If Indian labor is so cheap, how come.......
Posted By: Just Curious on 2007-07-05
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there are getting to be so many Indian-based companies here and in India, owned by Indians? Do you think maybe this is a lucrative field for owners of transcription companies?
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Won't help with the cheap labor issue though.
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Transcend does not pay for anything. Cheap, cheap,
and nasty. This editing stuff is horrible and it might guarantee a job in the future, but you will be better off on welfare than trying to spend the time fixing the stuff that it spits out. The program does not work half the time and never has worked right but they will never fix it so it does work, so don't even bring the subject up. If you work there just keep your mouth shut or you will be in the dog house the rest of your career. You might make mistakes in typing or editing, but you cannot even see what you typed before you send it in, but you are responsible for it (you type in the blind). Of course you can pull up the AI sheet and print it and keep it at your desktop, but who needs to thumb through 56 pages of instructions to find how to do 1 simple thing.
This place is really the bottom of the barrel and QA is horrible. Training is even worse.
Transcend, do not even bother to respond to me. I am quitting anyway, but you really need to let everyone know that your rah, rah, rah team stuff is just talk and nothing is ever done to make the job easier.
Focus is Indian run and you'll be editing Indian
work, so seriously doubt you'll make a bunch of $$ on editing. 99% of the MTs love KS. If you'll just scroll down the page you'll see dozens of posts about them.
Probably not - I believe they are Indian run or Indian based company. nm
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Go to their Indian website or other Indian websites
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It's about cheap now
Cheap to us, that is. The middle man profits and the competition from the Third World has made working for many MT companies sweatshops. They deny that, but it is exactly what they are. I've come to believe some of these companies are downright sociopathic.
My guess? Many of these companies are living nicely off our backs without a clue about everyday trials of transcription. The ones that aren't are having to compete with the sicko ones and the result is the same. I think it is going to backfire big-time someday, too, but I'm not sure what it will take or how long it will take. But I do know American MTs, American patients and even some American healthcare providers are becoming equally pissed and fed up with these slick-talking brokers.
I agree your best bet is get your own clients or go back to a hospital. If you go back to a hospital, become the MT manager and make it a policy not to off-shore, diligently audit and have a way to trace, then press charges if they do. Even better, contract out to individual MTs or let MT employees work from home. It's exactly what I plan to do and hope the trend continues.
Cheap
I have been getting a lot of Indian work from various clients to re-do. I was hoping that perhaps if enough of them have to pay for it twice, at least once at American rates, they will see that they are getting about what they pay for sending it to other countries. One can dream...
too cheap
That is sad, but some will work for that. You are QA, hold your head up high girl. If you continue to work for that kind of money, you really hurt us all
Actually, that is cheap. Most places much more. nm
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Yes they are very cheap & you can e-mail
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64 bucks a DAY? Not very cheap! Especially
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However, if you are willing to sell yourself cheap,
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Axoltl very cheap
If I recall last year at this time it was about $100 per paycheck for family coverage. Left in the spring so not sure what is up now.
Medscribe horridable and cheap
No wonder they are constantly hiring. Maybe they should try to keep what they have.
cards are cheap... and so is the thought.
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Offshore, cheap, bad management. nm
boss hires cheap MTs
This is the deal. The boss hires cheap labor and for whatever you get paid, you turn all these lousy typists into perfect products. They might get paid 6 cents a line, slave wages and whatever you get paid... she/he gets a crew of professionals out of nothing. Same happens to me but I think yours is hiring out of a school or promising to train them.
it's such a catch 22. Everybody wants cheap stuff yet
and get paid top dollar. You simply cannot have both. Not with the CEOs having million dollar salaries and all. because God forbid they make less than six figures. it's disgusting...
As you are probably well aware, ink jet cartridge are not cheap these days...
I'd have to know more details, such as exactly how many pages per month would you be printing. I hardly print anything at all and I find my cartridge drying up on a monthly basis....
Horror stories about cheap transcription
FYI, there is always someone out there who is willing to do transcription and/or editing cheaper than someone else. There are those clients who only look at the bottom line cost. But they must employ sometimes at least three people in-house to make the corrections. I wonder if anyone at the client source ever looks at the overall costs to get that report on the chart and done correctly. I am amazed at how some transcriptions even stay in business. Just my $.02 worth.
One more time for the cheap seats in the back..sm
Upson vs. Sexton - I might as well just put it out there, since you won't let it drop. Same first name.
