The problem now is that I have a QUOTA and that is what they're concerned about. nm
Posted By: anon on 2007-09-04
In Reply to: You were given too many specialties/accts to make any good money. - Fewer specialties is the way to go. nm Sorry
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Thanks - now I'm concerned that when you're off
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not short-sighted as far as they're concerned...
Remember, they have a ton of overseas MTs in India, Philippines and who knows where else. Probably plan on training newbies here who will work for that pay, then they can still say to prospective clients: We have US MTs.
oh no, what is the quota for the day? Please let
us know if it was a mistake, thanks.
QA quota
When I worked at Amphion, we were expected to do 100 reports per 8-hour shift. Most often I did at least 80 which could be a stretch depending on what else was going on so I understand your concern.
OTI gives you a weekly quota. sm
You work when you want during the week. They ask you to commit to one weekend day.
Furthermore, I was on only one account, and worked that same account every day. The work was plentiful. Since I wasn't hopping around on various accounts, I customized everything and made a zillion macros. It was very good for money.
It was the best job I ever worked. I had to leave because I needed benefits.
DSG - QA, line quota, how they pay Qs
Questions for DSG QA folks. Do they pay per hour or by line? I heard someone say by the line, but then someone else say they had to give feedback. I have never worked for someplace that paid you by the line AND expected you to give feedback also. If it is by the line, do they have a daily quota?
Thanks
cannot make quota
Has anybody out there ever used all accessible shortcuts, typed steadily, and seen after a grueling 8, 9, 10 hours lines equalling approx 77 per hour?  I refuse to think myself as doing something wrong: Just want to hear from ANYBODY who has done what s/he can, yet finds him/herself always unable to meet productivity. I am at a crossroads right now so it is a good time to leave transcription, but I cannot believe my forays into at-home land yield the same results: exhaustion, impossible quotas, and the sneaking suspicion that the nearly-industry-wide policy of not paying for headers is cruel, immoral, and unethical--CONSIDERABLE quality time is spent on getting this info right, and what automatically populates must often be, umm, massaged by our exhausted fingers. I would love to hear any comments from anybody about how they met productivity. I would need to increase by almost 100% in order to barely tread water: I cannot do it. Just wondering how all you VERY hard-working people survive. Wish there were an emoticon for throwing in the towel. 
can't make quota
I can't make mine, either. A 15-16 minute dication will only yield me about 100 lines. I'm fed up, but scared to death to leave this field and embark on a new career at my age.
Yes I cannot meet my quota
Hope we pick up soon
QA is not a step up. They make less than the MTs and are on quota.
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Most companies require a certain quota be met
Even as an IC I committed myself to 180 reports a day. I do anywhere from 180-225. I did not sign a contract but did commit to it.
I too made quota immediately
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your help, but I don't think I could ever meet the quota needed. sm
I am working all the time editing/fixing and trying to remember all the rules for each account. I do not see with the way the platform is ever being able to make the amount needed to keep my insurance, and they have already extended my insurance for me before. I thought when I started doing more editing I might be able to get more lines, but then I would have to do double the lines, and with the way the reports are looking when I see them there is too much fixing to ever get there. It looks like when the computer does not know what the doctor is saying in plain English it just types whatever it wants. It is actually amusing how it comes up with a whole sentence of unrelated words.
THANKS! Now as soon as I make my line quota
and can afford something other than thrift stores or Walmart I WILL check them out. LOL
Seriously, thanks for the link. I will keep it.
Are they giving you grief over not making quota?
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I work at a hospital and we have a quota of 15 per hour which is 120 per day. nm
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SIGNING CONTRACT REPORT QUOTA?
ANYONE SIGN A CONTRACT FOR REQUIRED REPORTS COMPLETED IN A DAY FOR FT? WORRIED I AM BITING OFF MORE THAN I CAN CHEW!
No, they did not just raise the minimum at TT. The quota is 5500 per week for FT
and I have not had any problem whatsoever reaching it.
Good luck.
You will not lose benefits for one time missing quota.
Call your ROM or TL, and they will point you in the right direction. I think you have a full three months to make up your quota.
Transcend is a wonderful company. E-mail me if you want further information.
MDI-MD hires part-time, and you have a 24-hour window to do your quota. nm
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Considering some companies do give a weekly quota, maybe you shouldn't speak
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I love my job but I think I lost my insurance benefits. Has anyone else not met the pay period quota
one time and had their insurance taken away? I think it happened to me. I fell short this payperiod on my time ($90) as I was ill for a couple of days and had no PTO time to use. Now, my insurance premiums were not taken out so I am afraid they canceled my insurance, which was the largest reason I have stayed. I needed the good insurance etc..not to mention that I just like working there and my supervisors. I did make more than enough for them to have taken out the premiums so I feel like this was just an excuse to cancel it. Now, if I have to wait another 120 days to qualify again, I will have to end up quitting and that is not a great feeling, but I know I can get a job somewhere else and not have to wait so long to have insurance again. I'm just sickened. I can't believe they would do this in one pay period. I work 7 days a week usually, all hours of the day and night and I just can't grasp they would do this. I have worked there over 2 years. So, do they really do this, for anyone who has had this happen before. Maybe, they are just suspending the insurance this pay period but I don't see how they can stop it one pay period and start it back in 2 weeks on the next pay period. Anyway, stressed out!!!
