People's ideas of rudenss vastly different. Who is to
Posted By: say you are right? Just opinions. nm on 2008-02-20
In Reply to: Not trying to dictate what is posted.. - sm
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And being rude is just plain rudenss. No need
for it, either. 
Each MT, each company, and each job situation is vastly different.
If you see that most of the complaints about a company on the board are about little things or that there are just as many positive comments, give it a whirl. Only you can decide what you will or won't take from an employer. They're not all bad. It might be easier for you to adapt since you're coming from an inhouse situation to home. Personally, I can't work a set schedule.
Your experience is vastly different than mine
Any place that I have spoken to regarding an acute care position (and there were many many many) required the committment to at least one weekend day. The only places that still have M-F are clinic, with a commensurate decrease in pay. A reading through the job postings both here and other boards shows each and every acute care slot requiring a weekend, so please point the rest of us in the right direction and share the joy.
Some ideas...sm
I hope you decide to look for your own accounts. If you wait until you know everything there is to know about running a home business, you will never accomplish anything. Do you think every entrepreneur—Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Martha Stewart--knew everything when they started out?
I have had my own accounts over the years and with some, I have signed a contract. With a few doctors in solo practice, we didn’t sign contracts and I had no problems. I sent out flyers or letters of introduction in the area where I lived. I also called every physician office to follow up. My first account came from the local hospital MT department. None of the other MTs had time to do the account, so an acquaintance asked if I was interested. So contact MT departments to see if any doctors are looking for someone.
If you send out flyers or letters, have someone you trust who is very good at spelling and grammar proofread them before you send them out. Remember that your language skills are what the client is buying, so be sure everything is letter perfect.
Try to find accounts close to home if you have to pick up and deliver. If you have clients who are far away and you have to drive there a few times a week, charge them a little extra. Make friends with the office staff so they’ll be willing to help you out when you need them to look up patient names, referring doctor addresses, etc.
As far as what to charge, it depends on where you live. Remember that you have to pay taxes on what you make, and the physician will send you a 1099 form at the end of the year. So charge anywhere from 15 cents to 20 cents per line, depending on where you live.
I use the Microsoft word count to calculate line count, but you can buy software to do that if you like.
Be sure to have a few backup people to help you out when you want to take time off or if you’re sick or your kids are sick.
Make macros so you maximize your time, and always use your word Expander software, or Microsoft autocorrect, to the max while transcribing. I include an invoice with every batch of work delivered and get paid every week. I had one doctor in the past who was very demanding but very slow to pay. I had to go see him and tell him I rely on that income and I need it NOW, and would not take any more work, or return any, until I received payment. I finally quit working for him because he would never pay me on time.
Good luck!
I have several ideas...
but do not want to do anything until that check is in the bank. I appreciate your suggestion. I will post a message with my name and what happens once the check is deposited. Thanks!
Or if you have any other ideas
OR..if you have a company you can recommend, I would also be interested in hearing about it. I need to start the process somewhere immediatel (have two children at home and one in college, so down time isn't really much of an option for me).
I do have 11 years experience, and if someone can recommend a really decent company, I would be happy to go on as a referral.
Any ideas???
nm
Any Ideas??
I know it is almost impossible to start a union to protect us against pathetic wages, but if anyone can come up with any ideas on what we can do as MTs, speak up. I'll fund, start, do anything if the result is fair treatment and fair pay. The organizations out there are geared for the employers to pat themselves on the back, not for us! Paying memberships for those as an MT is just pointless. We need these employers to come to us instead of us sending out a zillion resumes only to be told they pay 1 cpl. I've been an MT a long time, I believe in it and I like it, but I want to love it again. According to salary.com, the median salary for an MT is $36,000, well many MTs aren't coming close to that. We need to do something - Thanks!
Who comes up with the ideas that
stuff like that is a good idea or a way to indicate appreciation -- I think they just look for the cheapest way out. The worst by far was the year MQ gave $30,000 to AAMT in our honor!!!!! Seriously, if they had that to give, they should have given it to those who earned it for them.
Your suggestions would be welcome, Sue. Any ideas?
