I don’t work for them so I am just visiting this board

• Some of you TT VR cheerleaders say one cannot tell the difference in a VR report and other - Transtech
  • Hit the nail on the head - ALMOST
    • I'm glad someone else finally said this... - Another TT MT
  • There's no use arguing with the TT - sm
  • Not TTer - MT
    • 100% American - No offshoring at TT
      • Not what I asked. - Not TTer
        • Think I know where you are going with this and - Jasmine
          • You think I know where I'm going with this? - Not TTer
            • I don’t work for them so I am just visiting this board - Jasmine
  • That's the fault of the MT; reports should be indistinguishable - Just turn in your notice already, k?
    • Everybody who has ever worked with VR KNOWS the reports are - DEFINITELY DISTINGUISHABLE
    • Looks like management here with the solitary-k- in that - sentence. nm
  • Before you JUMP ON ME, yes, I have done VR with Transtech and absolutely hated it because - Transtech
    • I agree and........ - Ex VR lady

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that this is a board set up FOR medical transcriptionists to vent, to socialize, and to network.  I'm sure that as management you have your own means of networking.  If you are visiting please know you are welcomed, but please do realize that the comments made here, while some may very well be 'Jerry Springer' like, are made out of frustration for our field in general.  With the majority being remote transcriptionists, we do not have the normal venue for getting our things off our collective chest at the water cooler or in the break room with our colleagues.  Most of the time we don't even know the names or emails of our coworkers in our own companies.  So we come here and sometimes the venting gets rough.

Please, do not take it personally, as some feel you may, but also please keep in mind the context of the posts and the fact that you will have Jerry Springer-esque behavior anywhere and everywhere.  It is not limited to the MTs, the residents, the PA's, this board, etc., and it is probably less than 5% of the total number of posters.  I'm also hoping, as a former manager myself, you're not thinking the same term I am about those who feel the need to run up and apologize where an apology isn't necessary.  After all, we are professionals and we do know how to take things in context.

The opinions expressed on this board represent only a fraction of the MTs that may be servicing your accounts.  As an MT who is proud of the MTSO for which she works, I apologize for the appalling Jerry Springer-like antics of this chat board and wish to assure that most MTs that I work with are thoughtful, hard-working professionals who do know the difference between venting a frustration and turning into an ugly mob of pitchfork-carrying villagers. Though I defend their right to an opinion no matter how churlish and embarrassing it is, I also assure you that there are still MTs working on your dictation who realize that there are live patients who depend upon us.  I just thought you needed to hear this.    

you are seeing come from years of being treated badly by the companies you sign transcription contracts with.

We are treated like indentured servants.  Every year, our benefits disappear or cost much more.  Every year, we are not only not given any kind of a raise in pay, but we are forced to accept pay CUTS with little to no notice given by our employers.

Part of the responsibility for this mess is in your lap also - for demanding that services provided to you come cheaply.  Would you demand that your own employees suddenly be paid 1/3 less for a portion of their jobs?  What would happen if you did?

If you're feeling really bold, why don't you experiment with that concept?  Ask your nurses to be paid 1/3 less for the portion of their job that requires paperwork, for example. They aren't providing direct patient care, so that portion of the job should cost you less, right? 

Tell all of your employees that you will no longer offer direct deposit for their paychecks.  Then tell them that they have to pay $25 to have their checks FedExed to them or depend on snail mail for free.  How well do you think that would go over?

Just a slice of what we MTs have to accept every day. 

In all the professions I have been in, I cannot believe how rude, condescending, and judgmental MTs are.  These boards are for helping each other to make wise career choices and sharing our input, not to go around being the spelling and grammar police and making people feel like they don't know what they are doing.  I am well respected in my job, have 100% QA ratings and don't belittle other people who make their errors here.  I think posters here need to spend less time being rude and more time thinking of how we can all help fellow MTs looking for advice.

What co. are you considering now, if company was not TT?   Just wondering.

Getting worse and worse every day.  They are going to VR at a VERY FAST PACE, which pays so little you cannot survive on the money UNLESS you work 60 hours a week OR are one of the supe's fav's that get the better dictators.

There is always an excuse by TT as to the low work, but remember that doesn't pay our creditors.  Work disappears in large chunks when were at getting almost out of TAT (if ever) so it is going somewhere.

TT is turning out to be like every other MT company out there - more and more executives/supervisors to pay and not a single penny raise for the MT -- much less provide work for the MT's on a consistent basis -- not near consistent basis.

07/28/09 for new MTs, FT & PT, all shifts.  Are they saying the accounts are UNDERSTAFFED?

Naturally, the new hirees will be gooing and gushing all over this board again about how GREAT their accounts are and how  EASY their dictators are.

I JUST WONDER WHAT THIS LATEST, YET ANOTHER HIRING BLITZ IS GOING TO LEAD TO IN ANOTHER FEW WEEKS.  Anyone care to predict?  .

the first page of the Company board will be removed to open up space for other companies to post.  Enjoy the new Medquist board set up for you.

Thank you,

Administrator

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I never see any postings from MTs of Louisiana and when I asked a question concerning LA MTs I would never get an answer.  What part of Louisiana are you located.  Do you work as an IC or employee or for a hospital?  I have been trying to get an estimate on what Louisiana MTs are paid as I think the amount that I was told by the hospital was too low.

Then that is Terry and they are out of St. Louis MO.  I currently work for them.  Good company to work for.  Terry is very enthusiastic about MT.  I enjoy the accounts, very low ESL if that is a selling point for you.  We also have always had plenty of work and if ever I've run out I just let Terry know and she hooks me up with another account to fill my time. 

HTH.