can we poll Heartlanders? Who has a job yet and who has a job that is better than the old one?

• ex-Heartlanders... - annonyMouse
  • sick of the emails from HIS about the new accounts...sm - traumatized
    • not sure - pleseta
    • HIS Email - me
  • can we poll Heartlanders? Who has a job yet and who has a job that is better than the old one? - -out of work?
    • I got a new job but it pays less. nm - sigh
    • Not from Heartland but if it was me sm - mlstoo

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it's been three weeks since the layoffs... hope everyone has decent jobs at hand by now and have gotten over the trauma.

Although my job has not been displaced, I can emphasize with your predicament.  I have seen the decline in pay and benefits as a direct result of offshoring and only being able to find a job with a MTSO who stands against offshoring by sacrificing about 30% of what I had just 3 years ago.  Now I have custody of a 2 yo and because I make just barely above the 200% poverty level, I do not qualify for goverment benefits that I have been paying into for the past 30 years; however, because of certain federal funds being administered differently at the discretion of different states, I could move to a different state and the 200% limit would not apply to me!

In researching what benefits ARE available to me, I found the website I have linked below.  There are benefits available to persons who have lost their jobs to offshoring but I would like to point out one thing:

ONE of the programs requires that at least 3 OR MORE persons having been affected apply for the benefit.  So please for the sake of each of you that are going through your own crises, band together so each of you can find a solution that works for your own needs.  Please leave the ability to email each other in your posts so you can network.  You need each other's support now more than ever!  Find out what you CAN do for yourselves and for each other.  What have you been paying taxes for all this time?  You deserve whatever benefits you can obtain...you have already PAID for them!

I was just curious....

How long have you been an MT?

Did you attend an MT school, or did you receive on-the-job training?

That's all for now.

you using at WMX?  Enterprise or Chartmatrix?  I think that's where the problem is.  I am thinking one side has no work and the other does.

After reading posts below here's the situation: IC at company presently for a while which has lots of work. Decided to take E-Trans plus for security of employee position. Husband provides benefits. After reading warnings below:

1.  Take and try out anyway, despite the negative feedback.

2.  Keep IC job and do as much as possible, as it has not been a problem there and no need to stir the pot.

Just confused and seeking feedback since new information has popped up on the board. I am like the newhire below and do not want to waste time if job no good! Thanks in advance for your advice.

Do you use the mouse or the keyboard to maneuver through your VR documents?  Which one do you think is faster?

nm

What company do you work for?

Is your transcription platform easy to learn and easy to use?  Do you have to go to multiple, multiple screens to enter data? 

How much downtime do you experience a day?  How many times a day do you have to work with tech support to straighten out problems?  How many times a day do you have to either reboot or fix problems that occur that you have learned how to do yourself? 

How many lines an hour or a day do you average?

I am currently looking to change companies, and from the posts I have seen, VR does not seem to be too popular, with a huge cut in cpl, so I want to put those companies at the bottom of my list. 

Could everyone please list their COMPANY NAME and if they are

  Currently using VR

 Planning to switch to VR soon

Any comments about cpl, how long it took to get back up to previous pay, and if you like VR would also be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks for your time.  

nm

The numbers are in from the weekend USMLSU poll regarding fair compensation for full-time US MT employees:

BY THE LINE:  All work types

• $0.11 per line base starting pay for MTs with 10+ years experience and scores of 95% or higher on pre-employment testing.
  
• $0.095 per line base starting pay for MTs with 5-8 years experience, and scores of 95% or higher on pre-employment transcription testing.
  
• $0.085 per line base starting pay for MTs with 3-5 years experience and scores of 95% or higher on pre-employment testing.

BY THE REPORT - Radiology and Pathology

• $1.10 per report for plain film radiology, CT, MRI, ultrasound
  
• $1.25 per report for interventional radiology
  
• $1.25 per pathology report

HOURLY PAY FOR MANDATORY BABYSITTING NO OR LOW PRODUCTION ACCOUNTS

Hourly pay would benefit those of us who spend countless mandatory scheduled 8-hour shifts babysitting overstaffed, underproducing accounts with little to no transcription work to be done.  As it stands now, in order to sit in front of our PCs for 8 hours doing little to no work (because there is none), in order to be paid for this mandatory idle time we must work weekends or night shifts to make up pay and quota for benefits, or request to use precious PTO time in order to be paid to sit idely for 8 hours to fulfill an unreasonable request promised to the client by the company:

• $18.00 per hour base MT pay to monitor an account with little to no work - 10+ yrs experience and 95% or greater on MT pre-hiring test.
  
• $15.00 per hour base MT pay to monitor an account with little to no work -  5-9 years of experience and 95% or greater on MT pre-hireing test
  
• $12.00 per hour base MT pay to monitor an account with little to no work -  3-5 years of experience and 95% or greater on MT pre-hiring test

Please email your comments/suggestions/opinions.

the Initiative web site, which I cannot post here because they keep deleting it, so ask around.

The more voices that are heard, the more input received, the more realistic the figures will be.

The person that posted that there are union MTs making $28 hourly with full benefits must have typed that during cocktail hour.  It's not happening any where, especially not for at-home MTs who are paid by production and paid nothing when there is no work.