I liked the phrase "to suffer to work"
Posted By: AnnuderMT on 2009-06-11
In Reply to: engaged to wait a fed labor law - Mike
I think it pretty much sums up life! But it does also sure sound like we should be being paid for waiting for work to roll in, specifically mentioning a secretary waiting for dictation.
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Transcend--don't suffer in silence with no work!
I am a Transcend employee, just another MLS at the bottom of the heap. I'm not a supervisor, I'm not a QA person, I'm not a team leader, I have no special superpowers, and I have no authority to do anything. But I spoke with a regional manager this morning, and I learned some interesting things, and I was encouraged to share them.
First of all, if you are on an account that consistently runs out of work, TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR. You might need to be reassigned. They have accounts that are going out of TAT all the time and when that happens, they have to pay penalties. There is plenty of work to go around, so no one should be running out of work. Again, if you are, TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR.
Second, the majority of the clients, I was told, do NOT allow their work to go offshore. So the only work that is being stolen by India is work that the clients are allowing to go there.
Most of the work that does go offshore goes (a) because the client has not prohibited it, (b) when it's night shift in the US it's day shift over in India, and (c) it's an account that has a 2-hour required turnaround time, and there might not be enough MLSs in the US to cover the account on that shift and meet the TAT requirement of the particular client.
I was also told that they will ALWAYS give the work to a US MLS by preference, rather than sending it overseas. If you are on a shift and an account where you don't get enough work, TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR.
There have been problems in the past with managers and supervisors who have not done the best job of allocating the work for their teams. The new COO (you should know who that is if you read your e-mail) has said she has an open-door policy; you can call her directly if you can't get anywhere with your supervisor. I have also been told that I may give out the phone number of the regional manager I talked to, but I'm not going to post it publicly. If you get nowhere talking to your supervisor, and you really do want some help, reply to this message by e-mail, and I'll give you the regional manager's number. But do try to resolve things first with your supervisor.
I realize that some of you reading this will not believe what I'm telling you. That's your option. It's still a free country and the thought police have not taken over quite yet. And some people would rather grumble than do anything to try to fix their situation. But if you truly, sincerely want to work, and you need more work than you're getting, do something about it.
"Used to work there" is the operative phrase....they are currently
hiring (again) because they are trying to fill positions for a huge new account starting in 2 weeks.
Smokers must really suffer to get their lines **
I have never learned (and never wanted to learn) how to pound keyboard with a cigarette in one hand !!!!!!!!
(That's "to", not "do")
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Be sure to put ichart "to" time in as 23:59
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"to SO WRONG"" Not thinking this out are you?
I would terminate the person who instituted this DOCK YOUR PAY Absolutely. You are punishing the victim. She is being victimized. This is a no-win situation but the head of the department comes out better.
Say you were unfortunate to have a pimp who wanted more money, the victim was already doing 8 per hour, the pimp decided it will now be 10 per hour or you will be docked for the 8 you already did.
Say you had 6 children, worked full or part time and your husband wanted you to also care for his sisters 3 orphaned children OR ELSE. You were doing the absolute best you could do already. You don't meet the extra load, well, I will have child protective services called and take the children etc.
JiffyLube had been cited twice and fined (it is just a write off) The staff were paid on commission. they were to sell jobs to be performed or else. They did this alright, whether the job was needed or not. Well, they just did not DO not the job. Just ran the customers in and out and collected the money. See what happens. Can only accomplish so much.
I lay you odds, the MT in question is working her behind off already, MTs work soooo hard. I would start sending out resumes. This is a bad practice and shows what the head staff are like INSIDE, character and conscious are important.
They even have a school for MTs, "to help better the, I can't remember theincreasing bull...
They sent out a letter like they were philanthropists, bettering the (I can't remember what they said, it was such a joke). Great tax break for them having an office or school over there, don't believe the lies they use to excuse their behavior. You cannot make any money with these religious, I am all for humanity bull.
