issues talk to lawyer. This is easier than starving?
Posted By: Get new job is easier than starving, nm on 2008-01-23
In Reply to: IC cannot be fired, If you are bullied, called name, - had $ issues, is cause U allowed it. For contract
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If non-MQ then jump right in and talk about your issues,-- or not. Quit reading topics that have MQ
If MQ MTs weren't under attack with this new plan, we probably would be out enjoying life too. But they are upsetting our livelihoods yet again.
I'm STARVING on 9.5 cpl !
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I've been starving for months!!! sm
I haven't gotten a decent line count since January!!! I finally was forced to look for work elsewhere before I went under completely. Yes, the people there are really nice, with the exception of a few that are either still there or have come and gone, but overall if they can't provide enough work to their long-term dedicated employees, or should I say ICs, then they're going to lose us. What other choice do we have?!!
No work at MDI-FL. Starving. What a waste of day getting up early for nothing.
This gets old. It has been like this for a week. I wonder how long people are supposed to hang out and do nothing.
I agree with Happy. Starving MT doesn't
a ton of work at Transcend. It sounds like she's limited in her work type capability. Please stop with the they send their best work to India because this is not accurate. Good luck with your training. I think you'll find Transcend a great company to work for.
Starving to death without health insurance and looking for another job! nm
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Puhahaha! I'd probably end up starving to death or gathering enough vegetables being thrown to op
my own produce stand. Thanks for the chuckle. XDDDD
Are you really a lawyer?
Are you really a lawyer?
the Lawyer said....
In using .PDF documents are encrpyted by a date when it was turned into .PDF and somewhat protected by tampering. Like a scanned or picture it could be detected by experts if needed to undergo tests. Thus making a case to go into court.
everyone needs a lawyer
If that's the case, everyone on these boards need attorneys. We all can state our opinions without the fear of being tromped on like you are doing. If you like the company, that is wonderful. Goodness gracious. Calm down. It is okay.
You are a lawyer then?
I certainly am not a lawyer but I cannot possibly imagine a company being required to pay OT they didn't ask to be worked. So far as emails I have personally received asking for help to meet TAT,they ALWAYS say something to the effect of....if you have not met your line or hour requirements...if they want over time they ask for it and they INSIST on paying for it!!!!
One thing I do agree with you on is the discipline you mentioned. Might be a good idea for someone to let management at TT know what is being said here and I would personally be delighted if they could identify the malcontents and FIRE them. All-in-all Transtech is a good company...not perfect by any means...but as an old goat with nearly half a century in this business I can tell you there are a WHOLE LOT worse companies out there and I hope some of you find them. You deserve it!
I am not a lawyer but I wonder
what the Labor Commission might say about requiring someone to work for a week without pay before hiring. I'll betcha they would say plenty. Might be worth running it past them. Where do you live? I know that in California that kind of nonsense would never fly.
Now that's funny, I wish I was a lawyer and not an MT,
I could delegate work to the paralegals and make the big bucks instead of sitting here 10 hours a day, often 7 days a week with swollen legs and an aching back.
i hope you pay your lawyer more than your MTs. lol NM
I would contact a lawyer
Keep all your documentation and contact a lawyer. Good luck! What a low-down scheme - and I think All Type is behind it 100%!
Anybody know a good lawyer?
We need to,like the court reporters did, file a class action lawsuit against these snake oil salesmen who want to jettison our tried and true dictation and transcription mode of medical record keeping. They have every trick in the book to try to convince doctors and hospitals to do VR or EMR and it hasn't turned out very well for them. They spend more time with their nose in the computer for EMR point and click entry than they do with the patient. VR, well don't get me started. Anyway, the court reporters fought voice reporting and won and now they don't use it anymore. We can't just keep sitting here like potted plants. We must do something.
Those are easier to do.
It makes them look good in front of a supervisor who is unaware!
I think they are easier to get, too, sm
but I only worked at MQ for a short while over a year ago. I agree that the atmosphere is better by far, too.
Maybe the best advice your lawyer can give
is to leave well enough alone when these threads start. I have personally witnessed your responses on countless threads on more than just one board, and I am always amazed at how you just don't understand you hurt yourself more than any posting of =rumors= about your company. You say we don't know how you run your business. Well, we know a lot more about it now with your post than we did before, don't we? (psst, so do your competetors) Is that necessarily a good thing? I don't see the CEO of Medquist running around on here trying to imply legal ramifications or trying to help us understand that company's way of conducting business. In 1997 I quit a company where the owner sent out a memo telling employees not to discuss it on the internet. It amazes me that an owner believes s/he has the kind of control over anyone to regulate what the people who work for them think or do OR feel intimidated that your lawyer is going into the Big Brother Business.
For the record, I have never looked into working for your company, am not a former employee/contractor, have no interest in doing any sort of business with you whatsoever. The reason I mention this is because I have mentioned this to you in the past and it continues to fall on deaf ears. You do more harm by what you say than any of the MTs, editors, students, curious onlookers, do here. If you try to hold your head up high and let things be, the reputation of your company could possibly benefit, but then, I don't control what you say, think, feel or do, either.
