Point taken, but for some options are limited
Posted By: AnnuderMT on 2009-06-17
In Reply to: I stated it from my point - anon
That's one of the reasons I hate how judgmental some posts are (not you, per se, but in general). Above is the post telling the non-working TT'ers to go get 2 or 3 jobs, whatever it takes to make ends meet. And that's what I'm doing. I live rural- the Walmart is 34 miles/45 minutes away. There are a couple of jobs in town (15 miles away). In addition, depending on the work, even at slave wages for transcription, I would still make more than the town jobs pay, not to mention the added expense for gas, work attire, etc.
So I understand your point and it's valid, but there is a divide between what some people say (with your knowledge of the wage of a Walmart greeter, perhaps you?) about working 2-3 jobs if necessary and holding out for the wage that MT is truly worth.
Frankly, there are some that would look at one's decision to work for Walmart as a bad moral choice, too, considering what they've done to local wages and small mom-n-pop enterprises.
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I wish I had those options.
I wasn't exactly fired, just let go from the account. The lady who said two other people used Vista now says she never suggested I buy Vista (?) There's no arguing with her. But she knew I had Vista, and never notified me to take it back before I tried to start work. In fact, I was put in touch with a computer tech to work with my Vista. She may be under pressure to keep her name clean. They didn't offer to loan me a computer, only that I buy XP to install, but I'm honestly leery about working with that computer team now.
Your options
1. Stop working for free immediately. DIT still has to make good on your checks, but giving them hours they are not paying for is useless.
2. Find another job. If someone has bounced multiple checks, they are not someone you want to work for.
3. You have to contact authorities in their state, have you?
4. Contact the hospital/client for whom you typed and tell them you want to know where to send the bill for services you have rendered. (They don't have to pay you but this will put more pressure on DIT to come up with monies owed.)
Be VOCAL. Be a VOCAL as you can. STAY FACTUAL. Don't editorialize. On every MT site post the FACTS.
Take an ad out in their local newspaper.
Contact the local news media in their town and share your story.
Three weeks of being screwed on your pay isn't a mistake. It's theft.
There are options
....other than MQ. I was having a hard time finding a company that paid equal to TT, but at this point I'll take a penny less a line to get a full days work.
keep your options open
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As a mentee, you may not have many options, but check out some other
companies to see if they have a mentor program in the works. I would try to avoid OSi if at all possible. Very unstable at the moment.
Legal options when shorted on pay?
I am an employee of an MT company and was not paid according to what I was told I would be paid. I am wondering if anyone can tell me what legal options I have. Thanks for any help.
They are going to work with everyone to move them to FT. There will be other options. sm
Keystrokes treats their employees very well, and would never just eliminate someone. PT positions will be redefined and changed, not eliminated completely.
Why does every post on here have to be negative? If you don't know what's what, you should not comment or read more into it.
I was just letting the OP know if they did not like Meditech there were options - nm
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Working and not getting paid?? What are the options?
Hi,
I have a friend who is a newer MT and has been working very hard for a particular company. This company has not paid her and they owe her over $1000.00 at this point. She is a newer MT and would probably have a harder time finding something else so she is caught between a rock and a hard place. The owners of the company will NOT return her calls or emails but yet they still have her work. She does not know a lawyer and does not have the money to hire one. Does anyone have any advice for her on what she should do? I have been in a similar situation but I was finally paid and I did not work much. My family kept telling me to quit but yet I needed the experience. Any help would be appreciated. I really feel for her.
Thanks!!!
Working and not getting paid?? What are the options?
THANK YOU to all that applied. I have let my friend know to read your messages. Great suggestions!! Thanks again everyone!!!!
I switched to flexible to keep my options open. (sm)
So far I am finding the platforms others have out there are not allowing me to make as much money as I did with MQ even with the cess pool. I work for a great company now, truly fantastic people, but their platform is slow and often down for one reason or another.
I am going to give it a little longer, but may be calling to crawl back to FT with MQ when I am eligible to change classifications again. I switched from FT to PT and then flex so I am sure I will have to wait a year before I can swap around again.
I would think now is an extremely good time to at least call them and check it out. What have you got to lose?
Sure, go to Tools, Options, Save, and then look on the bottom....sm
There at the bottom you have options of using a password to modify, password to open, and read-only recommended. You can also do the same thing under File, Save As, on the border of the Save As box on the far right there is the Tools option and brings up the same options, tools, then general options. I would recommend just adding the password to it. Then when you open it, it will ask you for the password to modify or open as a read only.
