I had a good friend who worked for them and had an awful experience.
Posted By: Ana Falaxis on 2006-05-29
In Reply to: Questionable company - Colleen Schlee
She said that the work load was sporadic at best. They would either be drowning in work or starving. She said that her pay was late two or three times and when she questioned management on it they were extremely rude. She said that the owner/manager of the company was a nightmare who was prone to screaming fits and berating those who disagreed with her.
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According to a friend, awful, awful,
Low pay, bad accounts etc..
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Had just made contact with an exTH employee. Said it was an awful experience for her. nm
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I had a friend that worked for Precyse - sm
She was told she would be paid in two weeks - eight weeks later, and several phone calls later, she was still calling for her FIRST check. She was soooo frustrated and soooo broke, that she had no choice but to quit that job and go back to her prior transcription job
My friend worked there and hated them, but
I guess it just depends.
I too had a friend that worked for Mxsecure
She thought it was a great company and highly recommended it. The person she dealt with though was a man. 
A friend of mine worked there
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A friend of mine worked there over 9 years
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I third that; friend worked for them and took about 3-4 months to collect his pay. nm
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I had a friend who worked there on a split shift yet (sm)
I was told I could only work my shift hours, no more, no less. I guess it just depends on what kind of mood they are in the day you are hired.
A friend of mine worked for Spheris
and she said they really sc***ed her.
friend of mine worked in their office in Annapolis - sm
Two of her checks bounced. Owner flies off to India every other week to check on offices in India. His sales force is US, but 90% of work goes to India. Apparently the owner takes care of the India people and sales force first and foremost before he takes care of the US MTs and editors. This was a year ago - I don't know if things have changed/
I worked for them PT briefly -- nice people but sound quality was awful. sm
That was a long time ago, though, and things could have changed. If I remember, they paid decent wages.
Good luck. 
Not good, not bad, but AWFUL!
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That is good you messed up then - awful co
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good friend just graduated as RN -
She was offered around 60K to start. The most I ever made as an MT was 60K as an IC. I can only make about 25K now as an employee being paid at a much lower line rate. Do the math...Good luck! :-)
I have a good friend who works there and she ...
tells me that she loves the job. She says there is usually lots of work, except for the occasional holiday slowdowns that seems to be across the board for MTs. She said that she never has a problem with getting her pay and she said that likes the fact there there are not a large number of emails coming at you and interrupting the workflow.
good friend went to work for them
She was trained on the platform haphazardly and quit after one day. There is no grace period for getting docked for mistakes and from the first report, they started docking her pay for any type of mistake. The patient list came in a copied fax format that you couldn't even see and she said it was just awful trying to find a patient name.
I have a good friend who works there and...
My friend works there is happy with her job. She does say though that people either love it or hate it - no in between. I do know though that they are trying to go to mostly a voice recognition platform for their accounts and they are trying to phase out MTing as we know it.
A good friend of mine
who has been an MT for 30+ years had to quit Trans Tech because she was not making enough to pay her mortgage.
Hmmm...I had a good friend who had that
And things got worse from there. She finally had to quit. Can't help wondering if it's the same company. The woman she had contact with (not sure if it was the owner) was very coarse and always acted like she had too many things to do to worry about stuff like payroll. In fact, they didn't even send out a W2 form until my friend asked for it.
It was a totally chaotic situation.
Good riddance! They have gone way downhill in the last few years and do an awful job.
Thats why we fired them.
I have a good friend who was recently offered a job there - SM
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I have a good friend who was offered a job there this winter - SM
She has 8 years of full-time experience, and they offered her 6 cpl for acute care! What a joke! They wouldn't even budge on the line rate. They told her that was their only and final offer. Needless to say, she didn't accept the position!
Of course it's good, but with the awful dictators and the trash dictation we get anymore, this ki
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My experience is I worked about
the archives before applying. Much of it was about bad QA, a horrible platform and bad dictators. My QA experience was actually very positive and I had someone who was patient and took a lot of time attempting to help me adjust. It was very personalized which I loved. I almost felt guilty when I decided I had to leave. There is no way I was going ot pay my bills or enjoy coming to work each day. The dictators and voice files were terrible. The platform was just no frills. Nothing good or bad about it in my opinion except maybe a little slow? The office staff was friendly enough but I don't think they actually knew what they were doing. Maybe they were new to the company too?
It's been my experience that it ends on your last day worked. nm
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I had this experience when I worked for Precyse.
Glad to be gone from that nonsense.
I worked for this company and it was the worst experience of my career.
I would advise you to search the archives on this board. You will be able to make your own decision based on that info.
Has anyone worked with Linda Kelley of TTS/Medware & can you tell me about your experience, please?
Has anyone worked with Linda Kelley of TTS/Medware, and can you please tell me about your experience?? THANKS SO VERY MUCH, your time is greatly appreciated!!!
Only if you need the experience I guess. I worked some real low-paying ones -
in the beginning for that reason. If you mean the letterhead and like page numbers, then no. But if you're referring to the headings like HPI, PMH, etc., those should be included. You have to put them in. I know at least 1 company that cleverly didn't pay for them. That was quite a few years ago. I quit in 3 mos.
Absolutely not. In my recruting experience many were old-timers having worked
It is frightening.
Speaking from experience.. you work all day and make nothing. I also have worked for other companies
on Escription and made a lot more.I just came to the conclusion that they do not pay for headers, footers, spaces etc.. I swear I would work 8 hours and be lucky to make $50. It was my first Escription account so when I changed companies I could not believe it. I make in a few hours what took me 10-12 hours to make at Focus. Dont waste your time. They design it so you dont make any money. What a waste of time working there.
