Redundant Message -- Also stiffed by TTS
Posted By: MidwestMT on 2007-05-11
In Reply to: Glad to be gone - Ex-TTS
Worked for TTS for a few weeks in March, had a gut instinct to quit after that short time. They have never paid me 1 cent since March. I kept emailing the owner nice messages, thought maybe they were ticked because I quit. Apparently not. Today, after seeing these post it's sickening to see that so many other MTs have had trouble with this bunch, that this has apparently been a chronic MO for them. (I too received emails about problems with payroll and turned off IM.) And, I thought for the past months I was being singled out for some reason when I quit working for them the end of March. Had I not come to the boards today I'd have thought it was me. Have never been stiffed by a service before. Very strange feeling. And, what they demand you learn with the account specs in like 24 hours to become productive. Joke of jokes. I would just die if this was my company's reputation. I've written it off--guess they just hope people will go away and quit asking. Sadder but wiser MT in Indiana.
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Just because everyone is getting stiffed does not
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No one has been STIFFED yet.
It is not good that are checks are late but no one has been STIFFED yet.
being stiffed
You know I work as an IC for a company right now that has no direct deposit but since October (when I started) I have been getting my checks regularly so they are not all bad. Some people really pay you when they are supposed to. Kudos for my company!! However, I did work for a woman very local to me and was my friend or at least thought was my friend. And she was always late on checks, saying you don't get paid until I get paid she would go on vacation and I think use our money because paychecks were always late when she went on vacation. Now I eventually did get paid and stayed on for 4 years because I needed the money at that time; however, she has lost most of her good accounts because she was as lax about sending in the reports as she was about sending out paychecks. She thought we were all her friends and she still harasses me to this day (I was let go in January because she lost her major account and she never gave me the 60 days notice as stated in the contract). The company did not give it to her so in turn she could not give it to me, which only makes her as bad as them, truly no integrity at all. But the really bad thing is 1099 and W2 are to be postmarked for the last day of January. She would either hand deliver them so there was no postmark and late into February so you could not turn her in or the postmark was late. She is one evil, evil woman and apparently there are a lot of them out there. So sorry about what happened to you too.
not to be redundant but i also am happy with my job at MQ
plenty of work, bonuses, bene's, etc. But on rare occasions when i have a problem and don't get a quick response to an e/mail, i call and/or send a copy of e/m to higher-up. Communication is of the essence with any job/relationship. If folks are not responsive, be more assertive.
Yes, CORRECTLY. Redundant.
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I hate to be redundant, but they can make anyone's
life miserable who visits this board, whether they're affiliated with OSi or not (and I'm not)! They are serving one good purpose, though. This morning my current employer looked pretty bad; now they're looking a lot better.
<~~~~~~~~~~~~making the sign of the cross and staying as far away from this company and these "employees" as I can get!
Until money is in hand, yes, we have been stiffed.
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I feel for you OldMT and stiffed.
Sorry to hear about your stories of betrayal by supposed friends. How do these people live with themselves and look in the mirror in the morning? Probably because they do not have a conscience -- or are in me first mode. I had a friend with whom I worked for almost 10 years at the county hospital. I really thought she was loyal to me and a good friend for a long time, but then one day a co-worker took me aside and said that Theresa had been talking with the boss about me. She overheard part of the conversation and said that Theresa was reporting what I did on weekend shift when bosses were gone. Also repeating some sort of inflammatory comments I had made about people in the office. Shortly after that I retired, which was planned on my part, not suggested by administration. Anyway Theresa has never called me since I left. I am not sure what hurts worst, being stiffed for money owed by a friend or total betrayal by someone who you thought was a friend. This really hurt me to the core and I kind of lost my faith in humanity in general. But then I realized that Theresa was really a very troubled person and most of her family relationships were troubled and full of conflict. She did not even like her own daughter, so how could she be loyal to a friend??? This has helped me a little to accept what happened.
Sorry that was dumb.. current and new..sounded redundant..LOL nm
Good grief! Not secretive at all, just trying not to be redundant
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It just seems redundant to keep asking about the low work and 15 people answer, that's all.
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I am apparently being stiffed by a woman in Virginia for vacation coverage work I did. sm
I am not sure where I go from from here. She told me that she would pay me for invoices from 06/26 and 07/11 on 07/22 (yesterday). When I emailed her and asked her to verify that she had indeed paid me, she read the email (you can check on AOL) and did not respond. It is only $338, but in my world right now, that is a lot of money to lose. I blame myself because I broke one of my rules by working for someone who did not have direct deposit, and also by waiting for over a month to get my first check. She did pay that one, but I am thinking now it was only because she still needed me to continue working to finish out her vacation coverage.
I suppose I can file a small claims suit, although I thought someone told me that you have to go to that state to file. She's in Virginia and I am in Colorado. I have a friend in that area, so perhaps he could do the preliminary leg work for me for that. I was also going to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I thought of contacting her clients to let them know that although she is paid for her services, she does not pay others, but I am not sure if that is legal or not.
