reading below only 1 with negatives for offshoring...
Posted By: mt4me on 2008-03-14
In Reply to: I do believe they all moved now. - NM.
either that is your company or you've been away a while.
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MQ & MDI NEGATIVES
I'm just curious why both MDI-FL and MQ get so many negative posts on this board versus the rest of the companies out there? Is it because these two companies are so large so there are more employees to complain, or is it because they are really just very bad companies to work for?
I'm considering both companies, but see all of the posts on this board and am a little nervous about making a change.
MQ negatives
And ya know what? For all the so-called "perks" of working for MQ, what did MTs get MT week? Oh, yeah, a chapstick attached to a key ring. Who knows, next year Frank will pass out dog turds wrapped in pretty red ribbons, and there will still be MTs who say MQ was thoughtful, and we're all ungrateful. Oh, well.
wow, that's a lot of negatives...
in your paragraph itself for me. You could try, but I think I would try for something else in the meantime. That's a lot to be concerned about.
despite the heavy negatives
i vote MQ; tried a couple smaller companies -- but when you roll into the mix all the various factors, its my choice place to be. and furthermore, its my family's sole income and as a FT employee -- i'm not even worried about the lawsuits and all. The company is constantly improving. There are no signs of sell-out or collapse, only of strength.
2 negatives for Amphion down below under the
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I might add...no matter what negatives are on here TT is best out there bar none! nm
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About 99% negatives are a definite indicator
That place is a nightmare.
There are lots more negatives than 1 or 2, starting with
they offshore.
What are the negatives of TransHealth, Medware, &
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Any negatives to report on Mediscript out of FL?
:-)
I see so many negatives about KS acute care...sm
 what about the RAD accounts? I read before that they had good RAD accounts, but do they actually train you or do you just jump right in and make your production? I am waiting for my interview from the recruiter who came back from a trip a couple of days ago. Any info appreciated!
Although I've seen many negatives on this board, I'm very
happy at JLG. Not having DD is the only negative I can think of.
Transcend Services Positives and Negatives
Positives and negatives?
Um, read the boards? Lots of negatives about them lately. nm
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There are not very many negatives, it is just that those of us with positive experiences at ANY comp
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The many negatives? You're the only one I've seen bash it. Not every place is for everyone.
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Negatives, no benefits, have to provide your own long distance, (sm)
internet platform for file transfer but audio is through phone line so you have to either rent or provide your own C-phone. Pros 24 hours to get lines done each day but do have to work 2 weekend days a month and provide a schedule 2 months in advance. Have heard several accounts are heavily loaded with ESLs. You work as statuatory, therefore, file your own taxes.
If you have experience & can get past the negatives, SmartMed uses dial-up & has an ad at top
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Is anyone happy at OSI in Douglasville, GA? Lots of negatives in archives - SM
but I also remember reading some positive comments. I am a CMT with 30 years of experience, and I need employee status with good, affordable health insurance. I so wish I could fine some place where I can stay until I retire, or at least a long, long time!
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"!
You are reading about another
company .. MSI and MDI are not the same company. I have been working there for over a year and have never seen a bad post about this company. My checks are direct deposit and always on time and correct and this is strictly clinic and radiology,.not acute care. Florida is home to MDI and MedScribe also and neither of these companies ever get very good reviews here. There is another MediScript in another state as well .. but not this company. I have been pretty happy here.
That's not what I am reading at all.
I think it's just if you set a schedule and your supervisor agrees to it, then you have to stick with it.
What I don't get is how we are supposed to work hours and also know how many lines or minutes we'll get done. I am not used to thinking in terms of working hourly. I can guesstimate how many hours to say I will work, but it won't be exact. I bet it was a suit who came up with that idea.
OSI not for me after reading all the
posts below. I tested 3 weeks ago and never heard a word until yesterday, when I received an email stating they were not hiring at this time. Good reason why! Looks like OSi goes down in the crap book with the rest of the MT companies just like them. It wasn't too long ago that I read they were really great to work for. What happens to these places in such a short period of time? Glad I accepted a good job with another MT company and did not sit around waiting to hear that they weren't hiring at this time. Why didn't they wait longer to tell me? Good grief!
I am not sure, but reading some of the --sm
above posts, it looks like MW was bought out by SPI, or vice versa. perhaps that is the *other name* the SS department was seeing. I still wish you luck though.
then why are you reading and sm
responding to my posts. I guess your posts are so interesting no one can resist?
seems I am reading this more and more, no pay
She can google.com
The name of her particular state name plus labor department or department of labor.
Can look in phone book for legal aid assistance or again, google.com her state, maybe country too and key in legal aid assistance.
This is bad. Since she is owed about $1000, they cannot honestly say the work was not acceptable and thus, no pay, this much money is not accumulated overnnight. They would have to know her quality/expertise so-o-o-o. If it was not acceptable, they would not have let it continue (SEE) I would get on it, Keep the board posted.
