CURRENT Diskriter MT's; can give you me any pros

• CURRENT Diskriter MT's; can give you me any pros - and cons? E-mail me if you like. TIA. nm

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Can people who currently work for Diskriter email me?  I was offered a position there yesterday and want to talk to someone who is there now and can offer some insight on this.  Thanks in advance.

I am looking to chat with people who currently work at Diskriter.  I have seen a lot about this company good and bad and want to talk with someone who works there at the present time. 

I realize someone just asked yesterday about current info on Diskriter, but responses only addressed pay from August 2007.  Anyone care to share about current pay, ease of platform, amount of ESLs, etc.??  Thank you very much.

I want to know how flexible they are with their IC positions and how easy the platform is.  Do they really work IC or are they just employees without the benefits?

a name like Provided Upon Contact.  Set up a hotmail or yahoo email and go that route.  When services contact you (and they will if you have what they're looking for) and it's not the service you work for presently, then you can respond to them. 

Good Luck.

love working there and why? Do you easily meet your incentive pay or as past people have said, the ESL are so bad that you never meet the line count. I need current and new information. Isnt there a company out there that has a handful of happy employees or does all of them have both the haters and lovers. It is so hard to sort out fact from fiction sometimes and all of us have different expectations. It kind of goes along with the one man's junk is another man's treasures theory, I suppose.

Pros: Good platform. Don't run out of work. I only know one manager, and she is nice. They don't bombard you with nasty emails. 

Cons: QA team is snooty-snooty-snooty and makes a lot of mistakes themselves. Not sure but I think there is a lot of cherry picking going on because all I get is junk and my account is easy. I feel bad about sending QA blanks because they have a bad attitude about it. Training pay is only $8 an hour. I heard that you can get paid more than that at some other companies.

I guess it could change for the worst as I get used to them. More pros than cons.

Having done both since the beginning of time I have formed this chart:

Pros:

The thermostat for heat and air conditioning is yours and yours alone!

You can work around your favorite soap opera! 

You can buy an espresso machine and make your own lattes and save a bundle on that alone! 

You can eat when you want, where you want or if you want, and choose your own food from your own refrigerator for lunch and start dinner on your breaks!

You can wear sweat or jammies and save all your best clothes.  You can throw all your pantyhose in the trash (maybe your bra too if you are daring enough). 

When you get up to stretch you can throw in a load of clothes. 

You can work as much or little as you choose and at the times you want to! 

You can type barefooted or outside in your patio. 

You can choose your own equipment and software much of the time!

Cons:

You have to do your own taxes and/or quarterlies. 

You have to pay for your own equipment and get it repaired. 

Sometimes the doorbell or phone rings and no one else will get up to answer it and it breaks your rhythm. 

Sometimes when you are wearing your sweats even though you are most comfortable you wonder if you are turning into a bag lady. 

If some of your accounts are contracted by you personally then you need to deal with the office or hospital medical records politics yourself and may need to drive over there to pick up and deliver, attend a meeting, renegotiation.  You may wish to have a service pick up and deliver work if they use tapes and you usually pay for this yourself unless you are fortunate and the docs pay for it.  . 

For me the pros won out every time I reconsidered and I am still here, still working, still getting paid and wearing what I want with a smile on my face most of the time.  My sisters who stayed at the hospital still have not gotten a raise in 10 years and are wearing pantyhose.  So, who is lucky?   

Thank you for the information, and I agree that no company is 100%.  As long as they do a fair line count, have sufficient work, and pay on time, I am happy. 

I am currently employed by them.  The way I see it, there are going to be negative things and positive things about anyone you work for.  Spheris is no exception.  IMO, one of the positives is that I always have work.  The only time there has been a shortage of work is over the holidays in December/January.  Other than that, I have always had consistent work.  They do offer primary and secondary accounts, so you should always have somewhere to be that has work.  Another positive thing is that I have had awesome supervisors with Spheris.  They have been very flexible with me when I need to take care of my kids and change my priorities around.  I don't think every supervisor is like that, but mine have been and I have been very lucky.  Also, the QA staff is awesome and very helpful.  I will definitely say that they are the best QA people i have ever worked with.

The negative things that I see are that, first, I kind of feel like just a number.  They have so many transcriptionists, it seems like they don't have time to take care of them.  There's a reason they're always hiring.  I think that a lot of people get disgruntled really quickly.  There is no PTO for part-timers (they took that away about 7 months ago, which made me go back to full-time).   They seem to be taking more and more from the employees as time goes on, but again, it seems like they have to do that to be competitive.  Spheris India is also another big issue for many of the MTs working for Spheris, so if you don't want a company that is outsourcing, steer clear from Spheris.  If you want any other information, feel free to e-mail me, and I'll answer any questions you have to the best of my knowledge.

Not a fit for everyone.  Yes, there are lots of ESLs, lots of physicians who do not know how to speak, lots of different work types----comes with every national, I suppose.  You may feel you cannot make money or you may get a really good account that is a great money-maker.  The choice is yours.  I think it is a great company overall despite the cons one encounters with just about any company.  There are pretty good pros too.  Nice differential for shifts, potential bonus, and great benefits especially family insurance. 

I have frequently thought about changing from being an IC to an employee, but after looking at my pros and cons list, I can't change.  Pros:  Schedule flexibility, able to leave immediately if problem comes up at school or with my parents, if not feeling well able to take a few more rest breaks during the day to meet my line count, not so stressed to make lines in a certain amount of time if not-so-great dictators on that day, and lastly feel that I can better give my company a quality document because I can concentrate more on without a schedule hanging over my head.  Cons:  No flexibility, very stressful if poor quality dictators on that day, constantly looking at the clock and wondering if I'm going to be fast enough today to make my lines, and hoping there is enough work for me to due during my scheduled time.

I'm not sure what your situation is, but for my family (a single mom with 3 kids) being an IC is an answer to a prayer.  I wish you luck in whatever you decide. 

I work at 2 companies right now, one as an employee and one as an IC.  I have a great benefits package in the employee job which is the ONLY reason I am there - paid time off and health insurance.  Some folks feel being an IC gives you more freedom in terms of your work scheduling, etc.  Some companies are paying more for IC positions than employee positions, obviously it costs them less to use ICs. Looks to me like its getting harder to find employee positions with good pay and a good benefits package, in which case making higher wages as an IC might be worth it in the long run.

My frustration for the last 4 years has been nobody can keep me in full-time work (1200+ lines a day) and that is why I finally took a part-time IC position to supplement my full-time position (and cover my bum during low work times).

I worked full-time as an IC for 23 years and I always paid my federal taxes quarterly. I could look at my taxes from the year before, make adjustments for anticipating working less or more, and be sure I paid enough so that I wouldn't owe in April.

Hope this is helpful - some other folks may have more thoughts on IC vs employee.  Good luck!

Basically the pros, cons, experiences with either. 

I work for a small service as an employee  -- for years I was an IC and taxes finally caught up with me  -- even though I am an employee, I can work as many hours as I want, they do offer benefits and PTO after a year.  Another thing too, one hospital and since I started last year, I have never run out of work and they do pay on time with DD

Cons  -- just not really crazy about the slow platform  -- Medrite and they pay per page rather than line.

Any information would be appreciated.

Steady work flow?  Good benefits?  What platform do they use?  MT friendly platform?  Thanks for your experiences.