The industry HASN'T advanced. sm

That's what the 'gripes' and 'complaints' are about.  Technology in this field has advanced, but normally with advancement of technology comes advancement with compensation for continuing education.  That's not happening in this field.  THAT's what the complaints are about.  I, for one, welcome advancement in technology.  I'd still be working on a Selectric typewriter with carbon paper if I didn't.  What I don't welcome is the fact that while technology is advancing, the working conditions are declining.  While we are continually learning and sharpening our skills, researching new terms, equipment, drugs, procedures we are LOSING pay.  This is one of very few industries where the workers are continually required to learn more and do more, but the compensation is going backwards instead of advancing.  When technology advanced for the physicians and for the nurses, did they take cuts in pay?  No, they actually advanced with their fields and their compensation increased based on the justification that they had invested time and money to learn the new technology.  They became 'specialized.'  When technology advanced for the medical centers and hospitals, did they lower their prices because their staff could do their jobs in a few less steps?  No, they raised prices based on the premise of increased price of equipment and costs for doing business.  What about us??  We have increases as well!  What honestly justifies a cut in pay when the cost of everything else is skyrocketing?  Can you tell me that??

This MT board is really the only way we have to communicate about our field.  The 'griping' and 'complaining' is a symptom, and there wouldn't be a symptom if there wasn't an illness.  So obviously there must be something wrong with the way this field of medical transcription is moving.  This networking board allows us to discuss it openly where we can't with our employers or management.  It almost seems as if some people won't be happy until they can take that away from us too. 

• Wages - Taylor
  • stop "complaining about offshoring to india?? NEVER sorry.. sm - MT
  • I'm kind of with you on this one, i love my job! - MT698
  • Taylor is apparently one of the luck ones - gourdpainter
  • Apparently.... - GGG
  • MT wages - tired
    • Tired of it also - LeaveIt Already
      • The industry HASN'T advanced. sm - IMO
    • I'd just like to have some work!! I ran out after only 172 lines! UGH! nm - Broke MT
  • Do you enjoy living with your head buried in the sand? - FrustratedMT
    • I am betting that is not where here head is stuffed (in the sand)!!!! - betting girl
  • You're omitting some very important factors. - IMO
    • Same experience, I agree - Searching MDI-er
    • Yes, and because your neighbor gets - Bummed out
    • Your post is so dead-on! Agree with everything you said. - nm
  • You are lucky you work on eScription then... Try - crywolf
  • You're forgetting the Consumer Price Index has gone up 30% since the 90s - so you're little $16/hour should be $23/hour. s
    • Oops, make that *your* little..... - No message
      • Make sure you put an emphasis on the adjective "little" nm - Just my 2 cents
  • What a silly concept - me
  • I agree to disagree with you. In many fields wages - Happy MTer
    • Well - Taylor
      • You are indeed an unusual person - gourdpainter
      • One of your premises is flat out wrong - CynicalMT
        • Totally agree with you. The OP is out there... - nm
        • Geez! - Taylor
  • You're happy your wages have stayed the - sm
    • Who said I was happy? sm - Taylor
      • How come that you did not know...sm - la
      • How can you NOT KNOW you were training Indians? - Captain oblivious
  • Well written - NewMT
    • I would not - gourdpainter
      • Reading 095 -Local CC offers It - NewMT
        • Juxtaposition- apparently higher ed needed - CynicalMT
  • I disagree about training new MTs on VR - VR myself
    • yes, a newbie would know the difference between - la
      • I want to add: An US MT newbie would know, an offshored MT probably not..nm - la
        • Go scan the word help board - CynicalMT
          • Ya know what, CynicalMT... - Gotta Agree
          • I absolutely love your answer (sm) - VR myself
      • BTW, grammar police are not allowed. - on this board.
        • for "on this board:".........sm - la
      • I'm a QA, and if you think newbies fresh out of - sm
        • newbies and QA....sm - la
          • I wouldn't count on that. - sm
            • here I have to agree with you, I also often wonder about the questions that pop up there!..nm - la
            • I had the same thought - CynicalMT
  • Then don't whine when they send YOUR job - Whatever

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complained about???

I've read the posts and wonder.

to give it until tomorrow. 

promises it will either be overnighted to your or in your account by the end of the day and it isn't, and the next day the money isn't there and they wait until the end of the day to tell you they don't know when you'll get paid doesn't that sound very fishy?  I think the CEO should have issued a statement and outlined exactly what the issue is.  If it isn't a matter of money (like they don't have it) then why not say what the problem is. 

Someone mentioned this situation yesterday or the day before and got reamed, but I think this is now a MAJOR issue.  Fortunately for me I got a big tax return and I haven't paid all the bills yet so I'm not hurting, but I can imagine there are more than a few who NEED their checks NOW.  

Does anyone who works for Medware care to share their opinion about the company in regards to steady work, flexible schedules, platform, benefits, etc.?  You can e-mail me if you wish.  TIA. 

