CLARIFICATION - PLEASE READ
Posted By: Sage Street Staffing on 2008-06-02
In Reply to: Sage Street Staffing - South Florida transcriptionists - Mary Anne
there seems to be some confusion about the email I posted. This is NOT a personal email address of a particular person that I am trying to contact.
What has happened is I have received four resumes from four people in south Florida, however, their email addresses are their name or addy, or whatever word you wantto use, PLUS that email ending. It is like Yahoo, or hotmail or aol, or any one of those.
In fact, I was able to get in touch with one of the transcriptionists by phone, and it is legitimate. It is carrier in south Florida. However, the email addresses keep kicking back as undeliverable.
All I am trying to do is get a hold of the people that sent me resumes who live in south Florida.
I hope this clears up the confusion.
Thank you
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Just clarification. This is not the old QA Jo. nm
Thanks for the clarification. Will try it! nm
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sorry, clarification.
I am a Psych. transcriptionist, but my training does not apply to MT. I am really interested in the medical field, but would need to complete a program such as Career Step to becoome familiar with the vocab and the format.
Where I live now, Psych. transcription is not a big market, and I woud like to expand what I have to offer.
Sorry if it was unclear before!
DSG Clarification
I would like to be perfectly clear, as I have received emails asking me why I stayed so long since I said DSG was bad.
DSG IS NOT BAD!
Yes I am yelling here, so please hear me clearly. I no longer work for DSG. I worked for them and left 3 times due to..... once not meeting my line count, and twice due to health issues of my own and my MIL. I was more than ready and happy to go back to DSG. I was very disappointed that I was not welcomed back as my understanding was if there were openings I would be welcomed back.
DSG always paid on time every time! Only once (once in 4 years) was my paycheck off, less than $5 and they corrected it right away on the next paycheck. They were really great about correcting it, not fights, no trying to prove me wrong or anything. They just took care of it.
Jodi, Kim and others always answered my emails and questions without making me feel ever like any of my questions were silly or unnecessary. They went way, way, way above and beyond with me and my health issues.
I am very happy where I am at. I am simply glad that I did not miss this opportunity, which I believe I would have if I had gone back to DSG, as I would not have been looking. I am very sorry for people who have had a bad experience with DSG. I am very glad for the ones who have found happiness there.
I always thought that I had found my home with DSG until I was not welcomed back after my leave of absence due to MIL's illness.
I would still recommend to give DSG a try to anyone, and as a matter of fact I did to someone who emailed me privately based on earlier positive posts about DSG. She was acute care and always running out of work at her old job. I told her that I almost never saw acute care being out of work and as a matter of fact that DSG was training me on acute care a little at a time, which I have never been offered that opportunity by any other company.
So, in conclusion, overall my experience with DSG was good, very good. Management always nice, attentive, and easy to reach. As a matter of fact if they ever had openings and I could fit it into my schedule with this new job, I would gladly go back!
PT clarification
My choice was to take Sun-Thur rather than Tue-Sat. I was asked to work certain hours to meet needs of my accounts, which fit OK with what I wanted. I've been there over a year.
clarification
The above post meant for *Mute point* SM poster
Clarification
While all the things Stick Finger said are true, and she may make $50 to $75 an hour, it is NOT possible for most MTs. If she is making this kind of money, and I am not calling her a liar, there is more to the story than what she is saying. I say this as one who came from the day when making $100,000/year was quite achievable.....BEFORE computers, using an IBM Wheelwriter, which most of you probably never heard of.
What does AAMT have to do with it? Weren't they the ones who were suppose to be for the MTs? Aren't they the ones who came up with the 65 cpl pay? In my opinion they are the ones who sold us out. I USED to be a member of AAMT and I was certified. I quit when I realized they were NOT for the MT, they are for making money for themselves. At least I'm glad they apparently took the American out of their name.
I could say a lot more about the MT business and how and why it has gone to hades in a handbasket but I'm off to paint gourds.
Clarification
You've had incentives based on minutes? I was SO surprised to see that I had to ask you to clarify. I've been with MDI for years on several different accounts and they do offer incentives when backlogged, but I've never seen one based on minutes, only lines, even on a heavy ESL account. So I was very surprised to hear that. And I haven't seen one in ages and ages, because my accounts have been slow all summer and remain so. I sure hope they pick up in September, or I'll have to either ask for another account or find some backup work to pay my bills. I am very loyal to MDI, so don't want to have to get work anywhere else if I can avoid it.
