and I had just the opposite experience with him.
Posted By: nm on 2005-10-31
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completely opposite experience here sm
I've received direct deposit, a day before the official pay day of Friday for each and every check, including my first one (which is extremely rare in my experience).
I have plenty of work available on my account, but I have been trained on 2 different accounts (1 on eScription, the other on ExTEXT). They've been very friendly and helpful the few times I've had to call them. The rest of the time, they leave you alone. As long as you work your shift and meet productivity requirements, they seem pretty hands off.
It's like any place, I'm sure, what works for some doesn't work for others. Each person has different needs/requirements.
Sorry you had trouble. Hope you found a better place for you.
I have the opposite experience.. I have a lot of communication
I don't feel like a number there, I really feel like a part of the family.
I have the exact opposite experience
I did have to tell them approximately when I would be working (mornings, afternoons, etc.) so they know who is on when stats come through. I did not have to give them an exact schedule that I am required to stick to.
They do require Messenger, but I have only be IM'd once in the 6 months I have worked for them and that was for request to do a STAT report. I don't feel I am monitored.
I have missed several days of work and been a no show due to my kid being sick, but it has never been an issue. They have never even mentioned the days I have missed.
I guess the lack of work may be an account thing. My account has only ran out of work 2 days out of the 6 months I have worked on it. I have plenty of work and only work on 1 account for them, but I could easily get a secondary if needed as I have received several emails announcing openings on otherr accounts.
I do agree that the Iscriptor can be slow, but it is comparable to other platforms I have worked on. I like it better than Inscribe and Extext. Just personal preference I guess.
I have worked with many companies and Advanced is one of the better ones in my opinion. I feel I am left alone to do my work, but when I need help, someone is only an IM away and is always ready to help.
Just goes to show how people can have completely different experiences with the same company.
I had the exact opposite experience!
I was recently contacted by a SoftScript recruiter as a result of my resume posted on this site. She informed me that I seemed perfectly suited for an acute care (Big 4) position, even though my resume makes it clear that my experience and interest lies in clinical transcription and editing, not acute care!
Well, MY experience with unions is the exact opposite...
My dad was in a textile worker's union for 35 years. He had to go through a strike when he had 3 small kids. For six weeks, he received $20 a week and only two bags of groceries for the whole duration. He lost his job at 35 years from the plant closing. That is not to mention that his union wages had us always barely making it, and the union never once did a thing about the conditions they had to work in. He has struggled with a form of bladder cancer for 19 years from working in those conditions and the chemicals used there.
Ask the auto manufacturers what the union has done for them. Yes, the workers are making it fine laid off, but the companies are near death. Those companies feed our nation. We're 1000 miles from Detroit and our livelihood depends on those car companies staying up and running. My husband's company does not make a thing related to cars, but the company that OWNS his company does.
Bottom line is that if this industry has come to the point that we are discussing needing a union, then maybe we need to either get government intervention to standardize the industry, set regulations about ONLY US work for US medical records, and use only certified workers, OR we need to go back to college for our next career choice.
My experience exact opposite- Me willing work 6 days, regular sched, 100% QA last review- Company: N
Me: Ready, willing and able to work 6 days a week, regular schedule, 100% QA my last review, on all ESL's doctors.
Companies: No work. All ESL work. All the worst dictators. No work, did I mention that. Don't want to buy new software or any software to help the MT. Ridiculous formatting rules to decrease my line count. Low line count rate. No holiday pay. Have to work holidays.
Your post was way, way out of line. Maybe you work for a great company, SO tell us who it is.
I've tried 10 companies in 10 years, and they were all the same. Pick my brain and make me work hard, hard, hard for ? 150 lines an hour with ALL ESL, poor sound quality, and then don't really want to pay for the 150 lines, want to jiggle and wiggle it down to 120 or less with rules.
I do just the opposite
I live alone. I brush my teeth, may or may not get out of my PJs, comb my hair maybe once a week. I am totally pathetic. But...I love it!
Just the opposite for me. The first
2 weeks I had 80% ESLs and a lot of bad sound quality, and since then I've had days like that interspersed with easy days. But I've built up my normals so even the ESLs are fine for me now. The only reports I hate are the long ones with the long pauses that put me to sleep, and some long cardiac cath reports by a slurrer.
just the opposite
I'm drowning! Are you acute care or clinic?
opposite for me
i left MQ, interviewed with KS and decided to go with MDI instead, and for me, am so happy i did. there's a good fit for everyone i guess!!
