I do believe your loyalty is displaced. No MTSO or national are loyal to MTs
Posted By: Loyal One on 2006-01-12
In Reply to: Wouldn't it be interesting if MTSOs - had a board they could come to
even though they claim to be. Loyalty is earned just like respect. This is a business just like any other business. If one company cuts pay, takes away health insurance, etc, why should any person or MT be loyal to that company? If promises are made and then broken or lies are told, why should any MT be loyal to that MTSO or company?
On the other hand, yes, if the MTSO or national and their people take care of the MT and provide her/him continuous work flow, as promised, pay on time, and work together with an honest and respectful relationship, then, yes loyalty should be mutual and reciprocating.
For you to just come on here and claim MTs should be loyal to company is very improper of you!
Ok, those are my cents worth! Have a good night!
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Loyalty has nothing to do with it until you find the company for you. Be loyal to THAT company.
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MTSO not loyal friend, relative. Best not to treat
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10.75 cpl National; 11 cpl smaller MTSO. 25 yrs exp. nm
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14.5 cpl National, 16.0 cpl small MTSO
Happy, both accounts are California accounts which is a higher pay!!!!
Displaced Heartland MTs
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Do what you think is best. I just left a major national, went to another national but after
6 weeks found it did not fit. Just happened to luck into another smaller national and things couldn't be better. There are other jobs out there.
it is one thing to be loyal, but ..
you have bills that cannot wait and probably a family to feed.
And you will stay loyal to them while they RIP YOU OFF???
What kind of loyalty does such a business deserve from you? That's the kind of attitude that allows management to rip off its workers in the first place. Don't complain, be loyal to us, be nice, take those pay cuts and LIKE THEM!! If you don't, well, you are DISLOYAL!!! What nonsense.
And trying to convince folks like you that there are some companies (many, actually), that don't deserve your misplaced loyalty is like teaching a pig to sing: It is totally useless and really pisses off the pig.
Take those rose-colored spectacles off and look at the world around you. Just a suggestion, of course.
Loyal to HTS - they've treated me well
I have no concern as to your credentials. I speak solely of my experience with HTS.
Let me address some of your facts. You state: Not enough tech support (not available evenings or weekends My experience: They have been available to me 24/7 for ten years. You state: No raises. My experience: Frequent raises. You state: ..their hands are tied. My experience: What does this even mean? I have never experienced anything along these lines. If there is a problem, they resolve it. Period. You state: Many people in this organization are related to the current owner (red flag). My experience: Again, what?? I know many of them, and of those I know none are related to one another, let alone the owner. Spare us your red flag. You state: The current owner makes it a habit to bash the prior owner, tell you all sorts of dirty laundry, goes on and on about how she cannot afford to give raises, yet she's managed to dwindle down this pay off mighty quick. It's an attitude thing. My experience: One of the nicest women I have every worked with/for. Very considerate of her MTs and their personal needs as well as professional. It IS an attitude thing. On both sides of the equation. You state: There is not always work. My experience: Never, ever have I not been able to work in ten years. Never. They accommodate me around every turn. If my main account is low, I can request another account and that request is fulfilled immediately. You state: (re: tech guys)..their hands are tied based on minimal programs and/or education. My experience: I should be so lucky as to have a fraction of their knowledge. You state: The owner wanted me to stay. My response: Why? No MT is indispensible. You state: The problems with HyperType are solely due to how the company is run. My experience: No clue what this refers to - not enough work? not enough money earned? tech? no embroidered golf shirts? To posters Looking and Leigh - I wish you the same success I have had with HTS. There are many MT companies out there, obviously, offering many different packages that may or may not suit your needs. Hypertype is a well-run company that has never come up short in any regard in my experience. Rest assured that if you chose to work with HTS and keep up your end of the deal in terms of providing quality transcription, you will be appropriately compensated and have the pleasure of dealing with some really great people.
