Hey, weren't y'all talking about forming a union? What happened to that notion? nm
Posted By: Just Wonderin' on 2009-07-31
In Reply to: The MTSOs wonder why they cannot find anyone to stay (sm) - mtmtmtmtmtmtmt
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I don't think many would know how to go about forming a union. SM
I myself wouldn't know the first thing about where to begin. I read almost all of the posts and there are some really intelligent people out there. It would be my hope that someone with all that intelligence and savy would know what to do and where to begin and just maybe start the ball rolling.
With all the thousands of MTs, it seems like someone out there could do something.
Are y'all sure you aren't talking about OSI?
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Y'all talking about the Dixie Dingbat??
Hayell yeayah!
now I know you weren't talking to ME right?
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Who are you talking to. I did not say you weren't! Respond where you are
supposed to
I posted below that we weren't talking about
Ascend, but that Ascend is well known for not paying on time. I don't know that they never paid, just not on time. All the information should be in the Archives.
Didn't get your email - Unless you weren't talking to me.
In that case, nevermind :)
If you weren't talking to giddy pc guru
posted your response in reply to him/her.
However, if your comment of Give her a break was directed towards giddy pc guru, I have to agree with giddy pc guru's response to you. It's very difficult to tell sometimes when someone is being flip and when they're being sincere.
Please help promote a kinder world. 
What happened to the thread talking about YOG and L&H? How could that be bad? nm
Linda got the "coffee" notion from me.
I was responding on a thread about 3 cents a line pay, suggesting that that rate might do quite well on an account with a good proportion of fairly clean reports coming through. I used to work on a couple of those, and the best reports were scary good--virtually no changes made. Some required few, most required some, and some required more than some. If you know what I mean. :)
I should, however, have gone on with the perspective that my company currently pays me over 7 cents a line because even the relatively good reports on these accounts require a great deal of cleanup. To put it mildly, what is an appropriate line rate for this work depends on the amount of editing needed.
Linda, you'll get still better, of course, but you seem to be on the right track in evaluating whether VR system + accounts +line rate equal a satisfactory bottom line.
BTW, sipping coffee (or eating dinner as someone else does) at 3 cents a line means you're scanning those reports intensely, full attention, as fast as you can manage. I definitely like it better than typing docs, but even on the best accounts it IS real work, with brain hard at the shoveling while fingers stand around holding the wheelbarrow.
But if no union shop, no union representation
You can have a trade group represented by a union, as your husband is, but if he doesn't work in a union shop (company), the union can't represent him at his place of employment. Look at nurses, for example - there is a union for nurses, but the vast majority of nurses are not union members, because their places of employment are not unionized. So it's irrelevant to the majority of nurses that there is a union to represent them.
No, it's y'all. It's YOU ALL contracted.
Good God, y'all!
We're all in the same boat and we all have our opinions. I'm much more wary about this than M.E.D., but M.E.D. has as much a right to express an opinion as anyone else. We don't know what's going to happen but cutting each other down or calling on censoring each other is bullcrap.
How come y'all can and I can't? I'm no slouch, either. Maybe in about 16
Please tell me the secret. I was a very high producer at ALL my previous jobs and now can't get diddly.
Guess they had to do something for y'all
congrats to the ones who stuck with them.
TransTech--thanks y'all
Hey, thank you--this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, all of you.
y'all are remarkable
First I'm guilty, then I'm defensive.
I'm neither.
I was supporting my TRUTH which is that CBAY employs US MTs. PERIOD.
I have no emotional incentive to add anything to the convos here other than simple truth.
Y'all rant and rave and stomp your feet and I have to wonder how many of you are truly, really GOOD MTs. I've done this job for 30+ years and have never lacked for work.
Y'all are pitiful..
Why are you MTs???? This is not what MT stands for. Sorry. This is exactly why speech has come to be..yep..it is. There are no more EXCELLENT or even good transcriptionists and so they had to find a program that would cut down in their QA time, etc., for semi-quality reports with a handful of quality and I mean QUALITY transcriptionists. They are to be had no more....say what you want, I don't care. The TV, web sites, etc. advertising you can make 40 grand a year, etc. The schools are packed, nobody coming out with any knowledge. Well, here we are. Blast me all you want. Won't bother me a bit unless you give me your years of experience...
Y'all want some cheese with that whine?
nm
sorry, post should be under 'all MDI people and no...)
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I wanted to share this with y'all
I had an appointment with my doctor this morning and he was ranting about the EMR they use in his group. He said that he didn't get home last night until 10:30 because he was catching up on the EMR computer thing. He says this is an ongoing problem and he felt worn out. If it makes anyone feel any better, he is one who said that he wished they would go back to the little hand held dictating equipment which took only a couple of minutes instead of having to read questions like does your knee hurt? and typing in yes. Do you have limited range of motion? and typing in yes.
I really wonder if when the dust all settles if physicians are going to stand for these EMRs that take up so much of their valuable (and expensive) time???
y'all need to state your worktype on some of these replies -
Hard, not hard, tested, not tested.....
