Not even close. They only have temporary work right now. nm
Posted By: prf on 2008-10-13
In Reply to: So they DON'T have enough work?? - kann
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Try temporary work...
 I am sorry to hear that. I know what you mean. Maybe it's time to register at a local employment agency for some temporary work involving typing, etc. Have you tried that? 
--Linda
Although I am not in management, I work close with them. sm
They do not offshore. If you have experience, negotitate your line rate. You will get very close to what you want if you are good.
They do work with new MTs, which I think is a great thing for them. Everyone needs someplace to get the experience.
If I had to say one negative thing about them it is this... they are pretty strict on the schedule you set for yourself.
They do offer 2nd and 3rd shift differential. There is also a weekend differential. They do offer further bonuses from time to time.
I personally like their software since it is integrated with Word. It is very easy to use and easy to learn.
Although I am full time, I cannot elaborate on their benefits. I know they have medical, but no dental or vision as far as I know. However, my spouse carries the insurance so that was never an issue for me.
I hope this helps. I know a lot of people do not like Softscript. I can say if you would have asked me 1-1/2 years ago, I probably would have agreed with them, but there have been a lot of changes and they really are for the better of the employee not just the company.
I have never run out of work at Keystrokes, nor have I come close
I have 2 ER accounts, and they both keep me very busy. It is true that they make sure that everyone working there has enough work before they will hire more people. That's why I love them so much.
If you do not comply with their PC check on your personal computer, Acusis will close your work pool
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If you want to use them as a temporary
place to work, they would be okay until you find something better. But is not a place you want to stay. In one article I read that the CEO wants to increase offshoring this year by a certain percentage.
Overall, I found it to be a terrible place to work.
If you can hold out until you find something better, I think you would be better off.
When I first started it was great. After that they show their true colors. I thought at first I got lucky. I don't think that now.
Good luck to you.
Sometimes you can get temporary insurance
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I'm with you. I'm willing to take a temporary dip in pay while learning, but MQ better leave
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hope you have filed for temporary
alimony and support, even TX has temporary alimony. good luck.
I worked for All Type a few years ago on a temporary
basis helping them to clean up backlog. Gerry Kelly is a great person to work for, the work was excellent, and pay was correct and on time. Would recommend them.
Does anyone know of any places that provide temporary relief sm
funds for MTs experiencing a short-term rough time? The only one I know of was on another board that you have to pay to be a member of now, so I have no access there anymore.
Daughter of a friend stole my billfold and used my ATM card to withdraw $500 (thank goodness, that was the limit). Now, not only am I overdrawn, but with all of the check charges, my rent check is going to bounce. I should be more than okay by my next check in a couple of weeks, but that seems light years away. My friend denies that it was her daughter, but it is the only person who could have done it ... so there goes the friendship, I guess.
Thanks.
Kelly is a temporary service company that's been around for years. sm
You may not be old enough to remember Kelly girls. They used to be strictly secretarial, but do all branches of temporary work and job placement now. It may be a temp or temp-to-hire position through them, or then I could be totally wrong.
Close, but not quite.
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All I have to do is close it out.
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Sure you do, if you don't have a close friendship with
Don't be fooled. It has been said here before that the office staff are all pretty much related in one way or another, and they are. So why couldn't those working at home be close friends and relatives too?
pretty close to DQS
a little different
If they were very close friends, yes I would let them know. sm
However, I would be very tactful in doing so. Maybe give them a hint to start looking for another company or job that you have some inside information...etc. If they don't get the hint, then just tell them.
Chances are the company may know this is coming and didn't tell the MTs. Most companies know when their contracts are up for bid or they are given 30-90 day notice the hospital dropping them. So, if the owners of the company do not have the common courtesy to let their MTs know, shame on them! It happens all the time in the corporate world.
Little bit of advice - do not get into gossipy detail, he said, she said. Just do it with diplomacy.
Good luck whatever you decide.
this will never come close to mtjbs. n/m
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October is close enough
You don't have to be to the letter, to the day, to the exact moment. It's October in 3 months. Four years and 9 months is just as good as five years.
they are based close to me
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I doubt it.....Not even close
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fat cat may be close to retirement sm
but she still has some humanity about her! Probably why she still has a job so close to retirement.
Not all companies have the attitudes that you post. In this business, there is absolutely no call for that kind of attitude. The companies can cover their butts. Half of them don't have work anyway.
I have been through exactly what the poster posted and I told MQ to stick it after 23 years. Have not had a problem getting a job and have been upfront and honest about the situation I found myself in.
When an employer calls someone at hospice and starts ragging on them, knowing full well there is no work to do the 8 HOURS I WAS SCHEDULED PER WEEK, then its time to get out. I did and never looked back. Probably was the boost I needed to get out of that place.
I applaud the OP for doing what she did. Family comes before any doggone job. She won't have a problem geting UE either. She applied for FMLA, they denied her, what else can she do? FMLA is there for situations just like this.
I don't blame her for telling the higher-ups. I would have let them know too before I left that place and never looked back.
Wish I knew waht place it was!
It should be getting close to the time where
this conversation disappears off the board. Did anyone ever notice when we start discussing line counts at a CERTAIN company the conversation disappears - poof, like it never existed.
I've been noticing the same problems, and I think I work at the same place as all of you. I have also noticed that my own formula for adding lines up using the word count, which I usually took the count in word and divided by 1.123, and it equalled out pretty darn close to the other count. Now that doesn't add up anymore. Wow, something is definitely wrong with this place. I think it's time to jump overboard for me.
