I agree.. from what I see here a lot of places are slow. That is no reason to quit..
Posted By: Dee on 2006-02-04
In Reply to: "We have all tried that?" How can you speak for everyone? sm - LTMT
I believe MDI-FL values its MTs and are trying to get things worked out so everyone is happy, but as we all know, you cannot make everyone happy all the time.
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I think it has been slow most places but is starting
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I feel your pain! I decided to shut up rather than put up and quit my company. Better places out t
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The reason I quit....sm
is because I needed the money she owed me and she had a myriad of excuses why I hadn't received it. First it because the hospital had not paid her, then she claimed my bank was rejected my direct deposits (not true). Now I've heard from other sources (and actually read the emails she's sent people about me) that she's attempted to send me certified checks (like I wouldn't pick THOSE up???) and don't return her emails (she's not sent a single email and hasn't acknowledged one of mine to her in months). She's since moved her bidnez to guru.com (who are keeping a very close eye on her). She'll promise, promise, promise, and you'll wait, wait, wait. Wish I had better news for you. She has never paid me for my last 3 invoices and certainly never offered to reimburse me for any of the charges incurred by my bank due to her inability to pay me what she owed me. I've just recently forwarded my last 3 invoices with all the jobs numbers attached that I'd completed along with a copy of all her emails and instant messages blaming the hospital's nonpayment to her to the hospital itself (which is in another country.) They probably won't pay me either but they'll certainly see what kind of an unethical, dishonest, and frankly thieving person they're dealing with. Best of luck to you!! Sure hope you have better luck with her than I've had.
Quit for that reason.
Supposed to be verbatim account but can't hear half of what is said between the horrible sound quality and the ESLs. This was my second job, first job having great quality, low volume setting and having to strain and struggle to hear on DSG with the sound all the way up gave me major headaches and muscle fatigue. For some reason I kept thinking the more I lean into the computer the better I would hear. LOL. Didn't work. Needless to say I did not keep that job long.
I quit my job today for the same reason..sm
I did all the hiring, training, scheduling, and QA by myself for a small company. When I started, there were strict rules regarding the number of lines per day that must be done. I would get emails from people saying they were desperate to work, were losing everything, ready to start today, etc. I'd send out a couple of files for them to type and some would say How about I do these another day or I'd get them back (if at all) a week later. Several claimed to be CMTs. We started people at a lower rate until they came off 100% QA and once they made their lines, they got a raise. The problem is that these were very easy accounts, it just doesn't get any easier. I had people who claimed to have 10 years of experience, yet their work was no better than a new grad (actually I had new grads who did better). What few remained never ever got their line requirements, some only doing less than 200 lines per day. The company decided with the shortage of people, to just let them go so at least something was getting done, and hire more. Ok, hired more. Guess what happened? During the low work periods we had too many people and the people who did their jobs had to try and get enough work.
Today was the last straw for me. We had one lady who was always disappearing for a few days. She would claim everything, terminally ill relatives, storms, phone issues, you name it. This time after her vacation, she disappeared for 9 days. No word, nothing. She was another one who only did 200 or less lines per day. I hired a replacement. She finally emails and said she didn't have the phone number of the company (guess her email was broke too) but she's ready to work again. I let her know we hired a replacement already. She calls the office clerk whining about family emergencies and gets her job back. Meanwhile, we have new people hired and mark my words, the work will run out again, punishing the good people.
I don't get it. I hire people, new grads, who are supposedly thrilled for the chance and then they quit because they didn't know it would take 4 hours a day to work part time. Or they don't show up at all. I try to explain to people this is a job, just like any job you get in your car and drive to. Out of 25-30 people, I might get 1-2 good ones.
I was raised you work for what you want, you don't expect it to get handed to you. Sure I could stop working, get on public assistance, and probably my health would improve...it's gone steadily downhill due to the long hours and 11 years without a vacation, 5 without two days in a row off. But what would I be teaching my children? One of my sons is still in school but got a job in fast food. He is such a hard worker, he's already gotten a raise and he's only been there 3 weeks. He is the one they ask to fill in when others don't show up, he is the one who stays over to help the manager of a night because nobody would stay. Another son is studying in a foreign country on a scholarship right now because he worked so hard in college. He'll go far and somebody out there will resent him, thinking he had everything handed to him. Well he didn't. He worked and earned everything he got, with little help from me because I didn't have it to give. My 14-year-old daughter is nearly blind from RP and she's already asking me if I will sign the papers so she can get a job.
So here I am depressed and once again looking for a job.
