So you are embarrassed. You are also extremely naive.
Posted By: ok on 2006-10-04
In Reply to: People like the first poster just make me - MT of many years
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I'm embarrassed to say...
Actually its what MQ is paying at high end per report, so I kinda thot MQ was the norm. That does sound odd now, sorry LOL...
Thanks! I did that! I am so embarrassed.
thats why i should never come on these things! i cant win for losing this week!
I agree. I'd have been so embarrassed.
about it. I would be looking at myself and wondering if I really should be an MT, if I just made careless errors that I could pay more attention to and fix, or if I needed to find another line of work. That MT even said after 12 years, she doesn't need references. WHAT?! I've been an MT for 25 years and I use references every day. I know a LOT, don't get me wrong. I can pass any transcription test. But there are new medications, new equipment, new procedures all the time.
I'VE been there - do not be embarrassed
It's our society that should be embarrassed that people are suffering like this in the U.S. - and that they are even made out to be the villain.
Are things better for you now?
Just maybe it is how a lot of us are feeling, embarrassed and like a joke! sm
To have to explain to our family and friends how we cannot participate in shopping or get togethers or holidays because we have to work more to make up for the 50% cut in pay due to VR, and then I hear something about they will cut out paying for spaces at another 30% cut, leaving me feeling like what in the world do I do with this career choice. I am like others that in no way could recomend this profession to anyone. I am now left with wondering what kind of other career I could muster up where there may be raises instead of paycuts. People used to be interested in what I did, but not anymore!
You're shocked and embarrassed that your employees
do a million lines per month? Why, is that bad? Should they be doing more lines, or should you be paying them more per line? Wouldn't using Dragon Naturally Speaking get rid of a few of your employees? It doesn't take nearly as long to edit as it does to type and proof. Do your employees use text expanders? What are you really asking here? The gist of what I'm getting is that you want to make more money.
They pay 0.015 cpl for QA work! Extremely, extremely low, low, low. nm
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How naive you are
Unethical practices effect all of us MTs!!! The higher management wages for not a decent days work, the lower wages for us lowly MTs. Anyone who does not work on production can get away with anything working remotely. Does that not make sense to you??? Companies do not care? Oh I think they very much do care. You are obviously defending your own poor work ethic.
You are very naive.
nm
Don't be so naive...
at least look around for another job in case what people think is going to happen happens.
How naive.
Ask the people living in Gaza if they would agree with you. As the 4 million Iraqis in exile. Ask some Holocaust survivors.
You've got an awful lot of growing up to do.
Wow. Naive. nm
Please don't call me naive...you don't know me
I was just making an addition to what I've been reading. That's why I put I just read... jeesh
you are very naive (but in a nice way)
The Indians who are poor WILL REMAIN SO and will not get a job as an MT. There is no concept of Welfare in India either. They will starve on the side of the road while the Indians with offshored jobs buy more clothes, cellphones, cars, etc.
The reason is that it is very difficult to get a PRIMARY EDUCATION in India. Most Indians are TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY ILLITERATE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, LET ALONE ENGLISH. To send your kid to primary schools that will actually teach them something, costs money and the poor in India don't have it. It is the opposite of our country, which has a free education up to high school for all. Then we have to pay for college ourselves. In India, the colleges are free or very cheap, but the primary education is hard to get.
The person who is taking a job as an MT in India is NOT a poor soul crying thanks to the heavens that s/he can now feed their children. Much to the contrary. The people getting the MT jobs over there are of the upper middle class. They are overeducated and underemployed and end up doing MT because they can't live off their parents forever OR they are older and want to slow down. In India, MTs get paid either 1/2 or 1/3 of what call center workers get. It is considered lowly to be an MT (strictly a typist one step above the office peon and yes there is a job category in India called a peon) and the call center workers are called executives. MTs in India are failures in their chosen fields and/or could not hack it at a call center.
How do I know all this? EASY. I have family in INDIA. I have seen the classified ads for jobs there. They are so desperate for MTs that they will train anyone for free. Notice in the USA they only want EXPERIENCED MTs and then the companies cry about how THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MTs. Crying with a loaf under each arm.
