Youch, MQers, how do you handle DQS timesheets if you're a regular employee with no set schedule?
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Statuatory employee versus regular employee....
Can someone tell me the difference between a statuatory employee versus a regular employee? My company offeres IC or SE status....I am confused about whether switching over the SE would benefit me more than IC status that I have been for some time with them? What are the benefits and disadvantages of being an SE versus IC? Thanks for all of your help!
Diskriter, contractor or regular employee
I was just wondering if Diskriter hires on an IC basis or as a regular company employee?
Well, that's you're getting 45% of your regular line
try to work your way around it like I did. Do what's easiest for you, sometimes their way of doing things is bass-ackwards.
Employee - Schedule
 I would think if you become a FT employee, you will need to have some kind of 40 hour work week - as a former Medquister, they got their butts in a lot of trouble with their flexibility and classifying us as employees - a suit was filed and they paid out a lot of cash for those of us who had no schedule but worked over 40 hours based on their records. Just my 2 cents - I think some kind of commitment as far as time of day is going to be upcoming at some point, to avoid a repeat of Medquist's fiasco. But, I've been wrong before...
No, if they give YOU a set schedule you are an employee. sm
It would be the same as if I ran a retail store and hung my hours on the door so my clients would know when I am open and available. The same goes for MT work. All the company is asking is when is your sign open amd when are you closed. Now asking you to commit weekends is YOUR choice and you can obviously say no, but prepared for them to shop somewhere else if you are not convenient for them.
Yes, if EMPLOYEE, but IC status no schedule
can be dictated. They can tell you what work to do; they cannot dictate when or how you get it done.
When going from IC to employee I realize that you must keep an assigned schedule but
does that mean if you are scheduled, for example, 8 a.m. to noon, you cannot move away from your computer for any time at all? I am used to being able to get up and down when I have to and I am wondering if being roped in to certain hours will prevent me from doing this. Can anyone tell me how it works for them with having a certain period of time you are expected to work? TIA!
9.5 cpl for employee status, flexibility in schedule,
at least 70% of transcribed line rate for VR, and PTO. Let your employees do the jobs you hire them for without micromanaging them. Be honest in your communications. If you know you are going to lose an acct, say so. Don't let your employees eventually surmise it when they have been out of work for weeks. Good luck. I really hope you make it. Nothing better than working for someone who used to be an MT.
You report wages and expenses as a statutory employee on schedule C.
I don't know how the company is these days, but when I was employed by them, there were some very rude people who worked in the office. I suspect since they were so high up, they're still there.
Not the OP, but they're supposed to take out all the other taxes as you're an employee with th
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Youch. Can any current TRS'er confirm if this is true? nm
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curious? y not timesheets? nm
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If you're an IC, you pay all your taxes. Otherwise you're an SE or employee. nm
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TransHealth does not require online timesheets. nm
Amphion hires part-time - they're very strict schedule-wise though
Since part time is so hard to find these days your options are limited, so if you don't mind working for a company that is a stickler for strict schedule adherence, I say try Amphion.
You're not an MQ employee?
I could have sworn you were with that nearly page-long thread regarding commas in which you featured so prominently with your assertions.
Huh.
You don't say if you're current job is IC or employee.
If you are IC now and take an employee position you need to figure the cost of benefits into the LPH rate. Also if you are getting paid for headers and you aren't currently that figures in. If you do 40 reports a day it isn't a huge difference, but over a pay period can add up. If you end up with a decent account - quality dictation and very ESL/bad dictators it might be you'll come out ahead. I would try it part-time though for at least a couple of weeks before quitting other job, so you can get a feel for it and see if it might be better overall.
Former MQers sm
Are any of you former MQers making more money somewhere else? I'm to the point that I can't take working for them anymore.
I was hopeful the past few months. I started getting my primary account first and was making more money. Now, I'm not getting my primary first and getting more ASR. My pay is really suffering.
Also, they're starting a new system where you have to submit additional hours that you can be called to work extra. Even if you don't submit these hours, you can still be called. I don't like this either. I'm always willing to work extra, but I don't like them calling me. An email would do!
Today, I'm almost to the point of tears.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Ex-MQers now with TT
Has anyone been able to transfer your expansions from DocQScribe to ExText???
What companies cut you off at 40 hrs if you're a FT employee? Any places let you do as much as
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You're not eligible for benefits until employee.
And once an employee, you're not eligible for benefits unless producing 11,000 lines per pay period. If, after being an IC for 90 days and then made employee, if you consistently run out of work and can't make 11,000 lines per pay period, you still don't qualify for benefits. This has happened to a few people and why they left.
You're right. It is miserable to be a US employee anymore.
We treat the immigrant workers and the overseas workers better than we treat our own ... it's the American way, of late, anyway.
You non-MQers could take lessons from what is going on at MQ.
seeing what is going on with 10,000 MTs. It may be you next.
