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FOR HIGHER WAGES WRITE YOUR LEGISLATORS! Posted By: To get wages headed in the right direction... on 2009-02-13 In Reply to: We have to take our cause to the national level. Below is the link for all the legislators' email addresses, and don't forget to send one to the Commander in Chief! Look what he has done already for us little people (the homeless lady in Florida he helped find a home)! Even send one to the First Lady, it'd be a great cause for her to get behind, since the real backbone of this industry is us women. http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm Tell them we need their help in ensuring that we keep our jobs HERE, in the USA. Also, you'd think HIPAA would totally frown on sending our work out. Point out all the information that gets bounced around in other countries by outsourcing overseas...I wouldn't want MY info going over there, would you?...would they? The way this will help all OF us MTs, and this is the ONLY way to help, as it will put the work back in the hands of us capable US MTs, here in the US. When that happens, we will demand the wages we deserve and NOT wages from the 80's and 90's! At that point, once the demand goes up for our services because they HAVE to use us, we have to get tough, band together and demand what we're worth. If we spent as much time (myself included) griping to the people that can actually make this happen as we do posting on here, we'd REALLY get the ball rolling. How 'bout it? Instead of replying to MY post, email the Powers that Be!!!! javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',''); Complete Discussion Below: marks the location of current message within thread FOR HIGHER WAGES WRITE YOUR LEGISLATORS! - To get wages headed in the right direction... The messages you are viewing are archived/old. To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu Other related messages found in our database PLUS, a plumber sets his own hours and wages! As far as MT wages, x The percentage of offshoring is higher than 15%, much higher - sm Two more points - the Indian transcriptionists seemed to get the easy American dictators while the US transcriptionists get the Indian doctors and other ESLs. Never made sense to me. Also, a poster said the work is QA'd before being sent to the client - not all the time and if was then QA needs better training. All-Write I am looking for some information on this company. Are they flexible? Plenty of work? Do they require a certain amount of lines per day for full time or part time? Any information would be greatly appreciated! I write down all the jobs I do. I am an IC and have to submit an invoice each pay period, so I always compare what they have with what I have to be sure it is correct! write me I sent you an E-mail, but in case you don't get it, will post on here as well. I left the Q three years ago and now work for a company I really like. They are small. I've recommended them to people in the past and even though I tell them up front what it pays, some think they are the exception. It pays 7 cents and goes to 8 cents after QA...and stays there, but if you're really interested, let me know. The platform is Emdat/InScribe. Very easy once you learn it. Very frustrating until you do :) Pleeze don't write another one Flo OMG that is the most stupid thing I have ever seen next to the first one of course!! Why would you ask here? Write the recruiter and ask her. x All-Write Transcription I was wondering what you could tell me about All-Write Transcription. Does anyone here work for them? Any feedback would be appreciated. Sonya Anybody know anything about or work for Med-Write?... Looking for any information. Thanks. All-Write Transcription...anyone?... Good, bad or ugly? Anyone with any experience with them? Thanks! please don't write in all caps nm Write One Transcription Hello all! Writing to ask about a company called Write Now Transcription...anyone works/worked for them, etc? Heard from them today. Yes and another reason I write them down is sometimes, they will email me for missing work and I can go back and see when I sent it back to them and get it straightened out. If I had not written it down, I could still find it in the logs on the computer, but it is much easier to just loko at that date on my paper. This could be your own opportunity to write your x Yikes .. right, not write. nm Interesting. What exactly is it you write? x Have you ever heard of tax write off? sm Either give it to the government or let employees enjoy it as a write off. More companies should do this sort of thing for bonuses, MT week, Christmas, etc. If you don't like it, move on and build your own company. When the up and ups in a company does is not really anyone's business but the business owners. Did you write that post? Care to share some specifics? I see posts in the archives calling her mean and then your post calling her trash, which is not enough to go on to make a decision. Just sounds to me like disgruntled MTs. Care to share your experience? What was it she did that was so awful? Yes, but who takes the time to write Gheesh...so ridiculous Why didn't you just write down "Not enough." nm :} Definitely can be an employee and write these things off. Turbo Tax walks you through and also your tax advisor can assist you. To write your senator/congressman I just put in the name of my senators and I got directed to a home page and I could then E-mail him direct. Which I did telling him that if all of our jobs go overseas then no one would be working to pay his salary. They need to start taxing these companies that do this as they are missing out on a lot of FICA and fed taxes, etc. Don't know if it will do any good but I put in my two cents worth for all of you losing your jobs. Also