Yes please - WMX follow suit!
Posted By: Anon on 2009-07-01
In Reply to: Glad for you! Let's hope Webmedx will follow suit. - WX
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Glad for you! Let's hope Webmedx will follow suit.
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Do you follow along with the mouse? I follow allow with my right arrow, the cursor going over the
words...I mean what do you do with the mouse exactly? I know that is a weird question, but I am still not getting it...haha! It could be a difference in platforms for sure,because my mouse is completely worthless to me in VR. I used EXText.
Ok, which suit are you?? Have you seen the bad
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He is not a suit...sm
I worked at SS at the same time that Clifton worked there. He was not a suit; he was an MT and what he has posted is true. I remember the incident.
No, I'm not a suit.
I'm an MT with 30 years of experience like everyone else here who has just been sold down the river.
Discrimination suit
I know there's that law that protects us from discrimination when we are between 40 and 70. However, it would be difficult to prove that this was their reason for not hiring me. I'm sure they would come up with some other excuse. And, I doubt if the Labor Board would fight with them. As a matter of fact, I am past the time limit on reporting that, as it happened more than 6 months ago (I think 6 months is the time limit for filing the complaint). As for a separate civil suit, that would probably be more trouble than it's worth. But, in the future, I will keep better notes and will create a paper trail just in case.
Are you that hard up for a job? Maybe OSi will suit you.
good luck
Thank you, suit-wearer.
Methingks this is a Suit.
Methinks this is another Suit.
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How original, Ms. Suit!
Dude. Yer a SUIT.
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Funny but your own comments seem to suit YOU to a T lol
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(Middle-management Suit.)
Spoken like a true suit.
Please don't jump ship, it's scary out there, and be grateful we didn't cut your pay even more! I think anyone unhappy about receiving a pay cut & having to do more lines on this horrible VR to make up for it deserves to be upset right now. Many of the smaller companies have tried VR and decided to do away with it, so I don't agree that's it's going to be an across-the-board thing of the future. The quality it spits out is horrible, which in turn endangers the patients, just like offshoring.
Is "indigo" the color of your SUIT?
Alltype changes the rules as they go to suit them.
IMO, they'll tell you one thing when interviewed, but the numbers just don't add up and definitely show in your pay. They love to send reminder emails regarding working holidays unless scheduled off, and when you do there is no work. Then, as you sit isolated from your family on the holidays, you get the peppy little emails saying check with your team leader to see if you can take off an hour here and there, and work them later in the day as you are not allowed to take ANY time off without pay (even if there is no work). Their TAT is more important that your time with your family, also IMO. If you don't/can't meet your required line count for full-time, they put you on part-time status. If you're already part-time and don't/can't meet your line count, they put you on IC status (and expect you to work their schedule with minimum line count requirement of 600 lines per day).
Management is demeaning, curt, and unprofessional, and human resources person is worse, also IMO. Check archives about email resignation that may or may not have been initiated by human resources...and be very cautious about what they (management) tell you. The term snakes comes to mind...but, of course, that is just my opinion. They used to be a nice place to work years ago when G ran it.
Now I ain't sayin she a suit-kisser, but she ain't (nm)
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Not only bringing suit, but our profession's tendency - sm
for it's members to behave like pirhanas towards one another whenever someone mentions something different. Yes, this topic IN GENERAL has been on the news before, but it needs to get more up-close and personal. To begin with, showing what MT really is, how it works, who does it and where, and how it integrates with their doctors, their insurance, and their healthcare, and just HOW MUCH of their personal, NON-MEDICAL information is really contained in their medical records. Then they might just START to care.
A suit actually called MQ MTs typing monkeys?
OMG that's unbelievable. That's what this biz is coming to, no respect at all except from one another. How did he get caught with his big ole stinky foot in his mouth?
I think everyone should file a class-action suit
She sounds like future SUIT material, to me.
