deleted posts for company referrals?!?
Posted By: Les R. on 2008-08-05
In Reply to: Moderators, please explain - wussup?
If this is really happening, then I am stoked! Someone really needs to respond to this query ASAP.
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Now I get it - why certain posts are deleted!
They obviously still lie and convince some people otherwise about offshoring.
Taken from mtstars.
OSI
Outsourcing Solutions, Inc.
No Offshore Activities Reported.
Posts deleted. (SM)
Do not post your management's initials or names.
Goldbird
Why do my posts keep getting deleted?
If you are going to delete them, could you at least let me know? I truly don't understand why you are deleting them. I asked a simple question about what companies pay on a weekly basis. Is there something wrong with that? I assume thye were not moved because I can't find it anywhere and I posted it twice. How about an explanation or something?
The posts have been deleted.
Several posts deleted on this thread. (SM)
Several posts have been deleted mainly due to the naming of individuals at companies. DO NOT USE IDENTIFYING INFORMATION such as names or accounts.
As well, language was the cause for a post removed. See the posting policy at the top of the Company board.
Goldbird
Previous posts were deleted (sm)
They were NOT talking about the resumes being fake. Some earlier posts had said they would post some names of applicants for you to ask them what the name of their company was because they weren't revealing their identity. They did list a few names but the post containing the names was soon deleted. So, they were weren't meaning the resumes were fake, they meant that they had listed fake names.
Posts about them usually get deleted, but I'll
post my experience. They represented companies that already post on all the job boards. The line rate was not any better, no better benefits, shifts, etc. going through TM than if I had applied myself. I know this because I had already been offered a job twice by the company that they wanted me to test for. You have to go through an interview and testing (although the test is really a joke) and then go through it again with whatever company, so I see no advantage of going through TM.
Has anyone else noticed posts being deleted?
I first came to the company board, read the first post, went to the job seekers board, came back to the company board and the first post that I had read was gone ... POOF. It was just a question about a company, not anything ugly at all. Anyone else noticing this recently? 
The posts that were deleted on aren't page 2.
I posted that you give what you get. If you give half wages for full editing of very few clear dictators on slow VR with no expander, bad sound quality, and technical problems you're going to get what you give. MTs who aren't high producers will follow along like docile sheep.The high producing, skilled MTs will move on. VR allows shoddy work that was never acceptable when coming from MTs. The new generation of MTs have accepted that this is the future and aren't accustomed to the strict professionalism of the past. That's just what the MTSO is going to get.
Most of the truthful posts were deleted for content
Why do my posts on the main board keep getting deleted?
All I asked was if there is a company out there with a platform like Precyse - where you can look up the old reports by doctor, or by patient. What is so wrong with that?
Reason I deleted a couple of posts here (SM)
The post above is answering the original thread.
If you wish to discuss any other topics on MQ, we have an MQ board for it.
Otherwise, simply stay to the topic and answer the original thread.
Goldbird
I have deleted one of your posts. Do not post names of employees on this board. Thank you. nm
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Please search the last 2 pgs. Plenty of neg. posts recently unless they've been deleted. nm
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Please search the last 2 pgs. Plenty of neg. posts recently unless they've been deleted. nm
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Transcend's positive posts stay here cause negatives are deleted! That's the trend!
You cannot rely on honest referrals on this board, especially the archives. They are edited and deleted forever. Just as the negative posts on the Transcend forum "magically" disappear once discovered...Don't be so naive, unless you're the one "editing"!
Maybe search for Cort or CorT..most posts were negative so maybe they were deleted. nm
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I gave initials in original message and it was deleted because this company
has its own board, even though the only statement was that she formerly worked for _ _. I think that is going way overboard in monitoring and deleting, but then I disagree with a phone calls being monitored, too
How many referrals do companies want? SM
I have two, but I have been with the same company for over ten years. Have not applied for job in 16 years.
Any information will be appreciated.
hank you.
no allstate referrals
Thanks for the warning. I teach a transcription class and was almost going to have 8 MTs sign up and pay the 99.00. whew I'm glad you told us about this shameful woman and her shameful company and her despicable ways. I will refer my graduates elsewhere but no to her company where she is an MTSO for Proveros.
And we also hope that all of these referrals
make out well with this secret company and not come back here to expose anyone.  Best wishes!
If they pay so well, why are you hunting for referrals from people you do not personally know? sm
I am a skeptic. If someone is considering signing up anyway, what benefit would they get out of letting you get a referral bonus when you do not even know them? Do you get to keep the bonus if the person referred gets fired or quits? Just wondering how this works? How much is the bonus per person? Hope you will fill us in with more details.
You'll be accused of being a recruiter or soliciting referrals
if you say anything positive around here.
There are bad posts about every company...
And for most companies, there are also good posts.
There are a couple bad things to really listen to--late/no pay is one of them. However, most have an opinion based on personal preferences. Some people don't like OSi (or Spheris, or Medquist, or fill-in-the-blank), and some people do. It's all based on a personal preference, and that's why many people say again and again that every company is good for some, bad for some. No one company is going to be perfect for everyone. The most balanced views acknowledge the good and bad of a company.
