Yeah, and I can bet that account used to be my primary because it rarely has work now!
Posted By: misty on 2006-04-06
In Reply to: It is not just a slow time....they lost a huge acct and moved many MTs to other accts....... - Didn't you know that????(nm)
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I guess I must just be lucky with my account. I rarely run s/m
out of work, and if I do, it doesn't last more than 15 minutes or so. Holiday periods will bring longer periods of no work, but still not very long. I can usually take a break, eat, go outside for a few minutes. I love my accounts, too.
That being said, I do feel badly for those who have to deal with this. In the year or more that I have been with the company, I have run out of work maybe 10 times. My accounts have little turnover, and this may be why. I hope it gets better for those who are having this problem frequently. that must be very frustrating :-(
Do you have a primary account - sm
or do you have to work on several different accounts? Do you get a lot of feedback during training? Did it take you very long to start meeting line requirements? Do they have decent insurance? Thanks!
It was when I worked at YOG -- primary account was 95% ESL. BUT, it's not so bad ...sm
Generally, a lot of times they say the same things in their review of systems and physical examinations, and you can make up little normals for each doc. Tough way to get your start, though -- sorry.
By the way, I don't think most acute care accounts are that heavy in ESL, but a number of 70-80% wouldn't surprise me.
Good luck!
I don't have to be management to know I have a primary account
that I work on and have backup accounts. If you have problems with ESL doctors on a certain you should let someone know. I had this happen before on a backup account and they removed it from my pool.
I myself find it interesting that people who don't work for them and have never worked for them are posting below bashing the company on heresay.
Losing primary account.
What happens? I haven't been working for an MTSO long enough to know (worked in house for the last 5 years). Could someone please tell me their experiences? I work for a large MTSO, so I am hoping that I can get placed on another account, but really, I don't think there are enough slots to fill all our positions. Any thoughts? Please HELP.
To losing primary account
Can you tell us which company? The moderators say it is okay.
AGREE! When my primary account went ISR........
I took about a $200 to $300 a month pay cut. Don't think this won't happen with this new system. Will soon be paying them for the priviledge of working for them.
Its my understanding your pay is based on your primary account sm
I didn't ask that specific question but that is how I understood it when it was explained to me.
Very low on my primary account with my FT job, but busy with my PT jobs. sm
Unfortunately, I need the lines at the FT job not only for the $$$ but to maintain my benefits. Kinda scary. 
your company takes overflow or has a primary account
I really have no idea if this applies to your current situation, but when I worked at a hospital and a large MTSO took our overflow, some of the girls I worked with had no qualms about leaving (or perhaps assigning, can't really remember now) the horrible doctors to the MTSO. We had a monitor that showed all the jobs waiting in queue, and they would (or could, anyway) go down the list assigning themselves the good ones, thereby leaving the bad ones to the MTSO. I worked radiology and everything was in-house for that, but I would watch the acute care ladies do this.
I suppose it probably varies with each account. My primary has been slow sm
since the holiday, but I am able to get my lines. I'm hoping it picks up soon.
Hope this helps. 
My primary account is a hosp in new orleans so I'm wondering if we'll have more charts in a fe
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No. Very rarely run out of work on my reg (sm)
If I do, like on a Monday morning, I do my #1 backup for an hour or so. Sometimes when backup #3 is behind, I help out on that. The others I have only done in a pinch, so I'm not as fast on those and very rarely do them; but at least I know I could if I wanted to.
Very rarely have I run out of work.
There are occasions when I don't feel like working in my backup accounts when that is all I am getting, but I have truly never run out of work completely.
I'm with you - it's very rarely "out of work" for me but (sm)
I've been in this business long enough to take advantage of those times. It never lasts very long. It's one of the best companies I have ever worked for, and the support staff is great. If there is a problem, it's taken care of quickly. Now with the line counting issues being taken care of too, I'm happy as a clam.