Clarification
So...are you saying that if I get a report with 200 lines that has blanks...I only get paid for 15 lines? What is the logic behind that? For how long did they make you type before doing QA?
If you have found a better place to go for QA, please let me know where as I desperately need a good QA position. Email me if you'd like.
clarification
I don't mean a reduction of 1.5 cents per line from typing, I mean we have been getting paid 5.5 cents per line for the past year, and now they are dropping us down to 4 cpl to be more in line with the rest of the competition.
Clarification
In some ways you are correct. I have even called my pharmacist to give me the spelling of a new drug. I would call that conscientious enough. What I was referring to was ONE word blanks. I don't know how many reports she went through to find the word or if she left it out, made it up or what but I do know the words were words that I think God Himself would have had trouble understanding as there was nothing in the context to indicate what they even MIGHT be. That being said, I consider one of TT's Q.A. people among my good friends and we still chat.
I have never had a problem with Q.A. before except another one of those high fulutin Q.A.s that happened to work for MQ. (NOT the Herndon office but another I was transferred to). She as much as called me an idiot when she sent back a routine Q.A. and had changed at the point of INTROmission to read at the point of interim admission. The report was about a sexual problem. I was so furious I called the supervisor and her thoughts?.....Oh, I see you are correct but she was just doing her job. Doing her job!!!!!!???? A few more episodes like that and I was out of there. During the several years I worked for ddi, who was reported to have the strictest Q.A. in the industry, I never had anything but compliments. I don't know whether you do Q.A. or not. If you do and you are one of the good Q.A. people, who offer feedback when asked and refrain from trying to lord the Q.A. position over the lowly MT, then my hat is off to you. If, on the other hand, the shoe fits...............
clarification
Golden Isles Medical Transcription
Hey, thanks for the clarification.
That's not the one in my town.
Clarification
Thanks for the couple of email replies I've gotten. Just to clarify, I'm not looking for IC work at Webmedx. I already have a job here. I'm looking for IC work outside of Webmedx that will supplement my pay I'm not receiving here as well as tips from people who have been in this situation before, How you know when it's finally time to give up and move on. I've been here for years and see them buying companies and hiring people outside the company to do the work that employees should be promoted to do. They're not passing along the money they're making as the company grows. There's probably an excuse like they're not making more money, they're actually spending more investing in these other companies and investing in products for us. There's usually an excuse. But it comes down to the fact that my pay isn't going up and I can't make it here on the QA pay I get.......and there's no hope in sight of any raises or promotions.
CLARIFICATION
The scenario that I was referring to was that the recruiter told me that the other MTs were perfectly happy with the situation. Even though they are ICs, they are treated as employees and apparently very happy. Those happy individuals have taught the company to treat their ICs as employees and save money for the employer in the process.
Clarification
I just wanted to clarify on my above post, to show how great the TT people are, that the ONE night I ran out of work, my supervisor was going to train me from home that very night on her own time so I would not be without work and could get my lines in.
I thought it was important to point that detail out to show just how well this company treats their MTs.
If anyone gets an offer from TT, I'd very strongly suggest grabbing it.
Clarification
Let me clarify. I quit because I was told i was given three days but then asked if i NEEDED three days. Big difference. I understood being given three days but in the same breath being asked if NEEDED three days seemed not right to me.
clarification
My point is that if potential applicants express their concern about payment issues, the MTSO may resolve open issues (faster) and/or have an explanation.
Clarification. sm
I was referring to the OP as a possible trollomplicate 
spelling and clarification
Did not mean to offend. You're right, it was in bad taste. I was in my Gone With The Wind phase today. Sorry, but some of the responders need to find something else to do, like playing with their keyboards for a change. What a lack of intelligence is on this board. Hope it does not show up in the doctor's reports. One of the best MTs I ever worked with was black and we dished each other all the time, in fun, in good humor, and in love.
Keystroke clarification..
I mean being paid by the keystroke, not the company Keystroke. Sorry for the confusion.
