Didn't mean to burst your bubble, but
Posted By: heeheehee on 2008-07-25
In Reply to: Why? - SMITTY
what I meant was with a company not hospital, with benefits, the most you can look for is 10 cpl and that is with shift differential.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but (sm)
and by the way, I'm trying my best to stay on topic - LOL, but you are replying to my post about not discussing pay. I am, however, NOT the poster who said cents per line rate means nothing, it's up to you, or some fluff like that. Sorry, you're getting mixed up with who posted what. Besides, poster who said cents per line means nothing, I do see what she means by that. You wouldn't get it, though, so I'm not going to explain.
No way...sorry to burst your bubble
Hate to tell you this, but I also tried and tried at TT to get anything even close to 1500 lines, and on my last job I had done 2000 very easily in 6 hours. The account you are doing is an important part of how many lines you are able to get, and the account I had at TT was a very difficult one than my previous job...also using ExText has a lot to do with it too.
Hope you haven't quit your job yet...I don't recommend going to TT...it seems to me a lot of TTers are living in a fantasy land.
I left after trying for almost a year to get a good line count.
Good luck to you!
Burst Bubble
I took the advice of everybody here and went to work for a company that everybody was rooting for. Nobody had anything bad to say about them. It has been a couple of months now and I have been out of work more often than not. I have been given 5 or 6 accounts total for backup, although no training because they expect you to train yourself by reading the account specifics. And talk about pressuring you to move to the speech platform!!!!
It turns out this place is not all that and a a bag of chips. I wish I had not paid attention to all the accolades now. They apparently were in a hiring frenzy for the new account and hired anybody who applied and now everybody is out of work. They say they require 5 years of recent experience which is not true because 2 of my friends who have been doing this less than 3 years were hired too. All of us are out of work!
This is a major letdown for me so here I go again looking for another job. All I want to know is not how wonderful a company is but whether they have work to do. At this point I don't care how sweet they are. I just want to work.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but...
They don't care! There are plenty of MTs who would be happy to take the job you just turned down. The only thing you accomplished was getting it off your chest.
Don't want to burst a bubble
But I have done the same thing more than once. Their interest seems to be computer-generated. In other words they may be interested without an opening.
My timing may just have been off - hope you have better luck.
Sorry to burst your bubble
But I heard the EXACT same thing (MTs can be sued) from the AHDI Conference this year in Nashville. It is possible and I, for one, don't want to be the one to find out the hard way because I kept my head in the sand.
Um, hate to burst your bubble, but...
I make 200-240 lines an hour now that I have left Amphion and work with a better platform. That's what I am trying to say. Their platform is not fair for MTs.
hate to burst your bubble but
american-held territories such as the Mariana Islands (Saipan), Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, etc. will allow companies to be offshore but still american. They did it with the garment industry and slapped a Made in the USA label on it.
Hate to burst a bubble...
I work for the Q and when the CBay buy out happened, many, many people sent letters to Oprah, Dr. Phil, Obama, everyone!!!!
No one cares (Yes, I care, but I am not important).
No one will touch this subject. Too many people are afraid to start something here. Like, if Oprah says something, don't you think all the Indians here in the states will cause a huge uproar?
There were so many girls from the Q that wrote local papers, had stories published and everything. It goes nowhere!
hate to burst your bubble but my guess is that
they will not even tell the clients - or they will tell them that they still have US MTs - even if they are not using them. Had it happen on a smaller scale and they made all those promises - took a while for the clients to figure it out - most bolted.
Hate to burst your bubble but psychs do NOT make that!
What a joke!
I had to burst your bubble, but they are offshoring to NyDocs or Zydocs or something like that.
It is an indian company. They are offshoring your work and have been for quite some time now.
OMG, I burst out loud on that one! NM
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Hate to burst bubbles....but..
You will regret it if you go there.  Sorry.
Pray that you never have a pipe burst in the middle of the night. sm
There is still a demand for graveyard shift plumbers, just as there is a demand for MTs with 'odd' hours, etc. Both just have to find the complementary company.
I didn't say I didn't care, I just don't understand
why the sudden outrage over HL offshoring.
She didn't say they didn't offshore at all s/m
What she did say is that if the work needs to be done here, it stays here (paraphrased a bit, I think).
That is not lying and saying that they don't offshore work, as was stated by another poster above, but saying that if the client wants the work to stay in the US, they will keep it here. Sheesh.
She didn't say she didn't have a family. A family isn't just kids. sm
She also said she didn't have kids. Why do you think you're so much better BECAUSE you have kids? I am so sick of that attitude. I don't have kids, never wanted them, but have been discriminated against in jobs because of it. Everyone figured since I had no kids I could work all the time. I said NO! Just because I don't have kids doesn't mean I don't have a life or that my life is not important.
BTW I work part time too. 
Thanks! Not sure why I didn't think of that
but that is what I will do from now on!
Thank you - I didn't know. :) nm
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Are you sure she didn't say she has been
a recruiter for years (not necessarily with Keystrokes)? Because I was hired at another company a number of years ago and she was the recruiter, maybe there was a misunderstanding?
I did all that and it still didn't come up....oh well
I think there is just trouble with imail. This happened to me the day before yesterday too. To get to the MQ board click on forums (left blue menu) then click on company forum, (you obviously did that) but then look to the blue menu on the left and now Medquist appears under company board and before offshore board. See ya there.
What $125? I didn't see anything like that.
