Last week we were staying caught up with TAT so I guess

• anyone else have slowing down of work after the holidays? - Becky
  • Definitely pretty slow here - Jo
  • I am slow this week too...I am sure it will pick back up... - MtMom29
  • Last week we were staying caught up with TAT so I guess - me
  • Yep! It should even out soon. nm - nm
  • Just beginning to resume normalcy here. - Insurance deductibles and holiday bills?
  • Wishful thinking -- gone up at least 30% - nm - Patti

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 First of all, you're obviously mgmt. since you know so much about inside goings-on.

Second, and here is where the fib comes in:  You expect us to believe that Leads don't  type on their own lead shift  (they're too busy, too much to do-LMAO) - and their lead shift is obviously a 40-hour shift, if the hours on the bottom all of their holier-than-thou e-mails are to be believed - when DO they do their transcription - during their SECOND shift or 41st hour ( I assume they finish their 40-hour lead shift and then get paid OT to do their typing).  Are you another one who thinks all the rest of us peon MTs are so dumb.  MTs regularly get the halfway decent work taken out of their queus and get h--l when they compain about it.

I went into this job KNOWING I was not getting paid for headers and footers. I don't know any company that does pay for them, so it's no big deal to me.

I am also disappointed in the insurance hikes and am waiting to hear something, BUT the costs are still LOWER than the insurance I have now and with very low deductibles. I would only be saving $100 a month by going with TT's insurance as it stands now, but a $500 deductible is way better than $2000 we have now.

BTW, I also must foot the bill for this insurance. I am not sole provider for my family but pretty close to it, at least for 6 months out of the year. I don't think the grass is greener anywhere else and I'm staying.

Too many MTs look for the perfect job. There is no such animal. So, all you guys that are leaving just because of the above 2 reasons, go right ahead. It just means more work and $$ for me, and I appreciate it.

so that helps take the sting out a bit.  I love the people and love the company, but I do not think maybe they realize what a big shock $30 can be sometimes.  To me, the more fair thing to have done would have been to say something like effective next check, we will be taking out double premiums until we catch up or whatever.  However, cannot unring a bell.

And I have always been a bit disappointed that they wait until the following Monday to pay us instead of that Friday, but for the most part it is a good company.  Seems like all of the MTSOs hang on to their $$$ as long as they can -- guess the interest is better in their pockets than on our paychecks.    I was stupid and am now waiting a month to get paid for work I did for a woman in Virginia.  Chalk it up to lesson learned.

Good luck to you (and me!). 

It doesn't seem there's any more guarantee of stable work from local MTSOs than the national ones.

If you do want to stay local but work at home, also try Southern Transcription Services, located in Taylorsville, I think.  They have a good reputation. Google them for their web site. 

on the postage meter as if they had mailed it on payday, like I wouldn't notice that it was POSTMARKED 5 days later!  I have used a postage meter before ... you can set the date to anything you like .. duh.  It was in my contract that the checks were to be mailed every other Friday from the Tampa airport.  I pitched a big fit and finally Giselle Fed Ex'd my checks after that.  I would hope by now they would have direct deposit.  You shouldn't have to sit and wait for your check and be at the mercy of the mail, nor should you have to pay extra just to make sure you receive it in a timely fashion.  They have been in business long enough that they should have established direct deposit.  It was posted awhile back that they had it for awhile and then did away with it because of some issue with the bank.  I would be very, very careful if you need your check in a timely manner.  It seems that they just barely meet payroll, but that was just my impression. 

Good luck.

Every OTHER medical field, nursing, therapists, techs, etc. are all experiencing the yearly salaries going up.  Transcription compensation is not increasing. 

While they may increase the RATES the ability to make the more money is not there because of VR, taking away the header allowances, more difficult accounts, more ESLs, stricter QA, etc., etc. slow platforms that require information inserted that you don't get paid for and anything else that lowers your salary.  If hospitals are looking to slash their transcription budget, they are going to pass that onto the service and the service will pass that onto to the employee. 

I know transcriptionists that were making 45-50K in 1987 working 40 hours and now they are making 35K and often times working more than 40 hours to make that lower amount.  Or I hear people say I can make the same money but I must work much harder and longer hours.  I think wow...you have to work harder and longer to make what you made in the 1980s. 

Other occupations have gotten consistent raises without the need for more hours and I don't think employees would put with up it.  Imagine a well qualified R.N. being offered a 1987 salary?  The hospital would have a hard time hiring nurses.  But the transcription service environment is so competative if they can offer the work cheaper and cheaper while guaranting accuracy they will get that contract.  So in order to stay in business they have to find a way to pay the Transcriptionist the least amount of money to see their profits which they need to stay in business. 

Of course if transcription is all you know and you don't to work in an office or get a job at Starbucks you keep going and accept the pay because we really have no control.  You have to work with what they offer you.