already discussed this with her and she has not made any changes...you can transcribe 30 minutes of dictation or more - depending on how much time you have - and return the rest, or you can find another MTSO to work for. You can only do so much  .
Looks like I picked the 2 right choices TY!
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It's obvious I don't base my choices
by this board; however, the negative things that have been stated have been true. Guess I should have taken the hint the first 3 times in regards to getting the hiring process completed. Since they could not follow through with that, don't know what made me think they could follow through with anything else!
Dislike it, too. Much too involved, too many choices, etc. nm
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You may have to move on to move ahead (sm)
One way to look at what you are doing right now is more training only you are being paid for it; once you have a year or two under your belt as experience, you may be able to command a higher wage someplace else. It's funny, a place will pay more for someone with 2 years' experience than they will pay someone who has worked for them for 2 years! Go figure.
This obviously all boils down to choices. If your willing to use a C-phone, then there is work but
if you want to work for an account that you were hired for, say using editing, or basically internet-based, the work load can be somewhat fluctuating and this could be due to the fact that many were hired on these editing accounts so it keeps the work load down most of the time. It also depends on the hospital your working on. Some have more work than others. Just be aware of what you will need and want in order to keep working. I still stand by the fact that sometimes things promised never materialize and emails are delayed in being answered. Other than that, pay is on time and for some that is enough to keep them happy. I say, try it out. Only you can decide what works for you or what is acceptable. Again, it is about choices.
Posters can choose emoticons from the choices given
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Life is about choices. Nobody forces her to work so hard and
put in so many hours that she's hiring people and ignoring them. I don't agree with that, no matter what the excuse is. We're all busy people. We all have lives. That doesn't mean you have the right to mess with people's income and careers. Employees or ICs aren't just disposable commodities that you toss aside on a whim. It's called RESPECT for your fellow humans.
Congrats to you -- always nice to hear from someone who is happy with his/her choices. :-) nm
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Yes, even without a raise, currently compared to my other choices, I would wholeheartedly recommend
As far as ESL - yes. Most accounts are 60%+ at least from what I have been offered. However, I would have to say that only on certain days do I get 60% ESL and most the time, I have an easier time understand the ESL dictators more than some of the non-ESL dictators. I guess it is kind of a wish-wash in regards to ESL. I would say even though it sounds like a lot, I think they are pretty comparible at least in my experience.
VR depends on what account you are on. Some of my accounts are phenominal and others not so good. However, they do give you the option to remove dictators (though don't seem to listen to half my requests) if their VR is bad. Plus the pay is the best in the business for VR at least from what I have seen.
Repeatedly told another new account would come soon, but it never did. In fact, our slow account is.
everyone else's backup account. What a disorganized mess.
CONTINUE TO LOOK
You will find that there are good and bad things with every company out there, but the bad certainly outweigh the good when it comes to MDI-FL.
I tried and continue to try with my own
kids, but sometimes just being out in the world today taints what I have tried to teach. I pray daily for this world, but it is sliding downhill quickly. It saddens me...all the hatred and intolerance of EVERYthing these days. Even trying to keep my own intolerance under control is an endless fight...but at least I try...more than I can say for most. Thanks for posting. I know I am not alone. Take care.
If you want to continue using WP5.1, sm
check out First Choice Medical in Florida. Great people.
Should you continue?
Not only NO, but H**** NO. Why enable someone to take advantage of you? You deserve the kind of treatment you will accept; that is an adage of the business world. Get out of here and go someplace where you are treated like a professional.
I'm sorry, but why would you continue
to work for someone after they owed you, say $500, much less $10,000??????????
Why did you continue to work for MDI...
for years then if you could make so much more elsewhere????
VR will continue to improve just like
everything else in the technology age.
Bubbye, MT world.
But it's a blessing in disguise. Maybe now we can find jobs where we're treated with respect and get paid better than the average janitor.
Without us, they would continue offshoring. sm
Very few MTs deserve 15 cpl. Take a look at the word boards! It's scary out there.
Should I continue to work if I do
not know what my line count is on a daily basis. I have tried emailing the tech department, emailed the secretary, emailed the account supervisor, and get no to slow response. All I get is we are working on it and then I hear absolutely nothing. I am only inquiring because I want to know when I reach line count on a daily basis, but every time I try to check this function, it says I am not authorized to do so. I keep asking why I am not authorized to see what my line count is and I get silence. I am fed up? Should I continue working for them and allow them just give me my line count when they see fit. Also, my line count determines what I am paid by the tier program they have. For example, if I type 6000 lines, I make 6 cpl, but if I type 12,000 lines, I get paid 9 cpl, but I am unable to verify what I am typing. I just secured another position and have backup just in case.
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Why continue working for them then?
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The best thing we can do is continue to -
talk about it, write about it, and tell anyone who will listen about it. Our wages are the MT industry's dirty little secret. They get away with it because no one knows our type of work even exists. The hospitals get away with going with MTSOs who offshore because the doctors themselves have no clue who types their work. (Some don't even know their work leaves the hospital, let alone the country!) They live in a very cloistered little world.
The deals with the MTSOs are made by the suits upstairs in the corner office, who don't know much (if anything) about MT, either. All they know is that MT is an expenditure - red or black ink on their books. Many of these suits are overpaid, money-wasting jerks, just like the ones that Congress is grilling right now. The same hospitals that cry they don't have enough money to maintain an MT department, or pay the MTSO when their price per line goes up a lousy cent. (A CENT! When was the last time you even bothered to bend over to pick up one of those when you found it lying on the ground!?), are the same ones that hold huge, expensive bashes for their larger benefactors, and for themselves. They, too, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on office furniture, when there wasn't anything wrong with what they already had. Or buy expensive original works of art to hang in their halls or put on display.
