Absolutely! We're no longer being paid enough sm
Posted By: fn on 2007-04-18
In Reply to: YOU are not making them look dumb! They do that to themselves! nm - vb89
to transcribe and edit the stuff we hear day after day after day.
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Absolutely. The longer we wait to stand up to
these snakes, the harder the fight will be. We all should have started speaking up a decade ago, but instead for the most part we opted to take a 'wait and see' approach. Maybe things would get better. Maybe VR really WOULD 'increase our earnings' [hah!] [snort!], or maybe offshoring would be outlawed. But it didnt happen, and why should it, if no one complains? If lettuce-pickers in the Salinas Valley can organize and get themselves a better deal, then American medical transcriptionists should be able to do the same.
So you guys feel you're getting paid what you're worth with VR?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've never done VR, so I'm trying to understand.
You're happy with your paycheck with VR? Do you find the files to be as bad as the original post implied?
Absolutely! I had a good hospital job that paid okay but -(sm)
left it cuz they wouldn't let me work from home. And unfortunately most of the services are located in states with lower cost of living, thus lower pay. I live in an expensive state, and should be able to make a wage that reflects the cost of living HERE.... not in the Middle of Nowhere, USA.
I don't know why hospitals haven't figured that out... they could have full-time, QUALITY local MTs, without the cost of housing them. Yet they'd still be available to come in to the facility when needed.
You're absolutely right on that
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You're absolutely right...sm
That was an error and I believe it will be fixed right away in future ads...guess we all can make a mistake from time to time, means we're just human and sometimes that annoys me...LOL Seriously, thanks for pointing it out to me, I do appreciate it and will let the people in charge know:)
I think you're absolutely right, that they want India NM
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Absolutely! If you're that dissatisfied with your job, find another one!
 Complaining on an anonymous message board to let off steam does nothing more than just that! Very nonproductive and passive/aggressive.
You're absolutely right! Makes no sense at all.
I THOUGHT I was posting this under the Dictaphone Transnet post.
I apologize for the confusion.
It's longer than the "standard" 65-char. line so will take you longer to make those lines!
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Maybe when we're paid more than...sm
the bare minimum, we'll be happy to learn more than the bare minimum. And what MT on these boards do you think knows just the bare minimum as you stated?
You're wrong. Never have been paid for OT. Many others
have said the same thing. I don't know how other accounts work, but there is no way to even submit OT on transnet, you can only submit the number of lines.
They're probably paid on production, too,
Too bad that's the standard
M.O. for most companies these days. Quantity over quality.
Paid for the whole report and you're right about
why you'd likely be fired after the adjustment time if you're not making at least min wage. The employer would need to supplement your income to bring you to at least min wage for your state.
Or you're paid by the hour/not line
Or, you are paid by the hour/not line.
If you're paid by the line, and not for checking - sm
demographics, then the more time you spend checking demographics, the more you are working for free. A little bit of it is one thing, a lot of it is quite another.
The reason MTs get paid nothing and treated like doormats is they're
Expect nothing, and you GET nothing.
You're supposed to get 12 hrs of paid training even though it doesn't take that long to learn
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It's "well." You're paid "well," not "good."
You get "good pay," and you're "paid well."
And the use of an apostrophe is required in ALL "n't" words. Not even going to try to tackle the balance of the punctuation.
Transcend obviously prefers quantity over quality these days.
Training on the system, not paid, but if you are physically typing reports then you are getting paid
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Oh, yea -- PAID, too. Grandmother PAID LEAVE would be a great drawing card to TT !!
Just love that PAID TIME OFF !!
Any company that makes you wait to get paid until they get paid by the client
is not a company you want to get involved with. That's part of being an MTSO, figuring out how to cover your payroll while waiting to get paid. I would stay away!
Is this a live count of lines paid for or same as CTRL I that we do not get paid for ?? nm
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Me too.. the outsourced company was paid for and paid me for headers, but OSI does/did not.
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I have always paid yearly and have never paid or been assessed a penaltly. nm
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Be glad you get paid tomorrow. We are paid on the 1st and the 15th, so sm
since the 1st is on a weekend, we don't get paid until Monday. It will happen again on the 15th of August …sigh. It is the only thing I do not like about the company, though, so I guess a few weekends of poverty a year is not too much.
It's been longer than that for me.
I tend to get stuck with a lot of terrible dictations most of the time, which I don't understand either, but maybe that has something to do with why I can't get a decent line count. Every time I get on the system to work, there's always some horrible dictation skipped from earlier in the day just waiting for me. Just got done with a dictation that was 9 minutes long, but took me over 30 minutes to type due to being inaudible in spots and just basically a horrible dictation overall. I didn't even get 100 lines out of it either!!
no longer there but.
Had trouble getting paid on time.
Not for much longer.
I knew going in they were not paying for headers and footers, but did not realize they were going to take the percentage off the total line count. The headers/footers only account for about 5 to 10 lines per report, so they have quite a little scam going.
Whatever, they are no longer there anyway. nm
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Not much longer to be an MT
Medical transcription is going the way of the dinosaurs. Voice recognition is coming in fast now. We will be editing for awhile until they perfect it and feed the corrected copies back into the VR engine to train it to understand all the docs. I would give this field 5 more years maybe. We all have to move on and find something else unfortunately:(
Longer than others for me
I think it took them a week and then I didn't even get a pass/fail but a link to go on to the next test, which seemed to be some kind of personality profile. By that time, I had hired on with another company that was my first choice.
