Can I vent anony about a company I am fed up with?
Posted By: sm on 2005-10-27
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I am tired of no work, tech probs, account switching, and rude managers. Low pay is a factor also. Really want a better paying job. Anyone know of a company willing to pay a 10-year MT more than 8 cpl? TIA
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The topic starter for this thread says USA Transcription-anony
Forget it and just go away. Everybody is always so snotty and snippy here. I for one am tired of it and will never be back.
Yeah, so? I am equal opportunity anony poster.
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Excuse me, but yes she did. The OP's very last line posted by anony asks "do they pay spaces?&
Someone probably needs more coffee this morning but it isn't me. All I did was make a simple comment and this is what I get. It's no wonder a lot of us don't post more often as we get flamed for everything we say.
Just need to vent.
I am a fairly new MT, but I do have experience. I applied for an MT position with a National company as an IC. I got an email saying that she was very impressed with my resume and that she would give me a chance. She told me a little bit about the job, and said to email her back if I was interested. I emailed her back with a few questions and told her I would like to see a contract. She emailed me back and said that she usually doesn't give out contracts unless the person is very interested in the position. I emailed her again and told her that I was very interested and would like to see a contract. Well, I never heard from her again! This happened a week ago. Why do some people get other people's hopes up?
May I vent??? SM
I hate my job with a capital H!! I truly feel like screaming (or crying, but I'd prefer not to expend that much emotion on it).
I have about 90% ESL doctors, half the time there's not enough work--so because of the two above issues I can never make my lines (not to mention the fact that I'm a perfectionist so spend/waste way too much time trying to fill in all the blanks on the ESL reports). I've gotten two nasty certified letters from the company about my poor line counts. I just feel like giving up...but of course I can't do that because I like living in a house and eating! ;)
I know my days are numbered there, so I've been furiously testing with tons of other companies. I hope and pray something better comes along!
I'm really beginning to lose some self-esteem over this whole issue...but I KNOW that I'm a very, very good Transcriptionist (I just suck (excuse my French) at ESL doctors).
I wish I could have learned by other peoples' mistakes! But , no, I had to make my own mistakes!! LOL. Several people tried to steer me away from this company. A few people couldn't say enough good things about it. I guess that's just life...we all have to learn the hard way.
Oh, well...I truly appreciate having a shoulder(s) to cry on!
Hugsss to you all (especially to the HL transcriptionists),
Just Me
Need to vent
I worked over the weekend (not scheduled, just didn't want a Monday backlog), and guess what? The worst account has hours! of dictation by the worst! dictators doing DS they should have done months ago...all dictated after I signed off for the weekend. It is all being routed to me to knock 'em out! I feel like screaming! If Dr. I-don't-know-English-carries-on-a-conversation-with-the-nurses-while-dictating-old-reports expects me to understand EVERY word...well, I just CAN'T! So I'm sending some to QA who seems to have woken up with a bug in the aadvark this morning and is correcting me on the stupidiness, nitpicky things....Nail me for a medical mistake but please, telling me I don't use enough commas just got on my last nerve!
AAARRRGGHHH!!
Thank you. Please return to your normal programming. 
Need to vent......
I accepted a position as an Editor with a smaller national, after my last employer had a problem with paying period. They told me they outsource but are trying to hire people to keep the work here. Okay find and dandy. I wanted PT work but I was told I was needed FT. Okay, that'll work, just need to WORK. Well guess what, NO WORK. The offshore company gets to QA their own work so I am not allowed to pull any of that, only what the US MTs do, which evidently isn't much. I watch the system and the work going to the offshore editors can be out of turnaround, still I can't touch it. Here I sit with mounting bills due to the last crappy company and still no work. In the past couple of months I have talked to other editors who are working 2-3 jobs during the SAME scheduled hours, so basically triple dipping. I won't do this, that seems to be stealing to me, but I certainly would like some work about now!! We hear all the time how the US companies can't get well-trained, skilled people who want to work. Well I'll tell you what, here sits one with absolutely nothing to do and soon to be on the street.
vent
You need to vent just like the rest of us. Imagine have 10 years like me and getting offered the same crap wage. It is insulting but times have changed and not much we can do!
Have to vent!! (sm)
I am so fried!!  At the same time not surprised.
