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the horse has already left the barn nm

Posted By: once the lightening has struck on 2007-12-17
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    Yup - horse i out of the barn, that's for sure.
    ,
    NOW it is time to close the barn door???
    They are falling like a house of cards! What else can we expect? We put our faith in some people who had no idea what direction to take. Most of them were at the end of their careers to boot and, in my opinion, not really motivated to do a lot of real good. Their major concern seemed to be flying all over the country spreading gossip on the dues money I was paying them and accomplishing NOTHING. Is offshoring their fault entirely? No, but what did they do to prevent it until very recently? I gave up my membership and CMT 4 years ago. Good riddance!
    getting off the original subject, but bet they'd feel right at home in the barn. NM
    x
    I do not see you on any horse either

    You have a right to your opinion and I respect you for it.  You said what others want to say, but do not want to be criticized for saying.


    This was from the horse's mouth.
    Perhaps you need to get a new horse.

    Remember the packet changes are effective January 1, not today.

    It's unfortunate you aren't being paid for downtime. I was paid several times for 40 hours, when my hours fell short.

    I see the packet as MQs move to finally consolidate EVERYONE onto the same plan of management so this ridiculous "but my office says and it's true" stuff can stop.
    The horse's mouth would be
    The Administrator can only go by what she is told by the company directly or an MT has to produce proof that they offshore before she prevents them from posting on this board.
    High horse
    You make some good points but the vast majority of MTs don't apply to your condescending e-mail.  Glad I don't work for you.  You find some poor employees in any industry, and the few bad apples in the MT business are not the reason work is being sent overseas where the work is even worse quality (but done with a smile - I give you that).  Whatever - I will just be glad when this post has moved on to another page. 
    Come down off our high horse

    I used to have excellent credit too until my husband lost his job and I had surgeries 9 months apart. There are circumstances that do cause people to lose their credit.


    Maybe some bad luck should hit you and then you would understand how some of us feel!!!!


    Come Down Off Your High Horse!!!

    It sounds like you have spent too much time at the beach listening to the waves and in the sun as your brain is fried.  Who do you think you are talking to anyone this way??? 


    I have a good job, make good money and I always have work but your attitude is just right down horrible.   


    Since you don't spend much time here, I think you should just probably stay totally away if this is the kind of attitude you bring when you do decide to be here.


    I don't see you on a high horse...sm
    I agree with you 200%
    Get off your high horse already

    I have researched anything and everything I have ever delved into thoroughly before jumping on it.  If a newbie jumps right in without researching first, it is their own dang fault.  Geez. 


    You are on a very high horse
    Might want to come on down and sit in the horse stuff with the looser MTs....waaaah
    from the horse's mouth
    Per company e-mail from Transcend CEO, the merge is with Transcription Relief Services.
    No? The horse is at the glue
    nm
    Well, come down off that high horse
    you seem to be on. Where do you get that Now Let Me Tell You Something. First of all, who are you and what does it matter. You talk like that to your kids, not to another grown person. Sissy, go back to mothering now, ok? More experienced MTs know the 3 day leave for a funeral, newbies seem not to know.
    Has anyone ever left Keystrokes and gone back? I left a few months ago and realize that I made a

    nm


    that horse fromthe packet and
    the Qnet rules. tellher to go lookit up.
    Wow 8 years and already on a high horse? you
    would be a good QA person one day, NOT
    Can lead a horse to water....D&L

    I can understand you're still working for D&L because I too have never been one to jump on the bandwagon.  It is my own mistake not to have abandoned ship on D&L back when all the signs were saying GET OUT NOW!!!  I remained loyal to this company and worked my butt off for them.


    In the end, what did it get me and everyone who stuck around doing what they could?  Nothing except a string of financial crises, ignored calls & emails, empty promises as they dumped their financial dilemma on me and the rest of us.


    D&L still owes me for work done from June-July.  They haven't yet paid their original set of MTs that worked the hospital account.  They lied to us for weeks and suddenly owned up to the situation with the Oh Well email filled with promises of making good on pay.


    ....We are told that the payment will be honored when represented our bank has delayed availability of those funds until Thursday 07/19/07. Once those funds are made available we will immediately issue checks to anyone effected by this situation. We apologize for this unfortunate event and will expedite payments once funds are made available......


    Here it is September 9th already, still no check.


