Solution: Shut down hospitals on weekends.
Posted By: Solved! on 2005-12-09
In Reply to: If they didn't want weekend work, - Metrochick
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Me too - the hospitals haven't shut down
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No solution is Precyse Solution
So sorry about what you had to go through. I truly feel for you. As good as we are, no one should stand for their crap. I certainly didn't. I could not get rid of their equipment fast enough. The day I quit is the day I boxed up their computer, called Fed-Ex and had it sent back, and then I got a new job the next day!
I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm)
so no more big bucks, at least from them...looking for second job to make ends meet, don't have husband to help...this sucks.
It is not the hospitals on a short TAT it is what MQ wants to make the hospitals very happy with
them. I would assume the accounts are on 12, 24 or 48 TAT but wouldnt they love having their work back no sooner than it is dictated.
Shut up?????
You must work for KS. All that emotional turmoil that is so obvious there and that anyone who does stay long enough will see for themselves. I have found it best to stay away from MTSO's where the drama comes from the top.
I really wish they'd shut D&L down
It's one thing if an MTSO has a rare problem with cash flow - and is up front and works to correct it.
It's another if their MODUS OPERANDI is to take the MTs hard work and then stall on the payment FOR MANY YEARS RUNNING. That's fraud, and they ought to be drummed out of business.
Shut them UP, and shut them DOWN!
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Why don't you all SHUT UP.
People are loosing their TRANSCRIPTION jobs to INDIA and all you can worry about is who gets a better report?
LET IT GO!
To shut her/us up
Just to keep us quiet and entertained for awhile, IMO. I too went through the same exact circumstance when I ran out of work and asked to crosstrain. I patiently waited for the alloted time to arrive, then my liaison informed me that she had forgotten to save 5 jobs for me to train with and the account was EMPTY. I went through this 2-3 times during the training process.
I was so relieved to be getting a backup account that the OBVIOUS problem of there being no work on the backup account never occurred to me.
I think it's like putting Band-Aid on a gaping bullet hole. In other words, going through the motions of repair but much pointless.
Shut up and move on.
Geez.
WHEN will victims of D&L shut them down?
All of you should band together and let THEIR clients know they are cheating you out of your fees, and tell then you will be taking D&L to Court so they can prepared to be subpoena'd. I DOUBT DL client's will tolerate this, and may force DL to clean up their act.
I have compassion for smaller companies for short-term problems, but they did this to me, too, and that was in 2002 (or 2003)!!
Thanks. Maybe better keep my mouth shut. (sm)
My main account is one of those with boldings on and off all over the place. Really a pain on ASR work.
Unless this gets to be more than a couple of minutes at a time I will just sit back and consider myself lucky.
Thanks for your help.
I'm with quit and shut up
If TT is someone's only source of income and TT has no work, why, why, why would someone just sit back and wait for the work to come to them. You do what you need to do if it takes 2, 3 or more jobs. Family responsibilities, health, and especially sole earner, just completely idiotic to sit back and wait. No get up and go for these people. Oh, I forgot, they have a child at home so they cannot work anywhere but home.
If we shut up as you suggest....
Duh!
You won't see your money. Come together and get her shut down for good.
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I have never been one to keep my mouth shut -this happened to me,and
I told the supervisor, who did put a stop to it. Turns out this girl was assigning herself the good work and the supe didn't watch it. However, I have also heard of other supes who just let it go, and if they did that after you mentioning it, I'd be on my way out the door, for sure.
Lordy be ssmnger you just don't when to shut up do you? sm
You are doing nothing but shooting yourself in the foot and reinforcing Former SS Employee's point!!
I thought this was mgmt also but kept my mouth shut...nm
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Did Ochsner Clinic in Louisiana get shut down due to
If the hospital employees know, then the company knows. Keep your mouth shut and get out.
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possibly -- it seems to have finally shut down the endless TT threads ...
I was beginning to think they needed their own board ...
I wasn't following them, but my impression is that they had been going on -- in some incarnation or another -- for several week ...
who would want to work for a company with so many so unhappy employees (even if the internet notoriously distorts just how many people are represented -- since the same people -- particularly the most incensed -- post over and over and over again -- creating the impression of great throngs of angry people)
I have no idea if TT's suit has merit ... just that such suits are not unprecedented and -- aside from unlikely-to-make-much-difference memos to their employees or public notices on boards like these -- represent the only way I'm aware of to defend one's good name.
If this served to educate the many folks here who thought that the first ammendment automatically protected them on line -- then good has already come from this.
I feel your pain! I decided to shut up rather than put up and quit my company. Better places out t
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There is a solution to the what you think is
It is very simple. DON'T READ THE POST if it will upset you that much. If you already knew it would happen, don't pour oil on fire by telling people not to talk about it. This isn't the Transcend forum where people aren't allowed to talk about what bothers them. If you feel uncomfortable with the posts here, stick with the company forum and maybe you won't be in so much pain.
