While I wait to win the lottery, I need to continue to work....
Posted By: NJPR???? on 2008-04-08
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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
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Why did you continue to work for MDI...
for years then if you could make so much more elsewhere????
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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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.
I did not continue to work for them, but have not recieved a check and it has been 2 months already.
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If there are any psychics, I could use the lottery numbers for the Big Game please :) nm
Good night everyone.
I actually wish I were psychic because like the MTSO below, I would love to win the lottery
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I cannot see why anyone particularly IC would sit and wait on work. That is almost
too hard to believe. It is absolutely allowing someone else to make a total fool out of you. I refuse to do that. There are enough PT jobs around that you can run 2 at the same time. It is inevitable that eventually people will just get out of this business unless you have other income and could care less about the overhiring. I would think that most people are in this to make money for necessities but maybe I am wrong. I have far better things to do with my life than sit and stare at an empty computer waiting on work. I let them know it and I would hope other MTs do the same.
You don't have to "sit and wait" for work if
No company can make you sit and wait for free. They cannot FORCE you to do this.
You will have to make up your mind how to handle this type of situation.
I work for 2 companies (one FT and one PT) and here's how I what I do for both:
1. One company has a policy on what to do if work runs out so I keep a printed copy of it. The other company doesn't so I asked my supervisor in an e-mail what the company expects if we run out of work. I printed off her reply (date/time-stamped e-mail).
2. I keep day-by-day calendar for the days I work. If I run out of work, literally run out - no more work - not where I don't have work I like or normally get - if it is for the company with a policy, follow it. Then I am released from work and I either offer to make it up or take PTO but I try to make it up if I can fit it in my schedule. If it is the other company with no policy about no work, I simply send an e-mail to my supervisor and copy her manager and a copy to the HR department and a blindcopy to myself with NO WORK AVAILABLE in the subject line. In the e-mail, I list the day/time and that I have no work available. I state what my plan is (make it up on xx day) unless I am contacted by management by X time (I list the time 30 minutes from when I ran out of work and am sending the e-mail).
3. Print off a copy of the e-mail I sent (from my sent box).
4. If management calls me with more work, I get the e-mail I sent to everyone and send it back to everyone thanking them for their contact at XX time and confirming what was arranged. Again, print off a copy of what I sent out of the sent box. If no one ever contacts me, I note that on my printed copy.
This way, I have:
1. Followed any policy.
2. Clearly notified management and HR of the situation.
3. Made my backup plan clearly known.
4. Given them opportunity to respond to resolve.
5. Keep legally recognized and accepted notes (calendar notes what happened; copies of e-mails sent) of how I handled the situation.
If your management requires you to call and leave a voice message, that's fine but ALWAYS follow up in e-mail for proof. It is especially important to print off these types of e-mails, especially if you have a company e-mail address that can be terminated.
Hope this helps.
Wait .. that came out wrong. I'm not glad you don't have work .. just relieved I'm not alo
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I have work, just had to wait about 20 minutes after I signed in..no biggie. nm
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You will need 15 hours out of your day to reach your line count because you have to wait on work..sm
 to trickle in. The pay is good, always on time, Q/A is not good, platform is good. In my opionion, they have over hired on many accounts and this causes a lot of down time therefore causing you to work all day and night long to get in your counts in...if you don't care about hearing requested dictation completed....good company!
You will be hired fast and then wait weeks or months for work...SM
You may be asked to invest in expensive equipment, likely to run out of work regularly and not have your calls returned when you try to contact them. They do pay well but the work is NOT there more than it is, so great pay doesn't mean much. They sell it to you great but they don't deliver.
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??????????
I dont know what that means. I am an SE. I dont sit and wait for work I come back in when it is
there so I never had to deal with Amherst when there was no work because I just stopped working and did other things. My feeling is if this doesnt work there are other jobs out there.
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.
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.
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?
The beatings will continue
Pathetic, isn't it?
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!
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.
Why would a company continue to keep slackers?
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
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.
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.
