I was the *half full* type until my company laid me off.
Posted By: beenthere2 on 2007-04-05
In Reply to: OMG! I think we're soulmates! (sm) - m.e.d.
They said identical things as this DRC acquisition. They told us to just keep working as usual and do your best. Three months later (after the Indians had proper training on our accounts), they laid off the whole US MT force. The particular account I was on DID NOT want their dictations outsourced overseas but this happened anyway until this account caught wind and eventually left. These things do happen out there, and all of these people have the right to feel skeptical. These Indian company takeovers happen more often than not. We MTs need to be less naive about things and more weary to protect our occupation.
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type there, oh yes, should be about -- why would you sell yourself and your knowledge for half your
pay ? ? ? Can't you see that a speech document Editor has to have the same education/knowledge as traditional transcribing has. Why wouldn't you be worth the same amount of money per line? ? ?
If you have any experience at all and any knowledge of medical terms, then you are worth your regular line rate whether doing VR or traditional. THINK ABOUT IT !
Yes, they offer I think 4 weeks at full pay or 8 weeks at half pay. Call the office
and talk to them about it. You wont lose your job. They aren't like that.
Is this the company that laid off a bunch of
MTs at Christmas and sent the work to India?
Aren't they the company that laid off a bunch of MTs and
sent work to India a few months ago.
Full time but no work half the time-nm
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What is considered full time at Silent Type?
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beds full at the 4 hospitals I type in Texas (this is never a slow time)
What is the other half of the company?
Signed on contracts like hospitals and stuff? I'm not following what you all mean. If it covers it for now does that mean lay offs might happen?
Can't even get half of that with my current company...
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is WMX an abbrevation or full name of company? sm
I can't find their website. Thanks for the posting!!
Full-time MTs, what LD company do you use for work (if LD is required, of course) ?
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A company full of people on a power trip!
Absolutely correct, as well as the fact that most people who move up in that company are totally unqualified butt-kissers.
Yep.
Full Circle Transcription in Acworth, GA. Does anyone know who owns this company? SM
Please email me if you do. I may like to contact them and would just like to know ahead of time whom I'll be emailing. 
I used Apex with another company and it was awful. I'd do a full page of transcription and it'
out to be like 30 lines. There is no way. I quit after 2 days. I felt like the reports were easy but I was not working all day for $6 an hour.
Sounds like a company I worked for. I did get paid in full but I sure know how you feel!
Can you post or email me just the initials of company and I'll let you know if this is the same one. It has happended to me by more than one company in my time as an MT
I agree, if you went to work knowing full well that the company paid 7 cpl no spaces
why on Earth did you accept the job?
FN is a great company full of wonderful people who treat you with respect. SM.
But they only want to pay 4.5 cpl for SR, 5.5 for heme/onc. Can you believe that? Also, workload has been very, very low for a very long time.
There is a company where you can type sm
conference calls. I think the name is FDCH, federal document clearing house. I used to work for them a few years ago. I don't know how they are now.
http://www.fdch.com/careers.htm
TT is the type of company...sm
If they have 1 job out of TAT they freak out and hire 20 MTs. God forbid they have steady work for a few weeks where you actually are able to make your line count, and they freak out again and hire 20 more MTs. So needless to say, work flow is not steady and they love to overhire.
Do you will the company not allow her to type more, or
Are you taking a snipe at her lines produced in a day?
If you're taking a swipe at her producing 1200 lines a day, I'd like to remind you that is a perfectly fine production level and the general area usually produced for straight transcription, as reflected by most MTSOs requiring 1000-1200 lines per day to meet eligibility requirement for benefits.
I'd also like to point out that not all platforms are compatible with the ShortHand programs that do all of the work for the MT. Some companies still have platforms that require the MT to think and type rather than short-cut everything through a report.
Just my two cents in case that comment was intended to be as nasty as it reads.
SILENT TYPE--ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS COMPANY??
Saw a job posted here by this New Jersey company--anyone know anything about them?? Feel free to email. Can't afford another mistake and would like any info, positive or otherwise!
Silent Type..Good Company?
Is Silent Type a good company? I dont want to waste my time hooking up with a company only to realize after Im hired that they are not a good company (what I am going through right now). So...any information about Silent Type would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
I work for All Type. They are a decent company.
Check them out. I am an IC but if you live in certain states you can be an employee or SE. Not sure if they need anyone right now though.
All Type is a good company. There are comments down
this page. Just scroll down. You can check out their website at http://www.alltype.net
I know we need MTs.
Can anyone recommend a company who allows you to type on just 1-2 docs M-F? SM
Pays every other week or twice a month, on time. At least paying 8 cpl and with an MT-friendly platform.
Thanks guys!
not from Seascript but get that same type of thing from another company. Then
they called me twice asking me to send in paperwork which I couldn't send because their e-mail kept rejecting it. Glad I moved on.
On this Company Board, type in Probity
You'll see quite a few posts about them. From what I saw they are not an honest company, but some find them okay. Platform seemed like it had a lot of glitches or whatever. Good luck!
Anyone currently work for All Type or have recent experience with the company? sm
I'm currently exploring my options, and was impressed with the $1000 signon bonus offered, but wondering about the usual things -- quality and quantity of work available, pay on time, etc.
Any input would be appreciated. 
Better yet, go get laid!!!
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Soon to be laid off...
Is there a way to find out which companies keep ALL their work within the United States?
laid off sm
Well I am another statistic. I started at Milner Voice and Data back in June. Things started getting very slow about 4-6 weeks ago. I asked at least a dozen times what was going on and got the answer nothing it was just slow. I even turned down another job because they told me it was going to be ok and this was normal.
