What happened to Becky Ross, the recruiter. Her name is no longer on the ads?? nm
Posted By: Curious Caryn on 2005-08-14
In Reply to: MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works - MT
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Hey Becky Ross - How the heck are you? How's your head?Haven't talked to you since
your tumor was removed.
You are a recruiter? Hopefully not for much longer.
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I no longer work there … kinda glad now. Sorry to see the changes that have happened. nm
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bet if she named the co she would no longer be a recruiter for them.
Some things you have to look at twice because you really don't believe what you read
It's longer than the "standard" 65-char. line so will take you longer to make those lines!
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Becky/OSI
Thanks for the info. I was worried about her as she never mentioned her plans to move on.
Becky/OSI
I don't know about that. I sent an email to OSi when I couldn't get in touch with her, and Beth Spratling, the new recruiter, told me she no longer works for OSI.
Becky is a sweetheart!
Hope she is doing alright. She is one of the good eggs there.
To Becky who emailed
One software is Dictaphone Extext and Dictaphone Exspeech. The best part about it is that you can look up old reports by patient, doctor, etc. It has a good shortcut program that I imported from a previous job.
Another software is Escription (or Editscript). This is what a lot of companies are using now and it is great and better in my opinion than ExsSpeech.
About the people in the home office, yes they are very receptive and supportive from management to support to QA.
About QA, they are strict in terms of major mistakes but most of them do not nitpick on little things (some do though). They are strict in terms of account specifics and if you are familiar with that you will do okay. If you don't follow it they will let you know. It took me about a week to get off QA but I don't think that is set in stone. Some people get off earlier and some stay on QA longer.
We don't have a limit to the number of reports we can type the first day. That is one reason I like Transtech so much. My previous jobs limited me to a certain number which really can hurt the pocketbuck. Not so with Transtech.
I don't think that many companies actually pay you for a holiday if you are off but we have PTO that we use. The thing with Transtech is that they pay you time and a half if you work on a holiday and it doesn't matter if you are not scheduled to work. They said if you are willing to work on a holiday then you deserve the extra pay. At my previous job we only got the bonus if it was a scheduled workday.
I would average 1200 to 1400 lines a day with traditional typing and about 2500 with speech but I am still getting used to speech so think that will go up. Also they have a tier system where the more lines you get the more you get paid per line.
The benefits are very affordable. We have Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia.
They have some Monday-Friday jobs with weekend rotation. It may depend on the account. I work Tuesday-Saturday because I asked for it.
Yes you can work extra even if you are not scheduled but you would need to check to make sure there are plenty of jobs left for the MT's that are scheduled.
You can get backup accounts if you run out of work. Not a problem.
Transtech is the best company I have worked for. They don't require you to check in with IM and they leave you alone to do your work.
I hope I have answered your questions.
Can you call Becky at 630-739-5520? Something must obviously have gone wrong. She can sm
rectify it.
I got my foot pedal today, just as Becky
said I would. I'm excited to get started with KS! I have emailed Becky every day and left messages for her and she has always gotten back to me in a timely manner!
There must have been something wrong ... please give either Becky or Lee a call as soon as you sm
see this. Becky is at 630-739-5520 and Lee at 630-553-3680. I know they are both in today as I had a payroll question (overpaid) and just talked to Lee.
Call Becky at the office. 630-739-5520. She will have this
taken care of immediately.
You are thinking of Rebecca W., Becky went to Medware.
Becky totally left OSi in August
I was hired, called by Becky, sent the paperwork, sent it in sm
and waited two weeks for an ID. I have been working for three weeks now and it is great. Obviously, your situation was unique as I came to KS on the recommendation of two of my ex-co-workers and they had no problems either, both with KS for a few years. Get over it. If you want to work for them, call and talk to them. If you don't, move on. Why are you rehashing the same thing over and over. What do you want the outcome to be?
No, but I will email the Moderators as soon as I find the email. You know it's the truth, Becky.
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It's been longer than that for me.
I tend to get stuck with a lot of terrible dictations most of the time, which I don't understand either, but maybe that has something to do with why I can't get a decent line count. Every time I get on the system to work, there's always some horrible dictation skipped from earlier in the day just waiting for me. Just got done with a dictation that was 9 minutes long, but took me over 30 minutes to type due to being inaudible in spots and just basically a horrible dictation overall. I didn't even get 100 lines out of it either!!
no longer there but.
Had trouble getting paid on time.
Not for much longer.
I knew going in they were not paying for headers and footers, but did not realize they were going to take the percentage off the total line count. The headers/footers only account for about 5 to 10 lines per report, so they have quite a little scam going.
Whatever, they are no longer there anyway. nm
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Not much longer to be an MT
Medical transcription is going the way of the dinosaurs. Voice recognition is coming in fast now. We will be editing for awhile until they perfect it and feed the corrected copies back into the VR engine to train it to understand all the docs. I would give this field 5 more years maybe. We all have to move on and find something else unfortunately:(
Longer than others for me
I think it took them a week and then I didn't even get a pass/fail but a link to go on to the next test, which seemed to be some kind of personality profile. By that time, I had hired on with another company that was my first choice.
