excellent advice - as usual

• looking for honesty :) thanks. - mcangeli
  • so..basically - mcangeli
    • Good summary. I would add.... - not a Keystrokes fan
      • Oops, sorry - I changed my name back three or four times but it didn't "take" nm - Dreamweaver
    • Good Summary but - sm (see message)
  • Very unhappy with responses to your post - MidwestMT
    • My 2 cents - sirpercy
      • excellent advice - as usual - nm
        • Thanks you! - sirpercy
    • So you are unhappy with what others posted - but you sum it all up, and so that makes
  • I have 30 years in and don't make $25K. Hands sm - Another voice
    • 30 years, 40,000+ (nm) - emily
      • Yep, me too before outsourcing - Lula
      • --full time, 40 hrs/week (nm) - emily
        • I've been limited to 6 hours/day per ortho doc sm - Another voice
    • In the same boat as you, over 30 years - Lula
      • 15 years and more like $20,000 - no message
        • Is that full or part? - Lula
          • 32 hours/week - no message
  • You'd probably be lucky to clear $12K - sm -
  • you need more experience - anon
  • no- you will not make 25K your first year - yes-wait until you can afford less - no message
  • First year earnings - typ4food
    • earnings - stephanie
  • I understand your post... - sm
    • Getting Experience - Susan
  • Agree - Jo
  • If you are already a transcriptionist - then why do you need the training?
    • sorry, clarification. - mcangeli
      • You don't have to go to Career Step - to be a transcriptionist.
        • She asked for honesty - nm
        • no, just an honest question. - mcangeli
          • What is MT transcription? - Maybe you do need to go to school.
            • black and white? - mcangeli
              • If you can do it, keep your current job, get more MT sm - Another voice
              • I just can't understand why you are saying you need - more training when you already transcribe.
              • I had no MT training, not a fast typist, and no experience in tranascription - me
                • You are an exception rather than the rule.... - Observer
                • I had no MT training, either. Started at an Ortho practice, then to a nat'l. MT school is NOT a n - Veronica
            • MT Transcription.... - Observer
              • Honesty please - queenofkeyboards
          • Then just start applying for Psych transcription positions you see here...sm - to you
            • Career Step - wileo
              • Career Step is $1320 or $1560 - for enrollment
                • Why pay that for a field that is drying up? Spend money going to - school for a good job with a future.
                  • AMEN TO THAT.. I worry all the time how fast our jobs are dwindling down thanks to work going - luvmting
                    • MT/nursing instead - riverclark
                    • I agree - tina

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If I had known that they offshored before I accepted employment with them I never would have gone there to work.  I've been here long enough now though to not want to lose my benefits. 

Still ... making a DECENT PAYCHECK and making a living without being stressed out over the type of work that I'm doing is just as important as good benefits. 

better to do than rip other people apart so they don't have to acknowledge that they have their own deficiencies.  Instead of actually speaking to someone with their company and having them know what kind of people they have working for them, they come here anonny and post the same tired stuff all the time and talk about how great they are in comparison to other people they work with, how the company should value them, blah blah blah.

The loudest ones are usually the most lacking in skills.

Is there anyone out there that is currently working for DIT, getting paid and on time?  I know that there were many, many posts here not long ago on how they had stiffed a few employees but was wondering if they had turned things around.

TIA

Upon receiving email from MDI, it states they offer a generous line rate?  Any input here?  I'm interested in the cpl rate.  Thanks for any info!

Transcription Systems of Illinois has an immediate opening for an experienced acute care MT (hospital dictation). This position requires a minimum of 4 hours a day, Monday through Thursday, 8 hours on Friday, with the flexibility to do more if necessary. No weekends. Employee status. Only MTs with a strong background in operative reports, discharge summaries, H&Ps and consults will be considered.

This account requires a C-phone and has a high percentage of ESL's as well as a few difficult English-speaking dictators. No long distance charges. We provide many samples and lots of feedback. Our MTs like this account, once they're over the hurdle of the learning curve, and reap a very nice income from it. We guarantee no cherry-picking and you will not be switched to different accounts. A line is defined as 65 characters with spaces, and you calculate your own line count.

We are a very stable company who has been in business for 25 years in Central Illinois. Our MTs are so content with our company that we will be happy to provide MT references to serious applicants. 

All resumes will be reviewed and responses sent promptly to those who qualify.

You obviously spent a great deal of time on your post. If only all of us could have you as our representative when we apply for positions with companies you treat us just as you have written. Thank you for taking the time to come up with the list and sharing it. What a great job. Kudos. You hit it right the nail right on the head.

So much of what you said is true - you commented briefly about how much the leads do for the MTs and so much of what they is not paid for.   Medware keeps track of their employees time by Merit Minutes.  Merit Minutes constitutes the time spent TYPING in a chart.  If you need to research a drug name and spend more than 5 minutes looking for it, Merit automatically shuts off the clock.  So you have spend your time researching an item but you do not get paid for your time after 5 minutes.  Lately, it also seems harder and harder to achieve the minutes needed to equal 8 hours.  I know several people, myself included, who have made comments that it seems like 10 hours are needed before the 8 hours mark is reached.  Additionally, if you have phone your supervisor for something, if you run out of jobs and have to email the lead MT (who no longer exists) for more work, that is time spent which you don't get paid for.  If Medware's computer goes down or they experience a power outage, you have to make up the time for it later.  If Medware performs a maintenance check on Merit, you have to wait and make up the time later.  In a real world office, you would be paid for that time, but not at Medware.  And taking time off for yourself?  That is definitely frowned upon by certain team leaders.  Taking sick time?  They will actually ask you to make up that time later even if you have accured the sick time benefits! 

Even though Medware will tout itself as the AAMT employer of the year, not once or twice, they certainly do not treat their employees well.  For MT week the lead MTs positions were eliminated.  About 6 months ago the MTs who review the offshore work, listening to the reports word for word, fixing dosage errors, incorrect words, grammar, punctuation, and often fixing complete sentences which were creatively transcribed, found out that their hourly salary was about to be cut in half.  They would now make $8.00 an hour plus an incentive bonus for editing over 2000 lines a day.  Nothing  changed for them, the same quality demands were still in place, the offshore work remained the same, not better, but suddenly they had to produce twice as much as work in the same amount of time in order to keep their salary at or close to the level it had been.  Additionally, their vacation pay, which they had earned during the time when they made $14.00 or $15.00 an hour, was suddenly decreased to $12.00 an hour. And this is the company who wins the coveted employee of the year award?

This company looks out for number 1, themselves, and no one else.  They deserve to lose their lead MTs and anyone else who is disgusted with the self-serving practices.  Maybe if enough people leave, Medware will wake up and smell the coffee and remember that it takes management and employees working together to make a company productive.