Left MQ after 10 years for Webmedx, a better place. nm
Posted By: Webbed on 2009-01-28
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I hope it's a rumor..I left MQ for KS 3 years ago..I finally found a place I love (sm)
so I hope the rumor is not true!
I left EDiX/Spheris after 8 years there to come to Webmedx. SM
I moved over here in 2003 because I knew the recruiter and she told me it was a great place to work. She was right. The benefits are fair, the work plentiful, the bosses fantastic, and the QA staff wonderful. Good luck!
I left them over 4 years ago. Best thing I ever did. Moved to Webmedx. Quite happy. nm
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I left for the exact same reasons. But not from Medquist, another place.
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If you want to be appreciated Webmedx is the place to go. nm
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Try Webmedx. They run low on work, too, sometimes, but overall a more reliable place. NM.
Good luck.
Webmedx is a good place to work and has PT as well as FT. sm
Good luck in your search.
2 years for me - Best place ever.
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here is a place that wants 2 years, AmeriScript, sm
AmeriScript, Inc.
Contact: Human Resources
P.O. Box 55, Tollhouse, California 93667
transcriptiondr@netptc.net
Telephone: xxx-xxx-xxxx, Fax:
Title of position: Transcriptionist
Experience: 2 years as a transcriptionist.
Location of position: United States: nationwide position
At home or company: Work from home
Full or Part time: Available anytime
Employee Type: Independent Contractor
Type of Transcription: Hospital transcription
Specialty: Any Specialty
Job Description: We are currently hiring experienced MTs/Speech Recognition Editors for a new acute care account. IC status only. We need RAD & Basic 4 MTs. We will require a passing grade on our acute care test on mttest.com. This position will start May 14, 2008. High speed Internet required - cable or DSL only. Microsoft Vista will NOT work. We will provide Transcription Kits at no charge to you as the MT. We are staffing the following slots at this time: BASIC 4s - 2nd shift on Fridays; 1st and 2nd shifts on Saturday and Sunday. RADIOLOGY: 3rd shift Monday thru Thursday. 1st and 2nd shifts on Saturdays. 1st shift on Sundays. Work will consist of traditional transcription as well as editing of files that have been run through the voice recognition software. You will get a mix of both in your pool. NO OFFSHORE APPLICANTS - USA MTs ONLY!!
Hardware/Software: Dictaphone EXText
Method of sending/receiving dictation: Dictaphone EXText
Compensation Information: BASIC 4 - 8 cpl trx/3 cpl editing; RAD - 9 cpl trx/4 cpl editing
Date Posted: 2008-05-01 13:42:53.0
May I ask why you left Webmedx? nm
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I left WebMedX Too
They did exactly that. They hired like crazy and all accounts kept running out of work. I got so far behind on my bills I was afraid I'd never pull out, but thank goodness, I got a better offer and so far I do feel more secure. WebMedx has nice people, but they don't keep their word, and they DO OVERHIRE.
Have to punch a clock at Webmedx too. I even worked briefly for a place sm
that had a little popup window come up when you had been gone too long and you had to fill in the reason why you were gone. A little bit too Big Brother for me.
If a company does not make overtime mandatory, and I simply want to make some extra money and get some more lines in, I ought to be able to do so without the company being forced to pay me time and a half. Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot demanding this and demanding that, and soon we end up with less than we had before ....but that is just my opinion.
I have worked for them for three years - great place.
Excellent pay and benefits. PTO is better than most companies. They match our 401-K. I like my account and my TL.
Feel free to e-mail me for more information.
Not Intermountain, but one place I worked for years ago sm
had a gimmick where if there were a blank or two in a report, a comma somewhere where where they did not think it belonged, a sentence transcribed in a tense they did not like, they called it a junk chart and would not pay the MT for the report. With that along with constant and nasty mails they regularly had mass exoduses.. It's the only time in 17 years in this field that I finally had a belly full one day and just up and quit with no notice, no anything, just quit.
I would recommend a PT job. I left Webmedx because
I was having to take money out of savings to pay bills. Some days I got 4 reports during my 8 hour shift. I would work my weekends to try and make-up lines and I would work 12-14 hours/day. I worked they schedule they told me I needed to work. I was okay with it at first, but then they hired people to work Friday-Monday only and there was not enough work on my weekends to come anywhere close to making up lines. They didn't tell me when I was hired (or anyone else on the account) that it was just an overflow account. I figured out my looking at the past reports that they weren't getting all the work. I stuck it out 4 months, but finally left when it became apparent that they weren't a bit concerned that I wasn't making lines. I got 2 more accounts and managed to get a few more lines in, but neither account had enough work to make up the difference. There were always a few accounts that had lots of OT, several of them were difficult accounts. I even asked to work on one of them and was told I couldn't work on it as a secondary account. There have been lots of complaints lately about lack of work, although there area always those who saw they have plenty of work. It doesn't matter if they do if you don't, unless they are going to pay your bills for you.
Left Webmedx and have yet to see computer deposit
Has anyone out there left Webmedx and had their computer deposit returned? I returned the computer on 8/22 and have not heard anything since. All the phone numbers at the Operations Center in PA go straight to voicemail. Any ideas?