And there's a charge if we return the computer before three months? I heard they were the absolute best company out there. I simply can't make a decent line count. I sent out three resumes on fulltime local nonMT jobs yesterday because I haven't been able to earn a decent steady income doing MT for a year now. I'm not going bankrupt over this. I don't see why it has to be this difficult. I'd be totally loyal, stay with a company, and move into a more responsible position if I could find the right company.
I didn't know that.
So those who are moseying along, getting in their 11,000 whenever, are making as much as the ones who work really hard to get their line counts into the incentive range?
I wonder if there are any other companies out there that reward mediocrity? If so, maybe it's time to lower my own personal standards to fit in with the new trend.
you didn't
Boy that was quick! Like I said, it was my oversight and I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions. You didn't deserve it.
I didn't get it either.
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I didn't think that was possible
NONE - no cable, no DSL? How can that be in this day and age. I only have 2 choices here - Comcast or Verizon DSL. Verizon is out for me and it is a drag when Comcast has outages all the time.
I do work on an a/c where I've worked using dial-up with Comcast down - uses Quadris with VPN server. Worked just fine on dial-up. No problem getting into VPN at all, and able to type & save reports quite well.
Another a/c - uses IDX with no VPN - didn't work w/o high speed.
Definitely can't use dialup tho for any voice files. Only for a/c's with phone dictation.
As to foot pedals - try eBay. Plenty of other sites where people are selling equipment.
If you didn't know before - know it now
They didn't used to, but they are going to now
they are starting up a pilot program offshoring a certain number of jobs per day to test the waters in what is pivotal to the industry. Yada yada yada. So they didn't before, but they will be soon. It'll come back to bite them in the you-know-what. A bigger threat to borderline MTs is VR.
When I was there they didn't pay for that
downtime, either. 
AND I didn't say she should be, I said
that everywhere ELSE I go they are falling all over themselves. If you had the experience I have, you'd know what I mean. And since I never talked to her other than to say You emailed me and told me to call you... and she said she'd call me RIGHT BACK, and those were the only words I ever spoke to her, I don't see where any attitude would come in.
I do know that any company/any hospital would be GLAD to have me work for them. I have received nothing but praise for my work. I have worked long and hard to gain the experience I have and it has paid off. I have had my own hospital accounts for years. I've never had to beg for a job; they are offered to me quite readily. Sorry if that bothers you.
Please tell me that you didn't (sm)
use this as an excuse not to pay them. This would certainly be reason enough to get rid of them, but I don't understand why you would not set their pay straight.
Didn't like it
I tried to like Amphion as well, but it just wasn't the company for me. I also hated the DI screen fill in and I found the clinic notes to be dull and not very mentally stimulating. I left within a month and I'm happy where I am now. The people are very nice but I also found the supervisors to be not very helpful.
No, she sure didn't. Sorry! nm
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Thank you..I didn't even get to the SM
part about how PROUD they are to low-ball on rates the way they do. Why such pride for driving down rates in the areas they do business? There are MTSOs out there who quote a FAIR RATE based upon their overhead (including the rates to pay good MTs) and Shapin seems to be quite proud of the fact that they quote such low rates to their clients to get accounts.
I didn't like it sm
When I worked there, it wasn't organized, ran out of work and the operations manager was pretty nasty at times.
Things may have gotten better since then, but I doubt it.
what the ad didn't tell you
On editing and transcription, you have to deal with logs and you don't get paid for them. You also have to fool with margins and all that extra stuff that takes time. I was there nearly a year and quit because I couldn't take the temper tantrums.
Sorry...I didn't know about no DD
I have been there longer than July, maybe they didn't take it away from those who had it originally when they went to no DD. BUT, even if I did not have DD, I would still work for them.
But, Wise-MT, your post was good. A good contrast between the two of us. Sort of * whole picture * type of thing.
Good Luck to you Sammy. I hope you find a place you like and who treats you well. We MTs sure ALL deserve that at least!
Did you consider that maybe she didn't
:)
I didn't see an ad
But they emailed me today about a position, so they are hiring.
I didn't know, thanks. sm
I haven't visited that board in quite a long, long time and thought it was mostly a general-topic board. But, you are right, it has a lot of topics pertaining to this subject.
Don't say we didn't tell you! (sm)
You come here enough and you can tell the few angry flamers and the sour grapes from the people who have genuinely tried these companies - go ahead - give them a whirl. I have looked and tested and compared companies for the last 6 months - and I have come here to report on some real winners (not) - I tested and was offered a position with SS too and I turned down because on the advice of someone here I asked some very pointed questions and was a little concerned about the lack of forthcoming answers... but to each his own. Good luck to you!
hmm.....why didn't
I think of that myself??
Didn't get cpl..
I didn't ask cpl because she said they use something called Netcare but in the last email she said they have an eScription account so I asked about that last night.
Didn't think of that, but since they are asking for a 2 x 2
photo it does sound awfully fishy.
also didn't tell ya
just about every report is 100% listen plus feedback required, you can't make squat.
Didn't think about
any of that, but you both have a point!
I said most likely not as many, I didn't say
it definitely would not.
They didn't pay me either!
I worked for this company for a short period of time and they never have paid me.
No, I didn't get one, but it is only a
matter of time I suppose, just goes to show they have no clue as to who is working for them, very disorganized company.
I didn't like it but...
I am an IC and like the flexiblity of that, so being on messenger and expected to fill an absolute shift even when ahead on lines didn't work for me. Pay was not that great, but the platform is good.
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