That's a great suggestion, and I agree.

• With all of the mass hysteria can we please - come up with viable solutions instead of panic?
  • I don't work for TT, but I'm going to SR soon and SM - Dolly Parking
  • I agree with you but - unsure
    • No, I am not sitting around. I am working all night - and all weekend while
      • Well, goody for you !!! If I - unsure
        • let me rephrase...... sorry if I sounded rude - unsure
  • I don't work for TT but do VR and I - sm
  • This was my thought also sm - Another TTer
  • Great post - TT MT
  • I think others can jump to another company - Rosa
    • Like your post too... - TT MT
    • Which is why I already got out of MT after 11 years - sm - kim
    • That's a great suggestion, and I agree. - OP
      • career change - woutwork
      • Career decisions - Judy
      • Jumping ship - CP
        • I just looked at the salary for ultrasound tech and - The OP
          • You WILL make it! - MT2
            • Thanks for your kind words, it helps a lot. - The OP
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we can only lead a horse to water, we cannot make them drink it....if they choose to be intolerant, it's their choice as sick as it seems.  I choose to go through the life as a loving, compassionate person.  Others choose not to go this route.

Yes, racism and neonazism is, unfortunately, alive and well, in the USA and all over the world.  So, if we raise our children with our awareness and our love and compassion, hopefully the future generation (our kids) will Do The Right Thing!! 

I started in a clinic but quickly moved to a large teaching hospital, and the mentorship and listening parties was very valuable.  Another thing that works that I particularly like is to walk away, go have a cookie, then come back.  Sometimes then you can hear what the doc is saying!  At least as bad as ESL are the docs who have a 15-minute report but by the time they're done uhh-ing and ahh-ing and emm-ing through the report you have about 40 lines. 

companies find you from your resume.  I recently had an offer and accepted a postion with a very small MTSO who saw my resume.  If she posted an ad, she'd probably be inundated with tons of resumes, if you can believe what everyone says here on the boards about the amount of responses.  Instead, she looks at the qualifications and contacts those who meet her requirements.   I suppose if you are currently in a position and afraid to have your employer know you are looking, it could be a sticky situation, but ...... use a different email addy and/or a different ID of some type until you find out.  

Bottom line ..... I never say never :-)   I feel very fortunate to have fallen into the situation I am in -- a great small MTSO with great accounts,  who cares about helping you achieve whatever you want to achieve. 

you are told upfront what the benefits are and what the requirements are, so if they are not to your liking, why take the position?   I am quite happy here at TT, and am thrilled at the news about the 401k.  Of course, I've been doing transcription for over 30 years now, so I guess that puts me in the age bracket where thinking about retirement is a little bit higher on my list than maybe someone 20-something, although I wish I had been smart when I was 20 and started putting away.  Oh well .......

Again, great post ... thanks for sharing. 

It is great for the company and the doctor.  Generally the doctors are not expected to supply the information or even use their designated recorder which causes the Transcriptionist to change and fix the demographics.  The spell checker is the worst and I ALWAYS copied my finished document into MS Word to check for errors.  You CANNOT copy back into Emdat from Word. 

It is slow and boggy.  The F1 function is way over rated.  There are good points if the doctor actually does his part at his end.  Just my opinion.......

There is always a learning curve anywhere, of course, but wiithin just a short time, my production was the same with TT as anywhere else.  The benefits are pretty good, insurance affordable, and as an added bonus, the people there truly care about their employees.   After 30+ years of transcribing, I feel like I finally found my home.

Since you are not having any problems expressing yourself with management and don't feel it is an issue, discuss it with management.  Ask them if it is appropriate for you to work your schedule around your lifestyle if it differs from the one you have already committed to.  Ask them if it will cause a problem for production or account management if you don't show up to work when they expected you to, even if the volume is high, because then some of the work you say came in the morning and didn't get done until the afternoon might possibly have gone out of TAT.  That is exactly what management is trying to avoid and that is exactly what management was talking about when they sent out the company-wide email discussing this very issue you say that you can get away with.  Why is it that you can get away with it, but others are sent emails specifically instructed not to do this if it isn't a problem?

I didn't post to cause an argument. I just posted to begin with because there is obviously a discrepancy with what some can do and what others can't, and what may be a wonderful experience for others within the company doesn't always ring true with everyone and should not be dismissed or eluded to as simply not true.  If the sun is shining outside your front window, it doesn't mean it's shining outside mine.  But just because it's raining, it doesn't mean I'm going to pack up and move either.  I'm going to wait for the rain to stop and in the meantime hopefully be allowed to speak about it raining without others saying it's not true.

I was feeling the same way...so, I did what I felt I needed to do.  I talked to someone in the management position about all the things I have read on here.  I WA sick of all endless chatter about how awful OSi is.  I feel that I did the right thing, as I no longer have that "sick" feeling.  I have been reassured and I know that my job will be here for as long as I wish to work at OSi.  Another suggestion I can give is to stay away from MTStars.  It is nothing but a bunch of lies and gossip.  These people thrive on making others miserable and lying about other companies just to make them look bad.  More than likely, the ones downing OSi have had past employment and were unable to make it and now are holding a grudge.  You know who I mean, the petty ones...and you all know who you are.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I passed third grade a long time ago, why do I feel like I am right back there when I read this board? 

So, if I haven't quieted your fears, talk to someone in authority at OSi.  If you don't like what you hear, then you can move on to wherever you feel you need to go.  Hopefully it won't be MTStars.

Instead of bellyaching on a public anonymous board about all your company complaints why not address them to the people who pay you to work, then you might get some action for your gripes. 

And... if you are bellyaching on company time when you should be doing your job, shame on you.

I'm not here to bash or flame, but hope these suggestions will be helpful to you. 

For future reference, it might help a lot to just change your resume to state whether your acute care experience was at a facility or for an online MTSO.  Then state what worktypes and specialties that you did the most often.  It is helpful to be as specific as possible.  It also helps to list your favorite and no so favorite specialties.  For instance, you might have worked all specialties, but don't exactly care for cardiology, while you just LOVE orthopedics and EKG reports.  Then, if the recruiter still asks, I would be concerned that he/she did not understand your resume.

I made these changes to my resume and found it very helpful.  I do still get questions and I go ahead and answer them.  I have to admit, though, that since I have my state of residence clearly written at the top of my resume alongside my name, when one recruiter claimed that I had not provided my state of residence, stating in a rather unfriendly manner that she needed this information before she could do business with me, I ceased all communication with her.

My suggestion would be to apply to companies that don't regularly advertise for MT's.  Try local MTSOs.  They seem to pay better and treat their MT's better.  Or, contact hospitals in your area.  Sometimes they have MT's who are homebased.  

My experience has been that national MTSO's promise a lot of things that they can't deliver, like having plenty of work, etc.  They all seem pretty much the same, in my opinion.

Good luck to you!

would someone please apply and then post here what they REALLY meant.  For 16 or 18 cpl, I could QUICKLY become a RAD MT with or without experience (everything is relative, you know).  And if they upped it to 20 cpl, i would even take my C-phone and internet connection to Yorba Linda and work there!

So, I will be sitting by my IE just waiting to click on my MTStars link, click on Company Board, and find out that I can soon be making THE BIG BUCKS doing radiology transcription. 

But let's just keep this between us, just IN CASE they only have 3 or 4 positions open, ok?  Deal or No Deal?????

OSI never has listened to what MT's said and won't start now.  They are old school their way or no way with awfully unqualified people who make all their crazy rules.  I have no faith in OSI at all and am so happy to have 4 different job offers that I will make a decision on this week.