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Posted By: just asking on 2007-08-21
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Does anyone ever use the chat room?
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Thanks, Rennie, for answers in the chat room! NM
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I say to you, I have no room for ....
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you obviously don't chat much
sd is said. Standard shorthand on chatboards. Why would something so miniscule and insignificant bother you? like I s-a-i-d, you have some real issues that need working on. I am not the one capping and underlining and bolding it, the stupid site is.
Chat, anyone?!
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Would like to chat with anyone
who has worked (or does work) for Opti-Script out of State College, PA. I am considering getting another PT job. Any information would be helpful. Feel free to email me or respond here. Thanks!
Not a lot of room for error
If you know the BOS 2. Then apply. If you don't. Do not apply. A very strict MTSO to work for.
I have a television in my room and
watch and/or listen every once in awhile and can talk on the phone and answers other in the room, can write and hear others and answer. It might play a part in VR because I edit, listen to others, watch TV and so on. I used to wear thick glasses, really thick so think my hearing was intensified to make up for that loss.
Elephant in the room - sm
One thing that never seems to get talked about is the fact that all of these national services and VR vendors like escription are involved in widespread databases which are ripe for hacking. The word privacy foundation says this is a problem in that medical identity theft can be as bad as general identity theft and can cause the victim multiple problems, one of which is being held liable for medical bills that aren't theirs. It seems to me that a contraction back to private local small networks may be the final outcome and that will effectively curtail escription's stranglehold on our livelihoods.
newbie chat
I don't remember how to do it anymore, but know there is a way we could set up our own group chat for the account on yahoo or here. Anyone interested? E-mail and I will see if I can set it up.
gros chat
Non, cher, embrasser mes grauau DE mais.
(sorry, no direct translation for 'grits' on Google Translator)
gros chat
Back around the turn of the century, my school offered had Spanish and Latin. I did four years of Latin. Besides, I think French makes you sound like you have a permanent sinus condition.
There is a restaurant near my home, run by a French family, and it is tres drole to be greeted with a bon jour and thanked with a merci. On the other hand, watching customers try to play along with their high school French is also quite amusing because try as they might, they just cannot get the staff to understand what they say. Que? Que? Garrison Keillor's skit about 'Cafe Berf ' is not too far off the mark.
Also, any request for something not standard issue is rudely dismissed. I was once served a chocolate mousse in a tall, tapering tulip glass so that the bottom 1/3 was inaccessible with the soup spoon I had been given. Might I have a dessert spoon? Non! An iced tea spoon, perhaps? NON! (he says, holding up the teaspoon) Zees ees ze spoon! So I calmly picked up the proper utensil (my mousse knife) and scraped the dessert out of the glass under his horrified gaze.
Gotta love 'em!
I use co. initials to take up less room so can post
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Maybe you could rent out a room or two instead of working
3 full time jobs leaves no time for sleep! If I were in that position, I'd look into renting out a bedroom. In an urban setting, you could always store your car and rent out the garage (if you have one).
She was probably looking around the room for a candid camera!
That's so pathetic! Gawd, I hope she said NO and told them why!
Was this for ASR or straight MT?
Get real, the MTs IM each other all the time and chat sm
I talk with other MTs daily on IM and have never been told not to. You can talk to them outside of work if you get their personal email, have never been told not to do that either. They only limit you if you allow it. There is freedom of speech in the U.S. Sharing line rates is just stupid, it's your income and no one elses business, they aren't afraid of that. If anything they don't want people complaining about them, which is understandable - if you worked in- house and they heard you complaining all the time at a hospital, they'd send you to the door or have a serious talk. Why should an outsourcing company be any different. We are employees using their equipment plain and simple. As for them being like a Big Brother, get real, it's just a scare tactic for you to think they are watching your every move, they don't have time for that, they don't have that many people to do that and way more important stuff to do because we share them with the clients and they have needs too. You are just way to paranoid.
Heres the chat link....
http://careerstep.groupee.net/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/1920085253/m/1280074683
Theres the link, duno why it didn't show up on the other page.
If you are running out of work, you need to chat w/your mgr. sm
No one should run out of work consistently; you should be trained on 1-2 backup accounts so that doesn't happen. On rare occasions, like holiday periods, I do run out during my shift and I do try to make up outside my 12-hr flex, or on another day off. It happens so seldom that I usually take PTO or unpaid time instead.
If you consistently do not work 35-40 hours, then yes you lose full-time benefits.
Amanda, you can use the live-chat (sm)
and they will help you trouble shoot. If you go to the screen for billing, you will see information there on how to live chat for technical issues. Hope this helps.
I don't get the constant chat about "overhired at Webmedx" - sm
My accounts are constantly running overtime. My STM is asking for OT on at least 3 accounts today and has been for the past month. If you are running out of work, ASK SOMEONE for more!
OSi has had a mass exodus so there should be plenty of room for newbies
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She does not work from her living room. Why would assume such a thing? Why would it matter to you
do not post things that you have no idea about. If you have a problem with KS or any company, why not ignore it and move on? Why does it concern you?
How does a chat board assist an MTSO with nonpayment issues?
Just asking, not finding the correlation between the two, and clarification would be appreciated for now and the future.
Never said perfect. If it were perfect, there would never be room for sm
change or growth. What I was talking about was the continuous posting by the same people, over and over again, that is vague and destructive. This is not just about Keystrokes, this is about the posts for other companies as well.
I think that not every MT is a good fit for every company, and not every company is good fit for every MT. If this were the case, there would be very little job searching or hiring going on, only if someone retired or left the field or entered the field.
It is the outright lying that is so horrible. Keystrokes is a transcription company which means that we have the normal ups and downs that every company has in terms of slow and busy periods. We have been very fortunate to have very little down time due to busy and also new accounts.
If there are check problems, they are resolved. We all wish there were no problems and this is the biggest topic at manager meetings, but human error comes into play here as well. We have a new time recording system that should eliminate that, if the information is entered correctly from the MT.
If there are tough dictators on the account, it is not the fault of the company. It is the fault of the hospital that has them on staff, but you have to take the good with the bad.
If there are QA complaints, it is usually that the leads are too strict. The owners have said that they would rather be known for being too picky than too lenient, thus having accounts say the work is not up to standard.
If there is a reliability problem, it just might not be a good fit.
I know that if I were to take over recruiting and hiring (which I absolutely want NOTHING to do with), I would not take job hoppers. However, I have been told that you have to look at the hopping and why it has happened. A lot could be poor choices. That's why I will never be in charge of hiring, but I can control the MT QA and reliability once they are on my account.
There is still room for improvement, but improvement
has been made with the supervisor. I have found them willing to work with me on just about anything. They just can't give me work they don't have.
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