I never said the man was a criminal. Those words didn't come out of my mouth and NEVER would, nor would I even say the man in the original post is a criminal. Paying three months late and not having the workload promised doesn't constitute calling someone a criminal in my book. Shady business practices, maybe, but never would I go so far as to call someone a criminal, ever, based solely on a story someone posted on an online MB whom I have never met, especially not without hearing the other person's side of the story!!
YOU are the one who called the first guy a criminal and claimed he stole money. Someone mentioned theft of services, not that he stole money, just to be clear - and we don't know there was even a crime committed here, so perhaps you should worry a little more about what comes out of your own mouth. There's no proof a crime even took place here, only the word of others - one who said she was paid 3 mos late and one whose friend has not been paid in 4 mos. Yes, that is awful to not be paid, but unless they just flat out refuse to pay, I'm not sure anyone should go so far as to say it's a crime. (And just to play devil's advcoate, I wonder how many complaining about being paid late were ever late on any of their own bills? Just a thought.)
To those who do feel there has been a crime committed against them, get a lawyer, find out your rights, and file a suit against the person. You can bet those companies would do the same to any client who didn't pay them.
Thanks to the poster who stood up for me. It truly was just an honest error. My personal apologies to Brent Upson, who is NOT Brent Sexton. I do not owe anyone but him an apology.
That's what I was just going to say. They want to offer cheap transcription services. There goes
jobs..When you have people advertising they will do the work for cheap..no wonder providers use cheap transcription services rather than our companies. You'd be surprised at how many doctor/facilities would jump on cheap Personally, to me, it's offending. Why pay use decent wages when you can get cheaper.. 
Nope. Just CHEAP. And 'cheap' and 'good'
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I hate this kind of cheap shot post. What's the deal? nm
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I've said this before, but I'm ready to go sit on the beach and sell cheap stuff sm
to tourists ... has to beat this. I passed burnout a long time ago. I am not sure what the next stage is supposed to be. However, in the meantime, I have to make a living. Maybe I could open a margarita stand and compete with the little kiddies and their lemonade stands .. hmmm ....LOL
SGS, cheap and would rather ship your job to india, where they have 100s of MTs taking our jobs!
Yes, on eScription...making about $5 and hour if lucky! they quote you a pretty good line rate for typing, but half that for editing, and it's mostly editing. then, with all the crap they throw at you, (this dr. wants this, be sure to fill in that, don't submit a report w/o this, and 30 pages of account specifics?) it's time consuming. and the templates are a nightmare, the drs. are all over the place on them, not following them, so when editing them it takes forever. @ 4cpl you can spend 15 minutes on one and make $1.00. RUN!
It may have to do with their labor law of ...sm
anything over 8 hours is considered overtime and must be paid 1.5x even if you work 12 hours one day a week.
It is no longer anything over 40 hours per week but anything over 8 hours a day. That, my friend, will cost the company plenty of money.
That is why companies are not hiring California MTs.
You might want to try IC positions......and not employee.
Labor Day. nm
You have to be IC because of labor laws sm
I don't know of any companies like this because they have to verify the # of hours you work. Most places require a set # of hours per week, if you are full time often 32-40 hours, PT 20-32. All I have dealt with require the hours be met more importantly than the lines, they have to have staff to cover set hours for client needs. If your lucky enough to type 250 lph, apply for part-time, then you'll only have that 6 hour day you are looking for and not be obligated to type longer, then if you don't meet the line requirement in that time, you'll still have room to type longer without costing the company OT if you need to type another half hour or hour longer than expected to get there. These companies have to be very careful to keep track of the hours because they are required to pay OT for anything over 40 hours, and they have a minimum line count so they know the have people that can get the work done instead of people that aren't disciplined to type from home. All of this is just what I have seen in my 12 years as an MT, may be different for other MTs.
US labor laws
Maybe this company is claiming ignorance of US labor laws b/c they are based far, far away. I have no idea, really. It's a lame excuse if that's their thinking. Something's very wrong at this company!
labor board
Oh boy, I worked for a place like this. They didnt actually threaten the IC's...but...the first time an IC was not available they would send them an email and say that their services were no longer needed. They held IC's to a schedule and let them go if they didnt work the scheduled hours, so yep, agree with you, they say IC, but expect EMPLOYEE like hours and schedule.
So they are not doing offshore labor only?
Are you the OP?