Just left after 5 years...
Up until Jan 1, it was fine, although my line rate was low. They had bonuses that made up for that. Then came Jan 1. They took away the bonuses, which halved my income. They promised a raise in my line rate, but it always got lost or forgotten, until I finally got sick of asking about it and gave up. Before Jan 1, I ran out of work twice in the entire 5 years I was there. After Jan 1, I ran out at the very least twice a week.
If you do decide to work for them, make sure you get the line rate you want up front. Once you are there, they never give raises. Even when they promise them to you, it won't show up on your check, someone will have to check on it, and they will never get back to you.
I left there maybe 3 years ago and
the part you mention about the 'medical lesson' reminded me of an embarrassing episode - I was taken to task because I put peridium instead of Pyridium - was just typing what I heard and meant to go back and fix and missed it on my reread and you would have thought I was in kindergarten the way I was taken to task for it. I do QA now myself and I know it was a bad error but give me a break - I'm the type that beats myself up and don't need to do them for me!!
I left for 2 years...
Boy was I happy. Then DH's business slowed down and I had to get a part-time job, figured I might as well get back in MT. Man, was I rusty after 2 years.
Now, I'm really wanting to get out but am afraid of that Rusty period if I decide to get back in.
I think I'm going to just help market my DH's business and maybe try to find a couple of accounts on my own.
I am sooooo miserable doing this. I have worked since this morning and barely got 500 lines. I'm bored and miserable.
I thought about going back to school. My kids are finally in school all day so I do have options now. Jobs are slow around here though, right now. Wonder if I can deal with 'office politics'. Of course it's not like I don't deal with it now, just more of a passive-aggressive-type office politics.
Anyway, going to take something for this borderline migraine!
I was there for 3+ years and still left
Things started going from good to bad. Like I said it has alot to do with the account you have. Lost an account that was absolutely the best, but had in-house hospital girls cherry picking there also, proved it and was told that was a HIPAA violation and not to be doing that. I had just stumbled onto the fact and was in a position to prove it, which I did and had been saying so forever and a day. We had in-house hospital girls along with the KS girls and cherry-picking going on a daily basis and that is still going on more than one account. We were told there was nothing that could be done about it. If you want to deal with that crap and be told that I say go for it. There are not many out there that care to deal with that. But you will never know until you try it.
not me, left there over 5 years ago. just trying to help out sm
a fellow MT so she does not take a job that will make her unhappy, like it was your business anyway.
I left 2 years ago for same...
they are like this always. A revolving door. They just keep hiring and people keep dropping out for this, but they are always covered. the only ones paid are the recruters.
I left MQ after 11 years too...sm
I made the move about two months ago to KS - and I love it! No more time clock! And REAL PEOPLE to talk to if you have a problem. ALSO, ONE ACCOUNT and all the work I want. I don't know if this will apply to your account, but be sure you dont use ATT long distance for ULD. I did, and had to miss a few days of work while waiting for Charter to come out. (No one at KS told me I couldn't use ATT, but they did tell me they are advising future employees so they won't have the same problem. Other than that, the freedom from being out from under MQ will overwhelm you! Congratulations!
I left the Q after 18 years for TT. I am very
happy here. You are treated like a real person. Work can get a little low at times, but that happens everywhere. I think you will be happy here.
over 2 years ago I left WMX because of $200
a payperiod cut in pay after working on VR there. you mean they are lowering even further? I was there 2 years and when I had started it was the best company around.
boy was I wrong. once that pay cut hit and I started questioning, they turned on me as did a lot of people on this board.
that was at a time former MQ people had almost completely taken over and they sort of turned it into MQ philosophy, in my opinion. attitudes changed, everyone got meaner/nastier, and that wonderful job I had with all the nice people, GONE in a heartbeat. my supervisor got changed and well thank goodness I left when I did.
I feel your pain - there are no jobs out there really. 1 job opening and probably 500 MTs apply. anyone who tells you it is easy or there are jobs is I think in denial. who cares what those people think, we know differently.
we missed the boat on forming some type of (labor) organization. I know 'union' is a bad word and as with anything these days not to be trusted, but we have absolutely no representation or advocacy whatsoever. this is ridiculous, like living in China. ever see how Chinese people work? I saw a documentary and trust me we are not far from it.
you think it will not happen? it will exactly happen. this profession for some reason attracts a lot of sadistic people...too many with really bad attitudes.
Haven't found a great place yet . . ., was with last company three years.
Just new this internet thing.
It is the only place I have been for 5 years that I feel I am not being ripped off and making money
I work hard but I did for the other companies too and bit by bit more things were stripped away and I would end up making half again. Keystrokes has given me confidence again, and I am making money. That is the name of the game, that is me though. I love it here.
I also vote for Webmedx - used to work for the Q, left long ago sm
Have not worked for Transcend or SoftScript so can't judge. I agree with the above poster; pay good, shift diff, PTO, decent bennies. Lots of work. Keep in mind there are two parts of Webmedx - the one on Enterprise platform and ChartMatrix; the ChartMatrix side seems to have more negative reviews.
