Newbie, mind sharing your name so I can verify this?
Posted By: Have to ask on 2005-11-03
In Reply to: well I was lucky, the base rate is 6 but my mom used to know one of the owners - and he added a little extra which I really appreci
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To those who don't mind sharing....
Are there any companies that pay base 10 cpl with opportunity for production and/or QA incentives, employee status, good benefits, and great transcription platform. If so, would you mind sharing the name of your company. I am feeling very unappreciated where I am, and need a change.
I do not mind sharing. SM
However, this is not a large company. This is a local company, and I have just been asked if I knew of anyone who needs the work. If you would like to leave your e-mail, I will be more than happy to share more info.
mind sharing?
you can e-mail me
Would you mind sharing sm
what the line rates are like and whether or not there are production bonuses?
Would you mind sharing which job
you make better money at? I am looking into coding full time. I don't like the idea of the stress, but I need to make a living where the pay does not continue to go down or nowhere. Do you think there are coding jobs out there that are less stressful than where you are or do you think they are pretty much the same everywhere? Saying you have benefits and work from home, two wonderful things in a job, and you still would leave due to the stress is quite telling about the profession, I must say. Thanks!
Would you mind sharing which company this is?
Thanks :-)
Would you mind sharing where you work? nm
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Do you mind sharing where you work? TIA
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Would you mind sharing where it is you work now? NM
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what was the account if you don't mind sharing? nm
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Would you mind sharing their incentive pay scale and
how many lines most MTs average per day? Feel free to e-mail me if you would like (or anyone other Webmedx MTs). Thank you!
Would you mind sharing where you found these PT flexible jobs? Thanks! nm
Wow, sounds pretty impressive. Do you mind sharing sm
how much per line you get regular time? Do you get a daily incentive bonus?
Thank you 2! Would you mind sharing their pay scale & what system they use? I will check them out al
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Do you mind sharing what type of work you applied for?
I am wondering if I should try applying again, as I see they have more openings at this time and they just wanted cardiology when I first applied.
But you do have to verify and look up
ones that are not there.
You'd have to verify
with them, of course, but I know as an IC I let them know how much work/how many hours I will commit to in a day and then the expectation is you will achieve it.
My experience has not been that they insist on 9-5 etc.
I can absolutely verify this. SM
Awful work. The worst of the worst dictators. Yes, the platform is great, but that doesn't help much when you have nearly 100% ESL dictators and the WORST ESLs I have ever heard. QA is definitely very rude and if you like getting 9000 e-mails a day begging people to work, then it is your cup of tea. I live in the Midwest and I was not offered employee status ever. I have to pay to get my check sent to me overnight. No direct deposit and no bennies. Nada. So in other words, decent pay, 10 cents a line, for crap work and no bennies. That about sums it up.
you verify what I said, experience=8 cpl or
Of course they're going to try to make you feel grateful for being offered 9 cpl. What's the alternative? We know it's low for your level of expertise, but we're not willing to give you more. Again, MOST companies will pay 8 cpl or above if you have enough experience and/or negotiate well. I didn't say it was a great wage, just answering the OP's question.
Softscript will pay you 10 cpl if you can verify that now.
You'll have to get through QA and meet minimum line expectations, but they'd be glad to pay you that if you deserve it!
I would verify these things - sm
Did you ask when you were hired what the company definition of a line was? Are you paid for spaces, headers, footers, demographics? The DQS platform can only do what people have programmed it to do and nothing more. I worked on the back end with this platform for nearly 10 years. You can break down every single key stroke and assign it various values, i.e., you can make the letter *a* count for 2 strokes if you want and *?* count for nothing. Those are just examples. If you are on different accounts the lines may also be counted differently. So many variables, but look at the suggestions above. 
