This will be the downfall of MQ if they continue this bouncing people around. Whoever thought up
Posted By: And another MQer on 2005-07-23
In Reply to: Of course quality is quality sm - Another MQer
this way for MTs to work is so entirely wrong that there is no way they have ever ever done this job. They are totally to the wind doing this. Anyone who has ever done MT work will say that the best way to get the best lines and best quality is to keep MTs with what they know and what they do best. One main and one backup is all anyone should ever have to do. We have constant complaining in my office from the hospitals about things that are done wrong and it is ABSOLUTELY because of people not used to the account hopping in when they run out. Bad bad business.
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I'd have to say that's the only downfall here.
Is that there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. It is very frustrating to have issues, and even though you have emailed the long, long list of leads etc, you are lucky to get even one to respond. Other than the communication issue, they are not too bad.
u mean the latest downfall in mgt or
do tell
Here is a thought! Very few OSi management people can
AND they damn sure don't have a grasp of the English language.
that's exactly what the native people thought
about the water people. They hoped they would go away but they didn't.
Hope you are right. I would have thought some people would have been called by now and might know
what is going on. I just have a feeling SE might become part time employee but I hope not. That would limit the hours we could work. You still have to wonder if Spheris is in the picture and they have no IC or SE do they? Dont think so.
I thought you meant DO-DO. Some people are very literal, ya know?
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So, Yes, they were once OmniMed, meaning the same people. Thought so! BAD company! x
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I thought there were posts a few months ago saying they laid off 50-some people. nm
bouncing checks
I am so glad you posted this. I just left Klaar too after only being employed 30 days. I have to wait another 5 days the bookkeeper at my bank says before I can call her back to find out if my payroll check from Klaar is good and has not bounced. The owner/Klaar told me he would wire me the money if I didn't receive my check that day. He made this statement (in email) 3 days in a row. He said he heard on the news this was the busiest time of the year for U.S. mail because of Christmas. And HELLO--what is the deal with mailing payroll checks and not placing them in a priority mail envelope??? I'm not afraid of naming this company, K is for Klaar. The owner's manner is creepy and unprofessional. How does this guy keep his job? Then he angrily emails me back making statements like I need to retract on my slanderous remarks because I'm now telling him I'm receiving information from former Klaar employees. In this stressful world of many bills, there are no words to describe how infuriating it is to know you've wasted time on a situation like this. He stated my claims just weren't true. BULL. Dept. of Labor will get a phone call from me if my 2 payroll checks bounce from this guy. Also, no one will answer the phone in their office that I phoned many, many times. Very suspicious and underhanded.
Bouncing paychecks....
 Is there anything you can do when check issued by company bounce? I have only worked part time for this company about six months, but this is the second time one of their checks has bounced. I am only working here until I get a few accounts on my own independently so I that is why I have continued to work for them. I just cannot believe a company would be so money-tight as to issue bad checks for work that has been done. Anyone ever have this happen to them?????
etranz in GA is still bouncing paychecks. sm
I just got an email from a friend/former co-worker of mine who also worked for etranz in Georgia. She had over $1000 in checks bounce. It took her almost 3 months to get them, finally did and now they have bounced! Please, if any of you MTs know of anyone who is looking for work, please be sure to steer them away from etranz. They make their ads sound great with weekend incentives and higher line rates, but getting your paycheck is nearly impossible....and when you do get it - it may bounce.
Please pass the word around about this unprofessional, unethical company!
I have been bouncing around from one account to another, and now they are all out of work!
Trying to hang in there, but I need to work, not sit around waiting for work to MAYBE roll in.
Ive tried, but the emails keep bouncing back to me.
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bouncing checks & crazy captain
Ladies: I PROMISE that if I find out that both of my payroll checks from Klaar (there are only 2) actually clear the bank and are okay in my checking account, I will return to this post and let you know that I retract my negative statements about Klaar. The payroll checks are drawn on Wachovia. Don't know if that is good or bad, Chicago area. I SINCERELY HOPE that both of my checks clear and all of this is over. I don't want to contact Dept. of Labor but I will because one way or another, I WILL GET MY MONEY/WAGES. I EARNED THEM.
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They're bouncing checks lately as per posts here and on MTDaily. nm
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Is it true that CorT is bouncing checks and LYING?
I wonder what the work looks like with entry level MTs bouncing around in these accounts. Well, they
MQ will just continue to lose accounts and there will be less and less work. The entry level MTs cannot produce nearly what the experienced MTs can I know this from my supervisor and they send everything to QA because they arent sure of themselves so does this make sense. Not to me.
Bet no good QA now - they've chased them away by bouncing checks and lying.
