Well I think they would just continue to hire SEs and then give them an option, just my opinion. I
Posted By: MQMT on 2005-09-23
In Reply to: Actually, I don't see that. Spheris has - Busy MT'ing
HOPE I am wrong believe me. MQ will do whatever it takes to get where they need to go and that is a fact. I just wish I knew the game so I could play it too. You know the saying, you name the game and I will play it too and better than you do. Why do you think they are so sneaky about everything. They dont want us to get a hands up on them. This is a true cat and mouse game. Just like any corporation. Get them with their pants down. Use them while we need them and then move them out. See it all the time. BUT better to keep everyone in the dark before the end comes for sure so employees dont rock the boat.
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They continue to hire because...
it looks good to the client for all the work to be caught up all the time, so companies over hire. It doesn't matter that MTs sit all day and wait for work to trickle in. They are looking at the client's side. They can hire as many transcriptionists as IC as they want and do not have to pay out anything if there is no work, so what do the MTSOs have to lose by over hiring?
It does not continue. No one will ever give initials or
let us know, so it is safe to assume that it is the same person every time.
THANK YOU!! WOW even if i wanted to work there I would NEVER give her the option of a referral as
CONTINUE TO LOOK
You will find that there are good and bad things with every company out there, but the bad certainly outweigh the good when it comes to MDI-FL.
I tried and continue to try with my own
kids, but sometimes just being out in the world today taints what I have tried to teach. I pray daily for this world, but it is sliding downhill quickly. It saddens me...all the hatred and intolerance of EVERYthing these days. Even trying to keep my own intolerance under control is an endless fight...but at least I try...more than I can say for most. Thanks for posting. I know I am not alone. Take care.
If you want to continue using WP5.1, sm
check out First Choice Medical in Florida. Great people.
Should you continue?
Not only NO, but H**** NO. Why enable someone to take advantage of you? You deserve the kind of treatment you will accept; that is an adage of the business world. Get out of here and go someplace where you are treated like a professional.
I'm sorry, but why would you continue
to work for someone after they owed you, say $500, much less $10,000??????????
Why did you continue to work for MDI...
for years then if you could make so much more elsewhere????
VR will continue to improve just like
everything else in the technology age.
Bubbye, MT world.
But it's a blessing in disguise. Maybe now we can find jobs where we're treated with respect and get paid better than the average janitor.
Without us, they would continue offshoring. sm
Very few MTs deserve 15 cpl. Take a look at the word boards! It's scary out there.
Should I continue to work if I do
not know what my line count is on a daily basis. I have tried emailing the tech department, emailed the secretary, emailed the account supervisor, and get no to slow response. All I get is we are working on it and then I hear absolutely nothing. I am only inquiring because I want to know when I reach line count on a daily basis, but every time I try to check this function, it says I am not authorized to do so. I keep asking why I am not authorized to see what my line count is and I get silence. I am fed up? Should I continue working for them and allow them just give me my line count when they see fit. Also, my line count determines what I am paid by the tier program they have. For example, if I type 6000 lines, I make 6 cpl, but if I type 12,000 lines, I get paid 9 cpl, but I am unable to verify what I am typing. I just secured another position and have backup just in case.
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Why continue working for them then?
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The best thing we can do is continue to -
talk about it, write about it, and tell anyone who will listen about it. Our wages are the MT industry's dirty little secret. They get away with it because no one knows our type of work even exists. The hospitals get away with going with MTSOs who offshore because the doctors themselves have no clue who types their work. (Some don't even know their work leaves the hospital, let alone the country!) They live in a very cloistered little world.
The deals with the MTSOs are made by the suits upstairs in the corner office, who don't know much (if anything) about MT, either. All they know is that MT is an expenditure - red or black ink on their books. Many of these suits are overpaid, money-wasting jerks, just like the ones that Congress is grilling right now. The same hospitals that cry they don't have enough money to maintain an MT department, or pay the MTSO when their price per line goes up a lousy cent. (A CENT! When was the last time you even bothered to bend over to pick up one of those when you found it lying on the ground!?), are the same ones that hold huge, expensive bashes for their larger benefactors, and for themselves. They, too, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on office furniture, when there wasn't anything wrong with what they already had. Or buy expensive original works of art to hang in their halls or put on display.