I'm wondering how it is that a whole group of SR editors allowed JLG to breach their original contract?  This just goes to show you that a company can change the rules any time they want.  All they have to do is threaten to fire you if you don't agree to whatever changes they feel like making.  I wonder if any of the SR editors were able to collect unemployment??

BTW, I was hired by JLG in 2007, but quit on the first day of training.  Too many RED Flags made my vision suddenly crystal clear.

It's only human nature to care about your work when it's appreciated and halfway decently compensated.  When you have to scratch out a living, though, and feel exploited, well, who cares?

It's not just this industry that does things like this.  I spent many years working the front desk in hotels - front desk and night audit.  The executive office staff had paid holidays, etc.  Heck, they had LUNCH BREAKS that the front desk rarely got.  We did get paid time and a half if we worked a holiday, but depending on how cheap the management company was that ran the hotel, there were usually only 6 of those per year.

I worked for 4.5 years for a small, family owned insurance agency.  It was amazing to me what the owners/family did that cost the company $$, but god forbid I actually take a day off sick............. 

There's always a sort of a double standard between the line employees and people who are considered back office or management, etc.  It's just the way the world works.    It doesn't bug me.  I don't have anyone looking over my shoulder making sure that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing or interrupting me every 5 minutes to ask me to  do something else that is an emergency because of their bad planning.  I don't have to stop what I'm doing every 5 minutes to answer yet another phone call from a client.   I never have to worry that at the end of the day I have 57 things started, but NONE of them are done.  I don't have to work till 9 pm at night (having been there since 7 am) in a salaried position because the workday is so frenetic that's the only way to actually get something completed.  I don't have to lay in bed at night wondering what is on my desk that I didn't get done that is going to get me and the company sued.  I can have my TV on or not as the mood strikes.  I can work in a T shirt and pajama pants, or I can get dressed like a real person again as the mood strikes.  I don't have to pretend to be sociable to coworkers who make my life a living he!!.  I don't have to deal with hotel guests who are unhappy because of incompetent management and complete lack of communication with the front desk staff.  I can sit and have my coffee and play with my cats and then just go into the next room and go to work.  On my lunch break I can take a walk around the block to clear my head and wave at my neighbors.

Life is pretty good, as far as I'm concerned.  It could be and (for me, at least) has been a lot worse.  

I worked for them very briefly as a secondary.  They are nice people to work for and easy to get along with.  They seemed fair.  They just needed me to provide a schedule of sorts to them as to when I could help out, and I just couldn't give that to them at that point in time.

One of the platforms I used was Iscriptor which was cumbersome but doable.  I think they also use an IM to communicate and e-mail as well.  They paid on time direct deposit.

Nice people!  They also try to set you up with your specialty, which is a very nice touch. 

With Iscriptor, you basically take so many jobs at a time, send them back, and then take more.  It was pool work for me, but things may have changed.

I would highly recommend Advanced. 

that's why many are leaving this profession.  After 10 years, that is how you're treated.  It's a shame - and very degrading.

Try calling your ISP, cell phone carrier, cable or satellite company, etc for company service and more than likely you'll receive someone who isn't in the US. 

Want to buy furniture?  Good luck finding it American made. 

What about your clothes you're wearing? More than likely not made in America.  After all, that's how places like Wal-Mart is able to provide the low prices we want.  When I was in high school back in the late 70s a pair of Levi's would cost you around $20.  They are still around $20 - and it's almost 30 years later - yet the cost of producing them has gone up so something has to give to keep them cheap. 

What about your car?  It's hard to find the words American Made Car and Top Quality in the same sentence unless you have $40,000 or more to spend.  Most of us can't afford that so we go to cheaper vehicles - that are in part or wholey made out of the US.   Kia is building a plant here in Georgia that will open next year - and it cost our state millions to get this deal to provide jobs for Americans.  They've already more people asking about jobs with them then they'll have openings for - and they haven't even started hiring yet. 

Now look at food.  Where does your produce come from?  Increasingly from Mexico because of pricing. 

Now let's take our situation of healthcare and our jobs as transcriptionists.  Hospitals demand lower transcription pricing and get it because of competition.  Long gone are the MTSOs getting 20 cpl for a gross line.  MTSOs now do good if they get 9-10 cpl for a 65 character line - without headers/footers.  The hospitals don't care about the individual Transcriptionist because we don't provide direct patient care that they can bill for - even though if we don't transcribe correctly they can't bill - but they don't view it that way.  On the other hand if you're an oncologist or radiologist and want a new play purty you'll probably get it because it'll make them money. 

America has always been a free society with free trade, and as long as that continues our jobs will continue to increasingly leave the borders.  Will government care? Not really because the lobbyists line pockets with cash and gifts to keep getting what they want.  Here in Georgia the head of an area in the state was recently publicized as being unusual because she refuses to accept even a cup of coffee from anyone wanting to do business with the state.  That's the way it should be - instead of the exception to the rule.

Can anyone give me any information on Advanced Transcripion in Portland, OR? 

I have worked for this company for awhile.  It is true that the pay runs about 25 days behind, but once you get over that hump for the first pay period they pay consistently.  You can have your check direct deposited.  Pay is always on time.

I love working for Advanced!