I think that was the solution they came up
with for keeping up with TAT. For years, I never had any problems - then new management steps in with new ideas such as overstaff every account so they not only keep all accounts current, they also don't have to pay bonuses or overtime.
MQ MANAGEMENT HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THIS JOYRIDE WILL LAST FOR YOU?
SIGNED,
FRUSTRATED CHICAGO FULL-TIME MT
P.S. COMPLAINING ONLY GETS YOU MORE BACK-UP ACCOUNTS. I MADE MY LINE COUNT WITH NO PROBLEMS WITH ONE ACCOUNT FOR A LONG TIME AND NOW I HAVE 3 ACCTS ON 3 DIFFERENT PLATFORMS!! AND HAVE TO WORK 12 HOURS TO GET IN 8 HOURS OF WORK. I ACTUALLY HAVE 5 ACCTS BUT I REFUSE TO WORK ON MORE THAN 3. IT'S NOT WORTH IT...
WHAT'S A GAL GOT TO DO TO GET A STABLE ACCOUNT AGAIN?
THANKS FOR LETTING ME VENT NOW OFF TO SCROUNGE AROUND FOR MORE LINES.
My solution........sm
I had almost 100 dictators who used normals. As you know, it could drive you crazy not to mention put you in the poor house. I finally decided to make separate folders for each doc and used MS Word to make a separate document for every normal exam. It took me over a week of my own time, but well worth it in the long run.
And here's another solution
I work for a hospital who pays up to double the lines for the difficult docs. People seem to like to get those docs (I sure do), especially when they've invested the time to get good at doing them.
If you never learn them, and never get proficient enough to do them independently, you don't get the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
It's a win-win situation, I think.
no - and the solution to this
is in the voting booth not the company board.
SOLUTION
Keep the computer and/or other equipment until they call you for it. Then, explain kindly how you kept it back because you heard that there was a problem with the company reimbursement and wanted to avoid that problem for yourself. Then let them know that you will return it in PERSON if at all possible and expect a check that same day. You could write any trip expenses off on your taxes and be sure you are reimbursed at the same time. Once I did this a few years ago for the same reasons, different company. I did receive my equipment deposit back on the spot.
I may have a solution for you ...
Please EM me.
So, the solution is... SM
Just don't answer our phones???
First I was paranoid about getting a pay cut. Now I'm paranoid about NOT receiving a phone call from The Power that Be. Maybe some of us fell through a crack... or maybe the fierce anti-Acusis posting of the last couple of days changed someone's mind about delivering bad news to all MTs at the same time. After all, if we all quit at the same time, who'll be around to learn the CDFIZ or whatever the heck the new program is.
so your solution would be?
If you're an IC *YOU* should be calling the shots, not someone you work for.
Everybody here has options.
The MT can acquiesce and work the hours her EMPLOYER is requiring her to.
The EMPLOYER could be human and work with the MT or NOT.
The MT COULD take action against the EMPLOYER for a) offering medical advice, b) treating an employer situation as a contractor situation and not paying taxes.
So it's not a matter of being in this MT's shoes. It's a matter of being a savvy MT and knowing how to run your CONTRACTING BUSINESS or sucking up being paid like an IC and treated like an employee.
There is an AAMT solution.
you could report this to AAMT, but it would take weeks to process the complaint. Also report the website to them. But its a great thing that you have posted the red flags. great work.
Simple solution
As long as Cymed can continue to find MTs who will put up with this crap and accept their positions that don't pay for spaces, they will continue to do what they're doing.
Why would a quality MT accept a job that doesn't pay for spaces. Why would a quality MT stay there?
Low to no MT work is all over.... Here is my solution!
I have been working as an employee with a company and for the past 4 months the work has been low, with the last 1-2 months ridiculously low to no work at all. There is a 1000 line requirement for benefits.... and I need benefits. I work a part-time IC position, and guess what, it's low to virtually nothing also. So this week, I took on a 3rd IC job, so where I normally would transcribe 1600 lines with the employee position, I only give them 1000 lines, just to keep the bennies. I will do 1000 with the third IC position, and continue to do the 600 lines with the 2nd IC position. Thank goodness, there is no hourly requirement with any of these positions. It takes me 3-1/2 to 4 to get 1000 lines on employee position, 2 hours to get 600 lines on 2nd IC position, and about 4 hours to get 1000 lines on 3rd IC position. I have purposed this year to not work over 10 hours in a given day, give or take an hour or two. So far, the past 2 days it has worked.
Offshore solution sm
Why can't a company give the client a chose. Excellent client ready work at a higher price, and I realize this would exclude many US MTs, or work that has been offshored at bargain rates. This way everything is on the client. Either they are going to say no way do they want their records going off shore and pay the higher rate, or they agree to offshore. The good thing about this is the doctor cannot deny he did not know the work was being offshored if he agrees to that to get rock-bottom prices. If the client wants work done in US, he can have that but at a somewhat higher price. US MTs will be able to make a living wage at their profession. I think this idea needs some tweeking but I think it might be something to think about.
