Absolutely. However, all the flaming is pathetic so
Posted By: Busy MT'ing on 2005-08-03
In Reply to: Is there anyone out there who has something good to say about Spheris? - What is all the negativity about?
search the boards. There are plenty of MTs with positive situations with them.
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What is with this flaming? nm
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I am surprised with all the flaming that goes on on the
political board, that others have not moved to quiet that down. There is just too much said that people need to be aware there are others out there, such as what has happened here. I saw the posting (if this was the same one) where it was said they would know who you were. I was contacted on this board by exemployer 1 time so it can happen. I would think twice or maybe three times before posting things that I think incite, as in the other board you also frequent.
Let the flaming begin....
I also have had nothing but a good experience with TT after almost 2 years. I have very, very rarely run out of work, and at most for an hour or so. The people in the office have been nothing but kind to me. I was not thrilled with VR, and stated that fact here. I also came back and stated that I was wrong, it just took some getting used to, and now I am back to my normal paycheck (it only took about 3 weeks or so). I realized at the time that you can keep trying to run from VR, but eventually it will catch up to you. I felt bad about what GP and others said they were experiencing with TT, but has not been my experience at all. I would still recommend them to anyone. The business has changed drastically, but for now I have a home, and I too will defend them. I am not saying others haven't had a different experience, just that mine has been pretty much all good.
I am the 1 you are flaming and just wanted to let
foot stompin' and hair flipping'. Soooo, you're welcome, lol.
Not flaming you, but where would you ship to? Might be jumping
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What is the point of trolling and flaming here, HUH? nm
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Not flaming, but frankly, I CAN't see their point - SM
After watching year after year now how MTs are treated and thinking they pushed the envelope about as far it would go with lower & lower wages unpaid work/no work but making you sit and wait, and VR to top them all of --here goes another ploy to take even more bread out of our children's mouths. You do agree that this MT/MTSO is, or should be, a 2-way street - but I haven't really seen much of THEIR side of the street. Docked for not meeting line counts? Of course, you might disagree with me for thinking this is about as low-down as a company can go, given we're paid chickenfeed, anyway. CAN WE THINK OF ANY OTHER JOB OR PROFESSION WHERE THE EMPLOYEE IS DOCKED FOR NOT MEETING THEIR PRODUCTION WISHES. When you're paid on production and production only, you should be paid the agreed-on rate regardless. Can you imagine telling a fast-food employee, Hey, guys, you didn't sell enough hamburgers this week so we're reducing your salary for ALL of the work you did. Or maybe the mailman should be docked also for not delivering enough letters, or may a policeman for not enough tickets, metermaid, toll collector, I could go on and on, but I think we all get the picture.
I assume, of course, that you ALWAYS get enough work on your shift, that the docs are of the calibre that their dictation allows you to just breeze through the reports. But you also report that they are decent about making up lines due to low work - wanna news flash? MTSO grapevine is alive, well and kicking - and word got around that, first of all, they must pay MINIMUM WAGE regardless of low work/no work - as long as you're required to be on your shift/PC. (Checked Labor Board web site earlier - criteria is, WHETHER OR NOT EMPLOYEE IS RESTRICTED IN HIS/ACTIVITIES while ENGAGED TO WORK, meaning, are you free to go shopping, travel, sleep ... no, told to Keep checking for work ... well, dear, must pay you MW.) I hope things work out for you and you don't become disillusioned about your company - but things aren't going to get better in the MT biz...as long as we LET them do what they want and let them just TAKE & TAKE & TAKE.
Good luck! 
I, myself, worked at MQ for 3-1/2 years - until it went sour in the fall of 2005. We made our lines, we made good bonuses on MINUTES of dictation instead of lines -it was the dictatorial turnabout that I think soured most people at MQ. You also say that your present company is understanding about
I know I'm a raging, flaming paranoid, but
do you get any sense that they can deliberately manipulate your work pool(s) so that you never quite reach $900 and grab the brass ring? Seems to me it would not be difficult for management to do, either by over hiring or sending work overseas, or some other work flow tinkering. That way they can keep the majority at PT status, and save a bunch of bucks on benefits (nice alliteration there - no?)
Can you give specifics about why I-chart is a rip-off? Not flaming,
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Not flaming, but wondering. How do you know you get paid for every line if you
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You're flaming other posters even above this thread!