Here is the story I was given but no way to verify
Here’s the line we got from one of the smaller MTSOs I worked for. A lot of MTSOs have in their contracts with some hospitals that there is a minimum amount of minutes/jobs per year that the hospital promises to send to the MTSO and the hospital had to pay the entire contract even if they did not send that many minutes/jobs. That is so the MTSO has a better idea of how many MTs they will need for the year (like that ever worked !!! They were always overstaffed or understaffed). But I digress. So come the end of the year (usually November or December) we would get slammed with old dictation and a lot of it was work types we usually did not get. So, we were told that the hospital “found” some old dictation. The MTs figured that we were not the only MTSO that that particular hospital used or they still had in-house MTs, and what really happened was instead of being charged for jobs they did not have us type, they cleaned out their in-house dictations and sent everything they had to us. Some hospitals do not have a time limit on discharge summaries and letters so they can be a couple of weeks old without anyone worrying about it.
Some of the hospitals had all their dictations go through their in-house dictating system, and then the hospital would transmit jobs to us in batches. So, another time we got slammed, they told us the hospital was having problems because their in-house system had crashed or something, and they just “found” all these old dictations that had gotten “stuck” in their system and just popped up when they rebooted.
Do not know if either explanation is true, but that was their story. Guess they sounded plausible, because we never asked again where all those jobs came from after the first couple of years. LOL
Could you verify this and let us know, because I haven't seen a word about this...
thanks.
Yup. I can sure verify that story! Disgusting. nm
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Verify line count
A long time ago I read on this board that an employer had to clearly define a line telling you exactly how they figured it and how they counted it. The poster said it was a requirement by US DOL. They also said the person being paid by the line had to be able to verify their lines. I have tried to find this post and cannot. Does anyone know about this. Can your employer send you home to work, pay you by the line, and not clearly define what they use to determine a line and how it is counted? Human Resources said it is up to the Department head and they will not interfere. Their attitude is if you don't like it you can quit. Now, they haven't done this to me yet, but the two people they did it to have quit. They paid them 8 cents a line, no headers or footers, in fact, they paid only for the body of the report, and did not even count paragraph headings, even though we almost always have to either take one out because it is not dictated, or draw them together because they are dictated all in one paragraph. We get no pay for anything already on the page, except 2 lines added to each report for numbers we have to type such as job number, dates and times of dictation and transcription. Nothing else is paid for. They say we get paid for auto correct and auto text but they can't show us. There are just two of us left, and only one of us is going to be paid by the hour, and I am low man on the totem pole. If they tell me they will pay be by the line, what are my recourses, other than quitting, for proving to Human Resources that they really do HAVE to define a line and how it is counted, and I really do HAVE the right to check their figures against my own. Please help as the axe is about to fall about this and I am scratching on glass trying to get info about my rights, if any. Thanks.
How do you verify your line counts
I like to see the reports typed so that I can do a check against my list that I write on a tablet for myself. How are you doing this? CTRL I does not give an accurate count, because it shows every line/character in the report, which we do not get paid for.
Please share with us how you double check your handwritten list by the number of jobs/job #'s you get paid for. I have never worked a job where this is not available to the MT.
I want to see a list of reports by job number that I have sent/transcribed showing the number of lines for each individual report.
I can verify my lines at Spheris, but not all
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It is easy enough to verify by doing a Google search
it is not unfounded rumors.
tell me how you verify your line count with TransTech
I had that problem as well and I was not anonymous about it and I came here and was called a liar and was told I was paranoid. I eventually found employment elsewhere and they also use Ex-Text and I-Chart. I was told by them that I would be paid on a 65-character line that includes black characters, spaces, and hard returns but no headers or footers which was the exact same thing I was told by TransTech. On the whole right now I am making less cents per line but my paychecks are bigger with them because unlike Transtech I am actually paid on a 65-character line that includes black characters, spaces, and hard returns but no headers or footers; and this is a true story.
Keystrokes Can verify up to the minute via cntr I
report by report
Did you call WebMedx to verify that they have the account? NM
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Whatever company you work for, you should verify that it counts correctly. sm
Take the document, cut and paste it into Word, count it that way. No way I would take the word of a company or a program unless I can verify my lines.
I do not work for Keystrokes but had to give my 2 cents, whatever it's worth!
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing...
It helps to know you guys are happy there and why. It's just hard to know what to do these days, but I think I'll give it a go with applying and see what happens. Thanks again!
Ok, not for me thanks for sharing. I will run away from OSI! nm
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Thank you all for sharing
I appreciate all your feedback. I think I'm going to give it a try and do both for a while.
