I can't afford to wait for new platform
Posted By: no work and time running out on 2009-09-24
In Reply to: No one has even given the new platform a chance yet. Sure it doesn't - my take
NO WORK AND OVER IT!!!! 5th week of getting less than 1k lines a day. I started applying for other work a couple days before they dropped the bomb. I can't afford to work here today, much less after a paycut!
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Who can afford to wait that long?
No way would I take such a job - what happens if they NEVER get paid? You work for free, that's what.
It's not common at all - you'd be better of getting your own accounts!
Of course she will have a job. She had to get rid of yours so that they could afford to pay her!
xxx
Not only that, but who can afford them?
When I started out back in 1990, I was making 7.5 cpl and after 2 years went to a different company for 9 cpl as an employee. We could afford to buy the books then because the cost of living was a lot less, deductions for insurance were a lot less, and even the books were a lot less. Now people who are starting out are faced with 5 or 6 cpl as employees or 7 and 8 for IC. How in the world can they make a living at 7 cpl for IC, let alone by all these books when the same information can be found on the internet?
I think if a person is trained correctly HOW to research, they'll be able to distinguish between the correct information and worthless information on the internet. I think it's pretty sad that the transcription schools aren't training them properly. For goodness sakes, I can't think of any school that wouldn't teach about chemistry profiles and doctor slang that they wouldn't know what chem-7 is. In my opinion, that's worse than the MT who is at least willing to research using the internet.
How do you afford it?
My line rate now is higher than that as an employee. I really don't see how I could afford to pay my own SE taxes, buy my own insurance, etc. for less than what I'm making now as an employee. I have to be honest and say that I'm really scared about this. I used to think that when some posted that they could make just as much money working at WalMart they were just stressed out that day. But, I'm beginning to think they're right. In my state (NY) our total SE taxes are 40% of our income. I honestly don't think I could afford this AND pay my bills AND buy health insurance. I don't even know if I could afford to do this and pay my bills, even if health insurance wasn't in the equation. Now I'm really stressed. 
I can...... not everyone CAN'T afford a car....
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Hah, some sure can afford it...sm
I wish I could show you the homes of one of the MTSOs that is discussed here often on this board, home, cars, boats, trips. Living the good life while her MTs are struggling.
How can you afford to still be working
at that daily line count? Are you a newbie all around or just at Spheris? Great on your QA but you really need to pick up the pace or you will be moved to PT or possibly terminated.
How can an MT afford a Hummer? - nm
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So true! And most of us won't be able to afford to
Unless I decide to jump off a bridge, or lie in front of a train.
1) You can't afford the BC you were diagnosed with
I have one thing to say to you that consists of 2 words and one of them starts with an F.
Go away
I WISH i could afford to do what you did that year!
Last year 'Christmas dinner' was a third of a can of cold ravioli.
I can no longer afford to do anything except
My gift-exchange days are over til i can find a REAL job. You know: one that actually pays you to do it.
SPI can't afford postage meter
What kind of so-called international company still licks stamps to mail paycheck stubs and doesn't use a postage meter? I can't believe my eyes for the past few months!
Yes, I can't afford to have no work so I left TT
I dislike the turn of events as they were my favorite company. I have nothing bad to say about TT. I simply got another job.
can you afford not getting paid anymore?
Thats what it will come to. You working and not getting paid.
I would cash the check. if it bounces, then you have grounds to take her to court and get your money that way. If it clears, then you are good. I would also be reading the warning signs and just find another job. I would not go to the docs you dictate for as it is not your place. They really cannot do anything as long as they are getting their work done on time and having no other issues. You will just bother them and might look like you are after their business for yourself.
But that is just my opinion. Hope everythign works out.
Understood, but MTSO's cannot afford
to sue every poster on these boards because of their bad press, or whatever you want to call it.. defamation seems extreme, but I didn't read the comments made by the posters who are being sued. Most people here post general angst-y things about companies and if a judge were to read over the comments on this board, to get an overview of the climate and what is considered normal conversation and postings on these boards, they would probably see that this is a normal, everyday occurrence on message boards. Are they going to shut down every message board? Where would they start? As someone said, some of the angry, horrible postings in the political forums are much worse than anything said on the company forum. IMO. I believe that on these boards the MTSO's AND the MT's BOTH post angry things at times. No one is innocent here.
If you can afford to go to school, learn something else. nm
xxx
and they can afford to BUY TRANSCRIPTION SCHOOLS!!!
...and they didn't lower the cost for the HOSPITALS! They're just pocketing all the money they are making by RAPING US of our pay!!!!!
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT!
I don't know how people can afford housing that costs that much!!! sm
My family lives in a 4-bedroom house with 3,000 square feet of living space (counting the basement, which is finished) and we paid $125,000 three years ago! Come to the Midwest, you can find a 2-bedroom house a heck of a lot cheaper than $600,000.
If even that much work left, and hopefully they will be able to afford aspirin. (nm)
zzzzzzs
How can an IC making 7 cpl on Emdat afford to pay taxes?
That is the offer from Allegiant. Emdat is one of the most transcriptionist-unfriendly program going even when used properly (which most do not). Historically, an IC was payed more, not less, than an employee since there were no benefits .... but not in the world of medical transcription. This is getting down right nuts. Very sad.
But could you afford the ins? I had an offer from them, too. I really wanted to go but couldn't
nm
Ditto. Goose egg. Nada. Oh well, they can't afford s/m
an X-mas bonus for us, after buying that MT school, etc. :-/
I hope it gets better! Can't afford to sit here much longer with no work. nm
nm
The smaller companies just can't afford the health
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Put money back from each check. That is how you afford to pay taxes.
