I don't generally label cheerleaders as Management, but that has to be one. NM
Posted By: FrustratedMT on 2009-09-01
In Reply to: A welcome to MDI'ers from the Transcend trenches - Lisa Williams
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Sent a label by Email??
Not sure what FOB is. So i guess you print it out, cut it out and use the label that way?? Can do it that way? Seems like it would have to be scanned by the vendor who delivering it.
If they send you a label for the footpedal, UPS, FedEx etc., just get a signature of the driver or if you take in somewhere. If you have the name of top person, I would get the email and send to that person with you problem. I believe you. Just call the main phone number, say you want to direct some correspondence, may I have the name of the president, vice president, perhaps an email tell them.
Don't you two think you are being just as silly as the ones you label as "negative?" sm
If you want to say hello, why not talk via Yahoo Messenger, which everyone in the company uses. I saw your names on the company-wide emails, so why not just do your handshake there?
I think both sides are being a bit silly here. There are good and bad points to any company, and those who ferociously defend without acknowledging the bad points are just as wrong as those who ferociously attack without acknowledging the good points. Actually, watching this today, I have to say the good guys look worse than the so-called negative types. Your bashing of them is just as negative as the things you accuse them of being.
I myself am Switzerland in all of this. It is just a paycheck. I don't care if it comes from India or Des Moines, Iowa. If it is accurate, on-time, and a decent wage, I am happy. I don't have a problem with the headquarters being in India. The people there are sweet and kind and do their jobs professionally -- what more could you ask?
I have the week off, but I think ALL of you should get back to work and quit trying to one up each other. Just my opinion ... a**es and opinions .. we all have them. 
Technically, outsource is still the correct label
It falls under the umbrella of outsourcing, and offshoring is a specific type of outsourcing; i.e., there is domestic outsourcing (kept within the country) and offshore outsourcing (sent out of the country).
Wonder where the cheerleaders went??
 
A lot of the cheerleaders here
are management.
These two are always one another's cheerleaders
Trying to make anyone under the age of 60 feel as if we're inferior on some level.
Geez, I hope if I get that bad at that age that I retire and ENJOY life instead of belittling others.
I believe she was asking for TT MT cheerleaders...
Not TT MANAGEMENT!
Go back to counting your money. Thank you.
Me for one. I'm one of their biggest cheerleaders. (sm)
  I have worked for some doozies, let me tell ya.
Transtech Cheerleaders
Hey, where are all the TT cheerleaders/managers that offered such glowing reports of what a wonderful place this is and how great management is? Haven’t heard from them in a while.
Perhaps they are busy training all the newbies to work for 4.5/cpl on VR. Since they sent the email pretty much forcing people to learn VR, many have left, including myself. I did give the VR a try though, it was just as much work as typing the whole from scratch, and at times the report did need to be retyped. Something about that really bothered me, didn’t really like doing the same work for half the pay. They stated to me many times that eventually you can double your lines on VR and make up the difference in line rate. Maybe some can, I couldn’t after a fair trial. There was no way for me to look at this except as a cut in pay. They state that the clients are requiring VR more and more. Why is there option?
MT Week pretty much summed up TT’s real take on their MT staff. The MTs got an email a week after the event praising them and giving appreciation, nothing from upper management. A gift? Not necessary, but an acknowledgement of the meaning of the week and a thanks from the upper management would have been nice……..honey, sweetie, darlin, puddin pie didn’t pay the bills. I am so sad this company went this route, I really thought they were different. I am so glad I’m outta there.
To WMX cheerleaders who are telling us
to stop whining because we haven't tried the new platform yet. I have been using the platform for a year. I just got done doing a report that STILL required extensive editing, and lucky me, I am going to be paid even less! After a year, I repeat, a year, this wonderful magical ISR is still making the same errors that I have to correct over and over and over and over, day after day. I certainly do not see where that is productive. For example, it puts 5 to 0 nylon for 5-0 nylon. How many times should you have to correct that for it to finally learn? I have made that correction hundreds of times, and it still doesn't get it. It leaves out whole chunks of sentences and doesn't even get words that are perfectly clear. Some reports turn out good, some are complete garbage. My production has increased a little, but no where near what they claimed.
So stop telling me to calm down and give it a chance. I have given it a chance. I will be very interested in what you think of it after you have used it for awhile.
At least the Enterprise people have some glimmer of hope that maybe it won't be a cut in pay for you, but for me, it was most definitely a cut in pay.
To the MedWare cheerleaders up to this point-and
you know who you are, what do you think of the happenings of the last couple of days. I believe the one person I am thinking of was an MT (not lead), but would like to know how it makes you feel knowing that you have supported them this far. Please share your feelings with the rest of us. I know it may be difficult and it would be nice to find out if you feel it is something that might not affect you OTOH. This is not a mean-spirited question and hopefully you will not think it is, but has your opinion changed in the last day with all this going on?
