boss hires cheap MTs
Posted By: LeannaLu on 2007-06-19
In Reply to: Editing or retyping?? Geez!! Suggestions?...sm - old ears
This is the deal. The boss hires cheap labor and for whatever you get paid, you turn all these lousy typists into perfect products. They might get paid 6 cents a line, slave wages and whatever you get paid... she/he gets a crew of professionals out of nothing. Same happens to me but I think yours is hiring out of a school or promising to train them.
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Transcend does not pay for anything. Cheap, cheap,
and nasty. This editing stuff is horrible and it might guarantee a job in the future, but you will be better off on welfare than trying to spend the time fixing the stuff that it spits out. The program does not work half the time and never has worked right but they will never fix it so it does work, so don't even bring the subject up. If you work there just keep your mouth shut or you will be in the dog house the rest of your career. You might make mistakes in typing or editing, but you cannot even see what you typed before you send it in, but you are responsible for it (you type in the blind). Of course you can pull up the AI sheet and print it and keep it at your desktop, but who needs to thumb through 56 pages of instructions to find how to do 1 simple thing.
This place is really the bottom of the barrel and QA is horrible. Training is even worse.
Transcend, do not even bother to respond to me. I am quitting anyway, but you really need to let everyone know that your rah, rah, rah team stuff is just talk and nothing is ever done to make the job easier.
Not everyone likes their boss. You do not have to like your boss to like sm
your job. You don't even always like your job but like the money. It is about personal preference.
old hires get double pay; new hires now get 4 cents more;
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It's about cheap now
Cheap to us, that is. The middle man profits and the competition from the Third World has made working for many MT companies sweatshops. They deny that, but it is exactly what they are. I've come to believe some of these companies are downright sociopathic.
My guess? Many of these companies are living nicely off our backs without a clue about everyday trials of transcription. The ones that aren't are having to compete with the sicko ones and the result is the same. I think it is going to backfire big-time someday, too, but I'm not sure what it will take or how long it will take. But I do know American MTs, American patients and even some American healthcare providers are becoming equally pissed and fed up with these slick-talking brokers.
I agree your best bet is get your own clients or go back to a hospital. If you go back to a hospital, become the MT manager and make it a policy not to off-shore, diligently audit and have a way to trace, then press charges if they do. Even better, contract out to individual MTs or let MT employees work from home. It's exactly what I plan to do and hope the trend continues.
Cheap
I have been getting a lot of Indian work from various clients to re-do. I was hoping that perhaps if enough of them have to pay for it twice, at least once at American rates, they will see that they are getting about what they pay for sending it to other countries. One can dream...
too cheap
That is sad, but some will work for that. You are QA, hold your head up high girl. If you continue to work for that kind of money, you really hurt us all
Actually, that is cheap. Most places much more. nm
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Yes they are very cheap & you can e-mail
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64 bucks a DAY? Not very cheap! Especially
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However, if you are willing to sell yourself cheap,
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Axoltl very cheap
If I recall last year at this time it was about $100 per paycheck for family coverage. Left in the spring so not sure what is up now.
Medscribe horridable and cheap
No wonder they are constantly hiring. Maybe they should try to keep what they have.
cards are cheap... and so is the thought.
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Offshore, cheap, bad management. nm
If Indian labor is so cheap, how come.......
there are getting to be so many Indian-based companies here and in India, owned by Indians? Do you think maybe this is a lucrative field for owners of transcription companies?
it's such a catch 22. Everybody wants cheap stuff yet
and get paid top dollar. You simply cannot have both. Not with the CEOs having million dollar salaries and all. because God forbid they make less than six figures. it's disgusting...
Won't help with the cheap labor issue though.
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As you are probably well aware, ink jet cartridge are not cheap these days...
I'd have to know more details, such as exactly how many pages per month would you be printing. I hardly print anything at all and I find my cartridge drying up on a monthly basis....
Horror stories about cheap transcription
FYI, there is always someone out there who is willing to do transcription and/or editing cheaper than someone else. There are those clients who only look at the bottom line cost. But they must employ sometimes at least three people in-house to make the corrections. I wonder if anyone at the client source ever looks at the overall costs to get that report on the chart and done correctly. I am amazed at how some transcriptions even stay in business. Just my $.02 worth.
