Four Seasons Transcription and Robin Hall...a tale of deception and duplicity. sm
Posted By: BrokeMT on 2007-10-06
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I went to work for this company in November. I was assigned two large hospital accounts in Canada. After a few months, she lost one of them. She had to let go all of the MTs and editors she had hired to work on that account but asked me to stay because she said I was her best Editor and highest producer. I did. Everything rocked along for a few months without a hitch. Then my paycheck starting arriving late, at first a week, maybe 10 days late. But I was cool with that and didn't complain. Then one paycheck was weeks late. I contacted Robin and she told me that my bank was rejecting my direct deposit because my account had been closed. So I argued with the bank back and forth for weeks. They maintained that no deposits had been attempted. By then I was 2-3 paychecks behind. She continued to insist my bank was rejecting the direct deposits. I asked her for proof from her payroll company (rejection notices) but of course they never materialized. By August 1st, she still owed me 4 paychecks and I told her I could no longer donate my time and services to her cause. Throughout this time, she steadfastly stuck to her story that the hospital had not paid her, ergo she could not pay me. I've been in contact with a few of her current employees and know she's paying them (though late). As far as I'm concerned, this woman is nothing but a common thief. She stole my time, my experience, my talent, and my trust. I'm posting this because I'd like to save some other trusting soul from this same fate. I have no idea how this woman can lay her head on a pillow every night and actually go to sleep. A pox on her!!!
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Update on Four Seasons Transcription/Robin Hall. sm
Well, the update is there is no update. She still has not paid me the money she owes me and refuses to answer emails, etc. I've heard she's suing me for making slanderous and libelous statements. She obviously has not looked up the definitions of slander or libel. I've not made one FALSE statement. I've had mutual acquaintances forward me emails/instant messages from her where she's making outrageous claims like she's mailed me my money by certified mail and I've failed to pick them up and she's emailed me but I refuse to answer her. Totally nonsensical garbage. I hear that she's advertising on guru.com these days. I really need to know where these unethical imposters get off thinking they can just steal our services and get away with it. I guess because they can. Boy, how I wish some hospital would stiff her like she's stiffed me. Thanks for all your kind words of encouragement.
If Four Seasons Transcription/Robin Hall owes you money...sm
please email me. I am receiving emails from new victims of her's almost weekly. Hopefully we can something done together since none of us seem to be getting anywhere individually. It's became blatantly obvious that lying, conning, and stealing from us is just the way she runs her business. Upon comparing notes, the common thread seems to be her excuses, i.e., her clients not paying her, our banks, and her accountant. The payroll company is another of her favorites. She even uses some of the exact same wording. (She must have created templates for these excuse emails) I finally quit when she owed me 4 invoices. Her newest maneuver is firing people whose production has gone down solely for the reason that they're not being paid. SHE MUST BE STOPPED. As we speak, she is probably sitting at her black-hearted little computer shooting out her excuse templates right and left. The post below by just passing through is kind of baffling. I'd sure like more details about that situation. Robin can sue me until the cows come home, I did NOTHING wrong. I did get a reply from the BBB, and they said they didn't handle complaints of this nature. Guru.com said they're keeping a close eye on her. I feel our best bet is to pool our resources, hire an attorney, supply him/her with all the evidence we've collected, and let a court handle it. Even if we cannot recover any of the money she already owes all of us, perhaps we can prevent her from ever doing this to others in the future. Please email me if you're interested in joining forces against this rogue MTSO.
Robin Hall/Four Seasons - Whereabouts??? sm
Wondering if anybody knows what happened to Robin and/or Four Season Transcription?? Her website is down and email bounces back. I just received a 1099 from her for 2008 and I haven't worked for her since 2007. She didn't pay me what she owed me in 2007, much less anything in 2008. Has anybody been in contact with her lately??? Thanks!!!
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Four Seasons Transcription?
Anyone heard of Four Seasons Transcription? They are located in VA? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Happy Holidays!!!!!! 
Four Seasons Transcription
Do not join Four Seasons Transcription, Virginia, USA. I got duped 2000 K.
Four Seasons Transcription
Is there anyone else working for this company as an Editor or MT that has been promised to get money recently and still waiting? I read the posts below about someone not working there anymore that hasn't gotten paid but what about current employees?
