I have 19 years experience and was told the same thing. I think their test is incorrect.
Posted By: Me Too!! on 2008-10-31
In Reply to: I got whacked out of the ball park! - Daphne
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I have 15 years experience and I had to test with them.
Now they offer no testing for experienced MTs?
When I applied, they said they had no PT hours available unless strictly weekend.
Also, you have to work 1 weekend day, and supposedly Mondays are very slow.
I was offered a very low rate and was told that would mostly have to do VR.
Politely declined and will leave the work for those happy TTs who like to work weekends for next to nothing.
I tell people the same thing, that was told me....and you 5 years in a hospital setting to be able t
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I have 14 years of experience and I bombed the transcription test. Where oh where did I go wrong..
Oh well, I was offered a QA position at our local hospital so it worked out.
Not sure what you mean. I've worked at home for 18 years. Just fyi: legitamite is incorrect. Spel
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So they let you test and then told you that they require SM
3 years' experience? I thought that many of the companies would waive their requirement if you did well on the test. If you had gotten 48/50, do you think they would have gone further in the application process? They need a good number of MTs right now it seems.... Good luck!
They told me they hire QA from within. What QA test?
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wow, i was never told about required textbooks, only that i could test in 6 months too.
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Yes, I was told that you had to have a drug test and background check.
They test for ortho but not others but I was just told that starting this week, everyone will have t
I love it there too!
I was told I passed the test and they wanted to hire me then...sm
they called me the next day and said they were on a hiring freeze and my name would be put on the waiting list. I have accepted another position as I don't have time to just wait on a list. I have bills to pay and mouths to feed.
They told me the same thing
My name is Teresa Vanjipuda. I feel your pane. I no what you going through. Nationals can rake you over coles. That's the rezon there's so much turnovers with them, and I do not mean apple turnovers. I never made more than $10,000 a yier doing this neither. Two much work, not enuff play. I am looking at leaving this feeld. I have also been critisized on my spellang, but I'm a hard wurker and I am teking a remedl english course. Thank you very much. Do this program have spellkicker?
TTS told me the same thing and I said
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was told the same thing...
I did like her,though. She was very fun to talk to, but that don't pay my bills. I ran dry too many times.
15 minutes after sending my test files I was told she had already selected another applicant.nm
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Me too - told me the same thing - in other words
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Not true! I was told this same thing by....sm
the company I worked for - They told me to move to a business unlimited long distance line and when I did, the phone company came back and cut me off and said that under no circumstances is the receiving of dictation for transcription services allowed! This was AT&T/SBC in Ohio. I have asked every phone company that I have contacted about having them consider an unlimited long distance plan specifically for the MT, and have never heard another word. I wonder if it would be possible to get some backing on this issue? There are thousands of us that need a truly unlimited plan that just ain't there....period! I think Vonage was everybody's answer to the problem as a last resort, and if they won't allow it....what are we to do? Replies welcome! TIA
another thing, recruiter told me about this
wonderful account that rarely had an opening because the MTs loved it so much. I had worked on this account when I was at YOG so I knew how horrible it was. After talking to the TL she told me they constantly have openings because the account is so difficult that they can't keep anyone on it. I'd only believe half of what the recruiter tells you. The recruiter is the one who denied the offshoring, the TL was the one who told me they did and also told me they offshored the good stuff.
same here....was told one thing; turned out to be another.
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I'd like to know about the drug test thing too.
Look at it this way. Each test is an experience
and it will help you gain some insight into what to expect. Like I said above, their accounts are rather difficult so they need to stay firm on what they require because you would be really disappointed to get in there and find out you make no money. You will pass another test for someone else. Keep your chin up.
I had the same experience with their test
And they told me to go back to school. I just got an e mail (a mass e mail, I assume) from their recruiting dept saying they are hiring and to call them.
That is my experience..I too will soon quit and have told...sm
Dorothy I simply must have more work, more accounts, something but get the run-around..always saying things will pick up, this is a holiday slump, etc. This is NOT a holiday slump unless the holiday started in September! Really bad situation and I am aggressively looking for another job.
I talked to the insurance lady too (she is very nice) and was told the same thing. sm
I called the office and talked to a high-up manager who said that they haven't said anything because they do not have anything in writing and do not want to give information and have it be wrong.
