I absolutely agree with you on this post. sm
Posted By: ICr on 2006-12-22
In Reply to: I work every day and am not a slacker - peanut
It's ridiculous for companies to expect ICs to clock in and out for lunch, etc., when there are no benefits at risk. MTs who don't keep any kind of schedule and expect to have work whenever they're ready are ruining things for the rest of us who are diligent.
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I absolutely loved your post! sm
I do have a husband that provides, but we are definitely a two-income family. We are partners and wanted to keep our children home to enjoy these exact same things you speak of, sporting events, hot chocolate, a kiss on the cheek each morning and being able to bring the gym shorts to school that were forgotten in a flash. I must say your post has moved me. I often wondered what I would ever do if something happened to my husband (God forbid). I wondered if I could survive doing MT and still be at home and now I know, it can definitely be done. I admire the fact that you have also taught your college-aged son the value of money and how we must work to have the necessities and work even harder to have the finer things in life. I also do not believe in keeping up with the Joneses as the riches in our life come from our children and the wonderful times we have (sounds mushy I know), but nothing beats it. I think what makes mothers great MTs is the thankless job it can be at times, but well worth it indeed. I wouldn't trade it for anything. My husband drives a 10-year-old pick-up and I do have a payment on my newer car. We figure there's at least one that is reliable. We have a modest home, take no elaborate vacations, and enjoy just doing things as a family! Thanks again for your post. You are truly blessed and so am I!!! 
I would absolutely agree with you. SM
Something terrible has happened to the work ethic in this country. I have met so many MTs who feel entitled to high pay per line, easy work, no weekends, no nights, and who don't want to give even the tiniest bit of effort when it comes to completing their work on time and CORRECTLY.
I wouldn't want to be an MTSO for any amount of $ in the world. MTs are too difficult to deal with and there are tons of them out there who are totally undependable and/or incompetent these days.
I agree - absolutely ask
Okay, they obviously like you, but is their love for you going to pay your bills? If other MTs have quit this account they obviously couldn't survive by working on it either. The company obviously knows this. I think they should be willing to pay more for doing it - and it sounds like by complementing you they are hoping you will feel appreciated and keep doing it. Done that many times myself. I have a too extreme desire to be appreciated, and I've had to learn to put that aside and make sure I can survive and pay the bills. Even though I've worked for many great companies with very nice people, if it's a lousy account it just doesn't work.
I say keep looking for a better account, either where you are or elsewhere.
I absolutely agree with you on this Ana....
The owner is a nightmare and doesn't want you to question them about YOUR money! Now that is crazy!!!
I absolutely agree with you
and I think it is the VR/SR platform. I worked for another company doing VR before this one and the platform was much better - speech picked up patterns of the doctors and filled in the correct info behind the correct headings, etc., but this one - it is horrible - you absolutely would not believe it. I would laugh if it was not so serious - the stuff the system puts in is no where near what the doc is saying so almost everything has to be retyped - I know - pretty darn silly.
I absolutely agree with you on that one...sm
I can see both sides of the fence, depending what day it is, how much stress is going on, etc.
But, absolutely, if I'm up front with an employer about my being part-time, and yes, I do put in extra time in evenings and weekends, why in the heck do they treat you like a slacker because you don't want to type 2000 lines a day?
On the other coin, I actually applied for an on-site MT job at a doctor's office. It would be 45-minute drive, professional attire, etc. Thought I was ready for that until it came right down to it. Then started thinking about all the days the kids are out - 1 week for Thanksgiving, 3 weeks for Winter, etc. Realized how spoiled I am, where else can I make this kind of money working part-time?
It's definitely a love-hate relationship! :)
I absolutely agree with you.
MDI and the people who work there are all top notch. I was in no way referring to the QA people at MDI or the email. I was just stating my experience with some inexperienced QA people and how frustrating that is. I've worked for OTHER companies where QA was very inconsistent, incorrect, and very condescending in feedback, even when they were wrong. I apologize to MDI if anyone thought I meant their QA people. I've heard nothing but the best about QA people at MDI. I was just venting a little about newbies being in QA positions and putting errors into reports that did not have reports when submitted, and was wondering if anyone else shared my frustration with that situation. I probably should have started a new thread for this. My bad.
