I agree...not all bad. Initially was very excited about working for them.
Posted By: Ex-Spheris on 2005-10-23
In Reply to: Shorthand is a very easy expander program to import dictionaries into. - SH import/export feature
As far as the Shorthand program, I don't know - could just be my particular program. All I know is it cost me a lot of time adding in just the basics of what I needed.
Management couldn't have been better, and communication was there, but that only goes so far.
I was also off QA after a week, but I would rather not have been. I was pretty unsure about a lot of things regarding account specifics that were unclear, so I sent a lot of reports to QA anyway. For the most part QA was reasonable, but there were some things that I thought were not. Just one example that has stuck with me: The doc said, She gets her meds from (s/l) parcel (I thought, as in parcel post). Then I thought it might be a drugstore named Parcell/Parsell. I also thought it might be some type of state program where they paid for meds in part, as in partial. So I went searching account specs for parcel/partial, and didn't find anything - ended up leaving a blank. Well, when I got my QA back, I was told it was Parshall - it's on the account specs - and I should have found it. Lo and behold, it was there ok - on the cities list! After that, I wasted even more time searching account specifics, second-guessing myself, afraid I would miss something, fretting over the most minute things that had nothing to do with patient care whatsoever. I should have felt free to leave a blank after searching the first time and wait for QA feedback, but because of the example above, I didn't.
I finally got a grip and quit, and I'll never put myself in a position like that again.
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They may initially find a way to sell us down.....sm
the river BUT the real issue is that MTSOs jump on any and every chance they can to cheat the MT. It IS, after all, all about $$$ and whose pocket they are in!
I agree! I was very unhappy working for them.
You ought to get your resume polished up and look elsewhere. Lots of better MT positions out there!!
Agree...before working in MT I applied
for a certain position and it was 3 months before I was called in to interview for it. I did not panic, nor did I call the company and bug them about it. I went on with my life. When they called, I went in and interviewed and was hired because I really wanted the job and the pay was excellent. Sometimes it just takes time.
I agree - tired of working for nothing
Considering leaving the field all together
to USE it, sorry, I am excited now...nm
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Excited
Just finished training, they are extremelly thorough!!! I am thrilled to be starting with a company that is a "TEAM"
LOL - That's too bad. I was about to get really excited about that. :-)
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I was all excited...
when I applied and they asked me to test just this past week. I was in the process of logging onto their testing site and ready to download the test/voice files and it would not download for me because I have Word XP Home Edition. You have to have the Pro Edition. Darn it anyway!
I'm SO excited!!!
Fed Ex just left after delivering my system and equipment for TransTech, which now makes me an official TT'er. I'm SOOOOOO excited to be on board with them after the great things I've read here.
(Yes, I am prepared for someone to trash TT in response and attempt to rain on my parade, but the attempt will be be futile cuz I'm totally jazzed to be on board with them!!!  )
Sure do agree with you WORKING women set a good example for kids and
SCHOOL and DAY CARE never replace a mother. A 2 person family with a stay at home mom does not make a great kid. I see messed up kids from stay at home families all the time, the wealthier they are sometimes, the more entitled and into alcohol and drugs the kids turn out. A child sees the mother providing for them and it makes them feel loved and secure. I do not want my daughter to be a stay at home mom. I was her to have a career and to always have confidence and to be able to support her family whether there is a husband or not. Not all husbands make enough to keep a family going. Some people are just very narrow minded.
I am totally excited!
I can't wait to get my packet to see what this is all about. I will not be leaving MQ.
Whooohoooo!!! I am excited!
 Thank you so much!
Thanks. I'm nervous and excited. nm
I was just hired, too. I am very excited.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that this gal is EXCITED about her
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Correction: Don't get all excited now...they are NOT paying at least 8 cpl.
I agree. I was thanked for working extra the end of last week and told of some MTs on my job type
who were out due to illness or vacation and that we were getting behind. Same as the message this morning....the minutes were building up. Seems things are a bit desperate at this point and we all just need to quit trying to read into the situation and pitch in and get the work back under control. OUR company needs OUR help, and we need to pitch in 200% or we may very well find ourselves without an account to work on. I don't think it was a threat this morning - I think it could happen.
I kinda agree. I enjoy working at TT, but this kind of "overkill" is why people sm
get tired of us talking so much on here. Every place I have ever worked has always paid early if the pay day fell on a holiday. Granted, they do not have to, and it is a nice and considerate thing to do, but hardly so much so as to make me want to burst into a chorus of Go Tell It On the Mountain. lol
excited in a scared hopeless kinda way
Okay.. It is just so unusual to see anyone on this board so excited to hear about a new job.. Maybe
we've all just become too cynical. They must be newbies though. Boy oh boy has the newness of jobs wore off. I have been looking but I just never get that excited. I just think, oh, I just hope this one is better than the last bad experience. It is hard not to get cynical sometimes, isnt it? We all just want a place to call home and there is just so much disappointment out there. I was impressed that they were so excited and couldnt wait to here from PMSI.. oh well back to my drawing board. I guess time will tell if it is everything they were hoping for.