Have 3 primaries and then go into the pool rarely, but always have work sm
You get 20 different accounts every day? I feel for you. In the beginning of last year, I was doing as many as 15 accounts. Since at least November, I rarely go into the pool. Maybe you can switch accounts?
Downside is that there's rarely a steady/even load of work everyday unless there's always a ba
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My liaison always says to work on secondary when primary is low on work/no work. n/m
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I don't have work on primary OR secondary. nm
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No work on Edit Script, no work on my primary
I bounce between several accounts and 2 platforms every day and have been for weeks. I only see my primary maybe one day a week. I was so excited to start with TT last fall after 11 long years with MQ and today I'm sending my resume out again. It's makin' me sad.
TT gives you primary and secondary, how do they do work pools? sm
Do you get primary one work type (BORING) or do you get a fairly good mix or how do they set it up? TIA
My primary is caught up, but other accounts have some work. NM
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I don't understand it. We've been consistently running out of work primary and secondary the
I quit.
Yeah but heard they are down to one account now only. nm
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Yeah I had applied for the Escription account (before I knew the insulting pay rate) with years of
experience and no one bothered to get back to me. Once they told me what they paid, I would have never accepted anyway, but I find it odd that they would not pursue someone with years of experience. I guess they knew there would be no one I would accept their pay. Apparently, they are hoping some desperate people apply, which is NOT me but best wishes to them.
Then when we MT's are **thrown on** an account because of lack of work on our account
What is so hard to understand about that?
Then we have that account info filed away in a folder in our Outlook Express by name of account and can look at past emails sent out regarding that account. Not fun to be tossed on an account that you have never seen NOR ever received an email on. Sounds like business to me.
Exactly. Rarely have to do it, but like to know that I can if I have to.
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My account has lots of work..ask for another account/nm
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Nothing but nitpicking - very rarely anything useful
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Why would you never had to type an AB? I think they are rarely done in
an acute care setting, usually performed in a facility just for that purpose. I think maybe I have done one in 20 years, although I've done several D&Cs for botched ABs. I wouldn't type them on a regular basis, but not because of my religious values, because of my moral values.
I very rarely have a problem
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Yeah, you do have to work or they let you go.
As an IC, I've never even been able to take a day off to be sick. I was told that I couldn't take my requested vacation when I wanted it, too. I tell them the schedule I want to work, but they're always pushing the limits there. No work for several days, and then too much work that "nobody else can do". The companies that hire ICs are also pushing the limits on categorizing workers. They're hiring for ICs to work Tu-Sa, or Su-Th, the pay rate is $.xx, and it's 2nd or 3rd shift. I'm sorry, but when you hire an independent contractor, they are supposed to set their own schedule and pay. I'd love to just go down every single job ad and turn these companies into the IRS for misclassifying their employees. What, do they think we're so ignorant that we'll tolerate it just for the privilege of working at home and carrying their overhead costs for them? Men wouldn't allow themselves to be treated like this.
You're right, there are companies out there that route work to employees before ICs. They are not going to pay their employees hourly downtime rates so the ICs can do the work. IC is low on the totem pole.
Yeah, but who is getting this work?
I supposedly have 3 backup accounts but never get any work from them either. Usually, I don't mind, but I'm getting a wee bit tired rearranging MY schedule so I can get my lines.
Yeah, I work it sm
I have an employee job and an IC job. FT is Tues-Sat. IC is Mon-Fri. I told the IC that I won't work Monday, but I will work the rest of the week.
Well, we lost staff to the hurricane in TX and I am the only other one who can do an OP note, so I worked 2 Mondays with that. Then, when the gal came back, she stopped doing the OP notes or even much work for that matter, so I have worked a couple more Mondays. I went for over a month without a day off and then finally, I took 2 days off the PT IC job and a PTO day off the FT job and had a 3-day weekend. I didn't answer the phone or the email and had an automessage back to them: NOT WORKING ON MY VACATION.
