Let's just say I'll bite my tongue for fear of
Posted By: kim on 2006-11-07
In Reply to: Diskriter - Phyllis Whitley
getting kicked off the board for stating how things have been since they started offshoring. But I think you get the general idea.
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Oh boy. I have to bite my tongue on this one
Let me just say that if only one of the participants in this study would walk even half the walk that he/she talked, the MT world could be a better place. Talk about saying one thing and doing the complete opposite. Also would be more enlightening if the complete background history regarding MTing was published regarding some quoted in this article, i.e. the past companies he/she was running/associated with. It would shed a lot of interesting light and again, contradictions. Talk about 2-faced rhetoric. Sheesh. OK, I'll be good and shut up now.
I'll bite
1. How long have you been working as an MT? 11 years
2. How many DIFFERENT companies have you worked for (even if it was only for a few hours) in the last 10 years? (If you left but came back later that is only 1.) I have worked for 1 private practice, 1 hospital, and 3 services.
3. How many companies have you accepted an offer of employment from but then never actually started working for them? None.
4. How many companies have you quit working for within the first pay period? None.
5. How many companies have you quit from? I quit my first job due to moving. My hospital job was outsourced. I have left 2 of the 3 services I signed on with by choice after 6 months at each due to lack of work or lack of flexibility.
6. Have many companies have you been terminated from (I guess the word “fired” from is no longer politically correct) i.e. you were not meeting line requirements, QA requirements, time commitment requirements (signing on late, leaving early), or being told you don’t have the necessary experience/expertise for the accounts assigned to you, etc? I have never been terminated as such, but did lose a job to outsourcing.
7. How many companies have you left because they were bought out by another MTSO and you did not like how the new MTSO was treating you? None.
8. How many companies that you were working for completely went out of business (was not bought by another company) and told you that you had to find a new job yourself? None.
9. What is the shortest period of time that you have worked for one company? (Even if it was only for a few hours) What is the longest period of time that you have worked for one company? Shortest 6 months, longest 7 years.
10. Have you ever continued working for your former company while training with a new company? Yes.
11. Have you ever worked for two different companies (2 part-time or 1 full-time and 1 part-time) during the same time period? For how many months/years did you work for two different companies? Yes, once. Overlap by about 1 week.
12. What is your primary reason for applying to a certain company (pay, insurance, flexible schedule, equipment provided, sign-on bonus, referral from another MT, etc)? Pay and benefits are my main motivating factors. I really miss the stability of hospital employment (pay and benefits) and have not found anything that compares.
13. What is your primary reason for leaving a company (cannot maintain minimum required number of lines, not assigned accounts or job types as originally discussed, running out of work too frequently, difficult platform, computer slowness/crashes, management conflicts, QA conflicts, other “bait and switch” type of issues where the MTSO said one thing but you ended up doing something entirely different, personal, family, etc)? I will leave if workload is not what was promised and running out of work unable to make line counts to maintain benefits.
14. Are you really happy at your present company or are you just working there because you are afraid if you try another company it will be worse and not better? How long have you worked at this company? Do you plan to continue working at this company for at least 1 year (of course barring unforeseen personal or professional events). Would you be willing to give the name of your present company? I cannot say Im really happy, but not entirely unhappy. Of the 3 MTSOs I have worked for, I am happiest at this company. I have been there about 4 months. I do not plan to stay with this company long-term if I can find hospital employment again.
15. Do you think you will retired as a Medical Transcriptionist (or in the Medical Transcription field, such as an Editor, Supervisor, etc) or do you think you will switch careers at some point before retirement? Im not sure. Switching careers at this point would require me to go back to school and being in my mid 40s with young kids still at home, I doubt I will go back to school within the next 5 years. I do think I will retire from the medical field in some area, just not sure if it will be MT unless a hospital job comes up.
ok, I'll bite - where do you get your info?
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You need to take your acid tongue
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Never fear. Lee is not going anywhere. nm
:)
so maybe you have nothing to fear.
