If you're extremely lucky you get 9cp. Experience doesn't seem to count much anymore. nm
Posted By: poor MT on 2006-02-02
In Reply to: I have 20 years' experience in acute care, can do any speciality, can - me
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You're extremely lucky. I bet there aren't 10 of us out here employed by a hospital, working f
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If you're with someone that doesn't count the demographic info or headers or footers, line cou
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You guys are lucky! The NPs I've had in the past were all extremely wordy and had endless dic-
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Oh my, count yourself lucky - sm
The best companies that I have worked for have never tested me - a huge reason I went with them. They were smart enough to see by my resume I had what it took and didn't waste my time or theirs on ridiculous testing.
I do not know this particular company but if they are smart enough to see you have many years in the field with vast experience, go for it!
I do count myself lucky, but:
It's not just about the average US income. Where we live, our income isn't all that high. Housing around here is just about right for our income level, so it's all relative.
Count yourself lucky....
If you are there long enough and she is in the position, you WILL eventually get it from her. I remember some posts a few months back about this very same subject, and I, too, was someone who had never had any run-ins with, but since then, I have had my fair share. However, I didn't and won't let her run me off. I just go on watch my work and work my designated shift. If I should get something from her, then I repond back. I don't take kindly to intimidation.
Who doesn't anymore?
Fact of life. More Editor positions now available, less typing, hourly salaries.
You are lucky if they are telling you anything. OSi doesn't tell us anything
and they lose accounts all the time because of TAT problems but they never own up to it. Just to have some communication and honesty would be a dream come true for us. At least there is always work because they are always so darned behind.
Liz doesn't report to Alex anymore?
She may run the day to day operations, just like a lot of people at Transcend run that end of the corporation. But they all still report to the higher-ups and any upper-level corporate changes made would also include MDI-FL, since they are a subsidiary of Transcend. If Transcend suddenly decided that all employees will operate on the same pay/benefit scale corporate wide, that would also include the employees of MDI-FL. I'm not saying they're going to do this, but I'm saying that Liz may control certain aspects, but she isn't the final say. Things could change at the drop of a hat or the whim of Transcend upper-level management.
Just my experience but extremely poor mgt
no holiday pay of any kind, overhire, expensive poor quality benefits, did I say overhire? way way way overhire which always to me shows concern for company and not the working stiffs...Good Luck and you will make sense of it all...it just is a little overwhelming at times..
SBC doesn't allow MTs. Many long distance providers don't anymore because of how many minutes
This MDI place really needs to get out of the stone ages already and go internet files like other companies have already been doing for years now.
TT doesn't care about their MT's anymore; just under Dictaphone's direction and OVERHIRE du
knowing that they were going to lose MT's due to the recent strong enforcement policy that every MT going to VR and low PAY. They hired early to take care of the loss of MT's due to this policy.
Most of their accounts were acquired through Dictaphone and are Dictaphone controlled!!!! TT has picked up an account or 2 on their own, but most work is handed down by Dictaphone.
Of course, there is always TT mgmt's excuse of it being a holiday, doctors on vacation, low census at hospitals due to patient's not getting admitted due to a new year with insurance new deductible, and of course, that always EXCUSE of new accounts coming onboard (and NOT), but we can't tell you about it !!!!!
They are actually trying to get rid of MT's who have tried VR and did not like it, so are continuing to get paid their normal, low line rate by doing straight transcription, like we get a FORTUNE at TT anyway for straight transcription. But mgmt has to find a way to keep their paychecks GOING UP AND UP . . .
In my Extext experience count was about 10% less than the Word count. nm
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Not Lee. She doesn't come here anymore. Too hard to read the lies from people who were fired fo
poor quality, poor work ethics, cherry picking, disappearing for days on end, not covering their shifts or line counts, crazy HR people (both were nuts and evil).
Good and bad at every company including KST, MQ, Spheris, Transcend, etc.
Consider yourself lucky. Not my experience with VR.
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you're so lucky...
to have nothing better to worry about than a harmless human typo. And if you're the person who made the typo, we forgive you (at least most of us do and the ones who don't were just going to find something to be petty about anyway).
you're lucky
I also found Steve to be quite rude when I called the office and he answered the phone. Didn't have anyone to complain to, though, since his wife is the owner or co-owner.
Heh - maybe if we're lucky, the U.S. will go to war
Serve the suckers right. And maybe we'd get our livelihood back, to where we could earn an actual living on it, too.
You're one of the lucky ones
I know many, many people, myself included who have just recently lost their jobs to EMR. I thought the that it would never happen to me because I was told by my employer, oh, we'll still need you to do this and this and blah, blah, blah, and just as quick as a wink we were let go.
You're lucky. Mine are usually way behind. It's
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If you're lucky they will not reply.
Employment with Focus is an experience most come to regret.
You're lucky to get that. I get 5 days and 6
paid holidays, but I don't necessarily get the holiday off. If our schedule falls on a holiday we are expected to work it unless we have been approved for PTO, and you have to ask months ahead of time. We are able to take the day at another time w/o pay, since we already got paid for it.
So you're one of the lucky ones who hasn't
taken a cut in pay for working longer & harder? It's sad to not be able to feel compassion for your fellow MTs who are struggling to make ends meet when their pay is being cut & the cost of living is rising. The CEOs of the MT corporations aren't going hungry, but some of our fellow MTs are really struggling. My compassion lies with them.