In short, sending MT jobs in India does nothing for the poor except possibly make a household servant job (pay is usually equivalent to $US 25 a MONTH) available.
Please: you're either very new or very naive
nm
OK say she was naive like her team
Please tell us exactly what emails you are referring to that TOLD us our jobs are GONE!?! I've been RIGHT HERE trying to get work and answers - you must have been part of the golden inner circle that GOT answers - not me!
with all due respect, your response is somewhat naive..sm
how easy do you think it is for a company to say our MTs are all U.S. based? Sweetness, it's called the internet. I can't believe some buy into this. If I were a doctor and assured that my dictation was being typed by all U.S. MT's, do you think I would buy that - no. Especially when they can hire overseas MTs and pay them half the wages. Pleae get with reality here. Have a great evening! Also, DRC has no say so now; remember, they were bought out.
No, Amphion takes what they can get, the naive MTs.
nm
Wow, you are a naive little thing, aren't you?
Yes, I am sure TT will get it all straightened out. It has all been just a bad dream. We will all wake up and this silly VR CRAP will have been just a nightmare. They won't be trying to RIP US OFF while trying to sweet talk us at the same time (sounds like some guys I've dated!).
About that gift... Not to sound 2 years old but, really, what else do we get in this biz? MT Week is about the only thing left and TT just ignored it. Nice. Very nice... TT Management, you can take that sweetie crap and... well, you get the picture.
Now, you go back to watching the Disney network. They have nice stories too that always have happy endings. Seems like something you can handle.
a little naive to think the 'suits' don't come here wouldn't you say? nm
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"NN" means 'NOT NAIVE'
NM
Can you spell naive? See if you can answer this question..
What do you suppose happens once these people are trained to do YOUR job at less than HALF of what YOU ARE making?
get it yet?
and no, most of the time there are not plenty of jobs to go around.
I cannot believe anyone is this naive - you have an agenda perhaps?
In the dark, naive, have blinders on. ER is going down fast. nm
no msg.
You are correct: A naive person. Better jobs out there.
nm
If you think I'M a bully you're incredibly naive
There's nothing remotely bullying about my post. I stated my opinion. You post on here asking for opinions and I gave you one. It just wasn't the self-serving opinion you were seeking assuring you that you did the right thing.
Yes, perhaps you did the right thing for you by turning that job down; but if you're so happy where you're at, why are you wasting the time of MTSOs and perhaps pushing other MTs out of the running so they can spin their wheels with you? Also, about 98% of these posts on the job seekers board indicate when a weekend day will be required; you should have known going in when you applied apparently just out of curiosity that a weekend day would be required.
Sorry, but I'll leave you to your God and your family and your ability to pick and choose 'wonderful' job offers.
I'm just glad another MT will get a shot at this job who realizes people do indeed need reports transcribed on the weekend, and I certainly hope your God is on standby if a loved one ever needs a critical care transport and all reports transcribed and ready to go, because if the staff is a bunch of MTs refusing to work weekends, it could be a real inconvenience to have to wait until Monday for the official transcribed documents to be completed and faxed.
I'm done here...
Save a penny post is not slanderous. Not only are you naive,
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New, naive, desperate, carpal tunnel, slow transcriptionists... I don't know.
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YES, extremely sad. Especially,
When you search and search and try to find a great company and you find one like DRC. Gone now. Who next? Very depressing. Time to get out.
What do you consider extremely
I work for a company and I average $20+ an hour. For my city I'm at about twice the hourly pay for someone without a 4-year degree and about twice the hourly rate for an in-house MT. I don't feel like I'm underpaid.
If you are talking about companies that pay 6 cpl or something... well, that's a different matter.
Extremely low
I agree that the people at Proscript are great (wonderful in fact), but nice doesn't pay the bills.
My work load there has been very low (to sometimes nonexistent). I have sometimes had to just sit at my computer for up to an hour or more just waiting for a job to finally come in.
Pay was okay, staff was extremely
rude, they will fire you for anything and you cannot trust them at all!! Worst company out there IMO
He was extremely rude to me when he was at JLG. nm
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Extremely unprofessional nm
Are you a member of management?
