Funny, but the lady I talked to on the phone about a job there made me decide right then for some
Posted By: MQ2 on 2005-11-23
In Reply to: Same here. It's very difficult to get anymore than 200 lph - at MDI-MD.
gut feeling that this wasnt for me. Not sure exactly what it was but sort of turned me off.
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I talked to the insurance lady too (she is very nice) and was told the same thing. sm
I called the office and talked to a high-up manager who said that they haven't said anything because they do not have anything in writing and do not want to give information and have it be wrong.
The premium for employee only is $404 per month and KS is paying $202. This is much better than I had at another company that I do not want bash as this was the only issue I had.
I love it at KS because I have plenty of work and everyone in the office is so nice. My lead changed positions in the company a few months ago and my new lead is very nice and more organized. I have been there 11 months (this time) and was there a year before that in 2005-6. I made the mistake of thinking that the grass was greener but it wasn't!
I talked to the insurance person yesterday (we all have her phone #). She told me sm
that the holdup was the insurance company and the fact that all KS employees did not get their paperwork in despite phone calls and emails. They needed both the applications for those who want it and the waivers from those who don't, apparently a federal requirement to prove that they offered it to everyone eligible.
The date of effect might still be 6/1 and everything will be retroactive with cards in the mail this week. They will know today.
I am excited about. I too have been without insurance for too many years!
Funny how no mention is made of this when there is no work, which has been the case for much of the
There has been no mention of this for months because of no work/low work for months now.
Today might be a good to apply since there is work today.
We have had plenty of work for the past 3 days, and now getting emails to work schedule to completion and get required lines or more!
Worked on C-phone for 10 years with 1 phone line
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This is the TTD lady for sure
Or someone who works with her. No MT would be saying so what.
C-phone - I purchased a c-phone from someone in Oklahoma but never got it. *sm*
First she told me her grandmother died. Then she told me she mailed it. Then she told me her daughter was having chemotherapy. Call me naive, but I thought she was sincere and cannot imagine anyone using their daughter as an excuse. If this is the same person from Oklahoma, I sure would like to know about it because now I want my money back.
The Fat Lady Sang
Yes, but did she sing in harmony?
Thank you kind lady.
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some lady called...
sounded more like she was screening me. She asked if I had the required needed to work for them (cardiology/pulmonology), line count, high-speed, etc. I told her yes, and she said someone would call me in a few days--that was a few months ago.
You are way off base lady
I have worked with Holocaust survivors, have you? Ive worked cleaning their rooms taking people for walks, holding hands, listening to stories of horror and hope, shared art therapy moments, given hugs and support. Dont you dare judge me. You are way out of line, whoever you are. If you get nothing else from what I've written here, get this: No one wants to be labeled a victim. You have absolutely no right.
Peace.
She's a nice lady but there isn't
I spent most weekends on her stuff. The pay was way low, but she doesn't charge much anyway. She would dump on me Fri night... not sure why she keeps needing this same position, but that should tell you something. She posts for this position every month or so... I guess no one lasts....
You mean the lady named Pepper at OSI?
who knew!
Ur gettin' on my nerves, old lady!
When the lady sold her company to..sm
Execuscribe, it went downhill from there. I was hired by them, went through ALL of the testing except the Psych thing.....and then I was told I would be paid 7 cpl and I had to purchase liability insurance. CC....this Denise person must have been your "bestest" friend????
nice spelling lady
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I beg ur pardon, young lady!
I was NOT being sarcastic! Medquist truly IS my best company - my previous company paid $9/hr. and at the Q I make $25 - U may open mouth and insert foot now, missy!
I'd say no way, nice lady or not. There is absolutely no
way I would wait for 45 days for a paycheck. She's waiting to get paid before she pays MT and if she doesn't have the $$ to pay MTs whether or not account pays, that doesn't speak well of the company. Also I'm assuming that 6 cpl is as an IC. You'd be better off working in fast food.
There is a lady who posted here in the past - sm
Snowbunny I think is her name that uses it a lot because of her CTS I think. I just recently reloaded it on my computer (had it on my old one but never programed it), and still need to work with it a bit in order to actually start using it. I think it would help me a lot as I am not very fast at typing, even with my shortcuts, etc. Plus it would break up the monotony some I think. I have DNS8. I want to upgrade to the newest (10) but it is quite expensive, so it will probably wait a while. But I have heard if utilized correctly and with some work it can be worthwhile, but like anything it takes practice and you need to build it up, etc.
The J&J lady said to call her if there are questions.
It doesn't matter to me at all, so I haven't.
High maintenance lady? LOL
High maintenance ladies usually find themselves a sugar daddy to provide their maintenance. LOL Ever consider combining your traveling to help someone who is less high maintenance? Do you know that you can volunteer just about anywhere in the world doing good while vacationing at the same time? How about volunteering with Habitat For Humanity? You could combine that with your traveling too. Gives you a much more warm and fuzzy feeling than just doing for yourself. BTW we just bought a nice large motor home to serve as our private motel room. Actually my husband and I are pretty low maintenance, we get our kicks by doing things for other less fortunate people. Try it, you might like it.