No longer a CMT
I WAS a CMT for over 20 years, it never got me any more money, it cost me to re-certify, cost me to go to seminars for CEC's, I had one company I worked for tell me I could only go to the National Convention for 2 days and I would only be paid if I worked their booth for those two days, so what was the use of going if I was going to be stuck in a recruitment booth insead of learning at any of the seminars? I still kept plugging away spending my time and money to keep that CMT behind my name. Then my mom passed away, in all the work of getting her estate settled, condo sold, etc. I forgot to send in my fee and CEC's verification slips. When I realized it had slipped my mind I called and wrote them a letter explaining the circumstances and that I had all the CEC's earned. Even offered to send a copy of the death cert. Their reply....too bad...so sad pay again to take the certification Test. NOT
The longer MQ MT is on DQS, the less lines
we get. There is no "getting used" to the program that is taking our line counts. Very familiar with DQS, have all normals/short cuts in place, very fast typist, and DQS "eats up lines". MedRite did not do that to us. Why do you think MQ changed to DQS ? -- so that the MT's would get more lines per hour ? NOT !
Katie is no longer there either
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If she's no longer there how will she see it? Ditto for
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This is exactly why I know longer send anything. nm
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4-6 weeks...sometimes longer
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was it last fall?, or maybe longer, whenever...
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I am. I even sent them an e-mail that I no longer
worked for them and they still send me the stuff from Corporate. I don't get any more from the PS though.
Slave No Longer
Ditto to your post. This new compensation plan is insane. I am now having to work 12 hours a day instead of 8, while all the while making less $. I probably make less than the greeters at Wal-Mart. They expect us to be on standby during our scheduled shift, yet there is no work, and we are not compensated for this time with no work. Now I have work at midnight and on weekends in order to get my quota, and end up working what should be paid as overtime. I am going to call the labor board in my state because this cannot be legal. I suggest we all do the same.
Yes, they seem to have put in place a director of OPs that came from MQ, only to now be doing her damage at SPi. I understand she is also busy putting into place managers from MQ, so it is obvious what her agenda is...to mimic MQ, so we know where the direction of SPi is going, and it seems to hold true with this new comp plan.
In a matter of 18 months, SPi has successfully turned what was once a well-respected, successful company with a talented team of MTs and mangers that was once Cymed and turned it into a cold, disorganized machine. They have had to have have lost millions in revenue with all the clients and MTS who have quit them due to poor service and disorganization, including ongoing unresolved IT issues. It's almost as if they want to fail!
Folks, it's tiime we all stand up for what is right and make someone pay attention. What is a transcription company without transcriptionists? We are not slaves and we do have options. If SPi wants to be another MQ, then let's let them have it and see where they end up in the court system.
I have been in this profession long enough to know that you can be successful at whatever you do by working hard, treating people with respect, and never compromising your integrity, a virtue that is foreign to SPi. I for one am sick for us all at the latest turn of events and am going to spend this time when there are no jobs available making the necessary calls and then submit my resignation.
Let's all stand together and see how long this compensation plan works for them when there is no one to do the little work they have. They may have people offshore who will do it for even less than the slave wages they are paying us, so I say let them have it and suffer the consequences when what business they have left walks out the door.
Since you no longer work there
But if you need to keep repeatedly posting about your bad experience there, go ahead, its a free country. I was speaking of my current work volumes there, to another current employee. My post was not addressed former employees, and I made no mention of the validity of your past experience, so I don't understand why you felt the need to respond to my post. As you said, not everyone has the same experience, and I understand that...do you?
KC... It sounds like you are no longer there.
Could you tell me why? Was the pay on time and comparable?
WMX - no longer get hx on jobs - sm
Is this so we no longer can see who kicked back jobs and potentially report them if it is a repeat thing? Not trying to start a fuss, just curious.
I have done transcription probably longer than
you have been on this earth, almost 40 years now. I think I know probably as much about transcribing as most here, worked for all different specialities, please don’t make me lose it tonight with your holier than thou message. Like you are the only little girlie here that can transcribe.
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
I have been doing this for over 35 years, longer than you
and my employer went to VR, a place where I had worked for 12 years at that time so it was either leave and find another job at age 50+ or fit in and thank goodness I decided to stay on. I make over $500 per week and I work part time, yes on VR. I read here people think others liking because of being newbies, slow at transcribing, MTSOs and the like but this is not me at all. Outsourced from my inhouse job, I was lucky to find the people who have the same hospital account and here I am, 19 years and counting for the same account. I am glad I learned VR when I did. So many are totally against when it seems most companies are now headed that way.
Are you 100% sure they no longer offshore anything?
I would have a hard time believing that, but I could be wrong, and it definitely would be a step in the right direction for at least ONE big huge company, hopefully others will follow suit.
it does seem that they are no longer regional
I really do hope that they are not selling themselves as a LOCAL company anymore. Sorry, but they can't have it both ways. The last time I heard, it took approximately 23 hours (counting changing planes, etc.) to get from NYC to Delhi.
I can no longer afford to do anything except
My gift-exchange days are over til i can find a REAL job. You know: one that actually pays you to do it.
link no longer valid - sorry
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Debbie is no longer the owner.
The previous COO from Heartland is now the President and COO! Watch out! Major outsource lover...
Did, but no longer. Good company however.
Good luck. I was fairly productive, but more so now that I work the same 5 doctors day in an day out, not 100's of doctors. But, to each her own. Like I said, Medware is a good company.
Now try quoting someone who's been there longer than 2 weeks.
Extext is better than Merit or Meditech.
Then why are you no longer there? Reliablity or something the company did? nm
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I've been there longer than that and I never heard ot it.
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do your legs feel longer
I am absolutely sure they have been pulled. There is no place that would pay that much above market rates. You are being diddled.
That has been going on for years. No longer a member.
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Will it be a 65-char. line or longer? nm
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Keystrokes has been around longer, which I like, but Zylomed
is just clinic notes, and you can usually make a lot of expansions for those. Also, they only require 800 lines a day to get full time benefits and pay part of the insurance premium. Medquist requires 1200 lines a day for insurance, etc.
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