I am the person that Sleepy MT referred to
Posted By: CTSufferer on 2009-08-13
In Reply to: I Know a Little - Sleepy MT
I work for On Time. I worked with Sleepy MT at the same company that was taken over by On Time. As far as the foot pedal, you can use on but they don't recommend it. They use F1, F2, F3 keys to stop, start and rewind. It took some getting used to but is okay. I still prefer the foot pedal though. I do neurology for 4 companies and there have been only a few times that there wasn't work but getting my line quota in is difficult on most days. Part timers are required 500/day or 2500/week. Full time is 1000/day or 5000/week. I do full time and it is difficult to get my 1000 lines in a day since most documents are very short (follow ups, etc). I usually work 8 a.m. to at least 6 p.m. each day. Most work is not available until 9 or 10 unless it is left over from the day before. Like I said, there is work but it is slow most of the time. There is almost never any work on the weekends so if you are planning on doing this on the weekend, this probably isn't for you. I am not sure if they are hiring right now. The jobs posted on the web site have been there forever and I am not sure when they were last updated. As far as the e-mail not working, the person who was in charge (whose e-mail that is) retired and I don't know if they updated or not. I make 0.8 cpl but if it is a template that the doc pulls in, I only get 0.4 cpl. My supervisor is pretty nice but she just took over for my old one who wasn't so great (the old one took the retired person's job). Support is kind of iffy. I find a lot of typos in a lot of the templates. They are a production based company so accuracy is not a high priority for them which really bothers me a lot. Basically, they are an okay company to work for. I am looking for something else part time so I can move down to part time with this though. My hands are wearing out and it takes WAY too much time to get my quota in every day. If you have any more questions, you can e-mail me if you like. Hope this helps.
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Where'd my post go? I'm the ŕst person" referred to...
and I was only ASKING how she could be a CMT with only 8 months' experience! That's a legitimate question, I think, because the AAMT website clearly states that MTs must have a minimum of 2 years' acute care experience before testing for their CMT.
I realize a poster later confirmed this, but as my post has been deleted and referred to, I wanted to clarify what I actually said. My post was not insulting. I was asking a question. :-) Thanks-
Curious
They are well known and referred to
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It is great that you have referred
I have too, and I would suggest others to give them a call. They are a good company to work for and I have been very happy there.
I just referred my friend who was hired
no physical, don't know when they stopped it, background check yes - 2 weeks to hire date and benefits after 90 days. I work on 2 accounts and have no trouble at all making my lines. I have nothing bad to say about this company but everyone has their own experience.
All caps is referred to as shouting. Yes, I know of them...
I don't know about now, but a few years ago I worked for them and had a negative experience.
Not too worry.. I'm just feeling bad that I was probably the one who referred you to them LOL
Before we received the we're sharing our work with our partners speech, I was happily referring them and now I'm in the middle of taking another job. If that one works out and they dont offshore, I'll look you up LOL
The ones I referred to never worked for Keystrokes. sm
They worked for the hospital and then as ICs for the hospital. I did not mean to upset anyone. If you were a mother/daughter team at Keystrokes, and I think I know who as there were 3 and now only 1, then you were well-liked and appreciated. I know for a fact that the owner speaks very highly of all three of the mom/daughter teams, even the two who are gone, saying that she wished they were back.
These two MTs never worked there; they were from the hospital and had never worked anywhere else!
I would never intentionally offend anyone and certainly did not mean to do so by the post. The two who chased Keystrokes off the account were proud of it.
I have never heard ZyloMed referred to... sm
...as ZNF Transcription, although they are in Florida..
It was referred to as stealing in a conference call by mgrs. sm
Your equation doesn't always prove true if there is little work, if a person's primary account is an overflow account, or if it is the last few days of the pay period. If people are scrambling to get jobs on their shifts and someone else comes along who doesn't normally work that shift, but is just doing so out of convenience for themselves, they are taking lines from what little jobs there are from the people who abide by the rules and what they had been asked by management. This is most definitely stealing lines from fellow MLSs. Perhaps you have been fortunate enough to have a primary account that always has heavy volume, and that may account for why you had never been told this by management. But, a good share of accounts aren't like this, and this has repeatedly been addressed by management as a problem issue. If it wasn't a problem, upper management (Larry) would never have brought it up in conference calls and in email.