BTW Chatty, how have you been doing the last few years anyhow? Don't ya just love being anon? LOL
Hey coffee lady MssIndigo!
I got a kick out of reading your original post about VR and I appreciate this feedback also. I know, it's though though and I have been an MT for 20 years. I thought I was going to be transcribing when I got the job but it is mostly VR and my minimal goal is to achieve 250 lph, which is creeping up, but not there yet. I tell you though... I work hard for that money. My biggest thing with any new company is constantly looking up docs and different facilities. If not for that, my fingers would be flying. Let us all hang in there with a sip of coffee every now and again, eh!
She's a sweet lady. She has a lot of experience and a lot of stories that go with it.
I like her a lot, but I can kind of see where you are coming from, as whenever I've spoken with her I could pretty much write off the next 60-90 minutes. It was a great time to clean out email, though! (And if you are reading this, you-know-who, it's not a criticism but rather an acknowledgement that you have a LOT of stories to tell!)
It is the lady who I call to request time off?
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Does anyone know how to contact the lady at Administrative Assistants?? (sm)
I can't find anything for a website or in the archives here on how to contact. Thank you.
Tired of being called an old lady or aging!
I am in this over 26 years. call me old! I am young at heart, about 21. I am also in biological age just 47! How dare you assume. Some of us started working our way through college! I have 3 small children yet, and plan to work for many years to come in this industry. Also don't talk to me like a dutch uncle telling me how I complain this, etc. You don't know me (the above poster) and don't presume you do! I am at once apalled, and insulted someone would come here and talk to me, the one reading this, that way. If you had to put your user name on a regular basis, you would never speak this way. One thing about this board is allowing people to post names on this board begets nastiness. There, now. I have said my old lady, lazy, bad-quality, MTness piece!
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much
I do not know All Type or any of the people involved in this but it have been reading along because I am interviewing with them next week. I was very upset by this and scared that I had made the wrong choice. You have made a lot of statements and I was thinking that you were treated unfairly and that I hoped you proved your case in court and maybe make our place in the industry a little stronger. We are the lowest people on the totem pole in every company and we do get kicked around a lot. But you now sound like you had it in for one particular person at your company and have worked very hard to cause problems for that person. I just do not know why you would stay there or even want to go back if you hate this person and she makes you this unhappy with your life and job and she singled you out to cut your pay so drastically. I agree with the other poster who said you have wasted a great deal of time on this and that you should move on and find yourself a better job with a company that is a better fit for you. I think you have gone too far and become far too emotional when you get this dangerously close to slander.
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much
I do not know All Type or any of the people involved in this but it have been reading along because I am interviewing with them next week. I was very upset by this and scared that I had made the wrong choice. You have made a lot of statements and I was thinking that you were treated unfairly and that I hoped you proved your case in court and maybe make our place in the industry a little stronger. We are the lowest people on the totem pole in every company and we do get kicked around a lot. But you now sound like you had it in for one particular person at your company and have worked very hard to cause problems for that person. I just do not know why you would stay there or even want to go back if you hate this person and she makes you this unhappy with your life and job and she singled you out to cut your pay so drastically. I agree with the other poster who said you have wasted a great deal of time on this and that you should move on and find yourself a better job with a company that is a better fit for you. I think you have gone too far and become far too emotional when you get this dangerously close to slander.
I don't have a second phone line ... cable modem for the internet, regular line for my C-phone.
If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.
And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert. Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling. :-)
Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)
Please let me know what you decide sm
It never used to be this way. I used to love this office and recommended so many people in the past - but no more! What a train wreck. I can't get used to all the accents/formats with the constant flipping.
Please let me know what you decide and
please let me know what you choose and how it works out for you. When I worked for MS, I seriously considered getting a job at Micckey D's. The pay was just so low, came to about $7.00 an hour.
Let us know which one you decide to go with.
Good luck. Hope it works out for you.
You need to decide... (sm)
You need to decide if you have more faith in today's BL message from DRC management or if you trust an anonymous post on MTStars that KS compensation is being decreased. (It wasn't hard for me to think that one through, but YMMV.)
I would define in the near future and for now just as those phrases were defined in the meeting: 100 days. (I love the work I do, love the account I'm on, have always been treated more than fairly by DRC and I'm willing to give it 100 days, but again YMMV.)
Clandestine? Cloak and dagger? I don't think you and I received the same phone call! My supervisor was very direct in telling me the purpose of the meeting. I knew she had a long list of MTs to call and I didn't press her for any of the nitty-gritty. I appreciated the fact that she called me personally instead of management sending out a mass email.
You said I should listen to the MTs here who've been through this kind of thing before. Honey, I HAVE been through it before. Does the word *harmonization* ring any bells? I was with MQ for nine years, started there when it was TL, stayed through the MQ buy-out of TL, adjusted and thought I'd found a home, and then Philips Electronics came along. (I believe that would qualify as a buy-out of an American company by a foreign entity, but on a much much larger scale than DRC/Acusis and with many more Suits involved, and pay scales to tinker with and platforms to make less productive. So, yeah, BTDT.)