I quit twice. Both times for the same reason...low/no work. nm
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I quit Spheris last year for that very reason, it's not you SM
so dont get down on yourself.
I am not slow, and there is no reason to attack me. Simple math says that if you sm
can type 300 lines per hour @ 9-10 cpl versus 6.5 cpl, which place would you go? If you cannot figure THAT one out, perhaps it is not me who is slow.
Thought TX was "at will" employment?? or fire/quit immediately w/o reason
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I would stick it out, most places are slow now through the end of the year every year (nm)
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Agree on the dream world. Here's a short list of places that have
A Better Type - new company? Out of Washington, has an ad on the other jobs board. Alphabest - up to 11, must use Bytescribe or a specific foot pedal. Ascend - on whatever account used MediTech Direct. B-I-G Enterprises - possible 9 to 11. Digital Transcription - Arkansas, Olympus software only. (People are testing here now and saying the test is atrocious.) First Choice - 10 to 11 on weekends, use FTP and Word, no software. Get Back Jack - need own LD and Cphone. Paladin Retrieval - 10 to 11 on weekends, need own LD and Lanier. Superior Global (not Global out of Texas) - 9 to 11 cpl on weekends. WebMedX - possible 10 to 11 on weekends or nights or maybe a combination? Don't know if this is situational based on experience or across the board.............NM
Yes, I agree, and this is also the reason
why the whole MTing profession is going down the drain.
Jumping directly and immediately - without actual on-the-job-training - from school graduate into the very competitive and fast-paced real workforce is overwhelming for newbies.
Really sad where people will readily list places they hated but not name places that are great.
What a wonderful, sharing group of people MTs are. :-(
I agree very slow
Emdat/Inscribe stinks! It takes me all day to get my lines. I find myself waiting for everything; the correct template, DOS, patient, referring physician and everything is a separate screen that you have to enter info into one after antoher. Not like you can just enter the demographic info in one big swoop.
Agree, but all the more reason for these hospitals (sm)
to clean up their acts wherever they can, i.e., banning cell phone dictating!
I agree. There is a reason why companies ask this question - SM
Most good companies will ask you this question so that they can place you an account that is a good match for you and one that you will enjoy. Why does this irritate you??? You should be happy that they want to make sure to match you up with a good account. Would you rather they not ask and place you on an account that you hate? I would get over it.
I agree. I think the reason why people crab about not
just as with many other companies, TT has trouble trying to hire for overnight, 2nd, 3rd shifts, and weekends. People want day, so TT hires them for day. But it is a 24-hour 7 day business and the docs generally dictate in the afternoon or late evening for the work they did that day and for the preadmissions for the next day, or emergencies. A long time ago when I worked in house I realized that working a different shift than everyone else would benefit me pay-wise, and work-wise, and now since I am at home, TT has worked with me to have a great schedule. Why great? I am flexible enough to work when other people are not willing to work, and TT appreciates that so in return they allow me to split my time working so I do have time to be with my family. The MTs who want day and only day, no weekends, etc. I am not blaming them, but that is where the work is eaten up by everyone else not willing to flex. Any company whether IC, SE, or Employee will have the same problem. Sorry such a long note, but I have not run out of work at the odd hours, and I don't believe that I will.
I agree. Have people not learned its always slow after a holiday?!
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I have to agree. My MTSO has had a lot of days recently of slow to no work but there is no way I'
jump from the frying pan into the fire. I can't afford to take a chance. Thanks for sharing your situation.
Gotta agree -- YOG was the best! Great pay, good benefits. I quit sm
the moment I heard she had sold to MQ .. ugh.
Depends on the account. Work on VR lately has been slow. Just like all companies, we have slow times
Honestly though, I have only had 2-3 times in the past 2 years where it was like the other day...no work... It did pick up later but I just think it's important not to make someone think we're overloaded with work all the time. That would not be fair to them if they end up with high expectations.
I just quit Medquist, hired by Etrans and quit them after one afternoon during the last two weeks!sm
Medquist made me buy a new computer to go to the "Docuscribe" system that was so much better than cottage. When I got there I took a real big pay cut to the tune of probably 30 to 40%. I was getting paid gross lines doing Cedars-Sinai operative reports. I asked for more per line and my supervisor just laughed and said you think were going to pay you $0.12 a line to just do operative reports! I said I quit. I should have said F you and your mamma too:( I had been there all together 7 years through buyouts. I am just sick of it all. I'm going to go sew my daughter a cute little Halloween outfit right now.
No - it is not always slow! Depends on the company and hospital. I have never been slow this time
Slow time is usually in September when everyone is back to work/school from the summer months.
