I did a 2-week stint with MQ last year...trust me...sm
Posted By: ndmt68 on 2008-01-31
In Reply to: second thoughts about TT - tigger
Even with the growing pains TT is having, it is 100% better than my experience at MQ. It sometimes takes a while to get through, but the supervisors, QA, and tech support are 100% helpful and 100% polite.
The work on the new account is far better in quality of dictators and sound quality that what I saw at MQ. You can look up completed reports as reference, and you can look up your old reports to review your blanks, so getting up to speed is pretty easy. QA even e-mails you the physician name or referring facility you couldn't figure out.
The bonus schedule is substantially better than what I was given at MQ, and the base pay is higher. I have taken my time putting together my normal for each and every report, learning account specifics, and figuring out the names of the new doctors, but even then I am still at 80% of goal(and this is typing second shift after doing 600-700 lines a day on another job).
Just to make the comparison really accurate, this is my second week at TT. I had already decided at this point in the game MQ was not going to work. Don't be nervous about the negative things. Of course everything isn't sunshine, but I think you are going to like this just fine.
I would recommend joining the TT board on Yahoo. I am on there, and a lot of other extremely helpful and satisfied people. They helped me fill in some of the communication gaps and were very welcoming, too.
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i clear over 800 a week, 40/week; 30+ year experience. (nm)
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I worked for them for a short stint
They were not bad at all. Paid more than most. Paid on time. Direct deposit. It was a mix of VR and straight typing on a platform called Beyond Text. Training was okay. I left before I had the chance to really get a hold of it, but if you like VR and using shortcut keys, I didn't think it was too bad of a place. I agreed to never disclosed pay, but it was higher than most you see on here. I really liked the recruiter that posts on here. She was very forthcoming. Unless things have changed since the merge with MDI, then I would probably give them another shot if I were in the position to take on a full-time job. Good luck to you! 
WMX-only 1 week first year no sick SM
6 holidays, but if you are supposed to work the holiday you have to request it off.
3 days of PTO 1st year NOT 1 week!
With the paid holidays. Absolutely not 1 week until you are there OVER a year, then 3.077 hours per pay period.
Been working for Cardioscribe for a year, never once did not get paid within one week of end of pay
Instead of complaining why don't you do, as I did, and just ask. The line counts are being finalized now and the bank deposit will be made tomorrow. As you mentioned, in past posts pay day is the 7th and 22nd, so start the complaining tomorrow if we do not get paid. I have worked here a year and never once did not get paid within 7 days of close of a pay period. That is pretty good compared to other places I have worked for that took 2 and 3 weeks to get paid for a period of time. For those of you that like to say nasty little things about Cardioscribe, quite often, please do us all a favor and find yourself another job and good luck to you. This will blow your mind I am sure, but I am not afraid to backup what I post with my name. Sheryl Cantrell. You are very welcome to contact me if you have questions and apparently do not know how to ask the right person to get answers. I know Tonya posted her name, email and phone number and none of you who seem so unhappy working here have contacted her. As I told her today, there is just some people that like to stir up trouble no matter where you work. If you can find a place that treats you with more respect, kindness, and never a problem getting paid, please go and be happy.
I got mine last week. It was postmarked 1/22/08. I actually have a refund coming this year! sm
I had been an IC for so long that I forgot how fun it is to get a refund, even if only $127!
Last year, from Keystrokes we got Blockbuster gift cards for Christmas and for MT week sm
we got candles and candy. I always get a birthday card too, which is very nice.
He doesn't trust VR, or doesn't trust his MT to train it correctly?
Or perhaps his MT(s) has/have been filling his head with horror stories about VR and how it is a lawsuit waiting to happen?
Personally, I don't see any reason an M.D. would not trust a VR program, unless he's seen the products of a report edited by a less than competent MT who didn't do their editing job appropriately.
Bare minimum? I make over $50,000 a year in 40 hours a week. That is not bare minimum. sm
Bare minimum would be $8 an hour which is $16,640 a year or $10 an hour which is $20,800 a year. I make more than twice that and that is NOT bare minimum.
