Town hall conference call was very impressive. sm
Posted By: southernMT on 2009-04-01
In Reply to: Now working for Webmedx and concerned about townhall mtg. (sm) - MQ refugee
I'm glad to be working for Webmedx.
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Webmedx town hall mtg ?? (sm)
This upcoming one is the first I have heard of since I came on board (about 3 months ago). Used to work for MQ and these were often a prelude to us getting s*&^*^d. Please tell me this is just an informative type how-do-you-do thing. So far everything about this company has been great, I just have recurring nightmares about the past couple of years I spent with MQ. Thanks.
town hall meeting
I agree. This is very much a listening meeting, basically a pep rally about how great Webmedx is and how they put the employees first. Unfortunately this is not the case demonstrated by the amount of posts here and the lack of work for those of us who have given so much to this company. Now we sit with nary a thing to do.
Just got an E-mail about a Webmedx town hall meeting
Just got an E-mail about a Webmedx town hall meeting coming up. Those are NEVER good news. FYI.
I predict they will announce that, due to tough economic times, they will cut the VR rate. You know it is going to happen.
What was the OSi conference call about?
a week or so ago - the one that was nasty
Conference Call...
Don't you remember the part where he said they want everyone to strive to achieve 40% above straight typing rate on ISR? It was when he was talking about this year's goals. Don't you know what that means? It sounded to me like we can expect a 10% cut in the ISR rate soon, as it is now a 30% cut from straight typing.
MDI Conference Call
We’re so glad that you joined in this afternoon’s conference call announcing the merger between MDI and Transcend Services. This is an exciting time for all of us, but I know that even good changes can bring about anxiety and I want to assure everyone that we are here to answer your questions to the best of our ability.
All MDI team members are encouraged to send any questions or concerns you may have that are not addressed in the FAQ sheet you’ve received to TeamMDI@mditrans.com so that we can address these in team conference calls which have been scheduled for Thursday morning (your team lead will provide you with the details).
Dorothy, Don, and myself, will continue to be available via email to everyone and will respond as quickly as possible to your questions and concerns. We urge you to utilize the TeamMDI@mditrans.com email address for all your questions so that you can be assured of receiving the most accurate information as soon as possible.
We look forward to continuing to work with each one of you as we move to the future.
Thanks,
Carlotta M. Buckley
MDI – Director of Transcription Services
MDI conference call
Interesting quote from that press release:
...including the conversion of some of MDI's business to Transcend's speech recognition-enabled BeyondTXT platform,...
conference call
They can see you? or just your name?
Fired via conference call? A new low, to be sure.
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TT 401K conference call
Someone went yesterday and it lasted approximately 50 minutes. I'll probably go today.
Was it Aflac? We have a conference call
about it 2/29. You should have received an e-mail about it last week.
They said this on a DSG2 conference call
...that it was overflow from MQ. This was news to me too.
I just wish they'd find another conference call
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Fired by conference call
along with about 30 others when SPi sent accounts to India and Philippines. Two hours' notice of the mandatory conference call. Two hours' notice to sign off before being locked out, and get time sheets in. That was special!
Second conference call this morning
Did anyone learn anything new in the second conference call this morning? To me it was mostly more of the same. It seems like most people (me included) are mostly concerned with becoming an employee and having a set schedule and there didn't seem to be a clear answer on that.
MDI - Second conference call this morning
Did anyone learn anything new in the second conference call this morning? To me it was mostly more of the same. It seems like most people (me included) are mostly concerned with becoming an employee and having a set schedule and there didn't seem to be a clear answer on that.
This morning's conference call
My antennas went up right away this morning when the call began. It was acknowledged that this news must have come as a surprise to us, but when our moderator said it had also come as a surprise to her only a few days prior, my hopes for some honest and forthright information went down the tubes. It seems to me someone who was moving up in the chain of command would have known what was going on much longer than a couple of days.
I took advantage of emailing one of the team leaders from Transcend last night with some questions about the flexibility of the schedules and shift work, etc., and here is the answer she gave to me:
We do have shifts instead of line count commitments, but we also never discourage anyone from working extra, and in fact we are always asking for extra help, so that isn’t a problem. Everyone here logs lines and hours for payroll. The hours are because if you work overtime we do have to pay that. We do usually ask that you see if overtime is allowed first, but it’s not that big of a deal because most of the time we are so busy we approve it anyway, so yes if you want to work more you certainly can. We consider $900.00 gross a pay period fulltime. We used to count it in lines, but now we have come up with a money amount. That’s easy to achieve actually, but you don’t have to stop at 900 by any means, it is just minimum to remain fulltime.