Four Seasons Transcription
I too am dealing with this company. I am 4 checks behind. I signed a contract and am headed to my lawyer. She told me that she was having problems with her accountant, but assured me that she would send me a check herself. Yeah right! Started out as a good thing and then I never received direct deposit. She said it was a miscommunication with her accountant, then received a check several weeks later. I was very patient with her but now I am 4 checks behind and still haven't received any checks. Everytime I contact her its one excuse after the next. I am fed up and will let my lawyer deal with her.
Four Seasons Transcription
I too am dealing with this company. I am 4 checks behind. I signed a contract and am headed to my lawyer. She told me that she was having problems with her accountant, but assured me that she would send me a check herself. Yeah right! Started out as a good thing and then I never received direct deposit. She said it was a miscommunication with her accountant, then received a check several weeks later. I was very patient with her but now I am 4 checks behind and still haven't received any checks. Everytime I contact her its one excuse after the next. I am fed up and will let my lawyer deal with her.
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Four Seasons Transcription; anyone with personal (sm)
experience with this company? Is the Vianeta platform easy to use? Did it seem like line counts added up appropriately? Was the company organized and easy to work for? Did you have plenty of work? Sorry for all the questions. I just want to make the ''right'' move. Thank you.
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Four Seasons Transcription - good, bad?
I'm looking for information on Four Seasons Transcription. Are they a good company to work for? Any help, information, or opinion is appreciated.
In the same predicament with Four Seasons Transcription..sm
Could I possibly find help here also???
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Another one burned by Four Seasons Transcription
I was a current employee of Robin Hall's that still hung on thinking and believing she would pay me. My paycheck was 5 weeks late when I finally said enough is enough. I told her I quit as of 02/01/08. Since that time she does not show online, does't answer her home phone, cell phone, or e-mail. This woman is a very very good con artist and apparently has been operating this way for a long time. I even called on her business number listed on her business webpage... guess what... that number has been disconnected with no forwarding number. I still have yet to be paid and she owes me over $800. The part I feel the worst about, I referred a friend to her shortly after I started. She owes my friend over $900 and can't get a hold of Robin either. I know there's probably not much I can do about what she did to me but I hate that fact that she will continue to cheat honest, hard working MT's. I've posted on just about every site I can think of from Guru (where she found me) to Freelance.com. If anyone can think of any other sites I'll post on them too. I can't stress enough, please before you accept a position IC or employee status with ANY company..... check them out in any way possible.
Becka
Four Seasons Transcription: How To File A Complaint
If you would like to file a complaint with the BBB regarding payment not received from Robin Hall and Four Seasons Transcription, you can do it online at http://vabbb.org/newindex.html. This is the Virginia branch of the BBB. Any information such as a phone number of Four Seasons, you can find on her website at www.fourseasonstranscription.com. I have already filed a complaint. This is the first step I'm taking to get my payments for the last 6 weeks. WARNING: DO not work for Robin Hall. Any complaints you hear here are true! She uses fuzzy words to tell you when your payment is coming. She DOES NOT pay or DOES NOT pay regularly or on time.
Four Seasons Transcription Owes Me Money
She owes me money too. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I sent you an e-mail.
FOUR SEASONS TRANSCRIPTION...PAY YOUR MTs.. Poor BrokeMT has been fighting you for months.
Just pay her. If her bank truly rejected her DD numerous times, then why wasn't she sent an actual paper check. Companies like this need to be run out on a rail. You give MTSOs a bad name.
What a tale of woe I have to tell you....sm
I have been there several years and am leaving; my last day is next Tuesday. It used to be a great place to work and I never had any complaints until the last few weeks.
1. Most work has become ASR. It's the way of the industry nowadays, but on top of everything else, it's harder to take. 2. They have cut ASR pay to match industry standards. Can't blame them for that, but again, on top of everything else...
3. Most rarely have their primaries or even secondaries much anymore. They have a national work pool now. This means that an MT could have several reports for accounts she has never seen before, which means corresponding client profiles with each one wanting things done differently. That slows things waaaaaaaaay down.
4. Supervisor Musical Chairs. Last year, MQ made some major changes and gave everyone new supervisors and told us to get to know them. We did, and a year later, most of us ended up with new ones.
