Unprofessional and ridiculous! sm

• Verbal testing on the phone - Just curious
  • Verbal test for Spheris - Lorraine
    • usually, for the online tests, you can download... - just me
  • Unprofessional and ridiculous! sm - Ex-Recruiter
    • It was a real test and was done very professionally. - I passed
    • I think that's what they mean, no? Otherwise, I totally agree. nm - MT
  • IMO I would rather have a verbal test on the phone - Eva
    • I agree. Nothing is worse than spending hours on these web-based tests - another sm
  • JLG did, but it was so ridiculously hard that - sm
    • Their verbal test was not hard at all. I was amazed - sm
      • JLG - just wondering
      • I thought it was no only VERY easy, but kinda fun, after the initial panic !!! - New JLG MT 2.
        • JLG - just wondering
          • Sure, be happy to, but I see no email address? Am I missing it? nm - New JLG MT 2
        • sorry, should be "not" only - typing too fast.
    • You mean you received a written offer? - New JLG MT
    • Ridiculously hard? I must be a genius then because I aced that test. nm - Me
    • If a doctor "knows things" and dictates them, sm - nm
    • JLG hard? - USMT
  • Webmedx did a verbal test when I applied last year (sm) - Me
    • Verbal testing..... - typnqueenbee
    • You decided their transcription must be bad because her headset was? sm - MT
      • No, if they knowingly tested you when you had crappy sound effects what would they treat you like a - Me
        • But this wasn't your transcription test. She just asked you questions, - for heaven's sake.
  • Transhealth, they do written and verbal, - but I didn't think it was hard. nm
  • Testing over the Phone? sm - niteowl
    • I've had spot spelling tests over the phone for svl places in my years. Not fun when you rely on - your spellcheck so much. nm
    • I recently took two over the phone tests. - Phone tested MT
    • c msg - aa
  • DRC did. Printed out a copy of the test and took it over the phone w/the - recruiter. nm

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If your oversea MTs are that great, why bother with us Americans?  If I worked for your company, I would quit yesterday. 

than this person.  I pity anyone that works for her. 

start a yahoo group?  That would be better than how you are reflecting yourself here.  You are showing you're true colors.  It is quite obvious you are frequenting this board.

Your pay rate is very low.  Your demands are high, and you are not showing anything here but how unprofessional and NOT BUSY you are! 

Please save it!  You have obviously burned some MTs, and they are not getting past it!  So, why do you continue to post?  You are like stirring the pot!  Your original post was enough.  Really it was....   

P/S:  No, I am not an ex-disgruntled IC (really should be employee) with the demands you have on there. 

Then, you have the nerve to respond to someone asking about line rates that you charge anywhere from 9 on up, yet your starting rate is 8 for 2nd shift, but you claim you cannot afford to pay more.  Shady!

A professional would never take such a minor issue and blurb it on a chat page.  A professional would have approached the maker of the typo or would have just looked past it.  Pretty sad when you have to stroke your own ego over a typo.

I worked for them years ago.  Supposed to be PT to supplement my FT job.  Got way too much work (I know with low work flow these days, I shouldn't complain).  I sent a very professional and very friendly email stating that I considered PT to be less than 1000 lines a day and that she was sending me too much work.  She went crazy waying I was flaming her via email and then called my home phone and left a nasty message calling me a liar and that I should never expect to work for them EVER again.

I knew someone else who worked for Accupro as well.  She gave two weeks notice when she resigned and said she would ship the equipment back to the owner after her two weeks.  She lived locally to where Accupro's owner lived and the next day the owner showed up at her home, banging on the door demanding her equipment, and told my friend what a fool she was to have quit.

Finally, I had a friend who worked for a hospital that Accupro contracted with to do overflow.  The owner was constantly behaving unprofessionally, calling the supervisor demanding to know why they didn't have much work, refusing to accept that the department was simply caught up.  When she was reminded that Accupro was contracted to do overflow only, she would attempt to go over the MT supervisor's head.  And then would play games with workflow - not returning work to the facility purposely for days at a time.

