Can you elaborate or is that top secret too. Do people really get incentives and bonuses there??
Posted By: Anon2 on 2007-05-21
In Reply to: If people only knew what goes on (sm) - Anon
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spheris incentives and bonuses.....
When I worked there, they did not offer actual monetary bonuses or incentives. I did get a drop in pay from $12.50 an hour to $10.50 an hour and never understood that one, especially being a four-star quality employee. BUT...when I worked there, they did, especially around Christmas and New Year's, offer such things as Home Depot cards, etc. It was almost like having your name drawn out of a hat or playing the lottery. If you were online when they were ready to pick a winner, you just might win that card. I won many, many times..very easy (and fun). They used to pay for spaces, but I don't remember them paying for headers and footers. Base pay was not that great and never a raise. I got the raise when they were Edix, but they dropped me back when it became Spheris. Hope that helps.
Not true. Bonuses and incentives do exist
and are paid out on time as earned. Have never had any mess-up on my per check incentives nor my quarterly bonuses.
"receive all of my bonuses and incentives, which are plenty by the way"
Thank you.
Bummed!!! Apparently the MDI-FL side doesnt get incentives. It seems like the benefits/incentives
would apply to everyone. Oh well, wouldnt be the first time. 
Incentives? What incentives? Lucky I can get the minimum lines.
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Top secret
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What's the secret? Well...
As you can tell, I don't come to this website often. What a spaz some people seem to be having about those MTs who can manage to make a decent wage. (And by decent I mean over $25/hour.)
I'm not going to tell you who I work for for one very obvious reason. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY. Not everyone who works at my company makes what I do. Some make more. Some make less.
Are you assuming that if you work at my company you'd be bumped to the seventy-dollar-an-hour lane? Don't you think I worked my a@@ off to reach that level?
I spent 18 months in a college program (graduated early because as a single mother I don't have time to waste).
Then I spent another year and a half working IN HOUSE at a teaching hospital.
I found and paid attention to a fantastic MENTOR.
I studied. Every day. Every word I didn't know I wrote down on a sheet and kept it by my desk.
Every phrase I typed more than once got a macro. Every word I mistyped or misspelled went into auto-correct.
I spent 10 years learning, taking jobs nobody else wanted, working hours nobody else would work. Because I knew it would pay off some day. And guess what. That 'some day' has been 'this day' for the past six years.
It shocks me to see people working for 6 cents a line. It makes me think either they don't have enough training, enough innate skill, or enough 'sit down/shut up/and type' to make it in this business.
I've mentored MTs. Some picked it up right away. They had flying fingers. They had an ear for the indecipherable. They had fortitude. And they make as much or more than I do. And guess what, natural talent trumps training any day of the week. That's life. In every single profession on the face of the planet.
Some flat out don't have the right stuff. Even my own sister couldn't make a go of it, and we shared an office and all the same reference material.
Just wanting to be an MT doesn't mean it's the right career for someone. Hell, I'd love to be a jockey but I'm 5'9 and s.o.l.
Fortunately I have an ear for this work. I knock the hell out of the competition at MadGab. (And if you're not playing MadGab you're missing a great learning tool.) I worked as a court reporter for five years, where we were expected to transcribe at the speed of speech (140 wmp) so I made myself type 140 wmp ... accurately!
There's no 'secret.' Like all good things in life, it just takes the right combination of want to and can do, and once you have that you have to find the company, the account and the platform that jives with your work style.
I don't appreciate being called a liar. Some of the posts on this board are so bitter and snipey. Let me guess. Those are the women who found an 800 number in the back of Home and Garden Magazine that said you can make 80K from home in your jammies while your babies crawl around on the floor. Get real. This is a difficult, demanding career. It's not free daycare. It's not for someone who simply doesn't want to get dressed in the morning.
I work like a mad woman for five, sometimes six hours a day. I'd rather do that than stretch the work out for an eight hour shift. When I first worked at a hospital, my supervisor asked me to please slow down as I was making the others look bad. You know what? Too effing bad. If straight out of school I was doing twice their volume, that was a reflection on THEM, not on ME.
That advice still stands. 50-70 is absolutely possible, not asbolutely amazing. I do it every day of the week. So if it makes you feel bad to see some of us doing well, too effing bad.
Peace out.
not a secret
It's not a secret company. if anyone is interested, i am more than happy to talk with them directly if they want to send an email request.
