unbelievable. Work for a week sm
Posted By: MT TOO LONG on 2009-05-30
In Reply to: The field of medical transcription - midnightmrs
without getting paid? What a nice way to clean up their back log for free!
Back a few years ago this profession started being advertised by the schools and in the rag magazines as a work at home job to make tons of money. That is when this profession started down the tubes.
Because it sounds like an easy work at home job, everybody is coming out of the woodwork. Folks who can't spell the word HOSPITAL practically are trying to open MT companies to make big money.
It is very very sad!
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The lying is unbelievable. If you work there, you darn well
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Unbelievable! I work for Transtech and got PAID maternity leave! Some of these
companies need to take a lesson from them.
Why would anyone work 8 hours a week. The poster above said 16 or 24 hours a week.
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Thx...Unbelievable!!! - nm
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Unbelievable!
WOW, that does not surprise me though. She lied to me several times, and caught her in it and still acted like I was wrong. How can a company like this continue to be in business. I am going to continue my descent on her, no one ever should have to go through something like this and especially what happened to you, that is even worse. I have written some of the schools that represent her explaining to them what is going on; I hope they do not recommend her. I am awaiting replies and I will let you know. She is messing with the wrong person by not paying me.
Unbelievable
This is just pathetic. I don't care what he says. It's all about the almighty dollar. They pay crap over there and they receive crap in return. Has anyone seen the kind of work these Indians do who can barely speak English? Sad sad sad.
LOL...unbelievable...LOL
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Unbelievable
I can’t even believe that you said all that…you did say one thing in your little rant that was true…you outsource work because “it’s less expensive” which honestly is what it all boils down to! We all are looking at that dollar so don't act like the employers are the only ones...the companies are looking for ways to line their pockets and obviously outsourcing work makes that happen. Go ahead and outsource to other countries because one day, someone will come up with a way to do away with your cushy position and outsource it, and the script will be flipped back on you! I am a hard working Medical Transcriptionist and I resent every word that you said.
It's not unbelievable at all
I average 275 lines per hour on a high ESL large teaching hospital account at 9.5 per line for an average pay rate of $26 bucks an hour. Many, many MTs I know make this and more.
Unbelievable
Yeah, wouldn't you think that these highly paid administrators would sit down and talk to people who have been doing this work for years? Instead they call up these companies who promise ANYTHING to get them to sign on and for the first couple of months use really good transcriptionists and then the quality just goes down hill. These cheap transcription companies mostly don't care because they are making lots of money and just move on to the next sucker. But nobody notices for a while and then a really bad mistake is made and the doctors go into orbit. Think of how much time and money they end up wasting.
Unbelievable
I can't believe what a psycho this guy is. How unprofessional and ignorant on his part. How many executives take the time to 1) read this board, and 2) continue to taunt and argue a point when they are so easy to prove wrong? I did send him a private reply via email earlier today, so it's not like he didn't already hear my reply to his original email. This is all pretty scary if you ask me. I'm through arguing this point. Another MT has posted that she had a similar experience and if you're reading this, you can see the caliber of management at SoftScript, so there should be enough here for anyone applying to form their own opinions about working for this company.
Unbelievable
Oh my gosh, you are literally bonkers if you THINK Transtech has recruiters. TransTech has a good enough reputation that they don't HAVE to go out and recruit. They merely post an ad on here from time to time when new accounts are added or if an account needs more coverage. Some of you people floor me with the stuff you come up with. TransTech always has enough work if one doesn't mind learning a new account specifics. That's the problem though. A lot of people would rather stick with one account and not learn anything new. They get in a comfort zone and make more lines posting negative remarks on a message board than they do actually working. There is no company where everyone is going to be happy and if you aren't happy there you have your reasons. I have been with them for 3 years and I have never been happier. I have plenty of work, nobody bothers me, I always get over my line count, the paychecks are ALWAYS on time and correct, not to mention they NEVER bounce and you can call the office and speak with Tracy (one of the owners) and anyone else in the upper management or middle management about anything. As a matter of fact, if anyone who has questions about the integrity of TransTech wants to THEY can call and these people will talk to them, too. They have never tried to hide anything and have always been the most honest people I have ever worked for. I love this company and I will take up for them in a heartbeat. All I can say about the ones that post negative things about TransTech is that if you have had negative dealings with them it is because you were not producing the amount of work you obligated to when you signed on, you're work ethics didn't match what you presented yourself to have and/or you're one of these MTs who are hired by other companies to slam them. So, suffice it to say, be careful who you brown nose, it always comes back to bite you back...always. I bid you adieu!
