In response to Janets post

Janet, in response to your question  -- you work 5 days a week, if your schedule falls on a weekend or a holiday  -- yes, you are EXPECTED to work  -- holidays are a bit lax -- I am NOT taking it out on you personally, but HOSPITALS operate 24/7 and 365 days a year  -- my daughter is a nurse and does not get holidays off unless she schedules way in advance (and she is just a year into her career)  -- I get soooo tired of I don't want to work weekends, I don't want to work holidays that I could scream  -- I know you took the job to be with your kids but think of how business would be otherwise  - when I was growing up, stores used to be TOTALLY closed on Sunday  -- this is no longer the case  -- bet the grocery checkers and everyone else dosent gripe about working weekends or holidays  -- Ithis is a career and you have to take the good with the bad.

I normally get up in the morning, have my coffee check email do checking of my system and hit the ground running  -- sometimes I have good days and sometimes I have awful days, but I have been in this profession for over 30 years and if I have had to had a holiday off, move et cetra I have scheduled it ahead of time  either that too, holidays do not necessarily have to be celebrated on THAT PARTICULAR day.

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take it to email and more personally than to expose it publicly on an internet bulletin board.

This would show some  (quote) CLASS (/quote).

1.  If you've been gone 7 months why do you care?  How do you know who the supposed troublemakers were if there were any? 

2.  Since you've been gone a while you haven't seen the communications to the employees, therefore it's unfair of you to judge anything about what the company has done since you left and is doing in the future.

3.  The company was open and honest about this experiment with offshore labor - didn't try to hide it like other companies have done.  They could have not said anything, done it, and the transcriptionists wouldn't have known for months.

4.  Experimenting and doing are 2 different things - and just because something is being explored doesn't mean it will be a done deal.

5.  The company fought considering using offshore labor but with the government not caring about it across the US or federal labor it's hard for anyone to fight it permanently - see the administrator for MTStars comments.  IT's not just transcription getting hit by offshore competition.  It's other jobs as well.  Ford is closing plants due to offshore competition.  Kraft is closing plants.  Other companies are doing the same thing and moving jobs overseas.  Stinks doesn't it?  But until we citizens of the US start insisting on stiff tariffs to anyone using labor outside of the US the trend will continue, especially since the lawmakers don't give a crud (probably due to payoffs).

6.  If you're really making all of the money you're claiming then good for you - especially if you're not working extra hours.  Be happy for yourself and don't knock another company.  It makes you look bad.   One person's dream job is another person's disaster.  I'm sure that where-ever you're working now has people who say bad things about it.   

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Most of the companies that I have worked for in the past had a built in method of counting lines.  I was told by the person who supervised me at the company to just take the character count iwth lines and spaces in Microsoft Word and divide by 65 which is what I did.  When the line count came back from the hospital with them using Sylcount, by their methods, I had been shorted approximately 1,000 lines.  I am being compensated by the company for those lines.  I then proceeded the other day to download both Practicount and Sylcount, however for some reason, I could not get a line count.  With Sylcount, it was a trial version, and I found out via the grapevine that with a trial version, it would not count the lines.  I then received a liscened copy of Practicount, from the company; however, again for some reason, it would not count the lines.  As to the other issue involved, because of a family emergency with my current landlord, I am having to find another place to rent.  Right now, my search is limited to weekends and this was explained to both the supervisor and the owner of the company but to no avail.

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surprised that anyone posts anything here. 

I do not work for Keystrokes but I like to see what is out there, and the benefits they are offered, if coupled with a decent line rate and steady work load, are better than most I have seen.

Gone are the days of fully-paid pension plans.  Gone are the days of three weeks' vacation.  Employers cannot afford these, and not just in transcription.

If you aren't interested or do not like something, just ignore the post.  You obviously were interested or you would not have read it.

Can't we cut back on the nasty posts on this board?  If it does not concern you, don't criticize. 