Loyal Transcend employee
Everything Liz is saying is true. I have worked for just about every transcription company out there and Transcend is the best by far. Please don't be worried about outsourcing of work to India...that hasn't impacted my ability to get enough work at all. A very small % is sent overseas, and this happens in almost all of the national transcription services. They mostly provide us with 3rd shift coverage when there aren't enough American MLS to meet turn-around times. The only thing that will keep you from getting enough work is not being willing to work on all work types and all accounts, or not wanting to adjust your shift/days to accommodat workflow. Please try to keep an open mind and positive attitude about Transcend. I wouldn't still be here after 8 years if this wasn't the best transcription company out there.
Loyalty?
How can you be loyal to a company that took your work and sent it offshore and then turns around and blames you for the poor quality! The fact of the matter is, they took a good company, got greedy and offshored for cheaper MTs and LIED about it, to everyone!!!! Now, they are paying the price! She didn't show any of us MTs any loyalty when she decided to offshore; heck, she lied continuously about it for months, so how can you have any loyalty for her? For those of you who have been having low work volumes, why do you think that is? It's because the offshore company is promised a set amount of work, so they get the work first, then the loyal MTs get what's left! Think about how far things have gone down hill in the past years. Dust off those resumes girls
I go by loyalty s/m
The company that overall treats me the best takes first priority for me.
Loyalty
Loyalty should go 2 ways. If they value you as an MT and cannot keep you busy enough so that you need 2 jobs, they should not object to your saying you would love to help them out on that particular day, but you have a prior commitment. They do not need to know you are working 2 jobs.
Co. out for $, no loyalty to anyone. We should also
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Loyalty to MDI
I have been in this business 17 years, half of that time running my own service until people kept undercutting to the point it was not profitable. Before that worked for a major Fortune 500 company that has laid people off for the last 20 years all while increasing the salaries and bonuses of the top executives (I was laid off 3 separate times, dh is still there but after 35 years now has to work a terrible shift to keep his job and who knows for how much longer.) No offense but I always thought you girls who were so loyal to MDI were living in a bubble that was going to burst. This was not your family or your best friend. This was your JOB, working for a company just like any other company in this country and I learned long ago the employees don't matter. I have a few more years until retirement hopefully and was hoping to stick it out but I am seriously thinking I need to get out of this industry and go back to school. Reading the SEC filing about Transcend has me a little shocked and disappointed. As I said before everyone needs to do what they need to do for themselves. Good luck to all.
I'm an IC, I adhere to a close to set schedule, am loyal and the first day that I
hear employees get preferential treatment over ICs, I'll jump ship. I am an IC because my husband has better health benefits and they are cheaper than my company. We still have line counts to make just like employees and bills to pay, etc, plus we don't get vacation, etc, so need to work steadily just to keep up if we do need to take a day off or are off sick.
What do you mean not loyal to their employees? please give details
I would not want to work for a company that is not loyal, but in what way are they not loyal?
I agree 100%. People should know better, but those of us are who loyal will remain so.
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Loyal to scammers & sweatshop labor?
We all know they aren't the slightest bit loyal/appreciative/aware of, any of their employees. To believe that is to be REALLY naiive.
why speak of loyalty when as MTs
Hasn't anyone noticed? This business is a sweat shop.... these MTSO have it made. They get cheap offshore workers and housewives and moms dying to work at home, busting their butts, turning their homes into sweatshops. Be loyal to WHOM? The company that treats you like crap and CUTS YOUR PAY and talks to you like you are an idiot? Oh yeah, RIGHT hahahaha you are nutso babes!
loyalty won't pay your bills
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While I'm sure MDI-MD appreciates your loyalty
appreciate your posting here, adding pokers to the fire of the already hurt/unhappy MTs. Give it a break, really. And you not only have to share that your experience is absolutely Mary Poppins material, perfect in every way, but you are compelled to discredit everyone else's negative experience. I'm not even involved, but it gets my dander up. Get over yourself. You're doing your beloved company more harm than good by inflaming an already inferno situation. I'm sure Carlotta agrees. In fact, I know she would agree with me.
when it comes to your own wellbeing, the only loyalty you need is to yourself.