Unbelievable that they are doing this.
Unbelievable...nm
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Unbelievable!
YOU come on here and call her an idiot for her post and when she defends herself, you accuse her of being fired up well, DUH!!! No kidding!!
She is trying to help her fellow MTs with some useful information and you are a little small-minded troll trying to spar with her over trivialities.
Just go away unless you can make an intelligent (and not RUDE) contribution. Thanks.
Unbelievable, 55 too old! I will be sm
54 next month and far as I am concerned just getting started good! People think they want that system but they really are ignorant as to the system. You won't live any longer with the canadian system than you would if you had no insurance! We have flaws, many of them, but still the greatest country in the world!
Unbelievable .... sm
Finally a job comes out that pays decent, .10 cpl BUT you have to live locally in California. Not going to do me much good over here in Georgia, lol. 
Unbelievable!!!
I spent a few minutes today reading the posts about DIT and their professed Christian company, treating their MTs as family, and then not paying.
And, lo and behold, right there on the Job Seeker's board is yet another ad from them.
The unmitigated GALL of them to advertise for MTs, especially on the very same day that people are posting about not being paid by them.
Do such dishonest people NEVER get their just desserts???
Unbelievable.
You are evil beyond words. Go away before someone drops a house on you, too.
Looks like another week of no work at MDI-FL. And they
say they don't overhire? Don't believe that one for a minute.
We are all out of work this week looks like. nm
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4 day work week?
Does anybody working for Transtech work a 4 day work week (10 hours a day)? I would like to do this, but don't know if they would be receptive to this.
There's less work every week
That's what some of us thought - if some people got fired last week, this week might be better. Nope! Its worse!
NO work -- running out of work this week! Anybody else?
Anybody else running out of work this week?
The sweetie, honey, sweet words to us just don't pay. Lines transcribed is all that pays us.
The reason there is low work/no work during the week is because so many of YOU at TT want
TO WORK BANKER's HOURS and DAYS and NOTHING ELSE !! Poor baby . . .
Unbelievable!!! Maybe if OSi had better training
and decent account specifics, MTs wouldn't have to bother you management idiots all the time. This was a good post from you though....exactly what everyone hears at OSi. There is actually no help at any point at that company.
ANOTHER unbelievable ad - with the link!
THANKS, OSI, FOR SENDING OUR FREAKIN' JOBS TO PEOPLE LIKE THIS CLOWN!!!!!
I am expert in MS office and can do any kind of data entry or transription jobs and i amk looking for more jobs.
amolg007@rediffmail.com
Posted 15/6/2001 4:15 PM
http://www.medicineau.net.au/resources/classifieds/wanted.html
sickening and unbelievable...
Hope you find a better job soon!
Yes, it is unbelievable. I think that if an employee
is hired by an MTSO, then there should be a policy or law or something that an employee gets paid whether there is work or not. This is the only industry I know of that most employees do not get paid if there is no work, at least a minimum ($10/hr ?). If there is no work at your doctors office, the receptionist still gets paid, if there are no customers at a bank, the teller stills get paid. Why is MT the exception? 
If an MTSO knows an account has inconsistent work or is overhired, then hire an as-needed IC, or oncall employee, not a full or part time MT. Then the MTSO wonders why it cannot keep qualified staff. Try this - pay me downtime and I'll stick around. And, include downtime in your budget/pricing for clients. MTSOs must learn how to staff properly as a medical center staffs RNs - you have your FTs, PTs, weekends, on-calls, paid on-call, etc. This is not rocket science!!
Too unbelievable for words
Let me see, to be able to make 25.00 per hour you would have to type about 3100 lines per hour using 8 cpl. How is that humanly possible?????????????????
It is SO unbelievable...this job requires
us to constantly keep up with the new procedures, meds, surgical instruments, etc., it is a constant learning curve...and it just kills me that these companies offer less and less money every year...been doing this for 20 years now and it has really gone down-hill! Someone needs to understand what it takes to become a skilled acute care transcriptionist! Maybe the Feds can help us out...they're doling out billions to wealthy investors these days...
Unbelievable! The Indians
can't even MT very well, much less do QA!!! What's this business coming to...
Yes. You must work 1 weekend day every week. nm
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ARE THEY AWARE THAT YOU DON'T WORK 40 A WEEK?
jUST CURIOUS IF THEY CARE.
39 hour work week
is what it says. Sorry, 39 not 40 for those counting.
Unfortunately they also keep running OUT of work every week. nm
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I work three days a week ...