Any former MQers with Webmedx? sm
I'm really thinking about leaving MQ. Webmedx seems to be a good fit. I know no company is perfect, but it looks a lot better than MQ. I especially like the Friday through Monday work schedule with the extra 0.02 per line!
Is Webmedx better than MQ?
you "think they're great." Would you dismiss an employee with that 1st sent?
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Where did all the ex-MQers get their dream jobs? (sm)
I left the Q after many years to go to a highly praised company on this board and I'm in the same boat I was at MQ...no work. Things were okay for about a year but now the honeymoon is over. I've been in the biz over 20 years and thought I would work for MQ until I retired. Now I find myself in the position of having to look yet again for another company and believe them when they promise me steady work on my accounts. I'm beginning to believe such a place doesn't exist anymore.
I would think all the MTSOs are flooded with departing MQers right now. nm
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Any other MQers at WebMedx? Just got an offer. Any insight greatly appreciated. TIA!
How does the incentive pay work out for you? Please E-mail me if you'd like. We all went through enough with the evil Q. Thanks. 
They want you to keep your schedule for TAT purposes but will work with you to find a good schedule
I love working there.
Here's how I handle it....sm
1. First off, if you don't stand up for yourself, others will continue to rely on you.
2. When someone knocks on the door to visit you have to tell them that it's your work time and they need to come after ___ o'clock. Some people think that if you work at home you have lots of flexible hours and if you don't set the rules then they don't know. You may also want to consider posting a note by your front door that says my work hours are 9a-5p - please do not interrupt during this time or something like that.
3. When people call wanting you to take someone to the doctor, get horses rounded up, etc. remind them that you have a job to do and that they need to take care of their own problems. If you were driving into a hospital or doctors office to work they wouldn't pull this stuff on you so why take it now?
4. Use caller ID and if you end up answering the phone politely tell the other person that you're working and they need to call back after such and such a time.
5. If you will stand up for yourself and do the above things you'll find yourself not being as stressed out and having actual free time again. You will also gain respect from family/friends that currently call on you once they realize that you're serious about not being the bail out person anymore.
Good luck!
How would you handle this?
As I said, I do like the company, like the work, and have been with them now for 6 years (do I look dumb yet). I don't like being taken advantage of, but am not sure how to approach it. The software we have to rent is their work platform, just like all companies have. I don't want to make anyone angry, but also don't know what to say. All the MTs have to do this at the company, not just me. How would you approach this? Any suggestions?
omg..that is just too much for me to handle...
thanks much for that info!
It's the same old act, different handle
I think I can remember three different incarnations of this person...I think in one of them she claimed to be Eastern European royalty or something. She sticks a finger into the wind to determine which way the wind is blowing and then intentionally goes against it or whichever will put her in what she perceives is the best light. Then, of course, in the postings where opinion is split roughly down the middle, she's flipping faster than the grill boy at McDonald's at lunch hour.
Sadly, if she pops up and agrees with anything I wrote, I feel chastised and develop the sudden urge to go back and disavow whatever it was I had written.
If you can't handle it, don't apply for it.
If you can't handle the daily volume of work then don't apply for the job. You risk getting the job, having more than you can handle and doing either a poor job just to get it all done or not meeting your deadline. In either case, you risk damage to your reputation when the doctor is unimpressed with your work.
Is there another Transcriptionist you can share the workload with?
If the problem is more a lack of experience with transcription as opposed to too high a volume of work then my suggestion is to try to get transcription experience before venturing out on your own.
Of course you can't. You Can't Handle the Truth!
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How about you just don't handle it and ignore it.
sometimes, less is best!
How to handle nonpayers
Contact the attorney general of your state and the attorney general of the state where the company is located. If there is a department of business regulation in either state, copy them as well. Then inform the nonpayers that you will proceed on to small claims court. Then do it.
How do most companies handle this?
I recently started with a new company, so all of my work is going through QA right now. So, last night I typed a note for a doctor that was 250 lines and at the VERY end, he said I'm sorry, just delete this dictation, I have changed my mind. Well, I didn't delete it, I had been typing a while with all of those lines. QA picked it up and she deleted it and sent me a note telling me that the dictator requested it to be deleted and please make sure I pay attention to that next time and I no longer have those 250 lines!!! So, is this how all companies work, because I am not sure I remember having that situation before, but it seems quite unfair that I would type that many lines and then be told nevermind ???
How do most companies handle this?
I recently started with a new company, so all of my work is going through QA right now. So, last night I typed a note for a doctor that was 250 lines and at the VERY end, he said I'm sorry, just delete this dictation, I have changed my mind. Well, I didn't delete it, I had been typing a while with all of those lines. QA picked it up and she deleted it and sent me a note telling me that the dictator requested it to be deleted and please make sure I pay attention to that next time and I no longer have those 250 lines!!! So, is this how all companies work, because I am not sure I remember having that situation before, but it seems quite unfair that I would type that many lines and then be told nevermind ???
can you handle a 12-hour window?
