Love it, Bunion! ("make your big head spin right off your little neck") ... sm
Posted By: elaine on 2009-09-24
In Reply to: Wow how nasty! sm - Bunion
That remark just slayed me. You sound like a very interesting and accomplished individual, indeed.
You sang with Jerry Jeff Walker!!? That is very cool. I don't know his work very well but for one or two songs that I love dearly. One of them I call the little starfish song. If you know which one I mean, I'd love to know the title!
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I'd go so quick my head would spin....nm
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My first reaction to that would be, "Make me
.. and if it's an offer I can accept, THEN I'll give that information.' I don't mind a background check, but not to every company I apply to, most of which would probably have no intention of hiring me anyway, or else I'd have no interest in working for them, once we started talking money.
So talk money FIRST, background checks, long typing tests, and SS numbers SECOND.
Repetitve Neck Stress Injury
 Repetitive Strain Injury Advice: Bad Neck Pain-I have a lumbar support chair but I am still getting repeat shooting pain in my neck. Is there anything I can do to ease this? Better support while I am working etc.? Any advice is appreciated before I run to the doctor.
Yes, the MTSO has to "make THEIR money", but
So maybe they need to rethink charging something more than 80's wages to the hospitals, too! The hospitals raise THEIR rates all the time. They have to pay more for everything else, doctors, x-ray machinery, gastric tubing, you-name-it. So why should they think for one moment that their LEGAL MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION, the most vital part of their patients' medical data, be done at a cut-rate price?
So your post is very timely and very correct. If we reject the chump-change 'wages' they offer, and stand our ground, eventually they'll have only the choice of offshoring. But as we speak, more and more hospitals and clinics are saying 'NO' to offshoring their work. They realize the privacy and legal risks offshoring poses. If the free ride MTSOs and other US companies have been getting when it comes to offshoring American jobs comes to an end, they will realize that in the big picture, paying a little more to have the job done RIGHT in the first place, is ultimately less espensive and less risky to them in court. Last December I was part of a jury, and I can't begin to tell you how many reams of medical reports we all had to sift through as we deliberated. And you know what? Accurate, complete, and WELL-WRITTEN medical records made the difference in our case, and saved a doctor's career. If more of them had spent time in a jury-box, instead of dodging their duty to serve, they'd have a better idea of how vital and life-saving (their own lives included!) an accurate medical record can be.
"Make her an IC" - very telling phrase!
Your phrase expresses precisely the travesty I'm talking about.
What you're saying, in essence, is that they might 'make her start up her own business', because that's what being an IC really is - being in business for yourself.
If I were to knock on your door, grab you in a headlock and tell you that I was forcing you to start up a hot dog vending business, how many nanoseconds would it take you to call the police (and probably the men with a butterfly net, too!)?
This is just disgusting - on about six different levels.
It is spin...
It is never acceptable to forsake quality for an extra dollar, be it physician or MT.
Wow, I just made an appointment for bad neck and shoulder pain. I went through
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I agree.. It seems to me that some companies may "make up" names because they know they have t
one to post here. Can't anyone get more creative than putting Nintendon's XBox and Game Cube together LOL.. I believe the rapper is Ice T but I'm not for sure. I'd have to ask my teenagers.
go over the supers head to the head of operations. sm
Any STM that does not reply to her people is a jerk and the head of operations needs to know.
The Spin Stops Here
Go ahead ms. cla-w. Have the last word, but mine first, a question. How many times do I have to flush before you go away?
and to put the most inflammatory spin on it...
It seems that Art Toth looks down at people who don't work for themselves.
A man who is currently living on money he owes to some of you, looks down on us because we're not getting rich by stealing other people's labor.
I hope the word spreads among MTs, so that lots of his victims stand behind Scammed at the hearing in July, whether in person or with their stories. The more money turns out to be involved, and the more people he has harmed, the more likely there will be effective action.
C-phone for sound quality is better thead and neck Lanier..
and better built, sturdy, last forever, doubles as phone where Lanier does not.
I run into accounts all the time that still use them.
but, you never worked on one so you wouldn't know.
Nice spin on what a lot of us feel. Tx!
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You are absolutely right. Some will like it, others will not. I will just have to give it a spin m
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YES YES re: carpal tunnel, back pain, muscle tension neck,
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Maybe a spin doctor, or a damage-control
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Nope! I meant wallah! I speak from my neck of the woods, apparently not yours. I'm fine with
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Beware of really good marketers. They spin. The marketer doesn't make your schedule. nm
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It does work, you do not need to "make" it work.. it works in all word based programs.
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Love, love, love TransTech! Not overhiring, just growing like crazy!
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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.
I too love path & can't find it at home & would love to cross-train into rad in the meantime I do
Love this company, love my boss, very informative QA.nm.
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If you like ESL, head on.
Good luck.
So sorry - I wish the head of QA at my co.