I currently work for OSi and have for almost 2 years. I loved working for them as an MT and hated working as QA. I am back to part-time MT, and while I'm generally happy and still would and do recommend them to MTs, there are some things I don't like. Just as I assume there will be some things I will not like about the company I go to next. But as far as OSi goes, they ALWAYS pay on time, the account coordinators are great, and most of the management are nice and try their best to be accommodating.
The honest truth is that I would not recommend arguing with the QA department, or at least to pick your battles carefully. However, mostly the QA dept leaves you alone unless you fail a review. Just don't ever work for QA there... lol The QA dept is seriously the only bad thing I would say about OSi. And they're mostly good people, just very inept at QA sometimes.
So all in all, I say OSi is a good place to work. Despite my personal distaste for the QA dept, they are not terrible and do not really affect your day-to-day work. I recommend them with all honesty and I think that MOST MTs would find them a good place to work.
They have great accounts, some very good line-makers. I seldom run out of work, but cannot say that I never run out. But when I do, I have the choice of going to a secondary account. I really do like all of the accounts and the sound quality is never a problem (at least for me--and obviously there are times that docs dictate on cell phones that sound as though they are on a motorcycle, going 100 mph). But the overall sound quality is great, and ExText is my favorite platform thus far. Again, the account coordinators are very good, very friendly, and very easy to talk with.
Lisha
There are also POSITIVE posts about this company!
The owners are not mean. They are very friendly and caring. The company has a load of work. They are having pay problems right now, but are working to solve the problem. They are upfront and honest. One must remember that a poor attitude can affect any nice person. This "viper pit" of a board is certainly proof of that.
Just because someone posts positives about a company....sm
doesn't mean they're in management, and you're presuming that someone who posts a positive is a manager is pretty ludicrious. There are plenty of MTs out there happy with their employer... even some folks happy with MQ even with all of the legal problems that company has ongoing.
Unless someone makes a statement about someone in particular at a company that is completely false then there would be no reason for anyone to request a trace to find out who a poster is. For example, on most internet boards anywhere you can say something like "XYZ company stinks" and be OK, but if you said something like "XYZ's payroll department paid me only a fraction of my earnings and failed to correct the problem" without proof to support your statement then you could be potentially held liable for posting false information. If you did have proof of in this instance a payroll problem and proof of where it was attempted to be resolved then you'd be safe.
Why is it that when anyone has anything good to say about a company, there are always the posts sm
turn the whole thread ugly. Then the posts are all removed, and the company looks bad because the good was removed with the bad. Yes, Keystrokes pays to have an ad on this forum but it is just an advertisement like the ones we have on other medical sites, in magazines, at trade shows and in other publications.
I am going to set the record straight for those who are intersted. If you are not, ignore the post.
Keystrokes has grown from 5 to over 200 transcriptionists, from $50,000 in revenue to over $5 million dollars in revenue in 8 years, with the majority of the increase in the past 3 years. This is public knowledge, available on the website, Inc Magazine site, Aspatore books, etc. so there is no reason to delete this.
We have 100% account retention. We recently declined meeting the price of an offshore company when a few of our radiology accounts went to voice recognition in the same health system. We chose not to do voice recognition with them by not meeting an outragiously low price. We do not outsource and stand firm on that regardless of what other do.
Keystrokes has been changing over the past three years, not disputed, but the changes benefit the MTs more than anyone. Our rates are higher than many (not all) companies, our schedules have some flexibility, our managers are all MTs.
We have caught a lot of grief on this board for various reasons, and a lot of it seems to be from the same few people. Or from those who talk nonsense. I truly hope that people reading these negative posts see sour grapes when they read them and understand. Yes, there are some bitter people out there but they are ones that either did not make it through the initial period, have poor quality, have zero reliability, have made gross patient care errors or have breached HIPAA regulations. Yes, there has been a turnover, but we have a great team in place and those who work at Keystrokes like/love working there.
We have heard that only a very small percentage of transcriptionists actually visit the MT websites for anything other than the job openings. A big reason is the pettiness and ugliness that the posts seem to bring out. Another is time. A lot of MTs work on computers all day long and want to spend off work time off their computer.
If you have questions about Keystrokes, go to the company for answers.
I defend the company that I work for but have made a promise to myself to stop visiting here and two other sites because they really just take up time that should be spent on other things. I hate that the bashers will still be bashers and that no one can defend a company (any company) without being attacked. So the bashers are the only ones that post. I wish you all the best and rest assured, Keystrokes will continue to grow as a national presence, and will continue to attract customers and MTs and will continue to make both very happy.
I have. The company I work for now posts when
they have openings, but I was hired before they started posting. I'm going on 6 years now with this company. I have also received 2 other offers from smaller companies that don't post.
No company is able to remove posts. (SM)
Only the Administrator and moderators, such as myself, have the ability to do so.
Please take up your questions with the Administrator.
Goldbird
Not many posts cause small company
You didn't say if you interviewed for acute care or clinic. There is not much chatter on this board because Axolotl is a small company. About 20 to 25 acute care and 20 to 25 clinic MTs.