I am a bit frustrated -- mad at myself for trusting her -- and scared too because I was counting on the money. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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nm means no message. sm means see message. if you call yourself nm, then people might not click to read the rest of your post.
just trying to help.
ps. if the money is there, why does that particular person's balance say zero?
I can't give you the name of the message board, but it is not a free message board (HINT). There
Monitor, I hope this post is okay.
But that could be Leave a Message or Little Message! LOL
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I was told that they do outsource a very low number of jobs, but I have yet to find very many who don't now. At least they're honest about it. They have different platforms for different accounts, and the one I'm working on pays for spaces, headers, footers, etc., and I really like it. They are hiring right now.
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I am a radiology transcriptionist who has worked at a hospital for the past 5 years. Due to medical reasons I can no longer make that commute every day and I'm looking for an at home job. Reading through all the posts here is so discouraging. If so many of you who have worked at home for years don't know who to trust, how do I ever stand a chance? I haven't applied to any companies yet. I'm hoping some of you who do radiology and are happy (or at least not miserable) can give me some guidance. Thank you.
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I think it is the same few people doing all the complaining. They all sound very similar.
I wouldn't worry about too much of it.
Start with the big nationals and see if you like them. If you don't, go with smaller nations, then MTSOs, etc.
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I just went through all the posts and read them about Keystrokes. I am an ex-employee of KS. I want to know why some of these MTs are being so degraded like they are by current KS employees. There are 2 different types of negative posters. There is the disgruntled employee who likes to stir the pot. Then there is the ex-employee who had real issues and problems with a company and posts their experiences and opinions about such. I see many ex-KSers posting about just that. Their experiences. The things that they know best about KS, the things that happened personally to them while working there. Then I see current KSers being combative in their words, degrading, very unprofessional and I am shocked.
A Keystrokes employee, maybe management, has come on here and publically named quite a few names as the owner's of these negative posts. Naming names publically without any knowledge or proof that is the person that they are naming. There is no evidence based on any one of these posts that points unwaveringly that it is any of these people whose names have been flamed. No one at Keystrokes can possibly know who they belong to based on the content of the post, as many, many ex-KSers have had the same complaints over the years. It is simply impossible. I find this very unprofessional and unethical.
Lee has posted on this forum many times, lashing out, being nice, getting on her "soapbox." But I am quite sure given the history that she has also posted on here without placing her name with the post. I know that a current KSer has stated that Lee always posts her name with her post so that everyone knows it is hers. But as any simpleton would know, you could post anon just as easily. I want to know why any current KSer, or anyone else for that matter, would be surprised to think that people are considering Lee as the owner of some of these current posts since we have all seen how Keystrokes maintains a history of flaming people publically in a dirty, under-handed way. It is too far a stretch to imagine that she could post hurtful things, untruthful things without leaving her name?
I am sure that there are a lot of MTs that have a good experience at KS and can understand their wanting to defend their company. But this does not take away from the very real fact that many have had some terrible issues with this company. It is evident in the pattern that has long since been set. There are too many MTs that state the same complaints over too long of a period of time. No amount of good publicity can deflect from this truth.
I do know that if I so happen to see my name publically expressed on this forum by anyone at KS in response to any of these posts, there will be some serious repercussions for KS. I think that this needs to stop immediately and the staff and MTs at KS need to buckle down and cool off and remember what it is exactly that they are doing.
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This was the worst company that I have worked for in 30 years! Their platform is horrible! If you want to talk to Indians every day, then go work for them! This was not the company for me,
I could barely make 1300 lines per day, and I was on 4 accounts! Supervisor was like talking to a brick wall, I don't think she has ever transcribed a day in her life.
I tried to make it work, I really did, but when it came down to it, I have become acustomed to making enought money to afford bread and milk and wasn't going to be able to working at Heartland!
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But the new platform SUCKS, and you can't edit 40% more lines on the new platform. I would guess on average maybe 20% more lines, but definitely not 40% on an every-day basis--only when there are a couple of the better dictators on. And even if I could, I would have liked to know ahead of time
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I did not start working because I was NEVER TRAINED...how can you start working on an account and not have any training? I'm good, but not psychic for IDs and account specifics! What I'm leaving out is all the calls to the office and emails to the office, the cursing and tearing out of my hair trying to find a job again after accepting this position. I spoke directly with Lee - she hired me, and I felt she was someone I could work with....never more wrong in my life. Please don't start accusing ME of leaving something out when your company left ME out in the cold.
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P.S. - by the way, all these messages will soon disappear as soon as someone tells the office, and they will have them all taken off so future job seekers will not see these warnings....just watch, happens all the time.
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I have been in that situation and here is what I did..
I called the hospital to inquire of their transcription service they use, told them my situation, and they gave me the name of the company they are with as well as the person to contact and the contact number.
You should ask if there was a problem with quality or if there were any quality issues, just to be sure that was not the reason for it going with another service.
If that was the reason, they may be reluctant to give you any information.
Good luck!
In my case, it was $$$$ and they needed a full EMR, which the service I was with could not provide. They were very happy with the quality, and actually were pretty eager to get me to go with the new company.
Best of luck and I hope it works out for you.