Do I need to be concerned???
I have had mixed feelings about this company for a few years, but am now on an even keel and like working for them. I really hope this is no big deal. Please be more specific about your post. What did Linda do??? 
Yes, VERY concerned
Concerned? If it were me, I would RUN in the other direction. But it isn't me, it's you. Do you really want to be associated with this company?? There have been convictions for fraud, funneling money illegally through her company by padding or creating billings (together with her husband who worked at Kodak) and kickbacks, quick-change in assets to defraud creditors which the courts put a stop to. This wasn't just one incident, but several convictions for several fraudulent offenses. If it were not for a missed court date for filing, they would probably both be in prison right now instead of their 400K home in the suburbs. They are paying back millions in restitution and damages.
And recently you had to become an employee with a cut in pay, right?
As per posting below this, you really should contact the RBJ and get this news story. This is your employer!! You are connected to this name. You need to get all the facts and decide.
This story came out in my home town. Locally, we've known about this for a while and rumors have flown. It has been difficult at times to be MTSO and not be compared to this company when interviewing with prospective clients. Perhaps this worked in our favor at times too, because we became better by necessity and prevailed.
You can bet some of her major clients will be taking a closer look, as they should. Literally millions of dollars in charitable contributions will be at stake for a hospital here she is strongly connected with. My guess, even a possible governer candidate will be cutting ties with her.
This wasn't a personal struggle with the law as in previous mag article, but involved her BUSINESS, lack of morals and ethics, and greed. She and hubby got caught and convicted, many times over.
Facts are facts, and they are now in print. RBJ put the story out there so BOTH SIDES could be fairly told and people could make an informed decision. You need to read this. If it hurts her business, then it was meant to be. Building a business after owning up to these crimes would have been a real accomplishment. But, building it up after hushing and hiding the truth has its consequences.
It's your choice. Choose wisely. Good luck.
Maybe she was more concerned with how ex box
could be construed!! ha!! I certainly would not have typed THAT!! And yes, psych work involves all sorts of stuff that you have to spell correctly. Your attitude explains perhaps the MTSOs reservations - its not a full time job for you and so you rushed thru it. Those are your words of justification. So, even though its a temporary emergency situation, the MTSO needs a pro! Psych is psych, and I would freak if you spelled psyche as well! This is our profession - your profession - words.
do i need to be concerned?
You NEED to be concerned. They're falling apart slowly. You will find that you get no work or very little work. Pay periods have changed. The current pay check was due on 1/10; has not yet arrived and am getting conflicting stories on why. As a contractor, invoice is due in 30 days - if you don't pay your bills in 30 days, you get a late fee, a percentage rate, etc. Are we going to get this - I don't think so. My advice; start looking, people. She's crumbling fast.
concerned
I have been looking for another MT company, but my concern is the company I type for uses a fairly easy platform, but for changes they went through I am not content there as I once was. So is it hard to leave one company and go with another one if the platform is different. is it hard to get use to?
I'd be concerned
if you have only been with this company a couple of months and you've already been paid late. That would be a huge red flag to me.
Concerned MT - MW changes
I was wondering if anyone had any inside information on what is going on at MW - the growing lack of work and people leaving/sudden management changes. Any need for great concern on job stability there?
Thanks, Concerned
You should be concerned
I left my previous company because of offshoring, always had at least 98% QA and usually either 99% or 100%. That company had strict QA as well. I have been an MT for 14 years and I am a CMT as well. I ended up leaving Amphion because QA dinged me for ridiculous things which affected my pay drastically. I could not afford it and ultimately went back to my old job. I hate that they offshore but at least I can make a decent living. Besides that Amphion kept running out of work, too much drama for me overall.
Don't be concerned
When I started I wasn't a newbie either but it took me about 3 months to get my lines up learing the software. As long as you are getting closer to your lines each week they aren't going to put any pressure on you because they know every situation is different. I do try to avoid drifting off on the Internet while working and it makes a big difference.
Yes, but I'd be more concerned about
my comments with regard to organization and support - I can't really say what the platform was because they *never* got me started!
Also, one blank in a report with no way to flag it for QA to resolve is too dicey for me - could not get a definitive answer about whether work done with more than one blank or error was subject to not being paid.