I left a couple of years ago
From what I heard they still deduct like crazy but maybe they are better now than they used to be.
I was with MQ for 11 years and left last summer.
The changes after 1/1/06 were not to my taste. And from what I can see over on the MQ forum, it hasn't gotten better. I started with TT last October and have really liked it. I've only run out of work a few times, and have had work in my backup. The office staff is wonderful. It was a very good move for me.
IMO is it that bad. I left after 12+ years. As of July 1 no
incentive, replaced with a quarterly bonus that is almost impossible to obtain - also the amount of bonus is subject to how many MTs receive it and how much they decide to pay out for cpl. Also if you like transcribing 8-10 or more different accounts a day then go for it. A good many of us lost our primaries and went to a national pool and some were reporting 25 different accounts in 1 day. Impossible to obtain line count and/or quality. They are now apparently losing many accounts because of the poor quality of dictation.
I left after 7 years, and am much happier,
after MTing for 30+ years, i too dread learning new things. I find the bayscribe platform to be not as perfect as DQS in some respects, but much simpler in others. It was a heck of a lot easier to learn! another big bonus was being able to transfer my Expanders over. but like another poster said, my stress level is 0 now, i am not reduced to complaining all the time and i suggest you go on with your thought to move on. i don't regret it one bit.
I left more than 2 years ago and went to Keystrokes...
I am way happier
I worked for MQ for 12+ years, left in
6/07. Up until 1/07 it was a good place to work. But in 1/07 they started losing accounts and in 6/07 changed the incentive plan to the point I was losing $600 a month, not to mention the inflexibility of schedules, no communication, lack of raises (did not have one in 5 years), etc. I have never once regretted leaving especially after reading the MQ Board. If you just start there and did not go through the changes it might be okay, but if you have a choice to not go there.
I just left there last month after 2 years -
I had been really happy with my job until about last November. I finally even applied for and received unemployment. Not only was my line count down from 20,000 a pay period to sometimes 7000-8000, but that also meant my line rate of pay was down because of their tiered schedule. It did not seem to matter how much I asked or complained about the work and begged for more, there was always an excuse.
I worked there for 2 years and am glad I left
However, I have several friends that still work there, love it and probably will never leave. I personally choose not to work for a company that outsources overseas. Just my opinion though.
Been here about a month, but worked for them 3 years ago and never should have left.
I left the first time cuz DH (now my EX-DH) was less then cooperative to say the least.
I LOVE it here.
Poster said she left there at least 4 years ago. did not say she knew what was going on now.
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Well, I left MQ after 8 years last summer to go to Keystrokes (sm)
so I would have to say Keystrokes. I have plenty of work and love my account and Keystrokes gave me primarily what I asked for as far as what specialty I wanted to type. I work in Meditech but there are other platforms there, it just depends on your account. MedQuist was a great place to work for about the first 7 years. In January 2006 they introduced what they called the Rewards Plan and after that my work dried up in a hurry and I lost a LOT of money by staying there. But there are still people at MQ who have plenty of work and like it there, the way I felt about it in the old days. Both places have positive qualities but I am happier now at Keystrokes. It also depends on what you are looking for as far as how large of a company you want to work for...MQ is a big national, KS is much smaller and more personalized. Good Luck!
I was there 12 years, left 3 weeks ago. Many are leaving. (nm)
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I left after 14+ years. I loved MQ and my PS until July 1. sm
I left for another company. I started with the new company and also with Instant Text on the same day....threw myself into the fire! I so struggled the first 2 weeks and even questioned both on here. I decided to stick it out, and I have to tell you that I definitely am getting settled and love it. When you see dictator names and report types come up that you actually RECOGNIZE, the feeling is amazing. Even tho I felt that i was struggling, I made a bonus for my first full pay period. The grass..IS GREENER! Good luck
Run, run away. I just left after working for them for 12 years . Go to their forum
and read a little bit.
I just left MQ after 12 years, read their board before
thinking about them.
Read their board. I left after almost 12 years. (nm)
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I just left a company after 10 years, making only
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I left MQ for KS 2 years ago and love it. They have a lot of rad accounts. sm
I make great money even though I took a report pay cut because there is always work!
left after 6+ years - loooooong wait
on invoices and they are very good at finding deductions and telling you after the fact (that is, when you finally DO get your invoice). Great account (not EMDRAT) but I can't work for free!
not matching for a couple years now since I left.
It was just sitting there. Started another 401K with next job. Let it ride say the politicians...yeah, right. Could have done better in Vegas.
So true. Massive overhiring. Shouldn't have left my other job for Webmedx. Use caution....nm
Good luck.
I wasn' screaming...I left MQ after 8 years and worked for MDI-MD
for 1 month before I finally went to where I am now. I just asked if anyone else got theirs. I got mine from MQ and now I have to wait for 2 more. It was just a generalized question, not accusatory at all. What a jerk!
I left there several years ago, but from reading recent posts, SM
it seems to me that if it's the MTs who have been there for a couple of years or more that are are liking it fine there and sing the praises, and that it is the new hires or recently hired people who don't like it and don't seem to get work or at least get bounced around. Just an observation from what I've read. HTH.
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