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I fear you don't get it.
What are you suggesting, then, that the poor OP not take ANY jobs? Gee, that's a great solution. Turn down 7 cpl. Live on 0 cpl.
Nice solution.
Obviously, you've never been in the OP's shoes, because sometimes scraping by is better than the alternative.
I'm so sick of snobs who say things like 'I'll never work for a company that offshores.' Must be nice to have the luxury of living off of someone else's hard work, that's all I can say.
Enjoy your galavanting.
The rest of us have to work.
I think fear of retaliation.
Someone below said they were threatened and harrassed by the company I work for. Also, I do not want the posts removed.
I fear you misunderstand
I am not sniping at anyone. Why do you think I still post here if not that I care about what you people, my sisters and brothers, are suffering??? Your post totally offends me. If you recall, I am being sued because I posted MY experience that I thought might be helpful to those of you trying to make decisions. My heart aches for all of you who are having trouble making ends meet and I truly wish I could help all of you and I am TRYING as best I know how by bringing certain facts to the attention of appropriate people who MAY be able to make a difference. The point I was trying to make is that if SOME will settle for 7 cpl today, tomorrow these greedy MTSOs will see no reason to continue to pay 7 CPL because they will be able to get people to work for 6 CPL. You see where this can go? Do you really think anyone can support their family on a couple of roupees (or however you spell it) a day? I think not. That is the point I intended to make. At least look at it this way, I'm not out there competing with anyone for work while I'm out galavanting with my husband's retirement in my motorhome.
Funny slip of tongue or freudian
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I've held my tongue about OSI and offshoring
I interviewed with OSi more than 2 years ago. One of my standard questions in an interview is whether or not the company offshores. The recruiter told me up front that the company did offshore on certain accounts that demanded it be done to save money. I accepted that and didn't have a problem with it. That was not the deal breaker for me (I got a better deal from another company on the same day).
I had just left working as the MT coordinator at a small MTSO. While working in-house, I had opportunity to work alongside the marketer. There were several times when he would return from a potential client's office with the news that he could only get the account if he offshored it by client demand. If he took that account by offshoring it, he could get a bigger account associated with it that did not want the offshoring component or rate. From a business prospective, he gave up something small to get something bigger. The offshore component of the business amounted to less than 10% of the client base.
The OSI recruiter was open and honest with me. In my mind, that holds more weight than a recruiter that lies through the teeth just to get you through the door and you end up leaving because they can't deliver on the promises.
Climbing off my soap box now.
Dear SM thank U for not holding your tongue any longer
You don't even know what you are talking about. They had no choice but to be open about offshoring after the best QA manager EVER got fired for accidentally forwarding an email from India.
If they had nothing to hide she should have never been fired in the first place.
Trust me you are much better off not taking the OSi job.
At least 20 or 25 of us left that place specifically because of what they did to her.
That was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG  Never looked back
And there it is, the "so are you" rebuttal. Did you stick your tongue out too?
"She speaks with forked tongue!"
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Fear of change I guess.
Save your finger pointing and tongue wagging.
be defending a company you don't even know, and judging those of us who have no work during training. Shame on you. Karma comes around. No one was telling the OP not to work for MDI-MD, quite the contrary. We were trying to warn her that she might not want to purchase a new computer til she checks the waters at this company. No work anytime is not a good thing, no matter how many smiley faces come in the emails. If you have the luxury of making $10 a day and being happy with that, great, but lots of us support households, and no work is no work is no work. Not a lot of ways to slice it, and judging US because we have no work is just plain old ignorant. 
Yes, it is going to take a revolution and I fear it isn't in the too distant future. nm
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My fear is the 8 cpl/4cpl VR. Can you really make any money there?
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Do Not Fear Retribution for Sharing Concerns
Denise:
Thanks for the kind words about my post. It is my sincere attempt to ensure that every team member feel valued and empowered to be successful. It is regrettable to hear your concerns for simply sharing your feelings and yet I can understand because I do know that these types of passive/aggressive response have been taken by managers of our organization and virtually all others.