Clarification - outsourcing
The article did not say that it was 'overseas' outsourcing...outsourcing - meaning that it was not MTs employed by Grady...as in an outside transcription company.
Quig's clarification
Sorry didn't mean to be scary. I meant in a labor sense they can certainly give you a bad reference and could possibly (but not legally) hurt your good reputation as a transcriptionist. This is odd behavior for a company so I would leave as soon as financially possible, especially as you have two offers. Not literally out of town, sorry.
Quig
amother clarification
Actually you are right, they should not give a bad reference as they may end up being sued. Certainly they can give a bad reference, but it is usually not in their best interest to do so. Some potential employers look down the line of your jobs, meaning employers in the future. This company sounds so strange and so petty that they may be the type to give a bad reference, but only you can forecast that as you work for them and know them and I do not.
They seem so strange acting, that is why I say leave and don't look back, especially since you have offers.
Quig
Thanks for the company clarification
Quick clarification...
A lot of the accounts have the ability to go back to old reports and you pull several lines of information, those lines are paid at a different rate than the lines you actually type. It is basically getting paid for free lines I guess you would say. Nice enough company. Pay normally on time. They bascially leave you alone if you are doing your job.
clarification - "this"
when I say this would be abused..., I mean being paid an hourly wage or salary.
Clarification regarding OSi and Opti-Script
Please note that the company OSi that is being referred to on these boards is Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., NOT Opti-Script, Inc. out of State College, PA.
Thank you.
A little clarification on the binders issue
at least from my perspective. My account binder has maybe a handful of pages regarding account specifics and then admittedly more samples than I needed. It's definitely not 5 inches of rules and specifics. QA is picky because we have a reputation for good quality.
Clarification....I am not Diane ^^^also want to know which company
To Gourd Painter - Need Clarification
Sorry but your answer isn't clear to me. Would appreciate more specifics. What does AAMT have to do with it anyway?
clarification - oh no I can't type 8 hours straight
with that average... Actually I can't even type 4 hours straight with that! I wear down after a couple of hours. So what I do is I will type and really tear it up for a couple hours straight and take a nice break, do it again for another couple hours, take another break. Fortunately (at least until December 31 anyway...AKA the foreseeable future lol-inside MDI joke) I can do this because of my 24-hour window. I'm going to have to come up with a new game plan as to how I do my work once I have to stick to a set 8-hour schedule.
Clarification about Keystrokes' current openings, hiring, etc. sm
There have been a few posts that Keystrokes is hiring and a few that Keystrokes is not hiring. Right now, we are working with our current MTs to make sure that they have the volume of work that they want, accounts that they are happy with and changing our benefits package. We are transitioning to having primarily full-time MTs, with a few exceptions and have been helping some of the part-time MTs increase their work load to full time.
We continue to grow and will be hiring in the very near future, once we make sure that current employees have everything they want/need. There are definite gaps that we need filled, all full-time positions, but the openings will not be posted until each and every current employee has had his/her needs addressed. We are also working on a formal training program for new employees, building a new office and working with MTIA and AAMT on the new apprenticeship program.
We hope this clears up some of the confusion and questions we have been getting.
I jsut sent an e-mail to my STM to get clarification. The thing that upsets me most is that sm
I do love my job, and I look forward to working each day. I can do all worktypes, I am very productive, very accurate. This is upsetting because my family depends on me for insurance. Thanks for your reply :-)
I read all read all the threads in the "companies" section
of another board, MT Chat, and Googled each one that got positive reviews. If they had a website and a way to apply online, I did so. And that was how I got hired at TRS. They were not advertising at the time. By sheer coincidence I applied to Transcend just before I applied to TRS, and they were not interested in what I had to offer at the time. And now they've got me anyway, since they bought TRS. Interesting how things work out sometimes.
Companies with negative reviews, or company queries that got only a terse I sent you a PM reply, I passed over.
I read your post. What do you want me to re-read?
and it seems those are your posts, too, so things just didn't add up and seemed inconsistent. If a place dropped me down to p.r.n. at 7 cpl or whatever and I already had another job where I could get 1000-1500 lines, I wouldn't give the first place a second thought so just couldn't figure out why anyone else would.
