Does that include the overhiring practice of Transcend's
Posted By: ?? on 2005-07-19
In Reply to: MDI-FL - lovemyjob
so none of us can make a decent living, or the miserable platform transcend brought with it?
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Transcend----and the drought continues. Sick of the overhiring. Anyone else experiencing this??
Where is the work going? They are either overhiring AGAIN or sending MORE work to India than they are admitting to. Everyone says, ask for a second account Well good luck with that. I have a second, third, and fourth acount and ALL NO WORK. I quit!!! That should free up some work for the rest of you.
Does this include
being an employee under employee status that a computer, software and reference materials be supplied also. If so, that does not happen here either.
does that include MDI MLS's in there? I always thought they
were one of the big companies but that is pretty average, isn't it?
Practice what you preach. Your a** has been on here all day!
;-)
Common practice?
Is it common practice now days to type 4 different accounts - 7 different work types in one 8 hour shift? I'm experiencing this as a FT employee for a well known company - Other than this, the company is wonderful ....this has given me great experience, but my pay has decreased.....Do I need to suck it up and keep pounding away or look elsewhere? Any advice appreciated!!!
RE: Common practice?
Suck it up. You really do not have a problem.
Why not practice being French
here to see how you like it? Try being snotty and rude. Sneer and pretend you don't understand what people are saying. Maintain a disdainful countenance, while dissing the USA. Set fire to a couple of cars. Demand 8 weeks paid vacation and then refuse to work anyhow.
Not exactly defending the practice
First, I'm not a big fan of mandatory overtime anyway. I understand sometimes they need it, but after 40, there are some weeks where I don't even have another minute in me to give them.
I've also had the same thing with overtime...being happy because they're requesting it for an account that's semi-easy and I'm good at, and then logging on to find out it's the account from hail. I can't be the only one from that hail-storm to be working, and I can only assume they're not too backed up because they're not the ones looking for OT, so why oh why oh why must I type any of the Chennai Boomhauer in my spare time.
It must have something to do with different turnaround because I don't think my place assigns them. At least in theory, although I've not seen the spread sheets to prove it, it's first in/first out to me. I did ask them about this one other time I signed on for overtime at the slightly better place and got stuck with Hail Community Hospital. I was still eligible for the OT, but I'd have gotten probably double if I'd have been typing the actual account that needed the OT.
Free Practice Test
This will give you some sound files and practice tests - http://www.meditec.com/meditec-skills-test.html
Unfortunately, many practice this unethical behavior. sm
I worked for a company that sold out to MQ. A certain person took all of the names of the MTs with her when she went to another company, went after the accounts this company had, and tried to recruit the MTs for that account for the new company.
I asked how they go my name and number as I had never applied to this new company before - and I was told so and so worked at such company and we have this account now and you used to work on for such and such company....etc. I was shocked to say the least!
So, yes it does happen, and NO I never took the job and asked them to please not contact me again that I was not interested.
Nothing is sacred anymore - not even our privacy let alone the hospitals and patients!
Not unless you include the account updates - LOL!
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Do you know if this rate would include your DH if needed? Thanks. nm
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Plus your medical records include your SS#, too! nm
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The numbers on the Q above do not include ILPs.
There is a difference.
Does that include the equipment failures
for the ancient Lanier equipment that doesn't work half the time, the numerous phone numbers that must be dialed to even obtain the work, the numerous ESLs who can barely speak English, the demands to work extra and constantly even though an MT meets her quota, the inconsistent account profiles and QA feedback, or the promise of being left on an account only to be moved around? I'm really curious.
its for Family Practice account
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is there any type of practice test
you can take to help prepare for it or at least give you an idea of what's covered?
family practice companies
Does anyone out there know of any companies with good family practice accounts?
What is the basic 4? Does it include op reports? NM
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Thanks, does this include an expander and dictionary, or did you have to buy your own? Nm
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They need to include the American firms
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It can include Ops, but lots of companies
offer positions with or without ops, so acute care doesn't necessarily mean Ops. Acute care is hospital setting and can be any report type, basic 4 would include Ops usually.
Yes, hiring practice was right 'fit' for me
Imagine hiring someone just based on their resume and a phone interview. Aha, the catch? You have to pass a very rigorous 10-day QA process, can transcribe only 5 reports a day during that time. It is challenging, but well worth it at the end of that time. You decide if it's the right job, and they decide if you are the right employee.
Like I said, old school.
Looking into medical records and include
this into the criteria to hire somebody or not, yes, this I would regard as overall discrimination.
But to be subjected to a hearing test to be hired for an MT job, is not discrimination of any sort.
Does that 200 LPH include voice recognition, or is it
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Oh, I understand. I wasn't condoning the practice
of not paying for no work situations at all. Just commenting that MQ was not the only one to fail to do so.
Although I have never been out of work with either MQ or Spheris, should that situation have occurred I would have been all the more reliant on the other position's income.
Does Precyse include the ADT entries or headers in
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Definitely is spaces include, black and white.
Indeed it is.