Simple solution -
email me.
The Best Solution to the 30 days
TYVM for such great input. I believe here is the problem. Any MTSO has the obligation to (if they have one sub or 3 dozen) to negotiate a contract the right way with their account to be able to offer their subs a decent arrangement. There isn't one business (hospital, doc, etc.,) on earth that can't cut checks to a vendor at will, or at least set up a unique situation if they really want the vendor to work for their company (vendor being the MTSO). As it turns out, this company I considered is a subcontracted company to an MTSO who actually has the hospital account. This subcontracted vendor has virtually no negotiating position with the account. They are at the mercy of the MTSO. I believe there's a time that a big or small service has the obligation to the MT team to not take on a crummy contract unless they get a pre-signing commitment from their MT subs that they can live with long-term payments. I don't think it should be done the other way around. Though at this time I was just looking for some part-time filler work, I too have hired subs for overflow work in the past. I made sure whatever the account was that was paying me did so within a time frame in which people could work and survive with money--including myself. I don't have a husband or other type of income. That's neither here nor there. It's in the contract negotiations, and having enough courage to sometimes say No to an account, to pass on the deal for the sake of what's right and not roll over all the time. That puts it in a true underdog position from the onset of the contract. Needless to say, I'm not going to take them up on their offer. But very interesting what's going on, what everyone thinks, and how it's still kind of the short end of the stick on the real production end -- the MTs that do all the work. Thanks to all who replied.
A simple solution...
get a fake email address. go to hotmail or yahoo and just make something up. i will never know who you are. :) I do understand your hesitation. I wouldn't email me either. LOL I'm safe, I don't work there anymore.
Line counts?! Um, yeah. Encouraged to be dishonest to the MTs regarding that also went against my grain.
My solution to low work
I (thankfully) left MQ and found I had low work at the company I picked, which I liked otherwise. So I took on a second job. When there is no work at company one I just switch to company two and back and forth and I am never out of work. In talking to several of my long-time MQ friends, they ALL do this. Sure, it's sad to have to do it (and it ticks me off royally) but I have a family to feed and this is how I am doing it.
Simple solution:
Don't work for them.
Simple solution:
Don't work for them. I don't.
a simple solution
Next time it happens ... just invite the person over to your home and give them a shot at actual transcription. Try to give them a dictator who is midway between fantastic and a nightmare. Don't leave any medical books around for reference. Tell them they have 15 minutes to do as much as they can.
And then post the results here. Should be good for a laugh.
well please let me know if you find a solution since i haven't. sm
have spent 2 days with tech support with dictaphone and still not fixed. i don't have the time to spend now cuz i gotta bring in some money, LOL.
Solution for their ILLEGAL activities
The next time they call me to work on my day off I will do so and I will record my hours knowing it will put me in OT. When they yell about it and say OT was not approved in advance I will document by email or phone call that I was asked to work and if they refuse to pay me OT I will definitely report them. They have already been reported by at least 2 other people with documentation. They will either cut the BS about not paying OT or they will see the feds.
I'd still contact the solution center
I got the email from my STM this week as well (bet we have the same one!), but I have not been experiencing any problems. It is still very possible that the reason you are having so many difficulties is something to do with your router (if you have one) or ISP. I know how frustrating it is when the platform keeps freezing up on you. I was having so much trouble until I changed the settings on my router and now it is smooth sailing. Definitely contact the Solution Center and see what they can do to help you. There's no reason to suffer through it if there is a fix out there.
information on Transcription solution of SC.
any information on Transcription Solution out of South Carolina? TIA
SOLUTION TO OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING
Since offshore outsourcing couldn't be stop why don't we just outsource the dictations coming from these freaking speaking doctors. We need to screen the accounts and all those accounts with difficult doctors to understand, we outsource them. I think we will be more productive, the only problem I can see is that most of the doctors here in America freaking dictators.
It isn't a solution after you've already returned
the computer. I was glad to get rid of it, but I want my money.
Simple solution: Notify the IRS.
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Time to find, my solution
will be to have two companies on board. My current work (a small mom and pop that has managed not to be eaten by a big company) frequently runs out of work, so I decided that since I am the breadwinner in my family, I will take on another job as well. Of course, my original company won't like this because I will not be available for extra when it is needed but I will do what my contract says I am to do and no more. I am tired of sitting here looking at a blank screen.
There's a very simple solution to MTs that don't improve
You put them on warning after so many same mistakes and then if they continue to make the same mistakes, you follow through and LET THEM GO. End of sob story. As QA, part of the job is weeding out the inept. Why any MTSO would keep an MT that continually made the same mistakes and compromised quality to that degree is beyond me. Highly nonproductive and bad business practices, IMO.
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