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Try Oracle (OTI). They hire part-time, and everyone they hire is an IC. Very nice people. There is a lot of work all the time, and the pay is good too.
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I worked for Medquist in California, so I can't speak for you where you are working. You are an MT right? Medquist is currently offering huge sign on bonuses to try to attract qualified people. They are begging for people, so I think if you are half way good they are going to try every way possible to keep you with them. I think they need people badly. Have you been doing this a long time? There are just so many advertisements for MTs that believe me be you will get a job right away if you are willing to work for little. That is the unfortunate fact of it as far as I can tell. I am slowly rooting around, sifting through all the bull shit, trying to find a place that pays well and has a little integrity, i.e., provides medical insurance for a not too many lines and is not just a bunch of uncaring liars who want to waste my time. I just quit MQ about two weeks ago after being at the same company for the better part of a decade, even if they were not always MQ. I took a huge pay cut. I was being paid by the gross line and they had me buy a computer and then started counting the lines differently. I do not know how they were counting them. I had no way to verify it and I was just so pissed off I couldn't stand to work for them any longer. I think you need to go to the drug store and pick up some Benadryl (its harmless and it will make you sleepy) get a good night's sleep and if you are still nervous about losing your job at MQ start looking around and comparing. You'll be just fine and you will like working at home a whole lot better than putting on make up, getting dressed, fighting traffic, etc., to get into the office. Good luck and good night.
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If you would like to email me privately i can answer any questions you may have. I curently work for DSG and unfortunately sometimes on this board all you get are disgruntled employees. cortni414@ameritech.net 
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Try M2ComSys.
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We are not trying to be sneaky. An ad had gone on a website about four months ago, and even though it stated no recruiters, no services and no freelancers - guess what? TONS AND TONS AND TONS of what we asked NOT TO respond, did respond.
We are located in the northeast part of the United States. I know that when people hear northeast they automatically think SNOW!! But actually our winters are very mild here.
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The VR must be the good thing about it because they also can use it for transcription and it's a lousy transcription program.
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I didn't say it was a difficult program to use. It isn't difficult. It's just erratic. I never know when it's going to be working or not working, and the voice quality is terrible.
It can't hold a candle to Voice Wave as far as sound quality. BeyondTXT sound quality is terrible.
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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTstars/message/4
It looks like it was just posted this summer. It's the second ad down on the page.
Yes, and if OSi MT has been there for 2 yrs then she got that message along with
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Everything the above poster said is true. Every word of it. A lot of misrepresentation goes on. It can be great in the beginning, but that doesn't last long. Be sure to document everything and don't ever delete what you document. You might need it a week from now or a year from now. Too many changes going on within that company and most of them are not good. As the above poster said, if you ever are made to feel like you're getting special treatment, be very suspicious, and don't ever forget that today's favored one is walking around with a knife in her back tomorrow. You're very wise to keep your other job.
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I'm not sure if I can put the website on here, so if you can email through this post (I can't tell if I have the email thingie, as I can never see it on my own posts), then I'll let you know.
If not, leave an email where I can reach you and I will respond. Thanks!
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Again, search Google. Use words such as
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I know that the hospitals have a lot of issues with the quality, but I guess they are more interested in saving money. As I mentioned before, QA will correct any errors, obviously still get paid, yet they will penalize your whole pay check. Thus, they are making pretty good money. You will get bombarded every weekend with emails to help clear the backlog, yet there is no incentive for working any extra time. On your days off, you will get IM'd to death to please do one more stat. It is just not worth it. I finally had to take Yahoo messenger off so they would leave me alone (supervisors from India) as I had told them numerous times that I quit. They do not listen. Bad communication.
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Google the terms: productivity talk shorthand. There is a forum with a section specifically on Shorthand, and then inside there are very, VERY specific instructions on how to import a DQS .aco file into SH.
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It's allamericantran@aol.com according to the ad they had last week.
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They contacted me via email within a day or two to see what kind of tape I wanted. Then I received the tape in about 4-5 days, I think, but I'm in NJ. After I emailed the test back I got a response saying I didn't pass in about 2-3 days, if I remember correctly.
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Well, they do not doc for blanks...They generally go by account specifics...Not so worried about exact placement of comas, BOS, or anything...just follow the account specifics. QA is good to send your completed work back to you, if you ask, for future reference. Good QA staff, GREAT FutureNet staff!
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I do have a minimum production for each company (except the weekend one). I'm an early riser so I get up around 5:30 or 6 a.m. to get my work done for the morning company, which is about 3 to 4 hours, then I take a break, work out, do some chores, eat lunch, and then work 4 or 5 hours at the afternoon company.
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I am not on a dictaphone account, but the accounts I work on have a lot of ESLs. I have been with Medware for several years. When I first started I did find the accounts difficult, but I stuck with it, built up my Expander file, built up my sample library, and paid close attention to Editor feedback. Now some of the ESL doctors that I thought I would never be able to transcribe are some of my favorite dictators, from whom I can get a lot of lines quickly. I don't know how long you've been on your account, but I hope you will be able to increase your production over time as well.
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