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Any ideas who the culprit might be?
If you focus real hard, you might at least be able to narrow it down to a dozen or so possible perps.
Where to go with this, great ideas...
So what kind of ID could we use that is known by all of us and would not be known by the company? Bottom line, whatever we would say there could possibly be reported back by an MT who is on the fence or feeling loyal to share what is being said. But, the idea would be to create a forum that, for the most part, is out of a public venue where everyone can see and everyone can monitor. More ideas? Anyone up for creating a yahoo list? I have no idea if this can be done anonymously.
Thanks, Sue. Your ideas make sense.
XX
Any ideas appreciated and welcome. Your experience, pls. n/m
v
Thanks for the creative ideas. I will do that. My acct. mgr....sm
already e-mailed me today with a concern over production, as if they're surprised it is so low. Perfect opportunity to respond with my own concerns.
Sounds like my husband's ideas
He is always the optimist, I am the opposite. I consider him naïve because he seems to believe most told him. I can understand what you are talking about. I have thought just in the past few years (now since I am in my older years) that if worse came to worst, at least I would have my retirement fund (the work doing now is after being outsourced from this place I will now draw funds from) and then social security kicks in for me next year. I want to continue working plus drawing full benefits from social security and the retirement- that is my goal and I hope to make it.
How do you think this new pay plan will affect that rate. Any ideas.
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People at TT have been paid! People who haven't well, maybe you did not make count and your check
after insurance deduction. Maybe your bank is holding it. Maybe anything! But we GOT PAID. This is NO LIE. And I am sick of this board. Nothing but disgruntled exemployees arguing with employees who like their job. Ugggg. I am working. BTW: THERE IS WORK (clears throat) remember that? Work?
Keystrokes is wonderful!! They are the nicest people and care 150% about their people!!
Excellent company!!!!
I worked for SS and some people were very RUDE and I am talking about the editing people in some
instances. It ALL depends on the person, as it does with any company. They paid on time and the lady over me was very nice, but boy the person in QA was mean to EVERYONE!! Never seen anything like it before.
Are people trying to scare people or just tell them what is happening. I am not scared just seeing
that things are changing very rapidly and not for the better for me. If I have no work and need multiple accounts everyone else is in the same boat now arent they that have my accounts. That is how people know what is going on.
Maybe due to the people that manage Amherst. I think MQ would be a lot better off finding new people
up there with all the problems you hear about that office. Seems like something is very very wrong there.
I doubt it. There are more happy people than unhappy people sm
at Medquist. I've checked out other companies but I liked MQ the best (I kept working at MQ while testing other companies).
SO right! People who get paid to bring people on-board -sm
to these companies (few, if any, are 100% honest, it seems), are going to be honest and tell you anything that isn't rosy and sugar-coated. Having a good prospective MT walk because the company isn't so great means less green dollars in their bank account every month. They're not going to tell us anything that DOESN'T make them more money.
More people will come into VR because the qualifcations to do MT are not the same. Lots of people w
to work at home. It's all relative to what you are used to. The nationals are counting on this. I think MTs will work cheaper rather than reenter the work force with no other skills than MT. The nationals are counting on this.
They named people's names. That is not right. People just sm
need to keep from naming names. I thought it was an informative bit of information, but when you name names, then posts are way out of line.
I would really like to see a truly professional way of talking about a company. I don't care what board you go to, somehow people just do not want to play nice when it comes to talking about people. If those people could learn to be a little more professional and stop posting names to their wrath or anger, then that will be the day I can say I am proud to be in this profession. When I see those types of things, it makes my skin crawl. If it were me being talked about, I would be livid. I certainly understand why the posts were deleted.
Thank you for saying that. Most people here just love to trash people.
It is against board rules though.
Heartland - we take care of our people people
I meant in quotation marks, not parentheses.
For people at MDI-MD that say they are out of work, I see they are hiring now. Are people still
running out of work or did they get more accounts. I am interested in this company.
Honestly, people some people are lazy...
plain and simple, sad but true.
Dont kid yourself that people dont know what is going on. Do you honestly think these office people
dont talk. Maybe you should make sure you know what you are talking about before you open your mouth.
