Informed decisions
Posted By: MQ MT Oldtimer on 2005-10-02
In Reply to: Do the MQ firm scheduled start immediately or in January? nm - I need to be getting my resume together.
You're looking before you even get your info clear? Interesting.
The changes take place Jan 1. Your paperwork has to be submitted by 12/1.
The "firm" schedule is actually MUCH more flexible than any I've ever seen with MQ as you're looking at choosing from 24 hours in 7 days.
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Make informed decisions
I had worked for TransHealth and they did pay for the spaces/headers but I would advise to seek other opportunities. They kept changing mgmt staff and you did not know who was coming or going. A lot of ESL dictation; no incentive whatsoever working wknds or shift differential. They will pay you 10 cpl if you are willing to sacrifice every weekend. Also you might get condescending emails from couple of the QA staff and when there is a huge backlog they send their "panic" emails but when there is no work, you don't hear a peep out of them.
decisions decisions...
Wow I faced this very same decision just last month, & thankfully chose Med-Scribe. I am doing OK with them. Since then I have heard so much negative about Soft Script that I am happy with my choice. The pay is not bad, the people are very nice to work with, & the work is not hard.
decisions
I've been going through the same thing on decisions. A lady told me something that made a lot of sense. She had worked different places and told me it depends most on the platform and she had been on enough of them that she could tell right off if she could make money or not. I last began with a really good to work for company that everybody loves. However, it's the docs that make or break you. They have been holding the mike open a lot as they look through the charts on HP, Consult and DS. That really hurts my line count. Also, there's too big a difference in my line count between 1 company and another. Either 1 company's system is giving me too many lines or the other is giving me too few lines. 1200/day at 1 company and 600/day at the other is too big a difference. You'll just have to ask questions and job hop until you find something you can live with.
I make my own decisions
I am an independent contractor, and yes I will tell them what I can and will do and when and how I will do it. If they don't like it, they can choose another contractor.
Don't be jealous because you've allowed someone to take advantage of you!
Show some love! 
Career decisions
I've done nursing and I am here to tell you all that it is not as easy as it looks. The money might be great, but it is so frustrating and exhausting, especially when you are right there on the front lines, so to speak, dealing with life and death right up close working in a somewhat dysfunctional medical system.
If you are young and energetic or just energetic at any age, it might be a viable solution to study nursing. For me, like some others, working from home, at home, is my top priority.
Through the years, I have noticed that many of the really happy MTs are those who do not have to depend on their MT jobs to pay their main bills, but may do medical transcription work part time to supplement their income. No, I am not discounting those who do it full-time and are very successful and really love it; I'm sure they do exist.
However, the suggestions made in this thread make total sense to me, kind of like having the best of both worlds. Now, the challenge is to find that perfect part-time MT job, as well as a really good career with a promising future, doing something else.
Apparently, HR has made their decisions sm
Wanted to thank each and every one of you who responded to me. We will be adding accounts (mainly ortho) by the end of the month and will need more editors at that time. I will be holding each resume and email I received and will be contacting some of you to see if you are still interested.
THANK YOU AGAIN for writing.
Can't base any decisions on what you see on MQ board sm
People come and go all the time. Some leave and then decide to come back. There have been changes but that happens anywhere. Personally, I really like it. Decent benefits, wages and I like the platform. I never run out of work and get paid on time.
After reading some of the posts of other companies, I don't see how anyone can say MQ is that bad.
I'll play - EZ lunch decisions
I don't have to make the decision the night before or in the morning whether to pack a lunch or buy. Can decide to make rice in the cooker, microwave a meal or just eat a sandwich, or even not eat till I'm famished, all up to me and not a clock.
The sticky says "Don't make decisions SM
based on someone's recommendation. and that about covers it. For every single person, it's a trial and error process. What works for me won't work for you, someone recommends a company and you agree, I may not.
Informed MQ MT
Sorry, I pitched it out since it was the same as the email. Fromwhat I can remember, it was from Frank...telling us that they would be "informing" us of the new pay plan, etc that all the upper crust have worked so hard on "after" getting so much MT input.
Bottom line though, IMO, it was more to do about document preservation for the attorneys on all the legal issues...even had a note from the atty's on what is/is not important.
The snail mail came from corporate and again, I just got mine Saturday..so maybe yours will be there this week
Be Informed
The pros so far for me as an IC are setting my own schedule and no set times I have to work, just getting my lines in for the day
Please make sure what *YOU* think IC means is also what your service means. For many services it means- I can make you work like I need you to but don't have to incur headache or expense of withdrawing and submitting taxes.
If you are a TRUE IC, you go out and get your own CLIENTS, and make up your own schedule, etc. When you are working for an MT service you are NOT an IC. You're a statutory employee and still don't get to name your own hours apparently. Please see my post above.
Has anyone been informed of a pay cut in their MQ packet? nm
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Count me in as one who would like to be informed! Thanks. nm
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It took 3 weeks to get an ID, but they kept me informed. sm
I agree with the other poster. You should call or email.
The employee should be informed (sm)
it is overflow and not be told there would be plenty of work. Can't pay bills some weeks and not others. Work being offshored takes away from US line counts any way you slice it. No thanks.
After just being informed by Embarq that I was using my (sm)
unlimited long distance too much (they knew why I needed it when I signed up for it), I just called my digital provider and had it installed on my second line which will save me about $50 a month. And they said there were no restrictions!
Your "take" is ill-informed
MDI has never sent work to India, never will. It is an AMERICAN company that respects its AMERICAN workers.
Work has gone bye-bye since they informed us we ...sm
needed to be doing speech editing as part of our daily routine. I said fine to that but have heard nothing about it since. I never have work the last day of the pay period and end up being a few hours short and a couple hundred lines short for what is required for full-time and then accrue no time off during that pay period because of that 1 day. I gave my notice yesterday because I am not going to be jerked around anymore and go broke while they sit there and send out emails we must do speech editing and then cut my work load in half. I got a job at a local clinic part-time making the same amount at TT full-time!
Oh my. I just don't think you are very informed about IRS stuff.
Let's say the standard deduction for your state is $5000. This means in order to claim deductions you need to come up with more than $5000 business deductions to take those deductions. Say you have DSL costs of roughly $273 a year. Do you think the average IC MT has that much to claim. If not, you swallow that $273 for DSL.
If you have your own small beans dictators and say you still have to pickup and deliver you have mileage to claim,maybe some ink and paper costs, but most other stuff like equipment has long ago been prorated or taken in lump sum.
I provide and I am sure many/most IC MTs provide most everything the standard stuff. (other than paying to use their software).
I still don't feel you are much informed, you think so, but not so. I can tell. I had my own small beans for about 20 years, did my own IRS stuff too.
Not informed Professional MT Recruiting Service
As a student in a business law class and working on my AA in business administration, I can tell you this strange poster by Professional MT Recruiting Services is not well informed and smells of a troublemaker. Recently my law professor and another professor who is also a vice- president of a bank and deals with employees both discussed this topic a few months back. The current temperament and laws in most state make it very, very difficult for a former employer to say anything bad about a former employee because it makes that former employer open to big law suits. One would have to have committed a serious crime such as major theft from a company, and been convicted for a former employer to say anything negative about a former employee. In fact, both professors tell us that it is not worth the time or trouble to say negative things about a former employee for fear of law suits. Our law professor is a practicing attorney and a CPA who runs his own business, and if he is telling us he would not take the chance of saying something bad about a former employee who was less than an idea candidate, I am going to go with their expert advice. Both professors tell us it is better to be neutral and keep law suits at bay.
Diskriter off off offshores - and on some hospital accounts - they have not informed the hospital
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