Does Medware's insurance include preexisting? nm
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I once had a group practice client, which included ...sm
6 physicians. The most irritating one was the doc from India who had been in the U.S. for at least 15 years (I know this because I went to school with his children), and refused to even work on losing at least a small part of his accent. He was so ridiculous, and each time I typed his work, I said to myself I swear this guy purposely works at keeping his thick accent just to irritate me! Interestingly, 2 of his partners in the practice were ESL (had only been in the U.S. for 1-2 years), and their accent was much less severe. These were younger docs, who in my opinion, made an effort to get with the program if they want to practice medicine here! I do believe that people can actually make themselves hold onto their accents. I have a friend who is from the south (She has lived near me in the SE part of the country for 20 years) and she continues to have a strong southern accent. She has not lived in the south since she was a small child. I tease her about it.
That is totally unacceptable business practice.
Forgot to include my e-mail address
My e-mail address is neuhausel@epix.net. Forgot to include that in my last message.
Lori Neuhausel
Forgot to include 2000 lines a day sm
On the first posting, it posted half way down the page (don't know why) so scroll downward for the figures. It looks like there is no message (there is though)
Anyway, don't accept something like this, no matter what from this CHRISTIAN company as they put it. This is clearly taking advantage of very very very skilled technicians. Just makes me so darn mad to see stuff like this.
This year's will include roadkill recipes
So lets all get our recipes ready to submit to some suit that did NOT take a pay cut, so she can dole them out to us and lead the old team cheer!
What I love the most - they way they announce they're forcing the whole company to go ISR and take a pay cut - and then exhort us to give our extra all to worry about quality. Its REMARKABLE how they have the cojones to guilt trip us while they're yanking our money away!
We ARE worried about quality - the quality of our resumes as we start looking for different jobs. I'm worried about the quality of my PAYCHECK and the quality of my TIME wasted looking at NSA hour after hour, night after night. And that's the QUALITY you've forced us to concentrate on!
Which is less in American $ and doesn't include dues. nm
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Overhiring
Just wondering if anyone feels their companies are suddenly overhiring in order to benefit with the unhappy Medquist MTs looking to make a move. Suddenly the work flow seems very low and that is not usually the case where I work.
SPI overhiring?
Any other SPI MTs frustrated with their accounts suddenly all being empty because of what appears to be overhiring - AGAIN? It seems to be feast or famine.
Overhiring
They have overhired!!! I am sick and tired of working on many accounts. I am looking for other employment myself.
Good Company, but they LIED to ME AND PULLED A BAIT AND SWITCH!!!!! Too many people on each account.
overhiring
Well according to Maggie's comments last week we deserve it because we are not good MTs and are just goofing off !
Overhiring
I have more than 2 accounts and have nothing this morning. OT has been in place for me since I started and there was always work. It is a known fact that they overhire and will continue to do so. When I do Alt-G to pull up old reports, there is a boat-load of new employee names, which has become obvious by the lack of work and being pushed to second and third accounts during the week.
It's the overhiring for TAT.
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probably overhiring
in anticipation of those new accounts the owner referenced last week in her email where she said they'd be hiring 40 more MTs (or however many it was).
Not only is it tough when they bring on new people before the accounts start, I think some MTSOs do the same thing airlines do - overbook/overhire in anticipation that some people won't show up anyway.
PTO, sick pay, paid holidays, benefits include...sm
Medical, dental, vision, drug coverage. Great company. I like my accounts. Plenty of work.
How different are internal medicine notes from family practice? nm
I had no MT training, either. Started at an Ortho practice, then to a nat'l. MT school is NOT a n
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And yet YOU fuel the fires. Good grief, practice....
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They are notorious for overhiring. They do sm
this all the time and the loyal employees eat it in favor of the new people getting all of their work. It is mismanagement in the extreme. Despite them constantly saying we appreciate all you do, they do not take the loyal employees into account when overhiring/early hiring people for accounts that do not yet exist.
NO JUSTIFICATION FOR OVERHIRING.....SM
Just another example of the exploitation of MTs by the companies. Sure, they want to make sure they have enough MTs to keep their TAT and their clients...so they hire extra for insurance. It costs them nothing to put us on ice ... waiting for work which won't come. I tested with this company about a year back...phone test where you're asked about half hour's worth of questions. Told me I did well on the oral test and transcription part, but we don't have any work right this minute...but they'll call you. (I'm going to hold my breath and sit here waiting and tell my grocer, landlord, creditors, I have nothing right now but I'll call you....LOL). Same principle as when airlines overbook, with the full support of federal govt. 
And this justifies overhiring?...SM
Of course, you know these employees are slackers, right? While in the same breath mention experiencing lack of work yourself.
Whether or not there are slackers on a company's payroll, that is a separate issue to be dealt with accordingly. It does NOT justify 'HIRING A FEW EXTRAS who have to sit there and wait for work while their bills pile up, just so the MTSO (God forbid!) gets out of TAT. Overhiring is overhiring when there is no work ... MTSOs can justify it any way they want. It's just another example of MT exploitation.
Low work and overhiring again.
Guess if you don't work both days on the weekend, you get your cue shut off on your work during the weekdays. Such a kind strategy for a company employing ICs, does not pay benefits or time off. They ultimately have the control. Isn't that nice? And it's a company which does not off shore. Guess they believe they got us. So sweet. I assume if you work there you know who I am talking about.
Overhiring and need for fast TAT
Just my opinion. They want us to be right behind the dictators. My supervisor starts sending out frantic e-mails if we get over 100 minutes saying that he is about to start calling people to get to work.
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