So, after all of the hoopla about JLG paychecks being late, sm

are current employees satisfied with the outcome/explanation/etc.?  More importantly, would you recommend that someone take a job with this company?  I always heard good things about them in the past, but that was a long time ago. 

• So, after all of the hoopla about JLG paychecks being late, sm - curious
  • WOW- - bspen
  • I am appalled at the cruelty and name calling shown here. Some people sm - LTMT
    • WE ARE HERE FOR ONE ANOTHER . . . - $$$
    • Webmedx fits that bill, great company, great benefits, great pay and always on time. NM - webber
  • Ya know, that is a really stupid question . . . - ridiculous
  • I absolutely positively loved working for them - up until the check issue
  • Posts like these just make me want to - SCREAM or throw up, or both.
    • Someone needs to take their - - VALIUM
      • I tend to agree. Seems to have a short fuse. sm - curious
    • I think this post was written by frelvis. - nm
    • What a hateful post. Hope your rant made you feel better. nm - curious
      • heck, i don't even know what co. this is! nm - Deb
      • It did make me feel better, thank you. - But what would really make me feel
        • I'd have to agree with you. Yes, you get a few disgruntled workers who probably - MTing
        • Right on!! - Sue
          • This profession... SM - Broad Shoulders

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Small MTSO's sometimes use company funds to pay their personal bills as well, so if they have a lot of bills or something unexpected happens, there goes the payroll money! 

I have worked for BTS for 2 1/2 years now and NEVER has BTS been late with my check or deducted lines.  They pay for exactly what they said they would pay when I was hired.  You have to take into consideration the mail system.  BTS can't do anything about that.  Why didn't you opt for direct deposit?  It's a wonderful  and sure thing.  My money has ALWAYS been there on time every time. 

YES, BTS is hiring and I strongly recommend them.  I have been there for 2 1/2 years and have NEVER run out of work.  If I'm low (which is very rare) I'm given another account to help with.  The account manager is very understanding and accommodating if you have sick kids, appointments or whatever.  I've worked for sevral MT companies and I have to say this is the best one that I've found.  Thank you BTS .  Oh I must add, I have recieved a Christmas gift every year too along with something for MT week. 

My first 2 paychecks were "without spaces" and I had a lengthy dispute with them that I won only because I had asked about them earlier on this board and was told by someone else to save all of my emails . I had saved the email in which they told me the line cout included spaces and when I provided it they cut a check for the "disputed amount", but it was also short (in their favor).    My last paycheck was also short and very very late (several months) .  

There was also a lot of downtime.  You will get a lot of  "No work tonight" emails.

I really would like to know before accepting a position with them.

I would like someone besides the poster from below to answer please. 

And Keystrokes is not the only company that doesn't pay OT.  Transtech doesn't pay for it either, although they encouraged it when I was there.  I was actually chastised once for putting down my real hours on my time sheet, telling me that I know better.  However, it didn't bother me then and doesn't bother me now as I am just grateful to be able to work as much as I want to get the line count that I want/need.  It is not slave labor -- no one forces me to work the extra hours.  I do so of my own free will. 

I have had some health issues and other things, and my line count with Keystrokes has been awful, yet they have been patient and caring, and I am grateful to be working for them.   I realize I will probably get flamed, but that's okay.  My opinion is just as valid as anyone else's, and I decided to speak up in favor of a company that has been good to me. 

Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

Huge accounts are not to be seen yet.  We long-timers are just out of work/low on work because of all this hiring craze. 

TT, hurry up and bring on all those monstrous accounts, because it is going to take those to keep the the influx of MT's you have hired in order for us current MTs to have work and ability to pay their bills!

I just got an email from a friend/former co-worker of mine who also worked for etranz in Georgia.  She had over $1000 in checks bounce.  It took her almost 3 months to get them, finally did and now they have bounced!  Please, if any of you MTs know of anyone who is looking for work, please be sure to steer them away from etranz.  They make their ads sound great with weekend incentives and higher line rates, but getting your paycheck is nearly impossible....and when you do get it - it may bounce. 

Please pass the word around about this unprofessional, unethical company!

$$$$  Mine included.  Just do a search of the Forums and Archives.  No need to beg for work with Keystrokes!  If anyone has to beg to work with them to begin with it's probably because it is not the right fit.  Calling to follow up on job interest and begging are two different things.  If a company is in transition and very busy, then that's it, they're very busy. Just take it as that not as a luminous sign.

That's it for me!

The platform has to learn and some specs allow things like not listing the diagnoses if the system puts commas in between.  You may leave out hypens and things like that.  In the long run, it actually makes you more money so you don't have to stop and fix everything.  I've been doing VR for the last 4 years and it does become easier if everyone is on the same page and the system learns.  It's the MTs that won't bend and hate change that make it hard on everyone else.  VR doesn't always follow AAMT guidelines and some of the older MTs can't seem to wrap their heads around that.  Have to go with the flow!    This is not a plot to make us poor and everything is not a secret plan.  You guys crack me up!