Was slow for months - now picking up but not hiring
Posted By: Tli on 2009-03-30
In Reply to: I think it has been slow most places but is starting - to pick up now. nm
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Hiring really slow lately??
I've been an MT for 4+ years and I have never run into anything like this before. I've sent out tons of resumes looking for a second job and am unable to get anything besides a we aren't hiring right now - if I even get a response. Even when taking a test and passing it, I'm told that I passed and that I will be contacted when something opens up. Well that never happens. I will come to find that a newbie was just hired, though, a couple of weeks later. I'm happy for them, don't get me wrong.
Do these places even keep your resume/applications/tests on file? Or do they just go on to the first e-mail received on the day they advertise they are looking for someone a couple weeks later?
It feels like I've been blacklisted or something! It's starting to make me wonder! My resume is good and has always been good enough for companies in the past, so I doubt it is that or the way I present myself. I always put negotiable for rate, so I'm not asking for much. I work evenings, holiday's and weekends...so I'm not sure what's up!
Anyone else with experience going through this at all?
Focus Infomatics is slow too -- 3 months after the fact.
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Not for people on my team. Slow work for months. nm
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The hiring process is very SLOW!
The training sucks! The platform is a joke, not very MT friendly, IMO. I am about a month in and I am looking for another job.
Oh and I have never posted about this company. I read the negative posts and thought the same; all coming from the same person. My experience has been more negative than positive.
I've been on OT all but 2 days the past 4 months. If work is slow
that just means we get a chance to get caught up with TAT. Get paid for downtime too if no work.
Obviously slow in the hiring process. Applied last
week and not a word. I assure you, I am a GREAT MT, and really am surprised not to even hear 1 word other than the format response email. I have since tested and interviewed with 2 other companies, and really can't sit and wait to see if WMX happens to notice my app.
There's a difference between over hiring and the occasional work slow down. sm
Every company has some times that are busier than others. That doesn't make the recruiter a liar.
I left due to no work for 2 months and they were STILL hiring
when that was going on. I would stay clear for a while unless you can survive off of 200 lines per day and want to work 24/7 and fight over the lines as they come in.
Why is Medware hiring? I just quit after 2 months because
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We are hiring for 4 right now but there are 20 in the next month to two months starting. No making
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Depends on the account. Work on VR lately has been slow. Just like all companies, we have slow times
Honestly though, I have only had 2-3 times in the past 2 years where it was like the other day...no work... It did pick up later but I just think it's important not to make someone think we're overloaded with work all the time. That would not be fair to them if they end up with high expectations.
No - it is not always slow! Depends on the company and hospital. I have never been slow this time
Slow time is usually in September when everyone is back to work/school from the summer months.
Been doing this 24 years and never slow this time of year. Actually, I am drowning in work - can't keep up.
TransTech and low/no work for months and months _ don't think there are continous holidays LOL
This HORRIBLE low/no work situation has been going on at TT for almost a year now. You can't convince me it is due to Memorial Day. Are holidays now assigned in this world to being daily.
That is an excuse these companies use in these no work situations, but it is due to their OVERHIRING. Holidays just come on a daily basis, but LOW WORK/NO WORK is happening and has happened going on a year now at TransTech. Always asking to flex into the middle of the night, EVERY weekend, etc.
The TT mgmt checks are NEVER affected, tho, so they can continue to HIRE EVERY MT who gives them a call, and create a NO WORK situation for all of us. The newbie MT's are cheering at first, but then realize that it hit them in the paycheck, too, and very soon it did!!!!!!!
lol, I know, I know. I'm just picking anyhow.
My company has been low on work for months and months..sm
Tired of getting the same ol' message that things will pick up. I remember the days of bonuses, making money and being able to pay my bills! I am also wondering what is going with these companies not having work. Is everybody sending work overseas?
Oh, you mean CHERRY PICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you would see how they do the QA and the nit picking stuff they take off for anyone would know
that they are going to do everything they can to make sure you dont meet that 98%.
