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Does Freedom Type still require you to re-record? Thanks.

Posted By: nm on 2006-03-30
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FREEDOM TYPE

Hello out there! Would anyone have any info on this company?  Any info appreciated!  They are running an ad on one of the other transcription sites.


TIA!


FREEDOM TYPE

Well thank you Very Much for your response!


Freedom Type - sm

Can anyone tell me how the work is done?  Do you have a platform?  Do you continuously type or do you have to save out each patient?


 


Thanks.


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Freedom Type - platform? - sm

What is the platform like that Freedom Type uses?  Hard to get used to or up and running immediately?


 


 


Axolotol vs Freedom type
Does anyone have any info on Axolotol or Freedom type.  I have been offered jobs with both and don't know which to chose.  Axolotol requires to use their equipment but they offer insurance (which I do not really need)  Freedom Type says they are strictly IC status  HELP
Any Freedom Type workers here? - sm

I've heard nice things, read nice things.  Do you like working here?  Do you enjoy the work?  Set your own hours and workload?


 


TIA!


Freedom Type questions.

Do they hire IC?  Do they have their own software, or can you use MS Word?  C-phone or FTP?  Are you able to have your own account, or do you get switched around at lot? 


Thank you for any info. 


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Did you test for Freedom Type?
Do they have much work?
I use a C-phone at Freedom Type. NM
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Any information on Freedom Type? nm
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Anyone ever heard of freedom type
and if so what are the pros and cons?  Do they pay twice a month or every 2 weeks?  Thanks for any information! 
anyone work for Freedom Type?
TIA.   pros or cons??  Thinking about them.
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Freedom Type --- any opinions sm
on this company?  Good, bad, and ugly? 
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I work for Freedom Type. They pay twice a month. It's a very sm
pleasant place to work, all clinic. I love it there.
Deb at Freedom Type is an upstanding lady. You wouldn't go wrong
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Any info on Freedom Type? I only found something from 2006. Email if you like. nm
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If Silent Type didn't require
you to go to New Jersey for training for 2 days, maybe they would have been able to hire an Oncology MT already and not have to keep running the same ad over and over again.  JMO
Does Silent Type still require travel to NJ for training?
I'm looking for PT day shift work to supplement my FT evening job.
Re-record
Curious - Is the re-record from a hospital system or tape? Our FTP works great from the TN location. Which do you work out of?
I would just like to say for the record that
but COULD have written it. dang. So much for keeping my mouth shut lol
For the record sm
I have FOUR accounts, about 7 hospitals. There are residents and ESLs. It is neurosurgery to podiatry and all parts in between. It is OP notes and cardiology ONLY. They are not short and they are not easy, not relative to other places I have worked. You think a 14-minute dictation on an all-day surgery is easy stuff, with an exhausted doctor?

I don't sit still well. I am up and up and up with the dog or a drink or the bathroom. I have an 8-hour shift and if I am lucky, I sit for 5.5 to 6 hours of it and I make my minimums easily with some extra, sometimes a lot extra.

I am still learning the platform, but I like it. I tend to get a bur up my backside about a word I can't find and I do tend to look up old reports, sometimes lots, sometimes a couple of them. This is what wastes my time, but not especially. I am doing less of this each day as I learn a few common things. Because I waste that time I have only sent 3 reports to QA all week and only double that number with any blanks. I WORK for this and I tenaciously research words so that I don't have blanks.

There will always be this negativity because not all of you work this hard. I am not going to say I am a better MT, I don't know that and I would not presume, but I do work hard with a good expander.
For the record
Just think...you are calling people in India low-life trash because they are trying to make a living and feed their families by doing the same type of work you do but for about 1/10 the cost. That must mean they are willing to do whatever they can to feed and cloth their families.

All kinds of industry is offshored these days because the company needs to make a profit. Without the profit being made by the offshore people that you call low lifes, you probably wouldn't be getting the 8 or 10cpl you are getting now because the company could not afford to pay you.