Your questions:
Platform: can be slow depending on your accounts
Incentives: none to speak of besides overtime
Benefits: comparable to good. Depends on what you need
Communication: Average
Flexibility: If you comit to working 7 am to 3 pm you better be there are 7 am. If you don't call in they might call you to find out where you are because they are so small and need everyone to be there when they say because of turn around time. No timeclock to speak of so you can work as long as you want to get in your 1200 lines per day if there is work. When there is no work you have to leave after your shift even if you have not gotten your minimum lines in.
ESL: If you are acute care you could get stuck on a couple of really nasty ESL accounts where you can go for several days getting mostly ESL and not enough others to average out the lines. So if you are not real strong and love to do ESL getting lines in may be a problem during an 8 hour shift even after several months.
Like any company everyone's experience is different. What is great for one may be a disaster for another. I have been with them less than 9 months and there seem to have been quite a few MTs whose names seem to suddenly disappear so it seems like Axolotl may not have been a good fit for those MTs.
If you have other specific questions, you can E-Mail me.
Good luck in whatever you decide.
When someone posts positive about a company it has to be a recruiter. sm
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I think the less posts about a company, the better. It's the bad companies that get all the pres
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No MQ posts allowed on Company board. (NM)
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I agree with the posts below, I think it is a good company. SM
You do receive good training on the computer. The whole week of training is on the computer. You will start IMMEDIATELY on production with your account. That is my only complaint.
always so vague. What is it about this company that causes so many posts, good and bad? nm
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hiGoldberg - can a company delete posts here?
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WHAT?? It is the bank, not the company that decides how it posts. sm
I have been there for 3 years and we have always been paid that way. Many, many times it is posted on the Friday before but we know to count on it the next business day.
My bank is open Monday. Maybe yours is too.
Every week a different company has bad posts. The funny thing is that sm
it just goes round and round. How about doing something about it rather than arguing back and forth. I think we all can agree that there are good companies and bad companies but that for the most part they are all pretty similar. Slipping through the cracks? It happens. Be the squeaky wheel and call the company. Obviously they need people if they hire. Perhaps your resume was stuck to another or your message not written down correctly. Perhaps you misunderstood something and need to clarify it. Perhaps they misunderstood something and need to clarify it. If you have chosen to work for a company and did your research, then you have to decide after a month or so if it is the right company for you or not. Transcription is a very small world and these service owners talk amongst themselves. They work on making transcription better not how to burn and tick off the next applicant.
Be realistic. These companies all have good and bad points. The really bad ones are obvious with the paychecks that do not arrive for months and those that continuously bounce checks and those that rip off their employees with fraudulent line counts. But the ones that are constantly attacked on here are the ones that have been around for awhile and will continue with or without you. MQ, Spheris, MDI, Transcend, Transolutions, Keystrokes, Heartland, TransHealth, OSI, Precyse and Cymed are going to continue to hire and fire and have happy MTs and MTs that do not like working for them. The truly bad ones like XXXX and SS, to name a few, the ones that only have horrible posts are the ones that will fade away.
You judge an entire company by the posts of 2 or 3 out of 500+ employees?
That amazes me with MQ too. A few people post but the what they write it taken as gospel.
Keystrokes is very well run; it is sad that someone can make a blanket statement about something they know nothing about.
Judging from previous posts they are a horrible company.
THey offshore big time. If you'll search the archives you'll find lots on them.
Search on the company board. Lots of posts.
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many recent negative posts on Company Board
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I do not know anything about the company, but did read posts that they paid late. sm
The pay was decent, though, at 10 cpl, but it was 3rd shift every weekend, and I decided to pass just in case I ever decide to get a life. 
Sounds like you had a bad experience -- sorry for that. Hope wherever you are at now is better. 
And that is the problem with administration deleting negative posts about a company.
nm
I removed the posts after speaking directly to the owner of the company. If
you have questions or concerns you need to take it up with her. There is one specific person causing most of this grief. I have CHOSEN to remove the posts, I was not forced to.
Search company board. Lots of posts recently, all
bad. Each and every one.
many recent negative posts of Amphion on Company Board
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I didn't take the posts as trashing the company, just people venting about no work. sm
I used to work for TT, and yes, they are wonderful people -- very caring and supportive -- but in order to get my lines in, I had to be VERY flexible, working on my days off, during times I wasn't scheduled, etc., and it gets old pretty quickly. I personally didn't care for the e-mails calling me sweetie or telling me you rock, but that's just me. I just want to be paid well and have plentiful work. I do not know if they just overhire or what happens, but I finally left because I couldn't stand the feast or famine work flow there.
Just as an FYI, I got deleted for
posting initials and was told we are not to do that.
Sure should be deleted!
That is a big no-no. You might even want to check out your HIIPA and confidentiality agreements again. Mine says I cannot identify any client to a third party, though I never would. What do you think everybody on this board is who does not work on that account? I hope you don't cost your company the account.
It was deleted. Please SM
We do not allow job-wanted posts. Everyone needs to do their own job research through the descriptive job ads on the Job Seekers board. They can then ask about specific companies by name on the Company board.
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