No one forced MDI to hire us. They shouldn't have
Posted By: overhired. (nm) on 2005-12-28
In Reply to: I think we have to thank the ex-MQ MTs for that! - cmt
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Anyone else forced to become an employee
I'm an IC for Focus and got a letter this week that we have to become an employee instead of IC by the first of the year due to state regulations - anyone else heard of this? I want to know what these regulations are! I'm waiting to hear their explanation.
This is IF they sold. But if they did, no one forced
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So, when you are forced to work
on beyondtxt and you are forced to take a pay cut, and when you are sitting there with no work because the Indians are doing it cheaper, are you gonna come on this board and say how great it is?
You know, eventually when the Indians are doing 40% which is the goal for the *forseeable future,* they will probably hire the Indians to also be Team Leads at a lot less pay... Just some food for your happy thoughts.
So, when you are forced to work
on beyondtxt and you are forced to take a pay cut, and when you are sitting there with no work because the Indians are doing it cheaper, are you gonna come on this board and say how great it is? Obviously the things that others are complaining about, you have zero knowledge of.
You know, eventually when the Indians are doing 40% which is the goal for the *forseeable future,* they will probably hire the Indians to also be Team Leads at a lot less pay... Just some food for your happy thoughts.
If one of mine forced me to choose between the two,
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Companies where you aren't forced to do VR
Does anyone have a list? I can't keep this up anymore since I changed to VR at the insistence of my company. I have to do straight typing. Please help. I can't make my car loan this month.
Yes, they do. So sorry to have made an error and forced you to have (sm)
to take your time to correct those of us who are not perfect.
I think sooner or later MTs will be forced to grow
backbones, because as the pay for MT work edges ever closer to 0 cpl, there comes a point where the MT will leave altogether or turn around and start swinging both fists. For quite a long time now, I've believed that the truth is, MTSO's don't really WANT the more costly American MTs. The sooner they can drive us all out, the sooner they'll have the excuse they've been waiting for in order to be able to just pack up and take it all overseas. Companies who actually want to RETAIN good employees just don't treat them the way MTs are treated.
The MTs can't be forced to work over 40 hours in a week
unless paid OT pay. If the work is not getting done, maybe they need additional help on the account or MTs who can actually do the work in a reasonable time to stay in TAT.
forced to sign could = unemployment benefits
If you're being coerced into signing such as agreement in your current/ongoing job, you can file for unemployment in some states. Only if you are asked to sign at the beginning of new employment is it OK and the employer explains that these documents will be an annual part of paperwork updates. That's why they want us to reapply for the jobs we've had for quite a while--to get around the fact that we are not newbies but need to look on paper as if we are. However, we haven't been formally dismissed from jobs we have now, in order to reapply to keep same job. You also have to agree to a criminal background check and give them access to your credit bureau file, which is now for them. Best of luck to all SPI, ex-SPI, and future SPI MTs.
Amen to that. If things don't improve, I'll be forced out, too (nm0
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DARN STRAIGHT... and as soon as the Indians are forced to work weekends,
then I will. I used to have plenty of work for my early morning shift and now none. Why? NOT BECAUSE THE CLIENT DOES NOT HAVE WORK AT THAT TIME......
BECAUSE THE INDIANS TOOK MY WORK. They get to work days and have off nights and weekends becuase us PRIMMA DONNAS are here to suck hiney and say *I will do it cause the client needs it*
WAKE UP!!!!!!! The world is laughing at you. 
P&G forced my sister to stop selling Mary Kay in her spare time...gotta SM!
This was years ago way before P&G even owned Revlon. It's not like my sister wore a white coat and created cosmetic formulas. She was a RECEPTIONIST!!! The Suits at P&G told her to make a choice because they didn't need an employee working for the competition...Give me a break!
BTW, the ONLY reason my sister even sold the MK was so she could get it 1/2 price.
Whatever you do on YOUR time is YOUR business!! (As long as no laws are being broken or ppl getting hurt)IMO
Me too. As soon as there is a little extra work they hire and hire and then noone has any. This
goes on all the time. I get sick to death of it. I think having 2 part time jobs is better so you have 2 jobs to count on.
shouldn't ask but...
do you know the approximate line rate?
Shouldn't be the MT's job.
I DO NOT THINK IT IS THE MT’s responsibility to make followup calls after hired. What do you pay the people in the office a nice fat hourly wage to do? Sit in the office and surf forums and expect an MT to do their job for them? 
