honestly, no I didn't read. Pretty sure I'm quitting NM
Posted By: jen on 2009-08-28
In Reply to: Did you read the *FAQ* that came out? - NorCalMT
remember, (I'm sure you don't remember :) just saying, I went through this with Spheris, stuck it, ended up leaving anyway
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Honestly, don't believe everything you read
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Honestly, I've been hired by companies that didn't test me.
I did not like those jobs one bit. You start out immediately being stressed because they're out of TAT and desperate for people. The work quality was terrible and I mean worse than any other place I've ever worked. With your CMT credential, I don't think you'd have a problem finding a decent job.
I have not read that and pretty
much read all the postings here. Where did you see that and when?
Just read through some of the post and you can pretty much see. Quite a few actually. nm
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That's pretty hateful. From what I have read the complaint is not just VR but a sm
lack of work, and a seeming lack of caring on the part of mangement regarding what the MTs are facing. I hate VR, but I was not one of those who hated the advent of WP or anything new -- quite the opposite. I love new things and new technology! But VR benefits no one but the company and MTs who do not type fast. I could type the report myself much faster than I could edit the garbage put in front of me. So ... great ... I could spend the same amount of time and get half the money. And you wonder why they are upset?
Fortunately, I no longer work there, although my work at KS has dried up so much I wonder what is happening there. Fortunately, I have a couple of other jobs, but everything makes me nervous nowadays.
Olive Oyl, I am pretty sure you worked there before, Why didn't you ask then? Why do you keep c
posing questions in an inflammatory manner about TransTech? If you want to go back, just call them and see if they will rehire you. If not, just leave well enough alone. Transtech has never been anything but fair to me and as the above posted said we are rewarded for doing good work. I don't know who told you that they never give raises but that simply isn't true. My experience has been that if I prove myself as a good, loyal and dedicated MT they have been fair with me. Either go back or go away.
didn't you read the TOS?
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I read it . . . didn't see anything bad :)
Unless I missed something. Please clue me in if I did.
Apparently you didn't read them
There are posts from 2008 with plenty of negative info. You should search again and make sure you read them this time.
Didn't have to read beyond the first sentenc....sm
to see that this is not the company for me. I cannot see why companies do not pay for spaces. Well.....I guess I do....it saves them money.....but that's just plain CRAZY! Howwouldtheyliketoseereportsthatlooklikethis?
Thanks for the info. You've helped me make up my mind.
Because YOU didn't read the thread... sm
It wasn't about the hearing test. Holy crap! It was a comment made that a woman's husband's company makes people sign something saying they can go into their past medical history. they don't want to hire them if they think they will make too many insurance claims.
That would unfairly bias the sick and the elderly.
I almost didn't read your post...
... because I thought you were someone asking what it's like to do radiology work at Transcend, and I don't.
But I'm glad I did click to read it, and I'm glad some more of the folks who are happy working at Transcend--and are still working the same accounts with virtually no changes (except good ones) YEARS after their own merger--are coming on board to tell their stories. My own merger (from TRS) was only 5 months ago, and just about all I hear is 'just wait, they'll give your good account to somebody else, they'll move you to something lousy with no work available, they'll make you do speech-wreck, whether you want to or not, and you'll soon be singing a different tune,' that sort of thing.
But beware... you say anything good about Transcend on this board, and you'll soon be labeled a 'suit.'
I am not a suit. I am a pajama. And hey... I could only WISH they'd pay me for all this free positive PR I'm doing..... :)
Perhaps you didn't read all the postings.
Maybe that's what the OP was talking about; we don't know as it could be interpreted either way. However, a subsequent poster did state that she indeed had a company charge her $5 a paycheck for the privilege of having it direct deposited. So maybe you better check your alarm clock.
LOL, guess I didn't read where it said subject (sm)
See, I'm just too dang stressed. Oh well, just don't sell my address, I get enough spam as it is and never read it.
you obviously didn't read my entire response
or can't understand me.
Sorry about that... didn't read the full message!
You can block your e-mail so no one can contact you privately; some people like to be contacted via e-mail, others do not. I am not sure how to do that, but contact the moderator.
Even if you had posted the article, that is fine; I love working for a company that is the #1 publicly traded company in Georgia. Mr. Gerdes just sent out an e-mail stating that we also were ranked highly in Forbes. With all of the horrible economic news, I am glad I work for a stable company. It's not for everyone though - to each his/her own.
I read on this board that someone heard they didn't anymore(sm)
I don't know for sure.
I should have read the plan closer. Didn't know about the PTO restriction. Thanks.
Figures..
I think you better learn to read better, I didn't say I don't work weekends
I said I get to spend more time with my family by working 3rd shift on the weekends and evenings. I have to work either a Sun-Thur or Tues-Sat shift just like any normal MT who cares about the company they work for and their TAT requirements.