I know this is the holidays and all, which = slow, but...I was hired at the best national for full time, five days a week. I asked for backup accounts from day 1 and got ignored and/or the run around. Ran out of work my very first week and I have run out of work consistently since. Long story short, when I pressed the MTSO about lack of work, I was finally told that I'd only be busy a couple days a week. Why did you hire for FT, then? 
Backups are coming soon, but thankfully I have OT at my PT job, otherwise I'd be so screwed. So fellow MTs, I've learned not to leave one MTSO for another until I know for sure I have everything covered. And by choice I won't leave my guaranteed $$, med center job. 
Just need to vent about something (sm)
To the companies who post jobs on this board: How can you possibly hire when the MTs you already have don't have work? I am sitting here for nearly the fourth week in a row with no work. I'm not alone. The account I am on was recently overstaffed again plus the facility that we type has a low census and no work. Why not take some of the new people you just put on this account and move them to these new accounts you are hiring for? This is not a bash against the company I work for. I like it and want to stay. I know this happens at a lot of companies because I see people posting on here all the time that they don't have work and their company has a job listed on the job board. I just don't understand why this is. Please, before hiring more people, make sure there is enough work for the MTs who already work there.
But sometimes you just need to vent
And if we can't vent to a fellow MT anonymously, who can we vent to?
Vent
I was recently (last week) hired as an IC --- however, the company was looking for second shift hours M-F and then a split shift on the weekends. I have had personal issues going on, however, it has not really provented me from working. The biggest thing was sending an ivoice, and not having a line count program (other than MS Word and dividing by 65) I was cheated out of over 1,000 lines -- today, I downloaded two counting programs, Sylcount (and cannot get in touch with ANYONE from tech support there) and Pacticount -- neither one would count lines -- I spent 3 hours reinstalling MS Office and word was 15 minutes late signing in and the owner of the company calls and fires me -- as well as threatening legal action for return of the foot pedal -- last weekend, (my first week on the job) I get emails and phone calls from the hospital, wondering why other people are not working. Bottom line, RUDE service, TRYING to deal with getting a line count program and yes, I try to get my point across, but right now, I just tend to wonder about companies who hire and actually, they are hiring subcontractors.
She just came here to vent, lighten up.
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Maybe I just needed to vent.....
.... I'm an employee of Medware and I'm sure that all my co-workers will know exactly what the deal is. The last thing I need is your criticism when all you are interested in is someone being tacky and spreading dirt. You have not walked in my shoes and have no idea what I'm dealing with at this time! All I can say to you is if you are looking for a job, take my advice and do not choose Medware as your next place of employment, as at the current time it is not a good place to be. Although, I am happy for Wilma because obviously the changes at Medware have not reached her yet. Have a great day!
We are entitled to vent once in a while--sm
we do the job and most of us are thankful that we have the jobs, but every job has its annoyances. To never be annoyed about anything is totally unrealistic and *foolish*. Lighten up!
I have to vent, as I am sitting here SM
with a throbbing headahce and chest pain. Every Friday, and I mean EVERY FRIDAY, I have a day from hades on my account. I work on a difficult account, lots of ESL, but generally I enjoy it and get work sent I really enjoy. I'm used to the doctors and it is not a problem any other day of the week, EXCEPT FRIDAYS, when I have one awful report after the next. I will have the worst doctors, one right after the next, without any let up. It could be random, I know, but I assume they are cleaning the mess out before the weekend, when they have less expereinced people working.
Do other people have the same experience? I work for a large company, not MQ. The other large company. And please, no discertations on not being professional, etc. I'm actually concerned for my health.
I have to vent for a minute sm
I have noticed many companies advertising for Independent Contractor positions yet dictate a certain schedule like a full-time employee, i.e. 1st shift Sun-Thurs, etc.
Now, I am aware they need to staff accordingly and have coverage, but come on....these companies do not truly know what IC status is all about.
If they want you to work a straight 8 hour shift, Sun-Thurs. than hire as an employee and give benefits darn it. The companies want their cake and eat it too. No overhead with ICs, but dictate and demand certain schedules and pay squat for it.
Ok, I'm done.....had to get that off my chest. Feel better now!