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Right over her head.
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I would go over STM's head, I do not SM
think you were told the truth at all.
thank you, it went over my head, but do you think
we would all lose our jobs if we go ahead with something like this - all MTSOs have to do is do 100% overseas outsourcing rather than 50% or whatever they do now.
in other words, what the union even told my partner at his job at their last contract negotiation, you can just all be replaced...
what happens then because I am not young enough to really do through that in my life right now...
can you tell us more
You hit it on the head, and while I am
at it, NEVER download an upgrade to that platform for at least 2 months. The fixes have more errors and problems than the original program.
Just goes to show, like my father told me, never buy your own building for a business. You fall in love with it because you own it, but when you need to change or move to keep up with the times, you are stuck with something that is dead-end. Seems Transcend put all their eggs in one basket with that lousy program and expect everyone else to fall in love with it the way they have. It certainly takes more time than any program I have ever seen to complete the demographic data part and of course you are not paid for that. Then you get the stop signs, the lost jobs, server error, and on and on and on. Good thing those Indians love it since that is probably 50% or more of their work force by now.
I think you ought to go over their head!
I've done MT and QA and there's a way to give constructive criticism and there is a way NOT to. There's no excuse to be rude or to talk to an MT as if they are a child or a moron! If it just happened once, I might advise you to chalk it up to them just having a bad day and taking it out on you, but from your comments, it sounds habitual. I hope you can get it worked out. Save their emails so you can show it to whoever is above them to back yourself up!
If you have to, go over their head
Being complicit with cherry-pickers in my opinion is favoritism and is wrong. Go to the CEO if you have to. A team lead who lets cherry-pickers get away with it is even worse.
Wow, it isn't just in my head
Thanks for saying exactly what I have been through the last several years with that company. They are trying to start the games up again, and I am sooo tired of playing them. I really do just want to work and get paid a decently for it, but they make that impossible. Of course to hear someone there tell it, I should be producing 600-plus lph like she does at the same company...
Never head of them, but....SM
DSL is high speed, so they definitely don't sound to knowledgeable! LOL
You hit the nail on the head. They get what they pay for!!
I will all come back to haunt them!
Head in sand?
Well let me know when the line stealing law suit pans out for you. It sounds like you are doing fine where ever you are now. I hope nobody ever tries stealing lines from me.
If that happened to me I would quit too because that would be the only reason I could think of that a company would take my lines. They must not want me to continue working for them.
Thanks for signing your post by the way.
What are we looking at?? Just a head on a soapbox??
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You hit the nail on the head
Unfortunately for the remote MTs, a lot of areas around the country hire very few, if none at all, in-house MTs anymore. Most of the work is done by services. It seems that everyone is trying to cut down their own overhead. The hospitals/clinics by outsourcing to services, and the services by cutting rates and benefits. It all trickles down to the MT who takes the brunt of the cuts, but who is also expected to give back the most. It's really no wonder the morale in this profession is so low. That alone will affect the ability to hire skilled, experienced (more than 10 years) MTs. Maybe I'm alone in my thinking, but it seems like it will breed a whole new generation of MTs that will hold the idea that they will give what they get. And in a way, I can't blame them.
Oh come ON! She lied her head off. sm
She lied on the boards right up to the minute the electronic e-mail came out that said she had sold the business. Good gracious, some people have a short memory. And when she was in the process of selling, she was send out e-mails saying how sick she was of all her MTs and talked about their K-Mart clothes and Kathie Lee hair. I remember those e-mails being posted. Pretty bad. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE.
You hit the nail exactly on the head!
I did write in my contract not to ever call into my system with a cell phone. The dictation was as clear as a bell. Now I am working for another service that sucks, garbled doctors putting their phones on the desk while they shuffle through films.... gads....
Get your head out of the sand,,,,
We all know what is meant by an off shore man, just like an off shore company. And the problem I see, is these offshore men think they can come to our country and treat us women like they treat the women from their homeland. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Treat us with respect and consideration, not like paid slaves who are just here to serve you. The offshore men I have had business dealing with are lying manipulators. The only ones that have any morals are the ones that came here as small children and grew up here. When did your DH come to this country? Was he born and/or raised here or did he come here after he was grown up? Either way, I am sure you have experienced the same thing watching, if not DH, then other men from his family.
Head spinning
I am pullling my hair out trying to figure out pros and cons of the numerous companies that are out there. I have read through numerous posts and have found them very helpful.
But, I have a few questions:
Has anyone heard of NorthWest Mediscript? I think it is local to my area (Pacific Northwest).
I hear LOTS of good info on Transhealth. Anyone have anything to add to this?
I have seen very little comments regarding Webmedx or Windrix. Any thoughts or comments?
