Give me one too! Imagine the nerve of them expecting you to work your shift.
Posted By: mt2 on 2007-08-05
In Reply to: Tell your employer up front that you just want to work "whenever"!! - Amen to the posts below
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This is true. Shift does matter. I work 2nd shift and really have not had any issues with not havi
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They may for 3rd shift - give em a call (sm)
May depend on the account; perhaps for clinic, but don't know for sure. Call them - they're the nicest folks I've ever worked with in any setting, not just MT.
I agree! I just can't imagine a company speaking such negativity! I just can't imagine that.
Surely this is not a manager or anyone big time important at SS. I just thought maybe it is a mad MT or something. I have never seen such postings from a manager. I was just curious. I think it is very unprofessional if this is management.
I can't imagine a piece of work like you
your company is doomed. 
Imagine a job with plenty of work
Still chasing that fantasy! You have your fantasy, I have mine!
I know two people who work 3rd shift for Keystrokes on radiology and have a lot of work. Maybe you
on an account that has enough work. I hate to hear that someone doesn't have enough work or that they have a problem because I know that Keystrokes works to find the right account for every person. They do a lot for us but you have to talk to them until you find the right account or volume or hours for you.
I think that a lot of companies are that way but there is a lot of job-hopping in transcription. Everyone is looking for the perfect job but the grass is not always greener on the other side. There are a few MTSO's really are not good but for the most part, the others don't intentionally drive people away. That would not make sense. They need us to work as much as we need them to have the work there for us.
Work PT for a company and noticed something odd. When I work the day shift I get (sm)
actually fairly good dictators, a couple of toughies, but no more than one would expect. When I do the late afternoon/early evening shift it is like night and day. I get some really crummy dictators and tons of problem/miscoded reports.
They have said that there is no cherry picking able to be done with this program so I just have to wonder if the crappy dictators can't get to the dictate stations until after 4 p.m. or what?
Nuff said, back to work. Thanks for letting me air it out.
Isnt it sad. We just want to go to work every day on our shift, work our 8 hours and be done with it
Instead I sit here hours hoping the Indians leave some work for us so we can at least get our 8 hours in. Nothing like logging onto you shift and being told no work. Nice.
You WILL have TT work on 3rd shift
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Do Not Work Day Shift
Work afternoons and weekend days and Saturday afternoon still ran out of work......
Not all of us work DAY SHIFT
& what we do with OUR time is OUR business. You have an awfully bossy attitude. Good luck finding ANYONE to deal with your BS.
From what I can tell, not so much work second shift but
they seem like a good co. to me. Why don't people like them?
Yes, I did work first shift
and I always got emailed to work in the evenings or on Saturday. I can imagine which doctor you don't like. There was one who talked so fast I wanted to scream, lol
Maybe they work another shift and this is their time off- duh
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I work the gravy shift thank you very much
and have plenty of work because my company knows how to staff enough MTs without going overboard (and they don't have ads every three months like a lot of these big nationals do either)
Adding, you do have to work the shift SM
you commit to. If you are wanting flexibility as far as being able to leave in the middle of a shift and make up the time later, you would have to negotiate a split shift with them in the beginning and see if they would go for that. As far as my experience goes, I did 8 hours with a lunch break and turned in 40 hours per week. I'm sure if there was an emergency I could have flexed my time for 1 day but if you need flex time every day for picking up kids, etc. you should mention that in the interview and see if they can accommodate. Once you commit to a schedule it is difficult to get it changed.
Let me guess, you only work day shift Mon-Fri? sm
that's the only way you can be out of work for weeks as you say. Every Friday and Saturday the accounts I work on are out of turnaround time and our STM begs BEGS BEGS for MTs to help.
They probably work night shift to get 10/5.
From what I was told, everyone is given the same rate regardless of whether you have 2 years' experience or 20.
Out of work already - 1.5 hours into shift. (sm)
Bet there will be no holiday pay for a lot of us since we have to have 32 hours in addition to the holiday to qualify for holiday pay. (WMX). We will be all sitting and scrapping for the work. Hope those new accounts come on soon and just swamp us with work.
Holiday weeks are usually feast and famine but I just had to gripe. Excuse me now. Have a good holiday all.
Not at all. I just think she has a lot of nerve (sm)
when she left with her tail between her legs. Does she think we don't all know that she was fired from L&H?
