How about buying a set of SUM tapes to do some self study?
Posted By: an idea on 2006-03-07
In Reply to: My skills are gone. I am a Diskriter employee - My skills are gone. HELP Diskrier employee
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here's a link to the above study...
PDF format, see page 10.
http://tinyurl.com/l3ohz7
Yes, people who study law are on here
Thank you for the laugh, MT, though. We certainly do enjoy the humor.
I'm a quick study but it was immediate. Its so easy.
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tapes vs digital
I truly understand that part of your dilemma. There are some very inexpensive ways to go digital with hand-held equipment that the doc or their staff would dictate on and then upload via the internet to an FTP site for you each night. You would just pick it up off the internet, type away and send it back. I do that and I have my own DVI station I have had for years. The upsell is that the tapes can't break and they can take that baby anywhere and dictate. I still keep my tape transcribers (std and micro - YIKES am dating myself haha) just in case I have a client that won't come out of the dark ages LOL. It is worth the investment in your future, I promise :)
It sounds like the client still used tapes
and not necessarily your employer. Maybe you could talk to her about a switching you to a different account. I certainly understand how this can be difficult for you with small children in tow -- anyone can understand that.
As far as the extra insurance, I don't think insurance is the regulation as much as privacy and confidentiality.
Going to start study group for CMT - any hints, comments? (sm)
It has been many, many, many years since I was in school and not really sure if this old dog can really learn new tricks.
NOT being paid to pickup tapes and getting ONLY 6 cpl IS mistreatment if sm
you are worth your salt at all!!!!
I worked for a small local MTSO when I was first an MT. They agreed to pay me 6.5 cpl in WP5.1 for DOS. I was paid every 2 weeks and got paid about $900 to $1100 every 2 weeks, which was fine. I didn't have to pick up tapes either.
When a couple of us asked for a raise, we were told no, not on your life. We don't charge the clients that much, and our call in system needs to be replaced, and and and. Okay sure and I can understand these things.
The company had 2 partners. Partner A was nasty to me because she was nasty to everyone. My kids and I are at home eating jelly sandwiches for supper for the second week straight because my bills were so high, no support checks and I could not get a raise, but we were not starving exactly. Meanwhile, the nasty partner tells me she won't be able to talk to me because she is meeting her contractor at 7 a.m. and I need to call in for work after 10 a.m. They spent, she told me, $40,000 to redo the upper level of their home, put in 2 more bathrooms, extend the floor space and add another bedroom to total 3. Oh she says, we could never have done it if I didn't own my own company and make so much money. SLAP IN THE FACE.
Partner B that same year sold her house and moved to a place she could have horses. That year, no raise and thumping us all about how much we SHOULD be doing. The year after she bought that house, she bought a 6-horse air conditioned trailer, a Suburban to pull it, built a barn to hold 8 horses and bought two colts and a draft horse. She also said, they could never have had this if she didn't own her own company and make so much money. SLAP IN THE FACE AGAIN!
I cried in front of my kids and I just won't do that, but darn it they had not had new shoes and had been moved into $2 flip flops for the summer in late April because I could not buy them any new ones and the others were too small. We had been rounding out the food by going to a food bank when they would let us and I had sold off everything I dared to. These gals didn't type a line the entire time I worked there. They were too busy but apparently not too busy to spend the money we earned FOR THEM and not ourselves. My house payment was $1200, more than half my income and they got to have horses and trailers and cook out with ribeyes (trust me on that, I saw them do it).
Yup, mistreatment and I think this gal probably has a similar story to tell you.
Tapes? So there is shipping involved too? Yikes nm
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In the "old days", the machine on my desk that played the tapes was called the transciber. sm
People who type the dictation are called transcriptionists. I realize in this new day and age where people would rather google, spell check and guess rather than look it up in a dictionary or other word reference and actually know the meaning of what they are typing, such things make little difference, but it means something to me. I also have hated the word typist since I do so much more than just copy type.
I know ... pay me and you can call me anything is the predominating theory here. I just have noted that it is usually the Indian-based company that uses the term transcriber.
I'm buying it...nm
You buying?
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But you have to keep buying
needles, and a bunch of other stuff, all of which stand a very good chance of having been made overseas. You may be paying less for all this than for ready-made garments, but you probably still are purchasing foreign goods. Just sayin'...
I'm not buying your story at all. Besides,
speech therapy, pain clinic, wound care are all not acute care. How many YEARS did you have in acute care and ONLY acute care? And how long ago? Also, how did you do on the test? You're not telling something.
SPi buying Medware
Heard this from a supervisor a while back that it was in the works for SPi to buy out Medware. Confirmed with another management person last week.
When they bought out CyMed, none of the editors or MTs heard a word until we had a conference call telling us that they had already bought out Cymed and changes would start taking effect almost immediately.
If you work for Medware and they do buy you out, be ready for some MAJOR changes to the way you do your work.
I actually thought the changes they made in our benefits from what CyMed had were improvements. CyMed never offered us ANYthing benefits-wise that was either company matched or just outright paid by the company, which SPi does...
They DO get rid of people who aren't 'doing their jobs' & a LOT of management were quickly gone.
Is SPi buying Medware?
I currently work for Medware and have heard about SPi buying them out. After all I have read with SPi buying Cymed out and the way the company has treated people I am terrified now. Can someone shed some light?
Likely that is the company buying you out. (sm)
Which company is offering you jobs?