5. No more matching of 401K, as of April 1 this year. They will decide whether or not to contribute to our 401k again later this year, but no guarantees. Take a wild, bloody guess what they decide to do.
6. Incentive program was slashed dramatically. I am personally out $300 a month. What is left will not be given if an MT has more than three critical errors. I haven't had any personally, but many are reporting critical errors for what are considered minor infractions.
7. A freeze on raises until further notice.
8. Outsourcing a lot of work to India, leaving the ESL work for us.
That's just off the top of my head.
If you decide to go ahead and work for them, good luck to you. You will need it.
Deception seems to be everywhere. There was an article about a trucking cm
company that set up a dummy office in another state to license its hundreds of vehicles there to avoid paying taxes here where apparently it is higher. I know it is not MT, just seems like Corporate America (or Corporate India) is packed with liars everywhere.
As far as the MT part goes, I would be tempted to contact the clients and ask if they knew their work was going to India, but then I suppose that could set you up for a bunch of lawsuits. Still, it would not hurt my feelings if they somehow ended up losing their accounts because of all of this deceit.
MDI=Maximum Deception/Inconsistenciesx
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MDI=Maximum Deception/Inconsistencies
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transtech tale
My friend Bini took the bait and signed on with Transtech. She was in tears at the end of her first day - nothing but difficult ESLs. Before the zombies attack let me state that every place has ESLs and somebuddy going to be dooin' them, every place, every time, every place. I am not condemning the company, just wish people would not praise is as da promised land.
horrible tale
I was commenting on how companies go in and out of favor. I am a battle-weary oldtimer like yourself. I fortunately have not had anything like the disasters like you have had, but am too searching wearily for a decent company. I don't believe any recruiter anymore. They tell you what they think you want to hear. You sign up, lose insurance from prior job, and find out you have 98.8% ESLs, all impossible to understand, or you work for an hour and have no work. and then you go searching again.
Ah, Michelle's a little tattle-tale!! Trying to earn some brownie points!
I believe, Robin (sm)
That they may very well be hiring for that area. That's precisely the type of account I'm on and I *heart* it beyond belief. Trust me when I say I believe you would most DEFINITELY find TT a good fit. Very similar in style to where you work now but with full benefits (I've been where you're at now too :-)).
Good luck and keep me posted!
Happy MT Robin
You are spot on. You will notice that in their multitude of other lawsuits, MQ made a decent settlement with the injured parties. The only people who were compensated in the Transcriptionist lawsuit were the folks at AHDI. If anyone would trust them, they might want to think again. AHDI has sold out MTs many, many times.
Robin, sure I agree
that we all need to vent. I am concerned about the business ethics of cashing someone's check while at the same time bashing them by name. Seems kinda double-handed to me. If I didn't like a company I would quit, then vent. As long as they were putting food on my table, I would feel a moral obligation not to. But then, I'm both old and old school. :)
Robin is advertising for MTs on guru.com
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Webmedx town hall mtg ?? (sm)
This upcoming one is the first I have heard of since I came on board (about 3 months ago). Used to work for MQ and these were often a prelude to us getting s*&^*^d. Please tell me this is just an informative type how-do-you-do thing. So far everything about this company has been great, I just have recurring nightmares about the past couple of years I spent with MQ. Thanks.
town hall meeting
I agree. This is very much a listening meeting, basically a pep rally about how great Webmedx is and how they put the employees first. Unfortunately this is not the case demonstrated by the amount of posts here and the lack of work for those of us who have given so much to this company. Now we sit with nary a thing to do.
Happy Robin MT, more questions for you...sm
Since you're on a clinic account, are you required to work weekends? That is something that I saw on their website for acute care, but nothing was mentioned about clinic accounts.
Also, how is the pay?
Thanks for your input! Now hopefully they will actually respond to my resume, unlike some of the other companies I applied to.
Thank you, Robin...I'm off of this relic and booting up the new one...
I've waited SO long for this. I hope this new computer works as well as I think it will.
Have a great evening!!!
