Thank you -- that is a nice thing to say. I realize my experience will not always sm
Posted By: LTMT on 2009-06-01
In Reply to: It is interesting that some of us here are actually in touch - even though we are anon.
be the same as someone else's, but I try to share what I know and help if I can. This board has been tremendously helpful sometimes. I once was considering taking a job with a company, and I did some research here and lo and behold, they apparently had a reputation for not paying their MTs! Even on those days that I truly love my job, I don't love it enough to do it for free. The idea of me living in a refrigerator box (with a microwave box for the doggie, of course) is NOT appealing!
Thanks again.
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that was nice of you, I did not realize
you would do that.
Didn't realize it was catty to realize that from 1/18 to 1/25 is a week and nothing happened. sm
Thanks for being supportive and kind.
I talked to the insurance lady too (she is very nice) and was told the same thing. sm
I called the office and talked to a high-up manager who said that they haven't said anything because they do not have anything in writing and do not want to give information and have it be wrong.
The premium for employee only is $404 per month and KS is paying $202. This is much better than I had at another company that I do not want bash as this was the only issue I had.
I love it at KS because I have plenty of work and everyone in the office is so nice. My lead changed positions in the company a few months ago and my new lead is very nice and more organized. I have been there 11 months (this time) and was there a year before that in 2005-6. I made the mistake of thinking that the grass was greener but it wasn't!
Now, now. Glad you're having a nice experience but no need to
By the way, I worked at Precyse a year ago and had a terrible time getting specific questions answered. Maybe it's a problem with individual supervisors. It's unfair to discount others' experiences.
I still think the company has good potential.
Nice Try Flo, 10 years experience doing what, raising kids?
hmmmmm??
Very nice people, but only 7.5 cpl for experience. They use MPWord. It's kind of clunky & not aut
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I experience the same thing in Meditech.
that, in both the line count situation and the drag situation, your brain steers that ship? The correlation between what you're hearing (brain function), what you're seeing on the screen (also brain function), and what you fingers are typing (brain function) all depend on...guess what? Your brain. We all have a certain speed (given varying conditions of how clear the doctors are, how well you understand the dictation) that we see/hear/type and, if what we see on the screen has lag, then our fingers will automatically pound on the keyboard, thinking it's going to give a faster result. (All that will do is make your fingers tired.) I've found that deliberately relaxing my fingers and typing extremely lightly (like a butterfly landing on the keys) will alleviate a lot of frustration when there is lag.
My second point is that whole old-as-the-hills, keep-beating-that-dead-horse-and-hope-it-gets-up-and-runs issue of line count - has ANYONE else considered that if you do not have a visual aid showing how well/poorly you're doing, you'll tend to type more slowly? Consider the example of someone running the 100-yard dash by themselves, flying along, feeling that wind rush through their hair and thinking they broke the world record, only to find out the guy from the Special Olympics in the wheelchair beat them. Our brains are funny that way. We rely on outside validation (in this case in the form of a visible real-time line count) to tell us how long that report REALLY was or give us that OMG, did I really only type 150 lines this last hour?? I better buckle down feeling.
From the NUMEROUS posts about line count, it sounds like enough people have verified and found that TT doesn't really cheat anyone. I do think that TT seriously needs to consider giving the employees that visual aid, though, so they (the employee) can self-monitor. Just a thought...
I echo your experience! Said the very same thing to me, but I quit them first.
Good riddance! On to better things! :-)
I have 19 years experience and was told the same thing. I think their test is incorrect.
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Very nice owner, nice work, nice place - sm
the leave you alone. I left because they do not budge from their pay which was kind of mediocre. I would go back if I had to because they were extremely nice.
Very nice people, nice place to work. nm
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Yes, nice QA (and nice people in general), but very little work right now. nm
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Yes! Nice lady, nice company. nm
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I second that. Amphion is nice, nice, nice
I think you all need to realize
That MDI would not have never been created if not for Liz and Sue McGrogan....remember this is a company that they built from scratch. So without Sue's input MDI would not be what it is today. Kudos for her and the $$$ her business has made over the years. I don't care where you work you are not going to be able to please EVERYONE all of the time. It just doesn't work that way...Oh and by the way...I am not management and I don't even work for MDI...I work for hospital in Florida.