The premium for employee only is $404 per month and KS is paying $202. This is much better than I had at another company that I do not want bash as this was the only issue I had.
I love it at KS because I have plenty of work and everyone in the office is so nice. My lead changed positions in the company a few months ago and my new lead is very nice and more organized. I have been there 11 months (this time) and was there a year before that in 2005-6. I made the mistake of thinking that the grass was greener but it wasn't!
Do you think they would let someone test with one year of experience? Thanks. nm
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2 years ago I took the test and ...
the person recruting called me to ask if I would consider the QA manager position because I had scored higher on their test than anyone had before. So, they fly me down, put me up, I rent a car and take a look. It is a slave house. Everyone but the person who was acting as the recruiter was great. It was a slave house. They record off RERECORDED work...talk about listening through the sounds of Pink Floyd! They say they wanted to offer me the job but don't tell me how much they will pay me. I go home and sit back and wait. THREE weeks later the recruiter calls and gives me the details. I tell him I'm no longer interested. It had taken over 2 months from the time I took their test to get an offer. While I was their, the person boosted about infidelity...that was what really got me. First time I made a mistake, there wouldn't be anyone there to catch my back.
I walked away and never looked back. 
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Yep, I applied there, took test, passed it, and I was to be contacted, but never heard a thing from
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If you don't have "tons of experience," you may fail the test!! nm
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Is 7 cpl test/3.5 cpl VR for someone with 13 years exp a good amt.
Does not sound like it. Depends on their definition of line and whether they count spaces, but unless it's an awfully short line (most are 65 char) and they count spaces and headers and footers and supply the computer and have really, really cheap insurance (and you said there were no benefits), I'd say definitely NO. 8.5-9 regular and 5 for VR for acute care for experienced. And that's with benefits. Without, I'd say 10-12 or more. Have never heard of more than 5-6 for VR, though.
I was told by an employeer several years ago that they were mainly looking for garnishments because
it cost them extra to process a garnishment. They would hire someone with one garnishment, but had a clause in the contract that you could be let go if you had more than one during your employment with them. This was a hospital that I worked for. The recruiter said that sometimes people will lie about whether or not they have one, espeically if they are changing jobs to get away from it and then it comes up later.
She has been told this for years now. Hasn't changed.
You would be shocked at how many MTs have left them. Amazingly they keep finding others to hire. Sad, sad, sad.
No, I haven't been. I told my true experience of working for that company.
I don't have a negative attitude. You're the one who can't handle it when someone disagrees with you.
No experience, but was told that work is assigned, no pools, and it's still 8cpl as an IC. nm
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Only about 8 more years till retirement, but I AM going to take the test. (sm)
Have never felt the urge to do so in the past, but the company I am working for now reimburses the testing fees and you get a small raise because you are a CMT. It all adds up to being beneficial for me money-wise, so.... I chose to do it for that reason and that reason alone.
I've been a QA 15 years, applied to Focus, and was told
that they only hire QA on production now & no longer pay QAs hourly, so I said NO THANKS.
No MT experience needed for test, really. Just good reference materials.
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I have had two offers and this interview/test so far. I have worked for Q for 14+ years with
another two at a hospital and one at a clinic before then. I graduated from a cc with a trans cert in 1991. So, I have a bunch o' experience and love this job, but hate it now at the Q. I never cried WHILE I was working before this month! LOL! What about you?
About 1-1/2 years ago I tested, aced it, heard back, only to be told with....sm
28 years of experience, formal college education, experience in all areas, all work types, etc., that I would be started at 6cpl, then if I got off probation at around 3 months, I could make 6.5 cpl, and then another six months later perhaps 7cpl. Set hours, you can guess, I passed this one over very QUICKLY, and also informed them nicely that if they wanted truly good, top-notch, first-rate MTs (as their ads say), then they really have to come up with a few more CPL, that what they were offering for someone with a perfect score and all the experience was actually an insult. They nicely said okay, let us know if you change your mind. Yea, right............
