If getting paid regularly for your hard work is important to you, find another company. nm
Posted By: dee on 2006-08-31
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I know of someone who regularly isn't paid by them. She's leaving now. nm
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You'll be hard pressed to find a company
that pays hourly and allows you to work at home, that just isn't the way the business works. I'm not saying that those type of positions don't exist, just that they are extremely rare. Now if you worked on-site that is a different story.
I find it very hard to believe that all work types are on a 1-hour TAT(sm)
Are you talking about stats or everything? Do you have this 1-hour TAT in writing? I've never even heard of hospitals being on that tight a TAT.
When there is a lot of work, do you find it hard to make 1100?
cause I sure do.
lol You'll be hard pressed to find work with
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At least we can laugh at ourselves..That is important. Sometimes, I cannot believe I get paid ...
to type.
Not a good company. Their pay is low and software hard to work with sm
although now they say DocQScribe which means they have picked up MQ accounts like other companies. I would stay away.
Find a company with work already
darn! There's a suggestion... There are plenty that advertise... Most MTs on this board swear they can transcribe anything and can do so many lines a day, so look around that's what you do.
There's no such thing as job hoppin' if the compay doesn't have enough work for you. Find another company that does. Take control of your life and stop letting people walk all over you.
The statement made by the other poster is most certainly a fact... these companies take advantage because they have MTs who take their crap day in and day out... move on already!
Why not? If your current company is out of work, you need to find another, and another and another,
you can make a decent weekly income. I've been there and done that, sometimes 5 companies at once, until I finally landed a decent position with consistent workflow.
How do you pay your bills making less than $500 a week?
It is very hard to find an IC job
IC jobs leave a lot to be desired especially with these MTSOs. They can save money by hiring ICs, but then want to control you. So, of course, if you mention that you want to set your own hours they back off.
I had one tell me (I have 20 years of experience) that they don't set hours, but I would be required to transcribe 3 days a week and the line count had to meet I think it was 3,000 lines. I had to tell them which 3 days I would be working. So, I figure that's talking out of both sides of your mouth. In other words, the me setting my own schedule bit is within that 24-hour timeframe or whatever.
Then I decided to transcribe from a pool, which works well other than the fact that most of the work is gone in a jiffy, so I have to be on my toes. If something comes up that day, then I'm fried and have to work into the evening.
Good luck to you finding a part-time IC job that you only work nights and isn't ESL and very low pay. A lot of these companies don't even want part-time workers. Also, some MTSOs want you to take an assigned physician (but you can type whenever you want). What a joke! 
I find that hard to believe.
I honestly wish the MTs there nothing but the best, some are friends. I don't think there is any other major MT company that is doing things like MQ is. Whoever is running it now has driven it into the ground. They have some crazy ideas on how to run that company.
Hard to find anywhere
Finding benefits of any kind for part time is hard in any industry - high tech is probably the worst! The problem is the company does pay a portion of your benefits to the insurance company and if you are part time it increases their overhead with less profit from your work. And if they do offer benefits you will probably find the cost not worthwhile because very little of your medical will be covered for the amount you have to pay.
You'd be surprised how affordable private health insurance is...if you are working part time I'd start looking around and see what is out there. Employer provided is always less expensive but that doesn't mean private isn't affordable!:)
Good Luck!
I've been trying to find a company with steady work
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I think we must work for the same company. I find it always interesting how they say how great
the workload looks and people are really working hard when the fact is they have overhired and that is why there is no work. Must be DSG right. They are hiring right now. Cant imagine what they are hiring for. Hopefully not the acounts that are already out of work all the time. I wonder what kind of turnover rate they have there.
There must have been some misunderstanding. I find this hard to believe.
I find it hard to believe they will do "pay cut"
I think more likely they will adjust line counting to take more of a percentage. I can't believe they would try to do an across the board cut. The floodgates would really be open, I believe, if they did that.
That will be kind of hard to find....
I have been in that same situation before where some days I had plenty and others not so much. Companies aren't going to want to hire you to just work whenever your workload is low. I almost always have had 2 IC positions, PT with one and FT with the other. Some days I am overloaded with work from both and then others days I only have work from one. That's just the way it is with MTing.