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TransTech is not being loyal to their MT's, so you have made a great decision
The pay is always on time, but the paycheck continues to dwindle, so makes it easier for TT to pay their MT's, for sure.
It is so depressing that TT mgmt/lead/sups/tech/in-house clerks, etc. have absolutely no LOW PAYCHECKS.
They have VERY MUCH OVERHIRED; however, they are losing MT's at about the same rate, but they don't care, because there are newbies that will work for practically nothing to get a start, and all they have to do is make a phone call to TT and they are hired !@!
lots of office problems, not loyal to empls, unworkable
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Also, if MTSOs want MTs who are loyal, hardworking, and take great pride in their jobs by truly ....
dedicating themselves to knowlegdge and producing correct, Grade A reports, then how about paying us as the highly-trained, skilled, hard-wokring, tecnical, workers we are....we are expected to always stay abreast of every medical procedure, drug, medical instrument, operatative procedure, and special procedures, in every specialty (especially for those of us doing acute care and surgical, also radiology/nuclear medicine), we must update references, computes, learn new platforms, train our ears to decipher the SLOPPIEST, LAZIEST, RUDEST dictating physicians, not to mention all the various dialects and accents from all over the world, have superior knowlegein grammar, punctuation, and style....there are highly-paid executives who cannot keep up with what we do, honestly. We have sold ourselves short for way too long, back when I first came home out of hospital, I was lucky to get 6.5cpl, back in 1994, doing all acute care, had 7 different hospitals, we were one of the first live systems. I was out of work, and after getting my associates, being a part of the AAMT (who never helped me personally), 28 years of in-house training, radiology, surgery, etc., it took me months to get someone to pay me what my knowlege/dedication/experience warranted, I still had MTSOs offering 6 and 7 cpl......what??? and I am an IC right now! I finally found an MTSO who is paying 12cpl, and I work my tail off for her, love the company, but I still believe by and large that we are being fed CRUMBS OFF THE TABLE. How do I know? I have a friend who has a company with 75 MTs, I see what she bills and what she pays, and I also know what other companies are making off our backs. Not all MTSOs, to be sure, but most. And remember MTSOs, a lot of us old-timers who were trained in hospital and college, are going to retire, if you want to attract really good young MTs for your company, you had better take a better look at your bottom line and what you are investing in...IMHO!
I've been loyal to MDI for 13 years and planned to finish my career here. I
can't even begin to express my dismay, disappointment, and feeling completely blind-sided and slapped across the face by this after a decade plus of Dorothy always saying she had too much integrity to EVER offshore, and now she's going to be in charge of sales and marketing TO offshore. My mind is still reeling. So not sure what you mean by loyal. The MDI I've known and been loyal to for over a decade no longer exists. Now I've just been left sitting here stunned wondering how she could do such a 180, or if it was just a facade all along.
Honesty, Loyalty, and Integrity! sm
A company that will be honest, no matter what the cost. Integrity to keep our records and work in the USA. Loyalty to your entire staff, let them know how important they are to the company, as well as loyalty to your clients. Keep your TATs and promises to your clients. Keep your promises to your MTs.
A decent line rate such as 10 cpl or above and flexibility!
Hope that helps!
Companies have to earn loyalty (sm)
Besides, all prospective employees go through a background check. It's not like these MTSOs are completely in the dark. I cannot believe (or can I?) that some companies ask for people's screen names to monitor stuff they say on a message board. If they're that petty and paranoid, there's good reason for it, and I betcha dollars to donuts it has *absolutely* nothing to do with MT attitudes. If anyone is spilling inappropriate information here, there's a moderator to take care of that.
BTW, now that I'm happy with my company, I am loyal. In fact, I'm so positive that when *I* post on here about my job, people often give me this oh, stuff it, Polyanna attitude. 
The only thing that could possibly get me to leave is the promise of all that money getting my own accounts would bring. I don't think I'd like to deal with all the hassle involved, though...but if someone had a Powerpoint presentation to convince me it was easy as fallin' off a log, I'd be very interested!