Not to be referred to as a "scribe" or "typist" or "typing pool." nm
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That referred to the MT's applying where I was a recruiter a few years back not to my current te
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I think it is one person. I had a few print outs from a few weeks ago and this person even capital
I have had a positive one. I have been with Keystrokes for 3 months and am very happy.
I printed them to show my manager but she told me that there are few bitter people out there and no one can do anything about them. My manager said that everyone can tell that it is the same few over and over again, for Keystrokes and a few other companies as well. Time to move on Ms. Anon. I cannot think why a company would go through the trouble of getting IDs and getting you installed just to ignore you after that. Doesn't make sense, does it? Are you sure that't the whole truth? You keep saying truth but it sounds fishy.
Exactly what I'm talking about RUDE! You are a very unhappy person. A happy person does not
respond in such a way! This is the reason SS has such a bad name.
I am not a hateful person but that person screamed at me for 45 minutes. sm
She said all transcriptionists are idiots.
Yes I know they hire part time because I referred someone there for part time.
They are internet based.
that person go.
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Since you are the person
who actually makes an offer to someone, you should have a method of following up with someone after a week or so to make sure that the new hire is up and running, especially after you have been notified that the new hire has returned all necessary paperwork. Your process sucks. period.
Cant you see that the person is already down?
Thats right kick them when they are down. Thats a great example. Get a life.
So they are the same person? nm
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The only way a person would need SM
to have nice people to work for and only communicate with nice people is if they are in need of something they should have within themselves. For me, my job is just something I do for 8 hours a day and whatever they have to say to me, fine, oh well. It doesn't reflect on me whether people are snippy or rude, I just ignore it and move on in life.
It's just work, business. Not my whole life.
Yep. It also looks like this person is just
wanting to hear good things and forget anything else. Just wanting to hear what they want to hear.
As a QA person myself, 13.50 is too low
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who was the person
Could you share the name or initials of the person. I would like to know if it is who is calling me too.
I really wonder if this person's--sm
initials begin with K and end with I, who used to post here and cause nothing but turmoil. Sure sounds like her.
Not the person above but SM
the person looking for the editors has made it a multi-board issue by posting on different boards telling people to go to the Job Seekers board to see what was posted there. That's the only way I'd know what was going on.
As far as he/she being run off the boards forever, oh well. Reputable companies post who they are and the conditions of employment. We had another semi-anonymous person get help from at least 1 person on this site recently and the MT was never paid. The MT has no way of contacting the person who owes the $ now.
QA person from, you now where!
Small company and owner is very nice, but the QA person was the absolute worst! Very insulting and humiliating. That is why I left.
I WONDER IF IT IS THE SAME PERSON
SHE WAS A TEAM LEAD WHO USED TO DO THAT, SHE WORKS AS MT AT ANOTHER COMPANY. DON'T KNOW ABOUT A SUPERVISOR BUT A TEAM LEAD USED TO DO THAT A LOT AND YOU KNOW THAT SHE KNEW THE SCHEDULES. THAT HAS BEEN A LONG LONG TIME AGO THOUGH.
Not the person above, but...
The pay is low and they don't pay for experience. Otherwise, they have plenty of work and are a very nice bunch of people.
well my tax person
said because i am in the 15% tax bracket, i should withhold that plus a little (my ss will be paid by employer). Figure 18% will do.
It happens with the job, not particularly the person as I well know.
in straight typing for the last 30 years at 3 different hospitals always made at least 2000 lines per day. Since outsourced now started at a company last summer and was getting around 1200-1300 a day, said no way and the work was not that hard. I changed jobs. Doing VR and straight now and averaging at least 3000 per day and very happy now. (By the way, with the low rates companies are paying, have to speed it up and go as fast as my fingers will take me in my 8 hr day to get that).
I don't think this is the same person. Please
be sure you are not trashing an innocent person with just a similarity in names. And the original poster is just ranting in generalities, but not same person you are jumping to conclusions on - not same name, and not same companies. Names are not the same as the person you are thinking of - just similar. 
If one more person says...
Offshoring has nothing to do with cutting costs, but is due to the fact that there are not enough qualified transcriptionists in the US I am going to SCREAM!!! The more I see these things the more it infuriates me!
Try again not the person you think
Wrong person that you are thinking of. Sad if this happened to yet another person, I mean there is my friend and then there is the person you are talking about. If management said they could come back they should stand by their word. You just added to my position that even you, who are defending them, know that they are doing that to others, or at least one other that you know of. Just sad. You know my friend almost had me convinced to leave my current company. I am so very glad I did not.