WHAT cherry picking?
You can't reject a job without management knowing about it.
How are they cherry picking?
Dont you have to give a reason for sending a job back?
There's cherry picking going on
The ops aren't divided fairly, so if you get ops, you make the line count. If you don't get ops, you're out of luck.
VR is not picking up yet but other accounts are.
You may want to contact them. I know they need help on accounts that require a DVI, but they VR accounts are still low and the hours of working are restricted.
TT cherry picking
I don't see how cherry picking would even be a possibility at TT, at least the account I work on, which is done on ExText platform, we only get 2 jobs at a time and and there is no way to bypass them.
Cherry picking
I know my company ignores the cherry picking as long as some dope like me comes along and cleans it up. I have total respect for the companies that are on top of that, and if TT is one of them they will be first on my list of companies to check out after the first of the year.
how is this cherry picking.....
maybe when I log off, i am logging off on your primary. Aren't you glad I am not typing your primary?
My PS tells me that everyone HATES my account. It is too hard for most MT's. I love it, and type it when it is available.
cherry picking at my last job too!!
It got so out of hand that one second a good job would be up, but when I tried to download it, it would go away. The company's name start with a C and it is listed further down on this page. If you are at this company, cherry picking is like an every day occurence, and you will never make a good living.
Cherry picking
All you have to do when you are in the report is Alt G, click history and it will indeed show you if somebody has cancelled out of the job.
Cherry-picking
Yes, I know how to see the history - that's how I know it is going on. Like the post below says, there are days I feel I have the luck of the damned and others are good, but it's those days that I seem to get all that everybody else spits out that makes me crazy and I would think we should all have to do them - how else will you ever learn to do the harder docs?
cherry picking
An e-mail came around about cherry picking several months ago. You are not allowed to do this unless its around the end of your shift and you know you can't finish it. Like the other MT said, get job# and send it to your supervisor. They are supposed to be watching who is doing this if it is a pattern with an MT.
cherry picking
You'd better believe it. Those so-called MTs should be ashamed of themselves. By the way, no matter what the frequency and/or percentage of any ESLs we encounter, the exposure and experience of them renders us more well-rounded, skilled MTs, and we can enjoy the days of good, clear dictators.
Some people are simply born without any integrity and respect for others. To me, it's like somewhat stealing in an office setting, so to speak, as the cherry pickers set up their own scenario.
Bottom line - Cherry pickers are NOT true MTs.
cherry picking...sm
either nobody does it or everybody does it.
Or the ones who do it should be reported to put a stop to it.
Cherry Picking
The cherry picking thread is completely out of control. I didn't read where anyone was defending it. No one likes it, but some choose not to worry about it. Throwing a fit because an MT would rather do their job and not worry if someone cherry picks does not call for accusing them of being a defender. That is very childish. Then some of you are going on about calling them a cherry picker too? Then a troll? Are we still in grade school? Can we ever have a mature conversation about anything on here?  Please don't even respond if you are going to try and give another example of how ignoring means defending. That is pointless and wrong.
Work is picking up for me.
I don't know why you would try to anger everyone again. As soon as the work is a little low, you and a couple others gripe about it. Cool it and don't be impaitient.
It was slow for a couple months, but is picking up now. I've gotten my lines every day for the past 2 weeks. I knew it would and I just hung in there. It happens every summer after Memorial Day..
I guess some MTs just expect doctors to work every day like us and not take vaccation. Well, it's a reality. Docs take vacations. Live with it or find a better job if there is such a thing.. I've worked for other companies and it isn't greener on the other side of the fence.
Is the workload picking up at MDI yet? nm
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Cherry picking at its best today!
What do they do about cherry picking at Amphion
No cherry picking allowed
Axolotl's Transcriptionist software (ARTI) is designed specifically to prevent cherry picking. Jobs are assigned within a work pool strictly on the basis of when they are due back to the customer. There is no way for an MT to send a particular job back to the pool. A user can sign off and all of her jobs go back to the pool, but then she will have to wait at least 15 minutes before she can sign on again and get new jobs assigned. If someone has figured out a way to beat the system please let me know so we can fix it; we want to make it fair for all of our employees.