    Sorry to say, but what makes you think they have any intention of making good on YOUR check(s)?


    Seriously, it's in your own best interest to find other employment quickly and not waste another minute working for free or you too shall suffer a financial crisis that will take months to recover from.


    Good luck in your job hunt.


    To quote Donna directly......It is what it is


     


    Watch that first step off the horse. NM
    nm
    Oh, that's horse puckey. The reason they
    offshore is because they want a higher profit margin. You think MTs should now work for minimum wage so the MTSOs can keep their earnings high? No way. The quality in India is AWFUL. You get what you pay for, and hopefully the resulting lawsuits by the patients will make it less cost-effective.
    Beating a dead horse
    Not sure about NOW but they used to hire a lot of people M-F who had to work only 1 weekend per month. I chose to work on a weekend day because of more money but a lot of people that were hired still work M-F and rotate weekends.
    Dead horse is right, Sharon
    These people do not want to listen to reason, do not want reassurance, and quite frankly do want to have to expend the brain cells to LEARN. They'd rather trash the company, VR programs and MTs like us who are successful at it and make good money at it. No point wasting your time or effort.

    I say let 'em go...Sounds like TTs better off without them and I'd hate to think I have co-workers of this mentality.

    Have a nice dinner out...One of the beauties of working for TT (even on VR, lol) is the extra money for the nicer things in life. At least when all of these posters bail we'll have even more work and even more money to enjoy the finer things in life!
    Oh, horse poop, anyone can retire
    I can retire, no big deal about that. Stated the facts, she is retired and she has come here to gab. I don't think she is particularly lucky. I am the age of retirement but choose to work because I want to make double the money. Don'cha think that is smart? I also don't have to worry about working, just do because I want to.
    Beating a dead horse here, but

    If these companies came on here and started naming employees that were bad news, you all would be in a hurry to find a way to make it someone else's fault.


    There must be grounds for the poster to be sued by TT or else a lawyer wouldn't have taken the case.  Who wins?  No one. 


    The poster allegedly being sued came on here to gather up a herd of followers and then closed her thread.  I don't see her posting any longer, do YOU?  But, you are here to defend her?  For what reason?  It makes no sense to me.


    Whoever this person being sued in my OPINION has screwed up this board for the last few days.  It is nothing but fighting and bashing!  That poster is gone with the wind now, probably never to return again and we're all at each other's throats.


    Can we please quit beating this horse; it's dead; deader than a doornail!


     


    It is as simple as filling out a form. I did it when I left an MTSO and when I left sm
    a non-MT position at a company years ago.

    What company? I did not know that any of them offer 401K anymore.
    Funny, been on my *high horse* for 20 years!
    x
    Just a matter of time before she will be off her high horse
    Medware used to be a stable company. I wonder if their advertisement will now say Used to be AAMT company of the year - or Please sign up with us- we will help you be eligible for welfare - or better yet Happy MT week, your job has been phased out.
    Gorgeous horse country right outside of Philly!
    Google areas near New Bolton Medical Center in Pennsy. If country is up your alley, there are lots of great towns. If you like cities, then Philly is for you! Go EAGLES!!
    Get off your high horse and go work your management job...sm
    This is a board for opinions, isn't it?  So don't tell me to get my facts straight.
    That is the biggest bunch of horse puckey ever.
    I DESPISE Escription, I hate it, hate it, hate it and hate VR no matter what the so-called better platform.  It does NOT take me half the time to do a report.  If I can type 250 lph I can edit 350 lph AT BEST.  I DESPISE Escription and all that is associated with it.  Oh and yes, I WOULD LOVE to go back to the old way.  And there are plenty of MTs, we all know that--it's just that the work is going elsewhere to uncivilized third-world countries and the patients have no clue their records are being so jeopardized. 
    Will you kids quit beating that horse???? nm
       
    I give up, it's you beating the dead horse......nm
    nm
    Cannot answer TTS posting below- beating dead horse

    Very strange, never saw where you could not reply to a posting, but the ones below to TTS are just like that. First of all, baloney to all- TTS is a great place to work, been there several years now, they do not bother you and how, pray tell, think about it, can you possible work at your own home and have someone miles away KNOWING when you take a bathroom break, get a glass of water - that is unless you had been gone for a longgggggggg time. Who is trying to post and pull someone's leg? I think the board has been hijacked.