:-(
CONTINUE TO LOOK
You will find that there are good and bad things with every company out there, but the bad certainly outweigh the good when it comes to MDI-FL.
I tried and continue to try with my own
kids, but sometimes just being out in the world today taints what I have tried to teach. I pray daily for this world, but it is sliding downhill quickly. It saddens me...all the hatred and intolerance of EVERYthing these days. Even trying to keep my own intolerance under control is an endless fight...but at least I try...more than I can say for most. Thanks for posting. I know I am not alone. Take care.
If you want to continue using WP5.1, sm
check out First Choice Medical in Florida. Great people.
Should you continue?
Not only NO, but H**** NO. Why enable someone to take advantage of you? You deserve the kind of treatment you will accept; that is an adage of the business world. Get out of here and go someplace where you are treated like a professional.
I'm sorry, but why would you continue
to work for someone after they owed you, say $500, much less $10,000??????????
Why did you continue to work for MDI...
for years then if you could make so much more elsewhere????
VR will continue to improve just like
everything else in the technology age.
Bubbye, MT world.
But it's a blessing in disguise. Maybe now we can find jobs where we're treated with respect and get paid better than the average janitor.
Without us, they would continue offshoring. sm
Very few MTs deserve 15 cpl. Take a look at the word boards! It's scary out there.
Should I continue to work if I do
not know what my line count is on a daily basis. I have tried emailing the tech department, emailed the secretary, emailed the account supervisor, and get no to slow response. All I get is we are working on it and then I hear absolutely nothing. I am only inquiring because I want to know when I reach line count on a daily basis, but every time I try to check this function, it says I am not authorized to do so. I keep asking why I am not authorized to see what my line count is and I get silence. I am fed up? Should I continue working for them and allow them just give me my line count when they see fit. Also, my line count determines what I am paid by the tier program they have. For example, if I type 6000 lines, I make 6 cpl, but if I type 12,000 lines, I get paid 9 cpl, but I am unable to verify what I am typing. I just secured another position and have backup just in case.
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Why continue working for them then?
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The best thing we can do is continue to -
talk about it, write about it, and tell anyone who will listen about it. Our wages are the MT industry's dirty little secret. They get away with it because no one knows our type of work even exists. The hospitals get away with going with MTSOs who offshore because the doctors themselves have no clue who types their work. (Some don't even know their work leaves the hospital, let alone the country!) They live in a very cloistered little world.
The deals with the MTSOs are made by the suits upstairs in the corner office, who don't know much (if anything) about MT, either. All they know is that MT is an expenditure - red or black ink on their books. Many of these suits are overpaid, money-wasting jerks, just like the ones that Congress is grilling right now. The same hospitals that cry they don't have enough money to maintain an MT department, or pay the MTSO when their price per line goes up a lousy cent. (A CENT! When was the last time you even bothered to bend over to pick up one of those when you found it lying on the ground!?), are the same ones that hold huge, expensive bashes for their larger benefactors, and for themselves. They, too, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on office furniture, when there wasn't anything wrong with what they already had. Or buy expensive original works of art to hang in their halls or put on display.
We know, and everyone else from the janitors in the basement to the top brass upstairs, knows what it takes to survive in this country, and they also know that what they pay for transcription doesn't even begin to be a fair wage for ANY worker, especially not for supposed 'white-collar' employees who, by the very nature of their work, are intelligent, well-read, articulate, and fairly well-educated.
They get away with that because for all these years, we've just sat there and LET them. We let them tell us we were 'lucky to have a job - ANY job'. We listened to them tell us that VR, or EMR, or India, would eventually replace us all. I doubt any Senator or Congressman in DC even has a clue about any of this. If it were happening to steel-workers, auto-workers, miners, CPA's, animators, nurses, teachers, etc., it would be all over the 6 o'clock news every night. But no one knows of our plight, or that we even exist, because we don't say anything. We just lie there and take it.
Calling a national MT sick-out for a day or two might get us some attention, but I seriously doubt many MTs are going to risk their jobs to do that, because we'[ve all bought into that 'lucky-to-have-a-job' myth. And during these uncertain, possibly pre-depression times, losing one's job is probably not the best idea.
I contine to believe that the best thing we can do, collectively and individually, is to start WRITING. It's what we do best, and we should be putting that skill to work for ourselves, for a change. We need to educate as many people in the US, and in our legislature, that their medical records are being sent offshore. That HIPAA does not protect them when their medical and personal records leave the US. That huge MT companies have been squeezing out smaller MTSOs by undercutting them, or by buying them out. That the huge MT companies are raking in the dough by claiming 'there aren't enough US MT's', and then paying hungry people in 3rd World countries a slave wage to produce the work. AND, that our government is not only letting them do that without any kind of a tax or fee for doing so (when millions of Americans are currently out of work?!?), but in some cases getting monetary INCENTIVES for offshoring.
