I think they get tired of pulling teeth when backlogs slip. NM
Posted By: anon on 2009-08-06
In Reply to: Looks like MDI will be low on work for a while. - tired and broke
So they cover that quite well not giving a rats arss about the fallout it has on us.
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It's like any other company as far as slow times and busy times, generally speaking. Some accounts seem overstaffed and are chronically slow, some fluctuate back and forth depending on what the hospital wants to send for overflow that day, and some are steady with work. A recruiter would hire you on for a specific account, but you could get backups later if you want/need them. I'd ask what the average backlog is at any given time during the day and if work comes in steady or in batches. I have a backup that comes in in batches from the hospital and I'm not a big fan of how that works. Fortunately, I don't think most of their accounts are like that.
Can you say that without your teeth?
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i have all my teeth thank you and furthermore-sm
I am not a prune face. I am only 34 years old, and I am not quite sure why you keep insinuating that I am old. If this conversation was happening face to face YOU probably wouldn't have any teeth...
No skin off Transcend's teeth. In fact,
It's not like they're going to WANT to deal with the headaches from all the MDI'ers who are going to complain about their pay decrease when it eventually happens (and it WILL).
Easier for them to get a whole new crew to hire at 7 or 8 cents a line while the ones who think they'll get better somewhere else go ahead and quit.
What do they care? You'll be doing them a favor by leaving now (or fairly soon).
slip up
a super let it slip
Pulling for you... sm
Just about everyone I know has been effected by either being laid off, downsized, or outsourced, and many people willingly, as a team, are cutting their days by one day so that everyone can keep their jobs as a group. It is really, really hard no matter what level you are at.
tired, tired, tired of all the tech
problems with these platforms. I just want to work on an old fashioned program, like WP5.1 or Medrite, maybe with voice wave. Too many problems. Does anybody know any companies that use something like these. Just call me a dinosaur lover.
It would not cost them their jobs. They are just lying through their teeth. Get real, please.
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Pulling a fast one?
What is up with these employers opting to not give their email addresses or company info when you want to apply for a job with them on this site? Makes me a little suspicious.
Pulling up thread from below. Why I believe MT is not going
anywhere for a while ...
WordPerfect 5.1
We still have clients that use it. If they are still on DOS-based word processing, do you REALLY think they are going to invest in Voice Recognition? Do you think that they are so open to change that they will welcome offshore transcription with open arms?
We have to learn technology and be ready for change, just like when typewriters were replaced by computers, but technology changes do not happy everywhere overnight.
In addition, the VR that I have seen in place has a LONG way to go. If they put it out too early, which I truly believe, it will take a lot to convince someone to give it another try. I think this is why they realize now that they cannot do without the transcription component.
Can't get rid of us that easily 
It's not only Diskriter pulling that one
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pulling my hair out
I have gone bald too from this platform. It really sucks!!! Besides I am tired of working for pennies. 90% ESL and mostly all editing VR. I recently started with them too and I now have my resume out in lots of different places.
A slip of the finger? sm
It required thought to ocopy and paste a resume and personal information. That's no slip of the finger; it was irresponsible.
I cut my teeth on difficult dictators and acute care. I think that is why I am an excellent MT. If
easy report types, easy docs, who would the other work go to? If I whined about a doctor, my boss gave me that doctor exclusively until I got him/her down. Maybe we should stop treating newbies with kid gloves and expect more.
LOL. What teeth? Lost them when I couldn't get full time lines
Just gumming whatever I can! LOL.
This looks like a freudian keyboardian (slip). nm
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Right now, they seem to be pulling VR editors from their MT pool nm
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Maybe while visiting, slip him an alprazolam.
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They'll slip in something bad, wait and see. NM
This TT MT is definitely pulling your leg. NO OT with TT and has not been for a number of months
Unless it is QA people for all the newbies TT has hired of late and all the new VR trainees (forced into doing VR). QA would be the ONLY employees being paid OT now.
This posting has got to be from a QA person.
Which is why I don't care if a few mistakes slip by.
Hope they're saving those pennies for the eventual patient lawsuits, either for malpractice, or ID theft.
e-Tranz has been pulling this stuff for at least 5 years now
When it happened to me and about 6 others at the time (about 5 years ago), we tried to get the word out to warn others of DG's unscrupulous business practices and have been doing so ever since, but she just keeps drawing new victims in each and every time. I'm so surprised she's still in business after all this time doing so many MTs so wrong. What can be done about this to prevent other MTs from becoming her next victims besides posting on message boards? Anything?
Funny slip of tongue or freudian
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oops.... meant Transcription (slip of the finger!) nm
That is gripe board. Freudian slip as in get a grip. LOL.