I absolutely agree.
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Absolutely great INTELLIGENT post. Thanks! :-)
And the poster going on about starting schools and training of MTs, to ease transition. The poster needs to read up more as this is way old news. Its happening right now.
I read a post above by someone to trust and now I am absolutely sure what to do.
If the company or mgmt is not loyal to a long-timer, as noted in a post up above, they certainly won't care about me or my skills... so I need to rethink my loyalty there. It is a sad day for me, but I am smelling the coffee. I know that people come on here to read about what they should do and you really don't care a bit about this MT, but I have to say thank you to all of the posts over the months and years on this board. I have done my research and weighed my options and the telling sign is how long-time employees are treated by companies. My answer to my question of to stay or not, to be loyal or not has been answered. I don't mean to be cryptic, but I can say that thanks to feedback and research and boards like this and others, we couldn't make choices but in the dark. I know the moderator says don't make decisions based on other's opinions, but we can make decisions with feedback over time from many different people and weigh accordingly, adding in the actions of those who pay us our wages. Without this board, we'd have no options, without other MTs sharing good and bad, we'd have nothing to compare. Thanks again gourdpainter and other long-time MTs and posters... without you this MT would be in the dark entirely...
Oh absolutely! I agree 100%. Especially when it comes to my company
the "company who shall not be named"!  Yep, the fabrications that can start flying out on that company are actually funny by the time the flaming thread gets done, but sure must work and scare off a load of MTs, though, actually, by the looks of the new hires, nobody believes them! I think it works against "those" type of posters either way - the extremist cheerleaders and the extremist bashers. They actually do more harm than good for their individual causes, because they sound so NUTS!! 
Absolutely agree! I kidded them about having
a tough QA department, but they are good!!! If you don't feel secure about styles and word usage, Mary can train you well. Work for them. It will be tough, but boy will you learn and get paid for it too. On new accounts they are tougher on the MTs because they want to keep the accounts. Good business! Good people all around.
I read the post completely and see absolutely nothing regarding age discrimination
You are reading between lines and not too well at that. If you are paying someone a huge salary, you have the choice of not wanting someone who might be there 1 day and not the next. Has nothing to do with age. It has to do with their wellness.
I agree 100%. You people have absolutely no idea
of this person's capacity for selflessness and generosity, to the point of putting herself last in an effort to achieve many goals and in the face of adversities I wouldn't wish on the harshest critics here (although youse guys are tempting me!). If you didn't cut with through her, there is a reason for that and I know her employer cuts to the chase much more deftly than you would be able to withstand so I know she backs this recruiter 100%. They both can run circles around you. You have no idea how tightly knit some MTSOs are and the ones here bad mouthing this person won't stand a chance getting a job in certain places if their lives depended on it.
Go sell crazy somewhere else.
Absolutely I agree! Hindsight (sigh) ..sm
Yes, in hindsight I should not have done it. I had been in my office for days on end testing and testing. I remember it being very tough and took me a long time to finish. I was desperate (I guess) to seek my own accounts and thought this would be the first of many!
Never again! :)
Absolutely true about the Q. Couldn't agree more with you. NM
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I agree. Sadly, it is absolutely true, nm
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And your post shows that you have absolutely no clue of what it takes to train a new MT!
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I read that post on job seeker's board, and it makes absolutely no sense...sm
Scary to think this is what medical reports might look like coming in from overseas MTs. Thank goodness I'm not an editor...that would irritate the living --- out of me. Quite an embarrassment to those of us in this profession who have worked hard over the years and are proud of what we do.
agree with absolutely every thing said, and double on the rude staff...nm
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I agree, absolutely agree
and I might say, this is keeping updated in ALLLL specialities and subspecialities, drugs, instruments, and on and on. It is not a good profession for sure and sadly it is the MTs who are being very definitely HAD
I agree with your post,
I don't agree that MQ sucks! I happen to like it "here". In other words, I like my job. Sorry if everyone else feels differently. But, as stated before, MQ isn't the only job or company with quirks. Every one of them do...move on if you're not happy with your job! (Not specifically you, original poster)...