To Before You Read This
Girl... you are absolutely right on target and now even after I read your comments, I never knew OSi outsourced. That to me is a SLAP in the face. And you are right about the promotions. I have applied for different jobs and told they were already taken. when they have a job available, they KNOW ahead of time who they are going to hire. and you are right about the "welcoming thing, saying welcome so and so, when we didn't know there was a job available Now that I know they ship work overseas, I am totally OUTTA here. And you are right again, you are NOT paid extra fo holidays, weekends, or shift differentials.
OSI........LOL....... read on.....
OSi will promise you the world if they want you bad enough. Then once they get you, the promises are null and void. I see where they are finally following through on their annual raises that they promised years ago that no one ever got....and FINALLY, a holiday incentive? Wow, they must really be desperate.......I worked for OSi for many years, gave them my all and got nothing in return except heartache in the end.........do what you want, but just be looking over your shoulder every inch of the way and get EVERYTHING in writing!
Don't believe everything you read. sm
Most are staying with MQ.
Did you read where it said
39 hour 7 day work week?? Does this mean we are being forced to work weekends? I only browsed through mine.
Don't believe all you read....
I had never even heard of MTStars when I was looking for my first at-home MT job. I would have never accepted the position I currently hold. Every time someone tries to encourage others to apply at "my company" the negative banter that follows only does more harm than good. Just wanted all to know you can't believe even half of what you read on here. Mostly just ex-employees of wonderful companies that couldn't quite make the cut.
Sorry, that should read SM above
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I can't read it.
In fact, I can't read any posts regarding Transcend. First time I heard of Yahoo even having a message board about them. If you can still access it, could you please copy and paste it and email it to me? I'm very interested in this, concerning the constant turnover & turmoil with that company. Thanks. 
I cant read it either. NM
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Read above! Read below. Just read!
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Please read....
This topic has come up before and this concerns me as well. I saved a post I did on this board a while back. It's edited a little but the message is the same. Here it is.
I've worked in many pathology departments, referral labs, and the like. And I'm here to tell you that there isn't a single pathologist that I have met that is willing to go with VR let alone outsource their dictation. NOTHING will convince me otherwise. As for radiology, I am seeing too much of it being outsourced to ever believe it will go totally VR. Besides, VR is an absolute joke! Y'know that old phrase? Garbage in/Garbage out? Well, there are many docs who have already found out that's just how VR works. Just TRY, and I mean just TRY and take out the human element out of the picture (meaning the transcriptionist) and you will have reports coming back that are even worse than what is coming back from India!!!!! A question here....a very serious one......don't you think that if VR was more effective in transcribing reports that all the companies outsourcing overseas would go with VR before they did that? Something to think about. I've been around since 1990 in this field and they have been saying that VR was going to replace transcriptionists back then. Well, here we are 15 years later and quite frankly, VR hasn't even made it past first base yet. The doctors, the naysayers if you will, the big companies, etc. will be trying to find anyway they can to save money, cut costs and so on and the bottom line is, it will NEVER HAPPEN. The Transcriptionist is here to stay. There is absolutely no way you can take the human element out of this picture and have the absolute best quality reports/charts/medical information system on the planet....PERIOD.
Read MSG
Thank you for noticing!! Yes I made typos.. there are LOTS of MTs that make typos on here. As long as Im not doing it on my accounts I don't really care. I DO make this much on ONE account. I charge 12 cpl GROSS. I do have one Transcriptionist who make about 15000/year, so yes deduct this off the 60,000. This is also PRETAX. I really should not have to explain myself. I knew I would get some posts like the ones I got. I will laugh all the way to the bank with my nice FAT checks, while these negative people struggle at their low paying jobs. :)
Happy New Year!!
You do not know how to read do you?
Who said I still worked there?? I specifically said the entire year I worked there. As in PAST TENSE!!!
read above on DRC
read all the notations
Read this:
http://www.mtstars.com/
second paragraph
And also on the main board at the very top read the sticky post embracing offshoring...
did you read it
Hmmm... and what fact did the other person have except to say she would stand by the owner....!!! And someone already working at a company of course what are they going to say? But everyone will find out for themselves. These are just differences of opinions! Simply that. If you don't agree move on. No big deal. And honestly that person is a cheerleader. Goodness sake.
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