I may have a job near my home with full benefits. I'm so happy and excited. sm
I'm the one that had been having so many problems and heart ache with these companies I was trying. I quit MQ about three weeks ago and I have been through one company and others that seemed to be not too good. I may have a job for $25/hr with full benefits near my home. I am just hoping and praying that this will be the job for me. I have to drive a ways but at least I think I will get along with the supervisor. She seems so nice. I am so excited. Hopefully it does not fall through:(
Show of hands: Who at MQ is excited its finally OCTOBER?
 Packet time and for many, Big Decision time...
Yep. couldnt tell you excited we were to find out why we dont hardly have any work. Obviously, it is
going elsewhere and so are we.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
working from home is awesome but working for DSG is not...
horrible dictators, sound quality is bad, no answers to emails and they run out of work consistently...that is just my experience though...
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
So how is that working out for you?
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Really? I'm working, too.
However, I'm working at the part-time job I was forced to get as soon as I figured out Transcend was screwing me. I have nearly 1,800 lines in so far today. How many do you have?
Are you still working for them? LOL
If you are, why don't you take your own advice -- leave. You're no victim except of yourself.
If you're not working for them, what's it to you? We're all adults.
Whether or not a company is "good" or "bad" (such juvenille generalizations, lol) is a matter of perspective and there are PLENTY of us who don't share your views.
Are you working for them now?
I just interviewed with them yesterday and have not heard back. Are you working for them now? How is that working out for you? Are you happy? Thanks
working
I, too have worked for other services. I think Transcend is excellent. You can make as much or as little as you want. I agree with you everyone is very nice and helpful and easy to talk to and most helpful. I have a different job at Transcend now and I think that very much, but I also transcribe whenever I get a chance.
are you still working for them?
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I liked working for them but there
wasn't enough work on the 2 accounts that I was on to justify the fee for leasing the equip and I don't make enough yet to make purchases like dictaphone, lanier, etc. they always pay on time and CORRECTLY! if I ever purchase equipment like that I'll definitely be contacting them again.
And how would you know who is working and
I sure don't!
She could have another job and working before she would even
begin to qualify for unemployment. Why put herself through that anguish. She should resign and move on. She'd have a job in one day it is my guess. Unemployment should not even be an issue here. Most people can find jobs in this business very easily.
Who are you working for now? nm
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Yes, it's working now.
NM
I am not working for them anyway, so
PTS Dictation in Florida. They said that they only get 8 cpl, and that is why they only pay 6 cpl, and yes based upon a 65 character line. That is not my problem they don't get paid like they should. I don't work for anything less than 8 cpl.
Working for nothing
You must not be in desperate need for making any kind of money because that company paid me terrible! $4.25 per 1,000 words. I can make more money working at McDonald's flipping hamburgers!!
Not a good company to work for! Would not recommend it to anybody!
been working with them 5 yrs now - sm
owner is not very organized and was getting paid 15th and end of month but she has stretched it out to every 3 weeks now but accounts are SUPERB and once you get past the disorganization they pretty much leave you alone to work.
Oh like you are working....
If you have to keep replying obviously you are unemployed. I am not bashing anyone. You are a few others are the only ones calling people names. I never called you a name but you called me a loser. And I do think it is funny, no hilarious, because you so angry and frustrated? Do like the above poster said, take a pill!!
I don't know what you mean - it's working for me. nm
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I have been working for them for 6----
months. They are very nice people. Pay is on time. Good communication. QA is excellent. I am happy with them. If you have any more questions you may email me.
Still, would be like working for nothing....
I like what I do for a living but not that much!
You must be one of the ones let go for not working??!!
I know we do have a few sour employees who chose not do complete their files within TAT and thought they could just keep going. So yes, i'm sure they are angry they got fired and they will be angry at the next company that fires them for the same thing. Sad, really!
For those working for OSI...
How do you like it? I am considering doing their mentoring program, but it says you have to commit to a year full time following mentoring training. What is their scheduling like? Is there always a weekend day included? Is it set hours every day? Is the pay pretty good? How about the accounts and platform?
I'm sure there is info out there on them, but trying to search this forum is frustrating. I don't want to see messages from two years ago!
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light so that I can see if this is a worthwhile investment to make (in having to commit to a year full time).
For anyone working for QED...sm
Would someone currently working for QED please e-mail me? TIA
not working
Are you working actively, i mean right now, at Transtech. I too have been there a while and they are an okay company but for the last 6 months or so the work has been little to nil and I am thinking about moving around but at this moment I really would not recommend them.
not working
I think MT should be pain for downtime because 9 times out of 10 you are still sitting at your computer waiting for jobs/work to come in so technically you are still on the job. Another thing is that I hear make up your lines and/or your time but in my opinion I think the employer should compensate the MTs some kind of way instead of expecting the MTs to make up time because as stated earlier the MT was sitting at the desk waiting for the work to come in but if its not there how can it be done. Over the last few months I have tried to look at it both ways because my company has had very little to no work coming through for me. I don't hold my employer accountable per se but I feel that my employer is not seeing it from both ends when I am told by my employer to make up your lines/time before the pay period is up because obviously the work is not there.
Myself - working for myself has been the best
     
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