I'm sure Anne, Sue and Mary are very offended by your comments...NOT!
Posted By: M2 on 2006-06-01
In Reply to: Right up there with T&A, huh? - LMAO
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Why so very few comments regarding Diskriter? Are comments by employees not permitted SM
on public forums. I have always been interested to see comments on this company, as they are constantly advertising and seem to have an attractive employee package. Unfortunately, never seeing comments on MT boards makes me extremely uneasy. I'm sure they could have stipulations in their contracts that prevent them from commenting, but even so I would expect to see good or bad comments even from ex-employees. Hmmm? Plus, if the anonymity is supposed to be in place on these boards, how can it hurt for employees to make a general comment, good or bad?
To Mary K
As far as I know this is still the USA and you do have the right to freedom of speech. No one can make you feel any way. You can choose to feel victorious and strong for having spoken your mind. You did a very courageous thing to speak your truth and I for one support you. You are a brave and ethical woman. I see no bravery or ethics on the part of Heartland. Or maybe we should rename them HeartLESS?
Not offended
Just do not know what original post was in regards to.
To Mary (sm)
Yes they are in the same area you mentioned. If you have been with a national in the past, this is different as everything has to come directly from the hospital and if they take extra time, there isn't a lot KS can do..I'd suggest contacting (can't say names here) but the director of client services, she is great!, and if there is anything that can be done to speed up the process, she'll find a way. By the way, I LOVE this account when its working! Good luck! sincerely,
KSMT
you should be offended
Just because your white ancestors had a heart does not negate or excuse what has happened to your native ancestors. Do you speak for all native persons? Do you have to be a native person in order for that remark is offensive to you?
Indian giver (or Indian gift) is a North American English expression used to describe a person who gives something and later wants it back, or something equivalent in return.
The term Indian gift was first referenced in 1765 by Thomas Hutchinson,[1] and Indian giver was first cited in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (1860)[2] as Indian giver. When an Indian gives any thing, he expects to receive an equivalent, or to have his gift returned.
The phrase is considered a racial stereotype and is often offensive, as it implies that Native Americans commonly practiced this behavior.
I would have been very offended if I had been
asked if I NEEDED 3 days as well. It's almost as if they are asking if it's really that bad and are you sure you can't come back sooner!! I have never worked for a company that treated their employees like that. In the past when we've had deaths in the family (brother-in-law and both sets of parents)I was always told to take as much time as I needed and not to worry about a thing. Hubby on the other hand had to bring the little folder they print out and give to everyone at the funeral even for his OWN parent's funerals to prove he had been there all because some people in his company had taken time off supposedly for bereavement and didn't have anyone die.
Good for you Mary! sm
I will keep an eye out. I hope that our voices are finally heard in this company. We've been anonymous for so long!
Mary...email me if you can...sm
hgmama610@aim.com
Let's put our heads together on this fight.
Re above. Sorry to offended MT, but OP is prime
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I was not offended by the comment
I have a child who stutters, and I know the problems faced with that difficulty. For her it hasn't been a disability so much I have had stuttering dictators. Some were great - one I had on a clinic I LOVED b/c he took his time and didn't get rushed. However, I have one on my account now who slurs, whispers, never corrects and is nearly impossible to understand. I know there are issues w/ stuttering and I admire those who have overcome them to become doctors. However, I don't think that gives them any more leeway to be bad dictators than those who don't stutter. As far as being offended, I wasn't - i totally understand the frustration!
I'm more offended by the typos in the ad. nm
To Mary who responded by e-mail (sm)
Thank you. I tried to send a brief message back to you at your e-mail address twice but it came back. Thanks for the info.
No Im not offended at all. Just dont want to start a war
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I wasn't offended, please do not feel bad. sm
I rarely post here because of the nay-sayers and bashers and get a little defensive when I think someone is about to react that way.
If I were you, I would go to the lead directly and ask if you can either go to another ER account or work with you on this. Not every account is for every MT and vice versa. There is a perfect fit for everyone, and Keystrokes works with everyone to find it. Also, I heard there is another ER account about to start, might get your name on their list if you want!
I was not offended or feeling superior.
you meant by your question? Did you mean that you did not know what MTIA was and were asking if DSG made up an organization or if you meant that DSG was pretending to be a member of MTIA and intentionally misdirected people to a different website? Or did you mean something else entirely? Without knowing what you meant by the use of is it a scam, it was difficult to formulate an appropriate response. I am sorry if my reply made you feel inferior. That was not at all my intent, I was simply asking for clarification so as to better address the inquiry.
It is far more likely that whoever designed the website used MTIA.org instead of MTIA.com when creating the link, which I am sure you could have figured out for yourself.
Now I'm offended at your post, where you imply that
a neurosurgeon. Shame on you!! Janitor is derogatory - custodian is respectful and also the politically-correct term these days!