Can you say why you're not typing for him anymore?
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If you get sent home in a week, you're lucky, SM
I considered applying for an MT home-based job for a local hospital in my town. They wanted me to work in-house 8-5 for FOUR TO SIX MONTHS, even though I have 10+ years of experience and worked there several years ago, so was familiar with the docs. No thanks, especially with 2 kids at home that would need day care to the tune of $750 or so per month. I passed (the money wasn't great anyhow, but the insurance was pretty decent).
I do hear that in some parts of the country, there are still some good home-based jobs. Unfortunately, more and more hospitals seem to be either going the ASR route or outsourcing.
You're lucky you got hired hourly before they did away with it.
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You're right. It is miserable to be a US employee anymore.
We treat the immigrant workers and the overseas workers better than we treat our own ... it's the American way, of late, anyway.
Figure in the $20k to $50k range, if you're lucky; less when first starting out. nm
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Gosh, you're lucky! I'd love to make that much!
I do hope to at least get 9 cents a line somewhere anyway.
Even if you're FT, you'll be lucky to have enough work to get your lines,
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Feel lucky you didn't get a rejection email. I have over 16 years experience
and this is the first test, since the very beginning of my career, that I have not passed. I am stunned. I'm not perfect by any means, but this is the first real rejection. I understood it early in my career, but after all this time, and working the past five years doing acute care for a couple of nationals, I get turned out by this company because I failed the test and they do not even tell you which part. I needed this job, but I guess it's back to the drawing board.
Medware's IT dept. obviously doesn't work weekends.No lines count for 2 days. nm
not surprised
Your experience doesn't speak for everyone..
I have worked with them for over three years, and have never had the problems you described. No, I'm not a brown noser and will not say anything positive that is not true. I have two accounts that I love, a great supervisor, and no one has ever said anything about me not making production. Of course, sometimes the work is slow - that is with all companies. When it is slow, I adjust my schedule and work when the work comes in. I do hope you have found peace elsewhere.
Thanks - doesn't look like you're too happy about it.
The suspense is killing me - not that there is much suspense left anyway, but I still want to read it.
You're still here. Doesn't say much for you and your life.
Have some trolling to do.
Whatever. Doesn't matter, we're all going to be
Sometimes years of experience doesn't matter as much as what
I've seen MTs with 5-10 years of good exposure transcribe circles and beat the QA pants off MTs with 20 years experience simply because of the type of work and exposure they've experienced.
You're using her computer? Doesn't sound
If you truly are an IC - I would send her an invoice. She will need your soc. sec. # or tax ID for reporting purposes - that's pretty standard.
But in my experience, offshore men do it more and lie about stuff that doesn't matter.
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Doesn't sound too bad to me with 7 months experience. I have 26 years' exp and get 11.5. nm
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Wow, if you're paying ICs $1.50 a line, count me in! nm
ETrans doesn't hit 9 cpl until you're at 1400 lines a day. nm
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You're right...that post doesn't make any sense...sm
How could high producers mess things up for the rest of us, when, in the past few weeks, we were offered incentives on most of the accounts to keep them in TAT by working extra?? And how could a responsible member of management even state something to that effect? The only logical conclusion is that this particular poster wants to discourage high production (on his-/her OWN accord) in other MTs to keep the pickings greener for him-/herself.
Anyone work for Spheris doing VR? Could you share experience, pay, line count etc..
Also, what are the benefits like i.e., medical insurance etc??
If you're that upset about it, do what I did and work for a company that doesn't outsource
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From my experience, it is all in how the company sets it up to count i.e. footers, headers, spaces
etc.. I work on another platform but I noticed the same thing when I worked for a company and it would me 12 hours to get 1000 lines, and at the time, I had nothing to compare it to. Then, I thought..this is just wrong. Working 12 hours to make $80 is ridiculous so I quite. I went to work for another company...same platform... and routinely do 1500 to 2000 lines a day and I can tell the difference. You know when you do a whole page report and all you end up with is at the max 40 lines.. something is wrong. I'd say keep the best paying and dump the rest. They are obviously shorting you somewhere.
You're supposed to get 12 hrs of paid training even though it doesn't take that long to learn
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I'd bet they're looking for LESS experience so....
I.e., 'over-qualified' is most likely what her problem was. They state they want 'experience', but not so MUCH experience that they would be expected to actually PAY for it.
They pay 0.015 cpl for QA work! Extremely, extremely low, low, low. nm
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You're got 30 years experience.
If you've applied, they're not going to give you 5 or 6 cpl. I'm talking newbies...the ones that everyone says prefer internet research. If companies are offering you 8 cpl with 30 years under your belt, they're certainly not giving the newbies that amount. Who can afford the reference materials when they're just starting out, still green and still slow, on 6 cpl??
http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/20215.html
http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/2/94754.html
Search the archives. There are plenty of posts.
Lucky You ... I was not so lucky to work with that platform
Meditech - it was awful. I kept getting promised that my account was going to ChartMatrix, but it never happened and the Meditech system was SO slow. I loved TH, the people, etc. - so if you can get an account that is on ChartMatrix - hop on it. But, avoid the accounts that are on Meditech because I don't think they are EVER going to convert (and I waited quite awhile - couldn't take it any more).
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