Or...they think the opposite
...they will say, Oh, so you do data entry. lol I could probably earn more money doing 'data entry'.
No, it has been just the opposite. They've been
I just have a hard time with their platform and the account that I'm on is very difficult. They don't harrass me at all about not meeting the quota. I'm just worried about it myself because I need the benefits and I'm not sure if it's just me or if the other people below were having the same problem.
Actually the opposite is more true
You wrote: The problem is that they (MTs) seem nice and normal when being hired and then their true self shines through within days or weeks.
My experience is the opposite with Mom and Pop MTSOs: They tend to be overworked - or - they don't want to be bothered with actually running a business properly.
Ask for clarification, or point out an error and some of these nice and normal sounding MTSOs turn snarky, defensive, and dismissive. Or as in the case of this company, they alternate that with totally ignoring you.
You are correct - there are MTs from h___ however, it's clear from reading the trend of complaints on this board that people aren't looking for extraordinary treatment - just general respect. Like being paid on time. Disclose up front if you tie payment to payment by your client! Like being properly trained. Like answering questions promptly and politely, and taking responsibility for when the MTSO is at fault.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! find out what it means to me. Hey! giveit2megiveit2me. uh huh!
RUN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!
nm
I am soooo the opposite
If I were making this posting, I would be asking if anybody knew who made a 'clicky' keyboard, because to my ear, they're all too quiet. I need to be able to 'hear' what my fingers are doing, which may make sense to some of the people on here. I don't know if it's some kind of subconscious thing or what, like instantaneous letter counting or something, but I can almost 'hear' a typo and God only knows what I would be typing if I didn't get that immediate feedback. I just turn up my volume and, if it's really tough, type really gently through the bad section (and hopefully it's just a sentence or so).
I am soooo the opposite
If I were making this posting, I would be asking if anybody knew who made a 'clicky' keyboard, because to my ear, they're all too quiet. I need to be able to 'hear' what my fingers are doing, which may make sense to some of the people on here. I don't know if it's some kind of subconscious thing or what, like instantaneous letter counting or something, but I can almost 'hear' a typo and God only knows what I would be typing if I didn't get that immediate feedback. I just turn up my volume and, if it's really tough, type really gently through the bad section (and hopefully it's just a sentence or so).
But in answer to your question, it seems to me that a lot of the black Microsoft keyboards are pretty darn quiet, both the straight and ergonomic ones.
I had the opposite response.
Actually I think the opposite happened from the "attacks"
I hope they compare apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
Too funny! I hear just the opposite.sm
I still speak to the records director at the hospital I used to work at. A certain unmentionable company lost a several million dollar account with them when it was discovered they were outsourcing work to Indians. Another large practice has several lawsuits pending from US QA editors Americanizing dictation done by Indians. I've seen the work and it is atrocious.
Looking from the opposite side of the fence
Remember QA person, you are getting paid by the HOUR to research blanks, MTs do not, they work on PRODUCTIVITY. Now, I don't leave any blanks because I have personal pride, but when can't understand it and I spend 5 minutes on ONE WORD I figure my job is done. You QA people can research it from there, because the last I knew no one works for FREE, or maybe you would like to? I can't buy groceries or pay the bills with all that free gratis work the company and you QA hourly folks would WISH I did.
I found just the opposite is true (sm)
With most companies (outside of medical transcription), being an IC means that you work when you want, for as long as you want, with no set schedule. In medical transcription, these companies use IC status to get around having to pay benefits and deduct taxes, and they STILL require you to work a set schedule, even as an IC. I can't speak for all transcription companies, but that has been my experience. They want you to be classified as an IC, so they don't have to do taxes and pay benefits, but they still want to treat you like an employee.
In response to "just the opposite....."
Well, HATS OFF to that MT who got that account! About time someone gave up and stood up to do something for herself to survive this mess.
Quote: ...cannot even get 0.13 per line and most clients want 0.12. Rediculous!
Honey, I'm an MT and I am salivating. From annuals in or around the 70Ks, to living out my savings, I am now on the credit cards because the services are in a tizzy. Got Valium?
Obviously, because the way things are for you services, we MTs feel the need for protection in working for same, regarding overall integrity and how that damages us.
The workers did not ruin it for the companies; we did not make it so damn competative out there. That one is between all you organizers and the VR creators. The only thing we are guilty of is doing good job that made you shine when this profession was, in fact, a profession.
Yet, you people (aside from a select few these days) ARE ruining it for us, rendering it useless to continue without ethical boundaries in your attempts to keep the company afloat.