Different work types, different tests, different outcomes.
more arrogance. geez. can't y'all leave somebody alone--sm
and sit on the pity pot for a while. you've been there too, so don't lie about it. Everybody has a right to their own feelings without having someone tell them to stop feeling what they are feeling. get off your high horses and leave people alone. bullies.
You weren't there, you don't know..
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Then you weren't there for the last pay period which should be DD on the 5th and was not done unt
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And like I said, if you weren't typing SM
the stuff, they'd have nothing to come back to you with. And how did they get angry with you anyway? Did you respond to their feedback with negativity and not take responsibility for knowing your account or the basics of transcription?
From knowing many people with your type of attitude over the years, 9 times out of 10 they are people who have the same problems at every job, don't take feedback well, think they are right all of the time and just generally cause problems. Instead of taking responsibility for your part in doing a job, you lay blame on your supervisors, other employees, etc.
They weren't even bad. I don't know why they were deleted sm
unless the name-calling started again. That is the only reason they are deleted. I wish they would've stayed as there was a lot of information from both the company and others and none of it really ugly unless someone blew it as usual.
They weren't very structured when I was there. SM
They pay okay, around 10 cents a line, but no benefits, no taxes taken out, no direct deposit, so that brings it down to about 6 cents a line. If you want your check overnighted, you pay about $25 or $30 for that. Otherwise it gets mailed and take a chance on when you get it. Even having it overnighted does not always work. I had three or four instances when my check was lost, twice for weeks at a time. I'll stick with the more MT friendly companies who manage to pay 9 and 10 cents a line and still give full benefits and direct deposit. I don't mind working a weekend day now and then.
Heard they weren't less than 8 cpl.
Oh, I'm sure they weren't! But what I meant was, (sm)
not that we be contacted before the sale, but after. We sure haven't been getting any reassurance, here.
There weren't a lot of us left (sm)
I think there were a couple of accounts and we were waiting on some bids to come through but capital-wise apparently they could not keep operating waiting on potential accounts so decision was made to close.
I think we all knew it was potentially coming, just surprised that it happened so quickly. I have no hard feelings, but am nervous about finding new work as I have little experience looking for a job!
weren't they saying last year during
transcriptionists? It was part of some contest or something. Maybe that was a few years ago.
postings about them is that they weren't getting paid. nt
They weren't rude with me, but a little disorganized and
not looking out for my best interests, but the interests of their client, which I guess is the way it should be since the client is paying for their services. As far as I know there are 2 women that run this company, I have not talked with the owner and maybe she was the one rude, but the woman I dealt with was not rude, just a little dingy and maybe not 100% truthful about the company that she was recommending. All TM did though was screen me and then I still had to go through the testing/interview process with the company. I had had contact with the referred company previously and had even been offered a position with them, which I turned down. The pay rate offered to me by TM and the pay rate offered to me by the company were the same. I declined referral to the company, being that I had already declined an offer from them and I never heard from TM again.
This is the price of doing business. If there weren't
something in it for you, you wouldn't be doing it - whether it be money, ego, prestinge, etc.
I was hoping they weren't liars. sm
What a concept eh to think companies actually tell the truth once in a while. I was hoping they would make good on their promise. I have spent a lot of time making templates and such and did not want to start all over again. OK, I get it now. I told them I would not do anymore work until they sorted this out but I am looking elsewhere. Thanks for the input.
If you weren't looking for the job why'd you read it and post?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Don't come back saying you weren't warned!
Why bother to ask for feedback if you ignore it?
Makes me wish I weren't menopausal!
LOL
I could go along with that if it weren't for the "cheesy" part
I could go along with that if it weren't for the "cheesy" part
Gosh, maybe. They honestly weren't bad.
I have transcribed much, MUCH worse ESL than what was sampled on their test. When they asked me what percentage of ESL I had transcribed for in an average work day, I told them 20% or less and that's when they said that their work involved 80% ESL. But man, that 20% that I got at my former job was some of the worst on the planet, I swear!
But weren't there payment issues??
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MDI-MD? Weren't they bought by Transcend?
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They weren't losing those accounts.
They weren't losing those wonderful accounts, they were being sent to the Philippines to their transcription center there.
You weren't even getting paid enough in 1989.
I was making 5.5 to 6 cpl in 1976. It was a good wage back then, but I don't know how anyone with half a brain thinks MTs will make ends meet with that amount in 2009, or will continue to work for companies that pay that chickenfeed, or even consider hiring on with them, when you can make much more money flipping burgers.
You weren't even getting paid enough in 1989.
I was making 5.5 to 6 cpl in 1976. It was a good wage back then, but I don't know how anyone with half a brain thinks MTs will make ends meet with that amount in 2009, or will continue to work for companies that pay that chickenfeed, or even consider hiring on with them, when you can make much more money flipping burgers.
They weren't related at all. Her sister-in-law is my lead and is
wonderful. This person was a transcriptionist who took over HR. No one liked her and we thought she must be related to Lee, but she wasn't.
Are you sure those posts weren't by people who had applied
and couldn't hack a little competition?
Don't know, but a few wks ago, they weren't hiring for their net accts., only for the Lanier o
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You weren't offered secondary accounts?
That's unusual.
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