Please forgive me I need to vent
I am just one of the millions of MTs in the world who is tired of being overworked, under appreciated and fed up with being treated like crap in plain English. I am also tired of companies who treat you like an employee when its convenient for them and an I.C when its convenient for them. I decided to be an IC to get away from the unflexibility of being an employee, you know...the fixed hours, and days, constantly being told what to do and how to do it and dealing with the too many chiefs and not enough Indians syndrome. So, I become an I.C. and I just figured out that I have none of the benefits of an employee, but still am doing the same things as when I was an employee. According to the law if you are an IC, no one should be called your supervisor or tell you how and when to do your work as long as the outcome of the work is the way they want it. I realize that companies need to know our schedules and such to better distribute the work, but come on lets face it, we all became IC's to get away from the drugery of constantly having to answer to someone and the freedome of being our own boss, but in the end thats the last thing we are. Another complaint...what ever happened to manners...I am referring to the courtesy of answering an e mail or a phone call? Somebody needs to put out a book of etiquiette on e mailing people.
Lastly, to all the supervisors out there, lighten up...you are driving alot of good MT's out the door with your nasty attitudes and God complexes. Be patient with those just starting out. None of us were born knowing anything and you were once a newbie. Stop making people afraid to ask questions because they will be made to feel stupid if they do. Just because you work at home does not mean you should bring your problems with you when you sign on for the day. This is the same as any other job and you should not bring your personal problems with you. The economy is in bad shape and many of us live paycheck to paycheck and God forbid we miss a few....so we take crap from people because we know what will happen if we loose our jobs/contracts. I think alot of sups know this and take advantage of it. We should all be working together not against each other.
I swear the MT must be the most underrated and underpaid and underappreciated profession in the world. I was just thinking that the other day when I was typing for a doctor who had a mouthful of food while dictating and when he was not eating, he was coughing in my ear...this on top of a heavy Oriental accent of course. Then you have to feel guilty about putting that report in edit.
You would not believe how many people envy us because we work at home. oh you are so lucky you dont have to deal with traffic and bad weather. Its not all its cut out to be I tell them. Lastly, I just wanted to say I am not referring to any specific company or person, I just wanted to vent and I am sorry if what I meant to say did not come out right or did not make sense.
Dont get me wrong, I am grateful for my job every day that I sign on to work in this day and age, but there are times again when I would like to drop kick my computer and my supervisor out the window. I hope you all have a great day and dont forget to get out there and VOTE, VOTE, VOTE
Major Vent - fed up
I have been doing this for 12+ years, and I have decided this is a stupid and impossible profession. An MT should not have to go over and over voice files to hear and understand what at doctor says 3, 4, 5 and 6 times to understand what he is saying. If you do, that means he is not interested in making sure you know and understand. This really hit me today. IF a person were talking to you, would you have to ask him to repeat himself over and over again if he really wanted to talk to you? More so for patient care. If a doctor actually cared about making sure that the patient's information was accurate, would he take such risks that the person on the other end would not understand what he was saying?
major vent
I especially like the PAs who mumble and don't even know how to pronounce the medications and believe they are actually MDs
major vent
What's really fun is when they spell the really obvious words and then slur the important ones! Gotta love the docs!
Vent all you want, but educate yourself about
unions because someone is feeding you information from the 1920's.
No one HAS to join a union or bargaining agency. You can work for slave wages, for free if you like; you are free to choose in the USA.
Needing to vent alittle
I inquired about a job with Medivoxx, before I realized they used VR and expected you to transcribe and edit. The information I received back stated that after two weeks uncompensated pay, the following 30 days would be 3 cpl, and then 5, and eventually 7. Before I went any further, I asked approximately how many lines/day VR editing runs, as I would think it would be higher than transcribing since you are not actually typing it all out, but editing. I wanted to know all this before I considered quiting the job I have now, which is not a transcription job, I am only doing that part time and am looking for full time. My response to this question was to not quit my current job. This seems alittle odd to me, so I wanted to vent and share this info with everyone else. Thanks
Personal vent: The head of QA for my co SM
quit. One of the few people in management who knew what they were doing. I feel sick. My company is going down the tubes.