You trashed the poor MT who was probably completely innocently recommending something for newbies. Whether she was innocent or not, how would you know?? You're judge and jury, and slammed her, and you know it. Your point could have been made kindly and respectfully, as in YOUR admonition for us to all follow the Golden Rule! Good gosh, you are self-righteous and a hypocrite! Blast away at anyone, I could care less, but not behind your cloak of righteousness! Blech.
I had the same pathetic OSI experience
They aren't required to pay out PTO and I never got mine either, bummer.
What a pathetic individual
I know what you're alluding to, even though you are too much of a coward to say it outright. If you can't say anything nice, or heaven forbid be supportive of this individual, then just keep it to yourself.
I, too, work for OSi and have for a few years. It's bad enough that you come on here and trash the company, now you're making personal attacks?! Go crawl back into your hole! 
You are so deluded it's pathetic,
that your job will be safe with cheaper labor around to do your job. You may be a bleeding heart that doesn't mind your fellow Americans losing their jobs and losing everything else which comes with it, but most of US MTs care about each other. What is so horrible about Indian/Pakistani MTs doing work in their OWN country by their OWN doctors?! You liberals astound me with your stupidity.
That is a pathetic truth.
Just LITTLE , PATHETIC, WORTHLESS Me
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This is the most pathetic comment
I have ever read. Thanks for re-posting to see what sorry pathetic attitude that Pacific is defending. Pacific and sm are probably cherry-picking supervisors' pets anyway.
offer of IC at 9/4...seems pathetic...
 I'm wondering if I'm just expecting too much
That is PATHETIC! Co is offering an IC position
at 5 cpl (yes, 5 cpl for an IC!!!!) with a POSSIBLE raise to 6 cpl in 90 days. That's the worst I've seen yet. I sincerely hope noone stoops as low as to accept that kind of pay.
Oh that's pathetic...trying to hide their names because they don't pay them MTs. These
companies need to have their names out there. I don't care what their excuse is...if a MT works for you, no matter how long or circumstances, pay them!!! They need to be turned in. I find it disgusting to NOT pay your employees and keep trying to recruit more suckers. Shame on them.
See inside for what I have done about this very pathetic situation.
Well what I did was get a second PT job and when the first one runs out of work go into the second job. I dont sit and wait anymore and I dont help out when other MTs decide to not work. We are all IC. That is what I did and it seems to work because they get the idea finally that you are going to continue to do this and they just more or less tolerate it and keep right on hiring. It really doesnt matter to them so it works fine for me.
If they keep offering those pathetic line rates
LOL.
Yikes..5 cpl and they filled the positions..pathetic..okay all you out there that stooped so low to
accept that rate, please raise your hand LOL.. That is SHOCKING..who could live on 5 cpl. I think I'd be insulted and humilated and DESPERATE to accept that rate. I'm pretty sure they are getting more than 5 cpl from their clients. You can bet they are making more than enough by having the slaves work for free practically.
I agree. I wasn't about to apply for that pathetic amount, but that is why
I was curious. At 7 cpl, they better lower their standards for experience, like someone right out of school who just needs the experience because they certainly couldn't survive on that for a living.
Some of the VR editing work you have to retype the whole report and then you get pathetic job offers
I had some offers for editing VR as low as 1.5-3.0 cpl and I just want to say to them ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! That is not realistic. I am really afraid to see where this profession is going. Slave wages.
You are pathetic! I have a great life, loving family, work for a great company.
You might want to fix that.
You really don't have to shout (angry person), but yes you are wrong!!
That is my last word to you!
I will add that getting a great pay check every other Friday from Medware really puts a huge smile on my face.
Absolutely not!!!
MTs make more money than migrant farm workers. We work fewer hours. We get to sit on our butts inside the house with air conditioning while they're outside doing physical labor in the hot sun. Our supervisors don't threaten us with deportation. We're not exposed to harmful chemicals and pesticides that cause cancer and birth defects. Believe me, migrant farm workers have life a lot worse than you do. I would suggest you try it out for a few months if you really think MT is that bad.
Absolutely!
Got 1300 lines in today so far, how many you got?
Absolutely . . . sm
But there's no need for personal attacks and insults. And while I have looked to this forum for info on companies, I'm really not interested in someone's daily nonstop personal vendetta against a company. And just because someone else doesn't agree, that doesn't make them "crazy" or "management." Those remarks are ridiculous and uncalled for. If you want to be the playground bully, go find a playground.
Oh, absolutely!
"Kuddos" is a very important medical word.
Absolutely not
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ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!
