Unfortunately, many practice this unethical behavior. sm
Posted By: It has happened to me in the past on 2006-04-05
In Reply to: I have this recruiter calling me - sm
I worked for a company that sold out to MQ. A certain person took all of the names of the MTs with her when she went to another company, went after the accounts this company had, and tried to recruit the MTs for that account for the new company.
I asked how they go my name and number as I had never applied to this new company before - and I was told so and so worked at such company and we have this account now and you used to work on for such and such company....etc. I was shocked to say the least!
So, yes it does happen, and NO I never took the job and asked them to please not contact me again that I was not interested.
Nothing is sacred anymore - not even our privacy let alone the hospitals and patients!
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Not unethical, when you factor in the unethical companies
She's just another MT trying to make a living like the rest of us. The old way of taking it 1 job at a time while you dump 4 fly-by-nights in order to find one that is honest and actually PAYS its MTs, can lead to lots of between-job time with no pay at all. MT has become a cutthroat business, and in order to stay in it, one has to sometimes turn the tables on these unscrupulous MTSOs. If EVERYONE did, you better believe they'd clean up their act pronto.
my BEHAVIOR?
I asked to clear the board of the MDI/Transcend-ness that has inundated it.
What does that have to do with my compassion??
You can talk and commiserate till the cows come home.
No excuse for their behavior.
I have also worked as an MT and as a manager. I worked in QA for DSG. Those ladies are the rudest individuals that I have ever encountered. All managers at all MT companies are under lots of pressure. Each company, until DSG, did not take out their frustrations on the MTs. There is no excuse for their behavior. Period.
Sure, there are emails that are not urgent. How about the emails that they NEVER answer? Huh? Most emails that I sent to any of them were NEVER answered. They obviously do not know what they are doing. They kept piling new accounts into the same work pool instead of creating a separate work pool - to avoid MTs having to keep up with specifics on several different accounts. The messages that they included in the backlog reports were also rude most of the time. I marvel at the fact that they are still in business.
We can discuss whose behavior is sad
And if you aren't familiar with the word Hades, which gets through the word censors when it's other more common alliteration does not, then perhaps you should read more rather than spend your time on the board star gazing.
That sort of behavior was well illustrated by
well back into history, and there are a lot of reasons for it. Partly genetic, partly situational.
Not only is it unethical.....sm
She is in danger of being sued for breach of confidentiality and, if the higher ups at SS find out, believe me, they will come after her.
Re: Unethical
More than being a breach of confidentiality, the legal onus rests with what is known as theft of proprietary information. Either way, she will be in big trouble if she is ever found out.
There is nothing unethical
What is the difference how you do it, either with SR or an expander. I have severe carpal tunnel. If not for SR, I would be out of a job. We all take short cuts to get the job done. There is nothing unethical about it. You have to have very articulate speech to be successful with it and fortunately, I do.
Seriously, dont let them bother you.. This behavior is typical.
It is normal for some people here to react this way. It would probably be beneficial for THEM to get out of the house to remember how civilized people converse.
the corps make their money on this behavior
and they probably laugh quite a bit at how fast one will sell out another, or at those especially willing to work for nothing and then browbeat others who know they are worth far more than what they are paid.
Look around. The only people who have much of anything now are people who have unions. you can hate them, you can criticize them, but those people still have jobs and so would we have if we would have at least unionized to, if anything, keep our jobs here in the US. But women could not even agree on that. I would gladly have paid 35 dollars a month to have the same pay I have 10 years ago. rather now I am expected to make about half my pay from 10 years ago, and if I complain I get these sadistic women trying to bully me into thinking that is a good thing somehow and 'how lucky I am to at least have a job'
No, it is unethical to take this information to
another company. It belongs to the original company. Maybe you are on the AAMT list or something. Sometimes they contact folks from the AAMT list.
Unethical??? Tell that to Dictaphone
U R so right! The MT industry gets away with so much unethical
If all MTs were to rise up one day, suddenly become VISIBLE, and make their voices heard, maybe the industry would be put on notice to clean up their act.
How unethical to be trying to find other MTs ID numbers
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They asked you about your current employer. What's unethical about that? nm
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As an ex-Keystroker, this behavior sounds like the norm. It is convenient to blame the person who
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Practice what you preach. Your a** has been on here all day!
