They don't seem the line counting program is too important. No updates on

• Anyone else going from DQS to ExText and noticing lines are harder to get? (sm) - Just comparing
  • HATED ExText - Wendy
  • Why Extext line counts are usually less - Independent MT
    • PS, I was a supervisor in the home office - Independent MT
      • To be specific, how they deduct for headers - Independent MT
        • Does that company start with a - W?
          • No - Independent MT (NM)
            • Probably starts with O? - wimt
              • That's why I left the O company - Not cheated in new job NM
  • DQS to ExText - former MQ
  • All depends on the MTSO - MT
  • noticed - GF
  • I, too, went from MQ to TT, and line counts are much harder to get at TT with Dictaphone ExText. - Transtech using ExText versus DQS
    • Still going round and round with this - Exer
    • ExSpeech - TransTechMT
      • They don't seem the line counting program is too important. No updates on - its progress in months. nm
        • What line count issues? changes? nm - Just comparing
          • A counter this is quicker to access, but I've never seen anything - wrong with the counts themselves. nm
    • Thank you. Like I told someone else, I have (sm) - Just comparing
  • Definitely harder and I've given it a lot of time. I'm thinking about - going back to my old MTSO. nm
  • ExText is notorious for this. Will depend on exactly what the company - counts, too, footers, headers, spaces, etc. nm
    • MTSO and client responsible here. - Older-n-dirt
      • That is exactly why I have left the - Fran
      • Tell it sistah! - nm

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Does anybody know of a free line counting program I could download?  Also, is anybody familiar with wtd. lines vs. lines in a line counting program?  I assume wtd. means weighted, and what does it mean?  Thanks.

I work for TT and we had a problem with the ichart which counts our lines but I would just wait a couple of hours or until the next morning to get my count and then mark it.  It was always available in time for the end of the pay period.  Transtech is a great company to work for and yes management is great.  They also let us know whenever there were issues with the system and we knew that we would need to wait.  I've been there long enough now to kind of get a feel for the number of lines I have for what I've typed.  I'm typing on the TransNet platform now.  I was on PowerScribe when I started but like this system much better.  So far, there's been no real problem with availability of work.  Can't complain!    

You know, sometimes I find these posts comical and sometimes they just really tick me off.  Maybe because I have been doing this nearly a half century, I don't need a line counter to tell me if I'm being paid accurately.  I don't go wasting my time looking to see how many lines I've typed during the day or running my work through another line count program.  I KNOW approximately how many lines I have typed at any given time...I just KNOW and I am seldom off more than a few lines just with my head count.  There is no way I'm going to waste my valuable time worrying if I'm being cheated out of a line here or a line there.  Checking line counts takes time..........so does posting on these MT forums.

Let me say that if my in head count was off, I would know it and I would not work for a company where I  had to constantly worry if I was being cheated.  Maybe there is something to the old saying, it takes a thief to catch a thief. 

As for line counts varying, mine is varying at the moment also.  My primary account often runs out of work and I know exactly WHY it runs out of work although no one has actually told me.  Okay, I have a backup account (or several) and I can either jump on those and make the line count I want or I can sit around whining about not getting my primary account, which by now is a piece of cake for me.  The backup accounts have 50,000 physicians on their list, maybe not quite that many actually, but bunches.  It takes awhile to get familiar with all of them as it does to build my normals and expanders. 

Sometimes I have to laugh when I read these petty comments.  I think to myself, if they would get off this forum and actually WORK, they probably wouldn't have so much whining to do.

As I've said before, those who have nothing better to do than bash TT should just move along and leave the rest of us in our blissful ignorance.  I'm chuckling to myself right now because there are posts on this forum at this moment about 2 companies for whom I have worked.  I don't feel it necessary to post derogatory comments but sometimes I do hope that some of the people who love to beat up on Transtech actually go to work for them and learn what it's like to work for a bad (at least in my opinion) company.  Some people deserve it.

Now I'm off my soap box and going to type where I will actually make some money....yes, for TransTech.  They treat me fairly.  If they didn't, well, I was looking for a job when I found this one.

OSI question?