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Exactly. The majority of the population can't afford health care.
Huh. Sound familiar?
Overhire, inconsistent work flow..Been there doing that. Cant afford to stay.
Need I say more..
They can't afford to bother you. You are too busy toggling between numerous screens in
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Yep..Now I feel stupid. Like one poster said, new company and they can afford benefits like that.
I should be shot, or the very least, a I'm Stupid sticker on my forehead.
RISS is not a platform. RIS stands for Radiology Information System. The platform sm
would be EXText.
MDI-MD platform is fast, not full of problems like Transcend platform or MDI-FL
On Transcend platform you have to click, click, click all day and still get errors, change screens constantly - its a nightmare to work in.
Yes, SPi does use this platform....it's a great platform, but not worth working for SPi. nm
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Bad Platform. I personally know of 3 MTs who left because of the platform.
If you are like me, the bottom line is wages and what I get in my check. I have never worked for Amphion, but I personally know of 3 MTs who worked part-time at Amphion before quitting their other service to see what Amphion had to offer before it was too late. All 3 quit Amphion and stayed with their other service because of the Amphion platform. Too hard to make any decent lines.
Something to think about.
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Here is one post from a couple days back:
Posted By: Amphion on 2005-12-02
To all of us trying our hardest to grab our work when it is available, and then still only make 24 bucks a day because of the garbage platform.
Oh, well, then please don't wait around for it. I
wouldn't want you to be disappointed.
Gosh.
But wait and see. :)
I had work the first 2 full weeks I was there.. afterwards I was bombarded with hours and lines to make up. i.e., 11-15 hours every single week with a paycheck that never topped $200 except for my first one because they pay $200 to train. They always wanted everyone available every hour of every day. At least my TM is. You need to come back after you are there for a while and let me know how it is REALLY going for you.
Only excuse I ever got was the doctors are on vacation thats why no one has work... umm I had like over 50 when I stopped counting in my work pool.. so I highly doubt it.
I really do hope everything works out for you. 
I was told we can never use our own computer. Everyone has to use theirs.
wait, there's more
(from the same board)
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: re: Telerecruiting Admin Services Reply with quote
OH MY GOSH - thank you so much for posting this information.
I got an email from them telling me about a job and that I was preselected. Everything about the email was so professional, even the mention of sending them $11.95 to keep active with their staffing service, taking a typing test and sending the results, etc.
I got the email the evening before Thanksgiving and they needed a reply by the Friday after Thanksgiving because the job was supposed to start the next week. I got the feeling of [quote] hurry so you don't miss this opportunity.[/quote]
IT SOUNDED AND LOOKED SO GOOD - and I didn't have a lot of time to research this company - so I started with these forums and lo and behold here was my answer.
I sure appreciate that you took the time to input this information.
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Talitha
Joined: 10 Oct 2005
Posts: 8
PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: re: Telerecruiting Admin Services Reply with quote
I fell for it the first time that they sent me something. I think it had to do with data entry but then they said that the positions have been filled. I find out that there was only like 2-4 positions that they had opened.
Talitha
Now wait. Don't tell me there are
what you type in, no matter what your Expander plays out. For instance, if you type copdx and that comes out as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, you should get paid for all the characters/spaces in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, right? Not just five letters for copdx. I'm asking because of the post below.
Heck, if I worked for a company that wasn't paying me for stuff the I took the time to put in MY expander to make transcription faster and more profitable for ME, then I'd just throw my expander out and type everything the hard way.
Please tell me there is no company that cheats MTs like that!
wait!!!
If you are an IC, you get paid when the hospital pays the client = stop complaining and deal with it!
Is this the one where you wait (sm)
forever for the first pay?
Wait? What?
Wait... Medware was bought out by another company or they are merging with another company?
What shall happen to all of us MedWare employees? I love MedWare!!! It's the best one I've worked for yet. :)
wait until you have been there a while
to say you love them. I worked for them for a few years and got so tired of the bad platform and the fact they were always promising this and promising that...and it would be real soon...but after waiting 3 years none of this ever happened...so went to greener pastures. A lot of their platforms are not transcription friendly at all.
My 2 cents worth...I know a lot of people do like them and that is fine...for them anyway!
No, I don't have to wait. First job comes sm
in about 30 seconds and I start typing after it is done. The others download in the background.
You should only have to wait (sm)
for the first one. After that, they download while you are transcribing. Not slow at all. (?)
Wait a while and see then
fm
Oh, just wait
Anytime now there will be a psychotic posting from a member of the management team telling us how YOU didn't pass their test and meet their high standards, and how THEY didn't want to hire you. Anytime now, probably within the hour or two.
Just wait
If you work on a busy account you will be called on your days off to work if they are behind in work.
Wait a sec...do you mean CTS or TRX?
Your post doesn't indicate to which company you're referring.
Thanks for clarifying :-)
Can't wait-what will we get? Maybe sm
a card that we can print out ourselves?
Wait a sec -
Are you the OP or another MT who was burned by LM? If you're not the OP, when did this happen to you?
That would make 3 of you in this thread that weren't paid, and that's pretty scary.
Why would you wait to see what others SM
are doing? Get out now! If you wait, you will be a latecomer to whatever company you end up with. Why don't you be one of the first? I have never understood staying even a minute with a company that had me sitting around waiting for work. Move on. I have not worked at TT, but I know how this goes.
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