They'll be getting a letter from my lawyer...

• WARNING!!! NONPAYER!!! - NewBMT
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    • They'll be getting a letter from my lawyer... - NewBMT
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    • Just by posting that here will help a great deal of people - mt
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I certainly am not a lawyer but I cannot possibly imagine a company being required to pay OT they didn't ask to be worked.  So far as emails I  have personally received asking for help to meet TAT,they ALWAYS say something to the effect of....if you have not met your line or hour requirements...if they want over time they ask for it and they INSIST on paying for it!!!!

One thing I do agree with you on is the discipline you mentioned.  Might be a good idea for someone to let management at TT know what is being said here and I would personally be delighted if they could identify the malcontents and FIRE them.  All-in-all Transtech is a good company...not perfect by any means...but as an old goat with nearly half a century in this business I can tell you there are a WHOLE LOT worse companies out there and I hope some of you find them.  You deserve it!

is to leave well enough alone when these threads start.  I have personally witnessed your responses on countless threads on more than just one board, and I am always amazed at how you just don't understand you hurt yourself more than any posting of =rumors= about your company.  You say we don't know how you run your business.  Well, we know a lot more about it now with your post than we did before, don't we?  (psst, so do your competetors)  Is that necessarily a good thing?  I don't see the CEO of Medquist running around on here trying to imply legal ramifications or trying to help us understand that company's way of conducting business.  In 1997 I quit a company where the owner sent out a memo telling employees not to discuss it on the internet.  It amazes me that an owner believes s/he has the kind of control over anyone to regulate what the people who work for them think or do OR feel intimidated that your lawyer is going into the Big Brother Business.

For the record, I have never looked into working for your company, am not a former employee/contractor, have no interest in doing any sort of business with you whatsoever.  The reason I mention this is because I have mentioned this to you in the past and it continues to fall on deaf ears.  You do more harm by what you say than any of the MTs, editors, students, curious onlookers, do here.  If you try to hold your head up high and let things be, the reputation of your company could possibly benefit, but then, I don't control what you say, think, feel or do, either.

When I recently contacted a lawyer who represents outsourcing employers about what I thought was a rather intrusive employee handbook with strict verbage about talking about that company in public and even in private email, her response to me was to sign it.  She reminded me that it didn't change what I thought, but employers don't like employees/contractors bad mouthing them, and then asked me why I felt it was a big deal.  So now I'm going to offer you to think about that from your side.  Employees/contractors don't like employers bad mouthing them, and by the way, why is it a big deal for you?  Tend to your business and let go of what you can't control.

my 2 cents for what it is worth

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Einstein:  Insanity:  Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage.  If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule.  No one knows when the work is available.  These companies place work into the system at any given time.  It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.

Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us.  As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way! 

Ya know this has taken over the entire company board, and it's not fair.  No one can even ask regular questions due to all this mess.

I have to agree with you on this--why does everyone need to be called personally and I never thought about that, was the call being recorded?? But would they not have to tell you that??

Something just does not feel right about this. The packet is coming out in Oct, our all the packets different,after you get the packet will you have to sign something to agree to that pay rate to continue with your job, and is all this heading to a merger with Spheris at the first of the year. When I was called , there were no answers to any of my questions and honestly I think the person on the phone was not prepared for any questions, just to ask you if you got the packet.

Some of the offices that have been closed so far have surprised me, especially Warminster and Atlanta, and now Houston and an office in Ohio is closing. I hope it is not the one in Columbus, that is a great office.

Where is this all going???  And all I want to do is work, if there was any!!!

Got letter in mail --  inquiry about 'opportunity' for my service to hire on 50+ MTs including dictation platform - something about an MTSO losing 98% of its hospital business in November and wanting to place these MTs.  ?  I'm wondering if these poor MTs even know about it yet ??

I am a former SPI employee and got a letter from the company who did our paychecks today saying an SPI employee had left a laptop on a plane that had our personal info such as SSI#, bank info, etc. and the laptop had not been recovered.  They are supposed to have a 1-year free deal with Equifax for a credit watch.  This is really scary to me. Was wondering if anyone else got this letter.

The first sentence that sent me tossing my cookies was "...we would like to thank you for your continued service and support.  we know the key to our success is the people who work so hard for our customers every day".

PLEEZE......I have not had one centilla of a raise in over 5 years!  So we know what that sentence was all above.  Your thanks and $1.25 will get me a bad cup of coffee at Huddle House.

Next - that's the whole reason for this letter if you ask me - the little ditty from WINSTON AND STRAWN, attorneys at law.

They wanted MQ employees to cough up DOCUMENTS (document preservation).  Of course the attorneys for the MTs' class action suite are also searching out those very same documents.   How quaint.

And that graph about "over the past several months with your help and input we have been working on developing a pay plan and comprehensive benefit program that will enable us to set the standard in the industry."  Nowhere in that whole paragraph did it mention statutory MTs.  It addressed them in the salutation of the letter, but never in the paragraph about the pay plan of benefits if you notice.  and lord help us if MQ is going to set the STANDARD for the industry (which they have single-handedly devastated all by themselves).  They did not make profit through solid  business means, they made their profit off the BENEFITS we as MTs made previously and which they through smoke and mirrors merely shifted over to their profit column.  That didn't take a genius - just underhanded business.  I could do that too, take what used to be benefits and change it to the profit monies. 

And in this letter they further have the nerve to claim:  "While we believe that the claims raised by the three transcriptionists appear to lack merit..."  How about the thousands of other MTs who also believe it to be so, and the hospitals that back them up?

I have to go pour me a drink. 

Wondering if any SPI employees have accessed the enrollment for the 1 year free credit monitoring with Equivax due to a supposed breech of security with their payroll service, Ceridian.  I am wondering if this is legit or if it is the typical scam where after the first year free you are automatically enrolled into the service at a charge and it is your responsibility to cancel.  I would hate to think they have stooped so low as to be profiting off of their employee mailing list.  Guess I am feeling a little cynical today.