I agree. I was with MQ and made fabulous money and worked for
Posted By: PAMT on 2009-02-15
In Reply to: You can do it.... - SM
large universities. Finally, I had enough and left 2 years ago and never looked back. It wasnt easy at first learning new hospitals but I am still at that place and am fine. Actually, I like learning new hospitals every now and then, takes care of the boredom. Now dont get me wrong, the money isnt as great, but I cant take the boredom. I lose my focus when I get like that and get sloppy I think. You just dont watch as closely so every now and then you need a reality check and get pulled back into shape, at least I do. I focus much more closely on new accounts.
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I worked that way once, best money I ever made.
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I worked there for abour 4-1/2 years and made excellent money.
I hated to leave but I was only scheduled PT but allowed to work up to 40 hours a week as I wanted. Certain family obligations made me have to choose between FT at Spheris or my local accounts and I chose my local accounts.
I was pulling in about $40,000 a year.
Me 3, made good money with less cpl than now. nm
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Is there good money to be made at Transtech? nm
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Me, too. I've made so little money this month that I can't even
make my house payment. This is getting beyond ridiculous. If it's not one thing, it's another. I suppose I could go pawn my computer since I'm not getting any work.
I made excellent money in my very first year but ...
... that was about 13 years ago, and it was with a local MT who needed help for all her own accounts, all easy family practice office visits. She paid 9 cents gross line, didn't use a counter, just said to manually count the lines on each page (!) but was always at least $5 a page. We didn't use expanders, had no platform, just used a dictaphone machine hooked up to their office and just typed as it came in, 24-hour turnaround time, and anything that came in after 5 p.m. that day was considered the following days' work. It was great. Too bad the big corporations spoiled it for all the little guys out there like me and my mentor. I haven't made anywhere near what I made that first year since because the big corps ate up all the local accounts around here and won't pay more than 8 cents a line for clinic work. Sucks.
RN versus MT, which would involve the most money to be made. I am not sure if I want to go into RN
nursing or remain an MT. I wonder which one pays best?
You said it: "They made good money."
I don't mind working hard if I am getting paid accordingly. Doctors and nurses make good money to work weekends. My sister even gets a very nice shift differential for working evenings, nights, and weekends. I get none of that. I get the same 7 cpl regardles of when I work. Hardly seems worth the $12-13 an hour I make to give up the precious little time on the weekends I get to spend with my family. Guess each just has their own priorities in life and mine is not work.
Doing great! Made more money in one week at TT than I did in a whole month
at previous job!
Be wary of their platform. If it's Apex, I'd run. No money to be made there.
I would do whole pages and only end up with like 30 lines. No thanks. I would have starved at that rate and it could be their line counting system too. They do it based on only black visible lines which obviously means no spaces. Good luck though. If I remember right, they send you the footpedal but it's been a while.
Hated VR. Made less money that straight transcription..sm
I was extremely boring and mindless work. People say they doubled their production/lines with VR. That is true but remember if you make 0.08 straight typing and 0.04 doing VR, you are making the same amount of money. I made about 150 bucks less a month because the dictators were horrible and I had to end up typing almost all the reports over. I will never do it again.
perhaps she preparing for this for a long time. seems she made a ton of money. NM
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Why is pay rate confidential? It is YOUR money that YOU made with YOUR hard work. You should be
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Any Wedmedx'ers out there. How anyone made decent money with them and how is their platform?
Thinking of applying but would like the skinny on if you can make any money with them.
Just wondering if the platform is productive and if the money made is decent.
I have worked on too many platforms where you really struggled to get a good line count and make decent money. I'm just curious how easy it is to get lines on their platform.
I am glad to hear that a lot of money can be made with MT work. This gives me hope for the future.
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I worked for a company that sent us something made
in China with their logo on it every year, most of which I've Freecycled or tossed. I'd rather not get something at all than get something like that.
KS pays me very well and while they aren't perfect, they are a very good company and have lots and lots and lots of work. That is worth a lot more than a $25 GC at Christmas. I wouldn't send it back if I were to get one, but a decent pay for the other 11 months is a much better gift.
When I worked with her, she made calls
to people when there were backlogs to get more help. She used to ask me what she could do/offer me to get me to come onboard full-time, so I always figured she was in upper management in order to be able to offer that.
I have worked in another industry and made twice the amount - but it
didn't last long, about two years. sssiiiiggghhh!
I've made $35,000 for the years I worked there. SM
I would have to kill myself for $50,000 and I don't choose to do that. I give you credit if you were able to achieve it.
The pay rate has been lowered there now, due to SR. The rate of pay at MQ has always been higher, but this field is dying out where ever one goes.
Worked shift/made requirements
I would email them with just what you said, see what they come up with. This means essentially your kept your requirement to work you shift and made your line count, but it seems then you must MEET YOUR SHIFT AND LINE REQUIREMENT --- BEFORE the actual shift ends.
Post back what was said back, this stinks as usual with what is happening to MTs
who cares if its not a lot of money! You worked and
You should be paid.
I let this go with a local medical transcription company.. only thing is I worked there (at the company) 5 days 6 hours a day and never got paid. I figured I gained experience and they weren't worth fighting. I was just happy to be away from the place and the people who worked there. I H-A-T-E-D that place. In all honesty though, if they send me ANYTHING in the mail as far as taxes are concerned after not paying me.. something will be done.