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Flames? Putting on my flame retardant suit. sm
So what if some are happy and express their feelings about a company. If given the companies and the reasons, each of us can use this info as we need to. The remarks that just say Stay away don't help anyone. In fact, makes me wonder what the poster did that contributed to the bad remark. If someone disagrees with your reaction to a company and flames you or if you get flamed for giving reasons, seems to me you are getting flamed one way of the other. Might as well give reasons and help educate the rest of us. And no one knows who you are, what do you care about the flames? Actually, when I get flamed, I have to smile a little to think about how I got everyone excited for a few minutes.
I think they do, but must follow
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Follow up
There were many reasons why it took longer than 8 hours to do 1150 lines. One reason was because of the difficult dictators. The US MTs get the majority of the bad dictators. India gets many of the good accounts. This is a fact!! The other reason is because they have this little thing called OLC. You see, they do not like anything to go to QA. So they have you ask other MTs to pull the job # in to listen to your blanks for you to see if they can get it. Not only is this extremely time consuming for the MT, but it is very time consuming for other MTs, thus making it difficult for everyone to get their line count in in 8 hours. There was hardly anyone there that could do it consistently in 8 hours on a day to day basis. There was also much referencing for doctors names and addresses that was very time consuming, and that you don't get paid for, but you could not leave it blank without searching like in three different places for it. How time consuming is that....One would think a large company like that could come up with a better solution than that for their MTs. Maybe a better datatbase, do ya think??!! There are very many reasons this company goes through MTs like they do. Their turnover rate is VERY high. I personally met my goals everyday. Somedays it took longer than others, but the pay was not worth it. Give yourself a raise!!! My all time favorite. Excuse me, but even MacDonald's gives raises to their employees for doing a good job, that little thing called RECOGNITION, and they don't expect them to sell more burgers to get it....Most companies base their raise on hard work, dependability, quality of work being done, and when a company has top notch employees that know their work and are doing a great job, and pays another person whom just started the same wage (whom quality or quantity is not there yet) that is just not fair. Where is the incentive to be dependable, and to go out of your way to go that extra mile to make sure that job is done just precise. Another thing about this company is that they expect you jump around on different accounts just about every day. Emails that come through saying this account is out of turn and you need to pull so many jobs from this other account in. Well, again, it is hard to get your line count in in 8 hours when you are jumping all over having to other accounts and having to read pages of account specifics before you can even get started. They expect way too much for giving way toooo little. Compensate fairly and one does not mind going that exta mile for a company who shows you they appreciate it. If one does not mind working a ton of a hours for a low wage, then this company if for you. I think it is just degrading for all MTs out there to have any one MT sacrifice their hard earned skills and work for a company who treats their workers in this way!! We are skilled individuals and many work for less than what kids make at their part time jobs because they are willing to do it to stay at home and work. We need to demand a wage that we are worth. Afterall, most MTS either have schooling behind them or lots of years of experience. Isn't that worth getting paid what you are worth?? Just because we stay at home should not mean we have to get paid peanuts. What are you saving the employer, office space, equipment, electricity, and all the other things they must provide to have employees work in their office. We save them that money. So why should we get paid less!! Quite the opposite, I think. I certainly am not trying to keep anyone from getting a job. The only thing I wish to gain is to see this industry take a turn and have us very skilled individuals who are important enough to come up with a document that could play a part in a person's life, be compensated fairly!! Aren't we all worth that much!!??
Follow up - sm
I decided against Webmedx. I passed the test and was offered a position but declined. After studying the incentive program, I don't think I would be making any more than I do for Medquist. The starting line rate was too low. They try to push the incentive program, but it just doesn't seem that good.
So, I guess I'm sticking with MQ for now.
I'm planning to get out of transcription. I have tested and gotten offers from a few companies, but none of them seem vastly different than Medquist, unfortunately.
I already have a few online businesses and hopefully will be able to work on them full time some time in the next year or 2. 