As for difficult ESL dictators, well you're going to get some of those at any MTSO. It probably varies depending on the accounts you're assigned to.
YES! I have been there 3 years. I do not see a lot of cherry picking but sm
the account that I am on really does not need it. It is a great account!
The level of cherry picking that goes on
at Phoenix is outrageous. They 'ask' that you do certain amount of the easy docs and your share of the others but do not enforce it. Some get on the system at 4 am just to snatch all the easy ones. And they 'ask' that you proof read your work but in talking to others who report doing 200-300-400 lines an hour...now you tell me..how much proof reading is really happening? There are different platforms involved and some pay spaces but at a lower rate. Yep, they are nice and they pay on time but work there only if you enjoy the daily irritation of being left with hard/crap dictators.
No Cherry picking-who are you kidding?
Obviously you don't know about all the accounts for Keystrokes. You can't possibly know about all accounts unless an insider. Yes, there is cherry-picking going on and don't let anyone fool you. Some of us have seen it with our own eyes and it continues with the response, We can't do anything about it or it is out of our control. You see, there are hospital in-house girls on some accounts too and they get by with that and more. They assign themselves work when in-house girls think they will run out and the list goes on. You'd think there would be something in the contract that would say differently. Live and learn! There are lessons here for someone. Some of us are not as stupid as some would think.
Keystrokes qx cherry picking?
Does anyone out there know if the leads assign out work? As soon as my line count starts to pick up I start getting really short dictations or impossible dictators that eat up my line count. Was not like that when I first started out with them. Im really getting fed up with this.
cherry picking/Keystrokes
I currently work for Keystrokes and on my account, I use a C-phone, no cherrypicking is allowed and I was told that it is reason for termination. The hospital picks up on cherry picking. Talk to your lead right away about it. My lead is great and is always there for us. No, I am not management, just love my account and happy where I am in my job finally after years of searching for a good job. Everyone needs a good count, and have a stable paycheck.
I Didn't Mean 'Cherry Picking'
I was just wondering if you would actually get more than one work type in a row. For example, is it solely based on TAT or can the system give you, for instance, 3 H&Ps and then 3 discharge summaries, and then 3 op notes, etc. I don't know if ANYBODY does this, but I think it would be a great way to increase productivity, rather than having to go from one report type to the next with each report transcribed, since each work type has its own set of formatting rules.
It was a pretty random question, I know...but I'm basically just wondering if I have any control whatsoever over what type of work I get or if it's all up to the countdown...
Yes, it is cherry-picking proof
MTs are forced to work on jobs in the order they are due back to the customers. There is no way to send a particular job back to the pool.
Cherry picking is the reason for this, I think.
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nope, things are picking up.
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? for Webbers Re Cherry-picking
I have only been with Webmedx a short time, but am starting to see a pattern of reports being skipped; it is typically the more difficult ESL docs. I don't see any documentation in my paperwork regarding skipping jobs or cherry-picking and wonder if there is a company policy on same? It's making me nuts as I feel it is unfair and is adversely affecting my lines on days when it happens often during my shift. I don't mind doing my share, but when it stars pulling from my $$, I have a problem with it. Is this the norm??? Thanks in advance.
What's wrong with cherry picking?
When I was a kid I used to pick cherries as well as strawberries. I refuse to apologize for that!
i think if someone were fired over cherry picking
at hand. Considering the time and energy it takes to fire and rehire someone, I don't know why anyone would actually get fired when they were filling their quota.
Had heard they were picking up 2, not losing 2. Are you sure? (sm)
Since you also stated QA positions eliminated, I assume you have some inside information. Please share. I have all my eggs in this one basket. E-mail if you prefer.
No cherry picking here. I always hated that and love that about
TransTech. Their feeling is that you have to take the good with the bad.
Is their platform cherry-picking proof? TIA NM
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