Inflammatory remarks? Lets see, stand up for your
Posted By: self, dont be a victim, if not happy move on.SM on 2009-09-25
In Reply to: Why? Because you incite whining? - with your inflammatory remarks?
Yep, then guilty of inflammatory remarks made in attemtp to get MTs to see they are only victims if they ALLOW themselves to become victims. I dont mind when others strike back at me, it shows they at least have the backbone to do that. Now if that would channel that backbone to do something about the situation they are whining about, they might get somewhere.
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You can express your opinion without name-calling. Everyone has their own experience. Respect it or don't post here, period.
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and to put the most inflammatory spin on it...
It seems that Art Toth looks down at people who don't work for themselves.
A man who is currently living on money he owes to some of you, looks down on us because we're not getting rich by stealing other people's labor.
I hope the word spreads among MTs, so that lots of his victims stand behind Scammed at the hearing in July, whether in person or with their stories. The more money turns out to be involved, and the more people he has harmed, the more likely there will be effective action.
Unkind remarks
I find it quite disturbing to see unkind remarks on this board. We are professionals, should act accordingly, and try to support and help our brother and sister MTs. Puffing about line counts and insulting others is just plain mean spirited. Everyone gets something different to deal with. Can't we be decent here? Who else but others in our profession would understand the complexities and diverse situations we get thrown into on a daily basis. Things are not like they were 10 or 15 years ago in this business. Lets share information, give support, stick together, and be kind.
unkind remarks
I agree with you, Sherry.
Keep the personal remarks to yourself.
You are entitled to your opinion, but so am I entitled to mine, and I am always willing to engage in honest debate about any point. I am also willing to agree to disagree. But making personal wisecracks crosses the line, and does not further the discussion.
As for me being 'untrue,' you don't know the first thing about me, who I am and what I'm made of, so unless you can prove to the world at large that you really DO know me (which you don't), again, keep the personal remarks to yourself.
Those remarks don't bother me..coming
to work at OSi.
come on now...you know what was meant by racist remarks--sm
let's not get carried away here. save your *giggle* comments for the comedy board. talk about overkill! jees.
It nice to see some positive remarks about MQ, sm
I am starting tomorrow and am looking forward to it. 
Your disparaging remarks, oh if only you knew
Does the remark about lack of education make you feel more important? My husband and I own a business (not transcription) and it serves our needs very well. I am retired over 3 years now, just work parttime so as not to get rusty because I really enjoy transcription- it is not something I have to do now to make a living. Our business taxes and mine are separate. I no longer pay social security and I make an excellent bottom line pay in trancription because I am fast after all the years I have done this. I sponsor several animal rescue places where most of my earned money goes to. I would not feel bad about my lack of education. I have done ok in my life and have reached a time when life is just a bowl of cherries.
VERY GOOD MTSO! DON'T BELIEVE THE NEGATIVE REMARKS!
I have had an excellent experience with Nicholas Transcription since signing on with them over two months ago. She pays on a weekly basis and the pay is seldom late. When it is late, it's only one or two days off. I received my first paycheck via DD the second week (on a Friday) after I turned in my first invoice, which is not usual. In fact, most MTSOs pay on a bi-monthly basis -- she pays us weekly!!! I have gotten paid in a timely manner with the exception of only one or two times and both times, she paid me the following Monday or Tuesday and she made me aware of the fact that the DD would be a day or so late. Also, the owner was upfront and honest and made me aware that late payments do happen on occasion prior to my ever signing a contract and I was fine with that -- so long as I get paid, I'm fine with that (AND SHE DOES PAY ME WEEKLY)!
Also, the owner is extremely flexible, understanding, and extremely very easy to work for. The dictators are great and the work is very consistent.
I speak from present experience! I work for her now and will continue working for her. Don't believe the negative comments -- they are not true.
That's right. Back up your claims with facts, not with lunatic remarks.
Step up to the plate and post in more of a professional manner. Otherwise, it serves no real purpose. MTStars was not created for people to come only to post their personal smear campaign.
