Couldn't agree more! I don't hear other ExText client MT's complain about

• I'm paranoid about not being able to get my correct - line count at TT. Has this always been an issue?nm
  • I really didn't like not being able to see my reports... - ndmt68
  • line counts - TTMT
    • Boy do I agree with ya on that. SM - TT112
  • If you're so paranoid find another company - that reports what you make every time
  • Does TT pay for spaces? - nm
    • Yes - NM
  • Some advice for the Transtech gripers - TT'er
    • Not flaming, but wondering. How do you know you get paid for every line if you - can't see a breakdown? nm
      • TT Line Counting - TT112
        • Basically, if size of check is enough to compensate - for your time, its all good, regardless of line co
          • Amen, Sista, that is what I was - TT112
            • I am with you. I am knocking down about that and sm - Happy New TTer
      • Because I compare the total lines to my paycheck - Always correct NM
        • If TT is saying what line are, yeah it will be same as - check but how do you know lines are right?
        • That's my question. How do you know the total is right? - See message
          • I have worked for 6 companies using Extext - & Extext does not provide this at all.
            • oh brother - MT2long
            • Transtech has that function blocked from our use . . . go figure why? - Oh, don't us TT MT's wish we could do that !
      • Right! TT says the count is correct if you use weird - forumulas but how does it breakdown by character?
        • Has anyone done a character count/65? Just cause - co says pays certain rate, doesnt mean truely does
          • I did. sm - counting beans
            • So you don't get paid for headers/footers... just a straight 65 character line - Happy Camper
              • Yes we get paid for spaces. - counting beans
            • Take her word for it, everyone. She - really knows.
    • Very well said! nm - Happy New TTer
  • Here is how you calculate it to get a correct count - Transtech Extext
    • How do we get a correct breakdown by report types, - account types, etc? Thank you. NM
    • So if you transcribe 100 lines, you dont get paid for - 100 lines? How is this right? nm
      • Yes you DO get paid for 100 lines - ctrl-I is wrong & includes headers
      • Ctrl+I counts headers and footers, but we don't get paid for that sm - Happy New TTer
  • No, not an Ichart problem... - Matilda
    • Not an IChart problem - MT
      • Not ichart - nm
      • But the counts are SLOW sometimes - THAT is an ichart problem
        • The straight dope here sm - Happy New TTer
          • This has been going on for long before the new - account. Too many excuses and red flags here. nm
          • Wow, thanks for making that clear. Ever thought about - selling used cars?
          • 1.1236 - TT NM
  • It is an ichart problem not a TT problem - Ask support about it. NM
    • No one is giving a straight answer on this at TT. - Trying to stay positive, but it's hard. nm
    • If TT lets wrong line counts continue, regardless of - platform, it is TT problem. nm
      • Couldn't agree more! I don't hear other ExText client MT's complain about - massively delayed or incorrect counts. Fix it alre
        • TT line count - it's only me
          • That is much better than OSI's line count - ex-OSI
            • TT sent out email saying CTRL i function is 7-12% higher than paid-for line counts, - Transtech line count issues
              • It is actually 8%-13% - an
          • Are you saying for every 100 lines you do, you only - get credit for 87? nm
            • No, for every 100 lines you type you get paid 100 - sm
              • So if we use an expander and don't actually "type" word, then - Transtech line count issues
                • We DO get paid for expanders & normals - Just not preexisting headers NM
            • Yes, but they're so - nice.
              • TT talks sweet, but I have never desired even a store clerk to call me sweetie . . . those niceties - They are nice and will call you sweetie
                • Okay, this is turning ugly. These kind of comments are unprofessional - TT2
                  • These are cardiac procedure notes that will only be 1-liners or 2 on a horrible new account. - TT bonus this weekend referred to re 50 and 100
                  • That would be an extra 50 to 100 dollars in addition to lines and a half. nm - TT2
                • How right you are... - Matilda
                  • Suppose it just adds to the hominess. One big happy - family. Just don't ask questions.
                    • But MT is JOB, not home, not a social club. It is - business, treat it as such. nm
                  • Lighten up! - TTMT
                    • TT lighten up - marilyn
                      • Sweetie - TTMT
                    • Is TT home of the unprofessionals? - nm
                      • TT - TTMT
                        • oh'm'God, a whole page to TT... - anon
                          • Yes, TT deserves their own forum if not the whole page - must be special huh?
                            • No, not very special. - nn
                            • Yep and now it's a whole page +2. - TT112

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What are the going rates for EXText correction client?  Anyone else working on this now?