I worked to get my typing speed to 80 wpm. I worked to get my Expanders user-friendly and plentiful. I am not the fastest because I look up what I do not know, but I am lucky to have a very good memory so if I type it a few times, I do not have to look it up. I keep notes when I run across something I do not know. I am interested in my profession and read the magazines for our profession and network with other transcriptionists during my free time, devoting a minimum of 2 hours per week to networking and learning new things.
I am not the fastest MT, but I am accurate and boiled it down to simple math. I need to transcribe 250 lines per hour for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. At 10cpl, that is 2000 lines a day x 5 days per week x 50 weeks per year. I take 2 weeks off per year during July to visit my grandchildren (unpaid), 1 week a year to vacation with my husband (paid) and 1 week a year to spring clean (paid). I have worked for the same company for 4 years and 8 years for the one before this.
I treat my work hours as work hours and take 1/2 hour for lunch which I do not include in my 8 hours. I pretend that I am working outside the home and do not answer the door, get the mail, do laundry, etc. If I have a good day and go over the 2000, I bank it in my mind for days that are not as good and make sure that I get 10,000 lines each week.
My W2 each year is consistently $50,000. A few years it was higher, but I worked a few weekends, which I no longer do.
It IS possible.
my first year I made 16k. Doubled that second year. Going on year 6 with (sm)
two local accounts I earned 23,000.00 and a national I earned 35,400... 58,400 this year. Don't ask me how many hours, though, I really have no idea. I'm pretty motivated. (When people ask me how many hours I work a week I reply as many as it takes I'd say 40-50/week. I am also a fitness instructer and personal trainer, about 5 hours a week or so. Decent money (sometimes under the table!) but mostly I just do it for fun and to be social and wear cute work-out clothes.
that first year was a rough one... but I consider it part of my education.
I'm pretty motivated.
Full time with Transtech is both. 40 hours per week and 5500 lines per week.
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Nope .. email on 1/18 promised "within the next week." Here we are, 1 week later and no info.
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The minimum is 5500 per week, NOT 6600 per week. I think you made a typo. :)
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Last year, there was a letter sent that told us what we earned the previous year. sm
In the past, it has been all or nothing; if you did not hit the lines for full time for the year, you did not get PTO. I talked to my lead this morning about a last-minute vacation and she told me that the yearly packets are going out in a week or so and that the new policy will acrue PTO by the pay period or month. I like that a lot better, but she also made it sound like they are upping the amount of lines needed to acrue PTO. I normally get between 15 and 20,000 lines per pay period, so I am sure that will be fine but I am worried about the periods that have lower volumes, like most of January every year.
Oh trust me. SM
They WILL figure it out, it's been talked about for years. They'll get away with it too. I'm not looking for a job but I check the job postings just to see what is going on. Even a few years ago whoda thunk there would be 500+ MTs viewing one job posting? Looks to me like there's no shortage of medical "typists." Which, by the way, IMHO is what has ruined the industry.
Trust me, it won't get much better. If it does
I have stuck with one now for too many years. Every time I think I'm ready to leave, things calm down and I stay, but then in a short while it always gets bad again. I think most nationals are like that. Quit wasting time, it's too precious. Like you said, you've got the experience, move on and find one that you can get to work, get done, the day is over. You don't need all the stress day after day, just waiting for it to get better. Cut your losses and find a place that can appreciate what you have to offer!
I don't trust them
I know everyone praises them on these boards, but I don't trust them. I applied for a job with them, was told they were going to get someone to cover 3rd shift hours and then give me just 2nd shift hours. When I didn't hear from them in a few dys I wrote back, and was told oh, they'd hired someone who would do the 3rd shift hrs.
I just came from an IC co. that did not communicate much, made promises they didn't keep or followup on, etc, and don't need that headache again.
After seeing they're benefit pkg for 2006 I am glad I went with the new co. I did.
You don't want to, trust me.
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Trust me - you don't want to do it anyway!
