Sinking ship?
Posted By: Anon on 2008-04-10
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Noticing where I work several accounts no longer sending work...very few new accts also this year. It's a medium sized company, not huge, so this worries me. Anyone who has worked for a co that has fell apart, I wonder what some signs were? A little nervous here!!!!
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sinking ship
Could be that they are sending offshore instead......I am hearing that more and more companies are doing this (especially the medium to smaller ones) because of lower rates. Not a rumor but just a thought.
Might as well rock the sinking ship.
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Sinking also
I am in the same boat too. When I started 25 years ago transcription was considered a decent career choice. However, I would not advise transcription as a career. 
Im in the same sinking boat
I imagine one day all of this stuff will either be VR or physician generated as a lot of physicians are going to these templates and fillintheblank and a lot of incompetent MTs without babysitters, clothes or transportation just happy as peaches to have a job. Shame on these companies!!!
Oh please. Now my "age visual" of you is sinking even lower!
What are you, 12? Yep, you sure told me, and I'm sure gonna go away now on this free public forum open for anyone to discuss a company! Yep, I'm gonna go away now fer sure!! 
Your boat's sinking just as fast as other MTs' boats.
Are we in the same skinking ship?
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You will "jump ship"... ???
That's the chance you take for IC status. There is no loyalty.. it's a CONTRACT position with no gaurantees. You aren't required to commit to a schedule, they can't ASK you for a schedule - if you don't feel like working, you don't have to. That's the perks. An employee can't do that. On the flip side, the perk of being an employee is that they come first. They have to comply with a schedule, they are REQUIRED to work even if they don't feel like it. You might want to do your homework on IC status. If a company doesn't give the full time employees the work when it's slow, then there is a problem. If you are worried about special treatment - you should then become employee status. You don't have to take the benefits. Some companies will even pay better if you don't take the insurance.
Jump ship
Their pay plan is horrible to work with. The bonus is based on your QA score, if I'm not mistaken from the month previous and that goes through the whole next month. So if you have a bad month, it will haunt you for the next month!
I jumped ship too. (nm)
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I jumped ship
glad I did.
jump ship now
you won't be sorry.
Yay! Here's to hanging onto the ship!
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More info on the ship
No, it's not that company. I do QA and haven't seen anything that looks like offshore work, and I worked for another company previously where I did do QA for offshore - you can tell that stuff a mile away. There's been a shift in mgmt and I just wonder if clients aren't as happy, sales maybe not as strong??? I don't know. I have a job now and it's a good one but I would also like information about what's going on other than what everyone is doing wrong, you know what I mean! :) I was just hoping people who have experienced this might have some other things to look for.......
Jumping ship
I agree with you on the panic thing, just went to VR about 2 months ago and it is definitely not what was presented to me. I am looking into LPN courses, a year and a half, will make better money than I am now, and keep doing VR on the side. The VR money would qualify for pocket money for sure.
Not flaming you, but where would you ship to? Might be jumping
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Couldn't you just ship it back yourself?
Fedex or UPS could probably ship it back for $30-40, is my guess.
From what Ive heard with everyone jumping ship
there of late, they must need MTs pretty badly. Don't ya think its time for them to regroup and make some changes for the better?
Thinking about jumping ship
MQ is making some poor decisions and I am debating whether to stay on for the ride and see if things are better once it is bought out, or just go somewhere else. I was looking at Diskriter...does anybody have any experience with this company, and if so I would love some opinions on it. TIA!!
I'm not planning on jumping ship, either. sm
The stress of changing companies is far too much for me that the stress of working more to pay the added cost. Less strain on the nerves to stay and just put in some extra time.
Interesting opinion, Ship... sm
You say you've never used a C-phone but you know all about them! I've been using a C-phone for 15 years and LOVE IT! The other posters are correct: Sound quality is excellent. Easy to adjust speed, volume and tone. My hospital provides a toll-free call-in number so it costs me NADA to work. I have only one phone line to begin with but it's not a problem. If anyone needs to reach me, they call my cell #.
Why did so many MQ employees jump ship? sm
I have heard made mention on here numerous times about the exodus of transcriptionists from Medquist.. Am curious why it happened? Medquist from what I remember from years ago used to be THE place to work. What happened? Did they start sending work overseas or something?
I don't plan on jumping ship
I've been there long enough to know that there are ups and downs in work and it happens all over. VR is not bad, could be better, but I like it.
I'd rather be out of work for a week or two than 4 months like I was with my local hospital. There may be better jobs out there but I'm not looking.
FYI: I'm basically sole provider for us, too. It gets tough at times but I try to roll with the punches.
I think you are right, but if us Americans jumped ship as soon as
it gets rocky, they would sink, but we hang on and on and wait for it to get better and then it doe not!
they don't tell you because many will jump ship and they will be short-staffed. SM
Maybe not all, but the majority of companies will not tell their employees when they lose accounts, outsource, etc. They are a little bit smarter than to chance losing a large number of employee. But they won't hesitate to dump you without notice. Unfortunately, it's called corporate business.
