What degree do you hold?

• Is there really a shortage of US MTs or am I blind and deaf?? sm - Need to vent here for a minute.
  • Have done QA and trained folks and will tell you, not all experience is industry standard - a lot of folks cannot get off 100% qa. n/m
  • our own Claudia Tessier in 2003...she is executive director of Mobile Health Care Alliance. check t - emptyMT
    • 'our own' Claudia Tessier is far from OUR OWN. She's now a digital suckup. - nm
      • Sounds to me like she isn't in denial - like some people unfortunately are
        • Go toot your horn somewhere else. MT is NOT going the way of the Do-Do as long as - sm
          • You're going to be applying at the supermarket in 5 years - and you have no one to blame but yourself
        • Ms. Tessier - JP
  • I think you are right. - yen2772
    • Shortage - Crazed

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But I also get my lines plus every shift.  This could make a difference.  If they feel someone is not doing their job because they are not meeting productivity, they might be watching that individual. 

I have never been told that I could not sign off more than once during my shift.  If something comes up and I need to do it, I just IM my Editor or send an e-mail to management. 

you may need it later.

Came to know from A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE that ***** ******** is working as QA for ****** ********(MBS Millenium Business Services).

See more info about MBS here:

http://forum.mtstars.com/main/v/1/102475.html

scheduled hours unless the work is slow. Then you can flex, but you need to make up your time later. 

One weekend per month is required.

Don't be putting down people who like to do VR. I did straight typing for over 15 years and I am making the same, if not more, doing VR now. I was not a very slow typist, and quality is my first priority. I've been doing VR for almost a year now and love it. What makes it easy for me is I never really relied on Expanders to up my line rate since my hospital didn't really allow them, except for autocorrect. I didn't have an Expander until 6 years ago. Doing VR, I can't use the expander I did finally learn, but it's no big deal.

Like some other posters stated, it depends on who else is doing the reports whether or not VR is easy or hard.  Some days, my reports are easy, other days tough. It's the same when doing straight typing. Some dictators are easy, other are tough.

I don't think VR is really made for large companies with hundreds of transcriptionists. It's made for the smaller companies that all conform to the same verbiage.

If you're good/fast/quality-oriented with straight typing without expanders, then VR would be good for you. If you rely on an expander to get those lines, you will have a problem in the beginning, but if you're flexible, it will pan out.

Don't down people because they like VR. You know what they say......try it. You may like it.

What I have found: 

When I try to search for companies that commonly go by acronyms (for example OSi or UST), I do not get any hits at all even though I can see that they were just discussed a few inches down the page (I still want to see if there is any other information available from previous posts).  If I search for US Transcription – all the results have the word transcription but not UST or US Transcription. 

It seems to me that the search word has to be at least 4 characters or it will not find anything.  Is that correct, or am I just doing something wrong?

Thank you in advance for your assistance. 

Or that your employer is telling you that your check didn't clear because their bank has placed a hold on the checks? 

I'm asking because I worked for an MTSO who would always pay late or bounce checks and claim it was his bank's fault as they were placing extended holds on his deposits thereby funds not being available - supposedly. 

If it is your bank, then yes, they will place holds on the check until the funds clear the bank - anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks, depending on their policy. 

If it is the MTSO, run, don't walk, away from this company.  I had this happen to me back in 2005/2006 and believe it or not, it is still happening and it is amazes me that companies like this can continue to do business this way.

GIVE FACTS or keep quiet. You keep trying to down TT everytime someone posts a question. I have asked you time and time again for the FACTS which you have not provided.

You heard....i.e., you DON'T know. You  ASSUME. Why don't you go right to management and confront them and THEN AND ONLY THEN, come back to this board and post the TRUTH. Until then, stop trying to spread RUMORS!!!

"bad" transcriptionists.  Can't help but wonder how good you are when you can't even form a complete sentence.

I love it when people get on here and criticize others' abilities and talk about bad Transcriptionist when their own posts are so sloppy.  I love the excuse, "I'm not working now."  I try to be literate whether I'm working or not.  I don't have to put on my "literacy hat" when I go to work.  I wear it all the time, and although I certainly understand typos and make my fair share of them, I don't understand how or why someone chooses not to be literate simply because they're not working but suddenly transforms into a competent, literate person when they are working.  I just don't get it.  I guess for some, literacy truly is WORK.

Like I said, everyone makes mistakes.  But the next time you sit up there on your pedestal, criticize others and talk about weeding out "bad" transcriptionists, you might want to proofread your own stuff so it doesn't come back to bite you in the butt.