Oh, well, that trust fund explains how you can
Posted By: Cindy MT on 2009-06-11
In Reply to: Believe like you want but my MTing money is - MTer
put up with VR! Thanks for the truth, FOR ONCE! Yes, you see, when I win the lottery, I will be able to afford to do VR too! I'm waiting for that time, which I am sure is just around the corner, to learn VR. 
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Of COURSE I'm jealous of that trust fund!
Hey, then I WOULD be able to make money on VR! Without it...not so much.
I didn't know about the Veteran's Trust Fund
My ex is retired Navy, but I myself am the possessor of my own DD214, honorably discharged and everything, but I was only in for about a year (back in the day, you got out when you got pregnant).
I had a lot of very bad things go wrong in my life and was somewhat surprised at the fact that there was no place to turn. My sincere goal is that if/when I get myself dug out of this whole, I have a few things that I'm going to volunteer/advocate for.
Thank you for the info on the Vet Fund. I'll be looking that one up tonight.
our fund of knowledge comes into play
with each report we type. If that doesn't justify a decent compensation, I don't know what will.
Should we just hop to the problem parts of the report since we are only getting paid for that part of the report, eschewing the rest, not making sure it makes sense? It's outrageous, and we should all refuse to do it unless we get paid the same as straight typing. Why should technological advances cause us to lose pay? No one else is taking a cut except us, yet we are the glue that holds this profession together. I know it's all been said before, but it's wrong, and if the MTSOs read this board, they will at least know where we stand on it.
We earned our knowledge through blood, sweat and tears over the years, and we should be compensated for it. Why shouldn't we?!
How do you propose people can fund
a 401K, buy a house or other investments if they aren't getting paid for their time. If you got ripped off and just said oh well and walked away then you just gave them license to continue to rip others off. I don't work for Toth, never have. They are obviously taking advantage of newbies who are so thrilled to have a job and who still may be naive enough to believe everything they are told, but if they worked they deserved to get paid.
We need to start a strike fund
If we could get organized and that is a big IF and find a trustee to watch the money, I wonder what would happen if we all contributed a certain amount to a strike fund so that we could all walk off the job for a period of time and not worry about the money we would lose. Just a thought.
That was a really bad decision! Did you not see that a hedge fund has made an offer to
purchase many of their outstanding shares. Hedge funds are notorious for slashing costs through whatever means necessary (i.e., sending your job to Sanjiv in Bangalore). Good luck with that.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070813/20070813006137.html?.v=1
He doesn't trust VR, or doesn't trust his MT to train it correctly?
Or perhaps his MT(s) has/have been filling his head with horror stories about VR and how it is a lawsuit waiting to happen?
Personally, I don't see any reason an M.D. would not trust a VR program, unless he's seen the products of a report edited by a less than competent MT who didn't do their editing job appropriately.
that explains
 the quality of their MTs work!.
Well, that explains it!
You have to work like that in order to afford the coffee at Starbucks!
Well, that explains a lot if it is them....
BTDT, no thanks! 
Oh, its you! Well that explains
You have got to be the nut case who lost her marriage, her health, her BP, her back, her everything and her life due to the fault of subcontractors, we assume. Had I known, I would not have wasted my time. Seriously, you are brain dead, flat lined. The entire thread to which I am responding is directly about the woman subcontractor that starts with a T. Now, call me wicked brilliant, but I was able to figure out the connection to the 2 solid days of bashing this woman and connect the dots. Your dots, however, are obviously not connectable, nor are they probably even dots anymore. Realizing that its you, I now also realize fully the futility of trying to have an intelligent conversation, and bow out as everyone else has done when you hop on a thread with your clever dialogue. That's why folks are feeling the need to restart the conversations - you jumped in and totally confisculated the entire subject matter! So, my silence does not represent your victory by your keen observations and accusations. I am not TTD, I don't know her, I just no dialoging with you is a total waste of time and energy. Buh Bye!!
Thank you. Probably explains why
the work load is so light. From these posts I gather I work on the platform that lost the account.
That explains a lot
I've been sitting here wallowing in one of the last days I have of typing this account at this pay rate yet somehow I can't seem to get the lines to come. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me to find that they've found a way to fudge the lines, too...maybe stretching it to a 70 count line. Paying less for typing more...the new Desi American way.
or spaces which probably explains the
discrepancy.