Don't these cheerleaders make you ill with their rah, rah, rahs?
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Some of you TT VR cheerleaders say one cannot tell the difference in a VR report and other
traditional transcribed report -- WRONG -- just notice when you are pulling up another report to view -- DEFINITELY CAN TELL VR report -- errors throughout the report -- DOES NOT FOLLOW accounts specifics format. Why have A/S if VR does not have to follow the A/S requirements?
No way to double your pay doing VR reports, but I like to see a quality report that follows the A/S guidelines and return a report to the facility that what looks like what a medical record should look like for patient care and for meeting the specifics that the facility has asked for in their reports. VR reports definitely FAR from that! Look for yourself if you do not believe me.
One request, please -- all you Transtech cheerleaders go to your Yahoo board
Why are you showing up here tonight. GO where you belong!
Most of the positive posts about TT and VR are mgmt posts; they always do this, but you other cheerleaders/favorites, go to your new Yahoo Board and leave us along who don't want to work for LESS MONEY.
By the way, I have done VR with TT and HORRIBLE. I can't make even close to the money I can with normal transcription.
VR is more money in the pockets of TT execs. Not in the MT's wallets.
generally, yes
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Generally, no...
Acute care is considered H&Ps, operative reports, discharge summaries, and consultations, although some companies might include ER as acute care. I think it really depends on what you were told when you were hired.
Benefits generally add 40% to cpl and TH has
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I was just being generally silly - but not
sure who my cohorts are! I assure you, I'm a lone jokester.
How long does it generally take...sm
Focus Infomatics to let you know whether you passed or failed the testing for employment? 
Generally 3-4.5 cpl. Much lower than transcribing.
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I actually meant this generally, I do not think it's all that different in other states....
from what I've been reading and hearing from others. My husband and I have separate insurance each with our own employer and pay a fair rate of 100 a month or so and they are very good plans and not that HMO garbage. BUT we don't have kids. We have an excellent income and live on the east coast too but that would not make it *okay* for me if we had to pay those rates. So, right now I'm thinking of definitely nixing that whole having a family idea we've been discussing. I was hesitant anyway because I feel this world is just not a nice safe place anymore. So this may just seal the deal for me. What a country, huh? : (
Birdie, where, generally, do you live?
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I'm generally happy with my company. SM
I have great supervisor, lots of PTO, helpful coworkers. I have all the work I can do on a consistent basis and no one bothers me.
One problem: OUR PAY KEEPS GOING DOWN.
Thanks for listening.
A big MTSO generally doesn't lay off.
They'll come up with every excuse in the book not to authorize unemployment. Are you working now or have you been out of work since you contacted your supervisor? I would say contact your supervisor again and tell her that if you don't hear from her by (fill in your date), then you will be forced to apply for unemployment since there is no work and you haven't been offered a secondary account. Since you say that the other accounts are all sufficiently staffed, I don't know if this would do much good anyway because then they'll give you a secondary, but you still won't have work. Maybe it's time to start looking at other companies that are hiring.
Generally, will companies allow you that "learning curve"?
Most of the jobs advertised say Must have X years of acute or hospital experience . . . When I see that, I just move on. After so much time, don't they require that you do a certain # of lines? Were you able to reach that # and still feel like with all the time you spent researching, you still had a little bit of a life besides work?  I'll try to test for any company that will let me test for acute care just to see how I do. Thanks for sharing your experience. It gives me hope.
Conference dictations are generally extremely sm
tedious as the voice quality is awful. Consider that when I was in college back in 1970 I made $1.50 a page straight typing from text. You'll be transcribing, not straight typing, a conference or interview.
Work is generally slow all around. Easter
is early, plus spring break in lots of places. I've been on OT for the last 2-3 weeks and ran out of work yesterday and probably will today too. Enjoy it while you can.
I am just generally a worry wart but I am trying to work on it.
I guess that is why the e mails get to me. My job is really important to me, and I take pride in it, I always have. So, maybe I need to lighten up. I understand what the OP said, but I guess we have to make choices in life. The boss has a family, they understand we need lives. Guess do more than expected of us, and using the delete key is a good approach. Just need to quit the worrying habit!
Generally the length of time you are required to keep sm
records on file for a former client is codified in your contract with them.
Most generally lots of people on here to start trouble????