wonder if the price is going DOWN to the clients, that would be interesting to know. Good luck to all of you. Do you want to be one? Write to the recruiters who posted and maybe they will tell you. That kind of information could cost them their job if posted on a public board. Leave them alone. Correct - I don't want to write a book. If you want more information, please email me. I can only say what I experienced. I think what Transcend does is write you a letter telling you that because you did not make incentive you are considered part-time and no longer eligible for benefits. This is what I have heard. But please talk to your supervisor because this may not be the case. Good luck. I know they are a stickler for making production no matter what the circumstances are. QA wages Anyone out there have any idea of how much a QA person should make per hour working at home? Low Wages When I got my VERY FIRST job transcribing, it was for a national service, and the pay was 7 cpl. It's been nearly 10 years since then - The pay for MTs has not gone up at all, and even worse, it seems to be DROPPING!! wages Yes, I totally agree. We need to unionize. My wages are more than that and like I said, you must be slow not to be able to make at least $20 an hour and yes, I can add. about my wages. My wages and sm my job are just fine. Yes we are allowed to have freedom of speech so I have mine too. Wages Since this board has become a they pay what? board, let's talk about pay. In 1992, I was working as a receptionist and got paid $10.00 an hour. Today, I looked in my local paper and saw ads for receptionists for $8-10 an hour. Hasn't gone up much in 17 years! I worked as an administrative assistant for $14.00 an hour in 1994. Today, they are paying anywhere from $12-15 an hour. I worked in-house for a hospital in 1999 doing medical transcription and got paid $15 an hour, plus a bonus for going over my daily lines. Today, our in-house hospital is paying $13-15 an hour. The local Sears store is starting their sales reps at $7.50 an hour TODAY. My first work at home MT job was almost 10 years ago and I started out at 8 cents a line for straight typing. Pretty much standard today. I really don't understand the constant complaining about wages on this site. VR is terrible, I agree with that, BUT it isn't terrible for an experienced MT. What it has caused is a way for NEW MTs to compete with the experienced ones. If you work on eScription or a similar platform, the program really can learn the doc, therefore allowing a new MT to learn while on the job. So, us experienced MTs are working right along side someone just out of school for the same pay. Oh well!!! I make $120 a day on VR in 8 hours 0.04 cpl (around $16 an hour), I have hit $160 if I work a couple more hours. So I am still making the same as if I worked in-house and I get the benefit of working from home. Please stop the complaining already. This job is not that hard. When I first became an MT, the job was hard. Well, 10 years later it is a piece of cake and I would rather make my $16 an hour any day then go work at Sears for around 7 bucks an hour. Am I the only one getting tired of the constant complaining about pay and jobs going to India? Gag! MT wages What is the point of your post...to irritate already upset MTs? I think people are angry that their wages have decreased so much. I would be okay if mine stayed the same, but I am currently making 1/3 of what I did 10 years ago and working twice as hard. You compare our job to a Sears employee making 7.50? Well I would like to see that employee type medical records. I put my email at the top up there and no one cares enough to write. They just want to complain and tell untruths about this company. Some are a good fit, others not, but the things that I am reading are definitely not true. I would not worry about constant complainers. These people would not fit in anywhere and I am not upper management either nor am I lower management. I would write them an email if it has been a couple of days. Never hurt to try. This is tragic. I hope you also write to AAMT who has supported outsourcing and anyone else in our industry. In the meantime, go to the Jobs Board of this site and email all companies who have advertised jobs on this site as well as other sites and put those feelers out. ALSO, I HOPE that none of you buy into that computer at that whopping deal of $800. You realize of course that you can buy a brand new unused one for that much. Tell them to send overnight ship tags to you so that you can return their computer. All involved in this traitor type of deal should hang their heads low and I hope they are the very last to find good old American jobs. Good luck to all of you. There are lots of companies out here and many of us have the same fate no doubt in our future, but some of us work for companies who will fight that type of fate up until the very end. Again, write some of those companies. I am seeing many on the Jobs Board of MT Stars who are advertising. Put in your Subject line that you are a soon to be out of work Heartlander so as to let them know that you are not just one average MT who looks everyday for a better company. Hang in there. You will find a place in our workforce. We will be looking out for you. BTW, I will make it known to my company that this has happened and let our recruiters know to look out for the MTs and QA staff from Heartland. We try to take care of our own. I would love to write a letter to the account I used to be on and tell them that their work is being sent to Vietnam now. I know for a fact that they have already threatened to take the account away from SPI due to major issues with TAT. I'm sure if they knew about Vietnam that would be the last straw. Tempting. The book contains suggestions. They don't write