I am betting that is not where here head is stuffed (in the sand)!!!!
Posted By: betting girl on 2009-09-03
In Reply to: Do you enjoy living with your head buried in the sand? - FrustratedMT
I think it is somewhere else, different shade of brown.
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Head in sand?
Well let me know when the line stealing law suit pans out for you. It sounds like you are doing fine where ever you are now. I hope nobody ever tries stealing lines from me.
If that happened to me I would quit too because that would be the only reason I could think of that a company would take my lines. They must not want me to continue working for them.
Thanks for signing your post by the way.
Get your head out of the sand,,,,
We all know what is meant by an off shore man, just like an off shore company. And the problem I see, is these offshore men think they can come to our country and treat us women like they treat the women from their homeland. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Treat us with respect and consideration, not like paid slaves who are just here to serve you. The offshore men I have had business dealing with are lying manipulators. The only ones that have any morals are the ones that came here as small children and grew up here. When did your DH come to this country? Was he born and/or raised here or did he come here after he was grown up? Either way, I am sure you have experienced the same thing watching, if not DH, then other men from his family.
I think they stick their head in the sand
because they only think about their own well-being for the present minute. Wow! Golly Geez! Some company will hire me! They don't realize that by going with a company that offshores, they are participating in their own destruction. I am always amazed at how many people lack critical thinking skills.
Do you enjoy living with your head buried in the sand?
My wages in 2006 were $67,000. In 2007 they dropped to $52,000. 2008 fell to $45,000, and this year I will be lucky to break $40,000. This while working for the same company. How is anyone supposed to be happy about that? I am grateful in this ecomony that I still have a job, but to sit here working the same hours I always have and making $27,000 less a year, is disheartening, frustrating, if not just downright criminal on the part of companies who continually expect the same or more for less.
I don't know how any can call themselves an American and not be concerned with American jobs being sent overseas.
You really take the cake with your attitude. Just go back and stick your head in the sand where it belongs.
I'm betting a lot more than we know
I have 10 years with MedQ and just accepted a job with a small company. I start next week. It is a scary step (at least for me, I'm a wuss) but I just couldn't go on with them anymore.
I worked part-time for another national last year and it was night and day difference between them and MedQ as far as their treatment of employees, but I wasn't making enough money. Now, with the cuts in everything, it was about the same money, however, this time I went with an even smaller company with clearly defined and seemingly achievable bonus parameters. Change is hard, but I want to take a chance with another company just so I can tell myself I tried.
Just wanted to say good luck to you! I know there are companies out there that care!
I'm betting...
it's account specific then because when I hired on, I was told 1000/day for 10,000/payperiod for FT and PT of 700/day or 7000/payperiod.
I think they are betting the MTs with higher rates of pay (sm)
will get the heck out of there and then all the new ones that are hired in will be at the lower rates. Kind of like filtering out the older employees who are close to retirement and top of the pay scale.
Hope I am wrong, but....
Yes - a whistle. Betting they won't call again.
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Heads in sand
You know, I'm always amazed at what people say and what they apparently believe. I've been told more than once that I only see in black and white. Well, maybe I do, but I'm seldom wrong about anything. I've said for years that people with a long way to go to retirement had better rethink the MT field because MTs will go back to where I started, minimum wage. Well...actually I started before there was a minimum wage. All one has to do is read the handwriting on the wall and it's usually written in black and white. It isn't just MTs either, it's the whole U.S. work force. They're screwed. 
Pound sand
Tee HEe
go over the supers head to the head of operations. sm
Any STM that does not reply to her people is a jerk and the head of operations needs to know.
If you like ESL, head on.
Good luck.
So sorry - I wish the head of QA at my co.
.
Right over her head.
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I would go over STM's head, I do not SM
think you were told the truth at all.
thank you, it went over my head, but do you think
we would all lose our jobs if we go ahead with something like this - all MTSOs have to do is do 100% overseas outsourcing rather than 50% or whatever they do now.
in other words, what the union even told my partner at his job at their last contract negotiation, you can just all be replaced...
what happens then because I am not young enough to really do through that in my life right now...
can you tell us more
You hit it on the head, and while I am
at it, NEVER download an upgrade to that platform for at least 2 months. The fixes have more errors and problems than the original program.