I can tell you one thing, if I wasn’t contacted back after hired I would find somewhere else to work! Jobs in this field are a dime a dozen. A company who would “forget” about me as fast as they hired me WOULD NOT deserve me, (usually most companies at least will wait a week or two to do that). 
This goes for all of the places that would do that to an MT and wasting their valuable time. The nerve of these places. Shame on them.
Just giving my 2 cents.
Should I or Shouldn't I?
Went on interview with a hospital for transcription position. I've been a MT 29 years now, last 10 years working for various transcription companies. This particular hospital is very small, maybe 200 beds, but have merged with a larger hospital organization. At present the transcriptionists are paid only hourly, but director says an incentive plan is on the table but not finalized yet. The benefits are excellent. Toward the end of the year, the transcriptionists will have the option to work from home, all equipment and everything provided by hospital. There are only 2 shifts, day and evening, of which I will work evenings. The transcription also includes radiology. When I asked about a minimum of maximum line requirement, Director says transcriptionists are not on production per se but minutes typed, anywhere from 60 to 100 minutes a day, and that would depend on the difficulty of the dictator, as she would not expect the maximum if the dictator was difficult to transcribe. I will be getting a phone call tomorrow as to an offer, as the pay rates have changed since the merger, but the old pay schedule was a base of $10.80 hourly and max $18.80 hourly. There will be probably a 20 to 25 mile commute one way. What would you consider an acceptable offer. I know the bottom line is what is affordable for me, but just want to get you guys input on the whole take.
Thanks in advance!
RE: Should I or Shouldn't I?
Accept the hourly offer, my opinion, whatever the final dollar amount.
If you are an IC you shouldn't have to ASK to take
off, you tell them you will be off.
Right, but we shouldn't have to look it up
That's what those machines are for, remember?
Right - I shouldn't have to
they wouldn't hop along on their butts.
You shouldn't. But you will, believe me.
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You shouldn't have to pay a fee, but there is a fee
involved that is usually absorbed by the company, but evidently JLG doesn't want to foot the cost.
They shouldn't be taking someone right off the
This profession isn't greeting or flipping burgers at Wal-Mart or McDonald's. Why hire someone off the street with no skills in the first place?
Shouldn't u be working?
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FT or PT shouldn't matter.
Pay should be based on your abilities and quality of your work instead of how much you can do sloppy just to get your lines. There's nobody stopping you from going PT with several different companies. I would never put all my eggs in one basket since every place runs low on work or overhires, etc...
Makes more sense to me to work PT as an IC, unless you absolutely need benefits through an MT company, which I'd never trust since you don't know how long you'll have them if they don't have the work or lose the account, etc... Too many things could happen to be able to depend on a single MT company.
Shouldn't it be give, not get?????
I hope you are not a QA or in charge of anything to do with grammer.
Shouldn't be dreaded
It is a good learning tool for those people who utilize it. If you are down the tubes for one report in a month, and minor errors, then its time to look for another job. Your QA department is not utilizing this as a learning experience, but as a means of attack.
Probably shouldn't ask, but whose pay got lowered 1 cpl?
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We shouldn't matter. Only you
If you feel the need to push then go for it. Do you think your coworkers really care if you have work or not? I highly doubt it. 
Meant shouldn't have to pay
Granted, they shouldn't lie to you about
it, but they are not obligated to tell you one way or the other why accounts suddenly drop off.
Shouldn't have to beg for paycheck
Even if you change jobs while the DOL is investigating, you can still collect damages through civil suits. There are a lot of employment lawyers out there that are working on contingency - no money up front - because these cases are now being won and employers are having to pay up for breaking the law.
Although you shouldn't have to be a squeaky wheel to receive a hard earned paycheck, keep squeaking that wheel after you've left a company if a law has been broken. Believe me, there will be results in your favor if you have documented everything well.
First, it shouldn't have been happening sm
often enough for anyone to notice, meaning if they are truly monitoring, that person should have been dealt with immediately, not only when people complain.
Second, why would an email like that be sent to all the MTs? If all of you aren't doing it, why punish everyone with these threats?
Whoever the **same person** is, that person should have been called by management and given an ultimatum.
Not at all! They shouldn't get preference over
regular MTs when work is low. They should be basically just another MT; line up for work like everybody else and run out like everybody else. We have lead MTs in our company too, who get paid extra to perform the lead duties but they don't take preference over the rest of us, i.e., they don't get work before/instead of anyone else. In this company, editors edit, not MTs (lead or otherwise).
