one of MANY reasons, in addition to living expense,
Posted By: that many MTSO's discrimination against Califor on 2009-05-30
In Reply to: I am not a lawyer but I wonder - fatcat
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I don't get it, at the expense of another person?
who?
labor is not the only expense
an MT company has so your figures, while interesting, don't show the whole picture.
Seems like a whole lotta trouble and expense
'prove a point', when their chances of proving anything at all that could win them their case are slim to none.
Win or lose, can you imagine what the other employees of this nasty bunch must be thinking?
I can almost hear all those splashes from all those who will jump ship.
A company would not go through the expense and time of hiring you only to not
contact you. This smells fishy. It is not the first time you have said this but it does not sound right.
It depends. If they invested in the the time and expense to hire you, sm
to train you, ship you equipment, set up your software etc. and you did not give it a fair chance (at the very least 2 weeks) before quitting, I'd say they'd be extremely gracious to even consider taking you back.
If you worked for them for awhile and gave the platform and the company a fair trial, and then ended up leaving, then yes perhaps they might hire you back.
All you can do is ask. JMHO.
Says medical and business expense benefits (whatever that means).
Company equipment provided. F/T and PT, then apply on line.
You call paying your own taxes, medical expense,
no paid vacation or sick pay a decent job?
If there is a way Spheris can make a dollar at the trans expense, they will find it.
nm
In addition (sm)
TRS is one of the worst companies for scheduling -- they expect you in your seat, emailing if you leave it for 15 minutes (and the emails go to all your coworkers, not just your supv). Supposedly there is a 12-hour window in which to do one's 8 hours, but this varies by account: my friend's account required a very strict 8-hour shift with no variations, but there was never enough work, so she ended up working 12 hours to make her line counts. Frequent platform crashes also impacted her work flow.
But don't you think in addition to
the fines the employer pays, the IC will have to go back and re-file all past tax returns? There are going to be implications for taxes on both parties. You have to file a form SS-8 with the IRS about why YOU think YOU are an employee and not an IC. It is done on a case-by-case basis and you have to sign the form. The MTSO will then have to respond to the inquiry and the IRS may or MAY NOT think the IC is an employee. Either way, you are without a job.
In addition, they want to do an 'FBI'
I think this is ludicrous. All of that paperwork so they can check into every little detail of your past so you can work in your house. I said forget it.
Addition to resume
Hi Mari,
Well said! I'm going to include your first paragraph on mine and see what they think!
Wow, in addition to your check?
That sounds like a sweet deal.
I have a question in addition to the OP's
I'm thinking about purchasing Stedman's spellchecker. Does anyone else use their personal spellchecker with Bayscribe. If so, does it work well with it and which one do you use?
I'm also thinking about purchasing my own personal Expander at the same time. I'm looking at InstaText. Any comments on it?
To the OP: All transitions are uncomfortable at first, but don't give up. I've only been with them a couple of months, but I like it. As for getting my line counts, I'm up to 1000 lines a day. It takes me a little longer than it did at my other job - but my other job used voice recognition, which helped a lot but paid less. I'm also doublechecking my reports before I send them in because I was told the account I'm on is scrutinized very closely. As I said above, I'm looking into my own expander and spellcheck software. I've had a few spelling errors that the spellcheck didn't catch. But at least you can add those in the expander to spell correctly. The people at the company are great and QA staff is wonderful. They treat like humans, not machines or numbers. Good luck. Feel free to email me if you want.
Wonderful addition -sm
Thank you for adding it to the list. The two of you need to represent all of us. How about forming a union? I'll join. Just tell me when and where to sign up. Thanks again!! 
Agree 200%!! In addition,---sm
Exploitation is nothing new in the home MT business, but I think that since our economy has taken such a nosedive recently, a lot of companies are using this to their advantage and pushing it to the limit. Their attitude is, LUCKY YOU HAVE A JOB, SO LIKE IT OR LUMP IT. My response to them would be, AND YOU'RE JUST AS LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB (TO THE MTSOs) AS WE ARE. Would the companies have been able to push this VR fiasco on us before, before the market took a nosedive? I doubt it, but they thrive on the desperation of many MTs who have no other options at this point.
Any relationship, busines or personal, thrives on old-fashioned give-and-take. MTSOs need to realize they can't just TAKE and TAKE and TAKE and TAKE indefinitely. 