Is SPI buying OSI (from post below)
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Do you mean apart from them buying 2 Indian co's
And they seem to have an interest in buying some
nm
Please think twice before buying a computer for
As stated below, many new hires do not even have the work to transcribe 5 jobs a day. While the poster above is happy, she is not happy financially. She is happy she got 5 jobs today to even transcribe. That's not going to pay for a computer. Can you use another computer until you're sure this is going to work for you?
Not buying your retraction for a second
If you were that deliriously happy with your employer, you would not be INTERVIEWING, not just look as you said you turned down the job which means you INTERVIEWED.
I think instead you just realized maybe in spite of other problems you have with your MT, you're allowed to call your own shots on your schedule so you'll stay.
Don't try to be deceptive or change the meaning of your first post. It destroys any credibility you may have had going in, even if people did not agree with your post.
You love your heart sooooo much you're out interviewing...thanks for the giggles!!!
If you are really serious about buying clothes
that are American-made, here you go:
http://www.americansworking.com/clothing.html
Yes, I will, but I'm not buying this. I think someone's trying to stir things up.
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I wonder if buying another company could in fact
I wonder if for these employees this could mean a lower premium to pay for health benefits or steady work for the Transcriptionist that runs low each and every day. Sometimes when companies merge it can not necessarily be a bad thing. Transcription is definitely global. I would have to imagine even companies who say they do not offshore are doing it but do not always inform the employees of such. Not every decision that is made on an upper management level is passed down to the employees. You'll find this a lot in institutions and larger companies. That is why companies have CEO's and believe me they are making the decisions so that the company benefits, hence so will the transcriptionists even if you think you're not.
A $1000 computer is bit different than buying $10
asfd
OSI in Ga. buying out Pradot and Fore
OSI has always sent work to India but the greedy little b___ couldn't keep their fingers out of more Indian pie.
Guess with their new partners who have Indian interests the final nail is about to come.
This is the very reason they are about to do an across the board pay cut.
Why should they pay the US MT's more than they pay the Indian MT's?
Look for managment fallout.
Welcome to the world of the modern day transcription industry.
Maybe Acusis will end up buying Spheris, too.
After all, they bought DRC, and are looking for more.
You're right, but we would have to stop buying
drugs and Ford cars because their factories are in Mexico. The Ford cars are not big deal, but the drugs are. I do try to buy only American though.
Not making $$ but still buying companies?
What they MEAN is there is no money for those of us in the trenches who keep this company floating day after day. They apparently have enough money to buy out TransHealth - which we were supposed to merge with over a year ago! They had enough money to buy MTEC. Apparently they just don't have the money for the poor working stiffs in the trenches. Seems everyone else in this company is doing just fine!! Remarkable!
S/L Transcend is buying DeVenture to me. sm
I work for DeVenture. Not sure what to think, but their wording was a little strange. Not sure if I believe things will not change as they stated. The company name will be Transcend, so I am thinking the benefits will change.
With so many IC jobs/companies, would think MTs are buying insurance outside
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Agree. Don't waste your time buying
Word 2003 if you don't have it. They say lots of work and then there is nothing. Also check any QA you get back very carefully as I don't think the QA lady knows what she is doing and she also has an extremely condescending attitude if you have a question. I learned quickly to not ask since I didn't appreciate being talked to like I was 10 years old. I wasted my money on Word 2003 and I wished I hadn't.
Agree. Don't waste your time buying
Word 2003 if you don't have it. They say lots of work and then there is nothing. Also check any QA you get back very carefully as I don't think the QA lady knows what she is doing and she also has an extremely condescending attitude if you have a question. I learned quickly to not ask since I didn't appreciate being talked to like I was 10 years old. I wasted my money on Word 2003 and I wished I hadn't.
Does TT still offer a bonus for buying hybrids?
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all this shifting aroung at MQ...is spheris still interested in buying them out? (nm)
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Buying reference books a tax write-off, yeah? (nm)
Your opinion we stop paying taxes, buying
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And stop buying foreign cars for crying out loud. sm
Look at the 10s of thousands of workers who are being laid off from GM and Ford after giving decades of their lives. Thanks to all you people who buy foreign cars. 
With Nuance buying Focus, what will happen to the eScription accounts? sm
I really don't think eScription is going to like the fact that Dictaphone/Nuance is going to be working on their platform and learning their secrets to their software.........do you?
This is so interesting to me as I am an eScription editor. Maybe it is time I start my own business again and contact all of the eScription hospital accounts or contact eScription and get their input on this.
In reading Nuance's press release, Bringham Women's Hospital is an eScription account not a dictaphone account. Very interesting......Don't you think? Would love to hear opinions on this.
After 8 years in the business, I start buying presents in August, cause I know the slow period SM
is coming around the holidays. :-)
Not to say we dont all starve and Im not totally stressed out come December, but at least Ive got my gifts :-)
Get real..... who is buying new cars, satellite dishes, video games? How about rent, utilities on t
NM
Did Keystrokes sell to Transcend? I thought Keystrokes was buying up companies sm
but I heard from another service owner that they sold out to Transcend. Anyone know if that happened?
Did Keystrokes sell to Transcend? I thought Keystrokes was buying sm
small companies but another service owner told me that she heard that Keystrokes sold to Transcend. Is this true?
I posted this down below but meant to post it as a new thread. Before I apply with them, I would like to know as I left Transcend a few months ago and do NOT want to get back into that mess.
We heard Transcend is buying Keystrokes next. I'm not working for Transcend. No Way !
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