Well, and I'm so, so sorry, but the MTs ARE this business with an -ist.
So, I guess it has finally some to this: Unionize - or pair up and organize. Reclaim self-respect, self-worth by getting hired on for say, 11 cpl, even. It only takes ONE facility for me, just one.
Sometimes you can get completely opposite opinions from
MTs, not just a disgruntled MT versus owner/recruiter/supervisor.
Unfortunately a lot of companies play favorites, even though they may say it cannot or is not being done. The MT who gets the short end of the stick is going to, rightfully, complain about bad situations and bad line counts, hard work, etc. The ones who are spoonfed by their supervisors - get the jobs with all the normals, get the accounts with easy line counts and easy dictators, are going to think it is wonderful.
I have been watching the boards for a long time. I remember 1 company that was touted as being the best in the world (located in Florida and is almost a bad word now), sent flowers to every new employee, etc., but gave the new people all the rotten work to do. Same happens with a lot of other companies, and if work is low, the favorites are allowed to continue to work and the others have to try to make up the time as best they can.
A lot of companies have different platforms to work on, some easy, some not so great. Line counting may be different on different accounts. There are a lot of reasons for the discrepancies in posts.
It;s the exact opposite where I work
We are flooded with work and are being asked to work extra.
I get charged the opposite - i have to pay $5 per check for DD. nm
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Quite the opposite. I have found mostly positives. sm
I started 4 months ago and so far, so good. When I was doing research, it seemed that all the negative posts were from the same 2 or 3 people, one in particular that harps on no raises and no OT pay. Everyone I have talked to at KS and other MT's that I know at KS all say the opposite is true; they do give raises and do not expect you to work OT. When the do ask you to, they often say holiday pay, which means 1-1/2 times your regular rate, just like OT pay. I did get my raise at 90 days, as promised. I do have the work I need to get the lines I need to make the checks that I need, so I am happy. The training was excellent, and the QA feedback helpful not spiteful.
This is just the opposite for me..plenty on weekends. (nm)
Just the opposite. The rates we charge have gone down too because of offshore sm
and several other reasons, including MTs that go in and get accounts for the amount that they are paid by a company. I had a potential customer decide against us at the last minute because a new Transcriptionist offered to do their work for 0.08 per line. They said that they could work with her being new.
I also see times where newer companies willl go in and underbid everyone just to get their foot in the door. Then other doctors or clinics or hospitals that are looking call around to their friends at other offices and find out that they got that low rate and no way are they going to pay 0.14 per line.
When I started 16 years ago with my own accounts, I charged .18 per line. Now I cannot even get 0.13. Most want 0.12 or under. Ridiculous!
I do NOT feel that I am treated disrespectfully! Quite the opposite, really. sm
ALL of the support people I have dealt with have been extremely polite and helpful. I hear please and thank you all of the time. You do not get that too much anywhere nowadays, it seems.
Granted, I would have been happy if I had been like the one poster and had been paid this Saturday, which is what the original post was abuot, it seems, but I always know that I WILL be paid. It is not like some of these MTSOs I read about who write bad checks, give excuses about paying late, cheat you on your pay, etc. They are very honest people and I never worry about that end. In fact, they have shown me kindness in the past where others would not have cared at all.
There are problems with all companies, and this company is not perfect, but then again I have not found any company that IS perfect. Admittedly, when I was first told that the company was in India, I was a bit taken aback as I had always viewed them as the enemy. However, all of the transcription is done in the US, and the work is sent to India to be pasted into the GEMMS platform. How it works out to be cost effective for them I do not know, but anything that saves me having to type directly into that nasty platform (GEMMS) is a blessing. I now have a couple of other jobs, but that is only because I wanted to be an employee with benefits.
I feel bad that this whole thing has turned into a bashing of the company and especially Tonya. It is true that she has gotten busy, but I always know that I can email her or call her and she will get back with me. There are times that the work dried up for me and I was not happy, especially when I saw ads for more MTs, but I also blame myself for not talking to the right people about it. Most issues can be worked out if you just deal directly with the people who can help you and not just come anonymously on a message board and complain. In fact, I wrote to Tonya about the paycheck issue, and she confirmed for me that they had my invoice and the funds had been issued, so that was that.
Bottom line, the pay is decent, the work is easy, and the people are great. People could find far worse places to work.
I apologize for the long post, but when I saw that post, it really annoyed me. Thanks for letting me vent.