With everyone jumping ship to work for TransTech
They will use the hospital MTs for samples, then ship account
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Needing reasons not to jump ship
It is hard to get a sense of things working at home... just want to know if there are any MTs at Transtech who do not plan to jump ship, or if I need to start worrying and go too? I am also wondering who the TT people went to after they jumped ship. I have sent numerous inquiries out and no answer.. could it be the market is flooded right now with resumes because of the recent VR situation?
Another reason I ask is that I believe TT is a strong company and I have been very happy there. Yes, I have had to be very flexible, but I have not yet run out of work and still make good money, benefits, etc. Why, however, are TT MTs any different than the more than 60 percent of MTs who have already gone to some type of VR at their company such as the people at Webmedx who are still happy, and others. It would be nice to get different viewpoints here... my instinct is to say keep with the TT, and work it all out because the company is strong... and most other companies if not are with VR will go there too someday! I am the only source of income for my family and need to know what is going on out there in the world! Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Waiting for "new pay plan" to come out to see if I need to jump ship (sm)
I am VERY disappointed with the Docuscribe program. Making about 75-100 lines less per hour than I did before (on the same account). From what everyone else is posting, it doesn't get much better. They should easily be able to pay their legal fees for the lawsuits out of what they are saving on our wages.
Have been checking into other options, but am hoping this new pay plan and more practice with this program might make me want to stay. Been there so many years now I hate to change, but money is money.
I agree... is it worth panic and jumping ship?
From what I hear since around Christmas, different MT companies reported increase on open enrollment. This is why I got the job with TT. Now, I find that the rates have gone up and my husband does not have a job which offers insurance, so I have to provide it for the family. I just left a company where I worked pretty much for the insurance and had maybe 900 bucks left over for the month take home. TT's insurance rates are still lower than that was and they went up.
So, I say to myself today, is it worth the panic, stress, and jitters I am having today? How do I know if I go somewhere else it will be as good a company with the opportunity to make better money than anywhere I have been aside from a hospital. Even hospitals are not offering insurance they are taking per diem, if at all, probably IC etc. so they don't have to pay benefits.
I have been thinking about it all since yesterday. I decided I am going to have a mantra today to myself and I will say, hang in there to myself all day. I have resolved not to jump ship at all. This company does give us the ability to make more money, and I will work more time to make up for the difference in insurance costs because I know I can here. They have the work, they pay fair, and they give me the confidence to do so. Anywhere else well, fire to frying pan, you know.
So, I wish everyone luck and if you are stressed today you are not alone. I am making sure for myself and our security in my home, that I will not allow myself to make any rash decisions. Thanks for listening. And hang in there.
We didn't all jump ship, some just talk louder
and more frequently than others. They do offshore, but not much. I can transcribe 200 lines per hours and about 325 per hour with speech recognition. I am not a fast typist. I started a job with a different company recently to see if it would be better, and it's horrible. The new job is one of the companies that some MTs rave about. Medquist is a lot better. Some people had a bad experience at Medquist and don't want anyone else to do well. It justifies their leaving if we're all miserable. Well, I'm not miserable and refuse to let a job define my happiness. I make a very good paycheck at Medquist, and when my shift is over, I put the job aside and focus on other things.
Softscript ALWAYS has ads for people -- that ship will sail again if you miss this one. sm
I think the clinic job sounds great -- congrats to you on finding something good. 
If I were an MTSO right now I would be picking up the cream of the crop as they jump ship (sm)
from MQ in preparation for new accounts. I don't know that MQ will go under or be seriously harmed BUT I truly feel that there will be some accounts lost either due to quality or the hospital having misgivings about their work being sent overseas.
We may find a lot of these companies are going to be over-staffed and work a little slimmer at times, but who can blame them? If you find well trained MTs, get them on board and then be aggressive in soliciting those MQ accounts that might be up for grabs.
I wish good luck to the MTSOs out there who might be able to turn a bad situation for MQ into a profitable one for themselves and the United States. They pay us in US, pay their taxes in US, we pay our taxes in the US, we make purchases in the US with our money. Let's see, who missed out on that one, oh yeah our ILPs (international labor partners as MQ calls them).
SGS, cheap and would rather ship your job to india, where they have 100s of MTs taking our jobs!
Yes, on eScription...making about $5 and hour if lucky! they quote you a pretty good line rate for typing, but half that for editing, and it's mostly editing. then, with all the crap they throw at you, (this dr. wants this, be sure to fill in that, don't submit a report w/o this, and 30 pages of account specifics?) it's time consuming. and the templates are a nightmare, the drs. are all over the place on them, not following them, so when editing them it takes forever. @ 4cpl you can spend 15 minutes on one and make $1.00. RUN!
It does appear that the DeVenture ship has sprung a leak and the Captain has lost his paddle!
It does appear that the DeVenture ship has sprung a leak and the Captain has lost his paddle!
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
I just paid over $8 to ship a foot pedal back to eTransPlus w/ DELIVERY CONFIRMATION..sm
They hired me, sent me a foot pedal, and right before I was to start, my company made me an offer I couldn't refuse. So to keep from burning a bridge in the future with eTransPlus (who were super nice about the whole thing), I sucked it up and spent the $8. It will be well worth it in the future if I ever need to seek future employment with them. I do want to add that I shipped the pedal back with DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. It costs about .50, but allows the sender as well as receiver to track the item. Well worth it!
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