Our company is offering a bonus right now, as they are taking on a couple of new accounts. It depends on so much, because where I find them great to work for, others have not.
I have been here about six months, and have never had one issue about scheduling; however, I do work the days I have committed to, just that they have a 12-hour window in which to do it. My supervisor has also never bothered me for the occasional flexibility, and one of the administrators even told me to go ahead and work however I want on the weekend, whether it is Saturday or Sunday.
You do punch a timeclock, but after I got used to it, it only has helped me as you actually make a bonus for lines/hour, which if you clock in an out say an hour at a time, you get can that pretty high.
There is a lot of ESL, but plenty of help and information to help you...
Please feel free to E if you need to...
Thanks.
I had been posting as anon. This is my new handle.
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Company found way to handle TAT. SM
After 5 pm, they are dumping out whatever reports are in editors ques and sending them out to MTs, but just certain MTs who have high ratings and are not allowed to leave any blanks. Sounds like a great idea, except if one is the MT who gets stuck with all the junk, one right after the other.
This isn't VR either. 
I don't know if this can be asked or not, but how does Keystrokes handle templates? (sm)
Are they prefilled by the platform and if so are they paid to the MT as having been typed by the MT or does the system subtract for the template?
I have no problem not being paid for template characters; however, I have found (with a couple of services that I have worked for) that the platform (or client or maybe even the service) will fill in absolutely every heading that MIGHT possibly be dictated by the doctor. We, as the MT, have then had to bounce up and down the template looking for the heading that is being dictated and in some cases, having to modify the template by extracting words to fit how the doctor is dictating that heading. In both cases, the line counter was set up to deduct the characters from the ORIGINAL template (which we were not paid for). If the doctor dictates a shorter heading than was prefilled by the system, we are essentially losing lines. (I hope that wasn't too confusing.)
It's just so much easier to type as the doctor is dictating and use my expansion program rather than jumping up and down a template. I'm wondering how Keystrokes handles their templates. TIA
But the newbies can handle being team leads?
Give me a &%$) break!!!
Good question! How to handle the stress.
Would be a good thing, but what does a person do?
Does anyone what national company has been hired to handle...
ProHealth Care of Wisconsin hospitals. I heard that they have now changed to a national company to do all of their work for all their facilities.
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Ok. I could handle once as a mistake if explained promptly and fixed. Twice? I would run sm
as fast as I could. Twice in two months? What if you never get paid at all? You would be better going with a national while getting your own so that you have benefits and a steady paycheck. Start your own accounts slowly so that you start right.
That is terrible. You know, those women have no idea how to handle all these big university accounts
that are moving up there. They are very very wrong about some of the things they do and it seems like they really dont know as much as they would like you to think they do. That is absolutely disgusting that they did that. I hope that MT reported them to anyone in New Jersey they could find. I would have taken that as far as I could have if I would have been her to the CEO. That is just horrendous. My goodness, why does MQ continue with them. I believe firmly if you make enough calls you will find someone that is willing to listen and take the info where it needs to go I believe that.
The key is working multiple accounts. Three months is hardly long enough to get a handle sm
on the job. Maybe better to keep a parttime job until you are up to speed on the new job. I haven't run out of work in almost a year (and that was only for a few minutes), but I do multiple accounts. Great company, great people. Nice bennies.
Plain and simple, you have to be able to handle the difficult dictators in this profession if..
you want steady, appreciated work by a national company. There are so many hoppers out there who bounce from company to company, and then come here to complain about it. Trust me, we have all had our share of tough dictation over the years. When I started MT over 20 years ago, I cried daily trying to get through those many mumblers, ESLs, etc. to make mere pennies an hour. The experience and skills that I gained by hanging in there made me a successful Transcriptionist over the years. I started out in-house, and then obtained a few local accounts, and built from there. I ran a small MT service with several subcontractors helping me. I am now with a small national, the name of which I don't want to mention. I make a good line count of .11/65 characters with spaces and have absolutley no overhead. If you are an experienced and skilled transcriptionist, there are companies out there who will pay you what you are worth. Don't settle for less. However, if you are new and inexperienced in this profession, do not expect to make a good living until you have built the skills necessary to succeed. If all that was involved in MT was getting the easy dictators or accounts, it would not take much to be good in this profession. A company needs to see that you can tackle whatever comes your way. No one ever said it was going to be easy!
I can handle micromanage and cherries, but its the bill collectors I want to stay away
You see, to me it is more than worrying about micromanaging and cherry picking. I have been in the biz long enough to develop a rough skin. It is when I do not have enough money to pay the rent or car which bothers me. So, I take the shift least wanted b/c there will be work there, I allow micromanaging and say I will do better next time, and I learn all the toughest ESLs without complaint. You see, no one can control another person, and one should know no job is perfect out there. The only thing a person can and should do is mature-up, quit whining, and get to work so the roof stays overhead, the pantry has milk and bread and the car is still outside. Of course, that is my 2.5 cents.
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