A position like this is a RARE one, newbies. I've been searching 11 yrs for a job like this and
Posted By: still haven't found it. nm on 2005-08-17
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I've been searching for a prn
position for months! I'll definitely need it now to make up for the lost money due to reduction in pay!
Any good info on MDI-FL. Do they have IC status? I've been searching for sm
the past 15 minutes and have found nothing!! I read somewhere someone said you have to have tough skin to work for MDI-FL. I wonder what this means! :)
Thanks to anyone with any info on this company. Trying to leave MQ and make some decisions here. Help out a fellow MT. Love ya. LOL
I've just been offered a position
at Transolutions but the recruiter e-mailed info, and I haven't had a chance to ask any questions. Do they provide the computer? How much training do they usually do?
I've been offered a clinic position making 0.72 cpl
as an IC, have to train for 1-2 days in which you type reports but you don't get paid for them. No it isn't TransScam.
You * I * are a rare one....
I sure hope you are being compensated well for all the effort you obviously are putting into your profession. Keep up the good work. You will be one of the ones who will soon be posting that they are making over 50K, if that is what you want.
Good job. 
Maybe you are a rare one but
I have been QA and manager. Yes, QA gets credit for an entire report, but trust me when I say that usually one blank does not warrant QA unless the client wants no blanks. If you have a good MT and they can't figure it out, usually a rare good QA person might, but QA gives it their best shot.
Now, when you say easy. I wish I could tell you what I would have done if we had all good MTs! My last QA gig was with an all Mexican border account. I could do it without a problem, but the MTs left megablanks. We earned every bit of our keep. It is that way and has been with many companies. There are more MTs who do not know what the dictator is saying and will throw in something and it is QA's job to listen if we see anything suspicious. It takes time to take out text and add text.
Overall, it takes more time to QA a report than it does to just transcribe it yourself.
You sound like one of those good MTs.
Now, on what you said about making as much as MT and why settle for it? The most I made in QA was $20 an hour with bennies (good money), but the most I ever made in MT was over $50 an hour (I was really fast). I have over 30 years in the industry. You settle for it because you have to, but on my last gig when they asked me to go down $2/hr after I had been working there for 2 years at $17.50, I quit on the spot and then I got out of the biz (I can do other things and make that and have).
The poor QA who get paid by the line I feel for because that is chicken scratch for the most part and I won't do it. I didn't settle. I got out. Many have known no other biz so I know it is difficult to make a change.
I hate this industry, totally hate it. I am so glad to be out of it and nothing will make me go back. The disrespect I see is totally uncalled for and these companies are as about as professional as a big toe. When you have worked for really professional organizations outside MT, you would know what I mean and all industries have problems, but there is a definitive difference.
I feel for any QA people as well as the MTs because the money they pay nowadays is horrible. I made good money in management, but then that is another entirely different story.
That's right. It is rare to see them posted. They are out there
but usually the candidates hear about them through word of mouth and as you say, the people who get these jobs have been in the industry for many years and have many contacts. I see more and more recruiters who have been MTs and QA which is a very good idea.
Having been an MT/QA for many years, this IS a rare
happening. You might run into a company every now and then and if you do, DO NOT BE SHY about contacting them and telling them that you have to work and you expect this as soon as possible. Ask them when they will overnight it to you and ask to be notified later on that day of the tracking number for shipment of your equipment. Tell them if there is a problem to please advise you immediately so that you may pursue your job search.
That is rare that they hire PT...
I started out PT but eventually went to FT and that is how they want you to be if you start out PT.
You people are a rare breed!
Companies look far and near for op MTs. They are a rarity these days. No one wants to learn the medical technology anymore that it takes to do them. Some MTs can't do anything but clinic notes. So congrats, you are in a class all your own.
I agree - very rare occurrence - sm
But, I have seen it happen on several accounts.
Good for you. Consider yourself one of the rare lucky ones.
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Why are posts about Spheris so rare? Aren't they
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...sorry. This is not a rare happening and will happen to you a few times more. nm
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With a few rare exceptions, the companies I have worked for
don't share worker names - so how do you know these other people work for Allstate?
First you have to find a place that even does Op notes off premises. Very very rare anymore. :( nm
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Companies are hardly offer FT employees any decent benefits so I think is going to be rare to find
them for PT employees. I would love that too, unfortunately, I work too much just to get below average benefits. Best of luck in your search. Honestly, I think the only place you'll find benefits for part-timers is going in-house at a hospital.
The DQS is an IC position and the Dictaphone EXtext is an employee position....
both part time...both making 9.5 cents per line...which is better IC or employee?
Thanks :)
Searching
I have a phone interview with them on Monday and I'm just really on the fence here! What I want is to be able to have plenty of work, be left alone to do so, and just go back to how it used to be when being a MT was enjoyable. I'm just so undecided right now!
Searching for...
I am looking for a company that provides a computer, has voice recognition, and doesn't require 1200 lines per day for new part time people.
Searching for
I guess I wasn't very clear. Some companies want you to type 1200 lines per day within 3 weeks, 6 weeks, whatever and give you ESL docs you can't understand, so how can you put it on paper? It would probably take me 3 months.
Searching and done with it
You made an honest mistake, you apologized graciously, and you do not deserve the bullying you have been getting. Consider that bullies think they have a lot of power because they are anonymous on the Internet. Don't pay attention to them. Hugs to you!
I did some searching
on Google, saw your post below mine this morning too, and looks like maybe you're right because I see a couple of hits from the past with the two with eTranz and then found some old posts from here about not paying by the one person. But it looks like Full Circle is just the other person? Anyone else know anything about this? Thanks!
Searching
You've got mail.