Do I have any suggestions about where you should apply for a new job? Nope. Do I have any suggestions for you in general? Yes. There are a lot of things in life I can't control, but I CAN control my attitude and I'm choosing to approach these changes as positively as I can. If I'm wrong and the wheels fall off, it's not because I didn't put my best effort into it, and I'll be okay with that. javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',' ');
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You decide
SPHERIS India Operations Offices
Bangalore, India (Main Office)
Spheris India Pvt. Ltd.
One Spheris Plaza
Koramangala Block 8
Bangalore 560095
India
Coimbatore, India
Spheris India Pvt. Ltd.
STPI Park
Kumaraguru College of Technology Campus
Coimbatore 641006
India
Delhi, India
Spheris India Pvt. Ltd.
GF-021, JMD Pacific Square,
Sector 15, Near 32nd Milestone,
Gurgaon 122001
Harayana
Help Me Decide
Keystrokes or Trans Tech - please. Any pros and cons will be appreciated. TIA
Help me decide!
I am applying with Transform, UST (US Transcription), Keystrokes, and MDI (though they're IC and I'd prefer benefits). Who would you recommend? I have heard good things about all of these companies and will have trouble deciding.
Thanks :)
how to decide
I think it would be best for you to interview the companies. You have a list of questions and/or concerns, do a phone interview and jot down the answers. Ask them for 24 (or 48) hours to make a decision. Take a close look at your apples and oranges and then jump in and get your feet wet.
Please help me decide what to do..sm
Ever since I learned about this VR switch it is constantly on my mind and I honestly do not know what to do. I love MDI, have been there for 6 years and they have always been very fair and good to me. I transcribe about 325 lines per hour and make good money. My pay will be cut by 2/3 on VR. From all I have read it may be possible to do twice as much which is still a big pay cut. I know MDI is a good company and I hate to leave and if I must learn VR as it is the wave of the future I would prefer to do it with MDI. On the other hand,I have been an MT for over 25 years, all in acute care, and the thought of being paid 1/3 of my hard-earned line count to correct the mistakes that the machine who took my job is making is just a bit hard to accept. Unlike a poster below, I don't think that getting assigned another account at MDI is a viable option. There are just too many of us affected by this VR switch and not enough other accounts to go around. My decision is..should I stay with a known good company, learn VR and hope for the best on my line count..or should I simply be looking for another job. From the posts I read here it seems that great companies like MDI are few and far between. Please feel free to offer opinions/advice either here or email me privately. I just can't seem to make a decision! Thanks.
I still am trying to decide,
but am trying to follow my gut like you said Robin. I will decide for sure tomorrow. For now, I'm going to sleep on it, LOL.
i got an email from them. Very nice lady, would love to work for
I'm sure they pay very well but I need the insurance. I went with JLG.
I worked for a lady's service who was bought out by Transcend
a few years ago and they offered her a position in the home office. She sold, had the job for a few months and then she was terminated. I know for a fact that Transcend said in a paper article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution that they outsourced because could not find enough American MTs to do the work. Now what I find surprising is how many complain on here about sitting and waking for work for Transcend. Wonder how that happens?
Whatever you SE people decide
to switch to, 8 or 16 or 24 or 39 or what the hell, you cannot change it for a year. So take your time deciding. I don't know when you have to decide by. If you are FT and want to stay FT no paperwork necessary. Just get your ankle braclet (hahaha). I will be right there with ya...
You're asking if there is one? Yes...you decide (sm)
You decide what you're going to commit to daily and turn it in. You have 24 hours to get your line commitment in that day. Pretty cool, huh?
SUMMERTIME...did you decide on this yet??
I'm still looking and thought about Transcend...??
If you decide to quit...
put out a resume on the job boards and list what platforms you are familiar with, don't know what OSi uses. But, if someone is in the hiring mode and you're familiar with their platform, you could get up and running pretty quickly since you wouldn't need training on the platform.
what did u decide on Precyse
Saw the add too and sounds good but without any input from other people working for them (except really old replies) don't want to leave where I am.
Trying to decide between offers
Morning all - I have a dilema and would like some opinions on what you would do. I have been offered 2 positions. One is with a company that provides equipment pays higher, but I would be doing reports that I am not that great with and they are ESLs. The second offer I have to provide my own equipment and will have to spend about $80 to get what I need and they pay about 2 cents per line less, but they are easier work types and not as many ESLs. Which would you choose? I'm sure I'll get a lot of those nasty posts I have seen lately because you think it is simple , but I do know there are a few of you out there who will not be nasty and give me your honest opinion.
If you decide to do this, I am still interested,
I have over 25 years experience in acute care, but mostly in radiology. I started in radiology in house, then went to a service and did acute care, then to Secrephone which eventually became MQ where I did acute care, then it was back to radiology. I am really very interested and offer whatever help I can.
How did you decide this was political?
We are online already with medical records. If we were not, we would not have jobs working from home in this industry!!
That may be unless they decide to phase
out the current MTs and send the work to India MTs, but who knows.
It's IC, hospice reports, Dictaphone ExText. Nice lady, but
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Deb at Freedom Type is an upstanding lady. You wouldn't go wrong
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