You have a lot of nerve!
No, it is NOT just because we lost our jobs that it matters. I can only speak for myself, but as a single mom to 4 children, 3 with special needs (read premature quadruplets, one of whom died)I had to support my family with an income and with health insurance that I could afford and Heartland offered that. No, that is not a good excuse to have made the decision to work for a company that participates in offshoring, however, when it means being able to put food on the table and have my 3 survivors get the medical care they require, I did what I had to do. My point now is, it is time to wake up (myself included) and stand up for what is right. The future of my income and insurance remains to be seen. I see now first hand what kind of an effect this has on the American worker and the American economy. Who knows, maybe I will not be able to afford insurance at another company, maybe I will have to take my children to the emergency room as an uninsured child. How do you think that makes me feel as a parent? What kind of effect does that have on the system?
Just because a company offshores their work, does not mean that you sit around day in and day out and say, Gee, I wonder if I am going to be layed off today. I have worked hard for Heartland, giving them many hours of overtime and fill in time for people who were sick, etc. They had a choice. They could have shut down the typing machines in India and kept the US medical transcriptionists, granted at a higher cost per transcriptionist, but they could have chosen to take the operating costs from the Indian side and applied it to the American side to run the operation. You get what you pay for and in this case, what you don't.
We are human beings just like you, trying to survive in this economy like it is and always trying to put our children's needs ahead of ourselves and yes, sometimes ahead of what we believe in.
Thanks, because I am on my last nerve.
resumes today, and all I can here are the crickets chirping in the background, and all I can see is my workload at a total of 0 jobs. Again. I feel like I am a dead weight to my family. Ugggg.
the nerve
What is this new trend by the MTSOs to pay less in the training period? If anything, that is when you need MORE money. I am starting to feel gouged and pecked by all these creative ways they find to skim off the fat, and I have no intention of ever applying to any such companies who think so low of us.
Hit a nerve?
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Nobody said slow down. They said work your own shift. If everyone worked when they
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MDI-FL will let you work split-shift too I heard...nm
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they call you if you don't work your schedule shift
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In another post, you say that you are 3rd shift. There is plenty of work on sm
other shifts. I spoke to my lead last night, and she is getting 3 new accounts to manage and told me that there are more than a dozen starting throughout the next month.
Work flow depends on the shift
Less work available during the day because that is when most people want to work.
Depends on your shift, work days,
I think the base pay was 8.5 but you have in addition to that shift and weekend differentials as well as you get another differential for keeping QA submissions below a certain percentage, and this line rate goes back to line 1, so you could make around 9.5 to 9.75 I believe depending on your shift.
What I liked best about TT is that you are not limited to 10 reports a day for an eternity and having to jump through hoops to get off QA. You can type as much as you like from the start because it will go to QA anyway until you are released from QA. I have not found another company like that.
Hope this helps.
If you want to work the graveyard shift, weekends,
and holidays, then have at it! But don't others to want to do that too. Some of us have a life. This job doesn't pay well enough to go through all that. If they want to pay me as much as a nurse, then I'll work those horrible shifts like nurses do, but not for the lousy wages they pay MTs these days. No thanks. I'll be at the lake on the weekends & holidays and enjoying dinner with my family during the week! You're more than welcome to work the crap shift if that's what you think you deserve.
No special errands to run, just work your shift. :) nm
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How do you figure work on your shift is YOUR work . sm
The MTs working on your shift are instructed or given the green light to do so because there was no/low work on their own scheduled shift. But you don't want to work outside of your shift to make up lines, while they do -- even though no one should have to -- and I DO blame the MTSOs for overhiring to set themselves up nicely, have extra MTs in their back pockets in case of extra work -- at our expense. But it is unfair to blame an MT to work on what you consider your schedule. I have had to do this many times when my own schedule was no/low work and I have had it done to work on my shift.
I am sorry I hit a nerve, ooops.
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struck a nerve
Wow, I would definitely say I struck some nerves today. My point I'm trying to make is even though your office is at home, you are AT home, OT or regular hours. Yes you like to spend time with your family but if you had OT at an actual office they wouldn't even get to see you. At least with your office at home you can say hi, answer questions, give some hugs. If you're sick you may not want to be in your office at home, but at least you can throw on a pair of sweats and not have to look nice to complete your job. No gas money to spend, no money for clothes, no travel time to and from work away from your family.
hmmm hit a nerve?
  looked again didn't ya? it makes me laugh
3rd shift radiology can be like that. Feast or famine. Same with 3rd shift sm
ER work. Sometimes the doctors are too busy to dictate, so they do it at the end. Why don't you talk to them and ask about a different shift?