Have recently talked to an MT who just started at OSi within the past 3 months.  Line counting does not seem to jive with Word.  A great difference.  Word counting lists 100 lines, OSI counting of the same report lists 40 lines.  They claim they do not count spaces, which I find rather surprising, because the last time I checked, a space is a keystroke.

Any input?  Thanks.

If their version of Word is provided by Dictaphone, who also provides the line counting website, why aren't the two compatible?  We had some discrepancy between the two and instead of fixing it we got locked out of the lines typed this session feature of MS Word (which was helpful and is not available on the website.  Rather than fix it they disable it.  They're a little heavy handed.  Love it or leave it.   

If the line count in a particular platform, for example ExText, is compared to MS Word count where the total word count is divided by 65, shouldn't the count be about the same? 

Has anyone noticed changes in line counting.  I work in EXText.  As I recall, it used to be if I typed/edited 1600 lines (as counted by EXText), it would then show up as approximately 1400 lines in Ichart, losing about 200 lines.  Now I am showing approximately a loss of 225 in the above-listed scenario.  Maybe I am remembering incorrectly?? 

Anyone else notice any recent changes?

TIA

I just started cornerstone last payperiod and there have been line discrepancies according to my mentor.  I show I did 3,024 lines last week and she only showed 1597.  When we had our weekly mentor call I showed her how you have to go to the next day to get all of the lines (i.e. 11/17/2007- 11/18/2007 to pull up the lines for 11/17/2007).  She also said that CUE only showed that I was only for 18 hours which is a load!!  I worked 40 hours.  She said that everytime it pauses it adds that to the time.  It pauses when I am spell checking.  But none of that added up to such a discrepancy. 

I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem.  Or maybe I just needed to vent.  I like the idea of having instant line counts but they are not even getting the same ones we are.  I have to double check my paycheck this time just to see if they are paying me all of my lines. 

I bet whenever they are doing an update on Cornerstone they are figuirng out ways to take characters away and pay us even less. And, to me it seems lately that I have been typing more patient info in than I used to.

As a side note, I went to Youtube and typed in Spheris and it what looked like company sponsored parties they were having for our India counterparts.

I mean come on, they use an archaic computer system to where you have to update physician and patient lists daily but you have to do it on YOUR time and do not get paid for it.  LOL 

By far, the worst place I have ever been employed.

I was feeling all abused and unappreciated. I work for a hsp system from home and work on productivity -- making in the 50k + range. Great, inexpensive insurance and double time for holidays. All the OT I want or none at all if I want. Anywho, I was unhappy with a few minor details and thought about quitting in a huff.  After reading about life in the world of national co.'s I have regained my appreciation for my employer.  I spent over 9 years out there frantically searching for a decent line rate, less than 95% ESLs, and affordable insurance. That's all I wanted 'cept maybe for QA not on a power trip and enough work to complete 40 hours a week.

From what I am reading, things are still the same out there.  It looks like line rates are stagnant or decreased from before. Companies are still overhiring.  Insurance is ghastly.  I wish you all well and once again,

thanks for the cold water in the face!  

Don't forget to mention that they altered the WAY they count lines, no headers/footers.  It seems more like they way MQ counts their lines.  My overall production dropped about 20%, which is why they lowered their requirement from 12,500 per pay period down to 11,000.  The incentive is pretty low, and only draws in the fast fast fast MTs.  I'm not a lightening ball of speed, so I never qualify. 

A pay cut is a pay cut, is a pay cut, is a pay cut!  

Yep, yep...One full-time job transcribing Radiology from home for a local hospital from 4 p.m.-12 a.m., five days per week; four hours transcribing pediatric clinic notes from 12 a.m.-4 a.m.; and four hours doing acute care transcription for a hospital in Texas. 

I look at the positive side of this...I never get bored, and I'm far too busy to get into too much trouble (and my boyfriend is very understanding and supportive, which always makes things easier). 

Now if only I could find a way to get Starbucks delivered to my front door, I'd never have to leave the house....

which account I work for.  I have worked for the VA account in the past.  I worked to help out with the backlog.  In 2 days I typed 3000 lines.  They were my first 2 days on that account.  Hope that answers your question.