This is the second one this week I have given suggestions. With legal aid, she would provide the company name, phone, fax, email, name to contact. Maybe can print out the home page of the company (from google.com) Explain the circumstances, if you have kept a log of daily work, make a copy and provide this, any other type of paper work, employment sign up paperwork. They will do the contacting for you, the labor department or legal aid. I would contact both myself. or .
I cannot believe what I am reading here,
I quote from your post
'I also have a side business where I deal with the Mayor, City Council, and various others in government and they all write like me too!'
What kind of mayor, city council or govermment is this ??
Using correct grammar and spelling is 'pettiness' for you?
Where are you from?
I stop now.
Just my own reading
It lists the closing date as 08/31/2009 and since it reads at closing or shortly following, it can be at any time now. My first guess would be support staff as there would be a lot of duplication of services...IT/tech support in particular comes to mind. I don't know that they'll actually fire MTs....doesn't look good for the can't get qualified MTs here on US shores if it comes out they fired their highest producers.
Think you are reading in more than there
Defensive? About what? I only stated what goes on where I work and I said why would a place send the good out and keep the worst? I could only wish that would happen, especially with the ones I did yesterday. I think with the onslaught of all the ESLs we have now that people perceive we get the worst. If I worked Monday through Friday the dictation is like berries and cream and then comes the dreaded weekend and all the ESLs show up. I thought perhaps the ESLs might be low on the totem pole when it came to seniority and perhaps that is why so many dictated then. (Just my thoughts, could be wrong). As far as I know all the dictators at the place I work are on VR, no matter how bad they sound. Only straight I do is with interns and if they stayed longer than a month, they probably would be put on also. The person asked for opinions and I gave mine.
After reading the below notes sm
After the below notes, along with things posted here in the past, I'm truly beginning to believe it has something to do with who is your supervisor/QA. I have been there for a number of years, have been very happy and still am; however, I have heard a few things about other supervisors that makes me believe I am one of the lucky ones. Sad, but I believe it is true. I believe Amphion's management reads these posts once in a while. Maybe they'll give this some thought.
Let me just add to my own post, on re-reading it.
Mind you, I spent many, many nights - as I work graveyard shift - usually with a baby nearby - sobbing my eyes out over the injustice of it. I had to work for the most unfair MTSOs ever on the face of the earth! But I still stuck it out - wouldn't give them the satisfaction of knowing I cared. Because they DO know they are doing it to the unfavorite MTs - its part of the big game - like being in a popular clique in school. But down the pike, so to speak, I am so glad I stuck it out because I can literally type anything and hear any dialect or accent - ANYTHING. I can hear the King of Garbage perfectly and fly thru it! So, yes, it was a horrible painful experience, and my heart goes out to you.
After reading everything posted here, it
that did not endorse or encourage offshoring but finally accepted that it was here to stay, then taught the Indians how to have their own web page, then began to charge people subscriptions to the web page.
The only difference I see since the Embracing Offshore declaration is an upgraded web site with an increase in paid ads from MTSOs who offshore (i.e., more revenue to the web site), a post here and there defending those same MTSOs in various threads by asking us to understand their pay structures, a sporadic reference to webmaster (denoting the site is being monitored more and treated more like a business) and an far greater tolerance for newbies asking questions (perhaps to help those MTSOs grow some acceptable newbies to hire or fill in the gap those companies QA staff can't provide individual attention to?)
Think about the whole overtone of the board and the posts. It has become an MTSO board. I'm sure if I were an MTSO of US MTs only and I was supplementing my income with a website, at some point I would need my website to be my main source of income as opposed to that from transcription.
Deja vu all over again from the mid 90s.
I'm sure they are reading as we type. sm
But I'd definitely let them know that we aren't taking it lying down. I was going to email Dennis myself today.
They are too nosy. You know they are on here searching for their names.
I hope they are reading this!
I would not doubt if I am layoffed earlier than July 7th! That would be another story.
I am emailing everyone people have mentioned on this board and also Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, the list goes on.
after reading many posts sm
on this board, it seems to be the ole bait and switch routine that these companies are pulling. I feel your frustration.
Or reading their audits, bad MT's!!!
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DUH...my fault for not reading
the ad in detail. At the bottom it states they are a private company not associated larger one of similar name.
I have been reading ALL of these posts--sm
concerning KS, and I have seen one consistent trend. It is mostly just ONE person posting negatively about KS and that one person, from her own posts, admits that she could not cut the mustard with KS. Sounds very much like sour grapes to me..but then, that is just my opinion. Ignore her. She is just looking to cause strife.
So - I'm reading a TransTech ad for MTs, and - (sm)
in their list of perks, one of them is hybrid vehicle reimbursement. My question is, if the MTs are working at home, not driving to work and not driving around to pick up tapes, why would it matter what kind of vehicle they drive?
