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To those who have written me privately

Posted By: Gloating MT on 2007-11-03
In Reply to: I got broadband today, goodbye MTSO vultures - Gloating MT

I seldom answer e-mails generated from here because I'm never really sure where/who they are coming from. I will tell you that the hospital is a local one and you must live within a certain radius to work from home for them. Check out the hospitals within 100 miles of you, though. MTs working from home directly for hospitals is growing and in my area becoming the norm.



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email me privately
for pros and cons
I responded privately, thank you.
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work privately
in my experience, working privately is the only way to be appreciated; the only way where you get a pat on the back for a job well done; whether it be a smile or a thank you or being invited to the company picnic or christmas party, a place where people know your name and know when they dictate into a microphone, they might say hello or good morning or have a good weekend, that they know there is a real live person on the other end trying to do the best damn job for them because they are appreciated. you don't get that with online companies. you are just a 'number' who is required to produce in 'numbers' in record time, again there are the 'numbers'
Email me privately nm
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Have to email me privately
so I can keep track of who will support and help with the effort :)


Email me privately
There is no way we can organize on this board.

Email me privately - I am NOT management or spying - I am a legitimate MT with 20 years' experience and many years as an activist.

But if we let our fears of the suits keep us from even talking, THEY win without even trying.
Because the site is privately .....
owned and the owners can do what they darn well want to with peoples' bizarre accusations that they just might not want polluting their business reputation.

TT is doing gymnastics to find decent healthcare coverage for its employees. How on earth does that get translated into a negative? And how is it that the company is nice enuf to frequently pay early, then people feel entitled to the favor as the rule, and sling mud when they have to wait all the way until payday to get their deposit?

Are you kidding me?

I have never worked for nicer people anywhere.


I emailed you privately about TTS...
don't even think about it.
e mail me privately. nm
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I e-mailed you privately (sm)
It seems to be about 50/50 there. I personally have no work on my account or backup and it's been that way since October. I have talked to all the right people and I'm still sitting here reading and typing on MT Stars when I'm should be typing reports!
If you will email me privately -
I will tell you what I did in your position after 3 years of going through what you are going through with MDI.
contact me privately, please!
I think that contacting the media is a great idea, and very important... think about National security; however, I'm thinking of something else. Let's get together and see if we can figure out a way to start our own company. We are the BEST in the business... why can't we do it? Contact me, please. AmericanMT@yahoo.com
You never leave a way to email you privately
email roster. As an example Number 1, 7, 14 and 22...and the list goes on. Also an MT manager of another MT company on the list.
Good, sent me an email privately...
I am serious that I would look into this but only if I have true support...


privately email me, because my accounts are low! nm
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Valerie, can you privately email me, too? Nm
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I also worked for MQ and went to a privately owned

company and hate it.  I am assigned my own accounts but can't make any money unless I work 12+ hours a day including weekends.  They have a 24 hr TAT which I can understand but if a doctor doesn't dictate for 2 days (or more) and then slams you with 2 days worth of dictation I don't think it's fair to expect MTs to turn around all that dictation.  I have more than one doctor and don't have a problem with TAT until one or more decides not to dictate for days and then OUCH. 


Anyway I've decided to look elsewhere.  This company also has alot of physical therapy and there is no money to be made in this field (at least not the way they do business), so I do not do physical therapy.


Depends on whether publicly or privately funded.
I believe that the California statute prohibits any facility which receives taxpayer funding or is affiliated with the state from outsourcing.
Spheris is a privately held company, there are no shareholders
I suspect this report is bogus.

Their latest press release says they are planning on increasing their domestic work force at the same time as their overseas one, to match their aggressive pursuit of new accounts. (Personally I think they ought to concentrate on servicing the ones they have.)
Oh no.. Can you elaborate or privately email on what happened..That would help me immensly. Thanks.

Email me privately. I think we work for the same company and I have an answer for you.
I went through all of this about 6 months ago and if it's the same company I'll give you the lowdown.
Have you asked your supervisors why no work? Which account are you on? You can email me privately if
you want..
OSI--Would either of you OSI employees mind if I emailed you privately with a couple of questions?
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Wow! That was well written!!!
You're a valuable asset to your company!
Serious. I said that it was well written and
that I thought they were a valuable employee for their company. ????
Again, could have written this also
My first 2 pay periods were on great accounts, made the minimum line count with rave reviews from QA. Then, BAM, started running out of work and put on back up accounts. No more work on primary account and only the hard work on the back up accounts. Harder to get line counts and more job stress.

