Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!!

• JOB OFFER - RYW
  • Did it ever occur to anyone that this gal is EXCITED about her - new job; thus the caps. LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE
  • That does not really sound so bad - mt
  • Apology - RYW
  • Please don't use - Anon
    • HOW many times must we say this hear; - We are not here as spelling police! Give it a rest
    • Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!! - anontoo
      • I agree - MT

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She didn't know what she wanted, would gripe about everything under the sun, and would send 20 emails a day asking the status of work that wasn't due until the next day.  They were usually in all caps in a screaming tone. 

Pay was .06 per actual line which was ok I guess, but definitely not worth the hassle of her constant emails and nitpicking.  Hope this helps you some.

I didn't think they tested, just on QA for 2 weeks.

I work from home for a hospital.  I have also worked for regionals/nationals, clinics, pathology, etc.  I work for a hospital that has the JCAHO accreditation which means that every department is compliant, not just clinical.  I'm proud of the work we do in my transcription department.  We have VR and it's rarely on because we have a top team of professional MTs.  We all make a minimum of $20 an hour and most of us make more because, yes, we get paid per line.  We are a 400-bed facility and only require a team of 16 transcriptions (about 50/50 FT and PT MTs).  I believe this is because we have standards that we know we can refer to if there is ever a question.  It also makes it so we don't have many questions.  We type it the AAMT way.  It creates a professional and consistent-looking document.  No room for anyone to question:  Doctor, MT, manager, or even the Q&A department. No one.  Period. 

 

AAMT integrates JCAHO standards, as well.  AAMT isn't some persnickety transcriptionist who wants to have a say in what we all type.  The effort is there in order to create a standardization in the work we do.  I still believe we do an important job, regardless of the jobs that are sent off-shore.  Until they're all gone, this is how I make my living and I want to try to be as professional as possible.  I'll bring AAMT guidelines to whatever job I hold and I doubt very much that my work will be called into question.  

 

JMHO

Please, do not let those untrue postings affect your decision to work for The MT Group.

This is Melanie (the one who posted the job for The MT Group).  The MT Group was started in 1996, and we have NEVER EVER EVER EVER bounced someone's check nor shorted the check.  We ask all of our ICs to turn in their line counts at the end of every pay period.  If they do not match what we have, I contact the IC so that we can compare.  Very rarely do I need to go that far.  When I put in our job post that we are honest and fair, I was being honest.  I was very discouraged to read that posting. 

As far as pickiness about spaces.  It is common knowledge that there should be two spaces after a period, and yes, we do expect that.  I can't help but think that the person who posted that reply just had a big problem with using two spaces.

And moodiness??  Who was moody?  The transcriptionist?

YOU STATE:  And, as far as I know, poster's here cannot request to have their thread closed.  Again, another ASSUMPTION on your part. 

I KNOW FOR A FACT THE GOURDPAINTER ASKED THE THREAD BE CLOSED BECAUSE THE MODERATOR E-MAILED ME ABOUT A POST I MADE IN THAT THREAD STATING THE OP REQUESTED THE THREAD BE CLOSED.

So, you don't know it all, now do you, miss copy and paste...  so next time state the facts!

SOME doctors really have come to realize what a valuable asset their medical transcriptionists really were.  A compliment, I feel, is always nice whether or not it does any good.  I, for one, generally appreciate someone saying something nice.

As for change, why my grandmother would be turning in her grave probably about now at the changes in the world.  She was born in 1880 and passed in 1961.  She moved from Tennessee to Arkansas in a covered wagon.  Can you imagine?  As for me, I've seen plenty of change.  I did my first MTing on a manual typewriter.  That is where you had to use a lever to return the carriage at the end of every sentence.  I have transitioned pretty well through the years but I will be da**ed if I will do this highly stressful job for $10 or less average per hour and that was where it had dropped with straight typing in the last few months I worked at it.  I have no doubt that in time MTs will be totally obsolete.  All the female members of my family worked or are still working in MT,  I trained them myself.  I advised all of them to start looking for a new occupation several years ago.  Did they listen?  No.  Two are single, of them one gave up completely and is checking in a grocery store and taking courses in photography; one is working part-time doing MT (when there is work, which she says is rare) and is working as a management trainee for a restaurant chain.  Two are still doing MT but both have husbands who earn a very good income and have benefits such as medical insurance.  I wouldn't recommend even to my worst enemy that they get into MT now. 

Maybe I got way off topic here but I still feel passionately for those of you still doing MT and suffering for lack of work, decreasing pay and no affordable medical insurance let alone a vacation or any time off.  So....if I strayed from the topic, please forgive me.

it most certainly can afford one a decent living. You just gotta know how to work it.

Not one day has gone by that I don't say ''I miss the old MQ''

I loved my old account, could do 2000 lines a day, made mega money, and that abruptly stopped in 2006. 

Now, (still at Q), I can barely get in 1200 lines and at the reduced ASR rate, all you long-timers know how much money I am out.

Boo-hoo.     Big hugs to all my fellow TL's!!!!!

they have a post on the job board.

Good luck !!