Not true! I do not view all MTs as "low-down dirty scoundrels" at all...

I am a realist, however, and not everyone is a honest, trustworthy person.  A lot of people out there want something for nothing and there are some who even feel entitled to get something for nothing!  As a manager, I've seen my share of bad seeds and my share of the cream of the crop.  If you don't have minimum requirements, you will always have a few who will abuse your generosity. 

I've seen it happen.  The supervisor before me wanted to be everybody's friend.  The dept., under her tenure, had the highest rate of absenteeism throughout the hospital.  Minutes of dictation on the system were out of control and nearly everything work type was 70% out of TAT! 

Like us our not, managers are not here to be your friends.  We are here to run a department.  We want to care about our employees and for the most we do, but there has to be a line or else things fall apart.

• Employee MTs with no minimum line counts per week - Crystal
  • A company might require a certain amount of - me
  • Focus does not require minimum nm - anon
    • Not true - Focus is 24,000/month for FT - recent FOF grad
  • Line count - anna
  • employees with no minimum line counts - Crystal
  • Sounds like you want to work PT, but get the benefits of FT! - SM
    • She's right - had the same experience inhouse
    • RUDE - anna
      • Mute point, I guess, but is that what people - make of us really? SM
        • Not true! I do not view all MTs as "low-down dirty scoundrels" at all... - SM
          • For SM - anna
            • clarification - anna
              • Sorry, meant for *not true* post (nm) - anna
                • I knew what you meant, and I wholeheartedly agree! - SM
      • A typical 'management' view of MTs. So sad. -nm - LowlyMT
    • I must disagree with your theory that - giddy pc guru
    • employees with no minimum line counts - crystal
      • I don't find this unreasonable (sm) - midwestMT
  • yes there are... - yup
  • Yes (sm) - midwestMT
  • Not happening. Why would - sm
    • Midwest MT is right - LinK
  • Please let me know as well. I'd like to hear the answer to this one. - giddy pc guru
    • Give her a break! - Dawn
      • Due to the unfortune fact that the connotation inflected cannot - giddy pc guru
        • Was not trying to be rude... - Dawn
          • If you weren't talking to giddy pc guru - then you probably shouldn't have
          • I agree....other poster must have a bee - up her bum........nm

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If they tell MTs that an account is going away and that the MTs need to find other jobs, that's the equivalent of a lay off, at which time the employee would be entitled to unemployment benefits.  However, if there is no work and the employee does not show up, the company can claim that the employee was fired due to a no show.  With this scenario, the employee might not be able to collect unemployment.  Employees need to show up, count all hours worked whether actual jobs were available or not, and report all of those hours on the new timesaver website. 

If you receive any complaints about reporting all hours worked on the timesaver website, keep the documentation, like emails, etc., and report this to DOL.  Also worthy of reporting would be the fact that you are not receiving minimum wage from the company for all hours worked.

Then, file for partial unemployment benefits, especially if you were earning substantially more over the past several quarters.  The partial unemployment benefits are calculated according to the average of what was earned in several previous quarters of work.  Then, you receive the difference between what you are actually currently earning and your calculated weekly unemployment benefit.  These benefits may be different in each state.

I learned about these steps after I left the company 2 months ago; wish I had known back then.

I don't think they would offshore. They were always against it.

My work has only been slow since Memorial Day. At the time, I figured it was because of the holiday, but it's getting worse now that the VR push is in full swing.

I think TT does owe us some kind of explanation to put our minds at ease or else to let us make up our minds on what to do. 

On the other side of the coin, yes, being a newbie there was difficult because they threw so much at me at once, so many specialties, over 100 physicians all at once on a verbatim account.  Yes, I did get e-mails where I had to go back and point out to QA where they were contradicting the account specifics.  They had too much to handle.

BUT -- and this is a HUGE BUT -- I left there knowing so many specialties precisely because I got it all dumped on me at once and it had better be right.  It was not a job, it was more like a school and I was being paid a little bit for doing the work. 

Where I am now, no matter what they give me I can do it.  I've had experience in almost every specialty, close to 30 or more.  I've learned to push and push and not give up and take advantage of the overload to better myself.  My Stedman's books are loose from the covers at this point.  I don't think any school could be harder than OSi because of the pressure, the exposure to so much all at once, and you HAVE to do it as fast as you can because for me at least it was my only income.  Sometimes the worst experiences pay off the best in the end.  But as of the time that I left which was not that long ago, I would not advise a newbie to go there unless they had another source of income and could afford to get fired.  They are VERY strict.  I won't even go into the line counting debate. 

about piloting offshore.  For me, it happened when I saw all 3 major credit bureaus outsourcing our financial information offshore and that was before Christmas.  Do I like it? No. Do I embrace it?  No.  Do I accept it?  Yes.  You can argue about this til doomsday, but the facts are these:

1. Outsourcing offshore is not going away, it's growing.
2. While US transcription is being sent offshore more and more, it opens up US editing positions as offshore entities cannot provide the quality the client contracts for.  To offer these jobs through the MTStars website to job seekers, we must include US MTSOs that offshore.
3. Since all 3 of our major credit bureaus are offshoring our financial information and the government is allowing it, then anything is up for grabs.
4. Political intervention has done nothing.  Bills that manage to get passed, get slapped down before they can become law. 

If so, what are the pros and cons?  What is starting pay?  Good accounts?  Flexibility?  How long in business?  Large or small company?  etc.....

others who work for the same company.  Working at home can feel kind of isolating at times.  I do not miss the commute to work, scraping ice off of my car in the winter, backstabbing, gossip, etc., but I sometimes do miss the social aspects of working in an office.   I guess my viewpoint is, things are what you make them to be. 

I love Transtech and have been a cheerleader for a long time, even to the point of being accused of being management.  They have stuck with me through some bad times on my end, and I have no intention of dumping them through these bad times now, although I have gotten a couple of other jobs.  With the holidays coming up, especially, it may take all 3 to make ends meet and maybe have a few extras, but that is just part of life.   

I post positive about MQ all the time, but I'm not a recruiter, or even management. I'm just a lowly MT like the rest of ya! So, nope, your theory is wrong!

Some people won't be able to edit as fast as they type.  The CEO said that himself in a conference call when he said that high producers in typing WILL NOT be able to produce as much in editing as those who don't do as well in typing.  If a person is typing 350-400 lines per hour now they're taking a pay cut. In all the con calls they've had I haven't heard of anyone being able to produce 600 lines per hour in full editing.  If you're mediocre in typing you should be able to increase your overall line production per pay period, but even then unless you're able to increase your overal production by 40%, you're taking a pay cut.

If you don't normally type a high volume per hour, you will definitely increase your production in editing.  If you type 400 lines or more per hour, there is no way that you can edit 750 or 800 lines per hour, yet you will still receive the decreased rate for editing.  For some people who have been on the accounts for years all they had to do was pull in their self-made templates with the jumps programmed in and fill in the information.  With editing, some reports need to be corrected almost entirely or at the very least have full paragraphs that need to be corrected or moved.  The people making 2800 lines per day on editing are only doing minimum editing, which makes for an extremely sloppy report.  Ask some on the Forum about their QA scores in editing.  In a recent conference call people got low QA scores even though they followed all the instructions given to them about not changing certain things in the report that they had been correcting before.  They were told they were over-editing.  So when they stopped doing that their production went up, but then they got low QA scores.  Something has to change.  That means that either QA is going to change and allow sloppiness in the reports or people are going to have to start editing more closely to make sure that these errors are corrected.  That means closer inspection and more editing time.