Well that explains it. Florida is the sm
biggest ripoff there is. Everything is twice what the rest of the world is. I used to live there, totally ridiculous. If you're not in a city, you might check with your county farm bureau as a last resort.
OMG! That explains it, then. MQ mgmt, and
ex-management are literally scum. After that enlightenment, I wouldn't say I was smart to send MDI-MD packing, but rather my MQ disgust radar was going off, and I didn't know why. Isn't that bizarre? That happened to me at another company a while back - one I was checking out before leaving MQ, and I accidentally recognized one of the names of management on a group email, and inquired. Sure enough, it was a company started by all ex-MQ mgmt. I tried to stay the course, but it was just the same old BS under a different company name. So sad, as I had heard great things about MDI-MD as well. Thus, my willingness to give them a shot. That's really a shame. Lots and lots of MQ MTs left MQ for them as well, and I know not many of us can handle any additional financial hits right now. So sad. People get the courage to leave one monster, and end up in the monster's spawn. Sorry if I offend anyone, but if you know MQ, you can relate.
Well, that explains a lot of things - none of them good.
Ahhh, only been at it a year, that explains it.
That explains it. I remember that test. Who....sm
the heck cares how many lines per minute someone can type. Many of us here could type pretty near that fast if we could figure out how to transcribe from the written word vs dictated word. Most of our brains are not wired that way. It was a really ridiculous test for MTs. I want to know how many lines per hour you can transcribe from the dictated word. Most doctors don't dictate 100 words a minute.
So that explains why her experiences are totally
different than anyone else who works for Transcend on the BeyondBelief program. Unbelievable the number of glitches on that platfom that never seem to be resolved.
That explains my unanswered phone calls. nm
xxx
That explains it, yesterday I had no work, this morning DS on today's date. NM
xxx
Please everyone, read the post made by Tammy Johson above. It explains everything.
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I guess this explains part of the reason we keep running out of work. My office lost a lot of huge
accounts in the past year.
Oh trust me. SM
They WILL figure it out, it's been talked about for years. They'll get away with it too. I'm not looking for a job but I check the job postings just to see what is going on. Even a few years ago whoda thunk there would be 500+ MTs viewing one job posting? Looks to me like there's no shortage of medical "typists." Which, by the way, IMHO is what has ruined the industry.
Trust me, it won't get much better. If it does
I have stuck with one now for too many years. Every time I think I'm ready to leave, things calm down and I stay, but then in a short while it always gets bad again. I think most nationals are like that. Quit wasting time, it's too precious. Like you said, you've got the experience, move on and find one that you can get to work, get done, the day is over. You don't need all the stress day after day, just waiting for it to get better. Cut your losses and find a place that can appreciate what you have to offer!
I don't trust them
I know everyone praises them on these boards, but I don't trust them. I applied for a job with them, was told they were going to get someone to cover 3rd shift hours and then give me just 2nd shift hours. When I didn't hear from them in a few dys I wrote back, and was told oh, they'd hired someone who would do the 3rd shift hrs.
I just came from an IC co. that did not communicate much, made promises they didn't keep or followup on, etc, and don't need that headache again.
After seeing they're benefit pkg for 2006 I am glad I went with the new co. I did.
You don't want to, trust me.
lol
Trust me - you don't want to do it anyway!
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I believe you are with MQ now? Trust me, its not
a good move to make for you right now. You won't find any relief here. Company going thru a rough patch now - there are routine rough patches with this company for years - like all the time. Very nice when they need to be, very cold when they need to be. Look at the roots of the company, and you will have your answer on how you will be treated overall. I could not tolerate the pay without spaces, ate huge chunks of $$. No matter how you slice it, or what color bread you put it on, not getting paid for spaces stinks. And then not having work to get paid for spaces stinks....Same old, same old, just different MTs. I don't think it would do your bruised spirit from MQ to give this a shot - you need something dependable, not more promises in the wind. 
Trust me....it isn't just you.
There is no sense in someone being so abrupt and downright rude. Condescending. I was totally appalled after my first encounter with the dark side of this person. It is unbelievable to me that this person has this position and has had it for quite a while. My worst experience with a manager EVER.