You will see, more often than not, we are begging people to work extra. We cross train on platforms and most people have primary, secondary, tertiary accounts. If one isn’t busy another one is. You will not be constrained on the amount of money you want to make ...
So, if that takes any mud out of the water for you that's good, but it still seems that our flexibility and earning capacity will depend on someone else. I certainly agree with everyone about the pay scale. You can't convince me that they have gone through all of these negotiations and pay has never entered into the picture. I believe it will be just exactly as one caller said this morning, they will attempt to equate the benefits with the pay, so I guess when my power company comes to shut off my electricity I can send them over to Blue Cross/Blue Shield or whoever to get the balance of my money.
I was on the conference call and was told
that MDI would be a subsidiary of Transcend but would be called MDI/Transcend. Sounded like a crock to me.
Missed conference call...(sm)
I'm hoping for a recap email regarding the conference call. In the meantime, anything interesting or noteworthy? I'm definitely torn on this one, and hoping for some good news.
They posted the conference call
We all got e-mail that had had the link to open for the conference call if you missed it. Didn't you get it in your e-mail?
I have received no email about such conference call.
Where did you get that from, and who sent it out. Give initials, pls. I got missed somehow.
Anyone know how long conference call lasts for new 401-K?
Thanks
Thank u, but I am confused. On our conference call, we were told
that we would maintain our flexiblity and be able to meet our commitments in a 24-hour window. Are you saying there are set shifts? That is huge for me, as I cannot work a set shift around my kids' ever-changing schedules. Right now we are required to work 2 weekends days per month and we commit to X number of lines per day on the days we schedule ourselves to work. We were told this flexibility would NOT change. We also do not request holidays off, but schedule ourselves to work one holiday per year. We write our own schedules and submit them every 2 months. The flexibility is the biggest reason I have worked for MDI for years and the only place I wanted to work again after taking a year off to be with a newborn.
I like my current accounts, but am willing to also learn a new platform/account to make sure I have enough work. But the flexible scheduling is imperative.
I COMPLETELY MISSED THE MDI CONFERENCE CALL, WHAT'S UP?
Please give me the details. :)
It was referred to as stealing in a conference call by mgrs. sm
Your equation doesn't always prove true if there is little work, if a person's primary account is an overflow account, or if it is the last few days of the pay period. If people are scrambling to get jobs on their shifts and someone else comes along who doesn't normally work that shift, but is just doing so out of convenience for themselves, they are taking lines from what little jobs there are from the people who abide by the rules and what they had been asked by management. This is most definitely stealing lines from fellow MLSs. Perhaps you have been fortunate enough to have a primary account that always has heavy volume, and that may account for why you had never been told this by management. But, a good share of accounts aren't like this, and this has repeatedly been addressed by management as a problem issue. If it wasn't a problem, upper management (Larry) would never have brought it up in conference calls and in email.
I was on the conference call but didn't hear rates..Thank You! (nm)
CBay fired more people via conference call.
...including one that they tried to get rid of in December but felt compelled to keep.
the conference call cannot address the original question,
which is trying to discern whether other peoples emails are seemingly being ignored or if it is just the poster's problem?
Cbay systems layed off 32 employees via conference call on 12/21/2007
Anyone here affected by this? I am so sick over this.
Can anyone comment on your Acusis conference call today? Hoping you're all still gainfully
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Wow, impressive
based on this and other posts (some kinda old) it sounds like a good company. Some good, some bad but that's with every company right? I've sent in my resume and filled out their application online so we'll see what we see.
Thanks for the info guys!
Impressive how? Was that your first one? nm
Wow, that's impressive. Do they outsource?
Now I am very intrigued! I did e-mail them and asked a few basic questions. Do you have any idea what their pay scale is? I have almost 7 years of experience as an MT.
Wow. Very impressive. Is that average?
chicachica
Wow, that is extremely impressive!
That is good customer service. We are all customers to each other, I was taught one time in a class at a hospital where I worked. That is really nice to hear.
wow, amazing and impressive!...nm
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Impressive?? That's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
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Four Seasons and the infamous Ms. Hall. nm
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The local hospital I go to has it....I have to say it is impressive.
I have various scopes done periodically for surveillance, and for the last few years they have handed me a beautifully typed and surprisingly detailed report as soon as I wake up, complete with color photos. I recently asked how it was done so quickly. The nurse said the doc types it using a template.
They had "town hall" meetings today
Just to take questions about any concerns from people, etc. They spun the reasoning behind the new rules for holiday pay. Said OSi was growing. A lot of what I heard seemed a bit condescending, that they needed the MTs to be on there and working instead of everyone always wanting off and taking advantage of holiday pay, etc. Also several questions asked I felt were not directly answered but just kind of stepped around or given a we'll have to check into that. Not very informative. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Robin Hall/Four Seasons - Whereabouts??? sm
Wondering if anybody knows what happened to Robin and/or Four Season Transcription?? Her website is down and email bounces back. I just received a 1099 from her for 2008 and I haven't worked for her since 2007. She didn't pay me what she owed me in 2007, much less anything in 2008. Has anybody been in contact with her lately??? Thanks!!!