More information you can email me privately.
if you are that concerned
over every cotton-picking keystroke being paid for, you are probably not MDI material IMO. It takes virtually no time to search the roster and is hardly worth worrying about.
Maybe if MTs were concerned
with learning more than the bare minimum and shed the we're only supposed to know attitude, things would be different in our industry. No personal criticism of anyone intended; rather just wondering why folks would settle for giving minimum performance rather than wanting to really know something. It's the difference between being a typing machine and an intelligent, thinking human being.....Just sayin.
Should I be concerned....sm
I was hired by a company a couple of weeks ago. They have installed their software on my computer, but now the problem has come in. I have sent several emails to training, but no word. I have sent emails to the lady who hired me, the HR person and training, no word. Been a week. Should I be concerned that this might be a sign about this company or give them the benefit of the doubt and wait and see if I hear something next week? Thanks.
I think we all need to be concerned about all these companies and what they are doing because our
wages are going down the tubes and unfortunately MQ caused a lot of the problems by cutting rates to clients and then padding the bills. Now that they got caught, guess who gets their wages cut because they cant charge more now to the clients. Good old MQ. You can definitely blame them for many of these problems.
Not concerned at all, very happy.
I have been very very happy with QT. They are excellent to work for, love it that they are a smaller sized company that I am well paid at.
As far as outsourcing, absolute not, silly allegation.
As far as the DD issue, our mailed checks came maybe 1 day late if that, so I really don't think it is a money issue, or else how could they have gotten us paper checks so quickly, again another silly allegation.
As far as Christmas goes, a card would be great, but if not, just happy to have a really good job. Maybe the owner is a little frustrated that the main account is not staying in turnaround time and is having to pick up the slack, who knows. I know I don't want to lose this account so I better work hard, but I get a feeling others have a sort of let this go. I always ran out of work at this time of year at other companies I worked at, but I have not had a downtime day yet, and that is the best Christmas gift I would ever have. I have nothing but good things to say about this company. I wish all could be as happy as I am!!!
Just had not said anything to date, but getting concerned. n/m
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No, I seriously doubt it. I can see where you are concerned, but
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Nope, MQ still #1 as far as I'm concerned
I've been working for them for many years. There have been many changes over the years, but from what I learned from interviewing with other companies, so far no other company even comes close 
I was concerned about paying my
own taxes - but just had them done yesterday and wow!! i came out smelling like a rose by being an SE and having enough to deduct. I think that is where most people go wrong, not keeping good records and not claiming enough when they do their deductions. As an employee i paid probably an average of 250 out of each paycheck (twice a month) and now paid only a few hundred for the whole blinking year!!
Concerned only cuz look at what they've already
You have no experience as far as I am concerned.
You talk about things in which you have no experience. You may have sat behind your little desk with your 40 years of experience transcribing the old fashion way, but you haven't walked in our shoes in the modern world, therefore all you're doing is living vicariously through us, which is just sad! You have this imagined participation and it isn't real and it doesn't help.
I am concerned this may be the company I work for
and I very much would appreciate knowing this information. I need to look out for myself and perhaps I can get on with the other company. Since you have proof that the account is being picked up by another company you aren't just spreading rumors.
You should not feel superficial for being the most concerned about
That is part of the problem with this profession. We are made to feel that we do this for fun or some superficial reason. Like we are not serious about this as a profession. If a man goes for a position, talking pay and benefits is expected up front. Show me the money, nice don't pay the bills.
Nice to know you are concerned about your employees!
I think it's great that you are evidently trying to improve the benefits for your employees. As I'm sure you know, happy, satisfied employees tend to stay put, which is, of course, what you want.
I pay $350 a month for single coverage. I am not thrilled with this rate. In my last job I worked in a medical speciality office, in office, and my health insurance was totally paid. Sigh!
As far as benefits go, I am just looking for what is fair and usual. I am more interested in good communication and feedback from the company so I don't feel like I am just a number. That is important to a lot of us!
I believe this. I had taken their test, which was as far as I am concerned, EASY, yet...
They told me I didnt pass. I didnt even think it was possible to fail that easy of a test but the other poster may have had a point.
Do they seem more concerned with production or hours? TIA
Offered job with MDI-MD using Lanier but concerned about...SM
having access to old reports for reference (not just mine - all MTs). I tend to rely heavily on referencing old reports for difficult dictators (and I understand this account has its share of heavy ESL). I am not familiar with the Lanier setup and phoning in to get work and was wondering if someone with experience could give me the low-down on how user-friendly Lanier is (mainly with reference to pulling up old reports). Am used to Dictaphone - will I be disappointed and slowed down? Thanks in advance!
considered not concerned.. I think I am asleep..
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Amphion changing over to VR is unsettling, anybody else concerned about this...nm
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