Well the invite to come clean my toilet for free still
Posted By: stands. nm on 2008-01-08
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It only takes a second to clean my toilet. Want to
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Should've read my email sooner, they did invite me to finish the test -sm
Mine did have 4 dictations. None of them were ESL, though they were a little more difficult than most tests I've taken.
job going down the toilet
Amen to that! I totally agree...I've been in this business 14 years, 8 as MTSO and it's been doing downhill for the last 6...back to college for me in the spring also.
Dee
This job is going down the toilet fast
with the greedy MTSO's, the needless QA nitpicking, the voice recognition, the work that is left being shipped overseas to be done by people who will work for peanuts.
I see the writing on the wall and will put all my eggs in one basket no longer. Back to college for me!
I don't want to be standing in the umemployment line holding a Burger King application when the bottom finally does completely fall out of this soon to be nonexistent profession.
If anyone refuses to accept the fact that this is the end of this job and it's time to start planning accordingly, that's up to them and I wish them the very best of luck.
This is exactly why our rates are going into the toilet -
SOMEONE will nearly always work for whatever ridiculously low rate is offered!
I have attempted to drown myself in the toilet.
I am so embarrassed. Please, I beg of you, pay no attention to these ridiculous outbursts of my various personalities. Once my meds take affect, I can assure you that will be the end of these ridiculous, insane, frightening outbursts. Until then, just ignore anything that one of my personalities may posts.
Sorry, again, and I shall dunk my face in the toilet as I beg forgiveness.
Free enterprise. You are free to re-educate and retrain, as well!!!!
What's the complaint?!
I really think MDI could clean up a lot of
problems if they would communicate with the remote MTs. We had weekly conference calls for 2 or 3 months, then 1 for 1 month and then none. If I did not know MTs on other accounts, I would think there was nothing put out in communication, but several of my friends get little things like notes where they might need additional help or other little things going on in the company. I have had 1 e-mail in last 6 months stating where they needed additional help. Why? Because I have a team leader who thinks she is going to control everyone and her idea of controlling is to limit the amount of work you are allowed to do. This team leader idea was the worst idea they ever had when you have a team leader like this one!!!!!!!!
I used to clean the grill at BK...
Your post brought back gruesome memories! I also manned the fry station - quite fun during those hot summer months. Hmm...come to think of it - MT doesn't seem quite so bad now that I think about it....
You and me both. I basically just clean up
for brand spanking new MTs at one-third of their line rate. Depressing. But am making a little money while looking for other jobs.
Then email that too! I want a clean board and I think Adm does too!
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And I'm sure even the janitors who clean their buildings -sm
But when was the last time you got a C.O.L. raise, or a merit raise, for that matter? Here in the western U.S. a gallon of gas is now $4.00 in some places, a box of cereal (which once you open it, is in reality HALF a box of cereal!) costs $5.00, rents are high, etc., and MTs still make about 7-8 cents a line - if that.
who is going to clean up the bad ESLs' VR reports? I ..sm
Is this a way to weed out too badly dictating ESLs doctors from VR?
Paid 50% of already deflated MT wage to clean up somebody else's mess...nm
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Starbucks coffee is burnt, you clean the tables, you serve yourself
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Good thing it did end up here. Post about squecky clean posts has already been
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When I read "that breed", I thought she meant "Arabians". Don't try to clean it up.
You know exactly what she meant. It was obvious.
Free sure. There are free on-line fax
services, in fact I used one last week. Most do have limits on how often you can use and how many pages though. You obviously would have to scan pages into a document, but maybe she doesn't have a scanner either.
She could have mailed paperwork back.
A majority of at-home MT is overflow work with in-house getting the bulk of the work. If they clean
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They require that you work in house until your have clean QA for 3 paydays then you can work
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Yes, it is free.
They told me that I would get a discount with steadman's and Dell, but they never said that I would have to buy anything. The only thing they said was that I would have to provide the home type of equipment (i.e. Internet, computer, foot pedal, and software for listening to the files. I received the same things you mentioned above too.
The only one I know of that is free
is Emmaus' MedCount . . . they have a link to this site and advertise here, and the company offers other software programs for sale that are designed for transcriptionists, but the line counting software is downloadable and free.
Here's the web site: http://www.mpword.com
I was unable to use the free program above . . . I had used it before, but on the computer I bought last summer, for some reason it would not work, so I purchased The Abacus.
I have seen a couple of times people posting about The Abacus being a free program, but I had to pay for it. Seems like they may offer a free trial for a certain period of time or number of usages, with limitations during the trial, but then if you do want the program you pay and they give you a code that enables the full program.
The web address for The Abacus is: http://www.theabacus.biz/theAbacus.htm
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST!
Buh bye OSI!!!
I will miss all the good MT's there but at least I will be getting paid for holidays from now on. Maybe, just maybe the good MT's still there will be right behind me. Or maybe not, and you can enjoy your little mug of candy for Christmas.
Yes! Yes!  Yes! Yes!
I think most use it because it is free and can
be used w/o a pedal if you had to. I have used their tests with other software though. I've never had trouble downloading files, you can right click and save to a file. I think they companies have always provided instructions on how to save the files too.
No 1 MAKES ME do anything. Have free
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All 40,000 others are free to post as often as they like also.
nm
Is Turbo Tax free? (sm)
WebMedX has a list of required reference books you have to get. I'm sure I spent at least $100-$150 on them. I ordered them from amazon, so the receipt should be easy enough to get.