Maybe you need to realize that they
most likely had to sell out because of their poor management abilities! Management is where all the troubles lie!
I'm sure you realize...
...that much of what I said was tongue in cheek, as there really AREN'T questions that will identify someone who has a personality problem. Unless, or course, the person is severely troubled and is speaking tangentially, or is using word salad, or has flight of ideation. I've come to realize that grandiosity is an uncommon, but workable trait in some MTs. Lol....
I appreciate your thoughts and wisdom on the topic. Hopefully others will begin to recognize that, short of tests that are designed to help identify problems, there isn't anything a recruiter can do to weed out the problem folks. To infer that there is someone bigger and better than a recruiter ("the MTSO")to accomplish this isn't going to be easy, or cost-effective.
Don't you realize..........sm
that many of these posts are from MTs who have experienced your hiring process nightmares first hand? You only make it worse for your company by coming on this board and calling us liars.
Don't you realize..........sm
that many of these posts are from MTs who have experienced your hiring process nightmares first hand? You only make it worse for your company by coming on this board and calling us liars.
I don't think most realize that you don't have
to be consistent. I stick with it consistently.
It's not that hard to make this money. You're right - don't work for peanuts. Find the line rate you need.
It can still pay well if you're good at this work. Some people just aren't as good as others.
Thank you. I now realize that I am being
paid for links. Just did not know what they were exactly. I have been counting them as separate reports so I guess the end result regarding pay is the same.
I realize that, I was just saying...sm
There were companies I worked for that didn't require me to send invoices because I know that if the IRS were to question them, all they have to do is show them the contract that I signed as an IC and it saves their butts. I wasn't disputing.
Not sure if you realize...
but the 7th was a Sunday. Of course you were paid on the 8th.
I don't work for Cardioscribes, so it's really none of my business, but you're making yourself look pretty bad here. Banks aren't open on Sunday for DD, and mail doesn't run on Sunday...so you do the math there.
You might not appreciate it, but do you realize that
every day there are people wondering how they are going to feed their kids, that people are losing their houses, and $100 would be a major blessing to them.
You have to realize there is more than 1
Medscribe, none related.
I think once you get into it you'll realize just
how little med-speak you know. I have always soaked up anything medical, starting in junior high and terminology came very easy to me, but I have been in this business 20 years and I still learn new info all the time. I may learn a new piece of equipment or new drug, or have a doctor from a different part of the country and he may use different terminology, not necessarily new, but new to me. I may have a day go by where I don't have to look up anything, but I rarely have 2 days that I don't.
The speed will come with practice. I barely passed typing in junior high and never really typed aftewards until I started in this profession. If I had to take a typing test where I had to type from a book I'd fail, but I can fly when typing dictation.
I didn't realize there was such a
company where everyone is happy and no negative comments. Point me in the right direction - I certainly would appreciate it.
You need to realize that about 80 pc of the docs sm
practicing acute care in this country are ESL. It is what it is.
I like them a lot better than the native English speakers, who slur words, like to play with the language. ESLs learn one way to say it, and they say it that way every time. You just have to get used to it.
You have to realize that there are some people that you cannot sm
make happy no matter what you do and that those same people take their negative selves to the boards and attack their latest company. It IS two-sided. MTSOs have as many problems with MTs as MTs do with MTSOs, but we are supposed to just sit back and be attacked without voice.
There are some people who have miserable lives and like to spread their poison everywhere they go. The problem is that they seem nice and normal when being hired and then their true self shines through within days or weeks.
glad you realize
what I am talking about. I worked on it for 2 weeks. I gave it my best shot. My Expander was loaded. The account was super-easy, but Meditech ran so slow I was typing faster than it could run and I was typing a word, pausing, typing a word, pausing. I have worked on more than 50 accounts in my career and 10 or so different software systems. I can say, without exaggeration, I would not work on that particular account if they offered me $25/hr salary. I was so stiff with tension at the end of the day I walked like Frankenstein.
