Then why don't you bring this to them??? A big problem in this industry is that sm

• Company...sm - Donna
  • medware - infonutng
    • Yes, Medware has an offshore group of MT's. sm - MW MT
  • Keystrokes does not. The owners are very vocal about this. nm - Lisa
    • They also don't pay for OT, despite it being illegal not to. nm - yeah but
      • I don't work OT and when I do, it is paid at OT rates, which is the same as sm - KS RadMT
        • I think this is the same person who complained about this before and she doesn't even work there - MTMommy
          • You're wrong. Never have been paid for OT. Many others - yea but
            • We all have shifts so they trust you are doing the 8 hours you are supposed to. SM - KS MT
              • What crap! I get my lines in and they ask me to work - yea but
                • Then why don't you bring this to them??? A big problem in this industry is that sm - BTDT
                  • You're not required to .... SM - KarSal
  • JLG. - NM
    • JLG does. I worked there and know firsthand. sm - BTDT
  • MDI-MD does not offshore - NM
  • You must have read my mind, Donna. I was just about to - sm
  • The problem with this is we - are the transcriptionists all over the US
    • Offshoring or not? - MTJB
    • Research - Donna
      • That could change tomorrow sm - Mamadog
  • Axolotl...nm - anon
    • TRANSCEND, OSI...nm - another anon
      • OSI offshores..... - nm
      • OSI does send offshore work - ex-OSI
      • Transcend most certainly does send work to India. - HUH????
      • Webmedx does not off-shore. nm - HappyWebxX2

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I don't know who posted this, but I wholeheartedly AGREE!  Tell you one thing, if MY employer ever thinks of short-changing me for my work, they will be in trouble with my bank.

(I think the time has come for these companies to be named. I know there are more than one but seems to me that we owe it to each other to name the companies who do not pay on time or who get the pay wrong each and every pay day. We work for a living and we do it to get paid. Even if we just put the first initial of the company, that is fair warning for others who are looking to make a change to be aware that certain companies are dangerous as far as their paying practices.

Recently I was talking to an MT who worked for one of these companies and said to me that she hated to quit because the pay was so good. That is just wrong. What pay is so good if you have to pay bank fees and overdraft charges because the money is not there. Something is wrong with that statement and wrong with that picture.

If there are any owners who are reading this that make the practice of paying late or wrong then read away. If you are doing this you don't know how to manage the company anyhow and it is my guess your days are numbered as a business but if you think we are going to sit down and take this treatment any longer without reporting to the proper authorities then you are sadly mistaken. You can throw posts in the faces of the posters all you want but when someone does not get paid for their work ON TIME, they have every right to demand that they be paid). 

but, it seems that since I posted there are many MTs out there that have been treated similarly and worse.  NOW, it seems that maybe my posts are not representative of one but of many.

If there are major issues like this, why doesn't she get on, respond respectfully, and show us how great MDI really CAN be and not IS, because right now it is hurting a lot families.

Show us how we TOGETHER can get back on track and make a living. 

1.  Is there a way to keep working for MDI without the threats of being put down to a lower wage when work is so slow? 

2.  Is there a way for MDI to be more understanding about committments?  For example when work is slow, don't come back and say I don't want to hear it because there was plenty of work on your back up accounts when there are tons of MTs already doing that work and it runs out in a flash....also understanding the learning curve we have to go through to refamiliarize ourselves with the account, therefore, still causing a major difficulty in living up to our committments.

3.  Is it possible for MDI to let us in on one what is going on with the accounts, i.e. if they are in process of being lost to another service or EMR?  Thereby, giving us a heads up so we know what to do to keep supporting ourselves or give us suggestions on moving to a new primary.

4.  It is possible for Carlotta to treat us like fellow professionals when she addresses us and not as inferiors?

I think these are questions that we could all use answers to and not in a private e-mail.  I think there is a healing that could happen for ALL to see.  Please, show us that MDI is not the reincarnation of MQ. 

And thank you for the job advice.  I AM actively looking, and the minute I find something they can kiss where I can't.  I notice you ignore all of the things I have pointed out.  You see like Marie Antoinette when told of the starving masses, If they have no bread, then let them eat cake.

And thank you for the job advice.  I AM actively looking, and the minute I find something they can kiss where I can't.  I notice you ignore all of the things I have pointed out.  You seem like Marie Antoinette when told of the starving masses, If they have no bread, then let them eat cake.

With the economy tanked probably a great time to contact your local senator/representative and ask that all of the jobs which were shipped overseas be brought back home.  We can no longer afford to subsidize foreign countries when we were are broke here at home. 

individual practitioners.

Personally, it is a waste of money and time to have psych evals for prospective MTs.   I have seen many postings by MTSOs on this board who are so unprofessional and sounded "crazy", that it made my eyes pop out!  

Any successful business person knows, good judgement is the key to success.   If can not rely on your good judgement, than you should not be in business.   Why would any MTSO waste the money and time for such a screening?  That is demoralizing to our transcriptionists.  They are not applying for a job at the pentagon! 

Now,  there are some people who have major "issues"; however, that should become apparent during the interview process if you interview properly. 

I do believe this company is way off base in doing this; however, if you the MT feel its okay and the company meets your needs and pays well, than go for it. 

I think what happens is the MTSO's company gets so busy and the MTSO gets so stressed out about meeting TAT, they hire anybody with working fingers.  There lies the problems.   If the MTs have the experience needed to do the job, they pass the transcription test with flying colors, and you are satisfied with the personal interview, they should be hired.  Maybe the MTSO needs to replace whoever it is they hired to screen the candidates and the MTSO needs to be in on the interview process.   That sounds like more of a solution to weed out the unstable individuals then a battery of psych evaluations for prospective MTs.   Good Grief!  Where is the common sense in this?

That is all I have on this subject.  I feel bad for those of you who need a job!   Good luck.

IF they weren't paying us MT's one-half or more for doing ASR work.  It's P:USH, PUSH, PUSH to do ASR. 

Why do you think they want so much ASR -- money in their pockets -- definitely not in the MT's pockets.

$12 billion total market (includes hospitals, clinics, physicians offices)

Approximately 40%, or $5 billion, is outsourced

Transcend target market: 4,900 community-based hospitals in the U.S.

Estimated target market size: $2.5 billion

Several thousand companies – mostly with revenue in the $1 million range

Few with revenue greater than $20 million

1. MedQuist (MEDQ) $277M transcription revenue, 11% share of target market

2. Spheris $167M revenue, 7% share of target market

3. Transcend $67M run rate at 4/1/09, 3% share of target market

4. Others Nuance (NUAN), CBay, Webmedx, Heartland…

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.  

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.