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Was the poster below pulling our legs about aprons for MT week? (sm)
I went to the mail box today hoping to have received it, was a bit disappointed and then it dawned on me that someone was making a funny in reference to the Xmas cookbook. Duh to me.
because i'm tired of you or whoever
Nonsense about MQ going under. Vague statements like "watch out" or "be scared, changes on the way" and nothing to back it up. I work for this company and so do about 9,999 people, you are playing with our minds here. I have sifted through everyone one of these postings worried i'm going to lose my job. Sorry if it was not you, but someone is doing it.
Tired? Where are you getting the
variables of 8, 16, or 24 hour work weeks? I've read everything and see nothing about that.
I'm currently an SE (having just switched from FTE several months ago!), tier 3, and capped at the line rate, but see NOTHING about part time having to work in 8, 16, or 24 hours. Perhaps my eyes are worse than I thought!
Tired of it too...
Work myself to death and can't get line requirement. Was told they paid for headers and footers, but apparently not..Made up to $18/hr in private sector and if I get close to $10, it's a REALLY good day.
sorry I'm tired, not your, you are.
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Sorry, I am tired
and did not read your post that well. Here is a link to help you convert from DocQScribe expansions to Shorthand:
http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1590
It may take a little tweaking to get it right, but it sure beats starting over.
Tired Too...
There is too much unpaid time, period, in this industry. There is a significant amount of time worked that isn't paid. We don't get paid by time, we get paid by moving fingers. I recently had a situation where I was having a new application installed. It was installed wrong and I fought the thing all day trying to figure out the problem. Finally, someone sees one little box not checked. I miss an entire day of pay, but the person who screwed up my install gets paid. Now there is something very wrong with this picture. I'm personally working on changing it, but it is a long road to hoe. Our pay structure is a little confusing to the average attorney.
Tired
I so agree with you. I would never, and I do mean NEVER, advise anybody to choose this line of work. It has been good to me in the 80s and first half of the 90s, and it has been all downhill from there.....
okay, i am tired, but....come on
Okay, I think I saw one typo....big deal. Here is someone offering their time and probably blood, sweat and tears for FREE, and we have to point out their mistakes. Hey, SM email me and if I get the job I am trying for, I would look into if you could type some, and I proofread for you and you don't have to work for free... you work for half of what I get and I will be getting I hope 11 cpl, so I will pay you 5.5 cpl. How does that sound?
To old and tired
I am with you. Since the late sixties I have made a lot of money MTing (until the 90s). Today I would absolutely NOT advise anyone to become an MT for any reason. Since I have three years until retirement, I will stick with it, but I now make exactly half what I made in 1997.
tired
I am incredibly happy at MDI-MD. They are kind, honest, the work is plentiful and I have never been happier.
Tired
No need to Google, here you go:
http://www.transmdi.com/home/
I'm with tired
I've been an MT for about 18 years now and when I get my periodic social security statements and when I look at my earnings record I could just cry! My income went up steadily for the first 4 years or so and since then it has gone consistently down! I now make about 1/4 of what I made at my highest point and I work just as much, if not more. I am so sick and tired of this crap! I know many long-time MT's and don't know of any who is doing better than they had 10 years ago or who is happy with their companies, or hasn't worked for so many national companies that they have lost count. These companies benefit from our experience while we have to deal with their crappy platforms, bogus line counts and QA people who think they are the queens of medical transcription, each one with their own set of rules and very little MT experience. If I have a blank, then I might need your help; otherwise, don't tell me where the hell to put a comma and don't add words to dictation that I know is not there or take out words that I know were there, especially when I have no way of relistening (although for the umpteenth time) to the dictation - Got to find something wrong with the dictation, that justifies the need for your QA position, and then when the company wants to change that big 8 cents per line they promised me to 7 cents a line to up their profit, they then can lower my QA score.
The new thing now is to pay you about 2.5 cents per line for templets!! What a bunch of crap! That templet wouldn't be there if I didn't put it there and more than half the time the templets need to be altered, either because the dictator wants it changed or because it was screwed up in the first place.
I'm sorry, but all you Happy, Happy MT's that say you work for national companies sound a little too much like job recruiters for these companies.
Being a good medical Transcriptionist is NOT an easy job. We pretty much have to know about as much as a doctor does in any given specialty without actually going to medical school. We have to keep up to date on any new instruments, drugs, etc., in every specialty and God forbid we put a comma where AAMT says it should not be today or type in or on when the QA person says the dictator did not state this. All this and my 19-year-old daughter makes way more than I do! Now that I think about it, so does everyone working at McDonald's! Sad thing is that I have sat on my butt typing for so many hours for so many years that I don't think I could stand on my feet for 8 hours a day and I am way too young to retire.