Bringing this back up from below posted by Babe People come here to get advice, and seeking opinions on companies good or bad. Sure, there are a few bad apples that will not be happy anywhere they go but I think most of us all want the same thing, an honest and good company to work for. To post only the positive would be great, but then as we all know, there are companies that do their advertising right here posing as MTs, only to find out later when we get burned and have to start the entire process of testing and bouncing yet to another job. You are either very naive about the MT world we live in today, or more likely you are a company official that doesn't like anything negative posted about your company, specially when its lots of it. I don't think anyone is stupid enough to believe everything they see here, but if you see a lot of specifics about a particular company and you experienced it yourself, then you have to give that some credibility and back that person up - this could be good information or bad information. My assessment of KS personally is that I have not seen anything that would sway me in any way. Any information I have seen here leaves me as feeling neutral.I think people just want an honest opinion, thats all. I guess you perceive a negative post warning about another company's ripoff techniques starting trouble Hmmm.. makes me wonder what chair you're sitting in, sure don't sound like an MT.
Generally, benefits cost the employer $3/hour, so that's sm
probably how yours would figure out, too. 9/cpl/65 is a respectable rate for benefits. Like the other poster said, it depends on what you need and what your scheduling preferences are.
It's every two weeks on Monday, but with direct deposit you generally get it
on Saturday and I even know a couple of MTs who get it on Friday.
Generally, with holidays, patients put off elective procedures, sm
more doctors take off, and generally you can count on a lighter workload, especially with Christmas and Thanksgiving. I tell myself I will save up and prepare for it, but usually I end up scrounging frantically for work, so do not feel alone.
Oh, and pay no attention to the whining comments. Most of us have compassion and understand the panic that cam come along when you realize you have run out of work for the day or whatever.
Hang in there ... it will get better.
Whatever it is, I've learned that it'll generally keep until morning.
Plus if I've been jangled awake in the night by the phone, and am only half-conscious (and wholly p****d off), I'm not going to be of much use, anyway.
If it's bad news, I'd rather read it as an email while I'm having my coffee in the morning.
Sorry to say, this is generally not a good place for support or info. sm
In fact, it's pretty much a cesspool (no offense to true cesspools worldwide) filled with just enough folks who get their jollies being contrary, rude, deceptive, nasty ... you name it.
There are other boards that require logins and therefore there's less of the anonymous sniping that is seen here.
And, of course, this post will be deleted, while the nasty ones remain.
Very sad.
Because in a production environment, the MT will generally produce a significantly higher number of
lines per day.
Weekly? Services are lucky if they get paid twice a month. Generally, services bill out to their
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Hello Management
Give me a break! You are a supervisor, and I know who you are. Spare us this bologna.
SB
If only more management could be like you!
I'd buy you a drink as well! Thank you for the kind words.
Management again??!!!
kidding. "Excellent program", is that why everyone is leaving OSi, because it is so good??!!!
Management...don't you have anything to do?
If TT is growing by leaps and bounds, how do you have the time to get on here and contradict the truth? You don't like negatives about your company, but you're not perfect either.
I am not management -- I don't even
work for them anymore! You can state your opinion, but you are giving inaccurate information about things such as benefits and whether or not you can use ShortHand. Obviously I wasn't all that thrilled with them either or I would still be there.
lol, I have been an MT for 20+ yrs and many of them in management.
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I don't know when the management...SM
was ever great, it was bad 4 years ago when I was there and from your description things haven't changed a bit since then. A bunch of office people with titles, the MTs typing all the work are ignored, avoided and treated badly. We used to call the office in Pittsburgh a kingdom because it was filled with people who never worked past 4:00 in the afternoon, 2:00 on Fridays...never to be heard from until Monday around 9:00 AM.
Not management
I never said I agreed with them docking your pay for errors. BUT, I did say that they only do it if you fall below 98%. Isn't this the norm? Keeping an accuracy rate of 98% or better? So why would you worry about being docked if you maintain 98% or better? They are like any other MT companies, they want quality reports.
Not Management
potatoMT RIGHT ON
NOT management and sorry you could not cut it. nm
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Definitely has to be management ..SS
AMEN !!!
I am definitely NOT their management.......
or anyone else's for that matter. I am just a lowly pee-on MT with 6 years experience trying to make an honest living, and get nothing but lies from this company. I am looking for other work, just like the others who have emailed me privately, who also work for them now and are in the same predicament that I am in. Work flow lying is the main problem with this company. They say there is none, but, in fact, there is. They just turn you off. When there is work, why not give it to us??? This question has been asked by us more than once. Lots more companies out there, so we will just keep looking.
Why don't you take this up with management. (sm)
As far as bonuses being offered unnecessarily on weekends, I think they like to be caught up as best they can on Mon morning, unlike a lot of services who get behind on the weekends. I don't think it really has anything to do wtih overstaffing. JMO. I thought there is extra pay for Sat or Sunday anyway, isn't there?
Must be management. They are NOT one of the
best companies, the absolute worst one I have ever had contact with and if you look through the archives there are many, many more who agree with me.
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