I can't share this with anyone at company, so vented here. Thank you for forum I could use, because I feel ill. Everyone at this company is inexperienced. They have already lost accounts. Now what?
jJust an observation/vent
Maybe its me but I work and when I am downloading, I read the various boards -- I see/read people that the productivity is there 250-300 lines an hour or more but what I am wondering about is bottom line -- patient care -- no, we are NOT doctors but how many MTs know how to really research the internet for drugs etc? I see posts with word expanders -- they are WONDERFUL tools, but in MHO, if you are a newbie, just starting out, get the disks, the books, and LEARN how to use the internet -- I did QA for a company for a while, and I had a Transcriptionist (newbie) call me in tears because she was called on the carpet for typing (and I saw the actual report) -- Kem-7 -- come on, everyone, You should be researching and looking -- yes, it IS hard, but I see a lot of the SAME names on this board, spending hours, gabbing and chatting and yet whine when they are not making a decent salary -- bottom line, I am a single, widowed woman, been in this business for a long time and yes, I have my throw in the towel momemts but I also have a work ethic that is pull one's self up by the boot straps -- yes, we have to vent about our men who are the southbound end of a northbound horse, but people do not realize that even though we work at home, we are working, spending hours sometimes taking care of the home front with bills etc and not getting paid for it -- Its not the companies, its trying to plan things and go from there -- If you're married, hubby has to understand that this is NOT a hobby job, as do a few of you that I have seen a lot on this board -- you do this and that , but yet you are the whiners and complainers when it comes to companies treating you unfairly or no work.
Maybe Wal-Mart for those of you IS A BETTER alternative -- for me I make between 40-50K a year, but I am focused on my job as well -- blood, sweat and tears too.
OSI Line Counter - Must Vent!!
I know this is probably petty, but does anyone else notice the line counter at OSi goes down every single weekend?? Do they disable it to keep us from knowing how much we've typed, afraid we might not work as much?? This is so irritating. I like to keep track of how much I've done and this is very frustarting. I hate just sitting here typing in the dark.
Yeah it sure does feel good to vent here tho
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Vent - how do you deal with a horrible platform!
This platform is so slow that my Expander sometimes doesn't even expand things because the system is so slow. You go to back up or move forward with the cursor and its so slow you end up going to far usually. Spell check, OMG, you could go to sleep waiting to advance. It takes FOREVER to type a document.
I don't understand why companies use these horrible platforms. Makes you dread sitting down to the computer!
I've been with the company almost 10 years. I know the truth. Hawaii was a company-paid vacation.
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They do not offshore. The owner's original company was bought by MQ; started a new company, whic
That's about all I know. I would give them a try. They sounded good!
Great company. I've been recommending this company for a long time.
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Must be a small company. I have never talked to the owner of the company I work for. sm
He wouldn't have time. Why would someone talk directly to the MTSO? Most do not know (or care) about the details just the big picture.
I hope my company flies under the radar. This is horrible what happens to one company sm
after another on this board. The owners must have very thick skin. First TT, then Amphion, now Keystrokes. No one is safe. I hope everyone takes all they read with a grain of salt. I have met a few of the owners of the some of the bigger services, and they are all very nice, including those that own Webmedx, Keystrokes, Execuscribe, Medware, MDI and Transcend. I hate to think how they feel when they read things on here, even though they all say they don't read the posts here and advise against it. I don't know how they don't read them; I look just to make sure that no one mentions mine.
Maybe QA made the decision, not the company, and the company managers are not aware of it. sm
I started with a company that did the same thing. When I went to the manager outside of QA, she fixed it right away. Turns out that the QA manager had made a decision to do that and had not told anyone else.
It does make sense to do that though. Find out if it is a few days or longer and base your decision on that.
Can we ask which company or at least which state they're out of?
Unfortunately, I am going to be looking AGAIN due to offshore.
or maybe it's really a good company. Give me a break. If a company isn't talked about sm
on here, good or bad, it's probably too small to matter and does not offer benefits or anything at all.
Ask insider if her company is in position to take on MTs from other company who are familiar
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Loyalty has nothing to do with it until you find the company for you. Be loyal to THAT company.
:p
Let me know if you pursue this company. I would like to work for a MN company as an employee?
Let me know! Thanks!
Chasing work from company to company - Have any of you ever watched (sm)
5 year olds learning to play soccer? The ball is in play and no matter what the coahes say ALL the kids go running for the ball. Maybe we are like that, masses of us going from company to company in search of work. This company has a new account BOOM here we go. Now it is out. Let's go here.