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I believe you are with MQ now? Trust me, its not
a good move to make for you right now. You won't find any relief here. Company going thru a rough patch now - there are routine rough patches with this company for years - like all the time. Very nice when they need to be, very cold when they need to be. Look at the roots of the company, and you will have your answer on how you will be treated overall. I could not tolerate the pay without spaces, ate huge chunks of $$. No matter how you slice it, or what color bread you put it on, not getting paid for spaces stinks. And then not having work to get paid for spaces stinks....Same old, same old, just different MTs. I don't think it would do your bruised spirit from MQ to give this a shot - you need something dependable, not more promises in the wind. 
Trust me....it isn't just you.
There is no sense in someone being so abrupt and downright rude. Condescending. I was totally appalled after my first encounter with the dark side of this person. It is unbelievable to me that this person has this position and has had it for quite a while. My worst experience with a manager EVER.
Trust me...
I am not the person who posted the post that you are replying to, but it only took a few interactions with this person to pick up on the lack of tact and the nastiness/bluntness. It actually took less than a few interactions. I think after the first time I tried to chalk it up to her having a bad day, even though that is no reason to be nasty to others.
When you are a new employee with a company, usually most people are a little nervous and apprehensive because everything is new. Instead of this person being warm and welcoming and reassuring, I only received icy disposition from her. When she called to go over reports that had been QA'd, she harped on any negatives/QA corrections, even though I had typed several reports with QA scores. She never said, you're doing a great job, or acknowledged the many excellent QA scores.
I was baffled at how cold this person was, but in all fairness, I have seen posts since I left that say that she has improved...don't know how true this is.
If you are an MT, you cannot trust that your
career will allow you to survive this crisis without scars. You are not in reality here - there is NO job security in our industry any longer. Believe me, I know firsthand. You are in more danger than those who are aware of our plight and planning ahead. Most of us who are seasoned MTs in our prime years are making far less than we made 20 years ago. Our industry has been raped, pillaged and plundered by MGMT and CEOs, etc. This is fact. I am not an hysterical, bitter nutcase with no life. I am a mature, professional who is living this nightmare with the rest of us. I devoted my entire career, i.e. life, to MQ, helping it to thrive and devour all other MTSOs, and helping to make top-heavy management and CEOs richer beyond my wildest dreams. Our industry has been raped and use and harvested and over-cultivated til there is almost nothing left. As others have said, when our industry crumbles and is run by third world countries paying 3 specs of rice per line rather than pennies, the greedy scums who ran us into the ground will, indeed, find the next industry that is prospering nicely, workers who are producing a fair product for a fair wage, and go in and steal their earnings and benefits and lives away from them, while they have their Big Brother plants chanting the mantra that it is better to give than receive, it is better to give than receive. NO MORE.
Please trust me
I have the email proof STILL. All of her work said Excellent Work! job WEll done. Each category was separate for grading. e.g.
ERRORS THAT WOULD COMPROMISE PATIENT CARE: NONE
ERRORS IN TRANSCRIPTION: NONE.
FOMRAT ERRORS: NONE.
Then there would be long paragraphs where the QA Editor would state: I think it sounds better in the report if you put THIS, rather than THAT. I believe THIS is what the doctor meant to say. and so on.
Now you TELL ME, how dare she could grade someone at 95% based on her own mind reading skills? Plus, it was all ISR accounts.
Trust me, they are snakes in the grass with no REasoning!
Trust me
You will be the first to know how the story goes. I will post a link as soon as I get the paper. I could not have done it all without you. I am sure you can understand that I just talked to them yesterday and in the matter of a few hours they were on it and saying they wanted to put it in this Sunday's paper. I was shocked it all too place so fast and again, I could have not gathered the information that fast with all of your input. Let's keep our fingers crossed and see how much info they can put out there in 750 words. Let me remind you this is a series on how the economy is affecting local citizens so it has to have that twist incorporated into the story. Let's see what they can do for us. I am sure there will be a couple of letters to the Editor which will be generated by people reading the story.....let's hope anyway.