We know, and everyone else from the janitors in the basement to the top brass upstairs, knows what it takes to survive in this country, and they also know that what they pay for transcription doesn't even begin to be a fair wage for ANY worker, especially not for supposed 'white-collar' employees who, by the very nature of their work, are intelligent, well-read, articulate, and fairly well-educated.
They get away with that because for all these years, we've just sat there and LET them. We let them tell us we were 'lucky to have a job - ANY job'. We listened to them tell us that VR, or EMR, or India, would eventually replace us all. I doubt any Senator or Congressman in DC even has a clue about any of this. If it were happening to steel-workers, auto-workers, miners, CPA's, animators, nurses, teachers, etc., it would be all over the 6 o'clock news every night. But no one knows of our plight, or that we even exist, because we don't say anything. We just lie there and take it.
Calling a national MT sick-out for a day or two might get us some attention, but I seriously doubt many MTs are going to risk their jobs to do that, because we'[ve all bought into that 'lucky-to-have-a-job' myth. And during these uncertain, possibly pre-depression times, losing one's job is probably not the best idea.
I contine to believe that the best thing we can do, collectively and individually, is to start WRITING. It's what we do best, and we should be putting that skill to work for ourselves, for a change. We need to educate as many people in the US, and in our legislature, that their medical records are being sent offshore. That HIPAA does not protect them when their medical and personal records leave the US. That huge MT companies have been squeezing out smaller MTSOs by undercutting them, or by buying them out. That the huge MT companies are raking in the dough by claiming 'there aren't enough US MT's', and then paying hungry people in 3rd World countries a slave wage to produce the work. AND, that our government is not only letting them do that without any kind of a tax or fee for doing so (when millions of Americans are currently out of work?!?), but in some cases getting monetary INCENTIVES for offshoring.
THAT's what needs to stop first. The free-for-all in the MTSO industry where they can just shove the work offshore, thanks to the digital age and the internet, and not have any repercussions for doing so.
Currently offshoring work is many MTSO's FIRST CHOICE of workers, and Americans are their SECOND. We need to turn that around, so that it makes more economic sense for the employer to pay Americans a fair wage than it does to steal their work from them and support another country's middle class. OUR middle-class needs support now, and the US should no longer be subsidizing India's, Pakistan's, Mexico's, or the Philippine's middle class by sacrificing us.
Yes, you can definitely continue to learn, but -
why throw away perfectly good money on a USELESS 'certification'? You won't get paid more money, and you'll have to pay every time you take it if you fail the first time. AND pay to continue to renew it. Biggest ripoff in medical transcription history. AND, all this by a company that gives Indian MTs a better price to take the test, and who openly promotes offshoring american jobs.
You'd do better to spend the money on a comfortable work-chair, an ergonomic keyboard, a better computer, or some new reference books. Getting a bogus 'CMT' cert. just helps to fund AHDI's selling of the American Transcriptionist downriver.
The beatings will continue
Pathetic, isn't it?
There is another option, DO SOMETHING ELSE!
Of course not! You gotta think outside the box. If this profession bothers you that much, learn to do something else instead of whining for years on end! It's no one's fault that you're stuck in employment neutral but your own.
That's one option...
but I would probably do a different shift.
You should have had the option of
I haven't been with them long. I work a 12 hour window on second shift. They prefer that you keep the same schedule for at least 6 months.
Yes PT is an option sm
Supervisor just sent out an email this week in fact encouraging us to use our employee referral program to find PT people. They are especially seeing PT weekend help or 2nd 3rd PT help. I don't know any other MTs in my area who are interested so the referral program ($500 for finding people that stay with the company) is not of any use to me. We definitely need extra coverage on the weekends so those of us here already don't have to do OT everyweekend. OT is not because of turnover it is because the account has grown and they can't keep up with current employees on the weekend schedule.
Not an option?
Then I suggest you get out of this business right now, because it's turned ugly in the past decade.
Trust me. You WILL earn less than you did 10 years ago.
Of course, you could stick to your other option ... unemployment. Enjoy that!
I wish you folks would stop whining for compassion, when you're so quick to turn your noses up at what the rest of the 'real' world has been going through.
Or is it only a tragedy when it happens to YOU?
Sorry if I don't get all teary-eyed at the thought of you have to 'settle' for the GOING RATE!!!!!!!!!
Form your own company. Then you can pay whatever you want. (And I'll guarantee you wouldn't be paying anyone else 11 cpl!!!!)