Your post is just one reason that justifies why I am not just posting any and all information on this board directly.
No secret, I think .....sm
it was just a talent given to me. I was typing 65 wpm in high school, the second week of class. Then, I went on to transcription while I was a Junior in high school, and just picked it up quickly. Typing has always been my thing. I absolutely love to type and having ear phones on and blocking out everyone else when I feel like it is even better!!!
It is my peace!!
One secret to VR here is
I have worked for the same hospital now for over 15 years. Sure we have a lot of ESLs like never before but I know so many that to edit is like sitting here running the pedal and eating chocolate covered cherries (well almost). I set my pedal at the fastest I can and read just as fast as my eyes will let me.
Just ask your STM - it's not a big secret, as far sm
as I can tell.
Why is everything such a secret at MDI-FL? Just heard
thru the grapevine that Jason, the new general manager was no longer there and Liz is in charge now. What a way to find things out. Can't the team leaders notify the MLS of major changes?
Ditto! MDI-MD! Best-kept secret. sm
Best pay, no hassles, paid on time, best WAV platform around, easy to get lines.
You are so right its their dirty little secret
They have always skirted the law. I know alot of MT's who worked 6 and sometimes 7 days a week and not a penny extra. One coordinator told me to add my weekend lines to my lines from during the week but not record my hours I work extra and team lead said it is all about the lines anyways. They call you on the weekends to work and it looks like they would pay more for weekends but they don't they just want you to work on your day off on the weekend but not even pay a shift differental much less overtime. Never looked back so glad I am gone. Never again. They do not appreciate their MT's at all. They don't care about anybody except their own pockets.
secret message
Those voices in your head? They are saying take your meds. . . .
Insider secret at OSI but everyone knows
The top QA people have horrible grammar and spelling skills and they have been promoted to management because they did so poorly in the MT pool and because they knew all the right people for a promotion. This is a well-known fact. The QA pay is very low but this kept them from losing their jobs.
Did you read The Secret?
According to The Secret, this is the key to success and happiness in life. What we think about gets stronger and comes back to us in like form. Something like that. The book's author is Byrne.
What is Diskriter's secret?
I see that they advertise nonstop. I know MTs are not leaving at that fast. Therefore, they are going leaps and bounds and out bidding the competition. Is this a great place to work?
Thanks
I really hope that THE SECRET
and any other new-age sew-age myths of its ilk will pay your mortage when you run out of work. We will see what we will see. I see too many people running out of work.
What's the big secret? Just change the tests more
often. There is plenty of dictation to change the tests frequently. You must work for Keystrokes. That's the company they are talking about. I just wanted to know what I did wrong so in the future I can be more careful. Even in school you get corrected papers.
Here's the secret to retiring early --
Not taking SSI and Spheris (of course) doesn't have retirement pay.
What I did was work my behind off for 20 years, invested wisely, and will be retiring at 46. In a custom-built home sitting on 78 acres in a ski community. So, heck yeah, with that carrot in front of me I can put up with a dog of a job for seven more months. I encourage everyone on this board to work towards a GOAL, and not just slave away paycheck to paycheck.
Of course, I started in the heydey when a good MT brought home 60K without breaking a sweat, and I've refused to work for less over the years. Wouldn't have been possible if I'd settled for the paltry sum the companies are pawning off of newbies now adays.
I wish you as much success and looming happiness!!
Spheris doesn't keep it a secret. Quite
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It's never been a secret that Transcend outsources.
They are very proud of their overseas partners as they call them. The only reason the work is more steady and not all going there is that a lot of their hospital contracts state that they cannot outsource their work. So I applaud those hospitals because without them taking a stand, we'd be having no work..again. I remember waking up in the morning and finding there is no work and this is because the Indians are opposite us. When it's night for them it is day for us. So technically while we slept, they worked and when we got up, there was nothing left. It still happens on occasions but we have gotten a few new accounts so that helps. Also, whenever they ran out of work, people would quit and that would leave more work for whoever was left. It's just the nature of the business I guess. I've gone elsewhere.
I don't get why you won't say the name. You sound like a 6th grader with a secret club. nm
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If I do that, the secret cameras will know I've searched for it! nm
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ARE THEIR INCENTIVES
IF SO, WHAT ARE THE RATES?