Wow, thanks for sharing that and sm
good luck to you! I hope you find some good companies to choose from. Post back if you find a good company, not even who, but that you found one! Do they still exist?
thanks for sharing that :-) sm
But you know, I bet some of the meanies here do have good lives. They just don't, can't, or won't understand what it's like to have bad things happen through no fault or even through fault of the individual (human comes to mind here).
When one lives in a protected, happy shell, perfect in their mind, it's hard to think outside that shell.
That's not to say that unhappy people don't post insensitive things either...
My life is not peaches and cream and by no means am I what I would call 'happy,' but I have not desire to spew hurtful, hateful words.
It makes me happy to help and make others feel better. My favorite of your mom's words is the one about keeping yer mouth shut if you can't say anything nice (or constructive so to speak).
But my all time favorite is do unto others. It really covers it all.
Good luck to you and I wish you the best. Your words touched me. :-)
Thanks for sharing this ... sm
It's encouraging to hear. I'd love to try ASR but can't take advantage of the opportunity because I haven't been able to get my lines up to minimum production level for reasons I've stated in another post.
I'm trying to hang in here because aside from the money I think this is a pretty good company. Just keeping my fingers crossed that it will get better for everybody financially across the board.
A lot of sharing
We even set line count goals with each other and don't talk about how to get out of work and stay on a board instead of working. We share pictures and recipes and helpful links etc. This board has been a godsend to me when I was struggling with my line count. TT should be glad that we have it instead of telling everybody it is phony just because they didn't send it. That kind of dampens my spirit about TT but I will try to get past that. I know that we have some management on board because they have posted and there is more than one. All the questions we can't answer on the board we send an email to TT. TT you have no idea how many emails we have saved you! We have nothing to be ashamed of on our board and welcome anybody at TT to read all the messages.
Thanks for sharing your
experience. Do you recall how QA staff was with either of these two companies? Was workflow steady? I just really don't have a good feeling about any of the 3 yet. Usually I have some feeling but I'm at a loss here.
TY so much for sharing this with us!! :-->
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What about MTs sharing one job?
Can that work? I guess it would be subcontracting in a way. Just wondering.
Thanks.
thanks for sharing
Well, now that I have cooled down a bit I wanted to thank you and the other poster for sharing your stories. Sorry to hear about you health troubles. I hope that some day you will overcome those blocks that you have been having. It is such a frustrating disability. My son has come home from school on more than one occasion in tears after a rough day of being made fun of by kids he thought were his friends. I have woken up at night from panic attacks thinking about my son giving oral reports in front of the class. The other poster says that I am too sensitive and I should calm down, but if you discriminate against one stutterer then it is a slap in the face to all stutterers, and I am more than happy give anyone a good tongue lashing for discriminating against anyone who stutters whether it be a neurosurgeon or a janitor. I will say a prayer for your rehabilitation
Thanks for sharing. NM
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wow thanks for sharing. Seems to be come up more and more.
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Thank you so much for sharing this
I think most of us at MDI-MD see right through this facade of 'one big happy family' and are clawing our way out as quickly as possible, and your post just reinforces WHY we need to.
I'm sorry you had to go through it, too.
We MTs, despite our differences, really are a sisterhood or family of sorts, and we really need to stick together and reach out to help one another right now, and I for one am delighted to see the unification of all on this board, especially compared to the usual catfighting and hostility.
Thanks for sharing this............ sm
I appreciate knowing what it's like from someone who is using it as opposed to what management wants us to believe it will be like.
Appreciate the info sharing
I finally found a job with a good company thanks to this board. I quit putting in applications for job posts until I came here and checked out their reputation.. (finally learned to do this after dealing with one not so good)
I really appreciate MTStars job seekers board and company board.
That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing! nm
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Recruiters: Thank you for sharing sm
I am really embarrassed for those people, but I am also having a good laugh. I bet you all really need to vent. Do you have a network of recruiters where you can go? I am glad to have a glimpse of your world. Now I know why some of those ads are in caps - YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO DO THIS OR DO NOT APPLY! Honestly, they sound hostile, and I skip by them, but at least now I know why.
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