Monday morning I talked to my supervisor and she said nothing. Molnday afternoon I went to get into the system and couldn't get in. Went and checked the mail before I called them and got a lay off notice in the mail! What a way to notify someone especially when I had been asking for weeks.
Excuse was that the bigggest account (not mine) lost 60% of their volume when the hospital decided to not dictate the ERs because of budget cut backs. Because of that, other MTs taking my work. Apparently 9 of us were laid off.
I understand cut backs if there is no work, but I DO NOT understand lying when I asked and asked and asked some more. Because of all this, the place that offered me a job, hired someone so Milner cost me a job.
O well, I have an interview tomorrow at 2 with another company. We will see! Really bad way for company to treat MTs. Stay away from this company and TB!
Survey - What type of medical insurance does your company offer?
Just curious about which company you work for and what type of medical insurance they offer. HMO, PPO? Cheap or expensive for you?
Proscript-Laid off sm
Laid off as a result of not enough work..still waiting to hear from them..
Yep, I got the laid off today too
I've been with Cymed forever too. I did double the required amount of lines to edit, typed when needed and worked the shifts nobody else wanted. No one is safe with this company. SPi took a #3 company and have run it in the gound!! I am hoping they will go belly up before they can say what the...
I got laid off yesterday...duh
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They laid off all US MT & QA employees.
Period. And they sent all work to India. You simply are one of a few ICs they subcontract to do the few reports India can't get to in time. You are not an employee of Cbay as they don't have any US MT employees anymore.... I do find it odd how defensive you are about it though.
Yeah, I got laid off by them when they sent
all the work to India, save for a few US IC radiology people for stats... I absolutely wouldn't advise working for them. They now own Medquist and are doing the same thing to them.
I got in it about 1970 and was laid off
end of 2007. Per GP's post below, we were well thought of at one time, the administrative secretary would come in occasionally and ask a question regarding English rules and such. Then, somehow, it all changed and we began to be regarded as useless workhorses, nags if you will, and you'd better not look up or stop typing for a moment or someone would say something. I would advise it against it just for what it does physically over time to your hands, arms, shoulders and neck and back. Great way to get out of shape especially if you work 8+ hours a day. It does keep your fingers limber, but that's about all. I can't think of any other profession where you are expected not only to know so much, but keep learning, and steadily getting underpaid. Might as well try to be a Bell telephone operator, going the same way as they did and telegraphers and pony express riders.
If an employee, you'd be better off being laid off.
If they would just straight up lay you off, you could collect unemployment, which in some cases would be more than the money made sitting in front of the computer for 10-12 hours a day.
And, in a bit of a double whammy, the lower the rate you'll get on unemployment should the time ever come that you can actually file, as most states base unemployment is determined on wages over the last five quarters, so the longer you stick it out the harder you stick it to yourself when they start calculating an unemployment wage.
I know someone who worked 8 days in early June 2008 (his previous work was early spring 2007). He has been collecting unemployment since August 2008 in the amount of $175/week. His home is paid for, he can't drive, and with some investments that pay monthly annuities, he is able to live better than a lot of people, without the stress that MTs endure wondering how they'll make their line count.
I got laid off too,. same scenario. sm
There were several of us that got the ax with no warning.
Wonderful company, but you type letters and look up addresses and you do not get paid for spaces nm
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depends on work type, experience, spaces, company, area
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I did 2 weeks ago. My gal was very laid back
and I really enjoyed talking to her. There was a ton of questions about how experienced in certain areas, you had to rate yourself, and also there was a verbal test, I think 10 questions, thinks like what is hypocalcemia, what MRSA stood for, things like that. Very easy, had a job offer about 3 hours later.
Cbay has laid off all of their US MTs and Editors
and sent everything to India. They bought up a lot of smaller US companies and slowly transitioned EVERYTHING to India. What more is there to say about them? Bad news.
they did lay off- didnt outsource but laid off a lot
They bought another contract and then lost it so had new employees and not enough work to go around
Anybody here been laid off by SmartMed recently?
SmartMed employees received an email about 3 weeks ago that there would be layoffs and/or cutting back on benefits, but no subsequent followup email, so we don't know if the layoffs have occurred already, or if we should still be waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's a wonder we don't all have bleeding ulcers (no matter what company we work for). There just doesn't seem to be any respect for our skills or the difficulty of the job. We are just numbers on a spreadsheet.
I know this won't be a popular sentiment, but as far as I'm concerned things starting going to hell in a handbasket for all of us with the advent of the Internet. When you had to go in and work at a facility, be it a hospital or an MT company, they knew who you were. They had to see you everyday and work with you. You really were a part of a (visible) team. I truly believe that made it more difficult to just be let go without a backward glance.
I never got the email and got laid off yesterday... strange... sm
I wonder what is going on. Was it the one with all the unemployment info in it?
We were getting laid-off, wages cut, losing bennies
Like for the last 5-7 years.
I am a Heartland employee that got laid off and I won't support AAMT in any way. nm
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Let me sum it up for you, 80% of work is done in India, they just laid off a bunch of American
QA people, some of which were hired only a few months before they were fired, and they just now fired a lot of their upper management. Something is in the wind at Focus and it smells like crap! Don't work there. If you do decide to ignore the warnings, don't believe anything they tell you! They lie to you right up until they call and fire you.
I thought there were posts a few months ago saying they laid off 50-some people. nm
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