Please, do not blame Dictaphone,

• Extext - anMT
  • Phoenix MedCom shows you every report and every line counted, - msme
    • Have a question - mt
  • I worked for a place that had antiquated software before, so (sm) - Ex-Text user
  • ExText questions...I am supposed to - train on an account this week....
    • The ExText will be interfaced with your own Word version unless the company installed something - else with it. No cut, no paste! nm
      • Word says line count is different - igiveup
    • Ex Text - igiveup
      • Line counting - ex-TT
        • line counting - boydsgal
          • Line count - TT2
            • line counting - ellen
        • What would the control I show you that you can't see on website? (sm) - Tx-mt
          • We could check our line counts up-to-the-minute with CTRL I inhouse n/m - Hospital did not block it
          • Not sure about all companies - counting
      • I don't have a problem doing over 200 lines - no problem for me
        • There is no way - igiveup
          • I only wish I had ER or OP notes, mostly - celestialmls
      • I have to disagree with you, with ExText, 200 - celestialmls
    • PS about Ex-Text - Movin' on
    • It is hard to get lines anyway, but.... - Movin' on
  • Extext lineage - delphi1164
  • What company is this, TT? Also, - sm
    • I work for TT, low line counts on ExText for me. nm - LuvMaroc
      • Darn, that is disappointing. - sm
        • I'm not saying that it is the fault of TT..sm - LuvMaroc
          • ExText - mts
      • What are your average line counts and - celestialmls
        • I feel lucky if I get 1100 lines a day. I was doing sm - LuvMaroc
          • Not sure if company responsible - an
          • Before, many were saying that DQS was notorious for creating a huge loss of lines. - nm ExText lover here!
            • DoQscribe - an
              • Man, are you wrong! I'm just one of the regular "Joes" here, not mgmt at all. nm - All is certainly not what it seems. nm
  • Flextext - Re extext
  • States right on dictaphone web site when you go for line count - Movin' on
    • Where did you find that kind of company? - anMT
  • This is very interesting - Daphne
    • Please, do not blame Dictaphone, - Movin' on
      • PS - Movin' on
    • Absolutely - me2
  • Don't know where you work but OSi is notorious - for gypping line counts (NM)
    • gypping MTs - anMT
      • Of course they have control, you don't think they are going to gyp themselves do you. - movin' on
      • They have control over it - for gypping line counts (NM)
        • It is controlled by Dictaphone. - MT
        • That sux - anMT
  • I agree - hard to get decent line count with ExText...sm - LuvMaroc
    • Extext slow down - hillbillymty
      • Slowwwww lines - maniac
  • 10 hours - ps
  • I liked everything about ExText....sm - BarbS

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do the same thing.  I worked for MDI.  I loved MDI.  I have always known D to be someone of yes, integrity.  I don't believe her integrity flew out the window.  There is surely a lot we don't know.  And of course, D would not have been at liberty to discuss the coming merger before it happened.

D is a businesswoman.  The purpose of a business is to generate income.  She ran her company with honesty and integrity.  I can't say I wasn't suprised, shocked even, at what has happened.  But I have known D since the early 90s and I know she is a good person and truly cares about people.  I don't know how to reconcile that with what has happened other than to think there is more to the story than we know and that it is the decision that D needed to make at this time for whatever reason, whether it be to ensure a secure retirement, whether it was because she was no longer able to compete with offshoring and VR - and I think this may be part of it because she had told me at one time that facilities were wanting to pay for transcription in light of VR and offshoring and their ability to get it for less elsewhere, or whether she was just tired and ready to not be the one at the helm any longer.

Whatever the reasons, I choose to believe that D is still the person of integrity I have always known her to be.  I just accept that there must be more to the story than I know.

I wish the best to D and to all MDIers.  I feel like an era has come to a close and it will never be the same again.  But I feel lucky to have been a part of Signal and MDI and to have known D.

I worked for Focus for almost 5 yrs but with new management - aka Nuance - no thanks - income dropped, accounts lost, no job security and I was losing $500 a month compared to when Focus ran the show!!  You did great for leaving!!!

Same situation at both companies - I came, I worked, I made money, the work disappeared, I went broke, I moved on.

Sure, its MY fault that work dries up after a year or so at each job I get.  I spread the curse of no work everywhere, and soon I may be getting a job at your company - so beware!  Your work will disappear in the next year or so!

I just received an email from my MT supervisor stating that she wanted to let us know that we just lost 3 worktypes on a major account because we were not transcribing, editing and delivering to the client within our contracted turn around time.  She said she was sharing this information in hopes that we will realize how important it is for us to work our shifts,etc.

All of us working on this specific account are ICs. What has been happening is they want to treat us like employees.  We get demanding emails to work and tons of how to do lists.  No one at this company are employees,yet they want us to work like employees.  When are companies going to realize that if you want someone to work a set shift and answer and read daily emails, then they should make us employees.  This particular company send out daily long emails and only pay 5 cpl to edit acute care accounts with no benefits on escription.  As an IC I never put all my eggs in one basket and especially not for 5 cpl.  I do not feel the MTs should be blamed for losing these work types. I feel the company should take responsibility for this.

If the MTs are not meeting TAT or their said upon line count, then management should have let them go. However, I personally am required to meet 2,500 per pay and that is exactly what I do and no more at these rates and especially not for this company who make demands on us like we are partners in the company.  I feel companies try to get off cheap by hiring ICs, but then try to hold you down to a schedule and treat you like an employee when you are not.  This loss of work is the companies fault.  Any opinions.  Thanks

My husband makes more than that himself though, so we are stuck with the taxes no matter what.  They take half our pay checks, I just did our return and had to write them a nice fat check for that, and then find out we dont get the stimulus check (big shocker there). Just seems like we get screwed from every different direction.

With the cost of living what it is, I sure don't feel like we are rich but the government seems to think we are and taxes accordingly.

Actually I could have written your post, except for the women libbers part and the SAHM.  I've been doing this for 32 years.  My ID says it all.  The economy makes it almost a necessity to have a 2-paycheck income if you have kids.  I'm single with no kids and trying to make a living with MT with no second income.  Its tough.

Women wouldn't have the opportunities they do now if it wasn't for the libbers and the suffragettes. Its great now we have more choices than ever.  Do you realize it hasn't even been 100 years since women had the right to vote?  And we came close to having a woman president!  I think about all the sacrifices the women before us went through to get us where we are today.  One reason I make sure I vote is to honor their sacrifices.

What's so hard about that?  If you don't like being an employee, then become a business person and charge the big bucks.  Many of you probably have never even managed your own accounts, but all ready to say how you are underpaid for what you do.

This career is based on production. Get used to it. Paid days off?  Who gets those?  Even if you do, it is probably a smidgen of what you would make if you worked as an employee that day.

Have fun fighting AHDI as well.  I'm sure their hands will be in the till. 

Does anybody work for Dictaphone?  We have recently learned our transcription department is going to outsource our work to them. I am curious how they are to work for.

...is an MTSO or has an MTSO division.  Dictaphone provides equipment and service to MTs/MTSOs.  Sales, tech staff and, perhaps, former MTs work for Dictaphone.  Whoever told you Dictaphone is probably mistaken.

Anyone, correct me if I'm wrong...