We are opposite, not as stressful for me and the money is fine
I make at least $20 or more per hour and that is ok with me, plus the fact that the ESLs that are on there (which there are many!) I am happy because it will get those a lot easier than I need to rack my brain for.
I experienced just the opposite..lost hospital job,
nm
i think the opposite, give the boot to those who are wasting everyone's time and just don't ge
the quality dropping also drops our pay for good MTs who care about quality.
sorry.....intro should have read i felt the opposite last year....until
nm
No one said KS was out of work or low on work. The opposite is true. sm
I have heard that every account is busy. My primary is and both my secondary accounts are looking for extra help.
Isn't MDI Florida part of Transcend now? Maybe the work is going to India. They are pretty open about that.
Here, here. Exactly my experience also, even down to the 10 year work experience. nm
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Experience versus not as much experience
--same job should equal same pay?...Come back and talk to me in 20 years...
For the most part, old school MTs have a ton more to offer than a newbie, by virtue of the amount that they know. Most old school MTs can do just about any kind of report, because they learned the old way, they used books--Dorland's was a bible--not software and spellcheck, they worked in house, in the environment, they understand things that a new person who has only worked online with their word books, shorthand, macros and software just cant understand.. Why things are done in a certain way... Why it is so important that certain documents are treated a certain way. Why some reports are stat versus others. What you might flag for the hospital and why... When you think you know everything, esp as a newbie, you are doomed my friend.
Also, cont education is something that most old school MTs understand is a benefit for them and a gift to themselves...part of their commitment to themselves and their own education, not a commitment to being a certified MT, it is a personal thing, a standard.
If you don't understand that, I don't know what else to tell you.
Sure newbies can transcribe, it isn't rocket science, but they know what they know, if you know what I mean..(and that's about all they know) if they don't care to continue their education once they are out of MT school.
There's a little more to it than what you have stated here. If you consider yourself an MT machine.. you will burn out sooner than you think.
P.S. Not saying they do that to everyone - this was just MY experience
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Your experience with them?
All the things you like/dislike.
My experience was not a bad one
It would freeze up and hard to get around in it. The accounts I had were mostly awful ESLs and mumblers...very difficult to get line counts. Mostly nice people, but doesn't mean squat if the work is bad. Good luck.
my experience with them - sm
I have 17 years experience, require very little training on new equipment, platforms, accounts, etc. Apparently, I was not what they were looking for. I had heard many similar stories from others.
Experience
That's true. Generalities are misleading. I have known MTs with a lot of experience who never had any QA or other teaching and they never got any better. As long as they typed fast, quality didn't matter to their employers.
My experience
I have worked for TransHealth and believe me run for the hills! (LOL). When I was employed there, they had a high turnover regarding their management and apparently still too from what I hear. No flexibility whatsoever, they do not seem to APPRECIATE their employees as they can be nice to you on one occasion and the next minute treat you like crap. They also don't offer nothing in way of competetive wages as they have no incentives to work extra hours or work weekends and oh when there is abundant work you hear them plead with everyone to get on but where are they when there is no work, exactly!!!!! My recommendation is to shop around and see what each company has to offer.
Same experience here, 7 yrs with MQ
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I had a bad experience with them also. I was also
hired for Diskriter through them. All sounded great, but something else sounded better so I took it instead. I got a very rude email and was ignored after that email. Very bad business ethics!!
Has anyone else had a bad experience with
Amphion? I am sure I am not the only one who has found out they are just like everyone else
Experience
Can anyone tell me what companies are more selective in their hiring process, requiring more experience than 1-2 years, and willing to pay for it. I am starting to feel this must be an unrealistic expectation.
What's the experience been like sm.
I have very high expectations as I have a lot of experience. I need to know if they are nice people there. I was told I would be working on a regular hospital, not a teaching hospital but when I got the specs for the hospital it mentions residents. That is a teaching hospital. The things these companies try to pull over on you. Like I wouldn't know it was a teaching hospital right away anyway. The pay seems poor:( I don't know if they deserve a try or not. The owner seems uncaring about my situation. I don't know, I just want a nice decent place to work that pays well.
Any experience with DSG, Inc.?
nm
How much experience do they want? NM
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My experience..........sm
I think they are great to work for. Management is great, very helpful. Always work available. They do offer benefits, I can't tell you about them because I don't need them. There are also incentives for higher producers. Go for it!
Not in my experience
They may supply software or foot pedals, depending on the company, but I have not heard of being supplied a computer as an IC.
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