THAT's what needs to stop first. The free-for-all in the MTSO industry where they can just shove the work offshore, thanks to the digital age and the internet, and not have any repercussions for doing so.
Currently offshoring work is many MTSO's FIRST CHOICE of workers, and Americans are their SECOND. We need to turn that around, so that it makes more economic sense for the employer to pay Americans a fair wage than it does to steal their work from them and support another country's middle class. OUR middle-class needs support now, and the US should no longer be subsidizing India's, Pakistan's, Mexico's, or the Philippine's middle class by sacrificing us.
Yes, you can definitely continue to learn, but -
why throw away perfectly good money on a USELESS 'certification'? You won't get paid more money, and you'll have to pay every time you take it if you fail the first time. AND pay to continue to renew it. Biggest ripoff in medical transcription history. AND, all this by a company that gives Indian MTs a better price to take the test, and who openly promotes offshoring american jobs.
You'd do better to spend the money on a comfortable work-chair, an ergonomic keyboard, a better computer, or some new reference books. Getting a bogus 'CMT' cert. just helps to fund AHDI's selling of the American Transcriptionist downriver.
They continue to hire because...
it looks good to the client for all the work to be caught up all the time, so companies over hire. It doesn't matter that MTs sit all day and wait for work to trickle in. They are looking at the client's side. They can hire as many transcriptionists as IC as they want and do not have to pay out anything if there is no work, so what do the MTSOs have to lose by over hiring?
The beatings will continue
Pathetic, isn't it?
As I don't have time to continue messing
with you, this will be my last post. I have 5 accounts, so you have one more than I do, wow! That doesn't make you a better MLS. I didn't post on here to get referral bonuses and my attitude about the company is what makes me a better MLS. Good day!
It does not continue. No one will ever give initials or
let us know, so it is safe to assume that it is the same person every time.
Why would a company continue to keep slackers?
Continue to turn down work.
That's okay, limit yourself. It leaves more work for people like me who can walk into a job and transcribe most anything. I don't understand folks that don't want to learn and then complain that they can't find a job. Go figure.
They'll definitely do it some time. You know they won't continue...sm
to pay us such a good rate when all the other companies are paying 3-5 cpl. If they all set their rates so low, there is nothing we can do about it if we want to continue to work. Their Town Hall meetings are always a pep talk followed by something that cuts your pay in the couple of years I've been there.
They will continue to lose good MTs
if they don't straighten up. Once the labor board gets on their casse, they will have no choice in straightening up.
Why are they allowed to continue to post here when they are known not to pay?..nm
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So, listen to this, you would rather continue to retype
a VR report for only 4 cents a line rather than train it where you could hopefully just zip through it? It will never improve as long as being deleted. Does that really make sense to you? You are paid 8 cents a line if straight, 4 cents if VR and yet you would continue to retype time after time?? Again, this is making sense to you?
Supposedly starts 10/06 and will continue
into the 3rd quarter of next year. I would hope they would let us know, at the very least, which accounts are going first and a time frame for the rest of this year.
Should be too! Went to continue the sentence and didn't.
I hate when I am rushing and can't correct my mistake fast enough before I hit the send button! LOL
Okay, guess I will continue. Was hoping I was being anal. (sm)
Kept a log with MQ for years then finally just stopped with DQS after I felt comfortable it wasn't cheating me. Now with new company and they want you to log everything. I feel like it is taking up a bunch of time, but... sounds like I better continue.
Thanks.
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While I wait to win the lottery, I need to continue to work....
Does anybody have any information on this company out of NJ? I've done a thorough search and absolutely no information is available. HelP?? TIA
No, you'll be allowed to continue working for well below what
you're worth with crappy benes, working holidays without holiday pay, getting cheated out of your lines, getting paid less and less every year, etc.
Well I think they would just continue to hire SEs and then give them an option, just my opinion. I
HOPE I am wrong believe me. MQ will do whatever it takes to get where they need to go and that is a fact. I just wish I knew the game so I could play it too. You know the saying, you name the game and I will play it too and better than you do. Why do you think they are so sneaky about everything. They dont want us to get a hands up on them. This is a true cat and mouse game. Just like any corporation. Get them with their pants down. Use them while we need them and then move them out. See it all the time. BUT better to keep everyone in the dark before the end comes for sure so employees dont rock the boat.
I did not continue to work for them, but have not recieved a check and it has been 2 months already.
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If TT lets wrong line counts continue, regardless of
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well then isn't that QA's job to send feedback so that doesn't continue to happen?
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