One more time for the cheap seats in the back..sm
Upson vs. Sexton - I might as well just put it out there, since you won't let it drop. Same first name.
I never said the man was a criminal. Those words didn't come out of my mouth and NEVER would, nor would I even say the man in the original post is a criminal. Paying three months late and not having the workload promised doesn't constitute calling someone a criminal in my book. Shady business practices, maybe, but never would I go so far as to call someone a criminal, ever, based solely on a story someone posted on an online MB whom I have never met, especially not without hearing the other person's side of the story!!
YOU are the one who called the first guy a criminal and claimed he stole money. Someone mentioned theft of services, not that he stole money, just to be clear - and we don't know there was even a crime committed here, so perhaps you should worry a little more about what comes out of your own mouth. There's no proof a crime even took place here, only the word of others - one who said she was paid 3 mos late and one whose friend has not been paid in 4 mos. Yes, that is awful to not be paid, but unless they just flat out refuse to pay, I'm not sure anyone should go so far as to say it's a crime. (And just to play devil's advcoate, I wonder how many complaining about being paid late were ever late on any of their own bills? Just a thought.)
To those who do feel there has been a crime committed against them, get a lawyer, find out your rights, and file a suit against the person. You can bet those companies would do the same to any client who didn't pay them.
Thanks to the poster who stood up for me. It truly was just an honest error. My personal apologies to Brent Upson, who is NOT Brent Sexton. I do not owe anyone but him an apology.
That's what I was just going to say. They want to offer cheap transcription services. There goes
jobs..When you have people advertising they will do the work for cheap..no wonder providers use cheap transcription services rather than our companies. You'd be surprised at how many doctor/facilities would jump on cheap Personally, to me, it's offending. Why pay use decent wages when you can get cheaper.. 
Nope. Just CHEAP. And 'cheap' and 'good'
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I hate this kind of cheap shot post. What's the deal? nm
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I've said this before, but I'm ready to go sit on the beach and sell cheap stuff sm
to tourists ... has to beat this. I passed burnout a long time ago. I am not sure what the next stage is supposed to be. However, in the meantime, I have to make a living. Maybe I could open a margarita stand and compete with the little kiddies and their lemonade stands .. hmmm ....LOL
SGS, cheap and would rather ship your job to india, where they have 100s of MTs taking our jobs!
Yes, on eScription...making about $5 and hour if lucky! they quote you a pretty good line rate for typing, but half that for editing, and it's mostly editing. then, with all the crap they throw at you, (this dr. wants this, be sure to fill in that, don't submit a report w/o this, and 30 pages of account specifics?) it's time consuming. and the templates are a nightmare, the drs. are all over the place on them, not following them, so when editing them it takes forever. @ 4cpl you can spend 15 minutes on one and make $1.00. RUN!
you too huh, my boss...
told us two months ago that the hospital was laying off and our department was one of the ones targeted. now, i found out that my boss knew two months before he told us. im sick of it already.
That's exactly what the boss says. I think they
in their claim that there aren't enough MTs in the U.S., so we have no choice but to outsource to India.
Whatta loada cr@p.
LOL! Do we have the same boss?
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Why get mad at me? I'm not her boss and I'm not sm
one of those middlemen you are ranting about. I'm a FORMER MTSO small biz owner who got out because it was nearly impossible to MAKE A DECENT LIVING MYSELF. MT is not the goldmine you seem to think it is. Margins are very thin and it's hard to pay what this job DESERVES.
I agree that MTs should be making a lot more than they are, but I do not see a way to make that happen in this economy. Whether you believe it or not, the bottom line is what HOSPITALS are willing to pay.
I think your boss is more correct.
I type 5 min of dictation in 7.5 to 10 min. Might take 15 min tops if it is really difficult dictation/dictator.
Ever though it could be that American MTs don't want to put up with a boss like YOU!!!
American labor is the backbone of this country. You are part of a HUGE problem!!!!