If Transcend doesn't care about their people, why did I get a personal phone call from the CEO during Medical Transcription Week? Of course they care about us. There would not be a company without us. Do they all know each of us by name? No....but the people I work directly with know me and are very caring and supportive if I need time off for a personal reason.

Some people are never happy and you may be one of them. You will always find something to bitch about if you want to bitch. A person can only be happy if they are grateful for what they have. Try and attitude of gratitude and it will make a difference.
OKAY LET ME SET THE RECORD.....
Straight. My reports have no PHI none whatsoever on them or in them or anything to that nature. I know exactly how the confidentiality works, I have had 5 years in a hospital facility doing more than just medical records, so I should know the HIPAA law, legal and nonlegal regulations. Many of you don't know if these were reports saved from my schooling or nothing. Many of you are just jumping the gun as usual, and it don't surprise me none. I am not getting sassy, but I think I left out additional information to let you think that. My fault on that part. You all have a nice day
And just for the record,
I am NOT an owner, supervisor, or QA person. I am one of the people sitting at the bottom of the hill.

Time for my bath, methinks.
for the record

I loved my job at DRC ~ ADORED is probably a better word. It was going to be where my career ended, when I was 66. 


When Acusis ate DRC, I didn't wig out.  It sounded like everything was going to be just fine.  Little by little, though, it became apparent that regardless if we wanted to believe it or not, something bad was coming...


We just didn't know what.


To be perfectly honest, had my pay cut been only 10%, I would have stayed.  Even 15% probably.  Because even with a 10-15% pay cut, I still could have made bills doing what I loved to do, even if it meant putting up with 2145 emails a day and scraping to make lines.


20% was a deal breaker...30% was a deal breaker...and surely 50% was a deal breaker.  I think they knew it would be.  I think they didn't really care if we all left because we had mentored and edited and trained our replacements already. 


The very few times I ever posted on this message board about Acusis before this life changer happened, it was only about positive things.  How nice it was we got a mug, a notepad, post-its, a pen.  I appreciated my job. 


Too bad they didn't appreciate us.


The point is, I guess, that in this business, message boards like this are really our only conduit for information.  It is where I have come every time I have been in the market for a job and where I have found the information I needed to form a decision about which companies to pursue and which ones to not. 


Fact of the matter is, that the companies who get slammed the hardest, probably have it coming.  As someone has said already, before all this you were hard pressed to even see the name Acusis on this board. 


Now look at it.


It's a shame really.


But that is just my .45 cents worth


Here's a record low
Babysat my computer screen for nearly 12 hours today and made under 200 lines. What the heck is going on? I mean, I have heard of low work, but this is ridiculous.
Just for the record
Because I am retired, I have the time and the means to fight for the rights of working MTs.  Would you like me to stop?  I may or may not be able to do any good but give me E for effort.
I had to re-record. My account was 90%
Indian dictators.  Sound quality was bad to start with and with recording even worse.  Very hard to get lines.  The platform was not user friendly.   People were nice but severely disorganized.  I don't remember the pay, but definitely not enough. 
If you have been there for 3 years - a record BTW
that the current QA mgr only got her job because the previous one was fired after letting the cat out of the bag about OSi sending work offshore when they had been lying about it.

Wait... I take that back, the mgr of training who has more experience than everyone else combined was THEN hired on and given the QA mgr job to replace the former one - HOWEVER - the current mgr threw a hissy and somehow managed to brown nose her way into that job which forced them to give the training job to the other person.