Has anyone gotten a job from any company not posting regularly from their resume in the resume
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First rule, never work for a company who says "I'll pay you when I get paid." sm
This is unacceptable. Any company with a decent client base gets paid at least net 30 days. I previously operated a small service and paid my subcontractors twice monthly despite being paid net 30 days by my physician groups. Yes, it was a hardship for me, but I brought those who worked hard to help me maintain my service first. Any company who pays their workers when they get paid, does not deserve to employ others. Plain and simple there is no excuse for this. Please, please find a company who values your work instead of using you.
Maybe one in a million MT's makes that but I still find it hard to believe.
It looks more common to me that people who do MT are at the doors of destitution. Just read these boards! We have people who can't even buy their kids Christmas gifts, we have people who have had their car repossessed, we have people in debt up to their eyeballs. Seems to me that's the norm by the amount of postings of that type.
In this day and time it is really hard to find a job that pays
anything decent and not work weekends. Maybe a smaller company, but the larger ones are almost all on Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs.
It is hard to tell on this board. I find myself reacting very sm
defensively most of the time, and I am normally not like that.
sorry, but 10cpl with benefits is very hard to find
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I find it hard to believe that Debbie "promised" you
So is Transtech the first company you ever worked at that had slow periods? Didn't think so.
Gee, I tried real hard to find those good posts,
but all I could find, in addition to the other complaints already listed, were complaints about being in the "middle of an 11-minute job when it was pulled and given to someone else," "There has to be a better way NOT to make a living," "I know I am going to end up on food stamps," complaints of no compensation for down time and BTXT being down and MTs not being notified.
If there were one or two positive comments about it on there somewhere, they are certainly overshadowed by all the justified negativity, outrage and frustration that's there.
I wouldn't wish this company on my worst enemy, and you should be ashamed of yourself if you recommend that anyone apply there for employment these days. It used to be a good company, and like the song says, "Used-to-be's don't count any more." Although I don't expect them to "bring me flowers" I do expect to be able to earn a living wage, and those days are quickly disappearing.
Do you find it hard to get your line count in daily? sm
And the recruiter told me that they did not mind you not working a strict daily shift as long as you got your line count in -do you find this to be true? Thanks for your information!
Good MT hard to find & 1 familiar with platform is
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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?
I find it hard to believe with this new pay plan coming out soon that they will be paying people
that rate and I understand all offices will be paying the same base rate and I seriously doubt they will be paying all MTs 9.50 base rate with incentive to get 2 more cents at 1600 lines. That is more than they are paying most now and have stopped giving raises.
Awesome small company! Paid on time every 2 weeks. Plenty of work!
Owner is great. I would recommend this company to anyone who wanted to be paid what they are worth and paid on time!
While the work is important,
please keep in mind that you're doing it to earn a living. While it is often said that it takes about 3 months to get up to speed on an account, it seems that you have some sense of the situation already.
If the finances aren't working out, I would start looking. If it's not a win-situation for the employer and the employee, it's not the right job. Good luck.
The important thing is not how many MTs are looking for work. sm
What will matter in the end is your skills. There are thousands of MTs in the country, but unfortunately only a small percentage of them are well trained. Not bragging, just a fact; I know a lot of MTs. If you know the second-edition BOS well (which many companies require), are meticulous in your work, great at researching terms, and are dependable, you can get a job. It helps if you have an extensive background in various areas of transcription.
Put your strongest assets forward in your resume, and keep plugging. There is ALWAYS a shortage of good MTs, even right now. An MTSO may overhire, but if he/she is wise, they will keep the good ones in the end.
It's a little more difficult to get a job right now, but still possible. One of the biggest points is your resume. Make sure it sells your strong points, but is brief enough to be read.
Good luck to you all, especially at the big company.
Are you being paid to find them MQ MTs?
If you are not being paid for 'recruiting', you are quite foolish. Don't let these people make a fool of you.
Any company that makes you wait to get paid until they get paid by the client
is not a company you want to get involved with. That's part of being an MTSO, figuring out how to cover your payroll while waiting to get paid. I would stay away!
QA is not paid to find fault.
QA is paid to ensure quality. It is all about patient care and safety, remember?