    Alright, no sense in beating a dead horse so
    know what I am able to do and sorry you all are faced with something apparently lots are resistant to. I am leaving for the evening to have a nice dinner out.
    Oh dear goddess, climb off of your high horse...
    I've been doing this 20 years, half of that from home. If YOU don't feel the need to be appreciated ONCE A YEAR, then you're name says it all, ma'am....

    You HAVE been an MT far TOO LONG.

    *Laughing at your post and superiority complex*
    The automobile put the horse and buggy drivers out of work...
    that doesn't mean the car was a bad thing! EMR technology WORKS efficiently (I am speaking now of direct input by the provider, not VR or offshoring...those still suck) and it puts the accountability for accuracy where it belongs, with the servicing provider. It is in fact the wave of the future and we may as well just face that and plan accordingly.

    I hope to eke a living out of this until retirement (just another decade or so away). I would not advise any young person to get into it actual transcription now, though, just from reading the handwriting on the wall. If I were looking to get into the field now I would aim for the programming, sales, or management end of the biz.
    You sound like an ex-friend I used to have that was on a high horse all the time. BOY am I glad I
    She was always so quick to point out everyone's faults, preaching about what you SHOULD be doing, while at the same time, doing everything wrong herself.   I believe that is why she has no friends.  People don't like to be around that.
    Get off your high horse for crying out loud. She did not mention that it was a transcription company
    ENCOMPASS
    top

    Employee assistance is available to support all staff and their family members at no cost. This confidential service addresses a variety of issues that may affect the quality of your work or personal life including stress, depression, anxiety, grief and relationship conflicts

    Maybe YOU should do some research before you jump all over somebody. WHen a person just mentions a name, it doesn't necessarily mean a transcription company.


    Sorry, but truly suspect it's like wondering which'll keep delivering milk by horse-drawn wago
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    may I ask why you left? nm
    ,,
    I would keep looking. I left after a
    month because of the very low and convoluted pay scale, as well as the fact that I was never kept on an account long enough to build up any speed. Unless things have changed, you'll waste a lot of time looking up information that other services provide. They're nice people and they paid on time, but I didn't see enough earning potential so I moved on. BTW, I had 15 years of experience at that time and 99+% QA scores.
    When I left
    I was told by my PS that if I went with another company, MQ would one day buy it and then fire any MQ working there who had left MQ for that company. At the time it seemed like an empty threat, but who knows?
    I did too, but left them behind and
    if you want to email me I will tell you about my experience. I do not like the idea of posting negative things on this board, as everyone finds a company to be different for them. If interested, I will be glad to share.
    I tell you why I left

    Did you notice on Spantel the time difference?  You could be working in the evening yet the system would show it was the next day?  I was told about that when I was hired, yet I was constantly hearing from my manager about not having enough lines and there they were, credited for the next day.  They lost paperwork constantly as well and I had to work an entire month before getting paid because somebody lost the paperwork I filled out. 


    I'd check my lines and see a list of jobs that showed 0 lines...yet go back in later and some would be there.  It was very very inconsistent.


     


    LOL - that's why I left!!

    That is why I left
    nn
    will anybody be left?
    OMG, I know how you feel. My position was also outsourced after 20 years. I currently work for a national; but I feel there is no job security. So, I plan to go back to school and get out of transcription. This is not a profession that I would advise anybody to get into.
    I left because sm

    My lead just WOULD NOT leave me alone. I don't mind working 40 hours a week or even a few more, but when I have a day off, I want it to be a day off. She was constantly emailing and saying Critical Status on _____ Account and she would call me on my days off and ask me to work. Now, I know some people welcome the extra work, but I am very fortunate to be in the position where I have a husband who makes a good salary and yes, I need a full-time job but I do not need overtime and I do not want to work seven days a week.


    If the pay had been better, I would have just learned to be thick-skinned and ignore her when she kept bugging me, but the pay wasn't that great and I got an offer from some local doctors to do their overflow work and then found a second part-time job with a local MTSO and said bye-bye Keystrokes. Now I have weekends off and can basically set my own hours. Just call me Happy Camper.


    I left OSi and went to SPi
    I left OSi because my account coordinator changed about 3 times within a month then found the same thing happening at SPi. Now the word is out that another OSi account manager or maybe even 2 are leaving. This just gets old. I am very happily employed at Keystrokes now.
    Thank you all. I like to see how much I have left to do. (nm)