I just recently quit, I just couldnt pay my bills. nm
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In Reply to: My thoughts exactly...sm - MTfor2long
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Anyone quit MQ and gone back to them recently?
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I just recently quit Amphion and accepted sm
offer from Axoltol. Amphion has been requesting OT for weeks and weeks from everyone. As of yesterday, my 2 accounts were out of work. They need to request the OT only on a couple of accounts, but since they are having everyone work OT, several accounts are low. The way they manage their accounts is just odd, IMHO. I have been trying to get an answer for days about sending back the puter and still no answer.
I did accept offer from Axoltol. I would think that having so many new accts coming in is a good thing! They seem very well organized. I emailed about when my computer would be here as I am going out of town and didn't want to miss the shipment. I got a phone call within 30 minutes. She checked on the date and even offered to give a tracking # if I wanted. I thought that was very nice!
I start Monday. I can post next week to give you any info on how things are going if you wish.
It's called bills, bills, bills.
Have kids, work early mornings and evenings on the weekends and still get to spend time with them. During the week early mornings, 5 hours while they are in school, then again after they are in bed. You do what you have to in this economy - and really at all times. Never did work 9-5 on M-F.
This is healthcare. Most of us work with hospital accounts and the hospitals are open 24/7. Shifts at the hospital are 7-3:30, 3 - 11:30, 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Don't see very many 9-5 M-F shifts there, do ya?
couldnt tell by the voice
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As IC, you couldnt tell plumber he can work on your
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100% correct. Ruined me too. I just couldnt work
Thank you so much. I couldnt understand that 8, 16 and 24 hours very well. I wouldnt want to limit
myself to that.
Who knows? When I used it, couldnt access line count and hear others saying the same.
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I totally agree 100% .... couldnt have said it better myself. Waste of time here
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Yep. couldnt tell you excited we were to find out why we dont hardly have any work. Obviously, it is
going elsewhere and so are we.
Why dont you "enlighten" us to why people job hop in this business. It couldnt be because we g
stiffed on our pay, lied to, mislead, underpaid, broken promises. Yes, there is a reason why people change jobs. You can only take so much. Is it a wonder that a lot of MT are burned out. Does anyone want to keep changing jobs?? No, it would be great to actually be able to make a living doing what we love the most at one company that follows through on promises. It does kind of take the wind of your sails when your dished out nothing but ........ all the time. So, that is why I stick up for Msla MT. There are more out there right with her.
I just quit Medquist, hired by Etrans and quit them after one afternoon during the last two weeks!sm
Medquist made me buy a new computer to go to the "Docuscribe" system that was so much better than cottage. When I got there I took a real big pay cut to the tune of probably 30 to 40%. I was getting paid gross lines doing Cedars-Sinai operative reports. I asked for more per line and my supervisor just laughed and said you think were going to pay you $0.12 a line to just do operative reports! I said I quit. I should have said F you and your mamma too:( I had been there all together 7 years through buyouts. I am just sick of it all. I'm going to go sew my daughter a cute little Halloween outfit right now.
MRC (Medical Records Corp)?? Any information out there on them. I couldnt find anything in the
archives. Any help would be appreciated. Thinking of applying.
No the driving force if the MT in transcription. Without the MT the technology couldnt survive.
I have done enough ASR, etc. to tell you that there is no way that technology could survive on its own or any other technology that we have today as well. The way these people dictate I guarantee you there will always be a need for MTs. There arent enough doctors now to go around. Do you really think they are going to sit there and type the reports or care how they look. They are working twice as hard now for less money.
No experience because I couldnt even take the transcription tests. The voice files would not play.
How about you? I was bummed. I was really interested in the job but I tried everything to get the voice files to play but they wouldnt. Oh well, I guess if it were meant to be, then I would have been able to take the test.
Yep, me too. Cant pay my bills and sm
I started screening my phone calls because bill collectors are calling now. Work for a national that overhires with absolutely no work for months now, started a pilot program sending work to India, and only pays 1/2 the regular line rate for crummy VR editing. 
That's how much all my bills are behind thanks to offshore
entities scooping my last job. But hey, attorneys make loads of moolah. Honestly, you couldn't pay me enough to defend or provide services. I'd rather be poor.
All well and good if you don't have bills to pay
Hourly QA isn't that easy to find anymore.
Honestly if I were in the position of being changed to line rate, I'd figure what I needed to proof per hour to make my current rate, and do it. And you're right, the quality would suffer, and it would be what the company deserved. But I'd be doggoned if I'd take the hit in my own wallet; I'd do the best I could within those parameters.
Paying bills have nothing to do with it...
If you disagreed with what the poster was saying about productivity versus quality, and, at the same time claim 100%, you should show it. How can you state a strong opinion like yours, but still do what others do, like, gee, I don't know, make mistakes?
loyalty won't pay your bills
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Are you going to pay my bills while strike is on?
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will you share my bills too?
I REST MY CASE!!!!
Phone Bills
Well just quit ATT for phone and internet went back to cable and started using MagicJack which supposedly is $20.00 per year for longdistance and local along with free 911. Been on the MagicJack for about three weeks, hopefully this will be cheaper and if I get another job somewhere I can use this without having to have a land line
Obviously they don't have bills to pay. Insane.
I am able to pay my bills as have money in the bank but
I really would like to be able to get the check when it is due. Direct deposit and just checked, still not there. I love my job and really make a decent salary as opposed to some who are not but gosh, looks like we could get when we are supposed to. It is not like we are not paid, just not on the date we are told.
