Sounds like you're gettin' ripped BIG TIME!
Posted By: nm on 2005-12-01
In Reply to: Line Counts and EXText - ColoradoMT
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We're all getting ripped off.
Please, the standard used to be around 7 cents per gross line ten years ago, which would equal about 11 cents 65 character! Back then I made almost double what I'm making today as an MT and that is why I have one foot out the door. This profession has hit rock bottom.
lol; this is gettin' good :)
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Ur gettin' on my nerves, old lady!
Hmmmm.... Sounds like you're better off without them anyway!
nm
Sounds like you're talking about
TranScam. That's not their real name, just their earned nickname.
It used to be hospitals would train people, but it's very expensive and time-consuming. I think your friend could find that only if she lived in India.
It sounds like they're eliminating the 12 hour window
I received an email a little while ago stating they're going to keep track of who's tardy, not working, etc.
Took what I thought was an easy test but no response. Sounds like we're not missing much though.
I agree with the other poster. Where are all the decent companies at?
Yes - sounds like you are the one having the difficult time -......
must be you who got the axe! Maybe you should spend your time looking for another job and praying you get one.
Sounds like the one I work for that just can't seem to get it in there on time for DD. sm
Always an excuse.
That sounds very time consuming. nm
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Thanks..That is about the time I quit so sounds like they got that together.
That's a good sign. I believe companies can change bad habits and I think people need to give them a chance.
Hurray! Sounds like first in, first out, about time.
nm
Sounds like being self-employed, no time to die.
Time off for the self-employed is the same except they'll find another service and replace you if you miss one day. No hearts.
It sounds like you and I left right around the same time!
I left back in February 2007...just as things were starting to get really bad. I know that they were in danger of losing my primary account. I also heard that they had a massive layoff of US MTs that following summer. I'm so glad I left when I did! I remember feeling like a 10-ton brick had been lifted from my shoulders when I left SPi and started with my new company!
it sounds as if this may have been going on for a long time ...
and the manager feels herself to be/is helpless in the situation.
If you have not already, you might offer your future support if she (ever) decides to deal with this situation. (She has your mutual file, but she might appreciate some moral support).
When I was a hospital employee/supervisor, I once feared having to fire one of my favorite workers for conspiring with a doctor's office employee to conceal an error they had made (wrong patient information attached to a laboratory specimen). My kind hearted worker wanted to help this other person not get fired -- apparently the office worker had made this mistake before, doncha know. When I contacted the office manager about the error (an embarrassing several weeks later - the report had remained in limbo because my worker did not have the editing function to complete the correction), it turned out that the employee in question was habitually sloppy and careless. That office manager was almost happy to finally be able to fire her -- not so much for the error as the conspiracy and deceit to conceal the error. That's how it should be handled.
Since you don't know why the office manager feels so helpless, unless you want to take her to lunch and become her BFF, I think you have to walk away and count your blessings to be able to do so -- and give the office manager the responsibility for doing nothing, regardless of the unfairness of it all (she gets to keep working in that environment, lucky her.).
Sounds like the part-time is an afterthought
I do have the small children at home, why won't someone fit their schedule to meet mine? What would you do if you had to, oh my goodness, get a job outside the house?
ripped off
I agree with the above poster that it seems you are being ripped off! I think you are perfectly within your rights to request some sort of documentation that the headers and footers are indeed 30%. AND the fact that you are having to fill in demographic pages on the platform, then you essentially ARE typing the headers and footers, as you say, so you should definitely bring this to their attention.
whatever. I know we got ripped
I added what we were making - just from the people that i know that worked for Decatur TSI. For this particular company it IS pretty accurate and we never received our pay. Though I'm sure Jayne, Howard, and even Doug are paying their bills just fine. Merry flipping xmas losers at TSI
I already know how to be ripped off!
Hey, tax day was just last week!
If you need a manual to learn how to be ripped off and cheated, well, perhaps VR IS for you. You are welcome to it!
Saved me from being ripped off!!
http://www.theabacus.biz
Me too, sick of getting ripped off by SS
on a daily basis. My lines at Softscript for the last 3 weeks since the server issue have dropped drastically. I guess they think we cannot do math and only type.