No longer a CMT
I WAS a CMT for over 20 years, it never got me any more money, it cost me to re-certify, cost me to go to seminars for CEC's, I had one company I worked for tell me I could only go to the National Convention for 2 days and I would only be paid if I worked their booth for those two days, so what was the use of going if I was going to be stuck in a recruitment booth insead of learning at any of the seminars? I still kept plugging away spending my time and money to keep that CMT behind my name. Then my mom passed away, in all the work of getting her estate settled, condo sold, etc. I forgot to send in my fee and CEC's verification slips. When I realized it had slipped my mind I called and wrote them a letter explaining the circumstances and that I had all the CEC's earned. Even offered to send a copy of the death cert. Their reply....too bad...so sad pay again to take the certification Test. NOT
Lori never paid me and now ETC has not paid my friend.
What is WRONG with these companies?
Is it still being paid on time if you are paid on the 1st and 15th.....
and if the 15th falls on a Saturday getting paid on the 17th? My bank is open and posts on Saturday that means I am not being paid on the 15th doesn't? This has happened a lot lately.
At least you get paid, I would rather be paid late than not at all. Just my 2 cents.
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Yea, at least u got paid. Everyone who worked for TSI is STILL waiting to be paid
I don't understand how Jayne cannot pay us. We have christmas coming up. I bet her family has a fantastic Christmas because she is using OUR money to pay for it. I worked so hard for her and I know the other girls did too. How insulting that she will not return phone calls or emails or PAY us. How does she look at herself in the mirror knowing that the MTs who did all the work FOR her did not get paid. She even sent me an email saying I give you my word HAHAHA her word is nothing, obviously. Well, I will call the attorney for the THIRD time and see what is going on.
To the poster, at least you got paid even if it was late. I sincerely hope you get your last check.
The longer MQ MT is on DQS, the less lines
we get. There is no "getting used" to the program that is taking our line counts. Very familiar with DQS, have all normals/short cuts in place, very fast typist, and DQS "eats up lines". MedRite did not do that to us. Why do you think MQ changed to DQS ? -- so that the MT's would get more lines per hour ? NOT !
Katie is no longer there either
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If she's no longer there how will she see it? Ditto for
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You are a recruiter? Hopefully not for much longer.
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This is exactly why I know longer send anything. nm
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4-6 weeks...sometimes longer
nm
was it last fall?, or maybe longer, whenever...
nm
I am. I even sent them an e-mail that I no longer
worked for them and they still send me the stuff from Corporate. I don't get any more from the PS though.
Slave No Longer
Ditto to your post. This new compensation plan is insane. I am now having to work 12 hours a day instead of 8, while all the while making less $. I probably make less than the greeters at Wal-Mart. They expect us to be on standby during our scheduled shift, yet there is no work, and we are not compensated for this time with no work. Now I have work at midnight and on weekends in order to get my quota, and end up working what should be paid as overtime. I am going to call the labor board in my state because this cannot be legal. I suggest we all do the same.
Yes, they seem to have put in place a director of OPs that came from MQ, only to now be doing her damage at SPi. I understand she is also busy putting into place managers from MQ, so it is obvious what her agenda is...to mimic MQ, so we know where the direction of SPi is going, and it seems to hold true with this new comp plan.
In a matter of 18 months, SPi has successfully turned what was once a well-respected, successful company with a talented team of MTs and mangers that was once Cymed and turned it into a cold, disorganized machine. They have had to have have lost millions in revenue with all the clients and MTS who have quit them due to poor service and disorganization, including ongoing unresolved IT issues. It's almost as if they want to fail!
Folks, it's tiime we all stand up for what is right and make someone pay attention. What is a transcription company without transcriptionists? We are not slaves and we do have options. If SPi wants to be another MQ, then let's let them have it and see where they end up in the court system.
I have been in this profession long enough to know that you can be successful at whatever you do by working hard, treating people with respect, and never compromising your integrity, a virtue that is foreign to SPi. I for one am sick for us all at the latest turn of events and am going to spend this time when there are no jobs available making the necessary calls and then submit my resignation.
Let's all stand together and see how long this compensation plan works for them when there is no one to do the little work they have. They may have people offshore who will do it for even less than the slave wages they are paying us, so I say let them have it and suffer the consequences when what business they have left walks out the door.
Since you no longer work there
But if you need to keep repeatedly posting about your bad experience there, go ahead, its a free country. I was speaking of my current work volumes there, to another current employee. My post was not addressed former employees, and I made no mention of the validity of your past experience, so I don't understand why you felt the need to respond to my post. As you said, not everyone has the same experience, and I understand that...do you?
KC... It sounds like you are no longer there.
Could you tell me why? Was the pay on time and comparable?
WMX - no longer get hx on jobs - sm
Is this so we no longer can see who kicked back jobs and potentially report them if it is a repeat thing? Not trying to start a fuss, just curious.
I have done transcription probably longer than
you have been on this earth, almost 40 years now. I think I know probably as much about transcribing as most here, worked for all different specialities, please don’t make me lose it tonight with your holier than thou message. Like you are the only little girlie here that can transcribe.
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
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