I agree with your post
I was hired on an account and there was no work available during my shift all the time. I wonder if this is happening to my account as well. I left. Thank goodness. It was a very bad experience for me. I called the office and asked questions, they said they would put me on another account. The account I received still had no work available and when I did receive work it was ESL or very hard to hear. I used my best judgement and resigned and now have a new position.
I agree with your post!
I do believe that some are having a hard time of it, but I know there are others who still like the company and are happy. Do I have problems with Beyond TXT? Sure. Who doesnt. It is a new platform. I'm quite sure that every platform has its issues in the beginning phase of usage, but those issues can and will be resolved. The platform is really quite good. Once the trouble spots are ironed out, it will be quite a great tool for us. As far as the editing goes, I believe that too will improve with time. I also believe that once it is in full swing and becomes the norm, our pay will be restructured again - to our benefit. Change takes time. There are always hardships along the way. Each MLS has to decide whether to stick it out or not. But you shouldn't be misleading to outsiders who cannot form a realistic opinion on their own. I am sure there are some MLS's that cannot make what they used to. However, there are some that can. Why this is I don't know. It may be due to experience, the account, how well they work on the platform. Who knows. The company is still going strong, however, and if there were not some content MTs, I would think Transcend would not have a staff.
One more thing, the post about MTs losing reports, well yes that is happening. But the poster didn't tell the rest of the story. If you lose a report it is due to an issue with BTXT. The company has said time and again to send in an incident report stating which job was lost and you will be paid for it. What more do you want?
I agree with your post. I also had the very
same experience as you. I was very loyal to the company for two years when my supe went nuts on me claiming I took time off without her permission. WHAT?!?! She had never treated me like that before. I was the better person and apologized, though I had nothing to apologize for and she was extremely rude to me in response. That is not a company you want to work for, I totally, 100% agree!! I got out after that thankfully, but unfortunately, there are no companies any better:(
I agree with this post.........
I had nearly the same experience. I started out with what was shaping up to be a fairly easy account in the first 2-3 days I worked for them. Then after I had been working for only just a few days and starting to get the feel of it they switched me to an account that was 95% ESL. Very difficult and hard to make production. I ended up leaving them after a few months. The supervisor was not very helpful. I gave it all I could but I was just not making anything with them.
I agree with your post. If you want a job where you can...
pick and choose when you will work, then by golly, this may not be the field for you. I take time off when I want, give my employer advance notice of it, and if it means a day or two or three without pay, so be it. I work every weekend (MY choosing and believe me, they were surprised and thrilled when I said I would work both Saturday and Sunday of every week!), get my lines in, and don't complain! You are not chained to your job; if you don't like a company's requirements find a different company, go back to school and learn to do something else, or plan ahead.
I agree with this post.
I have been with MDI since March and absolutely love it. I still have my primary that was given to me when I hired on and have not needed to ask for a secondary. Also, this payperiod will be my biggest producing payperiod since being an MT. I very rarely run out of work and have had no problems whatsoever at this point.
Agree with everything in your post.
These are the very reasons I left Precyse after 5 years. I thought I had found the place I was going to retire from. Things changed though once work started going to India and a couple new managers came along.
I agree with the above post...I was in the same
situation this summer with the company I do IC for. My account, their second-highest degree of difficulty for accounts, had always run anywhere from 2 to 5 days behind in dictation, so there was always, always work in it.
Along about June, suddenly I was being moved into backup accounts, and even then I was having to check in morning, noon, and late evening to get my lines in. Around the 4th of July, I got a call that my production was not at goal down (first time in 4 years).
I explained there was no work in my account and reminded my supervisor that I e-mailed her 2 weeks ago wondering what was up...had we lost the account or gone to overflow status on it?