What about incentives? Are there any at all? nm
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How is pay at KS? Incentives? nm
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Incentives - who has them?
I've read a couple of posts where MTs mention incentives, goals, bonuses and I'm interested in finding out which companies actually reward or motivate MTs to do more than just the minimum required, aside from just getting more lines. Thanks!
TT incentives
Does anybody know how TTs incentive tiers work? I know that if you type 13,000 lines, you get 0.25 cents more for the entire 13,000, and if you do 20,000 lines, you get a penny more, but what are the in between amounts?
incentives
I have seen accounts that run incentives based on minutes of dictation, but they also do it on number of reports done or lines typed. Just depends on the account I guess.
Don't be afraid to ask for a backup account, by the way. Some accounts have lots of work.
incentives
AND if you maintain under 10% QA another 0.25 cpl back to the first line!!!! They also have a great benefits package.
Pay better than most, no incentives, but
lots of OT available, 6 pd vacation days, a week PTO, get paid for down time, though there hasn't been any of that lately thankfully. They provide all equip/software. $500 sign-on bonus, $500 every year on anniversary. QA fairly strict, minimum score 98.5.
Could someone maybe elaborate on why they are
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Please elaborate...
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Could you please elaborate?
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Can anyone elaborate on the
mean stuff this woman did? I have been in contact with her via email and from what I understand after the 45-day waiting period, then checks come every 2 weeks. Did I misunderstand that? Also, she does pay gross line, but I'm not sure 6-7 cpl works out to be 10-11 cpl as she has stated to me. Any more information on her, especially the meaness!, would be appreciated.
Can you elaborate?
I am actively searching for employment and anything you want to share will certainly be helpful to me. Thank you!
Can you elaborate?
How did you determine there was a discrepancy? If it's just the lag time, that doesn't mean there is a problem with 'lines being counted' per se, only with the amount of time until the information is available. I'd really like to know because I have not had a problem...
Can you elaborate?
Please tell us why .... tell us the positives. Want to know.
Please elaborate
I used to work there and thought it was the pits. Crappy accounts with very heavy ESL. Nasty emails from a VP whose alter ego was a typing cat (or was it a dog?) or some such nonsense. QA person with superinflated ego. Newbs promoted to QA in months (and by newbs I mean new to MT, not just new to the company). I could go on and on. Nobody knew anything about the benefits and I don't even know if they had a human resources dept or not. Please do tell how they have suddenly become great, and I'm not being sarcastic.
can you elaborate?
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ELABORATE PLEASE!!
Seriously? Please give me some details if you don't mind because I have just started with them, but have had major computer issues and am thinking of throwing in the towel. Which team were you on? I hate the fact that the recruiter hired me for clinical when she didn't even know it was acute care/hospital work or she lied! I must admit, I have the same feeling you do. I have only been working for them about three weeks and it seems like three years!!!
elaborate...
You complimenting or complaining? OP makes perfect sense to me.
Please elaborate....
All you say is, no good...all bad and ugly.
That doesn't offer the OP (or any of the rest of us who'd like to also know) any information whatsoever to enable him/her to make a decision on whether or not the company would be good or bad for THEM.
Your post is of no value to the OP or the rest of us who are looking.
I'm asking that if you have any information on the company on WHY you say it's no good or bad and ugly, would you please elaborate on that?
What is bad and ugly to YOU may not be what others consider to be the same.
to elaborate...
Upon being hired I was quoted line rates, counts, etc. These turned out to be false and the recruiter informed me she was not a recruiter so I shouldn't hold her accountable for misquoting them to me. Their platform does not give you anyway to track your progress or verify work that you have done. You can check line counts but there is no way to go back and check what work you have done. So when my line count actually went down by 50 lines while I was logged off eating lunch, that sent up yet another red flag. And with the platform there was no way for me to go back and manually check each report. Lots of miscommunication and half truths and the recruiter and trainer will tell you completely conflicting things about how things work there as well. I took a job with them against the recommendations of many, many MTs on here. Check some older posts. Looks like they were right. I didn't stay long. Hope that gives some insight.
Elaborate, please
They just requested a phone interview with me, and I'd love more info about the company, etc. TIA.
can you please elaborate?
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30+ need to elaborate.
I love it there. Of course, anything that is said positive about any company is completely ripped apart by the posters on this board that there is really no use in saying anything.
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