Should I or Shouldn't I take an in-house
hospital job? My friend at the hospital that I worked for as an IC for 10 years stated they are looking for another FT MT. I left because the only way they would hire me as an employee was 2nd shift MT until an opening opened up on first shift, which I couldn't do due to my own admission that I can't stay awake past 8 p.m. most nights. I'm an early morning person.
I have been working for a national since then. I miss the hospital although we only have 40 doctors and I really did get bored transcribing the reports every day, but I kinda miss the camaradie of the job. Can I work a 36 hours per week job and follow all their rules? I don't know since I've been a free agent for over 7 years; i.e., not very flexible with the hospital. I know the other MTs at this hospital would jump for joy if I were to get this job. They've been waiting so long for this. They all came to my aid when the last opening came up, but the HIM was totally strict on having to work 2nd shift, which I couldn't do then. Now she is gone, but I don't know if I would still have the same constraints.
I have been thinking of submitting my resume just to see what the outcomje would be. I can always turn the job down. After all, would I even get an interview because of my age? I don't know what they would use as an excuse not to hire me....
I'm really in a dilemma here. DH states I should follow my heart. Nah, I want to follow the money and bennies. Does anyone know what the average hourly pay is for in-house MT in a part rural setting in the northeast? I know it would be hard to answer, but I figure I would need $20/hour or more to make it worthwhile. Is this possible?
TIA
Shouldn't be a year old there was just a discussion the other day.
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Precyse Solutions/should I or shouldn't I?
Got an offer. Could use some info on this company. Benefits sound pretty good, line rate decent for FT. They send their own computer. Curious about the platform...easy to learn? Good sound quality? Expander friendly? Nice people? Do they seem fair-minded? QA/team manager oversight...too much, too little or just right? Any feedback would be helpful.
saying George Soros shouldn't be any more of an
Queen Elizabeth or something. George Soros is a public figure, not the small-time owner or employee of an MTSO.
But you never know if that makes a difference in terms of using names here, I guess. 
shouldn't this be on job seeker's board? (nm)
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Shouldn't the companies learn not to
Why not let a lot of folks have off????? HUH????
No. You shouldn't give up your hospital job (sm)
because a few people are rude. BUT, there is a big difference between someone who is just rude and one who is verbally abusive.
Although I work from home, I still come in contact with people who are rude. That's just a fact of life and is never going to go away. However, I refuse to surround myself or associate with people who are verbally abusive.
I usually just ask Rahul. Maybe I shouldn't bother him, but he is sm
usually pretty good about telling me when the funds have been released. Some day I hope to be in a place where money does not mean so much, but right now it is VERY important!
I have been with them for quite awhile now, and I have always been paid, so do not worry. 
IC? No set hours if it's IC; shouldn't have to state
If it's employee, then that's a different story.
I can't think of a single MTSO that SHOULDN'T be
Most of them skirt labor laws so blatantly, it's like they all think they're bulletproof.
They should think again.
oh, but you shouldn't HAVE to...NM(no message, don't bother)
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you shouldn't feel stupid...
You shouldn't feel stupid for being part of this industry, you should feel stupid for writing that post.
15 years ago, I charged .22 per line to big accounts. Now I have been forced down to .13 per line.
This is in part due to offshore companies, in part due to newbies coming in and underbidding to get an account but not being able to service it and then the account expecting everyone else to meet that price. The market is being driven down by many forces, and it is not pretty. I used to pay .14 per line (gross line too) and now pay my subs 0.08. It is not something I wanted to do, but something that was necessary. With only 15 MTs, I feel the squeeze more than some of the big companies out there, but cannot grow and keep up the same standards.
Healthcare in general is not the money-maker it once was, and transcription has taken a hard hit over the years.
If they've asked you to resign, you shouldn't be using
them as a reference anyway. They obviously won't have anything nice to say about you. Cripes, I couldn't make the line count there either so you're in good company! They kept bouncing me around on all their stupid ESL accounts with a new account every week and different specs to remember. I never had a dictator more than once there except for the worst of the worst as everyone else cherry picked.
I would quit and find another job without using them as a reference. Then again, you can let them fire you and collect unemployment. You need to decide which one to do right now. Find another job ASAP or collect unemployment.
shouldn't the owners have made it a point to ask
when I switch banks or accounts and I'm not responsible for the lives of many other people.
~~>scratching my head
Shouldn't you be factoring that into the bid and making accommodations for
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