Keep your options open, keep your ears to the ground
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Mind if I ask what you're going to school for? I'm looking at my options and
am thinking about going back to school. Trying to decide what might be a good career change that would still utilize my skills or at least be an interesting line of work.
So you believe offering 2 options to clients is impossible? It's pretty cut and
dried to me. You offer Option 1 as a money-saving low rate with offshore transcription and editing. Sorry, we can't guarantee quality, but hey, you save big bucks. You then offer Option 2, quality-minded American MTs and editors, the gold standard. The rate is higher, but so is the quality of the work. Of course, you then have to make sure you hire only those who can actually maintain high quality.
You are probably right though. It wouldn't work as there no doubt are far too many companies already offshoring without the client's knowledge reaping the benefits of using low-paid foreign workers with nondiscounted line rates. Silly me.
I like Sylcount Gold. Has tons of counting options.
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Shapin - PT/FT schedule options, min line count??? Thanks! nm
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No, I am not limited. I can do it all.
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Transcritions Limited
If this is the way it's spelled, it is now Medquist. I started working for them when they had the old name.
Limited Info
I currently work for Precyse. I'm sorry that I cannot help with insurance because I do not puchase their health care, but do have disability through them and great dental.
Financially, no complaints here. Always meet my bonus, always have work (working nights) and checks are always accurate. Just got a raise---now there is a switch, never happened at any other national without pulling teeth. As always, I can only speak for myself.
I have absolutely no plan to go anywhere else. Been with the company 3+ years (they are only 6 years old).
Limited to 8 hours a day (sm)
Does anyone know how strict these companies are that only allow you to work 8 hours a day? - Why do some companies allow you to work as much as you want? Don't get it.
Limited experience here
but when I was paid by the minute it was $1.50 per and that was several years ago for Radiology... it was very fair. There was only one doctor who dictated a mile a minute and was difficult to understand as well. You can gauge your earnings by asking about the dictators style, etc., and volume. Hope this helps - $1.50 may be on the high side ??
That was keep emails LIMITED.
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only limited comment
I applied to USAMedical. I have over 15 years of experience and they were only offering 7 cpl with that! Have no idea of whether or not they are a good company to work for though.
No matter what co., If you are limited SM
in the kind of work you can or will work on, you're going to run out. Simple as that. You have to be able to do all kinds of work, all kinds of dictators. If you don't value yourself enough to make yourself valuable to a company, then you will be running out of work no matter what company you work for.
Unfortunately, your days are probably limited..
That was my experience. At first, things were business as usual, but then all of a sudden we were told that we had new managers who would be calling to get acquainted. By acquainted they meant telling us how things were now going to be run. By this time, all of the easier dictations had disappeared anyway (like the others explained, we had trained in our replacements). So at this point, you can either accept their way of doing business or leave.
What really upsets me the most is that we as transcriptionists have let these 'businessmen' steal our profession from us. They got into this business because they saw there was a profilt to be made. We are just a 'unit' to them. Now that hospitals and clinics are forcing them to lower their line rates, they have to start charging 10 to 11 cents per line instead of 13 to 14 cents a line. Where do you think they're going to make cuts? That's right, with us.
We should really start undercutting these big companies (I could live very well on 8 cents a line for a while--long enough to stick it to the big sweatshop companies). Wouldn't that be sweet to run them out of business and take our profession back?
But I digress. In answer to your question, I don't know what they are going to do in your situation. With 350 employees, it probably will take a litlte longer for them to organize, but their goal is to offshore everything they can, so if I were you, I would start looking now. Good luck to you.
They said that the IC positions are limited
and they would need to know the reasons why we want IC. It sounds to me that the decision regarding IC status would be theirs, not ours.
Just so you know - the subject is a limited field. SM
If you hit Post Quick Reply, put a little bit of text in the subject, SM for see message, and then put the rest in the box below.
Just trying to be helpful!
Could you do all work types, or were you limited?nm
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are you limited on what type of reports to do?
That could make a difference. I never run out of work, but I do all work types.
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LLC = Limited Liability Corporation - nm
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Your experience may be more limited than the other posters
The other posters were on the money. If you have worked on at least half of the accounts, you would see that most of them are primarily ESL, there is one where native English is the exception and rare, 2 that ESL exclusive.