In reading some of their posts...
It seems that people have been abandoning jobs because they are either unfamiliar with those reports or don't like the dictator, etc., and an E-mail went out that they are monitoring the system and watching for people who commit this company no- no. If caught, big time trouble lies ahead. This comes from a recent E-mail from management. Too many people are doing this, and they are finally cracking down. I am assuming this is what the poster is referring to.
You are wrong in how you are reading this. sm
You still get vacation; it is still paid at your hourly (production) rate. This bonus plan actually gives you one week to make incentive; the week you are on vacation, you won't.
After reading most of the posts
below about MQ, I would just like to say that Katie is an exception at MQ. I have been there for quite some time and I'd have to agree with most of what mtroadie said in her original post to Katie. Things are not straight across the board at this company. Many, myself included, were never given the opportunity not to do ASR. Most of us don't make top dollar and are just struggling to get by. Katie should consider herself very lucky, but I doubt she will as she seems to enjoy flaunting her exceptions to others when I'm sure she's well aware of the differences. Shame on her for not telling you the truth!!!
I'm in tears reading this (sm)
I work my fingers to the bone. I work day and night, haven't had a day off in 3 weeks and I make $2000 a month for my efforts. I've got experience like you wouldn't believe but can't find a company willing to pay for it.
I'm about ready to stick my head in my oven. **sigh**
What I am also reading in her posts sm
is that SHE needs the externship to be online. I don't think the school is requiring that. I don't know of any companies that even offer an externship. She would have an easier time getting one from a local small service.
It may be that she has a situation, like a job during the day or her children (if she has any) that prevents her from going to an office to complete the externship, but I would think that if it's required to graduate she has known that from the time she began the program. If it were me, I certainly would have been scouting this out long before this to see what my options were and if I had to go into an office to complete it, I'd have ample time to make whatever arrangements were needed to complete it.
After reading all the posts here and above seems like
this company may just have a dishonest streak. I would say be careful and take another look at your IC job...Good luck to you!
LOL - In reading the old posts it seems
Sorry if I don't share your enthusiasm but you said the same thing last time and the invoice never arrived, nor did the direct deposit. How much do they pay you to field the questions? The transcription director (who by the way I bet is about 12 years old judging by her vocabulary) might consider worrying about payroll and not sending out cute pictures and email forwards. I agree with the other poster - too much of this and is very unprofessional. 
You're reading too much into it. sm
I have been one of the people on the account you are talking about. They dictate 1400-1500 lines per day before 5 p.m. and then sometimes later, which is what we will cover.
As for the person that has 4 PT'ers. Email me and I will help. I am a lead on 3 rad accounts and we are working on making the schedules all full time with part-timers just filling the spots that are left over from full-timers. There are VERY few KS rad accounts that only have 2 radiologists; most have 10+, some even 30+. If it is overstaffed, it is because someone was not doing what they were supposed to and they added extra people. It probably just stayed that way without anyone realizing. If no one says anything, we cannot fix the issue.
Perhaps reading is not one of your accomplishments
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Reading your post
I have been on three contracts at 3 different hospitals who put VR in their Radiology Depts. I have to say I agree with you that it is much more than babysitting to get those reports out accurately and in a timely manner. It is easy to think you are just reading along, which in some ways you are, but you also have to be thinking along with the reading. Just as if you are transcribing it you have to know what the terminology means, when something does not sound/cannot possibly be right. Then you have to figure out why the VR threw the lean mean machine in the middle of the report. LOL....Some of the stuff I have seen in the reports could rival the best stand-up comics. VR babysitting is not for everyone, if you have a tendency to fall asleep easily, it is probably not for you. If you have a tendency to not have a sense of humor, it is probably not for you. If you have a tendency to get upset at stupid stuff, it is probably not for you. I agree it is light years away from replacing accurate transcription. Just my humble experience at three different hospitals.
From what I remember reading,
Transcend has 1000 US based and 600 overseas MTs. I would say that is a lot.
Reading down through your postings
You said you learned acute care but then said you had trouble with other specialities? I hate to tell you but acute care about covers it all. I do acute and have worked over the years from everything from a neurologist to oncologist, every type I do in acute care. I really am not picking up much in reading that shows you have much experience in transcription work. You are not straight forward in saying what background you have. You also said you would not work for poorly run companies- yet you said you were paid cash or off the books. Pray tell, what kind of company does that? Sounds like the poorest of the poor run companies to me. You said you worked in market research. That sounds like nothing relating to transcription work which means basically no experience there. Someone here asked you to post experience. I think they want you to post TRANSCRIPTION experience because from reading your posts I really find nothing. That might be why you are failing the tests. So, really, put down in black and white here..... what type of training did you have at Career Step and what type of medical transcription have you done? Your story has a lot of holes in it.
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