Yep, I think it is a big game someone is playing with us. Not a particularly funny one either.
Why would you want to work for a company with no QA? Anyways the only company that comes to mind is
I worked for in the past which is Medquist NJ Radiology.
Love this company - want to retire with this company...sm
Been with them for nearly 2 years now and absolutely love them. I make my living with them - I don't do this for fun money. I think the dictators are pretty decent - you will always have your good and bad ones. You just have to get used to them. I love the account I am on - been with the same one since I started. They are a VERY fair company to work for.
They are not a Fortune 500 company. They are a past INC 500 company. There is a
HUGE difference.
Just FYI ... the article was in the Rochester Business News. It notes that the person charged with everything was the owner's husband, not Linda herself. It was something that was done at the company that he worked for, not Execuscribe. If their biggest client is going to fill-in reports, I am sure they will bounce back and get something else. I doubt they do not know that it is happening. Any MTSO worth her/his salt keeps an ear to the ground AND has enough contact with their accounts to be up-to-date on changes about to happen, good and bad.
Perhaps you should not be so smug and instead focus your energies on figuring out WHY your customers were able to be taken from you. I hardly doubt that a good business person could be an ex-MTSO because of another service. There is too much work out there.
You can' ask a question directly TO a company. About them, yes. The company isn't going to ans
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company going to service company or India?
That is a hard thing to be cut back after you are used to that position. We have a couple of hospitals near here who have turned over all of their work to a Service Company, and one eliminated their department and turned over to India. I am afraid that the service company may be taking over our work also. Understand the others kept same pay, but lost most benefits. Anyone else have this happen to them?
It matters more on the company than the method. Go with a company that does a lot of sm
radiology or it won't matter because you won't have a big check no matter what. Ask them how many radiology accounts they have, if they are overflow or complete department, how long they have had them and do you get a back-up account.
There are very few out there that have good radiology accounts. Stick with the ones that do. I am with Keystrokes for that reason after going with 4 others that kept running out of work.
Small company GREAT COMPANY
Axolotl is a WONDERFUL company with great benefits and competitive pay. We have maybe 100 MTs but are growing rapidly.
Exactly..company recruiters and/or company owners (sm)
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Meant every company for every MT, not every company for every company. nm
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Started small; great company. Rapid growth; not so great company
First year I was there was like heaven. Then the big growth spurt when they hired managers from another company (that I had run away from before because of their bad management) and let them kind of take over. Although I have no proof it was as though I got 'bumped' by these new people when they came in and I lost a good account, good manager, etc. My paycheck went down every month lower and lower, and it became harder and harder to make my minimal lines. Having any kind of advocate was nonexistent.
It depends on you and what kind of MT you are. Seems to me there are pretty much 2 types...
Sports like basketball where you have the pros who play with finesse, and then you have street players who think it is all about physical strength, period. More and more the physical strength is winning but the art of the game gets lost more and more...
As in this country where there are almost 2 sides now, those with intellect and thoughtfulness, and those who think the only way to be strong and be a leader is to beat up everyone who does not agree with you...and force your will on others.
Suffice it to say in my opinion WMX changed its philosophy of the way it treated employees and lost its heart when it grew, and it was literally almost overnight...
If you are a mass producer who has no care of what it takes to make money, if you are a 'street fighter' then it would probably be for you because you WILL have to fight for everything. Fight for the right account, fight for lines, fight to be treated fairly, etc. If you appreciate MTing for the art of MTing or have any kind of joy for the profession, my guess is you will not make it there very long...
This is happening all throughout the what used to be called profession. Seems to happening all through everything these days. Humanity and heart are being pushed down to the bottom...
how do we work it? Easy answer - work for another company. That happened with the company
I was working for. I would wake up at 4 a.m. AND ON THE WEEKENDS TOO because they needed "coverage" supposedly and I would sit until 9:30 or noon without any work. Sorry, but my rent of $1450/month could not be paid with only $57/day. So I got another job and when I got the equipment and everything, then I quit for the other employer.
AllHealth in GA - Good company, good equipment, any info about this company? (sm)
What type of work do they have? Any op reports? Appreciate any info.
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