As I *said* in my post body, it IS awful that at MTSO cm
Posted By: used to work there on 2008-08-22
In Reply to: If you call being ripped off for more than 5 grand harsh & scary? - sm
would not pay. I agreed with you on that. If you want me to grow some guts, as you say, sorry. Throwing the term demonic around when forewarning someone is just a little unnerving. Perhaps I was just not ready to envision demons and evil first thing in the morning. LOL
As I said before, I do agree with you that this person should definitely be held accountable for her actions. It is sad that our profession has come to this. I hope your friend gets her money back 100 times over and that this MTSO is put out of business as soon as possible.
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adduction is toward the center of the body. Abduction is away from the center of the body. nm
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Your own post verifies other post about MTSO not
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the MTSO has a right to post here.
I love the fact that we can post on this forum confidentially. Although we may not think it is professional for an MTSO to come and express their feelings…they are entitled to it. Sometimes people just need to vent whether we agree with it or not. Maybe they have no one else to talk to. I would never bash any company that I have ever worked for other than the *lack of work*. I have worked for very professional companies. I guess I have been lucky. My bosses have been very vocal. If I make an error I get feedback right away. I am an MT and I am very proud of who I work for, as I know if they have a problem with me or my work they would come straight to me about it.
Maybe that is what this MTSO should do. It has to be difficult having someone bash their company. You just need to take the posts lightly. People are going to say things no matter what. You just never know who is posting what, which is the benefit and crappy thing about an anonymous board.
You have people who love to  and people who love to  . Only way for anyone to truly know anything about a company is to try em out for themselves.
THIS IS A POST OF AN MTSO...s/m
an MT would never write this.
I have heard that clients pay up to 18cpl.
When and how did they reduce their pay????
OOPS! SOrry, that post above should say from MTSO not MTSO2! :) nm
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Great post! Keeps us all grounded on what the MTSo has to put up with.
As an MT, IC for years, I have never had to rely on anyone but myself and am grateful for that. There will always be a place for me in this field as an IC, as I stick to commitment. Keeping my word is important to me.
I have thought about venturing out and hiring a few MT's to help when my workload gets busy, but after trying it once realized I do not have the patience. Thank goodness for the MTSO who has the patience.
Good luck with your new hires.
So obvious "Not KS". Why would another MTSO post
in a thread about another MTSO? So full of BS. We're not stupid; just underpaid.
I learned a lot about MTSO from her post..not a job for me every..I'm definitley a worker bee.
From above post. Oops, meant my MTSO support
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See post below about noncompliant MTSO - this pretty much sums up Midwest - nm
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It's posted right on their website under Tech. Requiremts. Not the first MTSO I've seen post t
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Heads up every body! sm
I thought this was rather interesting. A while back I posted about working a short time for a company and then leaving because I wasn't happy with the platform and got a better offer. Anyway, I was not paid for my work and about a month had gone by, so I posted here asking for help and was given a few good places to start. I recently received an e-mail from said business with a copy of my post from this board, basically Ha!, we caught you. However, I did receive my pay 3 days later. So, for anyone who doesn't think companies take time to read these boards, think again. I never imagined transcription company owners would have time to sit around reading posts on MT boards.
Any body know anything about a company named PTS,
curious. I tried Archives but could not come up with anything. TIA.
Never Fails.....Another Busy Body
Such a pathetic, unprofessional post.
You do not know the reasons for my question. Can't a person just inquire of a job on this site without this kind of bashing. I think you've set up your own demise. You shouldn't have far to fall. Good luck.
I did too long-time MT before MT killed my body and I had to do QA.
There are always folks who have to belittle those who know their stuff but fact is, it can be done. I even used to do $52 an hour on weekends when I was paid 13.5 cents a gross line. I could easily do 400+ lines an hour. In any event, I am a veteran who has been in the business well over 30 years and don't have to look up spellings, get it right the first time, knew my accounts and that's how WE do it. There are those I know who do it now and they are very valuable in this industry. Those who cannot do it, will get there one day but are not there yet and it is hard for them to believe, but we know :)
Any body work for Opti-Script ...sm
How are they to work for? pay, type of account, etc.