Basically on these companies what is your opinion on how you have been treated? Did you have plenty of work? How did you like the platforms? Were they flexible in terms of hours? Were you bounced around from account to account and doctor to doctor or were you allowed to stick with a certain few and familiarize yourself with them so that you could become proficient at them?
Feel free to email me with any info. Any pro or con would be greatly appreciated.
I think I will soon be taking the plunge and diving in and just start contacting companies that I have narrowed it down to.
I tell you what, the mass of choices makes my head spin.
You hit the nail on the head (sm)
about the location factor. If I lived in Kentucky or something, this would be decent pay. But I don't, I live in San Francisco. Of course, the answer that comes immediately to mind is, Then move! But I've lived here forever, and this is where my life is. I have many friends who left SF for other parts of the country, including CO, TX, NY, MI, GA, etc., and they were all miserable and came back. Once you've lived in SF, it's hard to leave because this place is so unique. Unfortunately, too many other people feel the same way, and housing is insane. The cheapest you can get is maybe a run-down studio condo, and that will run you about $300,000. A house? Forget it - half a million to 3/4 of a million. A friend who is currently house-hunting just looked at a place for a half-mil. that had rats in the kitchen and on the back porch, and mold on the ceiling.
ANYWAY, yes - I forgot to include in my original post that I wish MT companies would adjust salary for location, but then they'd probably never want to hire people who live in CA!
You hit the nail on the head...
we MTs work longer and longer hours for far less money. Nowadays, if I pay my rent, phone bill and car insurance, I'm left with about $20 to eat on for TWO WEEKS. I stopped heating my apt., and I guess the next thing to go will be my health insurance.
LOL... you hit the nail on the head
w/ that! Yep she told me that same phrase hit the ground running. She is a complete fruitcake, believe me. I have all the emails to prove just how inconsistent she is. I am so glad it didn't work out because she has very unrealistic ideals/expectations.
You hit the nail on the head, especially...
when you noted that companies and/or their representatives pose as MTs. I, myself, have been a victim of that. I was very naive and had no idea that grown mature people actually do this. I had inquired about good companies to work for and an employee praised her company up and down, how it was the best job she ever had, would never leave, excellent benefits etc.. She told me to contact her supervisor about this great opportunity. Well, come to find out this great employee and her supervisor a.k.a. recruiter are one and the same, and as far as I know she is still doing that. She gets people sucked in by this praising employee. When I talked to actual employees they stated what a nut job she was etc.. Well, I could not disagree with that as all I could think of is,how could someone do something so deceitful even worse you have to worry WHY they would do that..and I guess it is obvious. If people heard the real truth, then they would not apply there. I think the bottom line is.. at least for me, I take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt. Some people love their jobs and some do not, regardless if the job is good or not. It is all subjective. Some of us have bad days when we are burned out on the profession and do not want to work PERIOD. Others are oblivious and are just happy to be alive so throw them a little extra cash and they are happy. We all come from different backgrounds, personally and professionally. At different times in my life, I would have stressed out about being offered 8 cpl because I needed more money as a single parent. Now, 8 cpl is fine because I am more financially secure. You just have to find your own fit in whatever matters to you..more money or maybe flexibility or perhaps good benefits. We all need something that one company may not be able to accommodate and thus we move on, some more bitter than others. Sorry for the rambling. I really just wanted to comment on that YES people are deceitful on here so you have to make your own choices and just keep in mind you really do not know whom you are talking to so dont believe everything you hear and there are two sides to every story. I have worked with transcriptionists that were so awful it was unreal. When they were fired, they blamed everyone else and how terrible the supervisor was etc..Those employees no doubt tell everyone who will listen what an awful place to work that is. Yes, I would find them awful too if they expected SOME quality.. NOT..Just goes to show....to each his own perception.
You hit the nail on the head. sm
We ARE working for nothing and who wants to do that if you can make more at Wal-Mart and not have to kill yourself doing it? Not enough qualified MTs, my behind. There are plenty, many have just been forced out of the field by poverty wages that won't feed the family!
No wonder their head of HR resigned.
They are dropping like flies.
Lets see, the recruiter and now head of HR - in a month. two big positions....
I think you hit the nail on the head
too many have MT'ing as a hobby/vanity job...pocket change for the little woman...and no offense to those of you who are lucky enough to have the hubby that pays the bills (boy I wish mine did!!!) but it does create the illusion that this job can be done by anyone and should be paid as such.
Understood - i'd go over her head. SM
I agree that different STMs manage their work differently but I'd sure talk to someone higher up. There's no reason for one MT to run out when others are inundated.
Hit the nail right on the head
They are going to VBC. This not only impacts our line counts but how they calculate our holidays and vacation pay as well.
Waiting to hear from my account manager as to what kind of line rate they are going to be offering me before I make any decisions.
Has anyone had this conversation yet?
My reply went WAY over your head...sm
I know ALL about laughter. Lighten up hun, and
SMILE! It improves your (maybe) face value. hehe
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