;-)
Common practice?
Is it common practice now days to type 4 different accounts - 7 different work types in one 8 hour shift? I'm experiencing this as a FT employee for a well known company - Other than this, the company is wonderful ....this has given me great experience, but my pay has decreased.....Do I need to suck it up and keep pounding away or look elsewhere? Any advice appreciated!!!
RE: Common practice?
Suck it up. You really do not have a problem.
Why not practice being French
here to see how you like it? Try being snotty and rude. Sneer and pretend you don't understand what people are saying. Maintain a disdainful countenance, while dissing the USA. Set fire to a couple of cars. Demand 8 weeks paid vacation and then refuse to work anyhow.
Not exactly defending the practice
First, I'm not a big fan of mandatory overtime anyway. I understand sometimes they need it, but after 40, there are some weeks where I don't even have another minute in me to give them.
I've also had the same thing with overtime...being happy because they're requesting it for an account that's semi-easy and I'm good at, and then logging on to find out it's the account from hail. I can't be the only one from that hail-storm to be working, and I can only assume they're not too backed up because they're not the ones looking for OT, so why oh why oh why must I type any of the Chennai Boomhauer in my spare time.
It must have something to do with different turnaround because I don't think my place assigns them. At least in theory, although I've not seen the spread sheets to prove it, it's first in/first out to me. I did ask them about this one other time I signed on for overtime at the slightly better place and got stuck with Hail Community Hospital. I was still eligible for the OT, but I'd have gotten probably double if I'd have been typing the actual account that needed the OT.
Free Practice Test
This will give you some sound files and practice tests - http://www.meditec.com/meditec-skills-test.html
its for Family Practice account
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is there any type of practice test
you can take to help prepare for it or at least give you an idea of what's covered?
family practice companies
Does anyone out there know of any companies with good family practice accounts?
Yes, hiring practice was right 'fit' for me
Imagine hiring someone just based on their resume and a phone interview. Aha, the catch? You have to pass a very rigorous 10-day QA process, can transcribe only 5 reports a day during that time. It is challenging, but well worth it at the end of that time. You decide if it's the right job, and they decide if you are the right employee.
Like I said, old school.
Does that include the overhiring practice of Transcend's
so none of us can make a decent living, or the miserable platform transcend brought with it?
Oh, I understand. I wasn't condoning the practice
of not paying for no work situations at all. Just commenting that MQ was not the only one to fail to do so.
Although I have never been out of work with either MQ or Spheris, should that situation have occurred I would have been all the more reliant on the other position's income.
I once had a group practice client, which included ...sm
6 physicians. The most irritating one was the doc from India who had been in the U.S. for at least 15 years (I know this because I went to school with his children), and refused to even work on losing at least a small part of his accent. He was so ridiculous, and each time I typed his work, I said to myself I swear this guy purposely works at keeping his thick accent just to irritate me! Interestingly, 2 of his partners in the practice were ESL (had only been in the U.S. for 1-2 years), and their accent was much less severe. These were younger docs, who in my opinion, made an effort to get with the program if they want to practice medicine here! I do believe that people can actually make themselves hold onto their accents. I have a friend who is from the south (She has lived near me in the SE part of the country for 20 years) and she continues to have a strong southern accent. She has not lived in the south since she was a small child. I tease her about it.
That is totally unacceptable business practice.
How different are internal medicine notes from family practice? nm
I had no MT training, either. Started at an Ortho practice, then to a nat'l. MT school is NOT a n
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And yet YOU fuel the fires. Good grief, practice....
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Is it common practice for companies to disable the cont.I function?
Does that necessarily mean anything?
With practice and expansion usage, you'll get there! Stop dwelling on the
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Any place to get free practice voice files or does anyone offer testing that could be accessed w/o
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Curious. Scrolling down yesterday and noted comment about unfair labor practice
suit possibly brought by an MT against a certain company. I know this company only hires ICs - not employees. Is this possible? TIA.
Agreed. I also got a nice Christmas bonus working for a tiny private practice. sm
In a smaller office you're seen as an actual person.
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