Lets just hope they are not overhiring lately and we will find we are all going to be out of work
Posted By: nm on 2005-07-14
In Reply to: MQ low on work - WA
especially after Summer.
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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.
I posted this the other day as well ......lets hope lots
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Low work and overhiring again.
Guess if you don't work both days on the weekend, you get your cue shut off on your work during the weekdays. Such a kind strategy for a company employing ICs, does not pay benefits or time off. They ultimately have the control. Isn't that nice? And it's a company which does not off shore. Guess they believe they got us. So sweet. I assume if you work there you know who I am talking about.
I hope they find something else too - and soon.
nm
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.
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
Welcome! Hope you find it rewarding! nm
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Excellent, hope you find it
and it does sound like OSi esp. with the threatening emails to everybody, tsk tsk
I left there as they were always running out of work from overhiring.
YEP...Just want I suspected as the reason we have very little work OVERHIRING
They repeatedly hire yet we have hardly any work. Course, I suppose it could be the revolving door as the cause.
It's not just overhiring. They are sending the best work to India.
They have always sent work there but I believe they have geared up these efforts in the past six months, and the easiet work (ER). That is when I noticed there was not consistent work. I had to move on and so will others.
Then they should give that work to those who have a shortage. Otherwise, they are overhiring. nm
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I have been looking and hope to find a good 'home' soon! NM
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I am so sorry to hear that. I hope you find another position very soon.
nm
I do. I hope you find something to make you happy and
that is something you can depend on. Whether in this business or not. I wish that for us all!
Are well all running out of work? Seems late in Jan for that? Overhiring? Reminds me of the Q...
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Between the outsourcing and overhiring, there is absolutely no work for anyone/anything American, pe
nm
Congrats! Sounds Ideal. Hope I find something just like what you did. NM.
tired of companies overhiring and then sitting and waiting endlessly for work
The accomplishes nothing because then people get tired of not making any money and move on. Is there no solution to this?
I hope you have more work than most have been seeing lately.
hope you don't need a lot of work
I was there 2 weeks and had only 11 reports, AND they refused to pay the training bonus. They said they could not release me to other accounts until I had completed so many reports for my primary, but there were none to do, so no backup.
Hope it's where I work!!
nm
I dont work for MDI-FL but I would certainly hope
that the rude poster below does not work for them. I would not want to work with people that rude. The original poster just asked a question, isnt that what these forums are for???
I hope it continues to work out for you.
I sincerely hope it continues to work out for you if you are truly a new Editor and not either of the 2 lead people posing as a happy employee. I have nothing nice to say about Shapin. I am one of the disgruntled ex-employees that never even said anything about them on this site! BUT.. I was certainly smeared around here and the most horrifying thing was it wasn't even true. I never even came into this forum until I was contacted by another QA they also did a number on. I kept quiet as I feel it is better to take the high road. Since I was enlightened I have visited this site frequently and have seen how many negative remarks there are about them. I have also visited some others and they were pretty bad also. I am not trying to stir the pot, but there are two sides to every story. The bigmouth is usually spewing there bull edition. Good luck to you with them.
OMG, I hope not. You work over 50 hrs a week
for 36,500? Sounds like a very big national I know. lol. BTDT and I quit real fast. Glad you are happy, I guess that's all that matters, but you're being taken advantage of IMO. And 2 weeks vacation is not that great either.
hope you dont run out of work-- nm
nm
Hope you like to work on Christmas
You have to work holidays and weekends.
Hope you like to work Christmas
and Thanksgiving
ALSO my pay was usually wrong and never in my favor.
Well I hope you get an account with work
>:(
I sure hope so! I'd never want to work for someone who chewed me out.
and I am sorry if indeed the above poster did get chewed out. Mutual respect and customer service goes from supervisor and employee just as employee is to respect supervisor. Chewed out, sounds like a parent to a child, and even then criticism should be dealt with carefully.
Oh I sure hope not - no work for weeks
nm
hope your spelling and grammar on work are better than this.
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I hope it gets better! Can't afford to sit here much longer with no work. nm
nm
thx, hope the foot pedal will work oh boy nm
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they cant "make you work certain hours" but they can find someone that is willing to work them
If not, they dont have to hire you as IC or anything for that matter. So yes it is perfectly legal.
If she hires you as an IC and it doesn't state in your contract when she needs that particular IC coverage and she then dictates what hours you work, she cannot do that.
But she can refuse to hire you if you don't provide the coverage that she is looking for.
Well, I HOPE they're a good place to work...
... since I worked for TRS and thus got acquired by Transcend when TRS did.
Interestingly... when I was job-hunting about 7 months ago, I basically read every entry in the MT Companies section of another forum (M T Chat)looking for companies that got good reviews. Because it got very good reviews there, Transcend was the second-to-last company I applied to, just before TRS. At that time, Transcend was only testing for acute care (my 36 years of clinical in multiple specialties wasn't good enough, I guess) so they told me no thanks. And now they've got me anyway.
I am still reserving judgment because the merger only happened 2 weeks ago; and I am still working on my same accounts, under the same supervisors, on the same platform, so there have been no visible changes as yet....
Sincerely, I do hope you're prepared to work for 8 cpl now
Apparently MDI was one of the companies that paid their experienced MTs pretty well.
With the merge, you'll be making less eventually. If you quit and look for a new job, you'll be making less, way less, than you were making at MDI.
I'm another one who's BTDT, too. I went from making 11 cpl to now making 8 cpl. I tried HARD to find any company, obscure to well known, that will start off more than that. Couldn't find 'em. Probably won't ever go up, either.
Just sayin' that you should be prepared to budget your living costs for the amount of money you'll be missing each month compared to what you were making at MDI. It's awful, I know, been through it. Going to school now to do something else, getting out.
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.
You are fortunate. I hope you always have work and it stays that way and doesnt change.
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Good luck to you. Hope they are lenient with the benefits with all the low work. nm
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There's plenty of work. Hope you like working every weekend and holiday. nm
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Overhiring
Just wondering if anyone feels their companies are suddenly overhiring in order to benefit with the unhappy Medquist MTs looking to make a move. Suddenly the work flow seems very low and that is not usually the case where I work.
SPI overhiring?
Any other SPI MTs frustrated with their accounts suddenly all being empty because of what appears to be overhiring - AGAIN? It seems to be feast or famine.
Overhiring
They have overhired!!! I am sick and tired of working on many accounts. I am looking for other employment myself.
Good Company, but they LIED to ME AND PULLED A BAIT AND SWITCH!!!!! Too many people on each account.
overhiring
Well according to Maggie's comments last week we deserve it because we are not good MTs and are just goofing off !
Overhiring
I have more than 2 accounts and have nothing this morning. OT has been in place for me since I started and there was always work. It is a known fact that they overhire and will continue to do so. When I do Alt-G to pull up old reports, there is a boat-load of new employee names, which has become obvious by the lack of work and being pushed to second and third accounts during the week.
It's the overhiring for TAT.
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probably overhiring
in anticipation of those new accounts the owner referenced last week in her email where she said they'd be hiring 40 more MTs (or however many it was).
Not only is it tough when they bring on new people before the accounts start, I think some MTSOs do the same thing airlines do - overbook/overhire in anticipation that some people won't show up anyway.
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......
nm
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