In addition you forgot to mention...sm
that the sky is falling and we'll all lose our jobs fears were prevalent back when PCs were introduced, and we're all still working. With the government requiring more and more documentation to be made electronically there's still a ton of work to be done and no VR system is going to have it perfect, ever.
In addition to that I wonder if test files
are not a way to get some transcription done. Some of the testing is so long. I've had where the company will send practically a whole day's worth of work for testing purposes.
In addition, all kinds of innuendos .sm
by them (i.e., sexual; suicide, etc) before any sort of investigation, autopsy, or in short, before they know the facts.
Hats off to his brother, Keith, for demanding an FBI investigation.
Do you mean in addition to your reg Friday work? When do they give it to you?
nm
TransTech does - Hourly in addition to line rate
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That would be an extra 50 to 100 dollars in addition to lines and a half. nm
nm
I currently do this kind of work in addition to my medical accounts...sm
The rate seems pretty low, at least compared to what I make, and I can tell you from my experience with this type of work, it is very tedious. Expanders aren't nearly as helpful as in medical transcription, so it's pretty much straight typing. On the other hand it is a nice change of pace from the medical aspect, but for what they want to pay, probably best suited to a newbie.
yeah, but wouldn't you really like your holidays paid in addition to PTO? sheeeesh
xx
TransHealth has 6 paid holidays in addition to PTO and sick pay for fulltimers. nm
in addition, while the office staff are partying, visiting with each, breaking whenever they want to
with pay, we are struggling to pound those cold keys with our cold fingers with our break drinks, meals at our desk . . . no time to take off due to no pay for any time taking off for a break or lunch. We are grabbing all the work we can get now before another MT gets it, as our paychecks continue to dwindle due to VR/ASR and leads and others taking the easier dictators from us (those who have ever transcribed a word in their life) and passing all the other down to the piecemeal worker, the MT.
Several reasons
They don't pay extra to work on holidays. There is no shift differential. They send the good jobs to India. You have to work like a horse to make any money. They can't keep a QA manager. I don't know what all is up but didn't stick around to find out. I'll stop at that.
I think you are right. I think there are other reasons, as well. SM
I think they see MTs with loads of experience and they just get it in their heads to show them up. I do agree. If it is a great job, stick with it, smile and write happy happy e-mails. They don't hear what we mutter under our breaths!
Maybe she is here for other reasons such as
keeping up on the industry, seeing what other companies do right or wrong, seeing what the hot topics are in MT-World, learning about new technology.
Give me a break. I have no idea who this woman is but as someone who has been falsely accused of the same thing in the past, I feel for her.
There is so much ugliness and pettiness and overall negativity on this board that the reasons for reading it have changed for me. I now read it like looking at gossip rags in line at the grocery store ... interesting and entertaining but probably less than 10% true.
That is one of the reasons I'm still SM
where I am. The operative reports usually go to people who have been there a while. I know, because I had to work my way up and it wasn't easy.
Some companies might hire you for just ops, but there are some like yourself, who don't want to do anything else and don't like sharing! :)
My concession is doing preops. Then I do the same patient's op report!
Ask to try that, ops plus preops, maybe H&P. Just as long as no discharge summaries.
Yes, you are right, mainly for tax reasons if you are an IC nm
XX
Same here for the same reasons..sm
Hands down I prefer a small MTSO. I can actually earn a real paycheck with a small MTSO. Same reasons. No large pools. These are ridiculous. How in haytees do they expect us to keep up? Good luck! :) No much in way of bennies, but I learned a long time ago you can do just as well with your independent health insurance. THis was my case anyway.
Two reasons.
1. I'm sure Linda would appreciate you not sharing her client information, not that I give a hoot about what she thinks really.
2. It is against the TOS of this site to do so.
A few reasons....
First and foremost lack of work consistently. I know that everyone is slow now, blah, blah. But this isn't the only time it has happened. Then, the fact that they are hiring currently is annoying. My supe constantly puts OT out for my account and just can't seem to understand why the next week we have no work! Finally, I have asked more than 4 times for a secondary and have yet to get one. I am told that I will get one of these new accounts coming on everytime, and then the time comes and I don't get that as my secondary. Since my primary is one of the company's biggest - they don't like to give many of us secondaries so we can concentrate just on the primary! However, my options of other companies are limited. I need a company to provide a computer and has semi-flexible schedules. A sign-on bonus would be nice too!
