Contact said pay was on time but there's a real language barrier with their 1 tech person. nm
Posted By: wanderer on 2006-01-06
In Reply to: Anyone ever worked for Metro Transcript - XXXXX
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There's that language barrier at work again
*eye roll*
Honestly, please read the posts again. ANYONE CAN MAKE UP AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH ANY NAME ONE DESIRES. THERE ARE NO - I REPEAT - NO RESTRICTIONS ON CREATING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT.
Our medical records are private. They should not be sent overseas. The language barrier can sm
cause a lot of very serious errors in a medical record, and I, for one, want my work kept here.
There are a lot of services that do not send work overseas and will not because they believe in keeping everything in the U.S. It was the deciding factor for me when weighing between two companies. One company was very vague when asked, but the other, Keystrokes, was adamant about staying U.S. only.
I started with them 2 years ago and will retire with this company, as long as it keeps the same ownership (had to clarify that as if the ownership changes, I would probably leave). I have not heard of them selling out, so I am hoping to stay!
No, this is a real SS person
In addition to posting here, he continues to send me nasty emails from his SS email system. As I said earlier, I think it's scary and a little psychotic, borderlining on stalking.
You go from being a real person to a mindless invisible drone
The big nationals never see you. They think you're a worker drone churning out the lines that make their profits. If you've been an in-house employee, and for 30 years(!) you undoubtedly have friends, Christmas parties, maybe bonuses here and there, etc. The nationals are interested in only one thing, to extract ever increasing amounts of hours and lines, at ever decreasing amounts of pay and benefits. I'd say don't blow it. I used to work in a hospital where there'd be a big Christmas party every year, bonuses (and one orthopedic doctor who'd come by every year with tickets to his church's Christmas pageant). Of course, now that hospital sends all their stuff to India. So it goes.
The tech support person should be able to help (sm)
I know you have to email the Expander file, but can't for the life of me remember where exactly that file is located. Tech support told me where to look. They will have to convert it, and then will email it back to you and tell you how/where to put it. They are very, very helpful.
I believe you have made an excellent choice, by the way.
So maybe this person whose name is on the ad would know who to contact about other transcription
jobs that would be available.
Sometimes yes, but sometimes no. I always ask the tech person or the recruiter before hiring. nm
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A tech person at Transcend told
that they couldn't believe that anyone would build a platform with code that was so archaic and out of date, with parameters that could not be fixed without rebuilding the whole thing. I've worked on much more reliable platforms. They are out there.
It's in Lexington. Their contact person is in Illinois, though. nm
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I just confirmed with the tech person and the office -- they do NOT offshore sm
and are quite adamant about it. You should get your facts straight.
And it DOES state at their web site that they do not offshore. I had the link at the bottom of my post.
You really should get your facts straight before posting such things. So far, i have been very impressed with the company and how I have been treated. 
Can you give me a name of a current person to contact to speak with.
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I also worked there. Hated DocQScribe & left after tech person toasted my
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Can anyone from the Ohio MQ office give me a contact person and a phone number to call so I can talk
to someone there without getting a lot of other people involved before I find out what kind of accounts they have to offer. I am interested in transferring from my current office but would like to speak with someone up there first. Even an email address of someone would help.
Get real, the MTs IM each other all the time and chat sm
I talk with other MTs daily on IM and have never been told not to. You can talk to them outside of work if you get their personal email, have never been told not to do that either. They only limit you if you allow it. There is freedom of speech in the U.S. Sharing line rates is just stupid, it's your income and no one elses business, they aren't afraid of that. If anything they don't want people complaining about them, which is understandable - if you worked in- house and they heard you complaining all the time at a hospital, they'd send you to the door or have a serious talk. Why should an outsourcing company be any different. We are employees using their equipment plain and simple. As for them being like a Big Brother, get real, it's just a scare tactic for you to think they are watching your every move, they don't have time for that, they don't have that many people to do that and way more important stuff to do because we share them with the clients and they have needs too. You are just way to paranoid.
When was the last time Orman had to get a real job?
I'm not talking about yapping with Oprah or doing a pledge drive for PBS or selling cars for GM because everybody knows her from Oprah and PBS, but a real live honest-to-goodness have to do it every day job - say like medical transcription?
I did, but I have a real hard time believing
that anyone pays editing at transcription rates. I am wondering if it will be the transcription rate where they try to pay you 5-6 cpl..but who knows. I applied a while back, even four years of experience on that particular platform and I have not heard a word.
I have no real headaches. Sometimes they want a faster turnaround time...
or they want things a certain way, but no biggie..I'd be willing to deal with that for up to 5 cpl than what MTSOs want to pay.
My only contact with them was rude. The front office person or whomever schedules interviews is rude
This was about a year ago but I set up an interview and either I was supposed to call them or they were to call me at a certain time but I totally spaced off the time change. The lady went off on me and told me that they had no interest in me because I couldn't call on time etc. Rude. There is no way I would ever work for someone like that.
Better be glad you got the easier dictators soon, because you're time is coming for the ^^^REAL^^
dictators! Be glad you got off now. I wondered where my better dictators went the last week or so !!!!! Lucky you !!!!!
I can always tell when the TT favorite MT's are off, because I get their dictators -- making it easier for me to get my line count. Yea !
TT is constantly hiring, so the above scenario is a norm.
horrible, horrible contact person! Worst experience ever. SM
Turned it down because of the arrogance and attitude.
That was not long ago. Ads run every 2 - 3 months.