Depends on your acute - on my training account I was typing 300 lph - now, they put me on the other hospitals in that same account, with TERRIBLE dictators, etc. - and I'm lucky to get 100-150 lph. It's disgusting. Now today - after the big incentive all weekend for my account - after weeks and weeks of backlog, there is absolutely no work. Isn't that special?
You absolutely sure?
no more
Absolutely NO.
You wanted me to make something up, so I did. :-)
Use your tools! Google it! do your homework. Ask professionals.
If people don't answer you here then you need to look elsewhere. None of needs to be called to task because we didn't take time from our lives to address something you could have found on your own (which is probably why you didn't get responses until you got pushy). Be grateful and thankful that some people finally told you where you should already know to look.
You know the saying, give a man a fish....teach a man how to fish....
Absolutely! nm
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absolutely not.....
No company should take that long to pay. Even those in other areas of work who get paid once monthly, get paid at the end or the first of the month, not 2 weeks after the fact. That is ridiculous. I would come right out and ask them why the pay is taking soooo long!
The only reason (or excuse) would be they can't get paid any sooner from their clients, which means they should renegotiate pay schedules with them.
No one I know has ever had to wait that long, either at home or in a private facility, to get their check, or else no one would be working.....they would go to someone else where they get paid and can PAY THEIR OWN BILLS ON TIME!!
Absolutely NOT
IF you love nursing, there is definitely a shortage of nurses. GO...GO.. GO!
Absolutely!!!!
I just started the overnight check thing this week and was curious how it worked. I hate relying on it to come by snail mail, need it to be a little more dependable. I have been with them for about 6 months now and really do enjoy it. I have my own accounts and just have to meet the TAT (48 hrs). The pay isn't the best but I finally like what I am doing again so it's worth it.
I left my e-mail address this time, so you can email me if you want.
Absolutely, consider it done!
This is my mission right now! Damn it, we did not deserve this and now the poster above is right, no email to give us our final resting instructions. I called out sick at Heartland last night due to my state of mind and Melissa Carr, my former manager sent my email to Kathy Clemmons and Colleen Neidert, guess you can't use your sick time either!
I am no longer mamacarolina, but Mary Kirkpatrick, ex-Heartland employee, standing up for all of us at Heartland. I want our voices to be heard. I want this to stop!
Absolutely Nothing
Zip, zilch, nada. She probably doesn't even know it's MT week. Sad, isn't it?
ABSOLUTELY!! Go for it! nm
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Absolutely
Have to find something else. I heard a lot of good things about this particular company I am with on the board and thats why I went to work for them, but this is really awful. I figured even with a line rate increase$$ its going to make very little difference.
Absolutely.
No need to waste your time or theirs if the pay isn't enough
Absolutely!
I OFTEN email the reporter on a story - have even been interviewed as a result.
I ALSO like to follow the links/google jerks like this Acusis guy and email them as well. I have NO beef with poor people in other countries trying to improve their lives, BUT I have HUGE beef with cRapitalists in this country sending our WELL-EARNED, decent paying jobs overseas. Wake up people! Don't Americans see what is happening? By shipping good/high wage jobs overseas, we are now forced into a lower stardard of living. PROTEST IS PATRIOTIC. Lift your voices and let your public officials hear from you: FAIR trade, NOT free trade.
And BOTH parties are equally guilty!
Absolutely run
I edited quite a bit of work that she contracted out to an Indian company, which was horrible, and got paid the wrong amount. Although she did make it right, I decided after just a few days this place was not worth my time and effort. She talks the talk (looking to make a difference in the MT business, values people, etc.), but she does not walk the walk.
absolutely right ...
Independent contractors set their own hours, IRS will hold a companies feet to the fire for that. I work Saturdays for Transcend and I gave them my hours I want to work and they accepted them. I think the weekend hours asked for is dependent on the account you work. At least that has been my experience with Transcend. All is negotiated when you are hired.
yes, absolutely.
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ABSOLUTELY
I will continue to be a cheerleader as well. I agree with all the good things you said about TransTech. I simply couldn't feel happier with my choice to go with them 2 years ago.
absolutely
I have written emails stating why i deserve the raise and have always gotten one that way. Plus I would always ask for more than you expect...bump the request up to 1 full cent so that if they give you half, you got what you wanted but you could get a bonus too.
Absolutely not. SM
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Absolutely do it
I did the same approximately a year ago. I've got everything you mentioned, plus they pay my cable bill, plus I get generous PTO allowances, plus they don't run out of work, plus the pay and benefits are great, plus I have the same doctors all the time. What's not to like? Also, I'd think being an IC is not dependable like it used to be. I think you should go for it and fast.
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