I am so upset, but not sure whether should ask boss or not...
I am on a very, very hard ESL account that the company has a hard time getting people to work on. I have the ability to see who is assigned work and have noticed that a certain MT when they help on this account gets all the easy doctors assigned to them, but us who are stuck on this account get all the hard, nasty reports. I do not understand why they do this, other than maybe the person does not have much experience or such, but it just does not seem right to me. I do not know whether to say something or just let it go. I am making a horrible line count, but this person is probably doing very well as they have all the easy dictators on this account.  Any suggestions, as I do not want to be a trouble maker, but now I am so upset over this I don't even want to work today. Thanks.
Once in a non-MT job my boss told me to do something that
was totally unethical and I refused. He asked me why and I said because I don't work here anymore and left as soon as I hung up the phone. I was a regional assistant manager, but was acting manager of my office and as they had had a complete manpower turnover before I took over, I was basically the only one who knew what was going on. The ex-boss was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I had 2 very, very big clients. I called both my contacts and told them that I no longer worked there and that there was no one in the office capable of handling their business and told them who to call. I was offered jobs with both companies, even offered more money than I was currently making for less work. I took the one job and this is also where I met my DH of nearly 18 years. I'd say I came out the winner.
If there is any documentation as to what happened I'd copy it and send it to every account - to the medical records manager as well as the hospital/clinic administrator.
Did you get your boss anything for MT Week>?nm
I agree 100%! Wonder if we had the same boss? LOL!!
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I used to be best friends with my boss (sm)
and let me tell you, there is always some guilt that goes along with your friend asking you to give up your weekends, time off, whatever, to work. I loved her dearly as a friend, but I don't seek out boss/employee friend relationships any more for this very reason.
So tell your boss instead of getting upset. nm
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Had a boss moonlighted there
She got in trouble after she mentioned it to a tech (had a router so her son could use another computer); tech made a big deal out of reporting her, but her supe said not to worry about it. One thing I learned from that - when in doubt, ask in advance.
I was doing some web design for an old boss - sm
but that had pretty much dried up as he has switched web hosts and is using one of their templates now for his website. I also substitute bus drive, which is obviously not from home, but a few times a month I drive and bring in anywhere from an extra $60 to $500 a month driving; averaged about $200 a month doing it in 2007. I also do some freelance copy/type setting for a local printer but that is not very often. They did offer me a job in their shop, but it was a 30 minute drive for $8/hour for 4 hours a day, not worth it. I can make more doing MT in that time here at home, and not buy gas. Would have cost me $9 a day in gas alone.
Yep and the boss's daughter
I tell you, the incompetence of that company was truly amazing! And before anyone starts in, yes, I am working and actually DO like the company I am working for.
I forgot another thing: When I started, they forced me to buy a footpedal for like $150 that they claimed was necessary because only this pedal would work with their software. I believe the owner's husband had something to do with the company that sold this footpedal. Guess what, a footpedal I had from a different company worked with SS software, as I later found out.
I also at one point worked for Medquist and, believe me, SoftScript was WORSE, if that is at all possible.
The perks of being the boss.
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Sounds like she don't like her boss.
Can you think of any reason the boss
would want you to leave instead of putting you on another account? Or is she just a hothead who could not admit that she dialed the wrong number? I guess I'm asking if there is any reason the company would benefit from your being gone?
I work there now and I love everything about Meridian. I have never talked to the boss though. I guess I shall try to avoid it. 
You sound like a dream boss!
I'd be very interested in applying for employment with your company. Please advise how I might do that.
Your team lead/boss
In general, do your bosses respond to your e-mails with questions about your accounts, etc? My boss does not answer any e-mails. All of my e-mails have been our accounts and not just B.S.
What your boss charges clients isn't
your business. Your agreement is what you are paid for your services.
I e-mailed my boss...I'll let you know what she says.
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I would call your old boss or a recruiter. nm
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Yuck - you sound like my ex-boss (who was
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Works same way as a plumber. You are your boss,
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I have a boss like that and the account is going to hellinahandbasket nm
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