Quitting
I work for MDI-FL and we've been out of work for a week too...I have three accounts and no work right after the holidays-I am starting to panic as I supply 50% of the family income. i have talked to friends who work for local hospitals and they are swamped. I owned by own service for 8 years and never had a slow movement, any time of the year. I just can't figure this business out anymore.
quitting MQ
Thanks for the info.
Quitting
I wouldn't quit the old one until you find out how the new one is.
Had enough BS and I'm quitting
@#$%
Quitting
I left a company that had an exit interview. I honestly told them what I thought. I think they needed to know a few things. Maybe it will effect a change to make life easier on other MTs.
quitting after first day
Oh, oh, sounds like you got hired for the same account as me............6 passwords to get into the program, 1/2 hour to boot everything up, system down 7 out of 10 days and only 3 hours work yesterday and 4 today - but I'm required to be here checking for work every 15 minutes....So, after waiting 3 weeks for my computer to be specially built by the hospital itself, I have finally worked a whole month now with 1 week of training in which the system was down 3 days out of 5, so I learned very little. Then the system was down 2 out of 5 days the second week. oh yes, and 3 of my 4 QA trainers have disappeared. Needless to say, I'm looking for another job, since I do like to eat and so does my cat and dog. This is not where I thought I'd be after going to school for a full year and transcribing now for 15 years.... what a shameful direction things have gone these last 5 or 6 years. Even janitors, and clerks have more benefits, respect, security and likely make more money than we do these days in this field. No one in the medical profession really has a clue how much knowledge we are required to possess or the skills necessary to do what we do. We get no respect from the doctors, staff, or medical profession at all. Part of the problem is that we're too fragmented within the industry, especially working at home. We are scattered all over the county. We are so isolated from one another that we have no sense of being part of anything, which is benficial to management, as it keeps us from organizing. Another contributing factor to lousy working conditions for all of us is that 3/4 of the employees in this field are women, most of whom do not truly NEED this job, so those of us who have no husband/boyfriend/roommate/etc.to help with finances are screwed. I love the medical transcription field, but I really hate being a 3rd class worker bee. I would challenge any nurse or doctor or health professional to do my job for a day - correctly. I can guarantee they would absolutely not be able to do it. I thought I was a professional... but now I realize I'm just a worker, so I need to find one more job that will last me at least one more year, and hopefully provide more than $15,000 annually, which is all I made last year as a full-time employee with 2 other companies who kept running out of work or had continuous problems implementing their new and improved dictation systems. I have more system down, system issue messages than Carter's has liver pills from these companies. I'll bet management got paid though. Maybe if I can find another job in the next week or so, I can hang in there until I can retire in 2010, and then just do this part-time to supplement my $900.00 a month social security check. I am not a happy camper anymore. I'm just really disappointed in the direction this profession has gone in over the last 6 years or so. I'm fed up with listening to these educated idiots, slurp, chomp, snort, guzzle, and burp through their meals, tell jokes while the minutes tick away that I don't paid to listen to and rattle, scrape, bump, ding and click through the report because they're not prepared to dictate when they sit down to do the report. Then I get to listen to them hem and haw as they click through the computer screen reading the patient's history while they're trying to dictate the current report. Taking phone calls and leaving me hanging, with the minutes ticking away that I'm not getting paid for, coming back after 5 minutes and hanging up on me. I'm tired of my feet swelling from sitting here for hours on end, dry itchy eyes, and my brain on overload with new drugs, mispronounced drugs, procedures, and failure to provide even the basics, like who the hell they are, the patient's name, ID, or date. It's clear that they feel dictating patient reports is beneath them. It's pretty clear that most of them just don't want to do it, so very few bother to do it right. So much for patient care. Maybe I'm burning out. Just can't quit yet. Have to earn a living, and I still care about quality, and I still care about doing it right. I just wish more of the other people I have to deal with cared too.
Many are quitting
Many MTs are quitting, have quit, or are in the process of quitting. I believe it is really what they want. They have a heavy offshore workforce and it seems that more and more work is going to the offshore service. There is barely enough work to go around unless you devote 24 hours a day to them to adjust your schedule as needed to make any lines. A recent post a few weeks ago stated that there would be a 39% paycut across the board in May, but I can't verify that. The post sounded like it was someone who was in management at one time. I do know for a fact that our manager told us that a lot of work was being sent to the offshore now. I'm not a disgruntled employee, but I do know that every single person on my account is looking for another job outside of the transcription field.
quitting with grace...
how about "I appreciate the opportunity you have given me, but due to circumstances beyond my control (such as the fact they are a national), the position just is not working out right for me at this time. Hopefully if circumstances change, you might consider me for re-hire at that time."
