I left, too. Incredibly picky account rules. No $$.
Posted By: nm on 2006-04-10
In Reply to: Amphion have a lot of people leave? sm - just started
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What is so picky about them? I don't think wanting accuracy is picky...
It is professional...
Not much left to sell since they lost big account.nm
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may be good now, wait until they Global your account, too. I left there long ago, happy I did. nm
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Have to agree with Not for Me ... their pay is incredibly low. sm
As long as people continue to accept jobs like that just because there is an abundance of work (probably an abundance because they can't get enough people to work for substandard wages), then companies like that will keep offering low pay.
Good companies will pay you what you're worth AND provide a steady work flow. You might want to look around -- you're worth more, I'm sure! 
Yes! Running incredibly slow! nm
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Free and incredibly boring! (nm)
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Transcend is so incredibly disorganized.
They need to get their act together before they buy another company. Nobody knows what the other is doing, poor communication all around.
Their system is incredibly slow based on
where your ISP routes servers. They have overhired big time and in the last 90 days had only 1 week where I actually got in all my hours, even working off days and different shifts. Plus that clocking in and out is a pain and you work 10 hours just to get 8. They dangle the incentives in front of you but with their lack of work and slow system you have to work like heck to get the 150 lph minimum.
If you think I'M a bully you're incredibly naive
There's nothing remotely bullying about my post. I stated my opinion. You post on here asking for opinions and I gave you one. It just wasn't the self-serving opinion you were seeking assuring you that you did the right thing.
Yes, perhaps you did the right thing for you by turning that job down; but if you're so happy where you're at, why are you wasting the time of MTSOs and perhaps pushing other MTs out of the running so they can spin their wheels with you? Also, about 98% of these posts on the job seekers board indicate when a weekend day will be required; you should have known going in when you applied apparently just out of curiosity that a weekend day would be required.
Sorry, but I'll leave you to your God and your family and your ability to pick and choose 'wonderful' job offers.
I'm just glad another MT will get a shot at this job who realizes people do indeed need reports transcribed on the weekend, and I certainly hope your God is on standby if a loved one ever needs a critical care transport and all reports transcribed and ready to go, because if the staff is a bunch of MTs refusing to work weekends, it could be a real inconvenience to have to wait until Monday for the official transcribed documents to be completed and faxed.
I'm done here...
I always think that the topic of my e-mail must imply that I am incredibly stupid
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Very picky
She didn't know what she wanted, would gripe about everything under the sun, and would send 20 emails a day asking the status of work that wasn't due until the next day. They were usually in all caps in a screaming tone.
Pay was .06 per actual line which was ok I guess, but definitely not worth the hassle of her constant emails and nitpicking. Hope this helps you some.
Maybe I am just too picky...
I see Cbay in Annapolois (their spelling not mine) is advertising and one of the things they want is nero-ophthalmology. What's that? Hmmm.. .
Picky, picky
I have transcribed and done QA for Medquist for 20 years. I went part-time with Transolutions for a little extra cash and it was the most frustrating experience I have ever had. As stated previously, you receive about 9 binders of stuff to read through. The apex system was okay, but way too much to do on the patient information page. You have to copy every physician mentioned in the report plus fill in many fields on the ADT taking away tons of time actually transcribing. QA is absolutely ridiculous. In the short period of time I worked for them the issue was grammar, mainly commas. They take off for everything, reducing your accuracy percentage way down, I am talking in the 70s just because of punctuation errors. I was astonished with my paychecks which never got any better. I think they are also on line counts with no spaces included as it took forever to get anywhere. I hated it and would never recommend Transolutions to anyone. 
what do you mean by picky?
I didn't think they tested, just on QA for 2 weeks.
Yes, exactly. The picky nothing stuff
I have been reviewed now for 5 months; been in the "Exceeds Standards" percentage; and that is ridiculous anyway, 98-100%, etc.
I have been an MT for 25 years. Why am I being graded. We obviously do not know what we are doing. I thought I finished grade school along time ago.
Yes, picky and wrong about their QA. nm
If you're asking if QA at DSG is picky... (sm)
Yes, they are, because we have high standards and like to keep our accounts happy. If you're asking how hard it is to actually do QA on QASAR, I have no idea. I am an MT with DSG. I hope this answers your question from an MT point of view.
not picky about punching in right when you are scheduled,
just so you get your work done. Also, remember the time clock and punching in out keeps track of your lines per hour which the more lines per hour the more you are paid. Its not bad at all!!!