When I recently contacted a lawyer who represents outsourcing employers about what I thought was a rather intrusive employee handbook with strict verbage about talking about that company in public and even in private email, her response to me was to sign it. She reminded me that it didn't change what I thought, but employers don't like employees/contractors bad mouthing them, and then asked me why I felt it was a big deal. So now I'm going to offer you to think about that from your side. Employees/contractors don't like employers bad mouthing them, and by the way, why is it a big deal for you? Tend to your business and let go of what you can't control.
my 2 cents for what it is worth
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Einstein: Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
They'll be getting a letter from my lawyer...
... if I don't get a check by the end of the week. I already informed her of that. We'll see how easy that is to ignore. She isn't in the US right now or I'd sure be calling her every day, multiple times a day until I saw a check.
It's definitely illegal... call a lawyer and you will see.........sm
There are lawyer who specialize in labor law and they will tell you. Although young people can be ill, this is slanted toward the eldery as far as the bias. And right, you cannot discriminate against someone who is handicapped and I'm sure they have a lot of medical bills. I'm telling you, these companies are in for some trouble!
wrong answer and any lawyer
the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage. If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule. No one knows when the work is available. These companies place work into the system at any given time. It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.
Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us. As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way!
wouldn't her lawyer guide here on that? NM
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This sounds like one of those lawyer commercials --
We know they get easier after a while; the woman would just like
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NP easier to understand....
but they do go on and on and on forever....just can't keep it brief.
That's easier said than done these days. sm
Even the American products are built overseas or have some ties to offshoring.
easier way to calculate
an easier way to calculate is that it is said that typically it takes 3X as long to transcribe so if itis 45 mins, multiply by 3 and divide by 60 to figure out the amount in hours so 45 X 3 = 135, divided by 60 = 2.25 two and a quarter hours.
but it wouldn't be easier for someone who has
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would probably be easier to post the ones who don't
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It was easier when they were babies sm
in the pre-toddler stage. Now that they are preschool/school age, I find it impossible to keep focused on work and them too. I had to resort to working in the evenings when my husband was home so I could not be distracted. Good Luck!
Nothing easier than self deceit?
I was BEGGED by my supervisor to hang in there and flex. Told that things would get better. A bunch of lies. Lies make me angry. Especially lies involving my wallet.
Sorry we aren't all half vulcan and see the world with cold professional logic right along with you. Surprise, some of us get emotional about our paychecks, especially during a recession. But if you're that embarrassed, don't read about it, and hang out with the other vulcans.
If I kicked you in the shin, would remain the picture of diginity and grace, or would you scream because it hurt? You are only a paragon of dignity because you personally has hurt you - yet.
Thats good and great, always consult a lawyer.
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Lawyer alert! Fishing for info!
Looking for biziness??
Uhmmm shouldn't you be consulting your lawyer
Ya know this has taken over the entire company board, and it's not fair. No one can even ask regular questions due to all this mess.
I was thinking it might be easier to figure out
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LOL. Perhaps I should stick with MQ--easier to spell...sm
Thank you, me, for the info in your previous posts.
Faster, easier, and more reliable than Autocorrect.
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Is there an easier way to find out if companies offshore?
I have worked for 3 companies that all offshored and were absolutely not forthcoming about it upfront. I never want to work for one again. Is there a list somewhere or am I banging my head on the wall. Again.
Dictaphone EXT or Chartscript-Which do you think is an easier platform.
I have worked on Dicatphone and thought that system was fairly easy to learn. How does Chartscript compare to that platform and production wise. thanks
as the poster below says, clinic work is not easier
I work for a large multispecialty clinic, general surgery - transcribe rotator cuff surgery, hernia or breast reconstruction; urology - transcribe the urinary system; orthopedic - joints and bones and muscles, ENT issues, cardiologisy and veins, arteries and valves, dermatology, neurology and nervous system.
MQ speech platform MUCH easier and MT friendly than TT's
Dictatphone Exspeech is just awful !!!! You will see, I guarantee you !!!
DQS is excellent editing platform.
Dermatology typically an easier or more difficult specialty? Thanks. nm
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That always makes it better. I do local to Houston and since I live there, it seems easier
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I do my daily or every couple days after my shift. Much easier (nm)
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I started out in radiology. It's so much easier than acute care.
Never figured out why they separate it from the rest since it's just another specialty. If you can do acute care, you can do radiology, so might as well give it a whirl! Gotta be better than Softscript.
I worked there a long time ago. FInally got paid by going in with a group who got a lawyer. sm
I can't believe they're still in business!
Much easier and better process of doig this, as I worked at a hospital on ExText nm
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IMO, it's just easier to be rude hiding behind the guise of a screen name. The hateful ones here
It's likely that the hostile MTs that constantly spew negative remarks are the same ones who are too passive to speak up for themselves in the real world. They are basically cowards that take crap all day then come here and anonymously take their pinned up frustrations out on everyone else.
I have seen this on many message boards, but for whatever reason, MT Stars is the absolute worst for this. Isolation must be a huge factor. Some of these gals just need to get out once in a while. JMO
Well, call a lawyer then. A good one. You could even get court costs paid by your employer probabl
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Better be glad you got the easier dictators soon, because you're time is coming for the ^^^REAL^^
dictators! Be glad you got off now. I wondered where my better dictators went the last week or so !!!!! Lucky you !!!!!
I can always tell when the TT favorite MT's are off, because I get their dictators -- making it easier for me to get my line count. Yea !
TT is constantly hiring, so the above scenario is a norm.
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