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Mary Gleason, Digital Transcription. Do not work for, sole proprietor.  Will let you work 2 weeks and stiff on pay, owed over $200. 

Only 2 people working there one of which is the owner, who will not pay. She will stiff you for hundreds of dollars stating that she had too much corrections.  Look out please..

ID#, the ICs choice, but that income has to be reported somehow.  I am sure not going to claim it as my income.

I am not unsympathetic, just uncomprehending. 

This MT has almost four months to prepare for the change. Even if she currently has no savings whatsoever, surely in that period of time anyone can manage to put aside a few days' pay for an event she knows is coming up.  

What if that MT voluntarily switched jobs and therefore paydays changed because of her decision?  What if this merger resulted in a layoff, as it did for me a couple of years ago?  At least she has some warning to make ready, which is something not everyone gets before an ''emergency.''  You cannot go through life expecting nobody ever to rock your boat and nothing bad ever to happen.  I would be working three jobs to put some money in the bank for the inevitable catastrophe that we never know the nature or the timing of, only that something is bound to go wrong.

Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

When I brought my newborn home 10 years ago I had just started my first at-home  MT job.   I felt like the most blessed person in the world!   Keeping that precious new baby home with me was all the incentive I needed to work 7 to 8 full hours while she slept.  The fact that I lived off the beaten path was also a great help. 

Well, here I sit 10 years later at 5:19 a.m., (I haven't been to bed yet BTW) just starting my fourth report that should have been transcribed yesterday, trying to get as much done before 7:00 a.m. before my manager gets in and realizes yesterday's work was just finished moments ago.   I pull more all nighters now than I did at 21.  This tired body can't handle it anymore.  I actually have been getting pitting edema.  I sit a lot, just can't produce much.

Soon, my once precious newborn, now 5th grader will be getting up to go to school in an hour, so I'm really hustling.  I have a doctor's appointment at 11:00 a.m. 30 miles away (Adderall refill, can't be missed) so when I get home I will have today's work to start on, so sleep or even a cat nap is out of the question. 

So what's the problem? My clueless non-working SAHM/sisters ask ironically during my peak work hours.   GRRRRR.  I've reached the end of my rope.

Non MTs just don't get it.  You all know what I'm talking about: 

1.  The constant phone calls.

2.  The cousin that's leaving for Iraq in 2 weeks (you may never see again) who stops in for 3 hours to visit.  Sorry, but knowing that could be our last visit will not allow me to ask him to go.

3.  Cash Advance places calling looking for your deadbeat aunt who listed you as a sister that hasn't paid them back yet, wanting you to contact her.

4.  Mom calling to ask if you can take Dad to the doctor because she has to work. 

5.  Here's the best yet...My sister actually called me from her job to tell me her horse got out and needed me to go put it back up.  This is even when I worked for a hospital and clocked in over the phone.  HELLO!!!!  You too can clock out and take care of your personal crap.  Despite where it is,  I TOO have a JOB!!

I've tried screening my calls, but can't help but stop and look at my caller ID to make sure it's not the school.  It doesn't matter though because if I do overcome the urge to pick up the phone I can't hear the dictation until the answering machine shuts up.   Well since my rhythm is broken anyway, why not toss in a load of laundry?  I even tried putting a nicely worded sign on my door stating that I am working, just to have family members come on in because, I couldn't have possibly been referring to them.  Then, when I finally get in that groove I've been after all day, it's 3:35 and here comes the schoolbus and it's time to put on the Mommie hat. 

 How do you all deal with all this and stay focused without overdosing on Adderall (I do have ADHD on a good day) and Klonopin (just in the last year) because of the panic attacks?  I am struggling to work a PT job for goodness sake!

Today I finally did it.  I have rented my own personal office space!!  I'm so excited.  I have felt just like a prisoner in my own home... never leaving the house.  I have actually hopped in the car just to go get gas, for a moment away.  I volunteer to mow the lawn now.  I just want to enjoy my home again. 

So my question is...How many other at-home MTs here regardless of status have had to resort to renting a small office somewhere just so you can work?  Did your productivity improve?  Did home feel like home again...your haven?  I would love to hear all of your experiences good and bad, and will gladly share mine in a week or two. 

I have the posts about late pay from TTS (not TransTech).  Could someone currently working for them tell me how many times in the past 2 to 3 months the pay has been late.  Me personally, if I am to get paid on Friday and it does not show up until Monday that 2 to 3 days is not horrible, not great, but not horrible considering some companies I have worked for have been late by weeks and not a few days.  Am not trying to stir anyone up just trying to get a fair time span to go by.  Thanks.

I am new to MDI-MD, but have been wondering if people are cherrypicking or not. Sometimes I get a bit frustrated, but I can't prove it. How the heck do they do that on a Lanier system?? Would QA or liason do anything about it if I complained?

No timesheet, no pay.

Small MTSO's sometimes use company funds to pay their personal bills as well, so if they have a lot of bills or something unexpected happens, there goes the payroll money!