Wilma, just to keep a balance,what are a couple of your

• How is it that in less than 1 year Medware goes from the best company to work for to the worst? - nm
  • Let me get this straight - interesting
    • Shift lead - nm
      • hmm..be careful of your confidence among such greed... who will the team leader be? - me here
    • This is twice now that they have done this....sm - Former MWer
  • I honestly had the best job in the world one day and no job the next sm - sad, very sad
    • Me too - Sad as well
    • Were you offered another position or severance? nm - It's awful if they just let you go.
      • Just a change of duties, no one lost their position - nm
      • yes, we were offered jobs as production MTs - nm
  • I have been with Medware for 2 years - Wilma
    • Just a matter of time before she will be off her high horse - MW makes me sick to my stomach
      • Maybe she works, gets paid and likes her job - nm
    • Wilma, just to keep a balance,what are a couple of your - least favorite things about Medware? nm
      • Wilma writes the same thing every time - have ya noticed? - hmmm...
        • What we know most is that Wilma has been there 2 years and is happy. - Yeah. You have a point there
          • I found your post VERY amusing, thanks for the laughs - sm - mac
            • My name is Fred Flintstone and I have been VERY unhappy for 2 years because all I get are... - Yeah. I'm here all week folks..
  • I hate this kind of cheap shot post. What's the deal? nm - What exactly is the problem?
    • Maybe I just needed to vent..... - nm
      • I'm sorry you're in a bad place, but when you make a post - like the one above, of course it concerns sm
  • MQ did the same thing in less than a year. nm - nm
    • Sad, but it is the same story all over. Try to find a - smaller company.
      • Smaller company? Not me! Heartland was a - Metoo!
      • What does one consider a smaller company, 100 MTs, 150 or a lot less? Just curious so I know where - Wondering
  • I just submitted an application to them. Can you give details? nm - Now I'm freaked.

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As someone who worked there in the past and for whom it wasn't a good fit for, I will just point out that no company is a good fit for everyone.  MD is a good company but it's not without flaws, and since you've now got a board full of job seekers wanting to check them out, I will just mention a few things about them.

They don't hold you to a schedule - they know technically they cannot --  BUT they do want you working normal business hours and if you don't, you won't get much work.  I prefered to work at night and for three months got next to nothing from them.  She didn't like that she didn't see me working during the day.  The work is assigned at night and you are expected to have it completed by 5pm.  

They offshore a lot of their work.  A lot of work is done in South Africa and the Phillipines, maybe other places as well but for sure those two. 

The program they use Med Rite XL is easy but messes with your computer.  You cannot have Word open, and I remembered constantly having to reset Word because it would change my settings in my regular Word.  My Word Normal file crashed due to the Med Rite program.  I have had no problems whatsoever with my Word since deleting the program off my system.

I will say they are better than a lot of them but certainly not the only good company around. I say this because there are many good companies out there.  Most of you will not get hired by MD - don't give up.  I now am with a company that fits me great. 

Try finding companies by Googling names you create.  You'll find many companies not on these boards that way - thus a better chance they haven't had 10,000 apps.  Know what you want.. do you like working the normal business schedule or do you prefer a company that says get me 1500 lines a day and we're happy?  Do you like to work on a platform or not - many smaller companies will not have a platform.   Are you looking for specific specialty, acute, or multiclinic? 

Do not be afraid to ask questions before even testing.  I would always ask the rate, the system etc.  don't waste time testing for a company that's paying .07 per 85 characters when you really need .09 per 50.  There are companies that pay good. 

Lee Perfect I believe and TTS.  Try putting your resume up as well.  I got a ton of hits off of here and another transcription job board and another job website.  Not allowed to give you names of the sites though.

Do they hire part-time?   Do you need a C-phone or are they internet based?

Thanks 

How is the platform?

Is rigid schedule required for full-time?

Are there production bonuses?

Thank you!

TTS does this to all of  ICs. She literally will call MTs and threaten your job because you are not on the schedule for your hours.  I was let go because of not working my set hours, yet I did my line count on a daily basis that I said I would do.  Who would you report this to?  Would you report to the DOL or the IRS? 