Don't trust them
Obviously they wanted you gone, did not want to fire you (and be on the hook for unemployment). So they concocted the phony resignation to get rid of you without paying unemployment. Lots of luck getting unemployment if All Type claims you quit voluntarily.
I don't trust it....
I think there's a reason for the sudden ample work. Notice how the Q always has work on an Indian holiday or system failure in India, etc.
It makes no sense that there was no work whatsoever and now accounts are full.
Fatcat, any way to tell the time these were dictated on these, or the time they were released to the accounts to be typed? I don't know what platform you're on or how much info you're privvy to with it.
I'm thinking something happened and these reports were re-routed to the 'regular' MDI MTs. Surely doctors have not sat by with their fingers up their noses for 2 entire months not dictating, then all decided to dictate today on every account.
Nah, something's fishy. And I don't mean Chicken of the
Sea, either.
Fatcat, be prepared, because I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see tomorrow brings yet another streak of famine.
Didn't trust them
I tested with them about a year ago and they offered me an editing position. They sent a huge amount of paperwork to be faxed back and lost it 3 times. When they sent me my contract, it was an MT contrast with no word anywhere of the pay for editing. When I addressed this, he told me it was nearly the same contract but absolutely would not send me the correct contract or tell me the pay. Also, they are another company who delights in taking money away, this as read from the paperwork. Another person I worked with applied 2 days after I did and got the same runaround. There was something just not right about the whole deal.
Trust me I work!!
Trust me I work very hard on the account I am on. I produce extremely high line counts without the help of a progam such as IT or any other program. I produce 160-170 lines an hour, consistently, and it continues to improve weekly, monthly, etc (can you imagine what it would be with a program). I am not trying to take an easy route to making more money which is the way you make it seem. I consistently have QA pulled and rarely ever drop below 100% and never below 99%. I was just simply asking if anyone got raises just for doing a great job on their account. That is all. Nothing more than that. What I meant in terms of jumping through hoops was I speak with a level 2 (17 years experience under her belt) who works 5 different accounts a day and struggles to make her line count and I highly doubt it is just her because when I asked how to advance to the next step, I was told I would have to learn 2 different accounts plus a back up and other accounts that may need me, well.... hmmm.. I thought to just stay where I am.
Trust me, I love Spheris and I think I will always stay with them whether I work for them part time or full time, but I just do not think I can advance there any more than I have without jumping through hoops for 7.5 cpl and frankly I don't really know who would.
I am not saying anything in a mean way, I am just being realistic and asking for a raise for doing a great job is being realistic and who knows maybe I am not the only one who thinks this way or has tried (perhaps that is why people leave and job jump in this field).
Sure, being a CMT one day would be great. I think that is every MT's goal is to one day become a CMT and master all skills.
Just don't quit your other job... trust me.
Yes indeedy. I did not trust (sm)
them because of empty promises of plenty of VR work coming. We were constantly being told to stop working until the work builds back up. Hello, they did not pay you to be on call. Many excellent MTs left because of their empty promises. They continually offer sign-on bonuses. Sadly, the people they hire will probably never see their bonus. Glad I left that mess. I'm making great money with excellent benefits, treated with respect, and I couldn't be happier. 
Never Trust PO BOXES. NEVER!!!
Never Trust PO Boxes. I salute LITTLE for bring up this topic.
Well, Trust is earned.
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Why not? we are very trust worthy. -nm
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Why we are very trust worthy.
Yes, we have crime in our country but we catch the crooks and put them into prisons. We dont go out there and make trouble. So dont look at us like we are bad people. You have to look at youself first and the mirror and also ask if you and your leaders are doing a dandy job at it to.
I would trust the MTs on this board before
for the reason that the recruiters are making $$$$ on us. I had a recruiter lie and confuse me big time.... her initials were TK
Oh, trust me....I'm not going to take the job if they offer it
I was just feeling around to see what was out there and was very amused by the questions on their application. I can completely understand a company wanting someone to know how to use a computer, I just thought it was funny. I know that people can lie and say they can do this and do that in order to get a job, but in this day and time if you are an MT applying for an at home position with a company I think that pretty much should state you at least know the basics. Made me laugh!