I worked for MQ for 6 years,  and they went from bad to worse. I am glad I do not work there anymore. I worked every weekend (my choice) and almost every holiday for them. They do not give you any differential for working w/e or holidays and will try to screw you out of any $$ they possibly can.  After 6 years, no one even said thank you, good luck..nothing!!!  I now work for a company that actually appreciates my work!

Google is not a reliable source for spellings, terminology, drugs, etc.

I have had MTs tell me but I found it on google

and especially with getting the media involved. Nothing is going to happen until people realize what is happening to their personal information. It is just now coming to the forefront, thanks to the media, the reality and effect of what happens to our personal information when all of these companies have access to it and the result thereof. It's on television every time we turn around; our personal information being *out there* and in the hands of who knows who, stolen and disseminated in whatever way someone or some company chooses. As well, physicians truly need to understand that companies are outsourcing (I don't believe for a moment that most of them understand this fact). That aside, the effect on the lives and work of the American MT is something that needs to be known, and the media is the only way the information is going to be released to the general public. Using American MTs is the only way this information is *safe*, to so speak.

Additionally, as you state, using us to correct all of the mistakes made by the client in ADT and not paying us for it is so absurd, I am sick to death of it myself. I run across it every day (and MQ (for whom I work doesn't pay us, either). On one account I have, in particular, virtually nothing matches in ADT and if we don't get it correctly, it IS the fault of the MT, no matter what (??). We get email after email about it from out PS on up. Also, everything is done to lessen the line count, no matter how awful it looks. ASR keeps lessening our pay. Everything is beginning to look as if it were done by Indians or Pakistanis, etc., and it's not as if I have anything against those people, in case anyone wants to jump on me for that statement, other than they are being given our jobs. However, the work is substandard.

As an aside, can you think of any better way for a terrorist organization to infiltrate?

I am sure others do too (in case that is the company you are unhappy with).  MDI-MD uses Bayscribe, and it is also very easy to use/user friendly.   Webmedx uses their own platform, but it is easy to us as well.  I have worked with Iscriptor too, and it is fairly uncomplicated.  Good luck!

but was anal retentive when it came to punctuation.  You would have a report with 10 blanks in it because of poor sound quality, and he wouldn't fill in one blank, but he had put commas all throughout your report, or taken apostrophes out, etc. and he wasn't correct in his punctuation a lot of the time.   Several of the MTs complained about him and asked to not have him do their QA, so he was demoted from QA to an MT.  Well, as I said earlier, he couldn't fill in a blank.  I saw a couple of his reports and there was blank after blank in reports that I had no trouble with at all.  He also didn't proof his reports because he would have inapproriate/incorrect expansions in them.  Not sure if he left on his own, or didn't really have a choice.  Anyway, talk to your supervisor.  Maybe this person is just on a power trip, knows you are new and wants to train you to do it her way, even if your way isn't incorrect.  I think punctuation is a valid issue, but if it doesn't change the integrity of the report and there are no other errors it shouldn't be flagged by QA.    You could also take into account her corrections and maybe try to use a few more commas, etc. and that might help.  

I would take this as a gross insult if I had 1 year of experience, and I hope this is for VR.  Any MT even considering such an offer, either:

1.  Is in very dire straits, financially.  2. Doesn't value herself very much.  3. Is doing her fellow MTs, and herself/himself a great disservice.  All this abuse of MTs by the companies is done for one reason:  BECAUSE THEY CAN. (We let them).

I love it. I flex and go with the flow. It's refreshing to know we can make up time and hours when it gets busy.

After working for a place that had no work for days on end and getting deeper into a hole while that company kept telling me the work would pick up (which it never did), I finally left. This company never let you make up hours. What you got, you got.

I ran out of work yesterday and today on my accounts for the first time since the July 4th holiday, but only have a couple hours to make up and I will do that.

I'm tired of the TT bashing, too. They're a great company. No complaints from me...EVER.  They bend over backwards to keep everybody happy, but you can never please some people. I think those people wouldn't be happy if they didn't have anything to complain about.

If no one likes it, they can leave. It leaves more work for me and I'll gladly take it.