Of course if you have seen the revolving door at QA since that 'promotion' you are surely aware there can be only one reason for it. She fires anyone who poses a threat to her because she is afraid she will lose her job UNLESS they quit before she has the chance to do so. She is not qualified to edit reports, thus the management job. JOKE JOKE JOKE... BUH BYE
Did you read anything on For The Record? sm
I did, and I was impressed with the CEO's determination, going back several years, to put a standardized method of line/ks counting for the MT industry, not just here, not just in India, but globally (as he seemed to like to say!) If that's what he means by transparency in billing methods, I'm all for it... and shame on all the big and small MTSOs who count one way for the client and another way for the MT.
I used to work there and they re-record...
that is why the sound is so bad...I was told that by a lead there...
Just to set the record straight (sm)
Our headquarters are in Waukesha, WI, USA. We do not send work offshore. All of our clients are located in the U.S. And, we are very proud of our 100% U.S. based workforce of experienced transcriptionists and support staff. Please contact me via email if you have any questions. You can also find my contact information on our website.
For the record on Preferred ..
I recently left the company after a check I received from them would not clear for 15-days because my bank said their account had been frozen. I had a long argument with the owner who called me a liar. She said the check had cleared but refused to send me proof (copy of cleared check). Very nasty situation.

Checks are always late. First time I called and finally realized that although with other companies you will generally receive a check 2 weeks after invoice, with Preferred it is a minimum of 3 weeks and then, of course, maybe the check won't clear.

Run as fast as you can from this company.
D&L setting the record straight

I posted this below - but moved it up so it does not get lost in the soup.


I understand that I may have been a pain in the butt - but business is business. I have left D&L so feel free to go back to work or continue if you enjoyed / enjoy it. I won't be bothering you anymore. I left D&L, I was not fired or let go, and my concerns are valid to me - does not matter to anyone else. so any problems they may have should be reevaluated by those applying. I do not see them going downhill - I have not heard anything negative, and personally - the people who work there the worker bees - are a great group of people that I would keep on my friends list. And they do have plenty of work, the pay is compatible. My personal feelings and opinions have nothing to do with the co-workers or the IC trans - or the work they offer. So again, I guess when I left I did them a favor and took the problems with me - or not. So now you all can get back to getting the scoop on the employer and not the employees.


As for those of you who say I was the beast I do not recall bringing anyone on for a short time, or having problems with any transcriptionist. All Transcriptionist at D&L have been long term employees, if they did the work.  I am in frequent contact with many who are still there -  on a different level of course, and had you been made to feel bad, you should speak up - this not only for those who dealt with me, but with anybody.  I know that without good transcriptionists, a transcription company is not going to make it.


So again, my aologies if I hurt your feelings, work is work, and to get a paycheck I did my job.  So again, try to get information on the company, not the employees, but also use your better judement in order to run the company you own - as an IC.  I appreciate everyones comments on my performance etc at D&L, no hard feelings.  If that is the reason why so many of you had problems, go back - they are hiring and I am not there.


Setting the record straight here, sm
I used a poor term, cheesy, because that is what these unthankful people used in THEIR posts, some called their own gifts lame and said things like it stinks to work for a company who sends out dollar gifts, I wish were more appreciated, or I'd rather have cash.

I wasn't meaning it in any way other than OTHER people come here complaining about their companies, complaining about their gifts, and I thought maybe it would be nice to let them know that Diskriter is a company that values their employees. EVERY year I have been here I have gotten a bonus, as has everyone else who qualified by years of service. My gosh ladies and gentleman, get over yourselves.

I was not bragging, only saying I am happy at my company and feel they value all of their employees.
For the record . . . I did take the time to answer
your question below. See Not uncommon . . . I even took the time to go through some notes I made while interviewing for jobs back in the late fall.
You can at OSI as long as you don't record the hours
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Setting the record straight

I have been with All Type for quite some time and never had any problem with management or pay - EVER.  A contract is a legally binding document for both the company and the MT and not so easily broken as you portray.  The employee handbook and the contract that are signed by employees have very specific production requirements.  These have been in place for 3 years that I personally know of and not changed.  There are 2 sides to every story and I wonder if you would care to share if you were actually meeting those requirements or if what you are saying happened occurred because you did not meet them?