There have been occasions where work was lean for everyone and those not meeting line counts were sent certified letters to make their line counts or there would be consequences...how can you make line count if the work is not there and then be punished for not making line counts?
Search this site for some time in June or May and there is more about TH.
whatever did happen to Transcription Limited?
They had a cool platform. Super transcriptionh friendly unless they changed it. All you had to do was type.
I have limited op note experience...sm
and I fake it....I can do the work, just takes me a little more time looking things up, and i also HATE OP notes, but If i need a job all i see are acute care.....then I fake it...
Who would you choose, Medware, Golden Isles (GIMT) or Mag Mutual? Weighing options and offers etc..
IWho do you think would be the best to work for??
Just to clarify. I am limited in the number of fields ....sm
that I have experience in. There are areas of this profession that I know very little/nothing about. I do not pretend or present myself as having it all. However, I am well trained in the areas that include my clients.
I've been limited to 6 hours/day per ortho doc sm
orders due to traumatic arthritis of hands from typing--an example of how the ground can be pulled out from under an MT.
Loved your answer -- limited vocabulary
Never really thought about it, but you are right. They do have a limited vocabulary. That's probably why their reports sound so funny, because they don't know the correct term to use and just use the closet term they can remember.
Your post cracked me up. Thanks again gourdpainter!
It can be done for limited people. And they quit allowing
Yes, I'm sure, not for YOUR account.
I do believe $50,000 may be possible for many at MQ, but not for Spheris and if Spheris finds out they are paying more than a few MTs $50,000, they will no doubt lower rate of pay again.
This was a limited poll. Post your comments on
the Initiative web site, which I cannot post here because they keep deleting it, so ask around.
The more voices that are heard, the more input received, the more realistic the figures will be.
The person that posted that there are union MTs making $28 hourly with full benefits must have typed that during cocktail hour. It's not happening any where, especially not for at-home MTs who are paid by production and paid nothing when there is no work.
Acute care experience is limited...
BUT I want to apply for a position in acute care. I have experience in everything except for operative reports and I am wondering if I should lie and tell the company I have this experience just to secure the position. I know I can do it because I am resourceful, but is it worth it? Should I be upfront about my experience or just wing it? Is acute care really that much harder than clinic? I pretty much aced the acute care exam, but wondering if my lack of experience will hurt me in the end. Hm...
Thanks for any advice you may have!
Acute care experience is limited...
BUT I want to apply for a position in acute care. I have experience in everything except for operative reports and I am wondering if I should lie and tell the company I have this experience just to secure the position. I know I can do it because I am resourceful, but is it worth it? Should I be upfront about my experience or just wing it? Is acute care really that much harder than clinic? I pretty much aced the acute care exam, but wondering if my lack of experience will hurt me in the end. Hm...
Thanks for any advice you may have!
I am STILL finding VERY LIMITED information.... some URLs please?
Why so mysterious? Where are the URLs to these sites? I am not able to find much at all, except two people who did not like the Louisville branch.
Form an LLC (limited liability corporation) if you are an IC by filing legal paperwork SM
that way no one can sue your personal assets away, only those of your business entity, even if it is only your IC company in your name. This can be done through a lawyer or at companies such as legalzoom. this limits your liability and protects your personal assets. otherwise, they can take away all your assets, including your joint assets of your spouse.
In my limited jobseeking experience I'm finding I only get to learn line rate after I spend hours
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Excellent point, and point in case
look at the charlatan christian in the
Whitehouse who uses religion to push his agenda...
Christian IS as Christian DOES...
I understand your point, my point is why can't MTs and QA work together..
being QA doesn't mean you are above everyone else, you are just an extra set of ears...and why do so many MTs take offense to QA??? That is my point...you made have had bad experiences in the past with QA but not all QA are bad...
Actually, I can see your point AND the opposing point
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I do see your point. sm
I just don't know how bringing up old news affects the here and now. The article did say that Linda only referred to this time period as the "black hole."
From what I can tell from the article, a lot of court, attorney and ESI quotes were quoted, but no real fresh news, i.e., something present. If this article was never published, I would have never known.
I also understand and recognize your personal feelings. How do you think that this is going to impact you and/or the MT community? It could go both ways of gaining clients or very wary practice managers.
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