More advices on quitting
I think this site might help. It's a full article on the do's and don't or quitting
http://www.askmen.com/money/career_100/111_career.html
Anybody quitting Medquist before Oct 1?
Wondering if anyone was leaving before the pay cut.
Precyse....I am quitting
I had a team manager that was manipulative. Lots of people are quitting right now because of things like that. She can be real nice too and give gravy work, depending on what side you end up on. Also OT..Thats a joke. Don't work any OT because you make less for OT than your regular day the way the figure it. The last time I worked OT I made less than 6 bucks (not plus 13.00 bucks an hour or anything like that, just less than 6.00 bucks an hour!) an hour for OT. I had trouble making my line count and used to be a very good producer before I got there. I'm not sure if it's because you spend so much time with the stuff that you don't get paid for, like searching for or changing the ADTs, searching for addresses, sending copies, etc. and not getting paid for headers or what. Maybe I just couldn't concentrate, I don't know, but I've decided I stayed there too long.
On the verge of quitting MDI-MD
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Anyone else thinking of quitting?
I have other offers but I love the platform and the account. I have not had work for almost a week straight and before that about 2 months of little work. I am just wondering if everyone else out there is ready to move on. We get SOS messages when there are 5 jobs on the system, on a holiday, stating everyone wanted work....well here it is. Hardly. I have 4 accounts and they are all dry. Is this everyone's experience???????
Quitting without notice
Well, if someone hadn't told me I would not have believed it. First I am the relative that couldn't keep her thoughts about such things as hiring newbies with a contract that states they must agree to work for 30 days for free to determine if they are good enough to get paid or running off in the middle of a HUGE hurricane forecasted for Mexico and leave 4 kids with a babysitter and no emergency funds left for the sitter. I am also one of those that have NOT been paid for work done. First I would like to say that XXXXX is a great mentor, I learned a great deal from her, including that there are MTs out there that do not apply the ethics of medical transcription into their own life or the lives of their employees. As for upsetting her clients, I just informed them of the violations going on like file sharing after signing a confidentiality contract, some were quite shocked and I am sure she lost work because of it, but after the smear campaign she launched, I don't know what she expected. As for pay, you get paid as long as you work for her, you can ask just about anyone who has quit, and they have not received their last checks. Her famous excuse that I know that at least 4 MTs have heard is It must be lost in the mail. Funny how the only checks to get lost are those due to past employees and not current ones.
Quitting in droves
Well people are quitting in droves because they're sending all the best accounts to India, then forcing US MTs to train as guinea pigs on new platforms, such as Clarity. As we help them get the bugs worked out, we go broke in the process. Overstaffing is a problem on some platforms (radiology was mine), I worked 6-7 days a week for the last 7 weeks and couldn't even make production, fighting for every line. Supe lied to me and promised me a new platform, only to schedule me for training on Clarity. Glad to be gone!
For OSI employees that are quitting
If you work for OSi and have found another job because of their decision to stop paying holiday pay -
Which companies are you switching to?
Please email me if you like.
I want to make a move ASAP and don't know where to turn. TIA
Is everybody quitting Amphion, hopefully?
Just gave my notice. The substandard pay for the amount of work I do is not doing it for me anymore. There is a better way and I found it. From what I understand there are quite a few more leaving this very strange company too. The least they could do is add a minimum wage stipend for all the unpaid busy work. Not my problem anymore.
I'm planning on quitting too. sm
I liked the idea of working for a smaller company and one that didn't offshore. I worked for a BIG company that offshored, and I didn't like it. Actually it started out as Edix, then Spheris came in and took over, and it all went down hill after that. Once I found out they sent to India, I quit. I'll be doing the same with MDI, probably after September, since I already submitted my September work schedule. Good luck to all the MDI transcriptionists.
If you're thinking of quitting
I rarely ever post but I just wanted to let people know what happened to me so they can avoid the same experience I had. i'm not gonna mention the name of the company here,but anyone who works for this company knows the problems they've had with their payroll and getting their direct deposits on time.. and how the owner is uncaring about how many bounce fees she causes everyone to have to pay, or how people can't pay their bills when their DD doesnt show up until Monday. She just turns off her IMs and doesnt answer emails. Really great person to work for.. Well.. aside from those problems, i just wanted to warn people that when you do decide to finally leave the company, just be sure she doesnt owe you anything before you leave. Do a slow down, so that she owes you as little as possible by the time you quit, unless you don't have any equipment, like a foot pedal or anything, that she sent you that she can use to justify holding your final check(s). She has done this to a few people I know of..and I'm sure there's lots more I don't know. I can't say if she pays right away if you don't have equipment,.she probably does ...but I know what happens if you do!!