I don't think it is the same person but I bet they ALL do it.
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Are you the same person who...
always says, 'check the archives' whenever someone posts a question here? If so, I really wish you would stop it. If someone posts a question, there may be people here who are willing to answer, but you (in a way) close that opportunity for the person posing the question when you post things like this.
probably why the IT person was not much help, I don't
think they want to mess with another company's computer, nor the other company's programs, even though you were the author of that particular content.
If all fails - delet your list. why leave it for them?
looks like the only person
who has something nice to say about them has an Indian name.
You don't have one QA person, so while some are
tougher than others over a period of a week you are likely to have had them all. I believe them to be fair, they do try to post links that will help you, and you can dispute anything you don't believe is correct - not with QA, but with MT supervisor. They tend to be less lax if you continue to make the same mistakes and/or don't follow account specifics. I know of one account that is difficult because of a high percentage of ESL and one account that is difficult because the quality of the voice files is poor. I know one person who couldn't handle the high ESL account and another who says it really isn't so bad. If you produce quality work, work your schedule, etc. they seem to be willing to work with you to find a good fit.
There are some things I would change, but overall very pleased and plan to retire with them.
They do pay better than the majority of the other companies, benefits are much better than 99% of the other companies, I've never not had enough work and usually on OT most days. They do pay for down time. They don't offshore either.
You are a mean person.
dd
How to become a mean person
Mostly you need a personality disorder that makes it difficult for you to see anyone else's point of view of feel compassion for anyone who does not fit your pictures of how they should behave or ask. And you have to be willing to live a completely miserable life because bullying is the purview of cowards.
anyone know this person, ****
does anyone know of a ***** with tarheel transcription?
You know if this person cannot even
then that would be a red flag that most likely the work will be inconsistent as well as the pay. If this person has such a great team, then she would not have to post like this in such a disorganized manner.
I just read about this on the job seekers board, and it would seem to me that a simple job posting, and then having applicants follow simple test directions would have been a much better approach. Not all business owners have the best business ethics.
What do you do when a QA person
The feedback messages come across as rude. They send you corrections that don't make sense. How do you exist with someone like this? I've never been in this position until now. 
Am I being let go? How does a person know
without the company saying anything?
I think it has a lot to do with the person
I have been doing for past 35 years, 66 now and I do not notice a difference in my stamina. I do lots of VR so that helps the arms out some but when I started VR still had almost 32 years in transcribing, no problems.
You can't seriously think it's just one person...?
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Same person.....sm
she may have started her own company or this is an extension to eTranz...either way, I would email and ask her about that because eTranz has a VERY bad reputation in the MT world. I thought about applying, but passed when I saw the name.
Same person, NOT associated....sm
with eTranz any longer. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the eTranz and the people who run it. :)
from a former QA person
As a former QA person there, I'd like to add that we certainly didn't like having to deduct points for blanks and when they first implemented that little nuggest of love, at every QA meeting someone argued for the MTs. Always to no avail. And for the record, if we didn't mark off every single thing per the EMP, we were slammed in auditing.
Then they yammer on and on about quality and have quality meetings ad nauseum but issue the directive that the MTs are not to ask the QA people questions specific to their accounts. We didn't like that either, but as simple cogs in the wheel, didn't have a say in that either.
I am not the OP. I am another person sm
burned by Landmark. This happened about a month ago. Took me two months to try and get set up because they didn't know what they were doing. Then I worked some and teh system went down again. They didn't know what they were doing and I would have had to wait another month to get things straigtened out. didn't get paid for what I did.
I think they have some employees that are there for awhile that they take care of. But I also think they bring employees in on accounts that are backed up and then rip them off this way.
About this D person
First of all, I have known her many, many, many years, before she ever became an MT. She was the sweetest, most likeable, innocent and unassuming person I think I have ever known. I was very proud of her for a variety of reasons when she eventually turned up to be my boss and I told her so. The old D I knew would never have allowed her MTs to go through the no work stuff, she would have stood up for them even if it meant hanging up her title. She would never have strung them along dangling new accounts, which if they actually materialize will likely just be overflow on their way to VR. Being an MT herself, she would also have stood up for what she knows is a pay cut with the 4 cpl VR stuff. I don't know if she was programmed into the condescending nicks like honey, sweety, rockin MTs, etc. I think yes because all of management did it. I never said anything because I did and do love her, I just don't understand what happened to her. Dagnab it, I don't want someone younger than my children calling me endearing names, I don't care who it is.
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