This will be the downfall of MQ if they continue this bouncing people around. Whoever thought up
this way for MTs to work is so entirely wrong that there is no way they have ever ever done this job. They are totally to the wind doing this. Anyone who has ever done MT work will say that the best way to get the best lines and best quality is to keep MTs with what they know and what they do best. One main and one backup is all anyone should ever have to do. We have constant complaining in my office from the hospitals about things that are done wrong and it is ABSOLUTELY because of people not used to the account hopping in when they run out. Bad bad business.
Well I think they would just continue to hire SEs and then give them an option, just my opinion. I
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.
If TT lets wrong line counts continue, regardless of
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well then isn't that QA's job to send feedback so that doesn't continue to happen?
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Has she posted anything to that effect, or is she letting testing continue?
I dunno, this whole situation sounds a bit peculiar to me. I like to give everyone the benefit of a doubt, but this one just seems peculiar for some reason (or for several reasons).
I hope whoever bothered to test for this and landed it posts how their experience goes.
2 choices: Continue to call/write repeatedly or move on. nm
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You are wasting your words on this or any site letting it bother you. The bashers will continue
to bash because they get pleasure from doing so.
What you need to do is do not read the threads. Bashers love to bash.
If you choose to read the threads, take it with a grain of salt and just let it go over your head.
You know the truth and an intelligent MT will go to the company for questions particularly when that company makes it clear in their ads that they can.
I just would not sweat it. Know that intelligence prevails in this industry and the smart ones will find out for themselves rather than read sour grapes or anything that resembles it.
Go relax and don't worry about it. Enjoy your day.
Oh, well, then please don't wait around for it. I
wouldn't want you to be disappointed.
Gosh.
But wait and see. :)
I had work the first 2 full weeks I was there.. afterwards I was bombarded with hours and lines to make up. i.e., 11-15 hours every single week with a paycheck that never topped $200 except for my first one because they pay $200 to train. They always wanted everyone available every hour of every day. At least my TM is. You need to come back after you are there for a while and let me know how it is REALLY going for you.
Only excuse I ever got was the doctors are on vacation thats why no one has work... umm I had like over 50 when I stopped counting in my work pool.. so I highly doubt it.
I really do hope everything works out for you. 
I was told we can never use our own computer. Everyone has to use theirs.
wait, there's more
(from the same board)
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: re: Telerecruiting Admin Services Reply with quote
OH MY GOSH - thank you so much for posting this information.
I got an email from them telling me about a job and that I was preselected. Everything about the email was so professional, even the mention of sending them $11.95 to keep active with their staffing service, taking a typing test and sending the results, etc.
I got the email the evening before Thanksgiving and they needed a reply by the Friday after Thanksgiving because the job was supposed to start the next week. I got the feeling of [quote] hurry so you don't miss this opportunity.[/quote]
IT SOUNDED AND LOOKED SO GOOD - and I didn't have a lot of time to research this company - so I started with these forums and lo and behold here was my answer.
I sure appreciate that you took the time to input this information.
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Talitha
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: re: Telerecruiting Admin Services Reply with quote
I fell for it the first time that they sent me something. I think it had to do with data entry but then they said that the positions have been filled. I find out that there was only like 2-4 positions that they had opened.
Talitha
Now wait. Don't tell me there are
what you type in, no matter what your Expander plays out. For instance, if you type copdx and that comes out as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, you should get paid for all the characters/spaces in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, right? Not just five letters for copdx. I'm asking because of the post below.
Heck, if I worked for a company that wasn't paying me for stuff the I took the time to put in MY expander to make transcription faster and more profitable for ME, then I'd just throw my expander out and type everything the hard way.
Please tell me there is no company that cheats MTs like that!
wait!!!
If you are an IC, you get paid when the hospital pays the client = stop complaining and deal with it!
Is this the one where you wait (sm)
forever for the first pay?
Wait? What?
Wait... Medware was bought out by another company or they are merging with another company?
What shall happen to all of us MedWare employees? I love MedWare!!! It's the best one I've worked for yet. :)
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