She laughed and said no, work was just down, and she was thrilled that we were finally meeting our TAT with them. While that is great, she missed the whole point. DON'T reprimand me for not meeting requirements when there is no work.
About 2 weeks ago, we got a memo stating that for anyone not meeting their line requirements, they would be moved down on the pay schedule accordingly, 0.5 cpl a shot. Again, the work flow has not improved, and nobody gets it and nobody cares.
I think it is a bonehead move for any company to threaten someone's wages when they are already suffering through a slow period...but like everyone I am still behind on my bills so I stayed.
However, I happily gave my notice this weekend when the only thing all week to sift through were the discharge summaries and echocardiograms. I did 34 reports yesterday, 303 lines worth of 3 and 4-line echocardiograms with a DS or 2 thrown in from.
Yes, there is work, but when all you are is a line count and NOTHING else matters,it is definitely time to hit the road...especially when the management is busy patting themselves on the back for decreasing their operating costs and improving their TAT at the expense of the MT.
It will be funny in another couple months to watch their newest advertising campaign and the scripted poster that always comes on when a question is asked about the company. I get paid every 2 weeks by direct deposit and the insurance is Aetna and really good. How are the accounts? How would I know...I'm not an MT (LOL).
I agree with your post...............nm
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Agree with everything in this post
I, too, work on Escription, make good money (the same or a little bit more than I would straight transcription), and love it.
I agree with your TT post.
I am not an E favorite and I have suffered horribly over the last few months. How long have you been with TT? I have been here almost three years and really hoped this would be my last MT job. I hate to leave and start over and keep telling myself it will pick up. Do you think I am kidding myself?
It's nice to know I am not the only one in this boat.
Jen
I agree, much better said than my post! nm
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Not exactly. Agree with post below. If you like being treated like...
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I do agree with some of your post but 6 TYPOS..sm
I do agree with some of what you typed - the small mindedness and all that, but you definitely do have 6 typographical errors just in that little post and yes, it's just a bulletin board.....but if one is a master MT, well that reflects usually in everything that passes through their hands...including some internet posting on forums/boards.
just my nickel's worth....
I agree, read post below by not me...
you are definitely my kind of person...would like to talk further, somehow. take care.
not me.
I so agree w/you - Great post....but....n/m
we can only lead a horse to water, we cannot make them drink it....if they choose to be intolerant, it's their choice as sick as it seems. I choose to go through the life as a loving, compassionate person. Others choose not to go this route.
Yes, racism and neonazism is, unfortunately, alive and well, in the USA and all over the world. So, if we raise our children with our awareness and our love and compassion, hopefully the future generation (our kids) will Do The Right Thing!!
I agree with your post. I hire them too but the co
I just worked for did nto appreciate them. I know they are out there and go that extra mile. I want to find a company who appreciates their MTs and QA staff and who will instead of trying to get them to kill themselves recognize them for what they do and how well they do it. Sick of these companies. They appreciate no one.
There are always those who do nothing and try to make excuses for not being there, but for every 2 there are a good 5 who are hard workers and companies clump everyone together into one category, which just is not fair.
I agree -- great post.
I started in a clinic but quickly moved to a large teaching hospital, and the mentorship and listening parties was very valuable. Another thing that works that I particularly like is to walk away, go have a cookie, then come back. Sometimes then you can hear what the doc is saying! At least as bad as ESL are the docs who have a 15-minute report but by the time they're done uhh-ing and ahh-ing and emm-ing through the report you have about 40 lines.
Agree. Good post.
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I completely agree with your post...
As an aside and another thought, I see everybody as one creation under one God. What I see is somebody in that country being given a chance to make a decent living and have a job they can be proud of, to support their family with. The person behind that computer given work from a US company may be a single mother with that job providing the only financial means to feed her children. Food for thought.
I have to agree -- great post. Plus, when you take the job, sm
you are told upfront what the benefits are and what the requirements are, so if they are not to your liking, why take the position? I am quite happy here at TT, and am thrilled at the news about the 401k. Of course, I've been doing transcription for over 30 years now, so I guess that puts me in the age bracket where thinking about retirement is a little bit higher on my list than maybe someone 20-something, although I wish I had been smart when I was 20 and started putting away. Oh well .......
