Thanks for the explanation! I guess my cat
Posted By: was getting a running commentary this morning! -Nm on 2009-06-02
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Explanation
Because their management doesn't know how to manage.
No explanation
Just an email that the feature was being disabled. Maybe because they didn't want anyone to know or inquire into line count comparisons between MS Word and Dictaphone (could it have to do with not being paid for headers?).
Ok, I get it now - thanks for the explanation, but (sm)
I have never noticed the lag as far as waiting for the words to appear. I have noticed, though, the wait sometimes for the next report to come up. Granted, slow means maybe 5-6 seconds, but between that and sometimes the cont-R and cont-S being slow, I guess that could slow you down if you add it all up. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
more explanation sm
I meant a general Word Book in above post. I also have specialized Word Books that I use but not so much any more due to only doing Radiology now.
Why run? More explanation please... sm
Why post something like that without something to back it up. An honest company will change from the standard 65 character line with spaces to a 54 or 55 character line if they don't pay for spaces. A lot has to do with what the client wants to see in writing - even though the same thing, for some reason it's more appealing to them to see the VBC than paying for spaces - weird I know.
Please fill me in on why you say run. I have been with them since August and pleasantly pleased over the large nationals I was with before.
further explanation
Sorry, that was a bit short and to the point on my last message. Just to explain further, this is not Vonage but it is VoIP. I didn't want to go into much detail because I didn't want to sound like I was trying to sell this to anyone. I already have my 3 referals so my service is free - that isn't it. I'm using it right now and it is working great. There is a little hesitation every once in a while but if I calculate the money I save by the tiny amount of less work I do because of the periodic hesitation, it is worth it - especially if someone is looking at a $600 phone bill like the person below - OMG! It won't work if the Internet is down but neither will my typing because that is all through the Internet, so no big deal for me. I would rather pay nothing than $24.95, $39.95, or $600. In the next couple of years none of us will have a choice anyway, it will all be digital, no more land lines as we know it today.
Thanks for the explanation.
:)
An explanation...
You must average a gross pay of $900 per pay period over three pay periods (they average your pay for three PP and you have to have grossed and average of $900 per PP). You are paid twice per month, so the pay period is a little longer than with bi-weekly pay.
You are paid a rate per line that is determined by your experience and other factors (not everyone makes the same line rate, but close). Their time-reporting site makes it easy to see if you are on track by showing you how much you have made so far that pay period, or even that day. It's not hard to meet the $900 average per pay period. Just divide $900 by your line rate, which will give you the number of lines needed for that PP. Hope this helps explain it a little better.
Did they give you an explanation?
nm
Shapin.....no need for explanation!!
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uh, seriously...it's not explanation point
you're the one screaming with it. Do you see the irony?
TT giving MT's no explanation on why all this
This is certainly a mystery to me. Announcement of Jesse being gone was heartbreaking. He was such a good tech guy, but these loss of working hours due to server problems we are having is not due to anything but Dictaphone, it appears. The **check back every 10 minutes** is getting old.
It seems that chunks of work disappear when these problems occur, so don't know where the work goes when server goes down. Hopefully, TT is not outsourcing to another service again, as we have been SO LOW on work for the past month or so.
I just wish the upper mgmt. would give us an explanation for all these server problems as of late so that we would not wonder about why this is happening. Maybe some of you can explain to us. Maybe I am just out of the loop.
No, not just that, but part of explanation --
Just like every other company, they don't want to have to pay penalties for out of TAT, so VERY TIGHT TAT -- causing MT's to be out of work part/most of the time.
at least this is a plausible explanation.
Personally I believe they'd sell before they'd offshore any work. But whatever the problem is, I too am being drawn into the worry bordering on hysteria. With the economy as it is, there is a lot of desperate behaviors and decisions going on. I used to have so much work I felt sometimes like I dared not take any time off. Now even on what were my heaviest workload days, a trickle.
CPL Explanation - Attempt at Least :)
The returning visits are not a lot of copy and pasting - it's one global time (and my folks love it because they get to work in Word and use their tools, they're not stuck typing into a system where their Expanders and dictionaries are useless) - you get paid for work previously done, which you do not have to change, edit, or even read, in addition to the portion you add. All in all the MT comes out ahead.
If anybody is seriously interested in how it works, I can put you in touch with MTs (some of whom have 20 plus years of experience) who can tell you MT to MT how they are most certainly not getting ripped off.