Not even close - laughing
I am just one who has been trying to offer 'food for thought' posts, that's all.
Only 20 years of exp. here, but that's close enough,
right?
I worked for them for about a year. It was an okay experience. I had a surgery center account which was small and just about the perfect amount of work for an 8-hour day, plus it was M-F 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. I didn't like it that my primary was somebody else's secondary, so sometimes I would get kicked to my secondary because somebody else was on my primary and it wasn't big enough to share. My secondary account was slim pickins so I usually actually got kicked straight to my tertiary, which they PROMISED would NEVER run out of work, but of course it did, sometimes for days at a time. The one thing that bothers me most is running out of work. I get really nervous about that. Add to that the new e-mails about transitioning to VR and I said I'm outta here. I just wasn't interested at the time in doing that.
Maybe I should have stayed and my account would have been safe from VR - I don't know. I just didn't want to have to worry about it. All in all, other than the fact that they don't seem to offer more than 8 cpl, they were an okay company. Not horrible, not wonderful. Mine was a Diskriter account, not a hospital employee account, which are two entirely different things.
Oh yeah, the QA for my account was an absolute ditz. I wasn't impressed with her AT ALL.
How many MTs?? Not even close to 400 unless you are counting your offshore MTs.
Tell everyone how many MTs and QA Specialists you lost in one months' time.
Do you see this as coming very close to Spheris. Is this what this is all about.
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Nope, close but no cigar.
Spheris purchased Avicis (formerly HealthScribe) but not Acusis.
Archaic doesn't even come close.
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Guess didn't look close enough
Didn't put 2 and 2 together (Jennifer Poole and RC Transcription). So right. We deserve more than 5 cpl. What a rip! Case closed:(
oops supposed to be close - sorry, just got up
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I was offered a position but was not even close
to what I make per line, especially since I just got my 2nd raise!!!! WOOHOO.
Webmedx comes pretty close...sm
to meeting your requirements. They do have a fair amount of ESL and I doubt you could get a M-F schedule, but everything else they can and do offer.
Nothing to worry about there, they pay for it, you do it at a clinic close to you.
Pee in a cup, blah blah, no big deal. Good gig if you can get it.
I'm pretty close - about 12-13K/month.
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I found a sweet job close to my home. sm
I am trying to work outside of my home. I enjoyed my first day and I have my fingers crossed that it will work out. It is not transcription though. It is copy typing and I hope I can become good at it and fast. I hate creeping along at a snail's pace. I'm just used to flying on the keyboard. Good luck everyone.
I'm an IC, I adhere to a close to set schedule, am loyal and the first day that I
hear employees get preferential treatment over ICs, I'll jump ship. I am an IC because my husband has better health benefits and they are cheaper than my company. We still have line counts to make just like employees and bills to pay, etc, plus we don't get vacation, etc, so need to work steadily just to keep up if we do need to take a day off or are off sick.
Yeah, the accounts keep close tabs SM
on who is typing their work at my company and I know for a fact they have demanded that certain people not be allowed to type their work, so I know that does happen. It also used to happen in the hospital I worked.
As much as I feel for you having a rough time, in business (and this is a business) there is really not much room for error here and these companies can't keep people who continually make errors - otherwise the account goes bye-bye and the company has to replace it with another account, not easy to do these days.
NOW it is time to close the barn door???
They are falling like a house of cards! What else can we expect? We put our faith in some people who had no idea what direction to take. Most of them were at the end of their careers to boot and, in my opinion, not really motivated to do a lot of real good. Their major concern seemed to be flying all over the country spreading gossip on the dues money I was paying them and accomplishing NOTHING. Is offshoring their fault entirely? No, but what did they do to prevent it until very recently? I gave up my membership and CMT 4 years ago. Good riddance!
The line counts never even come close to matching if this is the one in TN. nm
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anyone know of a company that is spelled something like ATOTLOL (close to that)?
also would appreciate the correct spelling. Any information you have would be appreciated.
Got all bills paid but did not close down accts because
I knew, like you, this could ding your credit reports.
Webmedx pays very well for VR - probably the highest or close to it. nm
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Companies close old and gain new contracts all the time. (SM)
Stop rumoring.
If you have information, share with the Administrator or myself. Otherwise, leave rumoring off the board.
Goldbird
I haven't worked there in close to a year now, but I was very happy while I was there. nm
:)
I found it hard to believe there was another company so close in spelling myself.
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Close to 9 cents not including multiple incentives
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Thanks. So I guess it is close, then? Yeah, I wonder why it doesn't give you the # of reports Th
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Most larger companies do not close for holidays, this is a 24 houra day/365 day a year job. (nm)
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I'm sorry; I doubt you can reach that 2000 goal or anything close in 40 hours.
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good thing it is a temporary thing sm
because people with your attitude don't stay in anything very long anyway. Nobody has to listen to that crap to keep their job.
You don't know me either. you can say old fart all you want (when did 53 get to be old fart....too funny) but at least I am a valuable employee who can get a decent job!
Warminster office is about ready to close its doors. Our accounts unfortunately went to Amherst. I
understand they are going to have a national system not regional where when there is a hospital that needs help people out of work get work in it. I would rather have a main account or a few I know so I am not sure about this new deal. Maybe they are going in with Spheris.
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