I try to keep my mind and body busy outside transcribing
Sounds hokey but works for me. I work evenings, which I love. Seems like I always have a list or a practical plan in my head (and actually follow through with some of them, ha-ha), and I try to keep physically busy outside and inside daily when not transcribing (usually not really to exhaustion) so that when I DO finally get ready to transcribe, I'm glad to be able to sit. With the nicer weather, this works well, of course; I'm outside a lot more in the yard or walking (winters in Ohio are another story, though). Doing for other people who need me has very therapeutic for me; I didn't always think this way. I've gotten more involved with my aging mother, we babysit the grandnephews sometimes. Being very involved in local church has been great (I'd recommend that to anybody of any age). Not isolating myself has been key for me for these past few years in particular (have been transcribing 32 years). When I finally sit down to transcribe, I just want peace and quiet and the work settles me down. I realize how grateful I am to be able to stay home and appreciate my life.
If you have a nice body, it isalso noteable
if it is covered by a long dress. In Saudi Arabia they are not called 'burkas', they are called differently.
BTW, for whom do you 'want' to 'flaunt' your nice body?
The only one to whom I want to 'flaunt' my nice body is my husband, not even my boyfriend.
You see, even American women differ.
I can already say now that you should not go to Saudi Arabia or any Muslim country.
Unless you were joking!
According to a friend, awful, awful,
Low pay, bad accounts etc..
AHIMA is not a regulatory body. I read da-nose and think it is brilliant.
Billing practices have long been an issue in this industry, but I guess I don't see where you are coming from on the impending regulation thing. It has been a long week for me and looks to be a longer weekend so my brain cells are a bit drained, lol.
Just do your work and quit being a cherry picking busy body.
Maybe some people cannot understand the dictator. If you understand the dictator, then just do the report and quit whining on this board.
Any body hear of a company in MA that is hiring editors for 3 cent a line? sm
I asking for someone else, the email was signed Jay
It is a losing game. They make next to nothing, get paid for a warm body count. Losers. Recruiters
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when docs give mtso a check, then mtso pays you?
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Isn't she an MTSO owner - which MTSO ? Just curious. n/mnn
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you seem to have an awful lot to say...
I still think you would be perfect for that particular company. That is my opinion. Sorry you are so awfully frustrated and upset...Maybe a career change? You have a lot of issues...
i think its awful
That a company would accuse an employee of something without 100% evidence/knowledge. Guess the original post was TRUE!
Awful!
I didn't pass either. I got a 78. I could have sworn I answered almost every answer correctly especially since we were able to use reference material. I guess that company does not want to hire that many MTs if their test is so darn difficult to pass!!!!
Awful. sm
Time clock punching that has you working at least 40 hours (even if you're hired for 35) just to get your lines in. Clocking in and out to go to the bathroom, stretch, answer the phone, breathe for fear it'll cut into your line count. Therefore, your MT work stretches out throughout the day, eating up all of your day.
Stupid, pompous, ignorant, incompetent, braggadocious upper management, with a resultant revolving door of MT managers, MTs and QA.
ASR that came with big promises and many MTs complaining of pay decline.
I would not advise anyone hire in with them until things change at the top.
That is awful
You are right, I am not just out of school. I've been MTing for about 12 years. I learned from my mom and then just learned on the job after that. Never had formal training. Anyway, that is really terrible that the schools would mislead you like that. Even those of us who have been transcribing for many years are not getting paid close to what we should be, much less the people just out of school.
The best way to make money MTing, in my experience, has been with my own accounts. I currently have two of my own accounts and in the past i had an entire hospital account, which really made some good money. Even then, it is tricky finding good accounts because many of the docs don't want to pay what the work is worth. Best of luck to you.
AWFUL!
I worked there for just over a year and quit 3 months ago. Ever since the SPI takeover, things have gone WAY downhill. Management is awful and they treat their employees horribly. They just don't care about their MTs. Tons of people have quit, including almost all of the management that was there when it was still CyMed. My manager quit a few months before I did, and the work suddenly started disappearing fast. I could no longer even come close to making a decent line count. It also doesn't help that they don't pay for spaces. The new managers put us in the awful new work pools and there was rarely enough work to go around. I would totally avoid this company!