Trust me...
I am not the person who posted the post that you are replying to, but it only took a few interactions with this person to pick up on the lack of tact and the nastiness/bluntness. It actually took less than a few interactions. I think after the first time I tried to chalk it up to her having a bad day, even though that is no reason to be nasty to others.
When you are a new employee with a company, usually most people are a little nervous and apprehensive because everything is new. Instead of this person being warm and welcoming and reassuring, I only received icy disposition from her. When she called to go over reports that had been QA'd, she harped on any negatives/QA corrections, even though I had typed several reports with QA scores. She never said, you're doing a great job, or acknowledged the many excellent QA scores.
I was baffled at how cold this person was, but in all fairness, I have seen posts since I left that say that she has improved...don't know how true this is.
If you are an MT, you cannot trust that your
career will allow you to survive this crisis without scars. You are not in reality here - there is NO job security in our industry any longer. Believe me, I know firsthand. You are in more danger than those who are aware of our plight and planning ahead. Most of us who are seasoned MTs in our prime years are making far less than we made 20 years ago. Our industry has been raped, pillaged and plundered by MGMT and CEOs, etc. This is fact. I am not an hysterical, bitter nutcase with no life. I am a mature, professional who is living this nightmare with the rest of us. I devoted my entire career, i.e. life, to MQ, helping it to thrive and devour all other MTSOs, and helping to make top-heavy management and CEOs richer beyond my wildest dreams. Our industry has been raped and use and harvested and over-cultivated til there is almost nothing left. As others have said, when our industry crumbles and is run by third world countries paying 3 specs of rice per line rather than pennies, the greedy scums who ran us into the ground will, indeed, find the next industry that is prospering nicely, workers who are producing a fair product for a fair wage, and go in and steal their earnings and benefits and lives away from them, while they have their Big Brother plants chanting the mantra that it is better to give than receive, it is better to give than receive. NO MORE.
Please trust me
I have the email proof STILL. All of her work said Excellent Work! job WEll done. Each category was separate for grading. e.g.
ERRORS THAT WOULD COMPROMISE PATIENT CARE: NONE
ERRORS IN TRANSCRIPTION: NONE.
FOMRAT ERRORS: NONE.
Then there would be long paragraphs where the QA Editor would state: I think it sounds better in the report if you put THIS, rather than THAT. I believe THIS is what the doctor meant to say. and so on.
Now you TELL ME, how dare she could grade someone at 95% based on her own mind reading skills? Plus, it was all ISR accounts.
Trust me, they are snakes in the grass with no REasoning!
Trust me
You will be the first to know how the story goes. I will post a link as soon as I get the paper. I could not have done it all without you. I am sure you can understand that I just talked to them yesterday and in the matter of a few hours they were on it and saying they wanted to put it in this Sunday's paper. I was shocked it all too place so fast and again, I could have not gathered the information that fast with all of your input. Let's keep our fingers crossed and see how much info they can put out there in 750 words. Let me remind you this is a series on how the economy is affecting local citizens so it has to have that twist incorporated into the story. Let's see what they can do for us. I am sure there will be a couple of letters to the Editor which will be generated by people reading the story.....let's hope anyway.
Don't trust them
Obviously they wanted you gone, did not want to fire you (and be on the hook for unemployment). So they concocted the phony resignation to get rid of you without paying unemployment. Lots of luck getting unemployment if All Type claims you quit voluntarily.
I don't trust it....
I think there's a reason for the sudden ample work. Notice how the Q always has work on an Indian holiday or system failure in India, etc.
It makes no sense that there was no work whatsoever and now accounts are full.
Fatcat, any way to tell the time these were dictated on these, or the time they were released to the accounts to be typed? I don't know what platform you're on or how much info you're privvy to with it.
I'm thinking something happened and these reports were re-routed to the 'regular' MDI MTs. Surely doctors have not sat by with their fingers up their noses for 2 entire months not dictating, then all decided to dictate today on every account.
Nah, something's fishy. And I don't mean Chicken of the
Sea, either.
Fatcat, be prepared, because I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see tomorrow brings yet another streak of famine.