I googled name & phrase but may be too old sm
probably old info but may be able to catch up with her LINK click
Oh Good God. It's an ancient phrase that
was based on fact because that was how their culture was. They believed in trading for things, etc. That doesn't make it RACIST. This kind of overreacting to stuff like this is why when something really is racist, we aren't taken seriously about objecting to it.
"Make her an IC" - very telling phrase!
Your phrase expresses precisely the travesty I'm talking about.
What you're saying, in essence, is that they might 'make her start up her own business', because that's what being an IC really is - being in business for yourself.
If I were to knock on your door, grab you in a headlock and tell you that I was forcing you to start up a hot dog vending business, how many nanoseconds would it take you to call the police (and probably the men with a butterfly net, too!)?
This is just disgusting - on about six different levels.
To re-phrase: The bullies are the big, wealthy
companies going after a non-wealthy employee whom they deem as someone who will be unable to stand up to them. They know this person has no means to pay a big settlement (which they know they're not going to get, anyway). I think they and others just like them are trying to shut up the whistle-blowers who are being exploited by an increasingly dishonest and underhanded industry. (Not unlike what the insurance industry and most of the health care industry have become, these days). If they can shut up the whistle-blowers, they can prevent the truth from getting out to the general public, and can continue with 'business as usual'.
no name, learn this phrase: "Would you like fries with that?" nm
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That "better producer" phrase sounds like -
Moo.
In the MT field, I associate the phrase "Indian-
in which case it's most DEFINITELY apropos.
Racist? Perhaps.
Appropriate to the situation?
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!!
ha!!! I knew it. I QA'd a few reports and every common phrase was wrong.
DISGUSTING!!!!!
Anyone know of a really good online Radiology word/phrase
resource site? TIA.
Anyone familiar with that phrase?? Even looked it up on the WWW but nothing except band names etc..
As a whole.. nice people to work for, decent benefits but the get off/on the system, work/no work,
is maddening. I couldnt pay my bills or even work the schedule I was assigned. They would ask us not to work until work built up in the evenings and I specifically wanted to work days as I have kids etc. It just didnt work out for me but to each his own. It just seems there has to be a better balance in this business that what is happening.
I did speak with my manager. Work was promised. No work there when I needed to work.
I see the reports everyday too, but when I get work it is of bad quality, then there is no work unless I work diffrent shifts. Thank you.
My liaison always says to work on secondary when primary is low on work/no work. n/m
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That's going to be nuts...I do ASR work too, plus work split shifts. We'll NEED a spread shee
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Work is easy, very nice owner, pays weekly, work in Word.
A majority of at-home MT is overflow work with in-house getting the bulk of the work. If they clean
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Pay is always on time, direct deposit, very nice management to work with, and DQS platform, work
load normally busy, but low now because of the summer slow down on my accounts. Sound an issue on some accounts, but not others. Overall, wonderful company.
That is a BIG problem at TransTech is leads assigning work, rather than letting the work flow
This TT MT just admitted to that fact. It has been very obvious, as so easy to tell how work comes into our que and then gets pulled out as fast as it came in and replaced with YUKKY dictators. VERY frustrating to us other TT MT's who take the JUNK that is NOT assigned to other MT's, such as this poster.
Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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Absolutely not! I work for the best MTSO. I am have been so blessed to work for the small company I
I will share this about the MTSO I work for. I called her late last Wednesday night after Church and told her I was compelled to help out with Hurricaine Katrina in some way and an opportunity arose for a small group from my Church to go to Louisianna this coming week. Would she be able to cover my work. She told me no problem without any hesitation and even donated money for the trip.
And I am sure there are plenty of good companies out there to work for. To compare us to migrant workers is just not right.
It does work, you do not need to "make" it work.. it works in all word based programs.
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I did some overflow work for Landmark.. they are wonderful to work for.. very nice people.. pay was
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They have to be flexibility because of the erratic work flow. No sense in a schedule if no work..
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I was told Escription would not work with Vista. Turned out it wouldn't work with my sm
Office Basic Edition 2003 either, but no one could figure out why, it was supposed to.