My experience with them has been good sm
Their expectations for style are given out and I have never had any problems with QA. I rarely have to send anything to QA and when I do on occasion, I never get direct feedback as you can check your reports at any time for what the blanks were. I guess if you are doing something incorrect that needs addressed they might do that, but I have never had any negative or nitpicky experiences with them.
Not a good experience
They will keep you on QA for as long as they can.. they even make up mistakes that they state you make.... not a good place to work.
my experience has been good
pay is on time, work is steady, everyone is nice - - some posts have been negative but you will get negative posts about any company you ask about on this board, GOOD LUCK!
I ddi not have a very good experience either sm
Pay was average, but at least on time. Lots of times not enough work. You have to be on IM all day and it is very disruptive. MT World is in my opinion outdated. There is much better out there. JMHO
Good experience with them
so far. Lots of work where I am, not saturated with foreign dictators. Platform easy, lines good so far. Lead MT is extremely nice, very down to earth person. I received a welcome card, a really nice personal touch goes a long way.
I have had a good experience...sm
with Webmedx. I have not received the emails threatening to offshore like the other employee mentioned. My account always has more work than we can handle...thus the overtime (been on account about 4 months). As well, I have a secondary account.
I don't dislike the platform. There are some days when some functions are slower than others, but it has not seemed to have affected my line count.
Full time is 35 hours a week, and handbook states that you will loose benefits if you do not work 35 hours. You know that going in, and I don't think that is unreasonable. You'd be expected to work 40 hours if you worked at a job on site. IMHO, they seem to fair all the way around. Things might change, but today I am happy. :) Hope this helps.
Not a good experience for me at all.
I tried working for them. Nice people to work with. The problems I encountered was that they used EXText, which was extremely slow running for me and I have a high-speed cable modem. The pay was only 3 cpl and they expected 100% QA. With the pay being so low and spending more time sitting there waiting for things to download and open, I wasn't even making minimum wage. I had no choice but to quit with wages that low. Apparently, EXText utilizes a VPN connection, which my Cable internet technician told me was probably overloaded with people trying to work all at once, which was the reason everything ran so slowly. He said there was nothing wrong with my internet speed at all.
My experience has been very good!
I have been with Focus Infomatics for just over a year, and I like it very much indeed. Pros are good, flexible, knowledgable supervisors, direct deposit (has never been late), Escription platform (best I've used), flexible schedule, good feedback, fair QA'ing. Only con I can think of is sometimes the work flow is slow, but by asking for more work I almost always have all I need. I recently converted from IC to full-time to qualify for health insurance (their BCBS plan is excellent). When I started there I was told the editing/transcription ratio is about 80/20, which is about right, though it varies from day to day, of course. Again, the Escription platform is very easy to use. My supervisor is great; polite, helpful. I realize Focus may not be right for everyone, but then again, everyone is not right for Focus. BTW, I have been an MT for over 20 years and this is the best company I've ever worked for.
I did not have a good experience with them. sm
I went backwards to archaic ways with phone lines and lanier stations. There was never enough work on my huge account. Never work on my secondary or third accounts either. Tried the on-line accounts, and no work there either.
When I did get a few reports, the line count was terrible on Bayscribe and the spellchecker sucked!
I gave it a couple of weeks, was off QA the first 5 reports; however, I knew in the first day or two, this was not going to work out. But, I gave it a chance and it was not a good experience.
I could not stand all the no so positive e-mails daily either.
This was just my experience. Not a good fit for me!
My experience was not good...sm
I agree with the OP that most companies have good and bad points. I enjoyed most of the people I worked with/for at KS during the 9 months I was there. But when the work on my account slowed down I then started getting one backup account after another where the work would last only briefly. I was trained on 4 different platforms while there. There was some dishonest communication, and while the intentions may have been good, intentions don't cut it when a person has bills to pay. Once it became clear that they were not being up front with me about workload/accounts, I chose to leave, and I wouldn't go back. I have since dealt with 3 other companies, all of whom were more straightforward with me (even when the work ran low) than KS was. Just my 2 cents. Wishing you the best of luck.
Good experience sm
I did some IC work on a Urology account about 3 to 4 years ago. Dictators were good. Pay was on time. Good communication.
Overall good experience
The platform I am on is good to very good with regard to audio.
my experience has been good
I've been there less than 6 months. Before working for them, I'd held only one job. On that job there was no platform - we used Word/WP. This was a local group of doctors. Since I have no experience with any other platform than Inscribe, I have no comparisons. I don't find it slow, though.
As well, I have a very competent and courteous account manager. She is polite, as friendly as an AM should be, and never rude or contradicting.
It's a good place for experience, IMO
But not for $$ or benefits. They do hire a lot of newbies and they don't hassle you if you haven't reached your goals (unlike other companies I have read about).
However, I do think it is somewhat of a sink or swim situation. Not a lot of handholding here, if that's what you need. I don't even know if they do any clinics. I have all acute care, almost all ESL, and lots of ops. I personally don't find the audio on my accounts to be bad; it's usually the dictators and background noise that are bad. By comparison, I did 3 months for MQ simultaneously, and while the dictators were better, the audio was crap and you couldn't use your own wav player. I was doing stinky derm and ENT clinics - yuk - and when they finally put me on acute care, I never got the same dictator twice.
SS has started to provide a breakdown by job of line counts, which is a good thing. Constant changes in supervisory/management personnel. In summary, if you can do without the $$ and benefits and can jump in with both feet, SS is a good place to get experience.
Rapidtranscript..did not have good experience with them
lack of communication and support, I quit the first day!
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