SPI does but trust me, you dont want to go there.
trust me you don't want to apply with OSI
Talk about a revolving door, besides MTs and management it is much worse in QA undoubtedly the worse QA department anywhere. You need to look elsewhere, you will be much happier anywhere but OSI.
don't always trust ebay
I prefer pricewatch.com. You can get awesome barebones systems there, build as you want, for about 300.00. I've bought 2 there. I don't trust Dell at all. I was helping an MT with her computer and she needed more RAM and has a Dell. She had to call them to find out what type of RAM she has. They told her and told her it was a rare kind and would be very expensive but they had it. Yeah right, pricewatch had it for 29.99. My ex called Dell to buy a basic system and I had actually looked at it online and told him it would be find for what he needed it for, basically just emailing and looking up stuff, it ran 399., and they told him no it wasn't, it wouldn't do anything, and that what he needed would be 799. I wrote a letter to them to complain about their dishonest high pressure sales tactics and didn't even get a response.
Trust me you do not want to work there
Maybe the posts were deleted because they were too derogatory.
I don't trust the recruiter -- sm
She worked for another company and hired me to be a QA/team leader. Then she messed around for so long that the position was filled. Then she said I could QA and screwed around so long that THAT position was filled. She offered a floater position and screwed around AGAIN. Her screwing around involved not getting the paperwork to the IT guy so I could get installed. Months passed, I had to find work elsewhere, and the company called to ask for my pedal back. I said, no thanks, I still want a job. The new MT manager/recruiter called me 15 minutes later, hired me on the spot and had me installed and working that afternoon.
This same recruiter didn't remember me when I talked to her recently. She promised me a QA/team leader position and asked me to type for a while first, or do both if I would be willing to do so. Given that I had experience with her before and felt like I was rooked around the last time, I said no thank you when I copped on and figured out whom I was talking to.
I think that AllType is a good company, I have heard good things in the past. My concern is that you will be promised something and the recruiter doesn't follow through on it. You DESERVE whatever it is they have offered you and I hate to see you be misused.
Is there someone whom you trust in the company, sm
someone who knows you really well you can talk to? It seems like there is some ego tripping going on with those QA people. They're going to make ALL the MTs unhappy.
If you can't get any help, I'd take on one of the new companies part-time and get so that you're familiar enough and making enough money and determine that you like it, give a 2-week notice to the present company. You can tell the present company that you're prepared to leave before the 2 weeks are over. That way, you're doing the professional thing and also giving them and particularly you an out. It's always best to leave in good stead. That's what you end up living with.
Good luck! Keep us posted.
I would go with the second - you will be happier, trust me. nm
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I think you are right to trust your instinct
I heard about this company myself, after I met someone on facebook, I did not know this person that well. All of a sudden she posts the company is hiring. That was enough for me to start suspecting.
I never ever trust anyone and always send -
everything back with a tracking number, date of delivery, and pay the 2 bucks for insurance. No matter what it is, from paper to gizmos.
comes off taxes in the end, and they cannot pull a fast one.
First MQ, then MDI -- I don't trust any company--sm
The best we can do is find a company that fits us for now. When the time comes for that company to change, then we change, too. That's all we can do in this world.
I was SE when I first started with MQ. When we became employees, I decided to give it a try. When they came out with VR, I gave that a try, too. When they dropped my VR pay to 80%, I rolled with it. When they started taking more of my accounts to VR, I continued to roll with it. When they dropped my VR pay to 70% and gave me 90% VR accounts, I rolled ... right out the door to MDI. I gave MQ as much as I could for as long as it was benefitting me. I'll do the same with MDI.
Does that make me a patsy? Maybe in others' eyes, but in my family's eyes, that makes me a good provider.
DTA -- Don't Trust Anyone!
Webmedx lets you carry them from year to year sm
You can accrue up to 140 hours (I think) before you stop the accrual process. Don't have to use it all in one year.
I would stick it out, most places are slow now through the end of the year every year (nm)
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my brother is right Trust is always earned.
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Because I dont trust them at this point NM
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