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Thanks for sharing...

Posted By: freebird on 2006-03-23
In Reply to: JLG questions please... - freebird

It helps to know you guys are happy there and why. It's just hard to know what to do these days, but I think I'll give it a go with applying and see what happens. Thanks again!

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Thanks for sharing.
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Ok, not for me thanks for sharing. I will run away from OSI! nm
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Thank you all for sharing
I appreciate all your feedback. I think I'm going to give it a try and do both for a while.

Wow, thanks for sharing that and sm
good luck to you! I hope you find some good companies to choose from. Post back if you find a good company, not even who, but that you found one! Do they still exist?

thanks for sharing that :-) sm
But you know, I bet some of the meanies here do have good lives. They just don't, can't, or won't understand what it's like to have bad things happen through no fault or even through fault of the individual (human comes to mind here).

When one lives in a protected, happy shell, perfect in their mind, it's hard to think outside that shell.

That's not to say that unhappy people don't post insensitive things either...

My life is not peaches and cream and by no means am I what I would call 'happy,' but I have not desire to spew hurtful, hateful words.

It makes me happy to help and make others feel better. My favorite of your mom's words is the one about keeping yer mouth shut if you can't say anything nice (or constructive so to speak).

But my all time favorite is do unto others. It really covers it all.

Good luck to you and I wish you the best. Your words touched me. :-)

Thanks for sharing this ... sm
It's encouraging to hear. I'd love to try ASR but can't take advantage of the opportunity because I haven't been able to get my lines up to minimum production level for reasons I've stated in another post.

I'm trying to hang in here because aside from the money I think this is a pretty good company. Just keeping my fingers crossed that it will get better for everybody financially across the board.

A lot of sharing
We even set line count goals with each other and don't talk about how to get out of work and stay on a board instead of working. We share pictures and recipes and helpful links etc. This board has been a godsend to me when I was struggling with my line count. TT should be glad that we have it instead of telling everybody it is phony just because they didn't send it. That kind of dampens my spirit about TT but I will try to get past that. I know that we have some management on board because they have posted and there is more than one. All the questions we can't answer on the board we send an email to TT. TT you have no idea how many emails we have saved you! We have nothing to be ashamed of on our board and welcome anybody at TT to read all the messages.

Thanks for sharing your
experience. Do you recall how QA staff was with either of these two companies? Was workflow steady? I just really don't have a good feeling about any of the 3 yet. Usually I have some feeling but I'm at a loss here.

TY so much for sharing this with us!! :-->
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What about MTs sharing one job?

Can that work? I guess it would be subcontracting in a way. Just wondering.

Thanks.

thanks for sharing
Well, now that I have cooled down a bit I wanted to thank you and the other poster for sharing your stories. Sorry to hear about you health troubles. I hope that some day you will overcome those blocks that you have been having. It is such a frustrating disability. My son has come home from school on more than one occasion in tears after a rough day of being made fun of by kids he thought were his friends. I have woken up at night from panic attacks thinking about my son giving oral reports in front of the class. The other poster says that I am too sensitive and I should calm down, but if you discriminate against one stutterer then it is a slap in the face to all stutterers, and I am more than happy give anyone a good tongue lashing for discriminating against anyone who stutters whether it be a neurosurgeon or a janitor. I will say a prayer for your rehabilitation

Thanks for sharing. NM
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wow thanks for sharing. Seems to be come up more and more.
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Thank you so much for sharing this
I think most of us at MDI-MD see right through this facade of 'one big happy family' and are clawing our way out as quickly as possible, and your post just reinforces WHY we need to.

I'm sorry you had to go through it, too.

We MTs, despite our differences, really are a sisterhood or family of sorts, and we really need to stick together and reach out to help one another right now, and I for one am delighted to see the unification of all on this board, especially compared to the usual catfighting and hostility.

Thanks for sharing this............ sm
I appreciate knowing what it's like from someone who is using it as opposed to what management wants us to believe it will be like.

To those who don't mind sharing....
Are there any companies that pay base 10 cpl with opportunity for production and/or QA incentives, employee status, good benefits, and great transcription platform. If so, would you mind sharing the name of your company. I am feeling very unappreciated where I am, and need a change.

I do not mind sharing. SM
However, this is not a large company. This is a local company, and I have just been asked if I knew of anyone who needs the work. If you would like to leave your e-mail, I will be more than happy to share more info.

Appreciate the info sharing
I finally found a job with a good company thanks to this board. I quit putting in applications for job posts until I came here and checked out their reputation.. (finally learned to do this after dealing with one not so good)

I really appreciate MTStars job seekers board and company board.

That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing! nm
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Recruiters: Thank you for sharing sm
I am really embarrassed for those people, but I am also having a good laugh. I bet you all really need to vent. Do you have a network of recruiters where you can go? I am glad to have a glimpse of your world. Now I know why some of those ads are in caps - YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO DO THIS OR DO NOT APPLY! Honestly, they sound hostile, and I skip by them, but at least now I know why.

Thanks for sharing, I'll sure know to
steer clear of this witch's brew!