Three reasons
1. Most of their MTs are newbies. They have a newbie mentoring program.
2. They skim nearly 20% off line counts to allow for headers regardless of header size. You can type for a full 8 hours and barely break 1000 sometimes.
3. With their new holiday policies and management and QA revolving door, the MTs are a revolving door as well and they are doing everything in their power to entice new MTs. When 2 managers and 1 trainer go back to MTing in a matter of months there is a problem.
Add this to my reasons s/m
for getting out of the MT business. They do not like for the MTs to communicate. Wonder why that is? We're suppose to be team players but we don't know what team we're on much less who our team mates are.
Two reasons ...
When I started with them, I was not given a schedule. I was not asked to work a schedule. It's just been in the past month that I've been told that we are expected to be available on the computer from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
If I am not available and/or I am not frequently turning in reports during that time, I get telephone calls or incessant IM messages.
As you can understand, this is thoroughly irritating - especially when I have believed ALL ALONG that MY TIME IS MY TIME.
Secondly, I knew NOTHING about any of the other IC qualifiers until last Friday when I was doing research. I had, ignorantly, gone by the things people said on the board (that a contract meant that what they were doing was legal, that the only thing that you need to do to qualify as an IC is to work your own hours and schedule, and that things like working on their software doesn't count).
The IRS can question me all they want. Those are all legitimate reasons ... plus one more.
No doubt the IRS takes into account the courage it takes to expose something like this. No doubt, they're happier that you do it than that you just decided to stay scared and quiet.
Please, feel free to ask more. I feel 100% justified in what I'm doing. And if I don't do it now, no one ever will.
And laws will continue to be broken, and our wages will continue to fall or stagnate, and our profession will continue - unimpeded - to go down the toilet.
Not that I think I'm going to save MT. Haha. But at least I'll have gone out fighting for fairness.
Two reasons ...
When I started with them, I was not given a schedule. I was not asked to work a schedule. It's just been in the past month that I've been told that we are expected to be available on the computer from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
If I am not available and/or I am not frequently turning in reports during that time, I get telephone calls or incessant IM messages.
As you can understand, this is thoroughly irritating - especially when I have believed ALL ALONG that MY TIME IS MY TIME.
Secondly, I knew NOTHING about any of the other IC qualifiers until last Friday when I was doing research. I had, ignorantly, gone by the things people said on the board (that a contract meant that what they were doing was legal, that the only thing that you need to do to qualify as an IC is to work whenever you want, and that things like working on their software doesn't count).
The IRS can question me all they want. Those are all legitimate reasons ... plus one more.
No doubt the IRS takes into account the courage it takes to expose something like this. No doubt, they're happier that you do it than if you just decided to stay scared and quiet.
Please, feel free to ask more. I feel 100% justified in what I'm doing. And if I don't do it now, no one ever will.
And laws will continue to be broken, and our wages will continue to fall or stagnate, and our profession will continue - unimpeded - to go down the toilet.
Not that I think I'm going to save MT. Ha. But at least I'll have gone out fighting for fairness.
Isn't that what we do for a living?
That's why keyboards were invented.
I always get a card and for other reasons other than
work reasons, not even gotten that one yet.
Many reasons why there may not be work in QA is because
there are difficult dictators and the MTs are struggling with reports. I feel really lucky that in our system you can actually go in and see how much work is being transcribed by the MT so you do know that work is being done. QA HAS TO BE THERE for when the MT is finished because in more cases than not, the work goes through QA (our clients do not want blanks). It is valuable time not to just the MTSO but to the QA in the respect that those reports have to go to the hospital when QA is done. Luckily, a good MTSO knows that and I work for a good MTSO. We are not overstaffed with QA either, usually one per shift so the workload is on me so yes, if it takes the MT longer to do the reports, sometimes you sit for a while with no work in front of you and the service pays you for that. Believe it or not, that is part of the job and you should be paid for it. Employees have a schedule and I count on that schedule as they count on me. That's my bread and butter and the service's bread and butter also. It does not happen often, but it can and does happen some so it definitely is worth their while to pay that tiny bit it costs them rather than pay penalties.
i am one and have stated my reasons why
this board is mainly for complainers.
if any poster has something good to say about a company, they are practically dismembered by angry mobs of posters.
who even knows how many actually DIFFERENT posters there are? who cares?! lol
i don't see a union ever for MT work. i see aamt watering down their own organization.
i doubt a cmt certification would help much at all, just do it for personal satisfaction.
this field will never be regulated so it won't matter.
jmho
Several reasons to avoid them
You start out great but after a while you may get bounced around on different accounts because they cherry pick to the MTs they like and you get left with harder work.
