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the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage. If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule. No one knows when the work is available. These companies place work into the system at any given time. It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.

Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us. As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way!

I am really tired of all the invasive no-wrong-answer tests out there. I plan to send this to every place I might apply.

I would like you to take a few minutes of your time to complete the following questionnaire. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers

MTs are just disposable resources to be used mercilessly by our company. True or False

MT's are undereducated and require the benefit of our vast knowledge. True or False

MTs never get tired because if they did they would be let go. True or False.

MTs really do not have lives of their own. They should live to work! True or False

MTs are lazy and not dependable. True or False

MTs are unemployable elsewhere, that is why they spent so much time learning the profession. True or False

Our company intends to financially reward those MTs who are punctual, dependable, hardworking, and are willing to struggle through some of the worst dictators on the planet. True or False

Our company is just in it for the money. Money is the name of the game, we don't care whose back we break to get it? True or False

Our company will undercut all the other MT companies by promising that our MTs are 100% accurate. True or False

Our company knows that the accuracy expectations are just a poly to keep the MTs down, and degraded so they don't dare ask for a raise. True or False

Our company knows that accuracy checks are really the luck of the draw but that's just how it is done. True or False

It's an employer's market, and we know it, and we intend to milk it for everything it is worth. True or False

We really do not have the accounts we claim to have, we are just trying to build up a workforce, so we can submit bids to potential clients. True or False

We really don't know that much about transcribing ourselves, that is why we want our MTs to walk on water, that way it makes us look good. True or False.

The principals in our company all have at least 20 years' experience transcribing and are all certified MTs with accredited degrees in the English Language, spoken and written. True or False

So just be honest with me. Your answers will be held in the strictest confidence.

Sincerely,

I know, work for a long time and tried asking questions, but they just beat around the bush and don't answer the true question that you presented to them.

It really depends on what you are looking for in a company. This is a very different company to work for. For example, you don't work in pools, you are not constantly being bumped around, and there always has been plenty of work, even around holidays where everyone else is fighting for work because there is none. I was so shocked that after Christmas there wasn't a major slow-down. It's mostly clinic accounts, so you if your work is caught up, you don't have to work holidays. There is no deciding which holiday you want off or which you have to work because if you just do your work, you get off. Of course, if you want to work the holiday, there is always something to work on if you speak up.

Anyway, I have worked for just about all of the nationals. I have been with Wordzxpressed for over a year now and plan on staying.

I had a 30-second interview and was told my team leader would be contacting me. He never did. It took me DAYS to get somebody to send me the account specifics, samples, etc., and it was never management who did it, it was a lady I met on here who faxed me what she had. They throw you in there head first without the information you need. They promise bonuses if you don't take a day off and make production...well I never ever saw it EVER. Right before I left they sent out an email saying there would be none for that particular period because they didn't make enough profit. The account managers get paid based on how many lines we do and if the account stays current, so expect constant emails from them saying how they didn't make anything this pay period and there are bills to pay, etc.

Insurance: The one person doing insurance is something else. You get a big packet in the mail and you have to figure out yourself which you are eligible for, what percentage for life insurance, etc. If you email him and ask him about anything, he doesn't answer. I had been there 5 months and still did not have insurance cards for insurance I had been paying for all along. I had to go to the top person in the company to get him to email me back. He just doesn't do anything.

QA: There were 2 on the accounts I worked on. One was pretty nice and helpful but extremely overworked. It was actually her who told me what I needed to know regarding account specifics because the first two months I was there, I never so much as got an email from my account manager. The other one once sent me an email telling me I needed to go back to school and how STUPID the mistakes were and turns out it wasn't even MY report!!! I called her on it and told her that is NOT the way to talk to people, especially new hires who have no information to start with. She was just on a huge power trip and talked to people like dogs. Had I been the actual person she meant to email and talked to like that, I would have been gone right then and there.

PLATFORM: It's okay when it works. When tech support, and I use that term loosely, installed it on my computer, he wiped out my Stedman's that was associated with my MSWord. Years of adding gone!! You don't get paid for what you have to fill in on the header page. It froze up a lot and sometimes would get stuck on all caps. It was very very slow. I had to highlight and copy every single report because 2 out of 3 times, it would freeze and I would lose it and the backup retrieval feature didn't work.

The accounts were very good, best I've had, but a combination of the management, system, etc., just wasn't worth the trouble. They would tell us the profit margin was low and then send out an email with pictures of them partying somewhere, patting themselves on the back for the work their MTs do. You never got a thank you for anything. A bunch of the management members are married and/or related to each other which would be fine if anybody had experience. Our account was assigned a 21-year-old manager who had never done this type of work before. I don't think you should manage people if you can't do the work yourself. I would send her mistakes in the automatic templates, doctors list, etc., and she had no clue what to do with it.

Getting the required lines was difficult for some reason. At other jobs I would do a minimum of 1500-1800 per day and with this system, I was lucky to get 900. I know the system freezing up was part of it, but on the rare occasion when it worked, it was still very difficult.

They constantly call you to help with this account or that account, which is okay if it's within your time frame to work. I would get calls an hour before shift start from the secondary account person saying are you working today? I never missed a single day while I was there and always worked OT, so there was no reason for this and I found it quite annoying.

for the place I'm working for now. My very first job right out of school was for a woman who owned her own company, and she had a son and a niece working for her. The niece did more than her fair share, and in fact we became good friends after our dogs started having play dates together on our days off. Her son, on the other hand, did all the easy psych work with all the templates and then went on to steal the ER work (also only docs with templates), and surpise... he always had the highest line counts of anyone. Those were the days also when we got paid for headers and footers, patient info, everything, so he was making out like a bandit.

Also worked for MQ in-house when they had an office here close to my home. Some people sat there and typed the hardest account we had all day, every day and barely made their minimum lines, and there was this one person who would type nothing but ER notes that had very long templates and ended up being an average of 3 pages each. Then she had the nerve to brag about how big her checks were with all her bonuses and incentive. I got a chance to type those two days in a row and I made 1400 lines a day more than I usually did on my main account.

I say share the fortune, be it good or bad. The sooner we all get the bad work out, the sooner we can all get to the good work and start making money. I also had one supervisor tell me that I do the harder work because I make more cpl, but hey, if you are sitting there typing easy stuff all day and using templates, you are making more money in the long run.

When work runs short, my coordinator actually calls me and asks me not to work in order to allow real employees to get their lines. Work is generally short from now until around mid-January.

You will not get a raise in line rate beyond what you start at. If you want/need to make more money, be more productive.

Having said all that, with the attitude that ICs get the leftovers, I also take the attitude that OSi gets my leftover time. I have never had a problem in that regard. I generally don't call in in advance when I won't be working since they don't call me in advance to tell me there is no work. I try to make my line count, but I don't lose sleep if I don't.

I found it very disconcerting that during a full week when I signed in daily to find no work available there was an OSi want advertisement on MT Daily. That was when I decided that OSi needed to be my backup account.

Their quality department is a disaster. Absolutely no organization, constant e-mails that don't apply to your account, nonsense reviews. Be a duck and let it roll off. There is a bonus ($100 savings bond) quarterly/semi-annually for 100% quality reviews. I get it most of the time, and that's nice.

DRC in California. Never heard a bad word about them. Pay is decent, not exceptional. Good benefits.