I experience the same thing in Meditech.
that, in both the line count situation and the drag situation, your brain steers that ship? The correlation between what you're hearing (brain function), what you're seeing on the screen (also brain function), and what you fingers are typing (brain function) all depend on...guess what? Your brain. We all have a certain speed (given varying conditions of how clear the doctors are, how well you understand the dictation) that we see/hear/type and, if what we see on the screen has lag, then our fingers will automatically pound on the keyboard, thinking it's going to give a faster result. (All that will do is make your fingers tired.) I've found that deliberately relaxing my fingers and typing extremely lightly (like a butterfly landing on the keys) will alleviate a lot of frustration when there is lag.
My second point is that whole old-as-the-hills, keep-beating-that-dead-horse-and-hope-it-gets-up-and-runs issue of line count - has ANYONE else considered that if you do not have a visual aid showing how well/poorly you're doing, you'll tend to type more slowly? Consider the example of someone running the 100-yard dash by themselves, flying along, feeling that wind rush through their hair and thinking they broke the world record, only to find out the guy from the Special Olympics in the wheelchair beat them. Our brains are funny that way. We rely on outside validation (in this case in the form of a visible real-time line count) to tell us how long that report REALLY was or give us that OMG, did I really only type 150 lines this last hour?? I better buckle down feeling.
From the NUMEROUS posts about line count, it sounds like enough people have verified and found that TT doesn't really cheat anyone. I do think that TT seriously needs to consider giving the employees that visual aid, though, so they (the employee) can self-monitor. Just a thought...
I worked for Keystrokes a few years back. There were some problems but was told they were working on
I had heard that before, too many times to count, so I left.
I came back 2 years ago and it was like night and day.
All of the old problems are gone. They blamed them on growing pains and never denied them. Instead they fixed them. They have my vote!
I went through the same thing with over 25 years ..
experience. What was explained to me by a few companies that posted on this site and I applied to, is that they were inundated with resumes and the application process was actually a lot more difficult for the company than expected. Two companies actually told me that within just a matter of hours of posting they had received over 300 resumes.
My point is, I do not imagine that it has anything at all to do with you or your abilities. I believe that there are so many experienced MTs (as well as newbies) in the market today looking for jobs, whether a primary or a secondary, that it is bogging down the more reputable companies.
Hang in there and I really wish you and anyone else looking the best of luck!!
I echo your experience! Said the very same thing to me, but I quit them first.
Good riddance! On to better things! :-)
Thank you -- that is a nice thing to say. I realize my experience will not always sm
be the same as someone else's, but I try to share what I know and help if I can. This board has been tremendously helpful sometimes. I once was considering taking a job with a company, and I did some research here and lo and behold, they apparently had a reputation for not paying their MTs! Even on those days that I truly love my job, I don't love it enough to do it for free. The idea of me living in a refrigerator box (with a microwave box for the doggie, of course) is NOT appealing!
Thanks again.
Just took a test today for a company and I am amazed how rusty I am after not testing for years and
years. I had to really think about things again. I guess after you test enough you get used to it. That is the first one I took in about 13 years. I just more or less did it to see how it was. Should be interesting to see how it went because I really dont want to work for the company I just wanted to take the test. A lot of tricky questions in it.
You mean, he's still at this type of thing? About 5 years ago....
I had to go to the Labor Board in my state to get my money from him. He always has more excuses than anyone I've ever known, and he's slippery about communication, too. If this is a new problem, you'd best get on it. Hopefully he'll pay up, but I wouldn't give him ANY more chances!
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I have been an IC for 15 years, and I have never heard such a thing.
How would the IRS know what my schedule is or was. I just submit 1099's with income, take my write-off's, and pay my self employment tax. No where do I submit my scheduled hours or am I asked when filing my return.
Same thing happened to me about 3-4 years ago
Company ended up filing bankruptcy so no one got paid
I did the same thing 3 years ago!!! They are AWFUL!
I worked for them for only a couple of weeks and ended up quitting because it was so bad. Everyone you will deal with, except for the recruiters, are in India and it's awful! My trainer even got mad at me because I couldn't understand a word he was saying while he was training me! I quit right away! I would totally avoid them at all costs!
After all these years, if I use Media Player, I just have my test outline ready and play the voice
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I envy you. 5 years ago at my company I would have said the same thing
Now they are using such unfriendly software, can't fix any of the problems, it seems, and I'm seriously thinking of moving on. The owner hires her friends, and I really don't think anyone is qualified. JMO, of course.
okay it's a computer thing - "one to three years"
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