TO KS PERSON re: lag time (sm)
I work in the same group as you but the other hospital. I have been surprised more KS folks haven't posted here at least to support each other. I do feel they are going to get this worked out, I know it is hard on everyone in the meantime. I know I actually love this account - and I have decided to give it some more time. I also love this company - and don't want to even consider starting over somewhere. Just my luck, everything would be working perfectly the day I left! ha! ha! Let me know your thoughts, too....
The IT person will call you at the assigned time (sm)
and will do the install for you - there will be a link where you hand over control of your computer and they install and test everything so you're ready to go. Good luck to you!
for VR person : 'if it takes less time to retype it'...nm
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Can you tell me how many hours a part time person is allowed to work. Does it specify that at all.
I didnt quite understand that 8, 16 and 24 hour thing. I thought part time as long as you cut off before the full time hours you can work them.
I actually have two real jobs with real benefits. sm
One is SoftScript at 10.5 cents a line, taxes taken out and PTO, insurance, the whole ball of wax. The other is a hospital work at home job, same scenario. They are out there.
Have you considered radiology tech or lab tech?
A lot of the credits you have acquired for nursing transfer to both of those programs. Probably a little less stressful.
Recent contact said 1100lpd AND 8hrs of time must occur for benes. 8.5 cpl/no benes, 9cpl benes. nm
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there is more than one language
in India.
Leave the language out, please. (NM)
Goldbird
I emailed her about her language....
Let's see if she replies, and HOW she replies. What a laugh!
Do you have to learn the language?
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What is going on with your foul language?
if you want to use that kind of language, at least
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Tiliput's language does not belong
won't read it unless you can talk English and not your mother tongue. Try to tone down your F word and save it for the back yard.
I'm guessing English is your second language? I would say this is a
disservice to the MT as well as the companies you are going to service. Nothing worse than someone trying to sail the ship who hasn't ever been near the water.
"hell" is foul language??
good grief, girl. lighten up. remind yourself never to move to Ireland.
It's common forum language...
It means: I totally agree. 
Oh it is not common forum language...
MLS=Medical Language Specialist
NM
try transriptiongear.com's tech support. They do gearplayer tech support whereever you bought yo
transcriptiongear.com
In a job ad post, YES, it is foul language and it will not be tolerated
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I really don't know what part of the English language they do not get.. I think the word NO
comes to mind. I would not even be working that day when I'd get an IM, can you do a STAT? and I'd tell them no that I was heading out the door, so, your going to do it? and again, NO.. I said I'm heading out the door. This would go on until I finally had to click the IM off. I felt badgered and I am not sure how much was just them not understanding or just being pushy. There is a fine line and I got tired of it so I quit.
Editors have knack for accents, language, etc.
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for MT: This is also common forum language: 'MT YAS
Guess what this is?
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, IT'S KNOWN AS "LOSING FACE" fm
Don't see how an MTSO can inspire faith and loyalty in his/her employees by blowing sugar up their collective behinds 1 day & all the while sticking it to them. Call me sweetie pie, sugar cakes all you want, but don't do it in the same breath as telling us we'd all have to joint a 50% salary cut club, telling us that the low work for MTs is because of the Huge responses we got for our VR takeover and that because these brand-new VR'rs are so very productive all of a sudden -- (Why not chuck the euphimisms and say straight out, There's no work because it's gone to VR - in addition, we had to overhire a bunch of newbies as prophylaxis to a lot of expected resignations - added benefit, we don't have to pay any more bonuses to keep work in TAT - but you guys (you really do rock!) did pester us about low/no work, but will just have to FLEX until November when the new accounts (Ugggh) show up...hope your landlord, grocer, hungry kids are as understanding as you are, sweetie, sugarplumb - You're all the best! 
I think it is one person. I had a few print outs from a few weeks ago and this person even capital
I have had a positive one. I have been with Keystrokes for 3 months and am very happy.
I printed them to show my manager but she told me that there are few bitter people out there and no one can do anything about them. My manager said that everyone can tell that it is the same few over and over again, for Keystrokes and a few other companies as well. Time to move on Ms. Anon. I cannot think why a company would go through the trouble of getting IDs and getting you installed just to ignore you after that. Doesn't make sense, does it? Are you sure that't the whole truth? You keep saying truth but it sounds fishy.
Exactly what I'm talking about RUDE! You are a very unhappy person. A happy person does not
respond in such a way! This is the reason SS has such a bad name.
Told ya.. the word NO is not a universal language. They do not hear what you say at all ..yet..
They are the ones QA-ing your work and docking your check accordingly. What a crock.. That and I would like 12 hours and be lucky to make $50. It's a ripoff. Their line count never adds up but you can bet they get paid a lot more than they give their MTs.
I personally prefer Medical Language Specialist...
Even the title medical transcriber doesn't do justice to our jobs with the way they have evolved over the years. We no longer can sit and simply be transcribers. We must be semi-fluent in several different languages, do our best to hone our psychic skills so we don't get penalized for leaving a blank for QA to assist with, we have to perform feats of magic at times attempting to find an ADT match, and the list goes on and on.
Geez, maybe we should just call ourselves *medical magicians* at this point what with all the rabbits we're expected to pull from the many hats we're forced to wear these days.
Trans Tech Medical Solutions or Trans Tech Svcs?
Which is the one that everyone is always saying is so good to work for? Trans Tech Medical Solutions or Trans Tech Services out of Iowa? Thanks for any clarity you can provide!!!!
No forms of foul language are allowed, that's what got your post removed.
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