There is actually a section on the Dell website that offers Windows XP. I haven't checked it out as I'm not in the market, so I don't know if it costs extra. I have a Dell and it's been fine for me. I hate the ESL tech department, but it seems like most of them have that now.
Yes they do send work overseas and do not hide this fact. There is plenty of work and they do pay
well. Overall, I like having work as I have been at places where you had to fight to keep busy so this works for me.
There is NO work at Transtech. Maybe they just choose special people to send work to
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Are you required to work major holdays at KS. I know nature of biz to work them. Thanks for info. nm
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Great people to work for, but I had to leave due to lack of work. Hopefully that has changed. SM
Most of us who do not live in California had to go IC. When I was there, they did not have statutory status, although they told me they did when they hired me. Their pay for VR is VERY low, not a living wage. Many of the folks in the office are ex-YOG and great to work for/with. Good luck.
1200 lines daily is great if you have the work, personally, I never had enough work so
I left and have NEVER been sorry!
Don't know about radiology work load, but we have been scratching in the dirt for work for a numb
of months now. They hire, lose account, hire again before new accounts comes onboard, then have overhired, having to put new MT's on the current low workload.
Medical field is 24/7 work unless you work for a clinic or stand alone operation.
I just look at the other cool people working holidays and weekends in the ICU, ER, paramedics,and am glad to be there. When you work in a hospital for a length of time, it becomes a necessary evil to show up at the worst possible times.
Having a family or a life you'd miss from Friday at 5 PM to Monday at 8 PM must be hard and
I think that there is a place for you where they can meet your requirements (M-F). There are plenty of those jobs.
They require that you work in house until your have clean QA for 3 paydays then you can work
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All nationals I work for you only work 40 hours unless they approve overtime.
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I'm part-time and don't have to work all weekend. I work Tues-Sat.
I've never heard that from Chronicle, of course I didn't see the ad.
The bid has nothing to do with consistancy of work. MTSO cannot control how cosistant work is.
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I'll love to know who you work for. I also work every weekend with no extra pay.
It'd be nice to get paid for all the nights and weekends I work.
Like I said - it depends who you work for. I work for a hospital at home - not a company. nm
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I know two people who work 3rd shift for Keystrokes on radiology and have a lot of work. Maybe you
on an account that has enough work. I hate to hear that someone doesn't have enough work or that they have a problem because I know that Keystrokes works to find the right account for every person. They do a lot for us but you have to talk to them until you find the right account or volume or hours for you.
I think that a lot of companies are that way but there is a lot of job-hopping in transcription. Everyone is looking for the perfect job but the grass is not always greener on the other side. There are a few MTSO's really are not good but for the most part, the others don't intentionally drive people away. That would not make sense. They need us to work as much as we need them to have the work there for us.
I work on it. Usual amount of work. Not running out but not backlogged either. They seem to have
about the right staffing on it. Hope that helps.
Maybe is it for a particular account. I work M-F. You are required to work one weekend an month.
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I used to work for a company who separated the MTs by work type daily. sm
regret ever leaving that company. we had a max of 4 MTs typing a large training hospital with clinics. i was assigned consults and discharges with consults being my priority. another MT had ops and admits, etc. it worked so much better. we were RARELY out of TAT and each of us were trained on other report types for backup in case someone need to take off. not to mention that we were easily able to learn the ESLs because we got them repeatively enough to learn them, set up templates, etc. much, much more productive for us as MTs, for the company as work flow, and i am sure for the dictator because they got someone who knew them and their dictations well enough to be accurate. i don't understand why large MTSOs cannot comprehend how much more beneficial that would be.
I actually left about a year ago and work for another company that's running out of work. Have to
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I so wholeheartedly agree with you. Don't work for KS but work for SS - another company bashed
Works GREAT for me and I love SS. I never really care what the negatives are as I have found they are usually people that can't make their lines, don't work the hours they commit to or just overall do not care!
don't like ASR/VSR -- all work going that direction -- causing very low work situation for awhile
Just a little message since you asked. Hardly any regular paid transcription work left for TT MT's (transcribing as in the old days, I am speaking of).
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