Fatcat
Try searching archives.
http://www.mtstars.com/search
Also frustrated in searching
Is there anyway you could archive posts sooner, like maybe only keep two pages of current post? Or set up a search for non-archived posts?
sorry....searching...not searing
:(
Try searching MT Stars itself
Instead of Google, try the search for this site. Type in the name of the company and it should bring up information about them. I hope this is what you mean.
Thanks, searching, I figured that must be why. nm
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It was the way you advised about searching
and if you think you were *originally* 'polite', you might want to recheck that definition.
Thank you! I do have a lot of soul searching to do.
What is so frustrating is that I'm really a great Transcriptionist in all aspects other than the production and staying focused for 8 straight hours. If I can overcome those, everything would be perfect.
Thanks again for your kind words and great advice. I appreciate it!
I'm actively searching......
TT used to be one of the best companies to work for, not true any longer. They seem to be all about making money for themselves. No more yearly bonuses, no matching 401K, nothing for MT week but thanks from lower management. There are companies out there that pay 70% of your line rate for speech, that's reasonable. This whole thing is going to backfire on them in the end. I've had several interviews but haven't made a final decision yet. It's not that I want to find a company that doesn't do VR, in reality they all will eventually. I want to find a company that realizes their MTs put bread on the table for managment, sadly that is no longer TransTech.
Try searching "CHRISTIAN" rather than DIT
I too got nothing when searching DIT, but when you search the word Christian, a lot of linkage to past DIT posts come up since they always tout themselves to be a Christian organization.
You'll find it very enlightening.
Not easy...been searching for months
I was a recruiter and the company decided to hire a recruiting company...now many of us can't even find positions as there are usually one or two per company and they never leave or some don't pay well. So not easy even with someone with experience.
After searching the archives a bit, not so sure I want to work for them
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No. I just happened to be searching & thought I'd
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I can't find my answer by searching...
I'm looking for opinions on:
CTS (Central Transcription Services)
and
TRX (out of Oregon and NYC)
Thanks so much in advance! Feel free to email me privately.
It should, but you'll be searching a long
time to find it. Seems 8 cpl is the going rate and 9 if you're lucky.
Is it? Nuts. I have been searching all over for my contract, but I'm not sure
I ever got a signed copy back from D., though I specifically requested that she send a copy back to me with her signature on it as well.
I'm hoping too as I accepted position a position also nm
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Try searching Dictation Services Group
in addition to DSG.
Anyone know anything about Wordzxpressed? Perhaps I flunked archive searching, sm
but I cannot seem to find anything recent about them. I hear so many horror stories about so many companies, it is hard to know who are the good guys and who are the bad. 
Thanks.
After much searching on this board, I am not finding any info on Focus for sm
rate in pay. Can anyone please spare a fellow MTs time and just let me know if their pay is decent?? I just got a 10% decrease in pay today with MQ and I am just so upset! I'm looking for a decent company, that's all. Thanks so much!
Keep searching. All the good stuff is kept in house now. If you snag Op reports out here, they're
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Only those Good/Happy Friday emails to try to keep us from searching for jobs during the weekend
TT throws out a *line* on Friday emails, hoping that we will bite. TT mgmt does not know what to do now ! I truly believe that !
I'm not sure that they will make it through this, if Dictaphone has taken away some of the Dictaphone accounts works and dividing it out among other Dictaphone customers.
I don't see a pretty picture at Transtech anymore. Don't say that I am just a negative person; what is pretty about it?
When a new MTSO signs on with Dictaphone, they are going to give them work from somewhere, and I believe it is from TransTech.
I am so disheartened by all this with TT. 
Promises for new work coming onboard is exactly what one poster said -- more Dictaphone overflow accounts! Not enough work for ALL the MT's TransTech has hired within the past few months.
Here's the deal - if you find one that fits, even remotely. STAY!! stop searching for "perfect
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MQ newbies
Sorry, dear, no matter what you say, you lack experience. Therefore you may have been good in school, but how do you rate in the real world?
Newbies
I'm currently teaching a MT class at a local community college and was wondering what companies hire newbies. Thanks.
Hey, Newbies at TT...
I got a call from TT yesterday. Was working and will call back today. Just wanted to touch base with some of yall to see how you all are doing and if you felt your decision was a good one.
Take care, will keep you posted.
P.
OSi is for newbies
OSi has a mentor program for newbies because that is basically what their company is made up of. Unless you wanted to be spied on with their very own instant message program - where they will call you if they don't see you on line - and also they record Keystrokes and treat you like you are 2 years old, you don't want to work for OSi. They also call you on your days off to work but you aren't allowed to claim it on your time sheet. In other words they want you to work OT but not record your hours to do so. Also a very demeaning QA department. QA is very inconsistent because QA consists of newbies itself and half the time their edits are wrong. You will get emails from QA audits with stupid graphics with (good job) and stuff for toddlers and all of this coming from newbie MTs who happened to end up in QA dept. Mature people would not put junk like that in a business email or any email for that matter. Very poorly run company who recently partnered with a company with multiple offshore interests. OSi already offshored the easy work and with the new partner it is likely to offshore even more. Bad news unless you are just starting out MT'ing. Also they have just stopped paying any extra cents per line on holidays unless you meet almost impossible requirements. That was the last straw for me. I could not make it to even 1 year with OSi and because I saw the light I can actually spend the holidays with my family now because I got out in time. Never have I seen a company run in such a horrible manner as OSi. They offer a ridiculous sign on bonus because most people don't last long enough to even receive it. Go elsewhere, almost anyplace is better.
M-TEC Newbies On the Way?
So what will happen when they guarantee those people coming out of M-Tec a job at lower rates?
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