We know, and everyone else from the janitors in the basement to the top brass upstairs, knows what it takes to survive in this country, and they also know that what they pay for transcription doesn't even begin to be a fair wage for ANY worker, especially not for supposed 'white-collar' employees who, by the very nature of their work, are intelligent, well-read, articulate, and fairly well-educated.
They get away with that because for all these years, we've just sat there and LET them. We let them tell us we were 'lucky to have a job - ANY job'. We listened to them tell us that VR, or EMR, or India, would eventually replace us all. I doubt any Senator or Congressman in DC even has a clue about any of this. If it were happening to steel-workers, auto-workers, miners, CPA's, animators, nurses, teachers, etc., it would be all over the 6 o'clock news every night. But no one knows of our plight, or that we even exist, because we don't say anything. We just lie there and take it.
Calling a national MT sick-out for a day or two might get us some attention, but I seriously doubt many MTs are going to risk their jobs to do that, because we'[ve all bought into that 'lucky-to-have-a-job' myth. And during these uncertain, possibly pre-depression times, losing one's job is probably not the best idea.
I contine to believe that the best thing we can do, collectively and individually, is to start WRITING. It's what we do best, and we should be putting that skill to work for ourselves, for a change. We need to educate as many people in the US, and in our legislature, that their medical records are being sent offshore. That HIPAA does not protect them when their medical and personal records leave the US. That huge MT companies have been squeezing out smaller MTSOs by undercutting them, or by buying them out. That the huge MT companies are raking in the dough by claiming 'there aren't enough US MT's', and then paying hungry people in 3rd World countries a slave wage to produce the work. AND, that our government is not only letting them do that without any kind of a tax or fee for doing so (when millions of Americans are currently out of work?!?), but in some cases getting monetary INCENTIVES for offshoring.
THAT's what needs to stop first. The free-for-all in the MTSO industry where they can just shove the work offshore, thanks to the digital age and the internet, and not have any repercussions for doing so.
Currently offshoring work is many MTSO's FIRST CHOICE of workers, and Americans are their SECOND. We need to turn that around, so that it makes more economic sense for the employer to pay Americans a fair wage than it does to steal their work from them and support another country's middle class. OUR middle-class needs support now, and the US should no longer be subsidizing India's, Pakistan's, Mexico's, or the Philippine's middle class by sacrificing us.
Yes, you can definitely continue to learn, but -
why throw away perfectly good money on a USELESS 'certification'? You won't get paid more money, and you'll have to pay every time you take it if you fail the first time. AND pay to continue to renew it. Biggest ripoff in medical transcription history. AND, all this by a company that gives Indian MTs a better price to take the test, and who openly promotes offshoring american jobs.
You'd do better to spend the money on a comfortable work-chair, an ergonomic keyboard, a better computer, or some new reference books. Getting a bogus 'CMT' cert. just helps to fund AHDI's selling of the American Transcriptionist downriver.
They continue to hire because...
it looks good to the client for all the work to be caught up all the time, so companies over hire. It doesn't matter that MTs sit all day and wait for work to trickle in. They are looking at the client's side. They can hire as many transcriptionists as IC as they want and do not have to pay out anything if there is no work, so what do the MTSOs have to lose by over hiring?
The beatings will continue
Pathetic, isn't it?
As I don't have time to continue messing
with you, this will be my last post. I have 5 accounts, so you have one more than I do, wow! That doesn't make you a better MLS. I didn't post on here to get referral bonuses and my attitude about the company is what makes me a better MLS. Good day!
It does not continue. No one will ever give initials or
let us know, so it is safe to assume that it is the same person every time.
Why would a company continue to keep slackers?
Continue to turn down work.
That's okay, limit yourself. It leaves more work for people like me who can walk into a job and transcribe most anything. I don't understand folks that don't want to learn and then complain that they can't find a job. Go figure.
They'll definitely do it some time. You know they won't continue...sm
to pay us such a good rate when all the other companies are paying 3-5 cpl. If they all set their rates so low, there is nothing we can do about it if we want to continue to work. Their Town Hall meetings are always a pep talk followed by something that cuts your pay in the couple of years I've been there.
They will continue to lose good MTs
if they don't straighten up. Once the labor board gets on their casse, they will have no choice in straightening up.
Why are they allowed to continue to post here when they are known not to pay?..nm
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So, listen to this, you would rather continue to retype
a VR report for only 4 cents a line rather than train it where you could hopefully just zip through it? It will never improve as long as being deleted. Does that really make sense to you? You are paid 8 cents a line if straight, 4 cents if VR and yet you would continue to retype time after time?? Again, this is making sense to you?
Supposedly starts 10/06 and will continue
into the 3rd quarter of next year. I would hope they would let us know, at the very least, which accounts are going first and a time frame for the rest of this year.
Should be too! Went to continue the sentence and didn't.
I hate when I am rushing and can't correct my mistake fast enough before I hit the send button! LOL
All-Write
I am looking for some information on this company. Are they flexible? Plenty of work? Do they require a certain amount of lines per day for full time or part time? Any information would be greatly appreciated!
I write down all the
jobs I do. I am an IC and have to submit an invoice each pay period, so I always compare what they have with what I have to be sure it is correct!
write me
I sent you an E-mail, but in case you don't get it, will post on here as well. I left the Q three years ago and now work for a company I really like. They are small. I've recommended them to people in the past and even though I tell them up front what it pays, some think they are the exception. It pays 7 cents and goes to 8 cents after QA...and stays there, but if you're really interested, let me know. The platform is Emdat/InScribe. Very easy once you learn it. Very frustrating until you do :)
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