2006 posts said QA is VERY picky here. Pay was 6-9 cpl. Under
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AAMT standardization, not picky
I work from home for a hospital. I have also worked for regionals/nationals, clinics, pathology, etc. I work for a hospital that has the JCAHO accreditation which means that every department is compliant, not just clinical. I'm proud of the work we do in my transcription department. We have VR and it's rarely on because we have a top team of professional MTs. We all make a minimum of $20 an hour and most of us make more because, yes, we get paid per line. We are a 400-bed facility and only require a team of 16 transcriptions (about 50/50 FT and PT MTs). I believe this is because we have standards that we know we can refer to if there is ever a question. It also makes it so we don't have many questions. We type it the AAMT way. It creates a professional and consistent-looking document. No room for anyone to question: Doctor, MT, manager, or even the Q&A department. No one. Period.
AAMT integrates JCAHO standards, as well. AAMT isn't some persnickety transcriptionist who wants to have a say in what we all type. The effort is there in order to create a standardization in the work we do. I still believe we do an important job, regardless of the jobs that are sent off-shore. Until they're all gone, this is how I make my living and I want to try to be as professional as possible. I'll bring AAMT guidelines to whatever job I hold and I doubt very much that my work will be called into question.
JMHO
Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!!
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I think what happens when companies want that little QA submission and are really picky is
that you tend to relisten to all your reports and end up making much less money because you become paranoid about the whole thing. That is what is happening to me at the place I am working. They are so picky to the point of being ridiculous. AND, it is very stressful and not fun.
Nasty team leader, nit-picky QA, sm
mounds of account specifics and company instructions and I mean 7 binders each 3 inches thick , constant busy signals dialing in to get work, slow PC-company supplied, slow tech support, impossible to make line rate. Dock you big time for errors.
Yeah Mary picky pants.
Made yourself look a little foolish eh?
Following basic grammar is nit-picky? Maybe I misunderstood.
Not when you have so many accounts and no work. How do you like the picky nothing stuff they deduct
off for the 98% QA. I have never seen such BS in my life. It makes absolutely no sense at all. Has no bearing on what an MT can or cannot do. It is all designed to get rid of more QA people and to make sure no one makes the bonus. No doubt about that. Has anyone tried to discuss this with them or is that impossible.
response to bounced checks and "too picky"
Please, do not let those untrue postings affect your decision to work for The MT Group.
This is Melanie (the one who posted the job for The MT Group). The MT Group was started in 1996, and we have NEVER EVER EVER EVER bounced someone's check nor shorted the check. We ask all of our ICs to turn in their line counts at the end of every pay period. If they do not match what we have, I contact the IC so that we can compare. Very rarely do I need to go that far. When I put in our job post that we are honest and fair, I was being honest. I was very discouraged to read that posting.
As far as pickiness about spaces. It is common knowledge that there should be two spaces after a period, and yes, we do expect that. I can't help but think that the person who posted that reply just had a big problem with using two spaces.
And moodiness?? Who was moody? The transcriptionist?
I have worked for a company that is SO picky and you have to do so much demographic work
before you ever get to the report. Then you have to switch screens, take out an underscore in 2 places, change the worktype in 3 places if the doc doesn't put it in right, IM someone to look up the name for letters (which is about half my worktype), change screens again to get the billing number, paste it in, and THEN you can start the report. Ahhhhhhh!
All for 1 cent more per line than the reports I do for another place that all I have to do is enter a MRN and I'm there, in the report, and no medications, no demographics. Now one of these days I am going to be brave and just switch altogether to this company.
Years ago posts said they were extremely picky & hard to work for. Haven't
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And since you obviously know the rules
Did you miss the part about harrassing other people on the board?! Enough already, I think he/she got your point!
Not according to the rules of IC
No schedule is to be dictated. Nothing that even remotely suggests employee status is to be done with ICs.
Banking rules indicate that you must have
concrete proof that the direct deposit is going in because things do happen. If you have your paystub with the direct deposit amount and date on it, only then you can write checks and do withdrawals. Otherwise, it's your fault. It doesn't matter when pay usually comes. We went round and round with both of our banks over this because DH's pay wouldn't show up sometimes since his supervisor had forgotten to send the paperwork over to the payroll department. It didn't matter and we had to eat all the overdraft, NSF and check collection fees. I was so ticked off at his boss, but DH would never let me go off on the lazy good for nothing.