The owners are paranoid someone might say something negative about them. Ask them about their employee handbook and its contents. You cannot participate in organizing or join an MT union. You cannot communicate anything at all about them either in private email or pubically without the written consent of one of the owners.
You will get bombarded with emails to get work caught up and then even if you are a good producer, you will get the emails that chastise everyone for not being good workers.
QA is arbitrary and you may have to prove you did the right thing when you get your monthly score by providing them copies of their own emails. Of course this makes you look bad and you will be punished for standing up for yourself.
Your mileage may vary.
I can give you a lot of reasons NOT to
I worked for them as an IC for nearly a year, on a newly acquired VERY LARGE account. I very rarely had the same dictator twice, very heavy ESL, and if you don't mind getting about 20 e-mail messages a day ... some contradicting each other from a million different workleaders - go for it! I've been in this business 15+ years and left MQ to go to Transcend - they both stink. Transcend has more work, but just as disorganized as MQ. Keep looking - there are better out there. I'm working IC now for two different MTSOs and love it. Transcend cut a whole bunch of ICs with no notice, nothing - just made their IDs invalid so in essence, they went from working FT one day, to not working at all the next day. TERRIBLE way to do business. Keep looking, this is NOT a good company to work for.
A couple reasons
Their VR software isn't as good as eScription, which is what I really like. It doesn't put in any punctuation unless the doctor dictates it. While you train, you get 2 cpl with a max pay between 3 and 4 cpl after training. It sounded way too labor intensive for that pay.
All the reasons I moved on
Gotta eat and like to actually get in touch with people.
This is one of the reasons I went back
and right away online companies want to know everything about you, all of your identity info. and personal history, where you live and you know nothing about them or even if they are honest enough to pay you. You aren't protected in cyberspace.
good luck with getting your money back.
one of the reasons why I left
nm
Six reasons why I love OSi...
1. I love working and being told by my manager to not record my hours. (Overtime is not approved, but please work extra!!)
2. I love being called on my days off.
3. I love being smarter and having more experience in this field than my managers.
4. I love doing QA reviews on the emails from the QA dept.
5. I love requesting a schedule change, having it approved, and then getting screamed at for not working as scheduled.
6. Best of all, now that I don't work there anymore (been gone for 3 mos!) I love the phone calls I still get wondering why I am not working when I am on the schedule. Hey, at least I get a good laugh every once in a while.
Reasons to NOT be grateful
1. No longer treated as professionals.
2. Just got offered 14.00 to 16.00 per hour to write a transcription training program for company in India. (yea, for that amount... it is not going to happen).
3. I truly feel SOME MTs do not take the work as seriously as it was several years ago so therefore the more need for QA (added cost for companies)
4. People that work at home do not work the schedule they agree to. (this is a job).
5. I can't be grateful for not having to purchase clothes for work. I still have to have clothing to wear and that same clothing is what I can work in.
6. More and nmore people look at this job as a way to take care of young children at home. i.e avoid the cost of daycare, etc. Please!! It is still a job!! You have to work!
7. Absolute thing worst about working at home..... there is no difference from being at work and at home.
Sorry for the typos, but I am so tired of seeing/reading how great it is to work from home. It would be great if people took it seriously, but they do not!
5.
Do not work for them...here are the reasons why..sm
I worked for them a few years back and at this time, Christmas, three paydays in a row (all direct deposit too) did not come through. They knew about it before it happened, let checks bounce (which they did pay for) but still did not have the courage to tell any employee until they asked about their missing check. Three times in a row at Christmas! Plus, they had horrible supervisors that were so nosey and started trouble between employees all of the time. They had lost several really good accounts too. They are very unprofessional, like you said. Do not waste your time and effort with them.
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