Follow up
My husband called the company in Oregon (there really is a legitimate company with that name). They said it is a scam, someone is using their identity to get people to open checking accounts. This scam is using the employee names and e-mail addresses but somehow it is routed to the scam artists. The legit company gave my husband the FBI information so he could report it.
follow up
today (saturday)I have had 106 lines ALL day and I'm 5 hours into my shift. that help any? seriously, you will NOT make ANY money here...keep looking! your best bet is steer clear of any service, get on directly with a dr.'s office or hospital, that's where any decent income is...
Anyone know any follow up...
on what happened to that transcription company or on the Pakistani girl doing the transcription?
Follow up with them....(sm)
I'd send a follow-up email or call. TT is definitely worth pursuing. They've been swamped lately with resumes and there's always the possibility they didn't receive yours for some reason.
IMHO, TT is right up there with the cream of the crop, so by all means follow-up on your resume.
I am going to follow through on TTS. sm
I think I emailed you, and if you don't respond, I completely understand. I am going to follow through with the labor board on this one. I saved every email and correspondence from them, so on that end I should be good. I'm sure the current TTS'er will go yelling up the ladder, but it really doesn't matter because I don't think this is something they can backtrack on. I'll keep y'all posted. If anyone wants to join in, feel free to contact me.
No follow-ups? Now I'm worried. How about this,
forget about the DEP question. What is a good company to apply for SE/IC status, preferrably one who will supply the equipment needed - or not.
Did you call them and follow up? sm
I would just give them a quick call and double check - make sure that your test materials were received etc. I know that they reply to everyone who has tested with them.
Follow up to your post
That is 14,000 lines a pay period -- and MOST, if not all services have some degree of ESL's. Not trying to sound snotty here, but if you are so concerned about ESLs, why are you in medical transcription in the first place?
So call them. Follow up. nm
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Just to follow up. Some dear one,
another MT, posted on the Main Board, I believe, about our job as MTs; how hard it really is, how much knowledge we need to do this job, and may I add, cannot do this job just fresh off the street. Why are we not valued by the people who hire us!? Doesn't make sense. Then during the interview, you're asked, *Do you have any questions?* Well, yeah, but am I going to get the truth, or just what you think I want to hear? So I just don't ask anymore. Just had an interview the other day, was kind of excited at the time, sounded good, but now I have that nagging feeling that maybe I'm better off where I am working now. To my thinking, it's a roll of the dice....as someone once told me *You pays your money and yous take a chance.* LOL But really, I wish you well in this dog eat dog mentality of the MT business.
Follow up to MedWare
I believe in order to be eligible for 401K you must be there a year. If Christmas and Thanksgiving fall on your regular scheduled workdays, you are required to work them!! I personally will not work for Medware or any other National company ever again...they only abuse the experienced MT with indecent pay for years of experience, not enough workflow for someone needing to do 2000 lines a day, and too many accounts to switch back and forth between. That is only my opinion, and possibly I had a bad experience...but I gave it 3 months and I feel that is more than enough time to get a good feel for a company. Good luck to you!
cannot follow directions
This is the kind of scatter-brained MT I would definitely NOT hire. The original message was regarding the inadvisability of alerting a potential employer about one's previous complaints regarding other companies by exchanging E-mails from the same site as the derogatory posts. This second individual gets up on her hind legs and gets all righteously indignant about behaviors that are obviously not acceptable in ANY profession. This reveals a lack of concentration and unsuitability for my professional group of employees.
Wish more companies would follow. sm.
Since cherry picking is lying, stealing and cheating.
More so than an IC position. And they have to follow
their own policies in order to let you go if you're not a new hire...otherwise, you could have recourse against the company.
ICs have utterly zero protection.
Futurenet does not follow through on anything
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Follow BOS guidelines.
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Although not all companies follow BOS (sm)
guidelines due to client specifics, etc. It is usually safe to transcribe as BOS compliant for testing purposes. Even though the company may not follow it when hired, you would be expected to know it and it just eliminates the whole confusion of how to transcribe on a test.
FOLLOW-UP LETTER
I took a test for a company on 1 week ago, Sept 24. I know I nailed it. Still haven't heard anything. How do I write a follow-up email to see if I can get any info on my status? Any help is appreciated! Thanks.