Unemployment line for me . . . can't pay bills off of air . . . n/m
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5 years there, pays the bills
Seems to depend on who you talk to. I have been with Edix/Spheris for 5 years now, no real problems other than a couple of supervisors that weren't very nice, but I went off those accounts and everything is fine. Our medical insurance has gone from pretty good to flat out crap and I think a lot of people have left because of it, but as far as the company they aren't that bad. They always pay on time, I have never had trouble taking vacation or time off. I would recommend them if you have another source for insurance. And let me reassure you, I am just a MT, not in management, not in recruiting.
45 days is too long, your bills are due every
30 days.
In debt and all bills being paid!
I have worked for over 3 years with DSG and have always made the money I need to survive with extra $ left over. I quit multiple jobs to work with DSG full time and make more now that I ever did, working less hours!
Welcome to the DSG team!!
Glad YOU can pay bills. The rest of us..SM
are struggling big time. You are weighing the fact that you don't have to pay for daycare and can go on field trips against everything else that's exploitative about this busines (I won't even go into outsourcing, although that's a major problem) . Would you advise your children to become an MT?
Oh, yes, remember that we MT's get to pay our light bills
air conditioning bill, heating bills, phone bills, provide computer equipment and high speed internet, etc., etc.
The office staff get their utilities bill paid for while they work! Maybe they should split the office utility bills among themselves and get a feel of what it is like to be an at-home MT.
Transtech, I do thank you for my paycheck in order to pay all those bills, but we seem to be so underappreciated and are offered less benefits because we work at home -- as compared to the office staff. I thank God every day that He has provided for me another year.
Transtech, please show the number of lines we transcribe on our paycheck stubs so that we have something to compare to and can look at. This is the first company that I have ever seen that does not show the MT the number of lines on the paycheck stub. We have been promised that many months ago, but it has never come to fruition with the new payroll company you hired.
Thank you, Transtech office staff, for being the friendly people you are.
But, have you always been paid, and in time for bills
Are they dependable, and good income, really need to know. If the paper check is dependable, that would be okay, but really need to know specifics on reliability of pay, company, etc. Thanks again.
So DH pays the BIG bills. What if he were no longer
ALL the bills, on your own, with your salary or any typical MT's salary?
Got all bills paid but did not close down accts because
I knew, like you, this could ding your credit reports.
That bears repeating...'Loyalty won't pay your bills."
Such a simple words, but when put together like that they just make so much darned sense. Head 'em up and move 'em out. Lots better pasture out there.
like how late? when bills/mortgage is past due?
an you gotta pay late fees? Is that what you mean? Boy, I hope you make a lot of money to cover that.
My creditors are just not accepting nice for $$$$ to pay my bills
We continue to get these emails from mgmt about big things in store . . . but we cannot tell you about it now. This has been going on for a number of months now. Who is going to benefit from those big things. We MT's are LOSING money each and every day, but you keep getting the same size paychecks because you are either salaried or hourly employees.
Bottom line for me is the paycheck. Nice don't pay the bills.
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Why should I waste time proofing posts, they don't pay the bills. nm
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Can you provide a link where we can read these bills in their entirety?
All I'm finding is H.R. 1653 is a bill that has to do with the inclusion of abstinence teaching in federally funded sex education programs. And S. 810 has to do with obtaining federal grant money for scientific research. See below for description and links to these bills.
S. 810
'A bill to establish a laboratory science pilot program at the National Science
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.810:
H.R. 1653
'To provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1653:
Being paid by production is a slap in the face of quality. Bills due
determine the work ethics, from what I have witnessed. For an MT who has to come up with the money to live and the work available limited, there is a race to grab the best work, produce it as fast as possible and get on to the next job (which one may cherry pick simply because, well, they need the cash and have only so many hours to work, a limited amount of work available to them and, one might conclude, why not grab the easier work). It sucks. If there were ample work available to give the 8 hr a day MT her/him line count and provide her/him with a salary that one could live on modestly with a fair share of the good/bad, it would certainly make our days much more pleasant and then, quality would improve.
What you need personally to cover your bills should be the deciding factor. And what you MIGHT earn
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If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because
I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.
Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS. That seems so unfair when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!
If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because
I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.
Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS. That seems so unfair that their high paychecks keep coming in to mgmt -- when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!
I have Charter Cable for phone, internet and cable and love it. No worries about big bills. sm
Their service is not great but I have not had to call since I was set up 2 years ago, so it does not bother me. My whole block uses it and we are all very happy!
Has been down a lot recently, but..
only for very short periods at a time, not sure if they're doing upgrades or what. Could also be weather-related with the terrible tornadoes this week in parts of the country. You just have to be patient and adjust your schedule slightly when it happens. I love the BeyondTxt platform, it's the easiest I've worked on. IMO, MDI-FL is a very good company, and I can't say that about many out there these days, so was worth it for me.
recently went to an HSA
and went IC.
Actually some of us are ICs. Recently ...
MDI was only hiring ICs with SE status after so many days or months. So there are some ICs that were with MDI.
In my meeting CB said that Transcend had IC, SE and employee and the usual case by case. I think she wrongfully mislead the person who asked this question because that was the first I had heard of their being SE status at Transcend.
I have not had issues until recently and
with you I would; however, I don't! FYI, I am dealing with my issues and if they are not resolved to my satisfaction, I will leave. Thanks for your concern and have a great day! DVW
Recently started too
Flexible schedule but you need to decide what your hours are and commit to them. Benefits granted at 32 hours. Plenty of work. Really good, patient and supportive people. Training with guaranteed pay. Smooth, easy and fast startup. Good, high-tech platform.
There was recently a big campaign on
to try to get MLS who were smart enough to quit Transcend before, to come back to Transcend because of all the recent *improvements* the company claimed they made. I wonder how many of those did come back and how many are happy that they came back did versus how many have quit again or are ready to quit again.
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