NEVER MIND LAST MSG MY BAD WAS THINKING OF ANOTHER CO ALMOST TOOK JOB WITH OSI

• I have had it with OSI - enough is enough
  • I thought OSi had gotten all their - bugs worked out? They still struggling?
    • Bugs? - MT
  • What you talking about? - huh?
    • u do realize there are more than 2 platforms they work off of - pony
      • NEVER MIND LAST MSG MY BAD WAS THINKING OF ANOTHER CO ALMOST TOOK JOB WITH OSI - pony
    • I really can't say any more - enough is enough
  • Yep, that's how it has always been.... - Scoobie

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I've been an MT for about 20 years - 7 years with MQ.  I used to do on average about 300+ lines per hour on my primary and made a pretty decent living.  With ASR, I've gone down to an average of about 239 lines per hour.  Plus, they pay us about a penny a line less on ASR after you do a 60-day trial.  I tried quitting the ASR, but if you do that, all you get is the really crappy dictation, so the ASR becomes the lesser of two evils. 

My theory is that, since the ASR system apparently learns as we make corrections, that MQ is going to keeping sending it to us while we teach the system.  Then, when the ASR system has learned all it can and is doing perfect work, they'll ship all the work to India and pay them (the Indian ME's) 2 cents a line to edit it. 

If I were you and I were making a decent living doing regular transcription with a high line rate, I would not consider ASR.  I think the only ones who make any money at the MT's who did not produce huge amounts to begin with!! 

I would NEVER recommend MQ.  They're all about the bottom line and I guarantee, MQ ASR will be going to India -- just give the machine enough time to learn. 

I heard back from a position I applied for.  The person is asking me about what I want in an MTSO & I thought I'd share: 

No micromanagement.  I will work the hours I say I will work and if I’m doing so, leave me alone.

I don’t want to hear about everyone else’s mistakes in a nasty e-mail where you threaten to dock everyone’s pay.  Address the issue with the individual.

No demanding I work overtime & then being unwilling to pay extra.  If you ask me in a civilized manner I will see what I can do to help.

No new and creative ways to rip the MT off.  I don’t care about your VBCs.  I want to be paid for my time and typing – including templates and spaces.

A company which pays on time.

Low ESL, while I can do ESL it doesn’t mean I should have to do so continuously because everyone else has cherry-picked or they just can’t do it – they need the practice, I don’t.  While it’s true I can make money on ESLs because they tend to say the same thing over and over, when they don’t, they are a royal pain in the @ss.

Pay equal to my experience level.

State of the art equipment – No DOS!  No cumbersome software wasting MY time looking up patient demographics.

I think I might prefer ER or clinic, I can make more money with those than with op notes, even though they pay less per line.

A company that DOES send positive e-mails and keeps its MTs up-to-date with feedback from the accounts and abreast of latest terms.

It's really difficult to move from one platform to another at this company.  It's almost impossible, actually.  There must be a lot more to it than we know.  Maybe their profit is somehow connected to all MTs on one platform staying on that platform regardless of whether or not they have work?  I know it sounds really stupid, though.

Since everyone is an employee, and US Labor laws should still apply, I wonder if any of the MTs who lost work on EditScript, who they won't move to Dictaphone, have bothered to file with unemployment for reduction of work.  I think the unemployment office calls this partial unemployment or something like that.

Just don't.  If you think you are bored out of your gourd, treated like a factory worker and unappreciated now while you're doing MT, becoming a QA person is worse.

The QA jobs are production-based in some form also, even the hourly jobs.  You are expected to do XX amount of jobs per hour or per day and be on the system at XX:XX and off at XX:XX.  Believe me.  You'll see the same people sending their work to you to fix or do EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.  It's really a thankless job and at least with MT, you are the master of your own ship, you are responsible for your own work, lines and jobs.  It's just something to think about.

Do they hire only employees or are there IC/SE possibilities as well?

What platform do they use?  Did you get to set your own hours/days?

You said they started you at a decent line rate, was it more than 9 cpl and are you an employee or IC/SE?  I know that the line rate is affected by this.

Thanks.

takes all comments on this board seriously (at least I don't).  I don't have any experience with your company in particular, but I did take a job several months ago with a company who is continually bashed on this board, about 90% of comments were negative ones over a period of about a year when I researched the archives.  I still accepted a position with them and it's the best job I have ever had.  I left an hourly inhouse position because I wanted to work on production.  I am making over twice as much, plus working from home.  After I started working for this company, I realized why most of the comments were negative, especially ones regarding my particular account.  My hospital account insists on excellence and is very particular about quality.  The company has had to weed out many MTs whose quality was not up to par.  My company has been bashed again on this board several times this past week with negative posters discouraging people to apply.  I have given up trying to defend the company. 

Hopefully visitors to this board who are job searching will take things that are said here with a grain of salt -- not that they shouldn't consider it, but certainly it should just be one out of many factors in their decision on whether to accept a job or not.   No company is perfect and some companies work better for some people and not to well for others -- everyone has different needs.  You just have to find what works for you.                 

where you went to school that you have no problems finding a job????  I can't seem to catch a break!!

Thanks again!