I had a foot pedal that belonged to her, and she held my final TWO CHECKS on me. She owed me one full check and for two or three days into a new pay period and held them both. When my next to last check didn't show up as expected and I called to ask her about it, she said its "company policy" to roll all money owed into one final check. She happened to be on vacation, so I returned the equipment,but still had to wait from the 4th of April until the 26th when she returned from vacation.. I waited and still didn't receive any money from her, so I emailed her multiple times with no response.. Then i happened to check my bank balance and found out she had deposited the check for the 2-3 days in my account..but the full check she owed me wasn't there. I had expected a paper check from her, so I didnt check my balance for a while..I just happened to check it. When i emailed her about the money, she didnt even bother to answer me to say she had deposited it, so its a good thing I checked or I'd still be waiting. I finally called her. since she refuses to answer emails, and she said she would look into what happened with the other check first thing Monday morning...This was last Friday.. today I FINALLY got my money from her. only more than a full month and 266.00 in bounce fees later!! So, the good news is she will probably pay you..eventually...but who wants to wait over a month with no check? I know I had extenuating circumstances because she happened to go on vacation, but she also did payroll early, and there was no way I could have gotten the pedal back to her before she did payroll. She knew she was going to hold both checks and didn't bother to tell me that when I emailed her to tell her I had mailed the pedal back and would be expecting my check as usual on April 14th.. so I got a nice little shock when my DD just didnt show up on the 14th. Maybe others get their money a little sooner, but still ..who wants to wait for their checks for that long. Well anyway, I decided to let people know what happened to me, just so they can avoid it happening to them.
OSI ALWAYS hiring, good MTs ALWAYS quitting
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don't think I will get paid for transcription I did before quitting
I worked for several weeks for a transcription company and things did not go very well. I worked VERY hard trying trying to do my best work and just was not making very much money and things did not look like they would improve. I up and quit and now they are not answering my e-mails nor have I received pay for the work I did do. The quality of my work was great. The platform was hard and I spent too much time trying to find patient accounts I believe. Does anyone know what recourse I have? It is not a lot of money at all, yet I worked so hard to make it work. Or do I chalk it up to another bad experience? Thanks in advance.
Re: Zmed and quitting without notice
I doubt that it is legal for them to keep half your pay if you quit without notice. I am willing to bet that any Labor Board would uphold the worker on this one. I have never worked for them, interviewed with them once, found them creepy and said no.
Quitting, more work and other melodrama
And you know I police everyone else because? Quite the assumption to make, eh? And spoken like a true cherry picker. Do my own work? Nah, I'm too busy doing the work everybody else has decided they're too good to do and they throw it back. Yes, please explain exactly how I get to do MY OWN work. Either you are a cherry picker yourself or you don't have people cancelling jobs and throwing them back for you to do, which results in a pretty crappy line count at times. You don't know me, don't make assumptions about who I'm policing. And, betcha the non-cherry pickers aren't afraid of us police!
Quitting MDI short notice
I quit with only three days' notice. (I have always given 30 days notice for leaving MT jobs because I am a high producer and I want people to have an opportunity to get an adequate replacement. However, there were extenuating circumstances of offshoring involved here.) I e-mailed D. and told her that if I had been given two weeks notice of the merger, I would surely have given her two weeks notice that I was quitting, but that, in all conscience, I simply could not work for any company that offshored, that it violates my principles as an American, so I hoped she would understand why my last day was going to be August 31. She wrote me a very kind and gracious e-mail back saying she understood. I started my new job the very next day and have never looked back. My unasked for advice would be for each person to follow her (or his) own conscience. You know how Jiminy Cricket used to say Let your conscience be your guide? Or as they said on Star Wars, Follow your instincts..... Do what is right for you, for whatever reasons your own circumstances dictate. Good luck!
I see a lot of people posting on here about quitting MQ and I was just wondering where they all went
and is it better. I guess we wont know what we are up against yet for about a week then we will see what happens.
Sorry to hear of any quitting. I am on the "busy" account..
I do like it a lot, but I also worry about overhiring.. and forcing me out of a job that I love..
I don't recall saying I was quitting, just gonna wait and see. nm
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Are the part-timers quitting DeVenture?
It's been about a month now with very little if any work for part-timers. Anyone else quitting?
Yep, hiring again. Are people quitting or what? There never seems to be a lot of work to me. nm
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WELL SAID - OSi people are quitting in droves including management
that's what forums are for.
Dont bother. Not enough work to go around. People are quitting.
I guess at this rate, they may be hiring if everyone ends up quitting due to lack of work. They will come on here and state that we should just call the office and you will get put on another account. That is a joke. We have all tried that and you get ignored.
"People are quitting" -- who? I work in the home office
and no one has quit in the last month.
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