8 hours a day, but I often times have to be physically at the computer longer than 8 hours because sometimes the work is slow. I have two accounts. I work no weekends.
how may hours a week do you work
or maybe a better question is how many lines a day do you do?
OMG, I hope not. You work over 50 hrs a week
for 36,500? Sounds like a very big national I know. lol. BTDT and I quit real fast. Glad you are happy, I guess that's all that matters, but you're being taken advantage of IMO. And 2 weeks vacation is not that great either.
how many hours a week do you work to get this?
so, you don't really know what it's like to work a national.
At least we don't have to work 7 days a week (unless we want to)
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How many hours do you work a week? (NM)
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work a week off payroll?? PLZ sm
Yas know what, there are probably a lot of valid complaints here on the board but is really of no value unless the name of the company is shared. What good does it really do, no one else can be alerted and informed to make future decisions. Change can perhaps be implented on the other side when as isolated MTs can learn the fact and not be taken in (because the info is shared from which decisions can be made..
I have taken to sending an email (at times with the resume but also without) and ask if they would mind sharing the highest to the lowest line rate offered for the position as --I mention (to them) this would save valuable time on BOTH sides.
I have also taken to asking if this position is for VR. (cuz I'm not doin it)
This gives a better playing field as I don't want to spend all that time on testing on 7 files, going through an interview to find some ridiculous offer I would have never considered had I known up front.
I think the JOB OFFER BOARD here should have all the facts listed up front.
They also only work 4 days a week.
Man, this is unbelievable. What is Medware saying about where the money is? nm
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This is unbelievable- Anyone experience this from a company
I am an IC with this company working 4 hours in the evenings. True enough, I had to agree to set hours; however within those 4 hours I transcribe a full-time line amount 1000 to 1100 lines. Yesterday,I sent co-owner of the company (supervisor) note saying I needed to stop at 2 p.m instead of 3 p.m. because I needed to see a doctor for my knee and that if I didn't make that appointment I would have to suffer through the weekend with a painful knee. Since this was a spur of the moment appointment and they worked me in, I did not want to miss it. I also informed her that when I returned, I would make up the 1 hour. Well she sent me a message back saying you have stay on line until 3 o'clock, take an ibuprofen and you'll be fine. This dialogue between the 2 of us went on for I know about 10 minutes or more. Then she told me, you still have time to go to a doctor after 3 p.m. You have to stick to your schedule. Now, I had already done 1500 lines at that point, because on Fridays I work 7 to 3 p.m. She went on to say, you agreed to a schedule and you must stick to it. I asked her what about when people have emergencies or things come up you cannot control. She did not want to hear it. I have an in-hospital MT job (for 3 months now) and she said she didn't think my employer would allow me to take off like that. I informed her that my employer would be more than willing to allow me to take off for a medical problem, because they know my health is more important than the job, because if I am not well, I cannot work anyways. Now there are times she ask me to work as much as you can, any day you can, all day if you can. So at those times, I guess it doesn't matter that I don't stick to my schedule. I reminded her that I was a contractor and not one of her employees. My full-time job at the hospital is ran though the County, and there has been mismanagement of the money and they have reduced our hours to 32 a week, which is why I took on the IC position. If I didn't really need this part-time job, you know what I would have told her to do with it. Plus the pay is 10 cpl and it is real easy to get your lines. Oh well, just needed to vent to my fellow MTs.
HOW DO YOU GET OVER TIME IF YOU DON'T WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK?
That is a great gig you have going. Do you have to work weekends?
How many hours in a week do you normally work to get your lines in?
Just curious. I work 50-plus hours here to make it work for our family, would love to cut back
Yep, my work is low this week too. Previouly, however, we could not catch it up. Is it all the ..SM
new hires, do you think? They haven't told me to take the day off or anything, but there are big gaps in my downloads. I love QT but it's times like these that make my eyes wander to the ads. Funny how when we're busy, I type faster, too. When it's like this, I just casually and nonchalantly go about typing during the day, getting up and down as I please, no hurry at all. Maybe I'll start looking at part-time supplements -- then if work runs really dry, I'l already have my foot in the door somewhere else.
I work 1 job, about 36 hours/week and make at
least that amount, plus have vacation and PTO, also an employee so they pay taxes. I found that working multiple account keep me from making money because I have to learn so many doctors and be aware of the different formats/platforms and account specific stuff. I used to work a bunch of jobs part-time and was working 7 days a week and lots and lots of hours and not making very much money. If I worked the same hours on one account I could have easily made $80,000+/year.
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