Sorry, late here, outsourcing instead of offshore, same thing though. NM

• US-based MT companies - AnnieMouse
  • Interesting - gourdpainter
  • There's a big ole fat difference - What?
  • Be careful with this list - Most of these are Indian - companies.
    • Yep that's what I noticed... - Most of these are Indian companies
  • They might be US based only but offshore like everything - Well......
    • Sorry, late here, outsourcing instead of offshore, same thing though. NM - Well........

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some work some time ago to another MTSO.  There has ALWAYS been work during the evening hours and early, early a.m. hours, but NONE to be found anymore.  Good time for the foreigners to be working

I hope and pray that TT has not started offshoring our work.  The work has definitelyl disappeared somewhere.  I don't believe that even with VR our work would disappear so FAST and STAY GONE SO LONG.  This LOW and NO WORK has been going on for the past year and more -- before TT began VR.  It has been a struggle to get lines/hours in for a LONG TIME at TT. 

Or maybe Dictaphone took away some of the work on the Dictaphone accounts and shared it with another MTSO.  

first-hand knowledge about Proveros paying late, just posts I read here.  I know nothing about TTS other than awhile back I applied and with over 30 years of experience, they sent me an email saying their pay scale was 6-something cpl, which is totally unacceptable to me.  However, it sounds like you and the other poster are quite happy there, and in the end, that's all that really matters.  I am happy for you.  :-)

Hope you and everyone else has a very happy holiday.  

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. 

so much work.   I don't know 100% that they aren't but am 99.9% sure they aren't.   Money $$ don't make sense either.   Most MTs are IC, so no benefits, tons of work and if they are outsourcing money should be more. 

Please see Medquist board.  If you are tired of having work outsourced, follow the lead - Contact Lou Dobbs at CNN.  Send an Email to them to investigate how our profession is dwindling.  They say they can't get enough US MTs, but we all know that is bunk.  It is all about the bottom line.  If enough people let the public know what is going on with their medical records being sent to foreign countries, just maybe we can save our profession.  PLEASE KEEP IT GOING.  Write your senator, congressman, and LOU DOBBS to get an investigation going if you want to keep our jobs in this country. 

I have the posts about late pay from TTS (not TransTech).  Could someone currently working for them tell me how many times in the past 2 to 3 months the pay has been late.  Me personally, if I am to get paid on Friday and it does not show up until Monday that 2 to 3 days is not horrible, not great, but not horrible considering some companies I have worked for have been late by weeks and not a few days.  Am not trying to stir anyone up just trying to get a fair time span to go by.  Thanks.

I am new to MDI-MD, but have been wondering if people are cherrypicking or not. Sometimes I get a bit frustrated, but I can't prove it. How the heck do they do that on a Lanier system?? Would QA or liason do anything about it if I complained?

No timesheet, no pay.