Simply trying to follow along here.
So what is the real concern in security here? I work with Escription and nothing is stored in my computer, download and upload each report to the company. Most infringements are most likely occurring only by an MT who does not understand and practice confidentiality or HIPAA guidelines in this case mentioned originally. We have been warned for years an MT can lose a job by any infraction, but this is a perfect example of that happening after the damage is done.
Yes, I have. She is very busy but I would follow up. sm
If you were contacted for an interview, I would definitely follow up on it. You could have slipped through the cracks with the holidays. They have a large account coming up that they are trying to staff and I could only imagine how many responses those job postings receive to weed through. Your resume obviouly stood out to get contacted for an interview. Definitely follow up on your original contact for an interview. I am extremely pleased thus far.
I say follow your instincts.
I'm a big believer in following my instincts about stuff like that. I have had a couple of jobs both in and out of this industry where I pretty much knew after the first week that I had made a mistake and this was not going to be a good situation.
There are companies out there that give you QA feedback and help you and want to make you better. There are also companies that don't allow cherry picking and have mechanisms in place to avoid scenarios such as the one you described.
If that were me and I felt the way that you do, I'd be looking elsewhere.
Do follow up, they will love it if you
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Follow-up questions
To the poster who eats chocolate-covered cherries whilst editing ESL dictators... Are you serious? Is your VR program really so good that you can sit there without your hands on the keyboard constantly?
To the poster who asked if I was serious. Yes, I'm dead serious. The reason I'm even asking is because I can't fathom any other way that the VR fan club people are making money doing VR. I can't bring myself to do that (edit carelessly or incompletely in order to increase my speed), and I AM very well aware that MY initials are at the bottom of every report I edit. But I can't figure out how VR editors are able to claim they make just as much money per hour doing VR as they did doing transcription, then they go on to claim that they were transcriptionists for 30+ years and quite fast, too. It doesn't add up for me that way at all. I have been a Transcriptionist for 20+ years and spent a year doing QA also. I'm not a slouch at either transcription or proofreading, but at 200 LPH, I am well aware that I'm also not the fastest one out there either. So, partly, I'm wondering if perhaps the QA standards are laxer for VR reports than they are for MT reports, similar to how QA standards themselves evolve over time.
To all who have responded: Thank you. And can you really EDIT at a LPH rate that ends up with you making as much $$ per hour as your TRANSCRIPTION LPH rate? Like I said, I would have to EDIT 335 LPH just to break even with my typing rate, and I have yet to figure out how to do that effectively without compromising the quality of the final reports.
VR has been one big giant PAYCUT to me, and I'm frustrated. Thank you all for allowing me to vent without calling me a whiner!
I'm not sure I exactly follow the logic
To me it's much easier to remember that I get paid every other Friday, and if I didn't get paid last Friday, I will this week. Perhaps it's my advancing age, but I have an easier time remembering that if I watched Project Runway last night, it might be payday today than remembering the current date and calculating when the 15th or 30th is unless it's a 31 day month (it takes time to run through 30 days has November, April, June and September...) As far as consistency in pay, assuming the work has been there and I've fulfilled my obligation, it's easier for me to figure 10 (or whatever) days in a pay period than it is to look at a calender and figure how many actual work days there are between the 16th and 30th (or 31st or 28th). Plus, a lot of us have specific days off that we take care of things. Some of us really do live paycheck to paycheck, so shopping by necessity has to wait until the eagle flies. If you paycheck comes on a Tuesday, conceivably it might be rough being able to get away to do that shopping with the hours we're forced to spend in front of the computer these days.
Of course, everybody is different and I think it's also a lot in what you get used to. If you're used to getting a paycheck every 2 weeks, it's tough to suddenly have to extend that out over anywhere from a 1 to several days.
NOTE: I wish they'd stop calling that button QUICK reply because I sure as heck can't do that.
according to the letter, news to follow
by personal phone call in the future.
Happy Friday!!
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