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• Do you all get tired - Noname
  • MTs - Tired MT
  • personally, not really, - sm
  • I agree - Pamela
  • Different results - NorCalMT
  • Got a good idea for this. - Just me
  • It irks me when people think I don't do much. - Fingers
    • That is the part that really irks me - SM
  • Geez, you all sound kind of snobby. - anonymous
    • I really have it pretty easy..... - sm
      • I have at least 5 friends who have gone to school and then quit because it was hard! - Amanda
    • ONE person said that ... that makes us all snobby? I think not. sm - LTMT
  • My situation was a family member - - Amanda
    • a simple solution - Snow Bunny
    • What a jerk AND an idiot!!! LOL nm - nn
  • I've found it works quite well - gourdpainter
    • AND THEN THEY STILL TELL YOU - sm - NC Army Brat
  • When someone wants to go into this business, I have told them they aren't bright enough sm - Fed up too
    • I don't have it in me - gourdpainter
    • take over your life is right. - who knows
  • Had to go to outpatient lab. - ex-Spheris, ex-MQ
  • FUNNIEST THING..they all think you're making all this big money (LMAO) -nm - BronxBeach
    • Money - Tired MT
    • Or...they think the opposite - sm
      • They want to know - Noname
        • A bus driver the other day said, "maybe I should do that, I've been wanting some sm - LTMT
          • LTMT - fatcat
            • Sigh ... I fell in love with California the first time I visited when I was 17. sm - LTMT
              • Cali - Tired MT
              • LTMT - fatcat
          • The first thing I point out is that - sm
            • LOL - MT
              • LOL..... - Hee Hee
                • I do remember the days when we - were more respected....
                  • And what is sad is that the people who most need - fatcat

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She also said she didn't have kids. Why do you think you're so much better  BECAUSE you have kids?  I am so sick of that attitude.  I don't have kids, never wanted them, but have been discriminated against in jobs because of it.  Everyone figured since I had no kids I could work all the time.  I said NO!  Just because I don't have kids doesn't mean I don't have a life or that my life is not important.   

BTW I work part time too. 

No ... not being catered to.  The company pays the same portion of my insurance for my family plan as it does for the employee who has no family.  With the new plan, for health and dental for myself and my family, I will be paying a grand total of $738.93 a month, which is down from $977.00 I was paying.  I hardly call $738.00 a month being catered too.  I'm just happy it came down.  The employee only rates are still very, very good from my point of view, and it does seem like it is really good coverage.

my own policy versus being an employee of a service.  When you think about it, being an employee for most of the services out there offers no real benefits at all.  I have found that the PTO that some of these companies offer as part of their benefits package is a crappy.  You basically get paid a base hourly rate for any PTO you take and that base rate never EVER equals what you actually make when typing.  So you are basically penalized for taking time off.

And health insurance benefit packages are a joke!  They pay nothing for family coverage and not to mention there is always the threat looming over your head that if your production falls, they can take your benefits away.

If I were you, I would either be an IC and buy your own policy or try to get on with a hospital that offers work at home MT jobs.  Hospitals are the only places that offer decent health insurance coverage for families.  I have my own accounts and bought a health insurance policy for my kids and I, but recently I took a job with a hospital just for the insurance.  So now I have my own accounts plus I work FT for a hospital from home.  I pay $175 a month for family coverage with a $1000 family deductible.  It was financially a smarter move for me to go to work as an employee with the hospital because I'm saving a bundle on insurance.

Again, let me say, I would NEVER go back to work as an employee for a service.  They don't offer anything that I would consider benefits.  You're better off buying your own policy.

go for it.   My situation was a bit different in that I wasn't running out of work, just testing the waters.  I applied to about a dozen companies, offered positions with each, took 3 positions to figure which I liked best.  I had worked for a small local company for 13 years as my only experience so was really clueless.   I found it really difficult to switch from the various accounts and scheduling became a nightmare because I really had no clear-cut hours or line counts.  It got to where I wasn't doing a good job, just doing the lines and not caring about the product, plus I was screaming at my son for bothering me while I was trying to work.  Just wasn't worth it. 

but I do not need that right now.  I have a schedule but they are flexible hours so that really helps.  Pay does include all spaces, but what I like is the direct deposit and the steady work.  I have been with Medware for 2 years and always have work.  If my primary is out they give you a back up account.  Finally my income meets my needs and I can move ahead with some things around the house that needed fixing.  Plus it's nice knowing I have good health insurance.

You have to arrow over all the way to the right to see the prices for family plans .... way over to the right.

My son-in-law is a newbie lawyer who does have an interest in labor law and the like.  I've had numerous conversations with him re. the MTSOs and all they're able to get by with.  Regarding your post above, the difference is ASKING YOU TO and REQUIRING YOU TO. 

In any job paying on production, if there's no work on your shift DUE TO NO FAULT OF THE EMPLOYER (and this does NOT include having sent your work to VR when you on a straight MT shift and you're out of work) they may REQUEST that you make it up at a later date - this must be a mutually agreeable time.  But THEY CANNOT REQUIRE you to make up work at a specific time - they must pay you minimum hourly wage for your time in that case.   

I spoke to a clinic that is/was using it.  They said it was the worst thing they had ever seen.  You could actually have a rash on your face, but by the time the machine *reaches* out for the nearest sounding word, you may end up with some dread disease.  And face it, nobody but nobody has time to READ EVERY REPORT FOR ACCURACY AND CORRECTNESS this day and time. Well, by golly, come to think of it, that's what MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS USED TO DO, before we were replaced by machines that can't spell or know a toenail from a hangnail in the grand scheme of things.

I'm like you, the first time I find something in my reports, they will hear from my lawyer.  I won't even waste the time being on hold, calling the hospital or doctor.

about the same and very expensive.  Just the insurance market I guess, my husband's company has it available and with both of our incomes it is a large portion of our monthly expenses. Just my 2c, but I have asked every company I have ever interviewed with and today, family insurance rates are just unaffordabe everywhere.