SWEATSHOP LABOR -
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Contact PA Labor
Oh, well if you were not a part of the HMC account, by all means if you were not paid, email me and I will give you our contact at PA Labor and Industry. Im sure he would be interested in hearing your story, as the Marinos are just pleading innocence to all our woes. You could be another cog in their wheel. Email me and I will give you his name.
PA Labor Board & D&L
They already have my information as well as the PA Sates Attorney's office.. There were a lot of us that quit in and around August, because when the big account people left, they ran out of money to pay us too! My question is what did they do with all the money that we made on the other accounts that were not a part of the big hospital account. Heard they (Marino's) live pretty high on the hog partying it up and jet setting or at least trying to keep up with the high society. Sounds to me as though they have a Champagne appetite with a Beer pocket book.
Ive used the Labor Board, and they definitely get
}:) heh heh heh
Labor board.
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IC labor laws
HAPPY THANSGIVING... Could somebody point me in the direction I am needing to get the independent contractor labor laws. And can an employer tell you that you can submit your work in an e-mail if you cannot get into your system. Doesn't that break confidentialty laws? Anyway I am needing to know how IC work, works. Can I set my own hours? If I am too sick to work for a day and I tell my employer can they charge me a penalty fee?
I would appreciate any help I can get.
If I were you, I'd be at the Labor Board the next day
Even dinging employees' pay for mistakes is pretty low, but since you never typed these reports, I don't see how they think they can legally deduct your pay for not typing them. It would be sort of like if the government siphoned money out of your SS fund, to cover all the years you didn't work because you weren't born yet.
Ripoffs like the one you describe are exactly why your State Labor Board exists. Go sic 'em on that low-life employer of yours!
Labor laws
That is because a lot of MTSOs abuse the IC status. They treat the MTs like employees instead of ICs. Many years ago I worked for a service that fired someone. That person went to the Labor Board and the service had to pay back employee taxes on everyone. We all had to get a second account to satisfy the State that we were ICs and not just working for one company, which they considered a employee situation.
labor is not the only expense
an MT company has so your figures, while interesting, don't show the whole picture.
Labor laws
Why was your last thread locked?
go to the department of labor web site
and check out their TAA and ATAA page --Trade Adjustment Asisstance Program and Worker Adjustment and retraining and notification act. Congress was talking about extending benefits for people who have lost their jobs due to offshoring. My heart goes out to your all.
thanks for the support, Labor Dept. did say ... sm
that they will investigate and they will get compensation for me on lost investment earnings. MW sent me a check for what they withheld from my pay but denied my request for 4% interest that I would have gotten in my money market account. I truly hope this is just my problem and not the other 133 participants in MW's 401(k) plan. I have not been in the plan long enough to be vested so their contributions don't matter to me personally.
I'd pay a little visit to the LABOR BOARD, myself. sm
Many years ago, my last paycheck from an MT company I worked for BOUNCED. Not, once, but TWICE. (I put it thru a 2nd time at the owner's branch). So, I went to the Labor Board for help. They not only got me the money from the last paycheck, but also some insurance reimbursement I was owed to me. Apparently this had happened to others at that place, as well. A former co-worker told me the L.B. paid the COMPANY a visit one day, and they went through her office with a fine toothed comb. Found lots of illegal little problems going on, and put her out of business for good. What goes around, COMES around! ;p
That Acetera is going offshore labor only? NM
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Only ran out of work for 1 hour after Labor Day. (sm)
Usually always work in primary, if not secondary and tertiary kick right in and seem to be plentiful.
For those new hires or people considering TT, ask the recruiter and she will let you know if they are hiring in anticipation of another new account or not. That should help alleviate your worries.
It's a great company, well worth riding the slight ups and downs with.
Labor Relations Board
might be another place to check in your state or the attorney general in the state, what we used in passed experiences
to break labor laws?
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labor boards and lawyers
A nice thought, but in today's economy, it is an employer's market. And we are ....hate the dreaded word....human resources, commodoties to used up and discarded. The only way anything could be achieved is if none of us had to eat during the time it took to get organized. Got a plan?
Over the Labor Day holiday people were
crabbing the work was low. But that was the end of the summer holidays as usual anywhere when everyone including docs take their kids on vacation. Aside from the usual lulls from holidays we are busy. This MT has several accounts and I for one have rarely run out of work. If it ran low during the holiday, I would take a break and come back and there would be reports there. Now there is the usual amount of plenty of work as far as I can see. They do keep things in TAT, but staff accordingly as you need to let them know your intended line count so they will have enough work for your projection. They, in turn, staff accordingly.
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