A crap shoot

• I'm going to have to stop reading my co's PR BS. An MT with two months - experience is in charge of training? Oy!
  • which company? nm - curious
    • Spheris. - cm
      • A crap shoot - Cartwheel
      • No kidding? nm - ???

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It sounds like you have a good impression of both companies, but the one seems to be more organized than the other.  Go with your gut.  I find that's a tactic that usually works well for me.

Good luck.  Hope whichever one you choose you end up liking it there.

outside the hospital and telling all the patients their work is going overseas - then I want them to find out the hospital has contracted with a service using only domestic help.

They've been sheltered in the hospital's arms for so long, they thing outsourcing means offshoring.  Come join us in the real world, dears, you have much to learn!

The few I've seen that have been computer generated look utterly different than the way we typed 'em.  Actually its pretty infuriating that all the things that QA picked at us about have just been thrown out the window along with our jobs.  Obviously the facility never gave a hoot about consistent report format, BOS rules, etc.  Its demoralizing  that we worked so hard to make those reports perfect and now the facility gladly accepts messy garbage from a computer in order not to pay us, and the heck with patient care and accuracy.  The computer won't save their butts when they say the wrong thing in a report - the error will just stand as dictated.  I hope they enjoy presenting those documents in court for all the lawsuits they'll get down the road - and I'm sure it'll cost them more in court costs than it did to pay us.

Why is it that they'd rather pay ANYBODY - IT people, lawyers, wronged patients, etc. than to pay an MT?

take that as truth.  I know I certainly did not.  There are schools that cannot get you a foot in the door, let alone promise that you can make those amounts.

Then there are schools like Career Step who have information about grads who did/do make that amount...but they don't promise it and have never promised that their grads would make that wage. 

It is very possible, but for a lot of us, it's not. We cannot really blame that on the schools. We need to blame ourselves and the companies for the the 5-7 cents a line that we settle for because, like all families, we need to feed our children and pay our bills.

I see it with colleges. You can make this much in this field, you can make that much in that field. It all depends on where you work, how productive you are, what state you are in, tons of factors. Same is true with MT, too many factors.

Nothing is ever promised, especially in this line of work.

I am just happy to have a job that I love, that I am able to have the opportunity to stay at home with my young daughter, have deductions come tax season. 

Hey, I made more waitressing than I did doing transcription my first year, but does that mean I want to go back to waitressing? Not a chance.  I could have made more at McDonalds, in fact, but do I want to deal with that crap?  Not really. 

I am thrilled about being an MT and would not trade it for the world and certainly didn't buy into the get rich scheme that a lot of those schools throw our way. 

It's a shame that schools have to use that as a way to get people to attend, but it works..and let me tell you, I have plenty of people that have never ever done transcription that tell me what a cake job my job is, you've all heard it before.. I CAN DO THAT, ALL YOU DO IS TYPE

...and THOSE are the people that get backed into the corner by these schools thinkin that this is going to be something that they just type and can throw out lines like crazy and make that $40,000 a year....because we all know, MT is EASY... psshhh.  Those schools should have to provide proof and stats.

who says you must not be very good, are slacking, etc. when someone complains about their company.  I worked for KS and there were whole weeks where there was no work on one of my accounts.  They account was an overflow account only, which I wasn't told about when I was hired, and if things were slow then we didn't get any work. 

Just because you are overwhelmed with work on your account, doesn't mean another account isn't slow.  We have been on daily OT for months with my current company, but this week we are running out of work, most likely due to the holiday.  But prior to the OT there were accounts with very little work, with other accounts having more work than there were MTs trained for the account.   Just because someone doesn't have work doesn't mean they are a bad MT and I think even saying it when you don't know the facts reflects very badly on you. 

by DSG and have heard only good things from folks nice enough to answer my posts on here.

I'm quitting my full-time job (with a steady paycheck) to work from home with DSG. Gosh, I hope and pray that I make enough money!!! I committed to 1000 lpd and will be IC status Monday when I start.

HELP!! Now I'm scared!! Good luck to you, though.

about VR being great for the MT!  You'll make a million lines per hours!  You'll be wealthy beyond Donald Trump!  You'll feel like you won the lottery! 

OK, now go back to counting your money.  Only a few of the more naive and ignorant believe your claims, so you can save your breath--or your typing fingers.  Hey, I know, why don't you, Management, try living on the money that VR brings in?  Then come back and post here.  Until then, like I said, go back to counting your money. 

 This IS an unineducated statement.

Really. Uneducated like you not reading IRS regs?

Stuff like paying (giving them) them an interest free loan (business loan) to pay for their capital improvements-

I didn't improve their capita. They had it down pat before I came along.

they want you to use their PC and want a way to pay for it interest free. 

Old news. BTDT the last 15-plus years. p.s. their PC is actually as server. Look it up.

This is bull. Plain bull. 

Old news, accoriding to you.  Facts please.

Hey you want to pay for some things that will only work on their PC, go ahead. Hey jump at the chance.

No jumping involved.  Same ole', same ole', been going on since you were born. I just learned how to make it work for me, how 'bout you?