About contacting an attorney - sm
Posted By: Elaine on 2009-05-28
In Reply to: No one has heard of this one - Leary
I too would like answers because half a truth is worse than a total lie because you mislead with half the truth and do much damage. Please clarify these issues for us.
1. Why would the company go to all the trouble to pull this two-bit prank when they could just say good bye to you if they wanted to. You have been ranting to all of us on shift with you for months about how you have been mistreated and were going to sue the company and demand unemployment. You did not tell the good MTs here who are ready to take your side and defend your position that All Type has a 3 strike rule and that you have told several of us that you were written up once for failing to make production of 1200 lines a day and then spewing some pretty foul language in an email to a supervisor about them making you do OP notes and type ESLs and how that was not fair to you. It is an acute care hospital. That is what we do. Do you remember telling us about being written up for falsifying your time card? Honestly, that is pretty serious. If you were the one telling us that, i cannot even imagine what you are not telling us and what your personnel file looks like.
2. I have not seen anyone leave, voluntarily or involuntarily on our team in some time. So who are you referencing when you say a lot of people quit or were fired. No one stays at a company that is horrendous and unfair out of the kindness of their heart. Are you telling us you just felt sorry for the company and the management team you hated and stayed to help them out?
3. Evidently you believe that you are a very high caliber employee and MT. I would think you would be able to go anywhere and find a perfectly wonderful job. I know most companies are just begging for real talent. Unemployment is probably your only alternative because we both know that you are NOT capable of working in any acute care setting - and unemployment and legal sources are going to laugh you out of the offices if you tell them the truth! Even if you fail to tell them the real story, your history is well documented.
4. From all of the foul statements you have made about this company and their management for months and threatening legal ramifications if they mess with you - I wonder why you would want to be a part of a company that you have made clear to any of us who will listen how much you hate All Type and all of the management. I also wonder if you do not know that from the beginning when you started making statements to the rest of us about lawsuits - that the company most surely handed your file over to a legal team. I suspect the legal department has been involved in all of this for several months.
Good luck missy. I have worked with you for well over a year and your professional behavior and abilities leave a lot to be desired. You have been so disruptive that most of your team has blocked you from IM and we are all glad that your drama from 4-12 everyday is finally done. You should have been doing your job instead of driving us all crazy with your IMs and maybe, just maybe this company would have valued you. As it is, what goes around comes around and your cheating, backstabbing, and lies came back around to you. I salute Karma!!!
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
Why don't you try contacting --sm
Fox News, as they seem to be following this pretty closely and they may be able to direct you to someone or somewhere for help. Good Luck to you and your kitty!
Were you contacting him regarding a position?
What are they looking for now? Do you know if they have a website?
I too suggest contacting them. sm
From my experience they are very happy to try to work things out with you. 
Only that they would be contacting me this week.
I got an email from tammy? who said someone would contact me this week, so we'll see.
Contacting Allegiant
The Allegiant Transcription Services Website has a link to submit your resume. Due to the substantial increase in work of late, Allegiant has been unable to answer telephone calls. Please submit your resume and you will be contacted if a position is available for you.
Thanks,
Allegiant Mgmt.
You might try contacting QA directly ...
I agree, this makes no sense and my guess is all the HIPPA folderol is just a smokescreen this person is throwing up (for whatever I do not wanna deal with this or stick my neck out for ANY reason) ...
alternatively -- I would recommend saving each and every report you type from this person AND THEN flagging the report for QA so you can fill in your own blanks if no one wants to help you. I type several doctors who -- without samples -- speak in some impenetrable monotone ... without my file of samples, their reports would be moth-eaten.
good luck - if your company has a chat board or if contacting someone else on that account/WT might be a (much less convenient and/ or discrete) alternative.
Good luck, Yes, people do actually quit jobs over dictators like that ... too bad so many companies seem to blame the MT and some imaginary work ethic problems when the real problem, imho, is lack of support.
All this turnover of MTs (or any other employee class) is VERY VERY bad for any company's bottom line... but so many companies seem to blame the MT personally ... it poisonous.
Try contacting someone who has been there for a while to get the real story
you cant go by what someone says that is not there any longer. They are probably holding a grudge and will speak poorly of a company. you only get one side of the story and not necessarily the correct one.
I, myself, have been there for 2 years and plan to be at TH for a long time.
No they dont have incentives. Usually those who do provide incentive lower your base rate and make it look like you are getting extra.
No they dont have shift differential because if they hire you for 2nd shift, they normally pay you a little higher to begin with.