It was awful when I was still there!
After the SPI takeover, my Cymed manager quit, then we had a temporary one, then there was a new so-called permanent one, then she resigned from the company, then we got another temporary one, and then finally another one, who was very rude and horrible with communication! I quit very soon after all of that! I have never been happier since I quit that hell hole! They couldn't even keep an elephant typing for peanuts!
Wow, that is awful!!
I can't imagine not working for and not receiving that much money! What Steve did was very generous and Proveros should be proud of him. It's unfortunate that his financial manager gives the company a bad taste in your mouth!
MQ may be awful
but I wish all companies had a policy like this.
Yep, CTS is awful!
If it makes you feel any better, I did get paid after I quit. I worked for CTS back in the summer and there was always a story as to why my checks were late. I stayed on through three billing periods thinking it would get better....boy was I wrong. It just got worse and the checks got later every time. I finally quit and honestly did not think I would get my last check, but surprisingly I did (two weeks late). CTS is without a doubt the worst company I have ever worked for and my advise to anyone that might be thinking about accepting an offer......RUN and don't look back.
That's awful. Something needs to be done about
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That is awful, but 75% of your pay?
You don't have much of a job left.
Awful
My experience was that the accounts that were put on Turboflow were done by their overseas workforce. If you were lucky, you were able to remain as an editor. In my case, after a couple of months and without notice, they decided that my account was so easy it no longer needed editing. Just, we no longer need you to edit this account, goodbye. I had worked on it for four years.
was awful, but to say that person must....sm
be from India reeks of racism............and THAT is wrong....just plain wrong. The poster was probably an American MT but you unjustly attacked the post as being from an Indian MT.....
attacking the post was fine, but to probably falsely accuse the poster of being from India definitely reeks of intolerance and racism and that is not a good thing. 
just my 2 cents worth.......have a nice weekend.....
Exactly!! Awful company IMO
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120 days is awful. Thanks but no thanks. nm
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Awful company
Do not work for this company. Very unorganized and extremeley snotty QA manager.
AWFUL company
Please do not consider working for these people. The QA manager was so rude to me when I started. I ended up quitting right on the spot. There are better companies out there. Please DO NOT work for this company.
Awful HR manager
Jim with Zylomed offered me a job and told me he would send me my papers. I waited and waited and no papers. I e-mailed him and called him and he totally ignored me. How unprofessional is that. Company definitely sounds screwed up just like most national companies these days. This career is really making me depressed with so much crap we have to put up with! Any others experiencing this?
AWFUL company!
Beware of this Indian-run company! I worked for them just over a year ago for about a month and ended up quitting. Their account managers and QA are all in India and are, for the most part, very rude to MTs. They are also EXTREMELY hard to understand when they are trying to train you, etc. Even when you get 98% QA scores, they still harass you and tell you that you need to improve in order to get direct submission to the client. One of their tech people even yelled at me one time when I asked for help with the software when I was new. I left them immediately and went to a new company, which I have been with since. There are MUCH, MUCH better companies out there!!!
And how about that awful spellchecker?
More incorrectly spelled words than I have ever seen. Word is by far 100% better.
took the test and it was awful
I took their test and that was one of the worst doctors I've ever had the displeasure of transcribing. Has anyone else taken their test, and if so, was it bad for you, or am I losing it? I have done some pretty bad dictators in my years as a transcriptionist, but he was really ridiculous. I had blanks all over the place, and that is just not like me! I have a very good reputation for being a great MT, and love what I do. This company probably thinks I'm a moron, and wonders if I lied on my resume about my about six years of experience.
Awful company!
Don't even bother applying. Heavy turnover. Not good management at all.
Awful company!
I had horrible experience with this company and will never go back. My account manager was so rude!!!! Waste of time. Money stunk also.
That's awful.Are you sure it was deducted?
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Apex is awful
I just quit working for a company that I otherwise loved because of Apex. It does EAT reports. Run away!!
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