As I don't have time to continue messing
with you, this will be my last post. I have 5 accounts, so you have one more than I do, wow! That doesn't make you a better MLS. I didn't post on here to get referral bonuses and my attitude about the company is what makes me a better MLS. Good day!
Why would a company continue to keep slackers?
Continue to turn down work.
That's okay, limit yourself. It leaves more work for people like me who can walk into a job and transcribe most anything. I don't understand folks that don't want to learn and then complain that they can't find a job. Go figure.
They'll definitely do it some time. You know they won't continue...sm
to pay us such a good rate when all the other companies are paying 3-5 cpl. If they all set their rates so low, there is nothing we can do about it if we want to continue to work. Their Town Hall meetings are always a pep talk followed by something that cuts your pay in the couple of years I've been there.
They will continue to lose good MTs
if they don't straighten up. Once the labor board gets on their casse, they will have no choice in straightening up.
Why are they allowed to continue to post here when they are known not to pay?..nm
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So, listen to this, you would rather continue to retype
a VR report for only 4 cents a line rather than train it where you could hopefully just zip through it? It will never improve as long as being deleted. Does that really make sense to you? You are paid 8 cents a line if straight, 4 cents if VR and yet you would continue to retype time after time?? Again, this is making sense to you?
Supposedly starts 10/06 and will continue
into the 3rd quarter of next year. I would hope they would let us know, at the very least, which accounts are going first and a time frame for the rest of this year.
Should be too! Went to continue the sentence and didn't.
I hate when I am rushing and can't correct my mistake fast enough before I hit the send button! LOL
MTSOs also have the option
of walking away from a client who is not willing to pay an adequate rate that is required to get the job done. The money that the MTSOs save by using overseas MTs is spent on Editors who basically have to redo all of the poor poor quality reports.
If you are a building contractor and someone calls you and tells you they want a screened porch built. You as a contractor know what it's going to take to build that porch using quality materials and quality labor. If it takes $5000 to build the porch, are you going to let the homeowner tell you to do it for $3000 when you know it's not possible. Guess what...the contractor walks away and tells the homeowner they'll have to find someone else who can do it for that rate. MTSOs have the same option.
There is NO excuse for offshoring. There never will be.
You don't have to have it overnighted though. Just an option
I just told them to mail it.
Email me. I may be able to have an option.
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There is always the option of gaining your own
would be an option, when specs do not meet QA's approval. I do not, however, believe that the executives side with MT's at all, but always QA. The accounts I have, I am the executive manager, MT, QA (notice the order of importance). I do not think there are people getting into this field because they do not give a crap. There is too much to learn before you can really catch a break and land your first job. So, I totally disagree. 
Not an option where I live.
There are 2 hospitals in a 50 mile radius and they only employ 2-3 MTs and rarely have openings. It is very rural here. I haven't had any trouble finding work from home as an IC, but want to change to employee status for health insurance since my husband is changing careers and won't be getting ins. any longer.
Normally as an employee there is an option
in return. It's a shame that MQ is not the same way. I don't think Keystrokes is IC status though, but I'm not certain of that. I just think this hoopla about Keystrokes is crazy. Can they really have that much work and be that flexible that everyone at MQ is going there and will have enough work. The other thing is that darned Meditech. You all think that's getter than what MQ has? NOT!!
Uhm... I thought that the option - sm
to accept or not accept a job because of the hours was the right of anyone, whatever the position be it IC, SE or employee. What a joke! Good for you though for calling them out on it. Which gives me an idea ...
I believethey have the option
of doing this. But they also have the option not to. It is written something like that. I didn't opt for the 401K because I can barely make my lines as it is due to lack of work and was more concerned about today rather than tomorrow.
Me too. As soon as there is a little extra work they hire and hire and then noone has any. This
goes on all the time. I get sick to death of it. I think having 2 part time jobs is better so you have 2 jobs to count on.
Okay, guess I will continue. Was hoping I was being anal. (sm)
Kept a log with MQ for years then finally just stopped with DQS after I felt comfortable it wasn't cheating me. Now with new company and they want you to log everything. I feel like it is taking up a bunch of time, but... sounds like I better continue.
Thanks.
Terminations - closure continue in Heartland- no end
March 31. 2008 - Heartland Information Services force resigned all their employees in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Coimbatore and closed their offices and operations in the above said cities. This is their first positive step towards the merger with Spryance. Congratulations to Heartland.