I'm offended by the Rude TUDE
of the individual posting it. Just doesn't sound like a professional first class operation. Sounds low class, cuthroat and sends out red flags. Danger Will Robinson! Payment might be an issue.
how can i find mary K article that everyone is talkign about?
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Yeah Mary picky pants.
Made yourself look a little foolish eh?
I am offended by your "nonsense about no work" comment.
I have been with MDI for many years and very much like this company, but the workload on my accounts has been very slow for several months now, and I have multiple accounts. I have not had a full paycheck for months and I work all hours of the day and night, so it is certainly not no work nonsense for me. I am hanging in there because I really like this company, and the workload will surely pick up again after the summer vacations, at least I sure hope so. I can't ever remember such a slow summer, and I am not sure if there is a lack of work or too many people trying to cover it, but there has definitely been a work shortage for quite awhile. This may not be true for all the accounts, may only be on certain accounts, I do not know, I just know that has been my experience, as well as some other MTs I am in contact with. So to when we're out here struggling, for you to say it is nonsense and you smell a troll, especially being fairly new to the company, is really lousy, IMO.
Not being in the 'inner elite circle' I used to be offended
because they were always posting about so-and-so making a kazillion lines and how happy and wonderful for them, and on and on - yeah right, while I would be sitting there struggling with the really bad dictators, losing hundreds of dollars a month doing VR - not even able to make my minimum.
People should not be forced to be social on the job. If you had a private site somewhere for those who do then you would not be offending anyone. Then you could all go warm and fuzzy over each other.
This business is cut-throat in reality, and it seems to me there are always a certain group of MTs who get all the good meaty work, but you always have the people to clean up the garbage.
Not nice to have it thrown in your face.
mary, is there a very high amount of ESLs? nm
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Good to talk to you today, Mary :)
As some were wondering, I can say I talked to the company. Very professional and very nice. Work sounds great and they are organized. I will let others speculate about the line rate 
I think you are right. If she truly wanted to thank Mary, a private email would be sm
more appropriate. As for enlightening us, what did she share other than they are nice and organized? Woohoo ... that won't butter my bread. Nothing about pay, which they are appaerntly is so pathetically low, they are too embarrassed to admit to on here.
No thanks. As the saying goes, I just got rid of my cow, so I don't need your bull. 
I think you are right. If she truly wanted to thank Mary, a private email would be sm
more appropriate. As for enlightening us, what did she share other than they are nice and organized? Woohoo ... that won't butter my bread. Nothing about pay, which appaerntly is so pathetically low, they are too embarrassed to admit to on here.
No thanks. As the saying goes, I just got rid of my cow, so I don't need your bull.
And she actually seemed offended when I politely declined...geeeesh! nm
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To Mary K - I totally agree...I thought you wrote a
great letter and I hope you get some response to it on a national level..the public needs to know about this as is concerns THEIR medical records! I applaud your efforts and hope something comes from it!
Praying most certainly DOES put food on the table! I am extremely offended by your post.
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The people at CardioScribes called us transcribers. I wasn't offended, sm
but I always thought a transcriber was the piece of equipment on my desk. The other poster is right, though -- better than typist .. UGH.
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's in Kentucky has an In-House, days MT spot
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Digital Dictation Services - MARY GLEASON, Stiff on Payment, BEWARE
This is a sole proprietor, who will let you try out for a couple weeks, and then stiff on payment. She is all nicey nice in the beginning but look out, she will rip you off big time. Do not work for unless you like working for nothing.
P&G forced my sister to stop selling Mary Kay in her spare time...gotta SM!
This was years ago way before P&G even owned Revlon. It's not like my sister wore a white coat and created cosmetic formulas. She was a RECEPTIONIST!!! The Suits at P&G told her to make a choice because they didn't need an employee working for the competition...Give me a break!
BTW, the ONLY reason my sister even sold the MK was so she could get it 1/2 price.
Whatever you do on YOUR time is YOUR business!! (As long as no laws are being broken or ppl getting hurt)IMO
Jewish is the main hospital, St. Mary's is another hospital under their management. (nm)
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Any comments on DRC?
Ggood, bad, indifferent? I'm thinking that being paid by the keystroke is not the way to go. Can you make any money that way?
There are some comments below
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Any comments about MDI-MD?
How is BayScribe? Do they offer clinic and radiology or just acute care? TIA
Does anyone have any comments on DRC? How
Good, bad, mediocre? Pay on time? Flexible?
Anyone here with OTI? comments??
Can anyone tell me if this is a good company to work for and if they run out of work frequently, etc?
comments
Pay is on time. Line counts are accurate. Account specifications are minimal. Account specifications are different for each account. Work is very feast or famine on most accounts. Minimal work, if any on weekends. No QA feedback, only minimal feedback from supervisor on occasion. General information about quality issues is inconsistent. The platform is simple (MQ's platform). Management is very unorganized. Quite a lot of poor dictators. Some lousy sound quality. Minimal ability to control speed on sound. Difficult to make respectable line counts per hour. Pay per line is reasonable. These are observations from multiple people working for DSG. Overall better than some companies. Benefit costs vary on your location if you elect to be an employee.