That's extremely hard to believe
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As of a few months ago, the pay was extremely low.
nm
I would be extremely leery
of starting up with a company if there was a lot of negative comments here. Granted, we have all had bad experienes with different companies and there are sour grapes out there but if there are a number of negative comments and the comments seem reasonable and not real 'anger-based' - just mostly frustrated - then I would make note of them. We are only going to grow and stay united if we give appropriate feedback from our experiences. If you do start with this company, just be cautious and don't quit the one you are with now unless you have a really good feeling about them. IMHO only.
I took what I felt to be an extremely
long and involved test to be an Editor for SmartMed. Got hired but still did not understand why it was necessary to test that extensively.
extremely unorganized and this
is after being offered a position three times by this company over the past few years and each time I have been turned off by how unorganized they are over there. I had the same experience this past week with them not getting back to me. Then they did and told me about two positions. I told her the one I was interested in but needed an answer about the ins. Then they called me back the next day but she forgot why I was even waiting for the call and then to top it off was told the position that I was interested was no longer available. This is the third experience with them. I don't have time to tell you about the first two. Incredible. I have a better job offer from TT (actually to return back to them on a better account) and Axolotl which I will decide on by tomorrow, and another from Transcend which I am turning down but Transcend is right on, very organized, answered all my questions, and told me what all she had available and I picked the one I wanted, no surprises and no being left hanging, immediately sent me the ins info by email before we even got off the phone! That is the way a company should be run as far as HR is concerned. The two that I am deciding on also are very efficient in answering ALL questions in a TIMELY MANNER and are organized. Debbie is great and Axolotl is very very nice and polite and immediately sent me the information I needed such as INSURANCE. I need to have questions answered before accepting a position. I will not go in blindly. I have a chronically sick daughter for crying out loud and some companies did not even have the decency to respond to me on ins. so they got nothing back from me. Oh and get this when I finally did get the ins. information from KS it was this!! http://www.geoaccess.com/phcs/po/ No information on nothing, just a provider look up and when you click on the home icon and travel your way through the website trying to find info there is nothing that states anything about what the coverage is!!
I will never apply for KS again. Three strikes and your'e out!!
I'm extremely happy.
Have never had a late paycheck. They just rolled out a new incentive plan that looks like it'll boost my pay. I like my supervisor. No major complaints.
And YOU must enjoy being extremely
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That is extremely unprofessional...sm
It's also very direspectful to one of us. We are all a family of MTs here, so I take this personally!! I think you should post this up top as a separate post so everybody can see it better. They need to know about this company's baby fits if they don't get their way. They wouldn't be making any money if it wasn't for us!!!
Extremely busy... sm
It might be because they have been extremely busy with transitioning a new account.
Extremely frustrated
After three years with FN, to be treated this way is just uncalled for and very unprofessional. Every account they put me on only lasted a few months and then they lost it, then another and they lost it, five times so far, and now told about the new account with a billion lines, ya right. Where is it? I have not see it yet! Bunch of lies, all lies.
extremely frustrated indeed
Hi Paul,
When did you start with FN, as I started in 2/2005 and what you are saying is exactly what I have been told also. This new account was supposed to keep us all overwhelmed with work and I am lucky to get 1 or 2 charts PER DAY. I'm practically begging for work and I'm just lucky if they decide to answer my emails or phone calls. Ready to pull my hair out...
Wow, that is extremely impressive!
That is good customer service. We are all customers to each other, I was taught one time in a class at a hospital where I worked. That is really nice to hear.
Extremely low for VA work
Worked in VA a long time and it tends to be very challenging and very ESL. For VBC, this is a really low rate.
8 cpl without spaces is extremely low for anyone
except maybe a newbie!
There software is extremely slow. Very
long wait for report to send before you can start another, and I have cable. Not productive. Could never make 1200 lines per day required and that is usually not a problem for me. Pay is on time and for the most part accurate. People are okay to work with, except for one manager who is a "my way or the highway" type.
I am sure they work extremely hard, lol.
They are used to that from setting up their dirt houses and what not. They are used to working hard trying to fight for food scraps.
Are they extremely strict with schedules? nm
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Newbies who accept that extremely
LOW amount of pay are the reason companies offshore!! I refuse to baby them.
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