The woman shouldn't not be a business owner.  She is totally unprofessional and feels she owns her ICs, but won't make them employees and got help you if you decide to move on.  She becomes vengeful and downright scary!

We all do our best, but typos will happen from time to time.   Won't matter tomorrow and certainly won't matter next year.

I received an email today regarding an employment application I had submitted some time ago.  I currently work as an IC and am very happy with my job, so the application must have been submitted at least 6 months ago.  First of all, the email does not state the name of the company that I supposedly applied to.  It is three sentences long and states that they are looking for ICs to work from home.  They will pay 6.5 cpl without spaces!  Attached is a list of their computer requirements.  The email states that if I meet the requirements to contact them and they will direct me to their testing site.

I have about 20 years of experience as an MT.  What is going on with this field that a company thinks that 6.5 cpl is a respectable rate for a seasoned MT?  Not to mention not putting the name of the company in the email...so I don't even know who I'm dealing with.  And, not paying for spaces?!?!?  I will not work for a company that does not pay for spaces.  A space is a keystroke.  It should be counted.  Spaces don't get into a document by magic!!

I have a good mind to respond to this email and tell them exactly what I think of their offer, but then again, it probably wouldn't do a bit of good.

I have to say that I used to be MTSO and while I was not rich, I definitely made more than the people who worked for me...if you don't, even part of the time, then you are doing something wrong and why be in business? And yes, most of the MTSOs that I know (and I do know 5 of them right in my general area) do live in the very best neighorhoods, have 5000 sq foot houses, and if not vacations homes, then quite a bit of money in the bank.

You're not the only person I've heard say this and it's a shame this is happening.  I realize we MTs cannot expect to be paid higher wages when the services are suffering as well. 

But I see too many ways for this whole mess the transcription profession finds itself in now to just fail and do a turnaround.  The government insists on privacy protection of medical records, then allows us to send them overseas with little if any regulation.  What about taxes and Social Security loss due to this?  The Department of Labor gives us our own classification (a bit of recognition for us) but our pay is not on par with other professions in the same classification.  AAMT wants certification to be mandatory but what's the incentive to study and work so hard for it if it doesn't make a much more substantial increase in our salaries than a penny a line? Yes, that can add up, but it should be more, way more.  Physicians want cheap rates with excellent quality but how many qualified MTs are willing to work for pennies before feeling used, frustrated, burned out?  How many young people are willing to enter a profession with such low wages and have to work hard and wait years to achieve even that?  

In the end, I don't see how all this VR and offshoring and underbidding it is going to benefit anyone except lawyers who will profit from suits brought about by privacy violations, malpractice suits due to the result of physicians depending on missing and/or wrong information in the medical record, misplaced records, dictation getting lost in the process of transfer between here and there, etc.  How many service owners will want to continue making as little profit as they do now (small ones)?  I also see coming an overall shortage of qualified MTs who can understand the American physicians who are impossible dictators and the ESLs.   What incentive do the new MTs have to hang in there and strive for this other than a sense of accomplishment but that doesn't pay the bills.  Yes, if you work long hours and/or multiple jobs you can do well, but is this what it has come down to?  And how many will be willing to do this for any length of time when they have other options?

It's all going too fast to prevent errors, serious errors.  I think we will be needed again, hopefully paid a higher salary again like so many years ago, but not until a tragedy happens and America wakes up to how these allegedly cost-saving methods of doing medical transcription is hurting the economy and the physicians start getting only what they are willing to pay for.  There are the lives of the human beings (patients) involved here.  This isn't about producing just a product (like a garment) in another country.   Medical transcription involves too many people in too many areas of medicine to let it totally falter.  Something has to give at some point.

One thing I'd like to see is for the insurance companies to raise the fees for physicians and services who offshore since their transcription is more prone to error than if it was done by a knowledgeable native American MT who knows our language, and also because it leaves the country thereby jeopardizing the patient's protection and privacy since these other countries do not have the security measures that America does.