Hateful remarks usually arise after someone from the company in question
and people get sick of it. Sorry, but it's true. Yes, people do get very angry and probably post things they shouldn't but when you see someone on here posting 24/7 and it's obvious where they're from and what they're up to it really starts to grate on your nerves like Chinese water torture.
Information people gather from this board also includes warnings from former employees of companies about their past experiences and observations and I've used that information many times myself. It's a life-saver.
No worries. I can understand how her remarks could make you angry. sm
At least people, men and women, can now take off for that special time. This is not the same by any means, but I remember working inhouse quite a few years ago and our supervisor had everyone so terrorized and in fear or being off that a woman had her gallbladder out and came back to work the next day! I hope those days are gone.
Lets put it this way.....
I have worked for 5 nationals, only quit because if I started making money they would change everything so I would be reduced to practically starting all over. Either reassessing hospitals so they could lower your line rate to 1 to even 1.5 cents. Putting you on an established account where the old timers got premium dictation, to sending the easier dictation overseas so you were stuck with junk, to using VR that took longer to correct than to type. That is what I went through with 5 nationals. I am not saying there are not good companies out there, but I can tell within one week of being with a company if I being taken advantage, lied to about how they set up dictation, etc., and I have not found that with Keystrokes. That is all I am saying.
They leave me alone to get my work done, don't take advantage of my 16 years experience and they DO NOT outsource. Everyone wants to make a profit but they seem to make it without taking it from the transcriptionists.
TT lets me do it sm
Now, you'll understand that I am VERY flexible about what I do. I have four accounts that are pooled to me in order of TAT and I get their OPs and their cardio. I was told that if I only wished to have one account, I'd probably run out sometimes. I DO get asked to type DS, Consults and H&Ps, but not often.
If you aren't willing to do more than one account, refuse the cardiology stuff or if your quality is not 99% or better, they might not allow you to do it that way.
In a way, I bend over backwards to avoid anything other than OPs, but because of my willingness to be flexible, they bend over backwards for me. Of course, I have made my lines since DAY ONE and I was off of all QA in matter of a couple of days and that is ALL my accounts. I know they are extremely good to me and it is always...honey just tell me what you would like to do and you'll have it, but there are reasons I get treated that way.
I'd talk to them about your concerns and see if you can't work something out. You could also ask them why you don't have what you want and they are so straight forward, they will tell you.
lets not get nasty.......
1. I am not management.
2. I have been on DocQScribe for about a year and a half.
3. I do not count the headers and footers since obviously they would not copy and paste into the Word Document. Since we don't get paid for them, why would I count them?
4. Not getting paid for headers and footers is wrong - but we are caught in this predicament - the only way to force the issue is to stop filling in the headers and footers and since I am not management and not even remotely interested in leading a revolt, I will not be the one to start this whole issue.
Sorry. I better get back to work. This board is one of the many reasons I don't meet my line count - too much internet surfing when I should be working.
Lets try again. Any info on......
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Lets keep talking about KS
Ready for truth. Have a nice day:)
Lets not start this again
I think it would be best for any KS MTs, managers or otherwise to stay away from this board. Others are taking advantage of it as their forum to promote whatever agenda they have. As far as potential KS employees, the very best thing to do is to contact the company for FACTS.
I liked the ad. Too the point and lets you know
up front not to try to fake it. Probably a very good person to work for, tells it like it is.
Okay, lets do some figuring (sm)
Lets say there are 20 MTs working for a company. The company charges the docs 0.16 per line. The MTs get 0.08 per line. The MTs each do 1000 lines per day, 6 days a week.
1000 x 0.08 = 80 per day
$80 x 20 MTs = $1600 a day.
$1600 x 6 days a week = $9600 a week.
$9600 x 52 weeks in a year = $499,200 a year.
Okay, lets get something in the open. (sm)
I am so not stressing about it. It was a random question because I have been lied to in the past about having to take a pay cut. Was it really a true need or a true greed?
Lets not fight about. There is nothing wrong with wondering.