Been doing this 24 years and never slow this time of year. Actually, I am drowning in work - can't keep up.
You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.
No one HAS to employ you. No one MUST keep you in employment.
As an IC, your unemployment isn't coming from the account of your contracts! It comes from YOUR tax payments!
Been both places
I would say you won't better yourself. Of the 2, I'd choose Spheris but I'm not still there either. 
Could you tell me the better places?
What companies are there, if you don't mind, in case I have to look. THANKS!
Most places like you to have in the mid-90s at least. Sorry. nm
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Some places will let you do Fri., Sat., Sun. Never saw
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There are other places that pay well.....
I'm SE and 9.5 cpl with 6.5 years of experience.
I have done it several places sm
I love TransTech, I MEAN I REALLY LOVE IT. I am IN love with MT again.
places to go
I know several of us have gone to Encompass, Keystrokes, Webmedx, to memtion a few.
places, places
sorry i got kids screaming at me right now. Thought I better correct it before one of the high and mighties say something.
no more than other places
and it would depend on the account. As in most cases, I have found that after doing the account for a while and getting used to the dictators, there will only be a handful that really continue to be difficult each time you get them, when you sigh because you know it's going to lower your line count.
Maybe you should look other places for
companies rather than just ONE single board. There are MANY companies out there who don't post ads here, and many who don't post ads at all.
Actually, that is cheap. Most places much more. nm
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No, there a lot of places that have two divisions.
I just don't think you see it much in transcription companies. I love the small company feel of MDI.
This is going places it never should be, all over a comma. nm
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Few places inside...sm
Dial up: First Choice, Spheris, Precyse only if 37K or faster, and SoftScript.
Satellite allowed: Precyse, TRS, Opti-Script, WebMedX, Probity, and MQ. nm
Here's a few places that have been mentioned..sm..
Accuscribe, DSG, Echo Sten-Tel, Execuscribe (just started using it recently), InTouchMI, MQ, and VanBelkum.
Don't know about Good places, but here are a
DeVenture, MedGarde (supposed to be not goodl), Meditech in Georgia, MTS in Mass., NEMT, Nicholas Transcription of New Hampshire (but no pay until the client pays them!), Opti-Script in Penn, and QED. I do not know if these places are currently paying weekly - other than DeVenture - only that they have in the past. Good luck!
Is everything getting counted the same way? Many places don't
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places to work
Hey, just a shout out to all. Of these companies who are the best to work for. Transolutions, Webmedx, Axolotl or DSG. Anything you have to say about line rate, benefits and equipment provided would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Do any of these places have enough work any more?
Seems like all of the big companies are low on work any more. What gives? How are we supposed to make a living?
Radiology places??
Where to go for great radiology transcription jobs?? I am seeing 6.5 cents to 9 cents a line... i see .75 to $1.15 per job. Things are not like it used to be when you see per job. That is hard when you run out of work as I just left a place that ran out of work paying per report. Any suggestions where to apply?
Two great places
Transcend and Diskriter. Awesome places to work; no drama, no BS, no broken promises.
I've had two places tell me no
I'm not 100% sure, though. I was told I had to have 2003.
Do you work for these 2 places?
I feel ya...ESLs slow me way down once in awhile too!
Sorry, I have worked several places and
never heard of getting a negative line count for a report. No way would I be working there.
I've done VR at 2 different places now....
Both places, I could see old reports and while I'm seeing all these old reports with ridiculous errors and some just downright mind-boggling, I'm seeing the same crap on my screen for me to fix.
So, I'm talking to my supervisor one day about going back to just regular old transcription and she says to me I've got girls doing 3000 plus lines per day on VR, you'll get there eventually. So I said, With good quality? She said yes, of course....I started looking for work right then. Now I come to my 2nd place with VR and I'm getting the same crap. I see these godawful mistakes and no one seems to care. I've pointed them out and have been told If the hospital doesn't complain, don't worry about it.
If I sit here and make these reports good quality, format-wise as well as content, I CANNOT double my line count and I've been doing this for over 10 years. If I just run through them like apparently every one else is doing, I might make some money....at least until someone complains....then I have no job.
I've since gone back to just plain old transcription. My wrists burn, but I'm happy and making money again. I wish you all the best of luck at 4 cpl, which seems to be the going rate. Good luck!!!!
I need to know which places offer VR only for
the Johnsons and Smiths. The place where I work has any and all on including the Jofannsens, Abuggula, Sharnif and the like. That would be a really dream job to have only the very easiest English. Not happening at my place.
Oh boy! You really put all of us in our respective places. I am humbled by your
Give me a break...
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