They had "town hall" meetings today
Just to take questions about any concerns from people, etc. They spun the reasoning behind the new rules for holiday pay. Said OSi was growing. A lot of what I heard seemed a bit condescending, that they needed the MTs to be on there and working instead of everyone always wanting off and taking advantage of holiday pay, etc. Also several questions asked I felt were not directly answered but just kind of stepped around or given a we'll have to check into that. Not very informative. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Robin's myspace mysteriously just turned "private." nm
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Just got an E-mail about a Webmedx town hall meeting
Town hall conference call was very impressive. sm
I'm glad to be working for Webmedx.
Just got an E-mail about a Webmedx town hall meeting coming up. Those are NEVER good news. FYI.
I predict they will announce that, due to tough economic times, they will cut the VR rate. You know it is going to happen.
Four Seasons? (sm)
Anyone edit for them? Sent my resume and they sent test but I have no Vianeta experience. Anyone have any idea what line rate 'range' may be and what type of work they do? Direct deposit?
FOUR SEASONS, WE.......
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Four Seasons
I am so sorry this happened to you. Can you contact the Department of Labor in your area?
I almost worked for her in QA, but believe it or not, the day she was suppose to call me for training, she didn't call and never did call me again. I thought well maybe that should tell me something about this so I never pursued it. We had already signed the contract and everything!!!!
Hey Four Seasons
Robin Hall, pay your MTs.....................NOW! You cannot hide from the law.
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Four Seasons 1099s..
Did anyoneget their 1099s from Four Seasons yet?
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM MTSO
Seasons Greetings to Our MTs !
It is that time of the year again – time to thank you for all of your hard work, and the high quality of your deliverables. It is because of your skills and long hours of dedication that management has had yet another very profitable year.
Therefore, in spite of cost of living increases for our MT staff, in order for our management to maintain the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed, MT line rates will be cut yet again, back to earnings realized in the mid-1980's, to maintain management salaries, plush offices, free lunches and holiday parties.
Someone must sacrifice, and we are counting on the transcriptionists once again as we cut customer prices again in order to maintain work in the United States, raise management salaries and continue the perks which management enjoys at the office. MTs must bear the brunt of the customer rate cuts, and it is the MTs that will fulfill the promises we have made to our accounts. MTs will continue to sit patiently, without hourly compensation, waiting for work to be dumped into the system at the whim of the customer.
From a fiscal standpoint, management salaries must be maintained; MTs will be on their own to make ends meet. MTs are expected to find ways to work around the pay and benefit cuts, by taking on two full-time jobs to earn the same salary that one full-time job afforded in past years, or by moving their families into cardboard boxes under the interstate.
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday cards signed by all members of office management during a workless afternoon and free lunch. The cards were sent out a couple of weeks ago, as the office will be closed for four days over the holiday. Please contact leads or other MTs with questions or to report changes in your contact info
(new addresses under interstate, disconnected phone numbers, etc.), as management will be out of state, far from the office, receiving full pay for each of the days that the office is closed during the holidays.
MTs holiday schedules will remain the as always, and those who want to earn holiday pay will need to work two days prior to the holiday, two days after the holiday, three weekends in a row, and all other scheduled days for the next month, in order to earn $0.000000021 extra per holiday line.
Happy Holidays to all transcriptionists and their families, and may 2009 show continued success, salary raises and perks for members of management.
Sincerely,
Gree D. Boss, CEO
Anyone with any recent info on Four Seasons? Is this an offshore service? sm
Cannot find anything in the archives, or anything that was recently answered in a page-by-page search. TIA.
Same thing happened at Four Seasons and Eagles Landing
Apparently, MTSOs feel they can call all the shots without remorse.
Webinar -Evolving Medical Transcription: Technology's impact on traditional transcription process
Hey everyone, check out this link. This is what we are up against. Be sure and note how 3M or whoever is the sponsor of this webinar throws in that dictation and transcription is time-consuming. Nevermind that EMR and VR take more time and money to be successful and it only takes 38 seconds to dictate a returning patient and 2 minutes to dictate a new patient versus 500 clicks on a point and click EMR or the mess VR makes and having to have an Editor come in and clean up the mess. Propaganda that we should know about.
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TransTech / Transcription, Technology, and Support / The Transcription Doctors nm
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Trying to get info on Transcription-Express(not X-press Transcription)....
Got a call and am scheduled to be hooked on later this week. Does someone need to stop me? TIA
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