Just goes to show, like my father told me, never buy your own building for a business. You fall in love with it because you own it, but when you need to change or move to keep up with the times, you are stuck with something that is dead-end. Seems Transcend put all their eggs in one basket with that lousy program and expect everyone else to fall in love with it the way they have. It certainly takes more time than any program I have ever seen to complete the demographic data part and of course you are not paid for that. Then you get the stop signs, the lost jobs, server error, and on and on and on. Good thing those Indians love it since that is probably 50% or more of their work force by now.
I think you ought to go over their head!
I've done MT and QA and there's a way to give constructive criticism and there is a way NOT to. There's no excuse to be rude or to talk to an MT as if they are a child or a moron! If it just happened once, I might advise you to chalk it up to them just having a bad day and taking it out on you, but from your comments, it sounds habitual. I hope you can get it worked out. Save their emails so you can show it to whoever is above them to back yourself up!
If you have to, go over their head
Being complicit with cherry-pickers in my opinion is favoritism and is wrong. Go to the CEO if you have to. A team lead who lets cherry-pickers get away with it is even worse.
Wow, it isn't just in my head
Thanks for saying exactly what I have been through the last several years with that company. They are trying to start the games up again, and I am sooo tired of playing them. I really do just want to work and get paid a decently for it, but they make that impossible. Of course to hear someone there tell it, I should be producing 600-plus lph like she does at the same company...
Never head of them, but....SM
DSL is high speed, so they definitely don't sound to knowledgeable! LOL
You hit the nail on the head. They get what they pay for!!
I will all come back to haunt them!
What are we looking at?? Just a head on a soapbox??
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You hit the nail on the head
Unfortunately for the remote MTs, a lot of areas around the country hire very few, if none at all, in-house MTs anymore. Most of the work is done by services. It seems that everyone is trying to cut down their own overhead. The hospitals/clinics by outsourcing to services, and the services by cutting rates and benefits. It all trickles down to the MT who takes the brunt of the cuts, but who is also expected to give back the most. It's really no wonder the morale in this profession is so low. That alone will affect the ability to hire skilled, experienced (more than 10 years) MTs. Maybe I'm alone in my thinking, but it seems like it will breed a whole new generation of MTs that will hold the idea that they will give what they get. And in a way, I can't blame them.
Oh come ON! She lied her head off. sm
She lied on the boards right up to the minute the electronic e-mail came out that said she had sold the business. Good gracious, some people have a short memory. And when she was in the process of selling, she was send out e-mails saying how sick she was of all her MTs and talked about their K-Mart clothes and Kathie Lee hair. I remember those e-mails being posted. Pretty bad. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE.
You hit the nail exactly on the head!
I did write in my contract not to ever call into my system with a cell phone. The dictation was as clear as a bell. Now I am working for another service that sucks, garbled doctors putting their phones on the desk while they shuffle through films.... gads....
Head spinning
I am pullling my hair out trying to figure out pros and cons of the numerous companies that are out there. I have read through numerous posts and have found them very helpful.
But, I have a few questions:
Has anyone heard of NorthWest Mediscript? I think it is local to my area (Pacific Northwest).
I hear LOTS of good info on Transhealth. Anyone have anything to add to this?
I have seen very little comments regarding Webmedx or Windrix. Any thoughts or comments?
Basically on these companies what is your opinion on how you have been treated? Did you have plenty of work? How did you like the platforms? Were they flexible in terms of hours? Were you bounced around from account to account and doctor to doctor or were you allowed to stick with a certain few and familiarize yourself with them so that you could become proficient at them?
Feel free to email me with any info. Any pro or con would be greatly appreciated.
I think I will soon be taking the plunge and diving in and just start contacting companies that I have narrowed it down to.
I tell you what, the mass of choices makes my head spin.