LOL Thanks for sharing your pain.
I've had a day or two of those recently as well. ;-)

mind sharing?
you can e-mail me

Thanks for sharing but I applied with them, was
who was telling me I need a 3rd phone line and then finally said that they were intending on phasing out dialup within a year. Why apply for a job just to turn around and find another one when they completely phase out dialup?

Would you mind sharing sm
what the line rates are like and whether or not there are production bonuses?

Truth in Sharing
To: MTHeaded, Stick Figure and Gourd Painter, all of whom claim to make such good money (over $25 per hour for Stick Figure, being one of the highest paid MTs for Gourd Painter, or making $50 to $70 per hour for MTHeaded): Why don't you all share the names of the companies you work for??? Obviously if you're all that good you have nothing to fear as your places are secured in your company, and Gourd Painter is leaving anyway. If you care about your fellow MTs enough to write, why don't you share this information, since you all say it is true???

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm just so frustrated. I received more corrected reports. I still can't believe these are my errors. I'm not a newbie. This same particular person was the one who trained me on the platform. At that time I didn't even think she was an MT based on questions I asked (related to BOS). She just sort of glossed over the question and didn't commit to an answer so I figured maybe she's just not an MT person and only the trainer. This particular person has been there a long time from what I understand so I don't see her going anywhere anytime soon. Thanks for commisurating (?sp) with me though

I'll see what next week brings and then decide what to do. I just wish I hadn't spent the money on the word 2003 for this.

Thanks for sharing. You are my idol.
I'm everything you talked about not wanting to be. I'm stuck on this computer 15 hours a day 7 days a week just to keep our heads above water and it'd just not worth it. The stress is overwhelming. You eat, sleep, and live the debt. It never goes away and I just want that weight to be gone. I want one job and a life. I want to see my last child grow up, but I'm missing it all. I no longer have friends but they don't even bother asking me to do anything but I have to work. Let this be a lesson to everyone. Money truly is the root of all evil. As a society, we have lost the ability to know what is most important in life. Relationships make you happy not materialistic things and there truly are things that money can never buy and that is peace of mind. AMEN.

Would you mind sharing which job
you make better money at? I am looking into coding full time. I don't like the idea of the stress, but I need to make a living where the pay does not continue to go down or nowhere. Do you think there are coding jobs out there that are less stressful than where you are or do you think they are pretty much the same everywhere? Saying you have benefits and work from home, two wonderful things in a job, and you still would leave due to the stress is quite telling about the profession, I must say. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing, very important!!!
Though I did not apply at MDIT, I can relate. United Transcription out of North Carolina used ExpressScribe and MPWord (not MTWord) plus a FTP. The lady VP was not a transcriber so had not ideaaaaaa.

With this setup most of the demographics are entered by the MT (remember her/him making production, not paid unless something on the page).

There were plus 15 different popup screens to click, unclick, delete, type in name, plus flipping back and forth between window screens. Really ridiculous. These things should be put in the system by programmers not the MT EACH REPORT. Image with very small reports, making nothing and those Keystrokes are not paid.

There was no hard copy of doctor roster, so had to scroll through entire list trying to figure out the name referenced. Equally hard to even figure out first letter sometimes. I was told, why didn't you look it up I said I could not even figure out the first letter.

It was a ridiculous way to work. She was probably a good person but she just had not IDEA what MTs need, are about, about platforms. Just got the impression she had not idea how to process pertinence of something as she had bad-mouthed previous MT or MTs during the interview, has general bad thoughts, I told her she was wrong, MTs work their guts out, they are not lazy and on and on, I said they make nothing and go to great efforts to get the answer (I volunteer on 2 Word Help Boards.) Pissed me off her idea what an MT is about.Like sneering (sp?

thanks for sharing. Interesting and sm

sad to see the crumbling of the industry. They keep saying shortness of MLS - do they not see why, cannot make a living providing the same skills and company excpectation on such a wage cut 40-60%. One paragraph says to the effect, can make more or the same. Bull. I worked on Beyond TXT, terrible platform.

Interesting how everything is all boxed up, (shark-like) very little mentioned about the MT (MLS). They will continue to buy up the competition just like MQ did and thus become a monopoly. It is important to get out the calculator and figure out how much you are getting an hour when all is said and done and how many hours you put in for that 2.5 to 4 cents a line.

Just how many lines can listen through, edit during an 8 hour shift.

2500 lines/day at 3 cents is $83 day= $10.37 hr. for all this skill and must keep up with the constant changing medical community. Can you even listen to that much dictation (minutes) and correct.? See why shortage of MT MLS

Here's the facts that you're not sharing...sm

1. There were many MLS involved in the testing phase for productivity on the SR accounts, and each MLS demonstrated a significant improved productivity. I know because I was part of this testing group and on the conference calls with my coworkers who were also testing it. Sure we all initially doubted this could be done but when we started using the program we saw that we could do it.

2. The CEO admitted in a letter to everyone that he realizes that the high producers will more than likely not double their productivity and those people, as well as anyone who doesn't like editing, will not be forced to move to the editing format as there will always be some dictation that can't be edited, i.e. new accounts, new dictators, etc.