No work versus loyalty
My pay period ended last week and I made $42. My supervisor is telling us to be patient and actually is getting angry when any MT starts to question what is going on. We have been told to be patient and the patient's are trying to meet their deductibles and that is why there is no work. I work for a huge hospital system with over 1,000 doctors with at least 30 outside facilities. Now, yesterday, we have been told not to log on again because the hospital has contacted them and said do not log in. I cannot go another pay making $42. What should I do? Be loyal or move on.
Thanks
No work versus loyalty
What company is this that you work for as the company I work for is the same way lately?
What happened to loyalty and ethics?
You sold out! You are a coward and you are weak. You are also a thief.
The last line just shows my loyalty and dedication (sm)
to my current employer, but desire to stay in the field of MT via a national company should my previous position not be offered when I return.
The people with the loyalty to the almighty dollar...
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Loyalty to Companies Who Have No Work and Expect a Schedule from YOU
There have been many discussions about MT's sitting around waiting for work to file into their queues.. many being told to get more than a few accounts and work on their backups (which, we all know, is someone's primary account) when their primary is out of work.. so we go 'round in circles.
Then we have discussions about companies putting us in work pools as opposed to assigning us work daily...
I have been sitting here thinking, if I were a painter, wanted to paint fences, and I showed up with my brush and paint bright and early in the morning, and was told to come back tomorrow, the fence has already been painted, but there will be another fence ready to paint tomorrow, please come back, we want you to paint our fences.. I say, OK, I understand, and so I come back tomorrow and when I get there I see that half of the fence has been painted already, someone came before me and painted it, even though I was promised the work of painting the fence. They say, try again tomorrow. How many days would you show up to paint a fence? Every day? Don't you (eventually) feel like an idiot standing there with your brush and paint with nothing to do??
Does the company owe you any loyalty at all?? If they don't want your services, why don't they just say so instead of keeping you coming back ready to paint every day? Then when it DOES get busy, they call and say WHERE IS EVERYBODY??? DONT YOU CARE ABOUT PAINTING THE FENCE? Like we havent been standing there with our brushes all week waiting to paint.
What I don't understand is the lack of shame from the people who behave this way. Once in a while things happen..NOT AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
I really don't understand the logic of the people who have no problem with this. You do understand that by doing this, you are simply helping these companies to continue in this fashion, not feeling that they owe you ANYTHING.
Overhiring is really the finaly insult. If you don't see that.. you are closing your eyes.
when docs give mtso a check, then mtso pays you?
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I completely concur. Find a good one, or move on, quickly. No loyalty involved. The don't sm
have any to the MTS. NONE of them.
Isn't she an MTSO owner - which MTSO ? Just curious. n/mnn
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9 cpl, national, 10 yrs exp.
Unless you are an I/C then 9 cpl is good.
Which national is that?
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You are less apt to do it with a national!
More apt to do it with your own accounts or land a great paying job with someone who is not using the internet MTSOs, the internet robbers!
They pay you crap and suck the life out of you! Go independent.
Can you get a job at a national
with going to a community college for your MT education? Thanks!!
Which national is the best for...
flexibility, clinic work and fair pay. I have about 17 years of experience, looking for STEADY part-time work for now. If it works out with a company, I would consider full time. Who is the favorite national here? TIA
at the BIG national I get 7.2 CPL for ASR
but I have been an MT for 26 years.......
4 CPL??? Unheard of in my world....actually....sorry
I used to be AC at a national for $32,000
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Pay with National
I made 41K last year with very little overtime, and this included incentive pay. My account is going to SR shortly, though, and this kind of money will be a thing of the past. For that reason, I will be moving on soon to a company where I can do straight transcription and be paid a decent wage for it.
The national I work for does not do that. sm
If low on work, they do not take away benefits. 
you work for a national....nm
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Forgot to say that was with a national. NM
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National Certification for MTs
Can someone refer me to a website or something so I can get certified. Finished my course with a college and they don't of course deal with the National Certification. Anyone out there done the certification part. Please help. Thanks
When is National MT Week? TIA
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