that pays late constantly - lost many good MTs.

• TTS (Transcription, technology, support) - sm
  • TTS - rsky
    • Merry Merry for Disgruntled Employees - Current TTSer
    • that pays late constantly - lost many good MTs. - It is CTS (Central Transcription Service)
    • Sorry ... the pay late thing was meant for Proveros, and even then I have no sm - LTMT
    • I was offered less than 7cpl this year with 10+ yrs experience. - nm
  • She's their recruiter. That place.... don't get me started. - yes. she is.
    • I do not know anything about the company, but did read posts that they paid late. sm - ltmt
  • I thought she was Proveros -- no? That's what she told me a few months ago. sm - LTMT
    • if you want to work for super below industry standard - go for it. - horrible pay. horrible company.
    • When the low pay adds up to over - Anonomiss
      • Are you the mighty fast one who works for .07 cpl? - sm
        • Read my post, it says- over 20 - Anonomiss
          • If you like it, I love it. - sm
            • The count varies, but today - Anonomiss
              • Right ***. So, let's say you do type - 500 lines an hour on a slow
                • Now I know just where you lack - in - Anonomiss
      • or maybe you can't ADD. Liar. $20.00 in your dreams! - ha!
        • The pay scale is less for employees. sm - MEMT
          • Is that the only option, though? How about great accounts at 10 cpl? :-) nm - LTMT
            • ahhhhh, wouldn't that be nice? sm - MEMT
              • I understand. I am not one of those who think anyone happy in their job sm - LTMT
          • do not believe anything the lying management posts. They are insane and ridiculous. - liar
            • give me a break - rsky
              • "becausse" is high standards? nice. typical of the caliber of MTs they have. - puh-leez
                • are you the spelling police? - rsky
        • My wages are more than that - Anonomiss
          • I am not slow, and there is no reason to attack me. Simple math says that if you sm - LTMT
    • oops .. was supposed to be was with, not that she was the whole company! lol nm - LTMT

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Who knows how many offshore MTs they have at their training center.

to wake up and smell the coffee.  They have already lost many of their very good MTs and editors.  If they keep on going the way they are now, they will lose accounts. 

I just want to comment about the AAMT selection of employer of the year.  I did not know how the winner of the award was chosen, and I'm not saying management would send in those forms for themselves, BUT I highly doubt that anyone who works at Medware would send in a nomination on their behalf these days. 

Curious

Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

Thanks for the laugh!

at how MW can make such a good impression on new employees, but then they are good at doing that. you have not worked for these people long enough to see how they really are, obviously!

Those who have work probably work other than a day shift and M-F.  There are definitely too MT's on day shift and weekdays.  I hate working weekends and nights, too, but sometimes that is when the work is there at Transtech.

This profession is just going down, down, down hill . . .

the old faithful MT's are left with the yuk so that the new MT's can be training on the not-so-yuky dictators, then comes along another MT to train, and on and on the cycle goes.

The company I am with stated 35 percent ESL's, but that is totally impossible, unless I am getting the whole 65 percent ESL's. There just does not seem to be any consistency with regards to work flow in pools. That is what I have observed. I guess I should get my own doctors/accounts in order to make that happen, right?