Comments re: MDI-MD anyone?
Are a Transcriptionist who has worked for MDI-MD? Would you mind giving your 2 cents on your experience? I'd appreciate any information. NOTE: No recruiters need reply to this! Thanks so much.
...NM up there. Those comments were
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I think if you have comments about it you should do this
Put it in the suggestion box. If you know what another company is offering, then let them know. There is no need to bring it here as this will not do any good. Take it to management where results can be possibly achieved.
There are a few comments about them at
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OSi comments
Got pay direct deposited a day early because of the holiday. Got work through the holiday. Got updates regularly throughout the holiday on workload available. That's about all I need from a job.
any other comments
Any others got comments on Diskriter. What equipment or what do you need to take the test?
Some comments....sm
This is definitely a wonderful company to work for, especially if you need benefits. The supervisors are very nice and very helpful.
This company does have some absolutely terrible and horrendous ESLs, but on the other hand, you can send blanks to QA and are not penalized. You do have to remember that if you send a report with a blank to QA, they analyze that report and it goes toward your QA score for the month, which they do on random reports and also, as above, any reports sent to QA for blanks or questions.
Also if you are looking for flexibility, know that they are not very flexible with your schedule. They want you to work the hours you committed to and not type outside your schedule very much. They will, however, let you off for doctors appointments, etc. If overtime is offered on your account, though, you will get lines-and-a-half.
One other thing is that they do expect you to do your committed lines for the day. In other words, it does not seem like they will compromise this with a very good MT who has high 99s on QA scores but is just not as fast as she used to be. Some places say if you are putting out very good quality work, they will allow you to do just under the required line count for the day or pay period. Axolotl does not really hold to this idea.
Lastly, to add a cc to a report, you have to click on a separate toolbar button, and this is extremely slow to bring up the doctors' list to choose from. This does affect your momentum, and some people have a wait literally of a few minutes for the lis to come up.
All in all, Axolotl is a good company. Above are just a few things I feel might make a difference to someone considering them.
Comments to your comments
I don't understand why people come on here complaining because they have to produce 1200 lines a day when they new the minimum line requirement before accepting a position. It sounds like they don't want to work their schedule that THEY MADE themselves and AGREED to work. If you don't want a schedule, then work IC and receive no benefits for another company.
Axolotl does expect you to work the hours you SET when you accepted the position. They are very flexible to work with if you need time off or to rearrange your schedule but to be late every day or quit early daily, no they are not flexible with that. They have TAT agreements to reach and need people there when they say they are going to be.
As far as making line count, they do expect you to be able to reach 1200 lines a day but they also are very patient with new employees. People they hire are told in the interview that they have to produce 1200 lines per day. If someone cannot reach it, then they shouldn't take the job. The platform is easy and you have a lot of resources given to you.
As far as the ESLs, there is 1 account that is high ESL and they are horrible!!! But this is 1 account out of how many acute care accounts?? If you are not hired to work that account, then you do not have hardly any ESL dictators. If you were hired to do that account, then you were told up front that it was a high ESL account.
As far as the CC button, I believe it has been sent out in at least 2 e-mails that the next patch/upgrade that support is going to do, the CC button will be fixed. Did you not receive this? I never have to wait more than 30 to 45 seconds. Is it a pain sometimes? YES. Has management acknowledged that this problem exists? YES Are they planning on fixing it? YES
Other than a brief wait for the CC button, the system is not slow. If you have to wait even 1 minute for the CC button, you still should be able to meet your productivity requirements. Someone not working their schedule or meeting productivity is not an Axolotl problem, it is an EMPLOYEE PROBLEM.
see comments a little further down
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Just a few comments - sm
First of all, I have been with the company for a long time and I have floated along with a lot of changes since starting with them. Some of the changes were very easy, some not so easy and maybe even a little painful at first.
I was leary about switching to VR but if I wanted to stay with my primary accounts, I had to give in and go with the flow once again. I'm glad I stuck it out because I love VR. The only problem is that I end up running out of work sometimes because I am faster now.
VR isn't going away. That's pretty clear. You either adapt or find another career. I made the choice to find a way to make it work in my favor.
ESL doctors aren't going away either. Same deal. We have to learn to figure them out or we won't have any work.
Lastly, I find it disturbing that you would name a client in a public forum. Most companies, including Transcend, discourage or even forbid naming of their clients for obvious reasons -- the competition is tough.
Whether or not you think the account is terrible, there are people working on that account who might really like it.
My primary account used to be the dreaded account but I personally loved that account and still do, years later. I have come to think of it as MY account and I would be furious if a competitor came along and snatched it from me.
In the future, I would advise that you use more discretion when discussing accounts.
Better yet, don't discuss them at all. You aren't the only one working those accounts. Some of us like them, appreciate a challenge, live up to the challenge, and we WANT the work.
Don't cut us off at the knees because you aren't happy.
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