Must be a small company. 1000 lines/day is not that impressive. nm
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Wow, sounds pretty impressive. Do you mind sharing sm
how much per line you get regular time? Do you get a daily incentive bonus?
Update on Four Seasons Transcription/Robin Hall. sm
Well, the update is there is no update. She still has not paid me the money she owes me and refuses to answer emails, etc. I've heard she's suing me for making slanderous and libelous statements. She obviously has not looked up the definitions of slander or libel. I've not made one FALSE statement. I've had mutual acquaintances forward me emails/instant messages from her where she's making outrageous claims like she's mailed me my money by certified mail and I've failed to pick them up and she's emailed me but I refuse to answer her. Totally nonsensical garbage. I hear that she's advertising on guru.com these days. I really need to know where these unethical imposters get off thinking they can just steal our services and get away with it. I guess because they can. Boy, how I wish some hospital would stiff her like she's stiffed me. Thanks for all your kind words of encouragement.
If Four Seasons Transcription/Robin Hall owes you money...sm
please email me. I am receiving emails from new victims of her's almost weekly. Hopefully we can something done together since none of us seem to be getting anywhere individually. It's became blatantly obvious that lying, conning, and stealing from us is just the way she runs her business. Upon comparing notes, the common thread seems to be her excuses, i.e., her clients not paying her, our banks, and her accountant. The payroll company is another of her favorites. She even uses some of the exact same wording. (She must have created templates for these excuse emails) I finally quit when she owed me 4 invoices. Her newest maneuver is firing people whose production has gone down solely for the reason that they're not being paid. SHE MUST BE STOPPED. As we speak, she is probably sitting at her black-hearted little computer shooting out her excuse templates right and left. The post below by just passing through is kind of baffling. I'd sure like more details about that situation. Robin can sue me until the cows come home, I did NOTHING wrong. I did get a reply from the BBB, and they said they didn't handle complaints of this nature. Guru.com said they're keeping a close eye on her. I feel our best bet is to pool our resources, hire an attorney, supply him/her with all the evidence we've collected, and let a court handle it. Even if we cannot recover any of the money she already owes all of us, perhaps we can prevent her from ever doing this to others in the future. Please email me if you're interested in joining forces against this rogue MTSO.
Four Seasons Transcription and Robin Hall...a tale of deception and duplicity. sm
I went to work for this company in November. I was assigned two large hospital accounts in Canada. After a few months, she lost one of them. She had to let go all of the MTs and editors she had hired to work on that account but asked me to stay because she said I was her best Editor and highest producer. I did. Everything rocked along for a few months without a hitch. Then my paycheck starting arriving late, at first a week, maybe 10 days late. But I was cool with that and didn't complain. Then one paycheck was weeks late. I contacted Robin and she told me that my bank was rejecting my direct deposit because my account had been closed. So I argued with the bank back and forth for weeks. They maintained that no deposits had been attempted. By then I was 2-3 paychecks behind. She continued to insist my bank was rejecting the direct deposits. I asked her for proof from her payroll company (rejection notices) but of course they never materialized. By August 1st, she still owed me 4 paychecks and I told her I could no longer donate my time and services to her cause. Throughout this time, she steadfastly stuck to her story that the hospital had not paid her, ergo she could not pay me. I've been in contact with a few of her current employees and know she's paying them (though late). As far as I'm concerned, this woman is nothing but a common thief. She stole my time, my experience, my talent, and my trust. I'm posting this because I'd like to save some other trusting soul from this same fate. I have no idea how this woman can lay her head on a pillow every night and actually go to sleep. A pox on her!!!
The town that I live in is
Stillwell, in Georgia. The Stillwell is for the town, MTC is Medical Transcriptionist Coder. :)
thanks for the info though.
The town that I live in is
Stillwell, in Georgia. The Stillwell is for the town, MTC is Medical Transcriptionist Coder. :)
thanks for the info though.
Wow, they have a town named after me! LOL. nm
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Get out of town!!Wow how wonderful! I will look you up there.
I am wiseoldowl2000 and have been on there since 1992, though my exhusband had been on since 2000. The night my son was born he overbid on something he already had he was so excited. But I was not yet in the E=bay world. I will definitely look you up. We should have an e bay board here, I don't know about anyone else, but I am more addicted to e bay than I am transcribing! LOL. :)
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