Good luck to you that stay behind, I'm out of here! Now this post will either be deleted or all the Happy MT's will attack! At this point, I've typed way too much without getting paid for it anyway, so have fun, it's all yours!
I am tired. LOL!!!!! Getting.
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So tired
I agree with you. I have always believed that we should take our complaints to the person in power to resolve it. In this case, that means handling it with whoever at LM deals with things like that. We on this board did not cause the problem and we on this board cannot fix it.
so tired.....
what exactly are big girl panties?
Would those be kind of like grannie panties? Little girl panties are kind of like grannie panties, but a lot smaller. The again, my teen plus girls wear thongs, so would those be big girl panties? Those are lot smaller than little girl panties, material wise.
I am not quite sure what you mean by the big girl panties. Oh, I recall, it is a stupid phrase that sounds totally rediculous!
Okay, may be I am just tired or ....
That I am just stupid but can someone please tell me what this ad means ....
Prefer someone with a solid Hospital/Basic 4 background, who will be able to do a few blanks on this account as well.
A few blanks???? Is that editing? It has been a really long day and I just don't get this at all. Please, please explain. TIA 
Do you all get tired
of trying to explain to people what kind of work you do and they seem to be so interested and think it is a plush job when you work at home. You try to explain to them and they keep asking questions. It just gets to me sometimes. I just say I'm in medical records.
tired MT
My business adviser says that we were often treated like employees rather than ICs, i.e., I regularly got memos from my liaison asking for a commitment as to WHAT HOURS I could cover stats on Saturdays, etc. If you are a true IC, they do not ask you do cover specific hours. I do NOT plan to file for unemployment as I already have another job, but this is something you might think about. If you were ever asked to commit to certain hours, etc., then for the purposes of IRS classification (and perhaps the Labor Department would see it in the same light), you are seen as something other than an IC. Businesses have been using the IC classification to avoid paying benefits and other things for years; however, the IRS is bearing down more forcefully on such abuses. Businesses cannot have it both ways. If they are going to require a schedule or specific time commitment from your people, then by definition, they are not IC but employees. I got this straight from a pro's mouth. If you have any e-mails, etc. asking you to commit to a schedule, my advice would be to print them out and keep them. Take them with you to the unemployment office to establish that you really were an employee. Good luck!
Tired of it also
While I don't agree with off shoring I do agree with the original poster in that this board is more of a gripe board than anything else. I've only been an MT for two years, was trained on VR but do have some text work every once in awhile. I love VR and it HAS helped me learn a lot quicker than if I were straight typing. I admit it is worrisome what the future holds but at the same time IMO you either do something about it or you sit there and gripe about wages, no work, India etc. Change is what it is...it happens in every industry you either roll with it or refuse to accept it. Did any of you honestly think that this industry would not advance? That technology would not bring new ways to do things? I just don't get it and while I do come to this board for more information than anything else..it's like a broken record sometimes.
I am so tired of having to jump
accounts to get a laughable report count. With the company I work for I have to work on 4 different accounts to even get the minimal amount of work daily. I cannot stand it anymore. I have to be the most flexible person in the world but enough is enough. Are there any companies out there that allow you to work 1 Radiology account and actually get a decent report count by the end of your shift. I am lucky if I hit 80 reports a day and that is just not cutting it for this single mom.
I guess I just needed to say it outloud. TIA.
I'm so tired of getting taken advantage of
I thought I had what was a great position, with a good company, I loved the work, but had an instance where I had to request work not be sent to me for ONE DAY, and now my job is posted on the internet. Work was still sent to me, and I did it - but you know, did you ever try to sit and type with a 104 fever and a terrible urinary tract infection? I was sitting at my desk with tears rolling down my face - my husband came and asked me if I was crazy. I just didn't want to lose my job. Now, they're looking for my replacement. Maybe I really need to get out of this business ... there is no human component anymore. No one genuinely cares. Maybe I should have gone to the ER and had them put in a catheter and I could have worn a leg bag.
Oh well, thanks for listening. Back to work ... what a sad state of affairs.
I'm so tired of getting taken advantage of -
No, I've been getting 1/2 the work I normally get, so that's not it. I just will NOT continue to keep them within TAT and cover their butts if they're looking for my replacement. I'm not an idiot.
I am tired of making some big fat
man, rich over my transcription efforts. I want to work for a smaller company owned by a transcriptionist, where I can get medical benefits. Any copanies out there???
I'm sorry you are tired of it. The truth is.
The pay is less and so are the benefits. Having been in the field 35 years, I can tell you this is true and so can most other long timer MTs. There is anything gloom and doom about speaking the truth. And for your information, nurses are making MORE not LESS. Let's get real here.
Tired, yes. But you already WON in my eyes!
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