Hired for new account that didn't come on-line as projected.  Extended training/staging time that at least we got paid for, but half of what I make transcribing and then when we went live there was no little work for week we were lucky to get 4 reports a day.   Other accounts were low so couldn't give us a backup, but looks like most accounts are back to producing again and lots of OT now. 

My situation isn't quite the same, but the result was the same and I sympathize with you.   When you have bills to pay you need to be making the lines. 

If it is the same company, they pay weekly (nice), and are such nice people.  Everyone in the office was readily available to answer questions.  The only downside was they did not have a platform at that time.  Work was received and sent via FTP files, and I prefer to work on an actual platform.

...If you deposit a bad check, you own bank will probably charge you a service fee for having to handle it.  I was charged a $38.00 (same as their bounced check fee) fee when I deposited somebody's bad check.  This is one of the reasons stores have a policy of charging you a fee if you pay with an NSF (insufficient funds) personal check.  They get charged a fee by their bank for depositing it. The banks get cranky about the bookkeeping involved, posting the amount, debiting it out again, etc.

Second, I am assuming you work at home and the company is not in your home town.  Therefore, the crime of writing bad check will probably be considered to have occurred where the company is located.  Good luck dealing with a bad check across state lines. 

I'm assuming the check is for a few hundred dollars.  In my city, there is something called night court which is an after-hours service of the city prosecutor's office.  It basically is a small-claims/arbitration court and you can go talk to an assistant prosecutor about the problem.  They may send a summons to the check writer, but it really will not require them to appear.  Some people are frightened to get such a notice, but if they are in another state, what can be done to them for a relatively small check?

You might have a mail fraud angle on this, since they mailed the check to you. I don't suppose you saved the envelope?  Postal inspector might be someone to contact.  Just a thought.   

and I really am over it.  Went through a false start with a company that looked like it would be a long-term home for me, but wasn't.  (This time, I was the one who said good-bye after a year.)  Now I'm with a company that I really like. 

Have you not noticed that the trend with employers nowadays is to fire you and have security escort you off the premises?  They do this so that discgruntled soon-to-be-ex employees have no time to mess things up on their way out rhe door.  Sure, SPi (a Philippine-owned company)  knew that the plan was to dump all of us when they acquired CyMed, but it was just  'good business' to play their hand close to the vest until they were ready.  They wanted us to want them, until they no longer needed us.  They needed us to work during the transition to offshore.  Then they were through with us.  At least I got unemployment.

This happened to the employees of the local branch of a national restaurant chain.  It was my favorite breakfast place and the company was closing restaurants all over the country, but the locals were assured that this was a profitable shop (it was always crowded) and they would be okay.  Right up until the morning they reported to work to find a sign on the door that the place had closed.  Had the corporate office given them notice, many would have found other positions prior to the closing.  What would the company have done then?  They weren't quite ready to close and needed those people to keep the place staffed until they were ready.  Dog eat dog world.

So I'm a lot more proactive now and at the first rumblings of a problem my resume goes out there.  This is what happened with my last job.  Things started to seem 'just not right' and so I found my current job.  But if I become uncomfortable here, I'll start looking again immediately. 

If your company is constantly getting bashed and wrongfully so, then wouldn't standing up for them be the right thing to do?  Anyone who could make around the $50k you say you could make in 8 hours is indeed fortunate; most MTs I know personally and those on this board aren't so fortunate.

Secondly, what is it that you think they should do?  Jobs of any kind are pretty scarce due to the tanked economy.  The MT business particularly sucks when you have a great many MTSOs offering 5-6 cpl for experienced MTs.  So what do you suggest they do?  Go back to school?  I hear education all the time but exactly which career should they pursue that will ensure that they can get a job when they finish this education?  Anything that can be offshored is being offshored.  We are in the market for a new truck and we have always been pro BUY AMERICAN.  Hubby told me this evening that Ford is out because they are building 2 new plants in CHINA!  So the taxpayers (and these poor MTs ARE taxpayers) bail out the auto industry and THEIR money is used to build up the economy in another country.  Something VERY wrong with that.