Just drop me a private note.
If you'd rather work for a company that promises work and doesn't have it, or has the work and doesn't pay, then don't bother sending me your resume.
Because we do have the work - and we do pay.
::grin::
Deborah
dlevinson@acesupms.com
I'm sure there's a logical explanation
Like it was all dictated overnight in the wee hours when none of us lazy Americans wanted to work, so, alas, the poor beset upon transcriptionists in India were forced to do it.
See the explanation on the main board.
If you read my post, the explanation is all there!
nm
There is no explanation for this "confidential" policy. nm
No, you wouldn't be able to explain it because there is no good explanation for this policy. I could tell people I don't know what the company pays everyone but I make $. Is that better? I am giving just MY infor, making no promises about what the company pays.
At Will Employment - No Explanation Needed
If you look at the paperwork you signed, you will probably see that it is At-Will Employment. That means they can fire you without giving you any reason and you can quit without giving any reason -- at any time. As long as they have not sent you equipment (which if they did, you will probably have to pay to have sent back), just tell them Thanks, but No Thanks!! 
better explanation than that. Makes no sense ....... nm
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I'll email you..but brief explanation below
When I say toggle over, I mean Alt-Tab like you use to toggle to a different program w/o the mouse. I have my Excel spreadsheet open while I transcribe in another program. So when I need to enter my job information, I Alt-Tab over to the worksheet and enter in the info, then Alt-Tab back to the word processor and keep going. Should work for any Windows-based program.
As far as the formula, let me see if I can dig up the tutorial link that I used to figure the formula...
Ok, here's the page:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP011277801033.aspx
I also used the Excel tutorials on About.com to get fiddly with Excel. I now know only enough to be dangerous.
Emailing you.
Amen explanation point
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Move on and do it rapidly. That explanation doesn't
even sound like it holds water.
A quick word of explanation about Wal-Mart
My friend worked in the division that made, organized jewelry, etc. She was not a clerk. She worked behind the scenes. I guess the suits thought that behind the scenes in Mexico was cheaper for them than to pay American workers. Anyway, my friend, a 21-years-old single mother, is now without work.
Guess you are not doing your job right then.....
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My guess...
I may be wrong but my guess is that this is CorT. I have been with them only 4 months but I have many MT sisters who have been with them longer and love it.
I guess Everyone Else....
Since no responses, I guess I am the only MT who works for a national that charges for templates but doesn't tell you upfront or put it in a contract....oh well....time for another company!!!
I guess when you look at it that way...
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I guess it was just me...
but it came off as sounding like the stereotype of slaves on the "plantation" - it just didn't sit right with me...
You are in the know, but guess what
SO AM I. Spaces my XXX. Maybe you but not all of us for sure. Pay on time. Come on, talk about not telling the truth. Last couple of times maybe, but until everyone started screaming on here came whenever. 
Guess what... sm
I am not management and they are a wonderful company. I have heard and read bad things yet I have worked there for quite some time and I have never seen any of what you say. They are nice people and they would not fire someone for being sick or family emergency. There has to be more to that story. TH rocks!
Of course I don't guess!!!!!!!!!!!
No, there's no guessing medical transcription. These dictators are clear as a bell!! A wonderful company to work for.
I guess everyone has a different
I'm with DK and have never been happier. I have no trouble doing over 1800 lines in an 8 hour shift on the CTS platform. I will say though that I work on mainly one account (that helps some).
Did they just guess?
nm
I guess both.
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guess that's right
I went back to the policies at the top of the page and didn't see anything about naming names, but I'm pretty sure the moderator has asked us not to do this and yes, I was referring to her name, not yours. I guess we're certainly free to use our own, but am pretty sure that at one time we were told not to mention names. Guess I was wrong or it was changed. Thanks.
my guess is because not enough MTs take this job serious enough.
Let's put it this way, every time I turn around I hear MTs saying they want to be there for their kids (nothing wrong with that) but when I was raising my kids, I worked outside the home and if they had a play at school I could not get off to go. The MTs of today want to do it all with their kids and think they can work but the fact is in the real world they would not be able to do that and that is not the real way to treat this job SO COMPANIES HAVE TO COVER THEIR TUSH. There are always going to be those who treat this like a real job but from what I am seeing the majority of the MTs nowadays who are younger just want to work the job in around their life and that just cannot be done and have a company be successful SO companies have to overhire to cover themselves. If they had people who treated this more like a real job, all that overhiring would not be necessary. All of us MTs who take our job seriously have suffered because of this new attitude.