3. You're forgetting that when you're editing a report that you move faster through it because you're given a draft to edit. This means less wear and tear on the hands/arms and you actually have the program do a hunk of work for you. I've seen many drafts come through that needed very minimal editing - so basically I got paid to just read the report, make a few adjustments and send it on through. This is especially great for the bad dictators that the system does a great job interpretering their mess and not making me have to fight so much to get through their mumble jumble crud.

4. You may decide to leave and try to avoid this technology, but it's moving through the industry whether or not you like it and it'll find you eventually where-ever you go. I remember back when computers came out and everyone thought the sky was falling.... and we're all still working!

I encourage you to not fight it until you try it - you may find that you love this technology after all!

Would you mind sharing which company this is?
Thanks :-)

Well thank you for sharing your positive experience!
I, for one, am happy to hear that you liked that company. Kudos to you for posting! There's not enough happiness and positivity in the world these days.

Would you mind sharing where you work? nm
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Do you mind sharing where you work? TIA
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Would you mind sharing where it is you work now? NM
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what was the account if you don't mind sharing? nm
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good to know, thnx for sharing that :)
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I did for a long time, but job sharing
with another MT. Do you have a friend who is a transcriptionist? My friend and I worked our regular jobs and switched off every other day with the other one. We both made great extra money without feeling like we lived at the keyboard.

Thank you for sharing your story. They do sound

like they were rude and didn't appreciate their MTs. We really have no way of knowing if Missy's story is the same unless she gives us more specific details. Just because her boss takes vacations and wears diamonds doesn't mean she is greedy. For the most part, there is a lot more stress involved in dealing with doctors' offices day in and day out and keeping the clients happy than there is in sitting and transcribing. I'm sure she earns, needs, and deserves her vacations.

I work for a lady now part-time (I have worked for her on and off since 1991) and I am only making 6 cpl on clinic work. However, it is 6 per gross line which works out to be anywhere from 8.2 to 9.4 per 65 character line depending on the doc and his format, so 6 cpl isn't always terrible. If Missy was working for 6 cents per 65-character-line, perhaps she was trying to gain some experience. If that is the case, she should be thankful that somebody gave her a chance. So many are having trouble getting their foot in the door these days. If she agreed to the terms up-front, I just don't see any mistreatment there.

I don't know Missy, but if she is a newbie, she needs to realize that times are tough in transcription nowadays. Rather than bite the hand that feeds her, she should aspire to perhaps one day be as successful. She is free to move on if she needs to, but why trash the lady in the process?

Sharing a chuckle from my granddaughter
She's 7 years old, in Texas. I talked to her last night and told her that I was quitting working. She asked me if I got another job. I said no, that I was going to be retard unless I missed working too much after all these years and she said, Meme, which would you rather do, work or get free money like Pawpaw? Free money. LOL She was talking about Pawpaw when she went to the P. O. with him and picked up his retirement check. He took it to the bank and she asked him how come he got a check when he doesn't work. He told her he was retired and that was the money he got from his retirement. Free money!

Thanks for sharing your information LTMT!
Wow, you have been through a lot and I admire your ability to bounce back. I just know whatever company you choose to work with you will do well, and good luck on your move! Thanks too for the feedback on all the companies. I thought that E-Trans was very nice too, but decided in my heart I did not want shift work, and since it did not work out the first time (the ExText account), I would just pass. I am going to keep Encompass in mind for the future because they seem great like you said, and I have the quality but have been in this for so many years, don't want to be stressed out. Like you, I get insecure, and that is when I do worst. LOL.
I wish you all the best. For me, I am now going with MDI-MD and know that if I maintain my quality and my flexibility I can stay away from shift work. I think we all need to put priorities and what we need to do in life and then hang onto our decision. Rough seas, but if you hang on to the life boat the storm always passes and we always seem to make it.
Thanks for writing and all the best to you! :)

Thanks for sharing your story too. Maybe we can prevent someone else sm
from having a tough time with them as we did. Do you have anymore info than I have? I think we typed the same dictator and I find a location in South Dakota and a location in Iowa for that doc and clinics but nothing on the company.

Thank you for sharing your experience - and a question
Thanks so much for telling your story. It helps understand what the process is going to be like.

I have one question right now though (and maybe more tomorrow after I talk to a lawyer) - when you did this, did the company have to pay for the other employees it misclassified, or did the IRS only take you into consideration and look only at your situation?

Thanks!

DocQ very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Will the manipulation never end, I swear, people make me sick.

"thanks" for sharing this!! Interesting & sm

Just how many lines can listen through, edit during an 8 hour shift.

Yes, I have. You have prompted sharing the Strategy above. nm
nm = no message, silly one! you're the curious type, aren't you? it's okay! really! but there's nothing to be seen here. nothing. really.

;)

Newbie, mind sharing your name so I can verify this?

MT LITTLE is just sharing an experience, you better listen to your fellow US MTs.
I dont know why even other countries can view this site. MT LITTLE is just giving a general warning to everybody concerned with the MT industry. Kasmir pls go home.

Hmm..that doesn't sound good. Thx for sharing. NM
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