Denise, it is my job and responsibility to make sure each team member has a voice and that their concerns are heard. While I can't always provide everyone with exactly what they want I am typically able to help. I hope you will feel comfortable sharing your concerns with me.
Thanks again for the reply and sentiments.
Jeff E. McNeese
SVP, Operations
DTS America, Inc.
T: (877) 387-6876 ext. 115
F: (615) 329-2298
jeff.mcneese@dtsam.com
yourvoice@dtsam.com
BITE.
Buzz off, old bag!
Ask the recruiter. They don't bite. nm
told em to bite it........
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Flea-bite-a-me
We're not the only ones who are upset.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/aug/18/medicineandhealth.lifeandhealth
flea-bite-a-me, anyone?
The OP's right and it CAN come back to bite you.
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Another coordinator bite the dust at OSi?
I think I'm gonna go ahead a bite...
 I turned in my Keystrokes paperwork today for a RAD account starting Monday. It looks like most of the problems are with acute care accounts with more positives on the RAD accounts. I'm not worried about OT/paid holidays because I have an actual IC job with plenty of work if/when I want it. I'm just hoping that being this RAD account is new, there will be enough work to keep me qualified for medical. I see others who just posted recently are new hires also--good luck to all of us!
The truth will bite us if we are not careful
The reason why these groups prevail is that folks like us sit back and do nothing. Maybe that's because we don't know what to do.
At any rate, don't pass it off as senseless babble. It's about more than just medical transcription, but the medical transcription industry may be a bigger player than we all realize. Of course, the biggest players are money and commerce. It is reality.
I first heard about the Illuminati more than 30 years ago. Back then, the commentary was combined with predictions regarding the card with the magnetic strip that could be used to purchase such items as groceries, which has become reality but has not fully evolved to its final potential, such as disallowing the use of cash and only allowing certain obedient individuals to obtain stuff using the magnetic strip card. It was also predicted that this magnetic strip could hold over 100,000 words, which would include a synopsis of all of your transactions, including what books you checked out of the public library. There were some far out disturbing predictions such as the one where the invention of cable televsion was just a way to get the public to pay for underground fiberoptic wiring that would eventually be used to spy on every individual. I wonder what the new digital TV situation might have to do with this endeavor.
If you haven't been on the planet for as long as I, you may not remember the days before the invention of the ATM card. There was a time, for instance, when the only way we could pay for groceries was with cash and checks. There were few credit cards available at the time, but none could be used at the grocery stores or at so many other places as today, including drive-in fast food restaurants. Times are changing, albeit very slowly, but it is scarey to think of the end result.
I have no idea what we can do as individuals to combat the evils of the Illuminati other than to stop using money and to be totally homeless and starve to death, etc., which is a fate that I fear anyway if I continue relying on the medical transcription industry for a living.. I would certainly love for someone to enlighten me.
You said Bite Me first. As for Xmas? - I was off, thanks very much. PAID too. nm
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Yes they did finally bite back
I also read those posts and picked up on the bravado with which the 'inside information' was shared.
I work for TT and the way they've been trashed on here since some accounts went to VR, they'd have defendants around the block if they were suing MTs simply for stating an opinion.
There's merit to this lawsuit or TT would not have even bothered pursuing it, plain and simple.
The moral of the story to everyone should be to keep the self-importance in check and to make 110% sure that if you're posting something as fact, you can indeed back it up. Otherwise, you too could end up being sued, not just by your employer/former employer but anyone else you are defaming.
I love working at TT.
And I could not possibly care less if I get flamed for that or not.
don't complain about how your hospital has too much work - it will bite you in
the hiney!!!
You may end up losing your job to an outsource service and end up making less money with horrible benefits!! Count your blessings.
You can only kick a dog so many times before they bite back!
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Email some of the people who enjoy it there and see what they have to say. They won't bite! :) nm
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I can't believe a supposedly professional adult said bite me! HA!!! sm
Now we ALL want to work for Proveros and get invited to bite the management woohoo!
sry--meant I'm gonna go ahead AND bite
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Bite the Wax Tadpole??? No, I have never heard that expression before, please explain ...