I suppose it is what you want to do and if it is worth it to you. I get 10 cpl or better for production on my PT job, so I work them without a lot of grumbling, but I do get sick of it. Sometimes work flow is so low that you gotta and I have been there too.
Yeah, they like it when we grovel for our work. nm
The archive search rarely works for me either.
I'd try browsing through some of the archives and scanning for it.
Spheris is a huge MTSO; how come it is rarely
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I do ops for 3 services, but rarely get the heart stuff.
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Don't you miss the correspondance though. I rarely hear
from them either, but it would be nice to have some contact from them even if just a how are things going. It isn't just them, I have found most companies are like that. After the first week or so and there are no issues with your work you just don't hear from them.
I very RARELY have any sound quality issues
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Clinic notes very rarely delve into
specifics like acute care does. There is a difference.
Yeah..they are dishonest. They most certainly are in India. Do you really want to work for someone
that is dishonest?? not me..
MQ charges $50/computer - $15/wave pedal - and rarely have
for you to make 12,000 a pay period.
That's terrific. I rarely hear that a lone MT gets a hospital
account, so more power to ya!
lmao!! yeah maybe I'm the recruiter...suggesting that my co-worker is the problem. yeah that make
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Yeah, work ethic! My parents were wealthy
and both inherited big bucks from their parents. My mother never worked a day in her life, including not caring for her kids. My Dad had a nice job. They made me work starting at age 12 to 13 as well. Work ethic? I went from being a kid to having to be an adult at 12. I never did anything fun on the weekends with my peers, like football games, soccer games - I had to work. I worked every day after school, and every weekend. And now I'm still plodding along working in my 50's. My kids don't have to work at 12 and 13. I want them to enjoy life while they can. This old work horse has great ethics, but had no childhood.
Amen! Yeah, work was low Tues morning,
but I said THANK GOODNESS so I could take a break. Came back later and there was plenty.
It's not like gasoline where a supply can be kept for the low times. No; any transcription company has to try to stay within TAT or they lose money. When they lose money, do they penalize the MTs? Nope; they eat it.
I firmly believe that the good companies want to hire good people and keep them, but also get good accounts and keep them, so they have to delicately manage things the best they can. They have to let people take vacations now and then, and they can't predict when people will be sick or have emergencies. If you've ever worked in a hospital medical records department, you know that some of the docs are notorious for waiting until they are threatened with loss of privileges before they catch up their backlogs. So then they go in and dictate 200 reports they shoud have been doing for the last 2 months. Get a few of those and then there's a real crisis. Everybody gets a notice to work - work - work. Finally 2 weeks later everybody has worked their tushes off and done all this extra work, and everything is caught up on Monday morning. Then the docs come straggling in to do their dictations on Monday, while MTs sit at their desks, fuming because their is no work. Well whose fault is that? Management's? Nope, that's just business. I doubt there is a business in this world that is the same day in and day out, 7 days a week, every week of the year.
yeah and the MTSO still charging full price for the work
Most physicians/hospitals don't even know they're dictating into VR so still paying full-on transcription prices while the nationals/MTSOs cut the MT's salary in half. Nice huh?
Yeah, out of work this a.m. ALREADY -- Transtech overhires to cover their rears!
We have been running out of work consistently for the past several months. You have to work every hour of the day to get your lines, always asked to FLEX your schedule, yet they DEMAND that you work your schedule! LOL They have really overhired within the past couple of weeks and we have NO WORK AT ALL NOW. Very hard to get your line count or make a DECENT PAYCHECK now. Hope that helps.
yeah - they haven't told a couple of hospitals that they are offshoring their work - but I think
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Oh, yeah, NOT fair to those TransTech MT's who are REQUIRED to work a certain # of hours per mont
on weekends! Tell us how you managed to talk TT mgmt into that favor for you! Oh, no, another TT fav !!!
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