Verizon lets you do all day Transcription? sm
I thought Verizon would not let people use the unlimited for work like transcription. Do they? Is it megabucks? Thanks.
ok lets suppose you make
9 cpl - and I'll average that on 1200 lines a day, that amounts ot 13.50/hr. Thats not worth sitting in your chair for 8 hours now is it? 10 cpl - 15/hr. and I seriously doubt you make more than that. Thats a lot of busting butt for such a low wage. On a good platform with fair counting system an experienced MT should be able to type 2000 lines per day, thats with breaks, and going along at an even pace.
ok lets all get serious then no more funnies on the board please
I am sure the poster meant no harm and I am certainly not going to get all serious about something as crazy as this. Aren't we made to wear enough straight jackets as it is on a day to day basis, geesshhhh!!!
No...I'm not one that lets work flow through.
I do take the time to correct my reports and research terms, physicans' names and addresses, correct facility names, etc. That is exactly WHY I take offense at your post. It is getting harder and harder to maintain quality while still being able to do this job at 99% accuracy along with all the additional nonpaid responsibilities some of these MTSOs require without having additional stress added to it with punitive compensation policies.
I'm most definitely NOT advocating that MTs should hurry through their work, I'm taking the side of the MTs that have enough stress as it is without having more garbage piled on top of our backs. I'm appalled at the fact that you have such a high and mighty attitude against your fellow workers at the same time bragging about your situation, yet admitting that you're scared you may end up in the same situation. Hey...at least your honest about not having qualms sticking the knife in your colleagues' backs. Like you say...it would be stoopid for you to give up the name of where you work to help others out because then you would end up in the same boat. Things are a lot different than they were in the 70s and 80s, but your attitude shows that you could care less about what your colleagues are going through NOW because you're done with it and set to retire.
MQ lets you accrue PTO if you're PT
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Lets all work for free
VR is awesome to fly thru reports and if your good, you could make a great pay check...but the more peeps who take 3 cents, the more the companies who pay compenative rates thin they can get away with it...when i started to do VR i was paid 9 cents a line, 6 yrs ago...now they try telling us 3 cents a line is good....BULL..give us our work back and stop offshore..cuz they get less and like it so it brings our rates down lower
My hope would be that as we all get called about this new pay plan that everyone lets them know
about Amherst and whatever offices are running everyone out of work and expecting them to have 8 backups or more. What good is an incentive plan going to be with this situation.
Lets see.... they outsource to India, just cut holiday pay..
they change their policy manual so much that there is no way to keep up, the teamleaders are often rude and very sarcastic... I could go on and on.
You're right, lets be fair. Do you remember how
long it took to get your first check? Was it 6 weeks like everyone else. Is your check total from work done 1 month ago or 2 weeks ago? When I worked there the SW they used to count lines did not work properly. If you're going by what THEY say - then you are correct - your pay will never be off. Besides, if I wasn't correct in my pay amt. and line count, why did the owner try to rectify the problem and accounting as well?
If IC lets co. use her as employee, setting sched,
x
I posted this the other day as well ......lets hope lots
xx
lets call it 50/50 .... bad/good MT/company
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Lets just hope they are not overhiring lately and we will find we are all going to be out of work
especially after Summer.
Of course lets not forget all our little offshore MTs that they can fall back on if a lot of SEs
leave. They waited until they had all this in place before they dumped on us dont worry. Why do you think they hired a lot of new corporate people that work with overseas companies. Go figure.
Ummmmm, yeah and it just lets you search by number..
xx
If TT lets wrong line counts continue, regardless of
x
Must be your manager 'cause mine lets me off at the drop of a hat. sm
You should ask again, saying that you have extenuating circumstances. Offer to work extra during the pay period to make up any missing hours, if possible.
As for slowness, it is MUCH IMPROVED since earlier this year.
??? Doesn't one get fired if 'one lets quality go out the window????' ...nm
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At least you stand up for yourself!
I am the HR person, QA, and trainer for a small company. We've had the same employees for more than 5 years, some as long as 10. Recently we had to hire a few new people because of growth.
