Go For It!
Posted By: CTToth on 2008-10-13
In Reply to: Toth Transcription-DO NOT WORK FOR THEM - MT Advocate
I say go for it! Esp. since these people make my family look bad. Yes, I'm a Toth, Clifton. I'm also probably the only male MT you'll ever encounter who won a sex discrimination suit against an MT outsourcing company once I found out I was the only male and the only one receiving these pitiful little reports that didn't allow me to build any momentum and thus linecount. Since I never signed a confidentiality agreement, never got a financial settlement, but did get my job back, which two years later they eventually found some trumped up excuse to fire me from anyway, I'll name names--MedQuist, aka Transcriptions, Ltd. when they hired me.
The other F@#$ed up company I worked for was FastChart, now also under another name. There was a mass exodus from them (due to their sick little mind games and gossipmongering) TO Transcriptions Limited. FC refused to pay any of us our ETO (equal time off--vacation and sick leave), so ALL of us filed complaints with the State Labor Board. I got my check from FC on December 31st of that year, obviously the very last day they could make out the check and still have it count for the taxable year.
SOO, it can be done! I've been not paid by yet another company who lied to me, said that their name MTs was Medical Transcription Services, the same people who created the actually excellent software MQ/TL was using.
The company phone turned out to be the owner's cell phone, his attack dog/trainer attacked me verbally when I complained that I had yet to be paid two weeks after I was supposed to be.
They eventually FedEx'd(!) some pittance, not nearly what they owed me, and I eventually quit.
I've also worked for Focus, obviously still as mismanaged as B4; my biggest gripe with them (after often being out of the tons of work they kept promising) was receiving feedback about every little the, this, and uhm--by editors who obviously didn't even speak English, much less medical English.
THE patient, THIS patient, who gives a crap?
Anyway, again, go for it.
My best friend also happens to be trained as both a nurse and a paralegal (yes, also male, so he knows about pink collar discrimination as well); I've known him for 13 years now and strongly suspect he would say you've got a nice class action suit on your hands.
You'll have to jump through a few hoops (covered in red tape--pardon the mixed metaphor), but the right lawyer, if you get him/her on your side and riled up enough, might really surprise you with what might be achieved.
(And this--the MQ/TL case--was in right to work North Carolina AND as an independent contractor--BTW, we settled once it became apparent the State was not going to rely on some measly internal audit and threatened to investigate the matter themselves--all of a sudden, my 6 months of calls started getting returned.
Good luck 2 U against people I hope are not a part (or are at least on a very distant and rotting branch of) my family tree.
Clifton Toth
MT since 1987
Now working very PT since I'm on disability after all these years for (yes, they do exist) a great company, SPi-BPO.com--yep, typing disability determination notes.
And yes, they're often hiring, about 25% orthopedic and 75% psychiatry--easy as proverbial pie.
Again, good luck to you and your comrades.
--CTToth
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