You hit the nail on the head (sm)
about the location factor. If I lived in Kentucky or something, this would be decent pay. But I don't, I live in San Francisco. Of course, the answer that comes immediately to mind is, Then move! But I've lived here forever, and this is where my life is. I have many friends who left SF for other parts of the country, including CO, TX, NY, MI, GA, etc., and they were all miserable and came back. Once you've lived in SF, it's hard to leave because this place is so unique. Unfortunately, too many other people feel the same way, and housing is insane. The cheapest you can get is maybe a run-down studio condo, and that will run you about $300,000. A house? Forget it - half a million to 3/4 of a million. A friend who is currently house-hunting just looked at a place for a half-mil. that had rats in the kitchen and on the back porch, and mold on the ceiling.
ANYWAY, yes - I forgot to include in my original post that I wish MT companies would adjust salary for location, but then they'd probably never want to hire people who live in CA!
You hit the nail on the head...
we MTs work longer and longer hours for far less money. Nowadays, if I pay my rent, phone bill and car insurance, I'm left with about $20 to eat on for TWO WEEKS. I stopped heating my apt., and I guess the next thing to go will be my health insurance.
LOL... you hit the nail on the head
w/ that! Yep she told me that same phrase hit the ground running. She is a complete fruitcake, believe me. I have all the emails to prove just how inconsistent she is. I am so glad it didn't work out because she has very unrealistic ideals/expectations.
You hit the nail on the head, especially...
when you noted that companies and/or their representatives pose as MTs. I, myself, have been a victim of that. I was very naive and had no idea that grown mature people actually do this. I had inquired about good companies to work for and an employee praised her company up and down, how it was the best job she ever had, would never leave, excellent benefits etc.. She told me to contact her supervisor about this great opportunity. Well, come to find out this great employee and her supervisor a.k.a. recruiter are one and the same, and as far as I know she is still doing that. She gets people sucked in by this praising employee. When I talked to actual employees they stated what a nut job she was etc.. Well, I could not disagree with that as all I could think of is,how could someone do something so deceitful even worse you have to worry WHY they would do that..and I guess it is obvious. If people heard the real truth, then they would not apply there. I think the bottom line is.. at least for me, I take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt. Some people love their jobs and some do not, regardless if the job is good or not. It is all subjective. Some of us have bad days when we are burned out on the profession and do not want to work PERIOD. Others are oblivious and are just happy to be alive so throw them a little extra cash and they are happy. We all come from different backgrounds, personally and professionally. At different times in my life, I would have stressed out about being offered 8 cpl because I needed more money as a single parent. Now, 8 cpl is fine because I am more financially secure. You just have to find your own fit in whatever matters to you..more money or maybe flexibility or perhaps good benefits. We all need something that one company may not be able to accommodate and thus we move on, some more bitter than others.  Sorry for the rambling. I really just wanted to comment on that YES people are deceitful on here so you have to make your own choices and just keep in mind you really do not know whom you are talking to so dont believe everything you hear and there are two sides to every story. I have worked with transcriptionists that were so awful it was unreal. When they were fired, they blamed everyone else and how terrible the supervisor was etc..Those employees no doubt tell everyone who will listen what an awful place to work that is. Yes, I would find them awful too if they expected SOME quality.. NOT..Just goes to show....to each his own perception.
You hit the nail on the head. sm
We ARE working for nothing and who wants to do that if you can make more at Wal-Mart and not have to kill yourself doing it? Not enough qualified MTs, my behind. There are plenty, many have just been forced out of the field by poverty wages that won't feed the family!
No wonder their head of HR resigned.
They are dropping like flies.
Lets see, the recruiter and now head of HR - in a month. two big positions....
I think you hit the nail on the head
too many have MT'ing as a hobby/vanity job...pocket change for the little woman...and no offense to those of you who are lucky enough to have the hubby that pays the bills (boy I wish mine did!!!) but it does create the illusion that this job can be done by anyone and should be paid as such.
Understood - i'd go over her head. SM
I agree that different STMs manage their work differently but I'd sure talk to someone higher up. There's no reason for one MT to run out when others are inundated.
Hit the nail right on the head
They are going to VBC. This not only impacts our line counts but how they calculate our holidays and vacation pay as well.
Waiting to hear from my account manager as to what kind of line rate they are going to be offering me before I make any decisions.
Has anyone had this conversation yet?