the rules they merely published them in a format convenient for us to review - save your anger for the JAHCO and the American Medical Association. LOL .. I'll bet you are write. UGH on the carbon paper ... sm We typed in triplicate, so had to correct 3 documents each time I made a mistake. Forget the good old days in this case ... I am going to give my PC a big hug right now! I think you should write novels or short stories :-) nm x Correct, But don't write checks in advance b/c if you write them Friday, chances are the bank is going to post them 1 minute before midnight and the paycheck hits the bank midnight. You will look for some nasty overdraft fees. Although the check is dd like clockwork and the bank knows it, naughty naughty to write checks in advance. Bad lesson to learn the hard way! Agree the post(s) are quite obvious. This is not how we write here. SM This is a fine example of my question: How are editors not having to make major changes to reports coming back from overseas? No matter what anyone is saying, there has to be some major editing. Possibly not so much in regard to medical terminology, but just misuse of proper grammar. This has to be creating a lot of work if you have to edit almost every sentence in a report. But I guess, if the overseas MTs have a doctor dictating who knows our language properly, they get to type verbatim. Just curious how overseas MTs do when they transcribe for an ESL doc from a different country here in the U.S. who is not so efficient at dictating. It has to be a mess. I'll write, but not on AHDI's behalf - (sm) Instead, I'll write on behalf of myself, and the American medical transcriber. I will ask them to bring at least part of the American MT's work back home by imposing a financial penalty PER JOB for each American MT job that is offshored. And I'll also give them an earful about how ADHI has sold not just the MTs downriver - people whom they led to believe that ADHI was their voice and their advocate - but the American public as well, whose private medical and personal information are at increased risk by being offshored, not to mention the quality of the record itself. Average QA wages Here are some known QA wages, starting out. OSi - around $13.50 Transcend - around $13.50 - $14.00 Spheris - Mostly start at $12 - $13 MQ - $12 Sten-Tel - $12 In my opinion, a good QA should get 16-19, true, but that is just not the industry standard. It is lower than that. That way they can bring our wages down even further. I think some company suits must get on here and use this as their forum as an excuse as to why they rip us off. Come on people, this is what they think of us? Yeh I would say getting our own accounts or better yet just stop working for the asses that rip off. I say lets list every company on this board that cheats MTs and everyone stop working for them. Thats the only way things might change is to unite in our efforts. Ugh --- SLAVE wages. - (nm) nm slave wages These companies really want a return to slavery for the worker. The sad thing is that if you need any income, you'll take it and there is desperation out there, which they are counting on.javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',''); Slave wages??? Not here, Why are you earning slave wages? Maybe you should take a look at YOURSELF and what is holding YOU back! Probably easier to blame the big bad corrupt MTSO for your problems. I am not earning slave wages. I consider the $20 I make per hour to be decent. For 18 months of schooling, it's not that bad. My husband is a company executive and just took a 15% cut in pay. Hey, maybe he should organize a union for beaten down and repressed executives. Now there's an idea! So did I! 80's wages were great! nm x I bet you complain about your wages And it all can be traced to company waste, not to mention the economy. No time to be wasting money. As I said, this is MY opinion. We are allowed in this country to have freedom of speech and opinions, aren't we? walmart, wages, etc No I do not work at WalMart, never have, don't intend to. I was told the wages recently by a greeter who works there, and she also said she gets a raise every year. I was surprised to hear it. I have never once told anyone to get 2 or 3 jobs, because I think that is easier said than done. I believe people need a life too. My whole point is simply that I think the MTSOs are largely responsible for the downturn of our wages by underbidding each other and then wanting to hire others to work for inferior wages. I used to work in a hospital and we did it all, transcription, charting, xeroxing, etc., and we did it well, made decent wages too. I don't think anyone should have to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. Especially in this job with its knowledge. I think you have misunderstood what I am saying. I am on your side! I am sure you are worth a lot more than being offered. walmart, wages, etc No I do not work at WalMart, never have, don't intend to. I was told the wages recently by a greeter who works there, and she also said she gets a raise every year. I was surprised to hear it. I have never once told anyone to get 2 or 3 jobs, because I think that is easier said than done. I believe people need a life too. My whole point is simply that I think the MTSOs are largely responsible for the downturn of our wages by underbidding each other and then wanting to hire others to work for inferior wages. I used to work in a hospital and we did it all, transcription, charting, xeroxing, etc., and we did it well, made decent wages too. I don't think anyone should have to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. Especially in this job with its knowledge. I think you have misunderstood what I am saying. I am on your side! I am sure you are worth a lot more than being offered.