This is true..Put it this way. I made $45,000 this year but worked 3 jobs and at least 60
hours a week and sometimes up to 80. I have no desire to do that anymore. I'd be happy with $35,000 working 40 hours a week. What a dream job.
I made 8 cpl when I worked for them 3 years ago. The ESLs were really horrendous, though.
Even the English speaking docs were bad. I just couldn't make any money with those accounts. Maybe things have changed in 3 years, but it was not a pleasant experience for me. It was my very first MT job.
I agree with every point you made, D.
And I love the jagged little pill reference.
The "Bigot"
Agree with below...too many errors were made
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I agree - not a money maker. nm
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Well I don't agree with lying but if I were offered the money she was
offered, I would have taken it and would spend the rest of my life enjoying.
I agree...who cares how she spends her money? (sm)
She personally worked with me over the last couple months to get me a solid backup account. I don't know how many people who own companies who would take the time to e-mail one of her MTs several times back and forth to try to find a backup account for them. Normally that is done by someone in the office. But she really worked with me one on one. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that and how it went a long, long way to convince me that I should definitely stay at Keystrokes. It's communication and dedication like that that sets Keystrokes apart and makes them a cut above many other companies.
I agree. Three months and the best move I made. For radiology, I do not think anyone can compete.
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I agree they have WAY over hired, but I am required to work my schedule..you got it made then!
Nope. I'm thru with this thread. I made my point. We all just need to agree to disagree with b
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fabulous
Great money, lots of work, flexible schedule, cool people, affordable benefits. Nothing to complain about at all.
Pay isn't fabulous but I like it there.
They leave me alone, don't give my crap about taking some off and gave me a flexible schedule.
....and then there is there fabulous HAHAHA $12.50
Fabulous people. Pay well. Pay... sm
always on time by direct deposit. The best I've ever found.
I think this just fabulous technology!........nm
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That's fabulous! Do they hire remotely?! LOL ?!?!?! nm
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They have a great reputation -- I think it would be fabulous! nm
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$12.50/hr. is their latest fabulous pay scheme.
Of course it is their fabulous $12.50/hour scheme
I just joined them, FABULOUS place sm
While I have had no feedback today, I am not terribly concerned. They were well pleased with the first batch of work I had yesterday so I worked all day, my first full day. When I shot off an email question BAM it was back at me in under 3 minutes! I AM IMPRESSED. Oh, I made the minimum number of lines expected of me after 90 days and I spent a LOT of time messing with the system, looking stuff up in there and making it work for me, about 2 hours of my day AND I got a great line count.
As for not getting back to someone who wants to work for them: I pasted a resume into an email off the ad that was here on MTS. Debbie called me the very next day and told me to call her the next day by 9 a.m. or she would be calling me then. I did call her, she hired me and I didn't think she would take no for an answer...so I said YES.
I love love love ExText, I didn't think I would, but I DO I DO. The QA people are so nice and so anxious help. I am a seasoned old vet at this game, but they treat me like a newbie with feelings and struggles.
I AM SO HAPPY TO BE TREATED LIKE A REAL HUMAN BEING FOR A CHANGE as opposed to a typing robot.
Try TransTech instead. FABULOUS company and TONS of work!
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Agree-I have worked for a lot of services
and everyone wants certain things their own way, I took everything the QA people said and did it right then, no argument. I don't take that kind of stuff personally anyway, so if they tell me to put a space somewhere and take colons out somewhere else, I am fine with it. The only comments I really got were things that were specific to the software, so I felt really good about the whole experience.
I totally agree! I have worked both at
home and at a hospital and I found it true for both locations. I'm starting clinical next week and will only have to deal with doctors that are assigned to me. I already know who the doctors are, so I can get a feel for them. I'm tired of acute care and the BS these companies tell you. I've had enough ESLs to last me a lifetime! As soon as I exceed my quota and get into incentive range - they PLOP the ESLs on me so I don't make more money.
With clinical I know where I stand.
I too worked at SS once and totally agree with you.
The worst company by far. Remember when that SS manager came on and threatened a poster (you?) with legal action for posting a letter they received from the company? Awful, abusive and really, really dumb people working there. There are many better companies out there than this one and as bad as some are, SoftScript was the WORST.
I agree. I have worked for them almost 2 years. sm
We had a slowdown when one account decided they wanted to leave. They learned a hard lesson and came back, and things have been smooth ever since. Even with the slow-down, it was just that.... slow.
The work is good. The pay is good. It's on time. They leave you alone and let you get your work done (for me, the no BS issue was a major factor). QA is always available. The owners are kind, and there is NO ASR/VR.
There are people here who like to trash the company, but I strongly suspect it is one, maybe two, people with a vendetta. Otherwise, it's a good place to work.
Have to agree with you there. When I worked there, I never cared for the sm
sweety and hon terms that were thrown around. (I dislike it when waitresses call me hon, too -- makes me feel like I'm about 12 years old.) I also think the term awesome is overused. The Grand Canyon is awesome. I am not. And telling me you rock is not much compensation for having no work and no money.
That being said, I always liked D and everyone else. It just didn't pay the bills.
I agree, it's a great company! I have worked
at many places, but Transcend is the best. No company is perfect, but I have been very happy here.
I so agree. Worked w/them for short time sm
and one of the worst experiences of my career. Too many things to list. Horrid.
Amherst so we make less money and they get more money for MQ and bigger bonuses. Our guidelines came
from Amherst.
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