Caught your Cowsills reference. Cute! :) nm

• Any companies out there willing to train people for eScription that have never used it before but - have years of MT? Thx. NM
  • Might check with Deventure -- - flaxenwaxen
    • Caught your Cowsills reference. Cute! :) nm - Gimme a head with hair..!! nm
      • Cowsills redid this hit from the musical "Hair!" - nm
      • long beautiful hair - gleamin'streamin'
  • escript - Michele
  • e-Transcription - wileo

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I have never heard professionable before.  lol

 First of all, you're obviously mgmt. since you know so much about inside goings-on.

Second, and here is where the fib comes in:  You expect us to believe that Leads don't  type on their own lead shift  (they're too busy, too much to do-LMAO) - and their lead shift is obviously a 40-hour shift, if the hours on the bottom all of their holier-than-thou e-mails are to be believed - when DO they do their transcription - during their SECOND shift or 41st hour ( I assume they finish their 40-hour lead shift and then get paid OT to do their typing).  Are you another one who thinks all the rest of us peon MTs are so dumb.  MTs regularly get the halfway decent work taken out of their queus and get h--l when they compain about it.

business practices -- I was not referring to one company specifically.  From reading the board, there are messages regarding existing insurance coverage suddenly being unavailable.  Others have posted regarding to unpaid training time, which I believe under employee status is unlawful.  If the shoe fits.  One cannot sign away one's legal rights, no matter what kind of wording they put in a contract.  I would say dropping existing insurance coverage and then stringing people along regardig that amounts to fraud.

so that helps take the sting out a bit.  I love the people and love the company, but I do not think maybe they realize what a big shock $30 can be sometimes.  To me, the more fair thing to have done would have been to say something like effective next check, we will be taking out double premiums until we catch up or whatever.  However, cannot unring a bell.

And I have always been a bit disappointed that they wait until the following Monday to pay us instead of that Friday, but for the most part it is a good company.  Seems like all of the MTSOs hang on to their $$$ as long as they can -- guess the interest is better in their pockets than on our paychecks.    I was stupid and am now waiting a month to get paid for work I did for a woman in Virginia.  Chalk it up to lesson learned.

Good luck to you (and me!). 

I accepted a position about 2 weeks ago at a company that apparently hire people before checking their references.  My references that I listed are calling me stating that they are just receiving reference calls today.  Is this the standard practice of getting hired.  I was hired two weeks ago.  How come they did not check my reference then!   I just think this is backwards, but I have good references anyway.

This makes me worried about this company because so many MTs on this board have negative things to say about this company.  I hope this is not the beginning of bad things to come with this company.

I admit the Internet is faster and easier, but if you put in the wrong spelling when looking up a word on the Internet, a lot of times you can find it spelled that way.  I've had it happen.  I agree with this poster.  There's too much room for error when you just Google a word and don't know the meaning or how to spell it.  I do use it frequently for drugs, especially new ones.  I just make sure to find the drug company's website or the official website for the policy.  I've seen surgical equipment come up spelled totally wrong, like it sounds, nothing close to the correct spelling.

Another thing, I worked in an office last summer doing editing with a couple newbie MTs.  One girl thought she was the computer/Internet whiz.  She was working on clinic note tapes.  One day the Internet went down. OMG!! You would have thought the end of the world had arrived.  She was lost, frustrated, and on the verge of tears.  Now there was a complete set of Stedman Word Books, as well as Dorlands and 2008 drug books in the office, but she didn't even know what books to look in.  So another good argument for reference books.  Get the knowledge, don't just depend on the Internet.

on the postage meter as if they had mailed it on payday, like I wouldn't notice that it was POSTMARKED 5 days later!  I have used a postage meter before ... you can set the date to anything you like .. duh.  It was in my contract that the checks were to be mailed every other Friday from the Tampa airport.  I pitched a big fit and finally Giselle Fed Ex'd my checks after that.  I would hope by now they would have direct deposit.  You shouldn't have to sit and wait for your check and be at the mercy of the mail, nor should you have to pay extra just to make sure you receive it in a timely fashion.  They have been in business long enough that they should have established direct deposit.  It was posted awhile back that they had it for awhile and then did away with it because of some issue with the bank.  I would be very, very careful if you need your check in a timely manner.  It seems that they just barely meet payroll, but that was just my impression. 

Good luck.