Didn't trust them
I tested with them about a year ago and they offered me an editing position. They sent a huge amount of paperwork to be faxed back and lost it 3 times. When they sent me my contract, it was an MT contrast with no word anywhere of the pay for editing. When I addressed this, he told me it was nearly the same contract but absolutely would not send me the correct contract or tell me the pay. Also, they are another company who delights in taking money away, this as read from the paperwork. Another person I worked with applied 2 days after I did and got the same runaround. There was something just not right about the whole deal.
Trust me I work!!
Trust me I work very hard on the account I am on. I produce extremely high line counts without the help of a progam such as IT or any other program. I produce 160-170 lines an hour, consistently, and it continues to improve weekly, monthly, etc (can you imagine what it would be with a program). I am not trying to take an easy route to making more money which is the way you make it seem. I consistently have QA pulled and rarely ever drop below 100% and never below 99%. I was just simply asking if anyone got raises just for doing a great job on their account. That is all. Nothing more than that. What I meant in terms of jumping through hoops was I speak with a level 2 (17 years experience under her belt) who works 5 different accounts a day and struggles to make her line count and I highly doubt it is just her because when I asked how to advance to the next step, I was told I would have to learn 2 different accounts plus a back up and other accounts that may need me, well.... hmmm.. I thought to just stay where I am.
Trust me, I love Spheris and I think I will always stay with them whether I work for them part time or full time, but I just do not think I can advance there any more than I have without jumping through hoops for 7.5 cpl and frankly I don't really know who would.
I am not saying anything in a mean way, I am just being realistic and asking for a raise for doing a great job is being realistic and who knows maybe I am not the only one who thinks this way or has tried (perhaps that is why people leave and job jump in this field).
Sure, being a CMT one day would be great. I think that is every MT's goal is to one day become a CMT and master all skills.
Just don't quit your other job... trust me.
Yes indeedy. I did not trust (sm)
them because of empty promises of plenty of VR work coming. We were constantly being told to stop working until the work builds back up. Hello, they did not pay you to be on call. Many excellent MTs left because of their empty promises. They continually offer sign-on bonuses. Sadly, the people they hire will probably never see their bonus.  Glad I left that mess. I'm making great money with excellent benefits, treated with respect, and I couldn't be happier.
Never Trust PO BOXES. NEVER!!!
Never Trust PO Boxes. I salute LITTLE for bring up this topic.
Well, Trust is earned.
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Why not? we are very trust worthy. -nm
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Why we are very trust worthy.
Yes, we have crime in our country but we catch the crooks and put them into prisons. We dont go out there and make trouble. So dont look at us like we are bad people. You have to look at youself first and the mirror and also ask if you and your leaders are doing a dandy job at it to.
I would trust the MTs on this board before
for the reason that the recruiters are making $$$$ on us. I had a recruiter lie and confuse me big time.... her initials were TK
Oh, trust me....I'm not going to take the job if they offer it
I was just feeling around to see what was out there and was very amused by the questions on their application. I can completely understand a company wanting someone to know how to use a computer, I just thought it was funny. I know that people can lie and say they can do this and do that in order to get a job, but in this day and time if you are an MT applying for an at home position with a company I think that pretty much should state you at least know the basics. Made me laugh!
SPI does but trust me, you dont want to go there.
trust me you don't want to apply with OSI
Talk about a revolving door, besides MTs and management it is much worse in QA undoubtedly the worse QA department anywhere. You need to look elsewhere, you will be much happier anywhere but OSI.
don't always trust ebay
I prefer pricewatch.com. You can get awesome barebones systems there, build as you want, for about 300.00. I've bought 2 there. I don't trust Dell at all. I was helping an MT with her computer and she needed more RAM and has a Dell. She had to call them to find out what type of RAM she has. They told her and told her it was a rare kind and would be very expensive but they had it. Yeah right, pricewatch had it for 29.99. My ex called Dell to buy a basic system and I had actually looked at it online and told him it would be find for what he needed it for, basically just emailing and looking up stuff, it ran 399., and they told him no it wasn't, it wouldn't do anything, and that what he needed would be 799. I wrote a letter to them to complain about their dishonest high pressure sales tactics and didn't even get a response.
Trust me you do not want to work there
Maybe the posts were deleted because they were too derogatory.
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