If you are not looking for a new position, don't gripe about ones that are being offered.  If you are looking and a company's line rates, benefits or perks don't meet your personal requirements, why cut that company down?  Just move on and good luck finding what you are looking for. 

I agree with the poster about being mad at the entire industry, but I still love my career choice.  It has been a good fit for me and has allowed me to live a nice lifestyle. 

If I wasn't happy, I'd move on to another career. 

This is only my opinion.  If I am considering taking on a new account, I will send my resume' out to a few companies, and see what offers come in.  If it takes one company a day or two to make an offer and another company a week, I may not be available in a week. 

Not sure if you think it is proper to send out a resume to just one company, and cross fingers hoping they will call with a decent offer.  I, for one, prefer to interview the company, not have the company interview me.

Hope this sheds some insight on why you may not receive a call back from those who submit their resume'.  You may be taking too long to get back to them. 

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I'll stick with MQ too!

their MAXIMUM line rate is $.05 gross line...... so much for that.

I have not heard anything back. 

What kind of platform do you type on?  Is it strictly internet based or do you have to have C-phone, extra phone line or other equipment? 

Thanks Again!

.....Could you tell me how flexible they are when it comes to putting you on accounts?  My absolute favorites are Radiology first and then Neurology second.  These are the accounts I would want to do.  I absolutely detest OPs and would not want to do these at all.  Would they be able to put me on the account I want?  Also, what is their pay rate? 

I too have worked in the hospital setting and at-home with several different companies.  I was happy with my first at-home company (Edix n.k.a. Spheris) until they sold the company and everything changed.  Since leaving them I have been working (if that's what you can call it) with InfoPro as an IC.  The work is never there ( example:  I only made $6,000 last year).  I won't get a paycheck this pay period because there hasn't been any work available.  I absolutely cannot make it like this and desperately need to find another job.  One that I know I will have the work available and also one that I know I will be typing what I like and not have to force myself to try to type what I don't like. 

My only problem is that I don't have a DAC-126 or C-Phone. 

Thank you again for your information and help, it is greatly appreciated.

I keep trying to post a response, but for some reason it won't post. 

I know a couple of people that have worked for the company - they were newbies.  They said it was awful - low pay and LOTS of ESL doctors. 

HOwever, I'm assuming that you are new to the industry, and this is a company that does hire newbies.  So you might want to use this as a learning experience to get your feet wet.  Or you may want to try a local hospital or clinic - I found that to be the absolute best experience around - because I had the help of other transcriptionists around me to ask and for feedback.

Just stay away from that company.

I applied one time and got a call from the owner.  It was not the job that scared me away, it was him.  He told me how he was taken someone to court about who knows what but I wanted nothing to do with that kind of thing.  Imagine someone calling to offer you a job and having to hear that non-sense.

Run, run stay away is my advice to you!

Several of us working there thinking the same thing.  It is a pattern and has not changed.  Several looking for other positions, but I think it is the same all over and nothing done about cherry pickers and never will be.  As long as there are in-house (hospital transcriptionists) it will continue and then you get the message that they are the client, but yet it is all outsourced to Keystrokes.  It is hard to trust or believe anyone in this business anymore, they are looking out for themselves. Just be sure this is what you want to do and don't give up something good for something you think may be better.  Wouldn't it be interesting if companies started giving their turnover rates? 

I was trying to stay within the guidelines of the original question which included being realistic. I think line rates should be at or above the level they were 10 years ago (I know . . . lot to ask). However, if the MTSO is working with a specific amt of dollars, the MT willing to slog through the difficult and slow dictators should be paid a higher line rate than someone transcribing ERs or appendectomies and C-sections.  I disagree with your statement that everyone is highly skilled. I could train high school students to transcribe ERs in three weeks that would be every bit as competent in them as someone doing ERs for 20 years. It is a narrow skill set. Don't let your ego get in the way of the facts.