I tested last year. The dates of dictation were from months before, so I don't think there's a

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  • I tested last year. The dates of dictation were from months before, so I don't think there's a - prob. Lack of communication was, tho'. nm
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passed, they sent me an e-mail asking me to get a hold of them.  I didn't because I decided to give this hospital a little more time send me home to work.  I am still here, still working in-house, broke because it is costing me 1000/month to go to work (gas, daycare, eating, gas).  I do work in-house on production.  I get  9 c a line plus bennies.  However, they opened a new surgery center that is a separate entity from the hospital and they outsource their transcription and now we are significantly over staffed which makes it hard to make a decent pay...except for the girls who work at home who can log on anytime they want pirate the work.    Oh I could file for $11.50 an hour but on the days I file it is not worth a 70 mile round trip. 

Anyway, they pick their favorites and bend over backwards for them for but the rest of us...tough turkey.  Others feel they are getting the shaft too.  Anyway I am tired of this and need a change.  I have been there 7 years.

So if I call this person from Cymed, how likely would it be to get a Monday through Friday schedule.  I am not kidding.  I don't have childcare on the weekends.

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I have the list that says nonexempt and exempt.  Nonexempt is employee, correct?  or do I have that backwards? 

Also, as an example, it says this pay period for nonexempt runs 03/27 to 04/09, with pay date on 04/17.  Pay days are really Monday?  Are the ever there early, maybe Friday or Saturday? 

Thanks! 

This HORRIBLE low/no work situation has been going on at TT for almost a year now.  You can't convince me it is due to Memorial Day.  Are holidays now assigned in this world to being daily. 

That is an excuse these companies use in these no work situations, but it is due to their OVERHIRING.  Holidays just come on a daily basis, but LOW WORK/NO WORK is happening and has happened going on a year now at TransTech.  Always asking to flex into the middle of the night, EVERY weekend, etc. 

The TT mgmt checks are NEVER affected, tho, so they can continue to HIRE EVERY MT who gives them a call, and create a NO WORK situation for all of us.  The newbie MT's are cheering at first, but then realize that it hit them in the paycheck, too, and very soon it did!!!!!!!

two local accounts I earned 23,000.00 and a national I earned 35,400... 58,400 this year.  Don't ask me how many hours, though, I really have no idea.  I'm pretty motivated.  (When people ask me how many hours I work a week I reply as many as it takes  I'd say 40-50/week.  I am also a fitness instructer and personal trainer, about 5 hours a week or so.  Decent money (sometimes under the table!) but mostly I just do it for fun and to be social and wear cute work-out clothes. 

that first year was a rough one... but I consider it part of my education. 

I'm pretty motivated. 

The test tape was definitely horrible, and actually isn't a fair way to test new MTs for any account.  I had 2-3 blanks left in the end.  All they told me about my results was that they were below their levels for employment. 

I asked to see what mistakes I made and asked what my actual score on the test was, and they never got back to me with any results after I emailed them several times about it. 

The test itself consisted of 20 questions and 10 reports to type.  Who would think 2-3 blanks out of all of that would result in a no hire.  I guess you have to be able to do that tape without any blanks or questions at all in order to pass and get a job with them.

I have not worked for them, but I tested for them.  The test job I did was about 50 65-character lines long and at the per page rate they were offering it came out to  4 cents per line.  Don't know if all the jobs would have been that long, but I got the feeling they would all be pretty long.  For long reports you're better off getting paid by the line.  So you've got to be careful in comparing your current pay to what they're offering. 

A C-phone is a phone that you dial into a digital dictation system with.  It has a footpedal and you can plug a headset in, and you just transcribe while listening to the dictation right over the phone line.  It works real well.

Hope this helps somewhat.

have changed files, but I didn't have any problem hearing them.  Typically companies will put some of their worst dictation as tests, especially if they have a high percentage of ESLs.  In the past there was a problem with scoring of the tests and it would mark things wrong that weren't, but I think that is fixed now.