Same here. I too was expecting (sm)
the 12 foot binder full of paperwork. It really is simplified and also allows you to have many secondaries that you can jump into with ease if need be. When you happen to be in that specific client's report, you just hit a hot key combination and up will come the information for that account - all the formatting, in many times a sample of that particular dictator, etc. It really does remove a lot of the clutter. I think you'll find it to be a welcome change.
Am I expecting too much or am I
This MT has lots of years of experience and has sent out resumes the past couple of weeks in answer to jobs posted here and elsewhere. I am an SE and looking to supplement my income. In the past whenever I would send a resume, I would get at least an automatic reply: We have received your resume, and will be reviewing it shortly, or something like that. Now, I get no response whatsoever. There could be the sounds of crickets in the background.
Could there be something with my e mail? My resume has always done well for me, and even with my added 1 job in the last year. And it isn't like I am applying to jobs which are not looking for people. I apply to the types of positions they seek, and I have lots of experience.
Finally, my question to you is this. I have been offered a job with an American company but they do offshore. I initially said that when I found out they off-shored I had to decline, personal policy of working for USA only. If I get no responses to my resumes now, should I go to the other job which off-shores in spite of my feelings on the subject? Would feeding a family and having money for the holidays be more important than my stance on offshoring versus all USA?
Thanks in advance for your replies to the above. This MT is really kind of confused, I realize there is a recession, but seems like employers are acting kind of strange... maybe it is me!
I did not get anything and was no EXPECTING anything (sm)
and that is okay with me. People should not EXPECT gifts. Although my boss did send us a letter stating how grateful she was and it was very sincere. I work for a wonderful company and they are great people.
That's what I'm expecting. nm
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Be about like expecting them
to vote in term limits. Anybody see that happening?
She clearly said several times that she starts her shift, gets work as it comes in, and then stays
on and types at night or whenever she feels like getting the work to meet her goal. I don't even work for Transcend NOW, but read her clearly post over and over how she meets these numbers. She works WHENEVER she can to meet her goal if the work is NOT there during her scheduled shift. What is so hard about understanding that? Yes, some MTs are allowed to do that at Transcend, so she's not doing anything wrong. TO REPEAT: She works her shift, typing what comes, making good use of her down time in the meanwhile - think she does chores or something. If there is no work on her set shift, she stays on at night and grabs the work she can to meet her GOALS.
None, unless you work both weekend days on the night shift. nm
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No it isn't. I think it depends on what work you do and your shift, but I make 9 cpl plus incent
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I was hired for 3rd shift and was told there was plenty of work
i was given 4 accts and still don't make money - that is all i am saying
I work 2nd shift, and I ran out last night -- never has happened on a Sunday. nm
Employees work a specific shift at TransTech?
Or do you just have to commit to a certain number of lines per day? An an IC with my current company, I commit to X number of lines per day, and as long as I get them done within 24 hours, I've met my commitment. Don't want shift work, i.e. 7-3, 3-11, 11-7. There is absolutely no flexibility in that. Noticed in post before this that Diskriter requires a shift commitment or a split shift.
I do work all hours, including my days off, and 3rd shift
to try to make up hours, but I'm short most weeks. There are lots of accounts with low work, yet they keep hiring more.
I don't need the benefits, but I was told that if there is no work it will not affect benefits. I am new too and not eligible for benefits until next month anyway, so I can't say if that is true or not.
It's third shift work; we are extremely busy and they have a lot of (see inside)
accounts. I love Transcend. Best place I ever worked
Once again OT offered - no work for my scheduled shift at Wbmdx. sm
I think OT is great, took advantage of some Friday myself, but for goodness sake, don't just go off for the weekend leaving OT offered when the counts are WAAAY down. Can the Solution Center take OT off or do they have to wait for supervisors/etc. to do so. When someone comes on for OT and they give them blocks of 10, doesn't take long to run the rest of us totally out of our shift. Love everything else about this company, but..... this sucks.
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