To some people the line count is VERY important. Used to work with (sm)
a girl who would scan the system for normals and special assign them to herself. The boss had us print out a daily log of what we had typed, she would only do this every 2 days, making it look like she had a productive day, when in fact she had been outside smoking or in the bathroom taking 40 winks most of the day.
If and when you find one, be sure do double check yourself that you are being paid for what they
:P
Remember QA is paid to find fault..sm
I've been there and they can be maddening. On top of the nitpicking, if you get more than 1 QA person, they'll be contradicting each other. Do one thing, #1 corrects it, so you do it her way. Along comes #2, and you did it wrong, so you do it #2's way. Don't take it personally and remember THEY'RE PAID TO FIND FAULT WITH YOUR WORK. You know that you know your stuff. If it gets to be too much of a hindrance, I would contact management to let them hear YOUR side of the story; wouldn't count on it, though. In addition, a lot of the QAs get so uppity in their holier-than-thou attitude, some downright rude. Good luck.
REMEMBER-QA IS PAID TO FIND FAULT...SM
15 months?? I would think about 2 weeks should be enough, maybe a bit more if learning a difficult account. (I was on a difficult Oncology account for about 4-5 weeks but that was because the supervisor doubled as the only QA person). But your case is extreme and just another example of MT abuse by management. I would contact my supervisor and give them an ultimatum...you have every right, long overdue. Do you know how this QA is taking food off of your table and how much time she has literally stolen from you??? You could be doing your PAID work instead of the constant, inconsistent feedback back & forth with these egomaniacs, who really need to get off of their high horse.
Does anyone know how to find out what the nationals are getting paid from the docs? (sm)
I would LOVE to be able to find out what the doctors are paying these national companies for their work. I have heard so many times, that the transcriptionists have to take a pay cut because of the economy and because of outsourcing. And personally, I do not see how any of us can work for less than what we are getting now.
Is there a way to actually verify what these nationals are charging the docs, maybe calling around and getting quotes is the only thing I can think of. Does anyone have a better idea. I would LOVE to get ACTUAL QUOTES and see how it compares to what we are getting. Any ideas?
Me too.. the outsourced company was paid for and paid me for headers, but OSI does/did not.
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I have to say I disagree. QA is not paid to find faults with your report. sm
QA is paid to make sure the report is as close to 100% correct before the client sees it. However, I truly agree with you that anyone on QA hold for more than a month is beyond ridiculous. Where I work, I have seen people on hold for more than a month but it was truly because of poor transcription work and has nothing at all to do with the QA people.
You might find a job but you wont get paid for "normals", that is how it works now. nm
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Yes, it has happens to me regularly.
I get on in the morning, pretty early, and the work is from the night before and then in about an hour it is gone and I have to work on my secondary accounts. It is very strange!!
Believe it; know 5 MTs who do that regularly.
Super MTs.
do you find being paid per the minute pays better than per line pay rate?
Thank you so much for your help!
Depends on your STM - some let you know regularly sm
what is going on in the company; others don't seem to. As for the hiring, I hear it is only for night shift and a few accounts that need second shift coverage.
I love doing pathology, but it is hard to find a position for working at home. Gross pathology is
easy, descriptive typing. Microscopic is a little more difficult, but once you get the terminology down, it goes really quickly. I also found it easy to get lines in with pathology. If you've done acute care, you should not have a problem with the transition, IMHO.
I've been with the company almost 10 years. I know the truth. Hawaii was a company-paid vacation.
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Sorry you feel that way. I guess it is hard to believe that a company sm
can be so great, but they truly are. I have been doing medical transcription for over 30 years now, and they are some of the most caring people I have ever had the pleasure to work with. True, the line rate is not astronomical -- I have definitely made more -- but the benefit package is great, and it is relatively easy to achieve the upper tiers of the incentive. And the bonuses they offer are really nice.
In these days of companies lying to employees, treating them badly, etc., they do indeed sound too good to be true, but so far my experience has only been a positive one. However, I have only been there for 2 months now, so I suppose I am still in the honeymoon phase, but I would not hesitate to recmomend them to anyone.
Good luck to you. Hope you find a company that makes you as happy as I am with TransTech.
So you stay with a company that makes it hard to
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