About 2 years ago, I got ripped
Hope you win the case. She needs to be history. So sweet and I gotta have you working for me, babe and honey in the mouth. I never got paid either. I just fear some new transcriptionists will be caught up by her and they will lose hope about anyone being honest in this profession. Please, stay away from E-Tranz. RUN!
WOW - So I've been getting ripped off
my whole career. Unbelievable.
Snuffed out? More like had mask ripped off
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you're not alone - been doing this a long time
but every slow down, expected or not, causes anxiety - I think we all feel more anxious now than we used to because we know the work is being done electronically and offshore. I got a second job just to try to save money for the lean times and emergencies. Only one provider in this household - nervewracking! I think you hear a little anxiety in the other posters' replies too - they are trying to reassure themselves in the process. This holiday seems to be worse than I remember it, this is more like Christmas and Thanksgiving! People must be really taking off! Imagine that.
Long-Time MT, you're so very right ...
I'm one of the MT's still on straight transcribing and after having my primary transferred to PI and having the majority of decent work either going to ASR or being outshored I'm struggling every day just to try to make a below minimum line count. My paychecks have been nothing short of pitiful. It's so frustrating.
If she had ripped folks off back then, why no posts before now?
Not take sides, but if what what you claim were true, think about it -- Don't you think there would have been posts about it by someone out there back then?? I searched the archives on this Allstate company and there have been lots of positives posted on here about them and the owner, Deb. Just remember, there are always at least two sides to every story, and it just seems to me if if Allstate or Deb had ripped off a bunch of people a few years back like you claim, surely someone would have come forward before now. Not taking sides, but it almost appears as if some disgruntled ex-employee has made it her mission to recruit as many of her friends as she can to post anything and everything they can think of to make this company (and it's owner) look bad. As with any posts/comments, I'd take these with a grain of salt....
Don't waste your time - they're a mess
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3rd time's a charm or 3 strikes you're out
Another childish travel tale, thanks for telling about it! LOL
Sorry, you're weakening your argument big-time. nm
for your lack of discipline in saving. But for legal purposes, they should be taking the taxes out.
Don't bother - they're not worth the time
You're not. VR = same amount of time for less money.
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RIPPED OFF AGAIN: line count per dictated minute
Was hired at 16 cpl per 65 character line for a rad acct in Cali. My check were meniscule and so I bought her line counting software and called her on my pay. She said she was paying me 16 cents per minute of dictation which was a complete switchover. You see these were reports with a lot of pasting and then adding different values. The only dictated minutes were the clinical history, pre and postop diagnosis and some values in the pasted normals.
She says the average dictated minute is transcribed in 1.5-2 minutes, HUH, where does she come from, it is more like 1 min of dictation is transcribed in 3-6 minutes, right???
If you call being ripped off for more than 5 grand harsh & scary?
grow some guts. Unfortunately, this is profession has become a cut throat business, and if harshness is what it takes to get paid, then so be it. We are all just trying to survive here on the piddling pennies with which we are compensated. This MT is an extremely dedicated, hard-working MT whose business has been destroyed by ***********not paying for services rendered. It's unconscionable. It is not meant to be a threat, but rather a forewarning of what it yet to come.
It is the only place I have been for 5 years that I feel I am not being ripped off and making money
I work hard but I did for the other companies too and bit by bit more things were stripped away and I would end up making half again. Keystrokes has given me confidence again, and I am making money. That is the name of the game, that is me though. I love it here.
Comment from December says they're understaffed and overwhelmed, no time for their MTs.nm
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Seems you're spending more UNPAID time/work e-mailing..sm
and xeroxing as if you were sitting there with no work. 
You wont make any money with them. Expect to get ripped out. The hospital they do work for should...
be ashamed to sent their work to Indian companies like treat their employees like crap. You can bet the hospital pays full price, but once the MTs get their part, it is minimal. Dont go there!!
You aren't wasting your time, you're investing in a potential "yes!"