You guess right..(nm)
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I guess they are still around, but they were the
absolute worst company to work for. Be wary with them is all I will say.
Thanks all..... I guess it is
 better to know the devil than to get surprised again. I sure do appreciate this input. I will simply put on the person who is talking with me. She is supposed to call today to set me up. It seemed awful pushy and fast to me. You are, indeed, jewels!!!
Thanks. I guess I am one. lol
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I guess it's
anybody's guess!
I guess I have to try this again.......nm
First of all .I have to correct this misconception that Medware is OUTSOURCING MORE now than before.. as far as I know Merit always did a considerable amount of reviewing which wsa typed by India..on the Dictaphone side there were maybe 100 to 300 files edited from India MTs..each day up until about 1-2 monhts ago when they stopped sending them to India altogehter for some reason.... and several editors got moved around in their jobs... by all means I am not defending Medware..whatever their motive i doubt it is a positive one for anyone but themselves.. their high management is acting out of greed, and their actions through all of this were of an incredible lack of any regard for their employees.. and an even greater measure of ignorance for what was being accmoplished in these positions they eliminated. I felt that my job was, or at least my goal.was to help the MTs any way I could to do an amount of work every day that many times seemed out of reach to me, on a system that continually fails them... AT A higher than standard level of quality.... so much of the work they do is not even considered time worked which is one more act of greed I am baffled at how Medware has gotten away with...the leads did a lot to support the MTs..helping them to more readily pump out the work expected of them..in several ways..which made things better for so many people.. and that is precisely why our jobs were not considered important enough to keep...
The point is.. they are NOT outsourcing more at this point.. but less.. what their plans are is another story... but I think in this time especially when people like this are hiding behind lies to their employees.... it is important for those of us with higher standards to keep what is truth in perspective. As far as the email sent out to all the employees by an AAMT person...that was a report that she was required to prepare and hand in .. and I would bet my life . her sending that to everyone was a TOTAL mistake and one she regrets and will for much time to come.. but I have no reason to think..(and I do not know her) personally...that she is being malicious or working toward the demise of all American MTs.. Outsourcing to India is extremely widespread and not just in our field... and it has been common knowdlege that Medware outsources as far as I know... just like half the other national companies are known to be doing... I certainly don't think at this point we can say that everyone who works for a cmopany who outsources ...is supporting that.. nor accommodating it..It is an unfortuante part of this industry whether we want it or not..put there by greedy companies wanting to get more for much much less..I certainly do not support that.. but to say that we are losing our jobs because of INDIA... or that anyone who works for companies who hire them are supporting misplacing our own people... is not true... this is happening through those who are greedy and want to pay less and willingly sacrifice quality...the high management of these companies.. who most times know very very little about medical transcription.. and are focused on what will bring them an extra buck.... focus your resentment on them.. write to them.. but the rest of us need to stick together and can only become like them when we turn on each other...
I get so frustrated editing their work.. when I realize that what they type in one report would be enough to have me fired.. yet I must continually correct their same mistakes.. and the ridiculous things they make up when they have no clue.. You are right.. they are not qualified nor anywhere near proficient.. but they obviously have enough skills for the low life pepole at the top of half these companies to hire them anyway... and get rid of credible jobs like Medware did... These India people are hungry .. and I would do the same to feed my family.. so I cannot blame them... but I despise those who are willing to use the level of desperation and unfortunate lifestyle of these people for their own personal gain...which is just what these companies did and do .. which started all of this and remains responsible for it.. no on else.....
I guess she is still looking
I actually enjoyed that one, it certainly was different than the mundane typical resume I get. I thought it showed individuality and at least some creativity. I didn't hire her because she didn't have the required equipment/program, but the resume I really liked.
guess i don't know....
I can guess who
Do you live in Florida?
Let me guess!!!!
I'm in QA and it would be my guess
that if people are without work it's because they were making too many errors for QA to keep up with. None of the companies I've worked for like outsourcing - it's a PITA - but if it's gotta have full audio QA, you really can't afford to do much else.
bet I can guess who it is
don't give them another second of your time. It will only get worse and you will feel like a fool in the end for having stayed so long.
I would guess
the poster is asking you obliquely to speak with respect and not demand an answer. JMO.
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