I can't work for just one company anymore as this has happened to me more than once now. I think the better an MT you are, the more likely this is to happen to you.
Wow, very well written.
I, too, went through same thing. I took job #2. Have been making myself nuts, do I stay? do I go back? I have finally decided that I left #1 for good reasons. If #2 doesn't work out in the long run, I'll go elsewhere.
OMG, I could have written that! nm
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Some of what has been written.....
here is not pretty, nor should we be proud of it, BUT I think it does reflect alot of frustration and that frustration can be seen in what has been written. It is frustrating as h#@# to have a career that was respected, paid you a good wage and that people looked upon as something the average person could not do without specalized training. Then slowly before your eyes you watch it start to disappear and then all of the sudden WHAM, almost every group of MT's you talk to anywhere, their jobs are gone, or their wages/hours are not enough to live on. I think that is what is showing through the most in these posts is the absolute helplessness one feels to be able to do anything about it. It is like a tsunami, you are warned it is coming, and you try your best to prepare for it and when that wave hits, it destroys nearly everything that was in place and then it starts sucking everything back out to sea. I think alot of us feel like we are being sucked out to sea and we are trying desperately to grab onto something that will keep us from going under. Pretty NO, truthful PRETTY MUCH. Scary, YES. Make you mad, SURE AS H#$$ DOES.
I could have written this........sm
I was very open minded about the VR and found that there was far too much editing and could not make money on it. They give you the razzamatazz that you have to use the short cut keys and ya ya ya......that is no good when every line has a few wrong words on it. The punctuation is off. Everything is off. It's garbage. I would certainly edit it and make it perfect but not for what these crooks want to pay me so I'm back to typing and yes, there are typing jobs out there. Just say NO to VR unless they pay 6 cents per line minimum.
Yes, so well-written, and now what?
When I take a step back what I see is that I should quit doing this work. When Pakistan/India/Afh really heat up and there is some technological glitch we'll have a few fun days in America when doctors are hand writing their reports. Big picture, that's what I see happening.
Most definitely NOT written by an MT.
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Well written
I enjoyed reading your perspective. I am a recent graduate from a good program. I did not have much problem finding a job that has started me with above-average pay and good benefits. I am very happy with my choice. I would share that on the new MT board, but I will certainly be called a liar and other delightful names.
I have not written any of this stuff
The secret to becoming a favorite at OSi will never be made publicly known, as there are plenty of people who consistently get at least 98%, 99%, or even 100% on audits, and are they rewarded for it? No. They aren't even told what they get because apparently their superiors would feel obligated to reward them. They just keep plugging away making the people "who hear it from the physician" look good while some of the QA team needs to be replaced for their holier-than-thou attitudes and their capacity to make crucial mistakes as well. The only way to grow and succeed with this company is not by being a model employee by being reliable and doing near perfect work without complaining - it is all in the hands of the powers that be, and what they look for, I sure as heck don't know, nor does anyone else not in the inner circle, 98% accurate or not. Why anyone would want to run a company this way is beyond me. Why not take the best assets you have - your employees - and use them to help your company grow, instead of playing these stupid games and giving people promotions simply because they have found a way to nudge into your circle? That is how companies succeed.
Anyone written Frank?
I was contemplating an email to Frank to express my opinion regarding his capability to make intelligent decisions and was wondering if anyone else had expressed their opinion to him yet. 
To all those slamming TH from below. Not one of you has written me

and asked my opinion or asked questions.  I have been with them for 4 months and I really like them.  I know their strong points and weak points yet you would rather knock them down than get the opinion of an actual employee who is still there.  You just want to complain and knock them down.  If you want an opinion who knows the good and the bad about them, email me.  If you want to just knock a good company down, then keep it up..


 


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Flo COULDN'T have written this!
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Well said, well written. Please do more of this "out there." nm
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It is all written out now. Much more constinency. There is no nm
cherry picking on my account, so I do not go through what you did. Pay days have been the same for the entire 3 years I have been there, so you must have been there a long time ago. They are the 1st and 15th and always have been.
I could have written this myself. I'm looking into a new field. nm
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I could have written your post ! sm
The only difference is my hubby is in the oil business. Other than that, everything you say rings true for me too!

Would not change a thing!
wow, could have been written by the supe!
TH has a bad habit of getting their employees to voluntarily do beta tests on CM which can slow you down, but since you volunteered, you aren't compensated for it...or for anything else they ask you to volunteer to them. CM goes down a significant amount of time so as to cause your production to suffer and they really love to take it down for maintenance the evening of the last day of the pay period. Sometimes when it goes down unexpectedly, it might stay down for 1-2 days and only alert some employees it is back up, not everyone.

Good luck with the TransHealth gig thingy.
I think it was written by OSi management
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Took the written test...
and passed, did the transcription test and I must not have done that well because I have not heard back from then. I took it Monday.
I could have written your post
but not said it nearly so well - agree 100%!!
This was obviously written by someone in management!
I think I am going to vomit.
I could have written that. It is exactly what happened to me. sm
I also know who you are talking about being a cheerleader for the company. Amazing, huh?

I kept warning everyone this would happen. I sincerely hope you can recover from this financially. It will not get better if you stay.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I could have written your post as well s/m
We got an email from my STM today saying that one MT got the No Studies Available message 110 times in one day and still got their 8 hours in and typed 1500 lines, and we should be so dedicated. That really made me feel sad. I mean, I WISH I could do that. I really do. My personal and family situation just does not permit me to sit waiting for 10-12 hours a day to get the work in when it is not there. Sad, but true. I will hope the best for you as well...
Not much written because they're a - sm
mostly nice bunch of people. The pay is ALWAYS on time. They use a platform called Word Script. It works pretty well; I have no major complaints about it.

Acusis actually started with only India-based workers (but main office is in Pennsylvania). Then they bought DRC, a CA-based MT company, in order to have US-based workers too.

Techs and supervisors seem pretty approachable, plus they have lots of online and teleconferences, bulletins, etc. They pay by the line. Also, they have good accounts (at least I think mine is good!) They have very high quality standards, which is probably why they have high quality accounts.
I could have written this post., sm
If per chance a company is having issues with a client starting up, a little give/take goes a looong way. You have to remember there are often times issues that are out of the MTSOs control.

As far as them hiring someone to type 10 reports and then not pay them. Seriously!? They could type those 10-20 reports much faster than the time it takes to hire someone, i.e. computer/software setup, paperwork, training, QA of those reports, etc. JMO.

Everyone I have dealt with at Landmark has been more than accomodating to my needs as well. I'd recommend them to a friend without a second thought.
Your post could have been written by me

Although there are a few differences in the rules between MT and VR, I've noticed that some don't even follow the basic rules in the account specifications.


Although it hurts me in the wallet, I, too, take my time; although some days I wonder why I do that and sometimes just want to forgetaboutit.