While I wait to win the lottery, I need to continue to work....
Does anybody have any information on this company out of NJ? I've done a thorough search and absolutely no information is available. HelP?? TIA
No, you'll be allowed to continue working for well below what
you're worth with crappy benes, working holidays without holiday pay, getting cheated out of your lines, getting paid less and less every year, etc.
You do have the option to type or edit.
At this point anyway. Transcend has gained several new accounts recently, which has been broadcast from here to there. What wasn't broadcasted is that they also LOST several large accounts over the past year, a couple just recently. Some of the accounts that have just been added on are overflow accounts. As each account gets transitioned over to the new platform, the option for typing will be great as the VR is extremely BAD in recognizing a lot of these new dictators. Those editing on the accounts now are actually training the system to recognize what the dictators are saying.
As time goes on, the system starts recognizing more and more dictators are transitioned to editing. Once the system becomes "smart" and is working at peak performance, less editors will be needed to work on the editing aspect, as was already experienced with a very large ER account that staffed 25 or more MLSs and dwindled down to 10. We all saw what happened there. When the editors were scrambling for work they switched to typing, and were told to do so by the AMs. So think about what that means for those typing. If less people are needed to edit, where do those already working on the pre-existing accounts go? To typing on the new accounts. When the work load is low, all those shifted from editing to typing will be doing the work YOU have been doing all along.
Also, there will always be a need for some to type because there are some doctors that absolute cannot do VR. Now just imagine if you choose to type rather than edit. These are the doctors that you will be transcribing for day after day: Mush-mouths, speed-talkers, whisperers, extremely difficult ESLs. In other words, all those that the system will never be able to decipher. You may be getting a high rate for typing, but it is going to take you longer to do them because if they were that easy, the system would be doing them first. No matter what option you chose you are on the losing end of the deal. If you chose editing, it is FULL editing, not QA filling in the blanks. Depending on how fast you type, you may never be able to achieve a consistent, day-after-day 40% increase in production, but you will be taking a loss in compensation. If you chose typing, you're stuck with all the leftover garbage that the system cannot do on its own and your production still suffers. No matter which way you look at it, you will be working harder and receiving less until the point eventually comes where 2/3 of the work force is scrambling for work while the other 1/3 is popping out 20,000 lines per pay period. much like it is now. While you may have the option of typing or editing NOW, certain people in management have been telling their favorites that the goal in the future is to get ALL accounts and work types on editing. Why do you think so many "in the know" are now scrambling for or were already told about the hourly team leader positions before they were even announced?
Think about it. This is not the first mass exodus Transcend has seen over the years. That became common knowledge when they had the push to hire back all those who had quit over the changes before. Many there, even working for 5 years or more, are leaving this time. If workers have gotten bad treatment before and left in the past, as is happening now, it will happen again. A leopard does not change its spots.
insurance is always an option since most use their spouses'.nm
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On some O accounts you do have Ctrl I option
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Health insurance option
Consider the IC at 9 cpl without benefits and no ESL. Obtain health, life, and dental insurance other routes....like try ehealthinsurance.com. More options there. 7 cpl isn't great if your dealing with a large amount of ESLs.
Do they have an employee option or only IC? Thought I
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If vision is an option, can you answer this? sm
Any eye care specialist (or contact lens wearer) attest that glasses do not improve vision as well as contacts lenses. Contacts correct the peripheral vision whereas glasses do not. Also, speaking from personal experience, NOTHING compares to LASIK. Contacts corrected my vision to 20/20 bilaterally. I had LASIK done almost 3 years ago and my vision is still 20/15 in both eyes.
I had custom wavefront, which was pretty pricy at $3300. However, I haven't paid a dime for vision correction since my procedure. Before LASIK, I would estimate my annual eyecare costs ranging from $450 to $600.
Insurance companies will pay for auditory surgery such as cochlear implants to correct hearing impairment, which they should. But how is surgery to correct hearing any different than LASIK to correct a visual impairment? Couldn't the same argument (cosmetic)be used if a hearing aid provided the same benefit as an expensive cochlear implant?
I just don't understand the inconsistency. Could it be that people with visual problems far outnumber those with hearing loss? Just a thought.
New option for group members
Group members now have the option of hiding their email address and IP address. This eliminates some features of the group but is for everyone's protection.
Is that the only option, though? How about great accounts at 10 cpl? :-) nm
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