The debate is whether to do my taxes myself or go to H&R Block. The last couple years I had someone else do my taxes 'cuz I had a part-time IC job and deducted my phone line charges.
Hell, I could probably deduct my DSL bill this year, I suppose...
the free one does not count
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Testing isn't free either
It costs us 10.00 for every applicant we test online. Out of 50 people I might refer who look promising, about 80% will get to the actual transcription part and say I couldn't finish, it wouldn't let me when the actual qualified people have no trouble whatsoever.
How many of you get the emails with the cover information not spellchecked? I get them that say I am very qulity conscience. I got one from a lady who worked in the surgical stockroom of a hospital and was furious when I told her that didn't qualify her to be an MT. I had a welder who wanted something different, several from people claiming to be med students or doctors, one dentist in an extremely remote part of Alaska. I get stories of I have children and I'm about to be evicted and I quit my job. I get my hospital went bankrupt and closed (yet the phone number still works). I can advertise for ops and get people asking for an ER account. I needed an Editor for a particular work type and had a lady apply who said she had 18 years experience so I let her try to edit a document. I would have had to hire somebody else just to edit her work!!! It really makes it hard for the experienced people because it's like we've heard it ALL...so you don't know who is good and who isn't!!!
Do you know what the right of free speech is?
It does not apply to private company matters, etc.
Geez.
Well, when you're free of them, please
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Where can you get this free trial? nm
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working for free?....don't think so. sm
Look, it all comes down to getting paid. Doing their work for free isn't doig yourself a favor, just them. What did the contract agreement say that you signed? I would fax that portion back over to her and give her a date you expect to be paid. Losing invoices? More than one? Come on girl, this is a big red flag to me.
Don't you work for free?
I'd be nice to you too if you were making me all that money for a little info that you should have got in school.
it's friday free-for-all! Hoo-ha! nm
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guildftp is free I think sm
Someone had posted before some free FTP sites. Not all cost per month. Some are a mere $6.00 per month. It is to keep documents safe, and you'll need a password. You can also store voice files there. HIPPO is $39.00 per year I think and easy to use.
Sounds like they might be trying to get free
work done. Ten pages is excessive and I wouldn't do it.
Regardless, it is work done for free.
It's horrible that one would think that we should not get paid for any work/data that is entered by us, whether it be 1 or 10 keystrokes. It is my time and I am not doing it for free.
What do you mean work for free?
Maybe I should specify that when I stated dock I meant QA score being docked. Maybe you were thinking money/pay?? LOL
unless you like to work for free
stay away due to the recruiter and the company as a whole unless you like to work for free...just do a search and you will read plenty of negatives on this shameful company and all of their affiliates.
Still Stress-Free...
Some of us still enjoy stress-free living w/o a care in the world.
We never had kids! (LOL)
More money + more peace and quiet = Stress-free living forever!
What about MT Desk? They are free and very
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Yes, if she actually wants work, free or otherwise,
most indeed count, then an MT will have resume, advertisement, whatever free of errors. As someone who did a lot of hiring, I can tell you that if there was even one so-what error, as you say, the resume was passed over. If you can't proofread something as important as a resume or request for work, then it's hard to fathom you will proofread medical reports any better. I hope she took the advice and watches more carefully next time, rather than listen to advice that it doesn't matter.
Exactly. You should never work for free.
Our industry is bad enough for newbies without starting a trend wanting them to work for free....
If it's free, I'd do it just to make sure sm
I'm following all the rules and I'd probably learn new ones (to me) while doing it.
It's amazing how much we do for free
these days, isn't it. In the old days, we were paid for EVERYTHING, templates, headers, footers, demos, etc... and even better with gross lines. Sigh :(
So Right On!! I have to remember Free Will...
This is so true... fearing something means we are chained to that thing... even with bills we are not chained to a certain job. I suppose I will see how it goes, and as always, have a plan B, C, etc. In the meantime, have to have resources to pay the bills for the time it takes to see if it will work or not. Being the only one supporting a child, I worry about the short term of pay check to pay check... I guess that is the real fear. I long for the times when I had a secure job in this industry. I never ever thought that with a good head on my shoulders I'd be skating on thin ice in job security. But then again, many of us is going through this and I can't wait for the time when job security comes back... I will sooo appreciate it, never take it a secure job with benefits for granted ever again!
no there are free ones. I have had mine sm
for 30 days and you can click on it and do it for free for 60 more days. It just says sound pilot when I pull it up from my programs.
Go on Yahoo or Google and search free keyboard sound downloads and you will come up with a bunch. You don't have to pay anything right now, there are plenty for free.
Good luck.
no there are free ones. I have had mine sm
for 30 days and you can click on it and do it for free for 60 more days. It just says sound pilot when I pull it up from my programs.
Go on Yahoo or Google and search free keyboard sound downloads and you will come up with a bunch. You don't have to pay anything right now, there are plenty for free.
Good luck.
Well they make you do a LOT of free - sm
things, some accounts more than others, i.e., demographic work, loads of it, and hound you when it's done note quite up to the client's liking, e-mail, phone calls, looking up doctors' names and crap they're too lazy to spell, more unpaid demographics, cc's, you get my drift. How can all this be legal?
destiny is never free, is it?
I was always told that whatever I got into something is what I put into it.
You are right. You have to put something in to get something out.
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