As I recall, the IRS rules for IC ...
specify that if the company has or asserts control over any part of your working conditions, time, production, clients, etc, then you have to be called an employee and treated as such tax-wise.
This post goes against the rules and will probably get
deleted, but I'm make like a scratched CD and again state post you resume on the job boards, search the ads on the job boards.
That's the doctor's rules
They do the account the way the doctors want them done; I guess that's why they don't have a turn over of accounts so that we are constantly losing accounts and having to start over. They follow BOS unless it is stated in the instructions otherwise at the doctor's request.
rules of the board
Of course we all need to be able to vent our frustrations and state our opinions, whether everybody agrees with us or not. My problem with this board is the huge number of trolls who take every opportunity to wage a personal attack. That's taking freedom of speech to a level that interferes with other peoples' rights and I think there should be zero tolerance for it. Sure, state your opinion and argue if you wish, but leave the personal attacks and name-calling out of it. That's against board policy to begin with and too many people don't respect that rule. I realize of course that there's a problem with trolls on most web sites because unfortunately there's no shortage of lunatics out there, but I think the people in our field should be able to have discussions about issues and companies without some nut case using it as an excuse to exercise some sick need to be a bully. And yes, I'm name-calling but just about trolls in general, no particular person. These people need to grow up, get a life and realize how pathetic they are. And if such behavior continues to pop up on this site, the best thing anyone can do is totally ignore them. When you argue or try to reason with them, you're feeding their need and wasting your time. But my request to the moderator would be to immediately bar from the site anyone who breaks the rules concerning that type of behavior. It's not like they don't know they're not supposed to do it. They're just thumbing their noses at the rules and doing it anyway because that's what they do best.
I did not see any format rules.
As far as reformatting, I use macros to make formatting changes that seem to be frequently necessary.
change in rules
Do you have a contract with the specifics in writing? If so, threaten a lawyer to enforce it.
If not, time to get another job. You don't cover an MTSO's butt, do the junk shift and work type, then not get paid the agreed upon extra for that.
Talk about lack of business ethics.
I thought if you were an IC, you had no rules! nm
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Has anyone ever left Keystrokes and gone back? I left a few months ago and realize that I made a
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one space - who makes up these rules?
What I would like to know who makes these new rules up? The email said new national standard, something like that. I mean, how can someone change Americas punctuation and English rules? I was taught way back when, when I first was taught typing in high school..two spaces..who changed the rules? Is there a *standards judge*, LOL..A *spacer judge*..Who thinks these things up and if it is national standard, do the other MTSO's know about it?
Hey, I don't make the rules - the client does! SM
This is what the CLIENT has told us. They don't want us "padding" with "This is" or adding extra words to make complete sentences. I'm as bound by these rules as the MTs!
Before posting on any board you should know the rules/
guidelines. There is a link on the top of each page that tells you what you need to know and one of them is not to post account information. No one is attacking you. It is just common sense that you don't go around posting account information.
copy/paste is against the rules.. we were
from the onset to NEVER EVER copy and paste. If you are doing this you should stop it soon before they figure it out and you get in trouble.
Any company can set up any rules they want to. I have heard of a few
companies that dock you for errors. 3.5 to 4 cpl is about standard for VR from what I have seen.
BOS not written by God. Just some rules decided
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we can't name accounts, against board rules here
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Since when has our "Uncle" ever played by the rules?
If it's good enough for the big-shots at the top, then it's good enough for me.
Different STMs/accts have different rules SM
and expectations. The best way to find out is to ask your STM, because someone else's experience may not end up to be yours. Mine happens to be very strict as far as hours/lines and I will get a phone call if I am short on either for a day. I know others who have different STMs who do not have that experience.
LOL ... well, you got me there. She is very much my "baby." Someone rules this place, sm
but it is definitely not me! 
And to anyone I offended, I apologize. The poster just asked why someone said it was amazing, and I just said probably it was the no weekends part that was amazing. It's nothing to me either way. I work 3 jobs, so I do not ever have a day off. But it doesn't seem so much like working when I have my giant iced coffee on my desk and my sweet little girl by my feet. Thanks for noticing 
They follow HR rules to the letter now SM
because I am one of the people they had to pay back overtime wages to when they were turned in to the Dept. of Labor. I am talking thousands of dollars.
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