My reply went WAY over your head...sm
I know ALL about laughter. Lighten up hun, and
SMILE! It improves your (maybe) face value. hehe
Hit my head and now I am wiser!
I was offered an IC job, which I turned down because as I explained to them, if I am going to commit to over 12,000 per pay, I would like to be an employee. They agreed and asked if I could be an IC for one week and start employment on 06/30. Well, I have been working as an IC for nearly a week for them. I have not seen any employment papers or IC paperwork. I simply turned off their software until further notice. I get the feeling when Monday roll around, it will be a different story and I would have helped them clear up a lot of ESLs and other work that is behind. I will not work anymore for them until I see some kind of paper work. I do not even have a logon ID, have not filled out any kind of paper work, etc.
You hit the nail on the head...
They used to be a great company to work for. Until a few months ago when they got GREEDY. Keep running.
You hit the nail on the head.
They are weeding out anybody no doubt that passed but might be a bit upset when they are told everyone starts out at 8 cpl - no exceptions. Keep looking and you will find a company that thinks experience and good work ethic means something. Good luck.
Hit the nail on the head!!!!
I have been preaching this for years. This is so very logical. Why should we be forced to LOSE money. Also, these companies who call us ICs have the nerve enough to get angry when we don't want to waste our time doing crappy dictators telling us that everyone has to do them. No, you let the people who are paid hourly do them, and if it takes 2 hours to do a 2-min dictation, who cares, the MT is not losing money, and the work is being done still.
Hit the nail on the head--thanks!
...can suck the energy right out of you, distract you from your job...
I can understand if an owner, or anyone else, is under pressure and occasionally has a bad day, but when it becomes the rule rather than the exception, it's time for the basher or the bashee to move on.
If I'm making frequent or careless mistakes, I should expect someone to get cranky about it. Maybe it's carelessness, but it could also be a misunderstanding of a procedure or even a glitch in their program.
To assume carelessness and come down on someone like a ton of bricks for an isolated mistake is unwarranted and demoralizing.
I found myself in such a situation recently and spent way too much time responding to the email, after I peeled myself off the ceiling, mostly trying to tone it down several notches from take this job and shove it.
After several re-writes, I managed simply to point out the glitch in their system and say that I welcomed feedback on recurrent or careless mistakes, if that were truly the case.
In the meantime, I have stepped up my search for another job. I should really be grateful for this proverbial last straw as a motivator not to keep avoiding the dreaded job search for a better fit and trying not to go from the frying pan into the fire.
I'm trusting that time will sort things out. If I'm careless and over-sensitive, I won't be able to keep a job. If an owner or supervisor is unreasonable and under-sensitive, they won't be able to keep workers and clients.
EXACTLY! You hit the nail on the head...(sm)
People say things on this board they would never say to someone's face. They can hide behind their keyboard and type out the nastiest stuff a person can say to someone. But communicating with them face to face is much better because everyone is nice then and you can actually find common ground. So it's just this board and the fact that they can hide and no one can see them, is the reason things get so nasty on here.
Well, ya hit THAT nail right on the head!
I was thinking that...What's the difference if I'm sitting my backside in Rome or Paris or London, when over in India they're cranking out the reports? I wonder if any special provisions would need to be made for the platform or anything.
Hmmmm....
Hit the nail on the head
Transtech unfortunately has a lot of MTs who don't do VR who also do not follow the account specifics. I don't know if they are ever given feedback on their mistakes but I would see the same mistakes over and over again. Some of the quality at Transtech is bad and frankly I did leave Transtech because I never received feedback or audits or anything like that after I was released from QA and I worked there for 3 years. I enjoyed working at the company but I would rather be audited so I will know how I am doing, it may sound strange but true.
You hit the nail on the head.
It's what I said all along. There isn't a shortage of skilled, qualified American MTs. There is a shortage of American MTs who are willing to work whenever/however for what little is being offered. Have you ever looked at the job classification of a medical transcriptionist? It falls under the category of administrative/clerical. It DOES NOT fall under the category of clinical.