They DO PAY Holiday pay but you have to work if you dont ask off. Thus, you get holiday pay plus your line count which comes out to be double time like you are supposed to be paid.
How many companies do that?
NONE that I know of except TH.
Of course no company is perfect and if there is, good luck finding one.
I get paid on time, pick my own schedule, expected to work my schedule or notify them if I cannot stick to it for some reason, get QA feedback respectively, etc.
They have been growing in size and have been adding management to deal with the size. That is the only change I have seen in management.
I suggest contacting Medware
wanting to know information that should come directly from them, not people "that they think they are in the know."
If you're contacting clients ...
maybe they'd be interested in the following.
Extortion threat to patients' records
Clients not informed of India staff's breach
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/02/MNGI75VIEB1.DTL
Try contacting them again. Navesys has been a blessing for me.
I took a job with Navesys a few months ago. The work has been steady and so have my weekly paychecks.
Contacting labor board.
Could some one tell me how to go about contacting the labor board about an issue with my employer? Since I am a remote MT do I contact the labor board in my state or the state my employer is based? This has to do with pay that I believe was deliberately shorted out of my paycheck as a retribution because I did not type reports on my secondary account that were approaching TAT when I was contacted about it by instant messenger an hour after my shift was over. I wasn't even at my desk an hour after my shift was over. I also found out a couple days after the fact that an email from my account manager's supervisor was sent to an email account I no longer use stating that I was requested by my AM to type some reports so they don't go out of TAT and would I please log on and complete these reports.
Now, lo and behold, my paycheck will be short by almost 800 lines because these 800 lines supposedly sat in QA and weren't completed by the time the pay period ended, even though my shift ended at 4 p.m. on the last day of the pay period. I have worked for this company for a whole year and this is the first time I have ever heard that the MT is not credited the lines produced until cleared by QA...and I'm not even on 100% QA. Furthermore, I can't see how I would have even SENT 800 lines to QA in a day. After multiple emails to both my AM and her supervisor requesting some sort of documentation where these lines went to, I still have heard nothing in regards to this and I'm fed up. Is this something the labor board will even handle?
I put a blurb about not contacting until a mutual agreement is met. nm
tt
I love the one where the MT was bashing a company for not contacting her..
LOL. I read too fast and thought you were contacting her about porn work. nm
nm
Person from corporate contacting me via email regarding my posting today
I have no reason to meet with you, have a good job and certainly do not care to discuss with you where you send your work. I know what I read and it was quoted by a top official at your company. Even though you said the newspaper slanted the story like they wanted it to read, I saw quotes and never saw where the paper did a retracation of the story.
attorney
Honestly, i would sign, collect my severance, and get another MT job. They have NO right to tell you who you can work for and that basically you have to leave your trained profession for a year. You know the MT business you cannot leave for a year and expect to get any kind of job again.
get an attorney
Absolutely get an attorney and go to your state labor board. They can take it much further than you can. Do you have any idea who is doing this to you and why? Your employer is unbelievably short-sighted and your co-worker - I don't even know what to say about that person! Best of luck. I am so glad you have some evidence.
D is an attorney
Just as a piece of information. Of course, she'd tell you to serve on jury duty.
All these weeks/months that the MTs from MDI have not had enough have been during the preparations for this merger. D was just taking care of herself -- she traded you all in for her retirement fund. She may have always talked like everything was about family, but at the end of the day, it has always been about business. I'm not a current MT with MDI, but worked there long enough to understand her personality.
Best of luck to all of you!
Attorney D
Thank you for the reminder about D being an attorney. I had completely forgotten about that. For me, that fact explains her actions a little better...
I had my attorney look at a contract also
I was asked to sign a really outrageous one.... not for Sten-Tel. I don't want to mention the company. It's hardly ever on here and I think I was the first and only person asked to sign one. Basically making me a slave with varying pay and other horrible things.
NO, they cannot! I consulted an attorney about this.
The consensus is that no one can prevent you from earning a living. Noncompete clauses aren't worth the paper they're written on and can't be enforced. What are they going to do, taunt you about being a traitor? Tell them kiss off and talk to your attorney IF they ever find out about it.
Not an attorney, but have 2 in the family ...sm
My son-in-law is a newbie lawyer who does have an interest in labor law and the like. I've had numerous conversations with him re. the MTSOs and all they're able to get by with. Regarding your post above, the difference is ASKING YOU TO and REQUIRING YOU TO.