Thanks, I didn't realize there were so many. nm
Bet I realize who this company is - sm
Someone on here did that to me too, was back and forth, back and forth, had a confusing pay scale, just had another ad on the boards this past week. Don't want to say too much here because I KNOW they come here although it is not a well known place.
If it is the same place, I'd say run because I think the problem is just total chaos and disorganization - nothing to be a part of.
While I realize we all need a Plan B, I mean...
the same thing? Maybe we should broaden our horizons elsewhere? Anyone else thinking this way? Break out of the mold...you know??
Oh they realize, and they were the first ones I contacted
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I realize...I just want a job that has a ton of work that
I can do as I please. There is one company I've been hearing about that has a ton of work and will let me go part-time, which helps (since I have a current job as well). I have little kids, it's just so hard...not what it used to be.
MODERATOR.......I realize all sm
opinions should be welcome here, but LMAO is just cruel beyond words. Are these the kind of posts that mtstars really want on here? Just cruelty to people who are down and out?
LMAO poster is a very cruel and scary poster. If you have any sympathy at all, could you please stop her?
Now I truly realize with that statement
Brillant, hehe. Associating with the group that is having those infamous tea parties- now the postings make sense taking up for her. I get it. What kind of nuts do you like?
Thank you. You're very savvy to realize
that if you are new you need support before venturing out on your own.
This thread has certainly made me realize how fortunate I am. I was pleasantly surprised today to inquire as to why I am getting per-paycheck incentive and not quarterly SE bonuses. They told me I get both. The incentives on production (up to 2 cpl) are on my checks and that I will get a quarterly bonus as well. Kinda of shocked me. I feel really lucky and I think that will help me stay motivated and keep at it.
I appreciate your positive note. Sounds like you'll be right up there with the best before too long. Then I can say, "I knew her when..."! LOL
I didn't realize it was the "law" to
board. And besides, Jayne may not even be your name.
The law suit is going just fine by the way, and we will get our pay owed to us, it is not just me in on this.
You do realize what MQ is doing right now is exactly what Spheris does. I still think they may drop
SE but hope not but Spheris does not have IC or SE so if there is a plan in the works MQ may just have employees.
I think people don't realize those records are THEIRS
They are YOUR medical records. My sister is a nurse, and I used to work for a medical malpractice attorney, and I was amazed at the errors I would see in the MR. Plus, my sister says - those records are yours. You are entitled to view your medical records any time you want. You can't view someone else's, but you surely can view yours, and NEED to view them for accuracy every once in awhile. When we moved recently, and my husband was given his records to take with us to a new doctor, I was amazed at the sloppiness of the records. I loved our doctor, but considering the fact that her staff took my husband's history, and listed he was allergic to Doxacillin (he is actually allergic to doxycycline) - made me think twice about whether or not I would ever return to that office. Pitiful.
I didn't realize that was a problem
Let me see if I can edit it. Thanks for the tip-off.
I realize this also, but MOST newer computers..sm
do not even have the 15 pin serial ports (game ports) any longer. I had purchased a 15 pin game port pedal and used it less than 6 months because my sound card went out and I had to get a new one. I could not find ANY that had a 15 pin game port any longer and ended up having to buy a whole new pedal (usb) in order to work. USB is what is mostly used these days. If she needs a 15 pin footpedal I will gladly sell her mine... been there and did that.
Well that is great! I did not realize some companies
actually pay well for this expertise! Good to know. Just wish I knew which companies... :(
Sorry. Didn't realize would be intrepreted like that but you are right.
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u do realize there are more than 2 platforms they work off of
I am a newbie there. Clarity runs out of work but the 3.8 and something else doesnt. They wont train me on the 3.8 because it is more easy to make money. I think they are transitioning all to Clarity. If they do they are screwed unless they get the exterminator in, there are more bugs in this system then I have ever seen
Yes, I realize that, but until the termination letter comes, I don't really
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I realize this, just hoped to hear from other MTs
and check out the companies they are happy with and make my own consensus!
Do you think OP would not realize count difference
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Ugh. I was leaning towards TT but didn't realize
they were pushing VR so heavily. I can't afford the pay cut of VR. Guess I'll look elsewhere - thanks for the warning!
didn't realize, guess I don't then...NM
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