Who said people who work for KS aren't happy for people who work for (sm)
other companies? I'm happy for people who are happy with their jobs, no matter what company they work for.
Because people like you come on this
because you don't have any problems with MDI then no one else possibly could either. I'm really glad your experience has been so positive. I'm not saying mine has been bad but there are issues at management level whether you want to believe it or not. Have you read any of these posts? Does that answer your question?
Who are these people?
I'm not sure who the devil-nurse is but I know who the current manager is. Who is the first one you mentioned? Her initials are okay if you care to answer.
some people
not only is she too young to read the newspaper to find out about the divorce rate and many people maintain relationships with their exhusband she also can't take a joke and is plain crazy and mean to boot.
Probably not seeing that a lot of people are having
nm
I think on the people on DQS yes.
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How can you sit there and lie to these people?!!!!!
ROFLMAO!!!
Okay, former OSI people!
the OSi management person is who is in here doing damage control/cheerleading under the name "Happy OSI-er"??
Is it PD, MB, Flossie, or one of the lower level cronies that they put up to it? My guess is that it's Flossie, but it could be any of them.
Could they be any more transparent?
Uh...what? Like I said, I wonder some of the people
absolutely nm
I have never met so many people in SM
one field who have anger problems, personality problems, severe mental illness, you name it. They are drawn to this field like flies.
That the people who do your QA
I always change inappropriate things. Yet, if I do have to send a report to QA they change it back to "verbatim" and deduct me. That is NUTS. If you know it is a "she" and not a "he" verbatim is out the window as far as I am concerned. Some QA people need to get a life. We MTs take our jobs seriously. 
that is how most people pay
It depends on what you call making money. You get paid, so you would make money.
People PC
Thanks for the info.
Lisa
I just can't believe people sometimes - sm
I am not pro-MT or pro-MTSO. I am a person who tries to treat people fairly and wants to be treated fairly myself.
To the person who got fired: Why in heaven's name would a company keep someone who makes errors, apparently consistently, takes off at the last minute and has problems? The bottom line is THEIR credibility suffers for your actions and they are a business. I'm sure everyone is sorry your are having problems in your life but come on! How long is someone supposed to wait around until you get your life together? You really expected that? You said, they knew I was having problems and that things would turn around? Say what???!!!!
Like I said, sorry you are having problems in your life but the world still goes on. The place you worked for very well could have said they don't want work produced by you. Why would they? By your own admission, there were errors, glaring enough that the MTSO and the place you typed for couldn't take a chance with you anymore.
This is what's wrong with the world today. Everyone wants not just a second chance, but a 3rd, 4th, etc. Let me say that no one can put up with mistake after mistake in a MEDICAL report. It just can't happen, no matter what the reason. While I'd be upset if this happened to me, I'd realize it was my own fault and take responsibility for it. Why blame the company for your actions? Get your act together and if you are as good as you think you are, you will surely find something else.
I have to wonder what it is about these people that
make this observation about V. I have known and worked with her and have followed her career and she is one of the best MTs, QA persons, knows-about-the-MT-business world people I've known (and I've known her for 10 years). I also know she has solid backing from a number (not just 1 or 2) of well-known MTSOs and she would not have that if these allegations were true. I doubt those who put her down will find jobs with several of those MTSOs because of their loyalty to her. Her dedication to this profession cannot be questioned unless it is by someone who comes across poorly, IMO.
WOW I can't believe people would lie about that
I mean, do they not think that they might get caught when they actually start to work? Crazy, but it gave me a good laugh.
could be quite a few. The people in
human resources (love the ratsources) have no idea about transcription but like to think they are important and run slipshod over people. After all, they control your check and your benefits.
You don't have to take the job. But some people may want it.
wages only pay what the market will bear. If no one will work for 6-7 cpl, you won't see ads for that. However, I will tell you there are plenty of experienced people with good skills who are willing to work for that. But you don't have to...at least as long as you can get better!
hoi, you people really don't get it.
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Yes those are the people
Joy is her name. I am very disappointed that people do hardworking MTs like this.
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