As to why you don't get a response, it might be for one or some of the reasons below, or none of them:
a. You don't meet clearly-stated qualifications. I delete every resume or application that doesn't meet standards required. If you can't follow instructions, don't expect me to take time out of my busy day to spend time on explaining this to you.
b. You're an Indian pretending to be an American. Again, I'm not wasting Keystrokes on you.
c. Your application is filled with errors. Maybe the dead silence from recruiters is a message to go back and review what you've put out there.
d. Maybe your application got overlooked. It has happened. Email the recruiter. If you don't get a response, review a, b, and c above and e below.
e. Maybe the recruiter is swamped. There are days when 10 hours will fly by and I've hardly had time to breath. There are applications to look at, resumes to review, tests to score, interviews to schedule, paperwork to complete, interviews to do, reports to file, fires to put out, and someone has to beat the tech people/MT supe upside the head to get them to call an irate MT, who feels that YOU are responsible for her every woe and calls 6 times a day to tell you about it.
From a recruiter POV, don't put your experience on page 4 under everything else you've done. I don't care that you work in the church nursery, or that you drive bus, or that you swept floors at Mitzi's Kut n Kurl. Don't make me wade through all that to find out if you can do the job I'm trying to hire for. I suspect I've tossed good resumes because I don't have time to read someone's life story before getting to the information I need. I also don't want to know your parent's names and professions (why do Indians do this?).
So, if you don't get a response you can either call or email, or just move on. It's not necessarily a rejection of you, but rather the reality of a busy society.
Nope, more like a matter of time before we're all working for chump change.
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Charts in Time, Florida, us ExText and dialup. Said they're going to the net in the fall. Had 1 o
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Better be glad you got the easier dictators soon, because you're time is coming for the ^^^REAL^^
dictators! Be glad you got off now. I wondered where my better dictators went the last week or so !!!!! Lucky you !!!!!
I can always tell when the TT favorite MT's are off, because I get their dictators -- making it easier for me to get my line count. Yea !
TT is constantly hiring, so the above scenario is a norm.
"Taking up valuable time of MTSO." You're digging deep now!
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Amphion hires part-time - they're very strict schedule-wise though
Since part time is so hard to find these days your options are limited, so if you don't mind working for a company that is a stickler for strict schedule adherence, I say try Amphion.
sure sounds swell. Sounds like 2350 ln/day @ 4 cents/ln=$90./day
in order to figure how many line needs to be produced to make $500 per pay period. ie, how many lines an hour needed per 8 hour day --at your rate.
So say $450 a week would be $90 a day.
For example, if making 4 cents a line,need 2,250 lines a day, 281 an HOUR (to listen through and edit) to make this great wage of $90. a day FOR ALL THIS SAME SKILL, TO KEEP UPDATED WITH CHANGING MEDICAL COMMUNITY. nope Better at Jack-in-Box Pass it up.
Hope you're enjoying those slave wages you're earning.
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So you guys feel you're getting paid what you're worth with VR?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've never done VR, so I'm trying to understand.
You're happy with your paycheck with VR? Do you find the files to be as bad as the original post implied?
Sounds like it and it sounds like you must tell them when they will be and no change them. Wonder
what you do when there is no work. Well, there will be a lot of problems with this whole plan if they dont get things straightened out with this no work situation.
So you're telling me, basically, they're bad news?
They offered me 0.095/line and you know - it sounded too good to be true, but I SWEAR the recruiter told me they do not outsource. Oh brother... I just wish they'd be honest. I really don't know what to do.
Not the OP, but they're supposed to take out all the other taxes as you're an employee with th
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No, they're not losing money....they're gaining!
If a company charges their clients by the line, I'm sure that line rate does not go down even though the MTs pay does.
ASR pays about 2/3 normal line rate to its MTs. Their ultimate goal is to have the MTs do twice as much work. Therefore, the client is getting their work faster, but paying their normal rate, while corporate gets that money and the MTs get the lower line rate.
Whether the newbies want to realize it or not, MTSOs have not increased MTs' salaries in the past 10 years. They still start out at the same pay as the last century!
This used to be a very lucrative profession. Nowadays, most MTs are considered to be paid at the poverty level. You don't believe me, look it up!
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