People talk about wanting to be respected and wanting to keep the work here. I agree this needs to be done but in order to do that we have to have qualified people. IF somebody passes our simple test, which is transcribing real files, and we hire them, we tell them their line requirement. We don't even require set hours. We get people who won't do 200 lines per day, much less what is required. We get people who say they have 10 years of experience, yet require total read throughs, which cost us money. The incredibly bad ones we have to let go, which is incredibly hard for me to do, then come here and post how horrible the employer is. They don't mention the fact that 1) they still have our equipment even though they have their last check, 2) they failed to do their required lines per hour, 3) half the time they just didn't work at all PERIOD. Or I invest a great deal of time in training them and they quit with reasons like I didn't realize it would take four hours to work part time and get my lines, I didn't know working at home was like having a REAL job.
I don't know anything about your company at all, but I do know the frustration at being hammered on these forums without the real stories being told, so I think it's great that somebody actually takes up for their company. We do not outsource, but I have edited for companies who do, and the work is there ON TIME, even if it has to have minimal editing. If someone is sick, there's somebody to back them up. No whining, no emails from people who say that for the 10th time this month there was a wreck and their power is off, the dog is sick, I fell and hurt my back again, my dad is going to be ill in December so I'll need time off, my car broke down and I had to walk 5 miles home so that's why I am 8 hours late getting on, I was out all night partying and I have too much of a headache now to work. It's a real shame for the people who actually do work their tails off.
What does TTS stand for? nm
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Take a stand.
Lest we get redirected to the politics board, let me make a few general observations. I would not look to the companies for resolution. They are only one player among many whose greed holds our country in their clutch...a tight, squeezing grip that impoverishes the poor, enriches the wealthy and make economic refugees of the ever-shrinking middle class. Look beyond the corruption of the politicians and whatever despair, frustration and hopeless you may feel. For a long and single moment, stare far back into the eyes or our history and ask these questions over and over and over again:
Why are we paid wages like we're a third world country. It'd be nice just to meet the bills, but between low wages and high costs of having insurance, which we have to have because our antidepressant medications are so flipping high, who can survive doing this anymore?
They are your questions. They are mine too. Why, indeed. Go and find your answers. Seek educated and balanced debates pros and cons, right and left. Here's a hint on how to start. You'll have to switch to something besides Fox and CNN to find this. Listen to the candidates. Follow the rhetoric and their platforms. Watch closely and be a tough critic. Put yourself around others who share these perspectives. Listen and contribute, teach and learn from one and the other. Identify your agenda and then go out and promote and support it.
Do this between now and this time next year. Then show up at the polls. You will know what to do. If you don't get what you want from the leadership and the legislators, do not disappear into the corner of the country. Get out there and go for it, over and over. This is not wasted effort. If you were a child of the 60s or 70s, you would believe this. In my life, sweeping, long-reaching and lasting reform has come and gone. Minorities and women still reap the benefits of those efforts from so long ago. The time is ripe for history to repeat itself.
PS: If this were 1970, you and I would be organizing (watch out, here comes that dirty word) LABOR UNIONS.
Could not stand it ..
First post I read was how nobody needs the BOS. Then I read this .. some days you just have to wonder how in the world people make a living if they really feel there need be no rules or standards. Forget India or Manila or Pakistan and for God sake, remember patient safety. There is a reason for standards and every time I come here I see someone shooting themselves in the foot with their incredibly illogical logic. Our jobs are about patient safety .. first, foremost and always.
What does LTS stand for?
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Can't stand it.
I hate the way it searches patients, I hate the autotext format...basically can't stand it. I only live with it because I play it in express scribe and type it in word and then copy it over.
what's TT stand for ? nm
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Where is YOG or what does that stand for???
Does this company still exist? I tried to look on Google to see what company this is and cant find it.
What does it stand for, please? (SPi) (nm)
Who is going to stand up for us?
We are all spread out, and the company I just came from kept everyone's name a secret, including how many working on the account, changes in schedules - everything.
And this is exactly why, so we CAN'T do anything about anything.
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