Again, great post ... thanks for sharing. 
I also wholeheartedly agree with this post.
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I totally agree with this post
they used to be a great company to work for, but have gone downhill a lot in the past year or so. Same is true about the not replying to emails, but expecting IMs and emails sent to you to be answered asap. Pay was always correct and on time too.
I totally agree with this post.
I have 20 years transcribing in a hospital and now at home as an IC. I can tell you right now even with this kind of experience being able transcribe anything, you will only get offered 8.5 cpl if you are lucky. I've even been offered 7 cpl, which I was totally offended and did not take the job. I think you're better off trying something part-time to fill the time because you won't find a company out there willing to pay what you call top pay for a top transcriptionist. I can say in my experience the highest bid I got so far from a national is 9 cpl and I haven't applied to many. You, on the other hand, may want to try a smaller MTSO that needs part-time or even p.r.n. transcriptionists that can hit the ground running.
I agree with all of your post except the last line!
It means they do not have control of their money, will probably never be satisfied with their work and may have garnishments and other legal issues for me to have to contend with.
Your credit score is a very good indicator of how responsible you are.
Your post is spot on. I agree with everything you say.
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I couldn't agree more with your post...
and especially with getting the media involved. Nothing is going to happen until people realize what is happening to their personal information. It is just now coming to the forefront, thanks to the media, the reality and effect of what happens to our personal information when all of these companies have access to it and the result thereof. It's on television every time we turn around; our personal information being *out there* and in the hands of who knows who, stolen and disseminated in whatever way someone or some company chooses. As well, physicians truly need to understand that companies are outsourcing (I don't believe for a moment that most of them understand this fact). That aside, the effect on the lives and work of the American MT is something that needs to be known, and the media is the only way the information is going to be released to the general public. Using American MTs is the only way this information is *safe*, to so speak.
Additionally, as you state, using us to correct all of the mistakes made by the client in ADT and not paying us for it is so absurd, I am sick to death of it myself. I run across it every day (and MQ (for whom I work doesn't pay us, either). On one account I have, in particular, virtually nothing matches in ADT and if we don't get it correctly, it IS the fault of the MT, no matter what (??). We get email after email about it from out PS on up. Also, everything is done to lessen the line count, no matter how awful it looks. ASR keeps lessening our pay. Everything is beginning to look as if it were done by Indians or Pakistanis, etc., and it's not as if I have anything against those people, in case anyone wants to jump on me for that statement, other than they are being given our jobs. However, the work is substandard.
As an aside, can you think of any better way for a terrorist organization to infiltrate?
I totally agree with your post.
So, it's not like there are no offers, just terrible offers. This business doesn't pay what it used to especially with the MTSOs that are online lookig for ICs or employees. I haven't seen a job ad yet that is paying more than 9 cpl unless it's a teaching hospital loaded with ESL, which I can do, but why rack my brain when I can make more lines per hour doing clinic with no ESL. It's a shame, but we must be choosy at this point in the game. I agree that there are companies out there paying the same wage, hire employees, and give benefits, which is great, but not all of us can work a set schedule for whatever reason, truth be told. No one should knock that. If you are in a situation where you can physically sit for 8 hours, good for you, but me I'm only 38 and I just can't do it anymore after working on-site for 17 years, pounding the keys, I just don't have the stamina. So, I prefer IC work that is truly IC and I work my own hours even if that means getting up to stretch every 15 minutes. I still make a great living and fortunate in that I don't need the health benefits right now; not to say that couldn't change in the future.
In all fairness, this profession should allow more stretch time and less pound the keys for 8-10 hours and they may find more MTs wanting to be an employee. An IC means you make your own schedule, nothing wrong with that.
Agree with this. I was surprised by a post SM
where someone was asking what medication book to get. Anyone not using on-line reference programs and also googling for answers has to be wasting vast amounts of time. My 3 shelves of old books are my very last resort.
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