In any job paying on production, if there's no work on your shift DUE TO NO FAULT OF THE EMPLOYER (and this does NOT include having sent your work to VR when you on a straight MT shift and you're out of work) they may REQUEST that you make it up at a later date - this must be a mutually agreeable time. But THEY CANNOT REQUIRE you to make up work at a specific time - they must pay you minimum hourly wage for your time in that case. 
Try the Attorney General's Office...
for your State. Worked for me and I was an IC. Got my last check. Good luck.
Disagree. One letter from an attorney
to their clients would change this picture...
They broke the contract first by not paying according to agreement; that's all I'd need to either contact the clients directly myself or pay $100 bucks or so to have an attorney do it for me...
Again, you aren't looking for payment by contacting the client, you are advising them in advance that you are suing their provider and that they should be prepared to turn over documents/be subpoenaed.
Or, just roll over and hope the company chooses to pay you. Whatever.
Have an attorney send them a letter with
a copy of your contract. Also, as poster below says, look for a new job.
No Texas and will be seeing my attorney tomorrow.
?
Update - saw my attorney and filed for
Two people at the unemployment office told me I have every right to claim unemployment. My attorney looked over my contract and apparently the owner didn't cover all her avenues and he found a loophole and told me to file. BTW - one of the ladies at the unemployment office told me they are seeing more and more MTs filing.
Take it to your Prosecuting Attorney's office
They will quickly act on it. She will pay or be arrested. If it is for more than $100, it is a felony charge.
The only way I got my money is by sending him a letter from my attorney.
Essentially, all I did was go to a lawyers office and have them send the guy a letter of the amount owed otherwise face legal action and the guy sent me my pay. Callstreet will tell you that they will pay these great rates and then when you do the work and in the time frame they want, when you see what you are ACTUALLY being paid is SIGNIFICANTLY lower. This is an Indian guy who uses anyone he can get his hands on and then screw them out of hard earned money. They conference calls are brutal to get turned around in an extremely short period of time and then to get screwed out of the proper pay is a slap in the face. He does the same thing to services he uses overseas, too. I've seen posts on an Indian website about this guy cheating them out of pay, too.
Also contact your state Attorney General
consumer fraud division. Contact the local TV station that has a department for such fraud and ask them to investigate. Once you go public, you will be paid. Best of luck to you.
I'm sure the attorney has time to "live on this board" like we do. nm
x
Being a small MTSO myself, the second attorney is correct sm
Honestly, here in the Northeast, the courts will not uphold any noncompete clause written in that manner, signed or not signed.
If it affects your ability to make an income and provide for yourself, it will not hold up in a court of law in the great US of A.
My attorney told me that noncompete clauses
are illegal and not enforceable because one person cannot stop another person from making a living EVEN if you sign that noncompete agreement. I went through it with both a pharmaceutical company and a transcription company trying to prevent me from working for their clients or competitors. I can see their point as an independent contractor when it comes to offering the same services and essentially stealing their clients. However, as a former employee, nobody can tell me who I will or won't work for. The second attorney is correct, and I would follow his advice.
Report to BBB, then contact attorney general's
xx
We all need to band together!!! And we DO need to contact an attorney. This has become CRIMINAL!
This is not legal!
Hmmm but interesting....will the attorney actually be able to find out WHO is posting?
I thought this board was secure and identities were not revealed????
call attorney general and do not work until paid
that is BULL
what kind of attorney did u all hire and in which state? What if u are spread
all over the US and there are like 8 that were not paid? Do we get an attorney in the same state as the loser who did not pay us? Or what is your advice there? What did u do? How much did it end up costing u? Plz reply via email if you want.
make complaint to your state attorney general sm
google.com you particular state attorney general and read up a bit. Here in California I know I have read things in the newspaper where Jerry Brown was investigating this or that and taking action, scams was one thing. Type up the problem encountered, find the website and send an email with all the facts (complete) so that enables a proper investigation. If nobody complains, they get away with it. They depend on people not knowing what to do, or feel, what is the use.
Here is a link for my state, can click the titles, they open
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=california+state+attorney+general+consumer+fraud&rlz=1R2GGLJ_enUS333&aq=3&oq=california+state+attorney+g&aqi=g6.
Contact the Labor Board, the Attorney General's office,
send them a certified letter with return receipt giving them 10 days from date of the letter to issue you your money. Be sure and keep documentation of everything.
contact the attorney general in the state she is in and the better business bureau and
call the local newspaper and something like ABC on your side. Put the heavy duty pressure on her.
Funny some of us were written letters by company attorney when we posted our concerns here
:(
|