You learn something new every day..
If you'll read through past posts you'll find lots of
recent info. Why do you need menitoring if you already work as an MT. Unless you do clinic work most companies will require you to work at least one weekend day, at least initially.
If you'll read the archives you'll find out everything
you want to know, none of it good.
Probably figure you'll want Way more than they'll offer, whatever it might be. :) nm
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If you'll read more carefully you'll see
I was referring to AFTER she's missed out on a job, having a friend do sort of an audit to tell her what what was wrong with her test she submitted -- not cheating.
I'll take that hat!
Take ur hat off to me cuz I work at MedQuist, have plenty of work and make a lot of money - and they do leave me alone which is kewl. Been with 'em for 8 years too!
hey, it's ya'll
Yu'll
No, no, no, it's Yu'll for "you will"
I think you'll like VR
I work for MDI on the eScription VR platform, good accounts, good pay, and I need team mates to help with the backlog of work (I'm on 2nd shift). I highly recommend it. I have been on VR for 3 years and have found it more profitable than straight transcription, and much easier on the wrists/hands.
now I'll be looking for one
because I think the hours thing (except so they have an idea of when you work to regulate work flow) is bull.
I'll try.. sm
I am happy at OSi. I've been with them for two years now. I've been doing well with them. My main account was a little low on work over the summer, but is back to being pretty busy. Even when it was low, I had my backups. I've been there long enough and have worked on enough accounts that I can grab backup work from several different accounts but usually don't need it. We use the Extext platform and I love it. The best part of it is being able to pull up samples, past reports, etc. That is what helped me move into being able to do op notes which I hadn't done before but now do plenty of. On my main account, I barely have any ESL and the few I do are very easy. I've worked on VA and there are a few more ESL on those, but only a few were very difficult. To compensate, you are allowed a couple of blanks on those anyway, and like I said, when you can pull up other reports for these dictators, it helps a lot anyway. Compared to what I see in some of the job ads, I feel I'm compensated pretty well. There are frequently incentives offered. For the most part, I'm left alone to work and am not bugged. I'm able to do above my 12,000, lines per pay period and also work as an IC with another company to boot. I am paid by direct deposit on time, every time. Never ever a problem with that. The couple of times there has been a problem with my check, say an incentive having been left off or something like that, I've had a manual check cut and in the mail right away. Hopefully this post will be allowed to stay and won't be overrun by those that weren't happy at OSi, but I couldn't be happier there.
You'll get it ----
 It won't be the correct amount, but you'll eventually get it. I'm outta there. Today was my last day.
Thanks. I'll do that. NM
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You'll never know if you don't try.
I would just go for it. Make sure though that you are checking and double checking everything, and look up anything you don't know for sure. This will take a while but eventually you'll get used to the job and you'll be glad you tried it. Good luck.
I'll bet
and you've never made a typo?
I'll 3rd IT
Allstate Transcription started a mentoring program that is very much needed in our industry, and I am pleased to say that I have been a team player for two or three months now! In this program, Deb, the owner, gives people who have gone through some kind of course an opportunity to work on real accounts with real TATs. In addition, she provides MEGA feedback with all kinds of documentation to sites for the interns to read. Deb nor the editors can make anyone do anything. The intern has to WANT to learn more and improve and has to have the capacity of breaking a habit of doing things their way versus the AAMT BOS way. Deb will do flips backwards just to help someone succeed with multiple second chances. In the real world, if you can't produce an accuracy of 98% and above, you will be terminated. In Deb's defense, she cannot continue to allow a person who is not progressing to fill a slot when she has others begging to get into the program. It seems that everyone here has a clear understanding of the bigger picture ~ producing 98% accurate work to a client so that they can provide the BEST care to the patient - afterall, it is the patient whose well-being is at stake here. Carla
I'll try them both. Thanks.:)
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