In the pre-NAFTA days, the weekend transcription was covered on a rotating basis and there was NEVER a problem getting coverage because coverage was paid at a higher rate. New hires often worked weekends and would earn the seniority to work Monday through Friday, the same as all the other hospital administrative staff. I worked as a transcription manager for years in different hospitals. I never had a problem getting coverage when we had a fully functional transcription department. It was when the work started being shipped offshore in an effort to save money that things started to break down. In fact, if you look at most hospitals that still have in-house transcription, the ONLY work that is outsourced to MTSOs is the overflow work and weekend work.
The MTSOs are the middle men. They stepped in an gobbled up all the independent MTs clients. They are getting the pay that the independent MT used to get. The owners of the MTSO don't work on weekends. The clerical staff of the MTSOs don't work on weekends. But the MTSOs charge the client a much higher rate than what the MTs are being paid...AND they expect the MT to conform to the changes to cover all the promises they make to the clients in order to keep business and be competitive while consistently dropping the rates they are willing to pay the MTs. So, when you squawk about not being able to find American MTs willing to be flexible about their shifts or their workdays, you are forgetting that it is the MTSOs who made this industry the way it is today and it is the hospital/clinic administration looking out for the bottom dollar that have used NAFTA to undercut the MT profession.
The real problem coming into play here is the fact that when clients started using offshore outsourcing they started changing the direction the medical transcription industry was headed. The MTs just worked their jobs and handled their responsibilities with professionalism...until they started seeing their jobs disappear and whole transcription departments disappear. They were FORCED to work for MTSOs and MTSOs could name their terms. Now that clients are starting to see that offshore outsourcing doesn't deliver the same quality, they're requesting domestic transcription again. Now the MTSOs are running into the problem of finding domestic MTs willing to conform to all the demands and changes that the clients/MTSOs created for the LOW RATE that is being offered.
Your last sentence was extremely offensive to many, many skilled professional MTs who have put in years of training, education, and experience to their field. Their knowledge and skill qualifies them as MTs, NOT the fact that they are willing or not willing to conform to the needs of the MTSO. The MTSOs made their beds, now let them lie in it and stop blaming the MTs for the direction this industry has turned. This isn't India. The cost of living here is much higher and it's an insult to experienced MTs to offer them pennies higher than what the offshores are making and expect the same devotion that used to be given in the pre-NAFTA days. It all boils down to what I said in the beginning. There isn't a shortage of American MTs, there is a shortage of American MTs not willing to drop their standards of pay and quality or sacrifice their family life for what little the MTSOs are offering. The MTSOs and clients are starting to reap the consequences of NAFTA. Just quit blaming the American MTs for wanting to keep what they had in the first place.
I think you hit the nail on the head (sm)
She is an unhappy Transcriptionist who works every weekend, does not do anything else by transcribe and tries to stir the pot. And because she does it, she thinks everyone else should. She does not want anyone to have a life. Just feel sorry for her.
Hit the nail on the head
You are absolutely right, the company allowed a knucklehead to take over and run the company for them, Ms. Brenda Finn. She might as well own it, and although the owner is a sweet nice person, she has given up on getting involved in her company altogether. Ms. Brenda Finn doesn't like me, guess I don't kiss up to her enough, so yes, she would have played a big part in the whole ordeal! Funny part of this situation is the fraudulent resignation was written for me 2 days after I contacted the VP with proof that 2 MTs had access to assign and unassign work that they chose not to type until it landed on me who had no choice but to type it. It gets better, one of the MTs is the daughter of Ms. Brenda Finn.
You hit the nail on the head.
When I first started VR, there was plenty of work; in fact, always above and beyond the lines expected. Then I started noticing the work getting slower, pays going down, and now a tooth-and-nail fight for work lately....but let's not forget, the hospitals are loving it, just as much as TT management.
You hit the nail on the head - thanks!
It all be summed up as simply as that! 
It would seem the only point you have is on your head. sm
The only thing you have shown is that you an anal retentive with nothing better to do than pick apart things that do not make any difference. Rather look at the content of the person's post, you chose to pick at grammar, spelling, etc. I sincerely doubt that a person's grammar errors or whatever in a post indicate the type of Transcriptionist that person is on the job. HOWEVER, your posts speak volumes about the type of person you are, and you are certainly no one I would want to work with in any capacity.
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