well, she asked; I just thought quitting extreme advice.NM
Posted By: mt on 2008-03-20
In Reply to: Yes I know, but seems a bit extreme when isn't - not op
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Good advice, and advice that I'm giving real thought to ...
If I had known that they offshored before I accepted employment with them I never would have gone there to work. I've been here long enough now though to not want to lose my benefits.
Still ... making a DECENT PAYCHECK and making a living without being stressed out over the type of work that I'm doing is just as important as good benefits.
I thought you had worked there before - I don't know about raises - never asked.
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Yes I know, but seems a bit extreme when isn't
even a day late.
Geez that is a bit extreme
Well she is probably like me. I make mistakes like anyone else and if I am typing on here I might make one and not double check myself as much. You can tell if they are intelligible by the rest of their post. She just made a typo or two. We are not perfect in this world. We come here for support on this board not criticism. That is just my opinion on this issue.
Yeah, I park it on the extreme left corner. I like to see
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When they called me and I asked them if they offshored, they asked me why that was my business!
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Quitting
I work for MDI-FL and we've been out of work for a week too...I have three accounts and no work right after the holidays-I am starting to panic as I supply 50% of the family income. i have talked to friends who work for local hospitals and they are swamped. I owned by own service for 8 years and never had a slow movement, any time of the year. I just can't figure this business out anymore.
quitting MQ
Thanks for the info.
Quitting
I wouldn't quit the old one until you find out how the new one is.
Had enough BS and I'm quitting
@#$%
Quitting
I left a company that had an exit interview. I honestly told them what I thought. I think they needed to know a few things. Maybe it will effect a change to make life easier on other MTs.
quitting after first day
Oh, oh, sounds like you got hired for the same account as me............6 passwords to get into the program, 1/2 hour to boot everything up, system down 7 out of 10 days and only 3 hours work yesterday and 4 today - but I'm required to be here checking for work every 15 minutes....So, after waiting 3 weeks for my computer to be specially built by the hospital itself, I have finally worked a whole month now with 1 week of training in which the system was down 3 days out of 5, so I learned very little. Then the system was down 2 out of 5 days the second week. oh yes, and 3 of my 4 QA trainers have disappeared. Needless to say, I'm looking for another job, since I do like to eat and so does my cat and dog. This is not where I thought I'd be after going to school for a full year and transcribing now for 15 years.... what a shameful direction things have gone these last 5 or 6 years. Even janitors, and clerks have more benefits, respect, security and likely make more money than we do these days in this field. No one in the medical profession really has a clue how much knowledge we are required to possess or the skills necessary to do what we do. We get no respect from the doctors, staff, or medical profession at all. Part of the problem is that we're too fragmented within the industry, especially working at home. We are scattered all over the county. We are so isolated from one another that we have no sense of being part of anything, which is benficial to management, as it keeps us from organizing. Another contributing factor to lousy working conditions for all of us is that 3/4 of the employees in this field are women, most of whom do not truly NEED this job, so those of us who have no husband/boyfriend/roommate/etc.to help with finances are screwed. I love the medical transcription field, but I really hate being a 3rd class worker bee. I would challenge any nurse or doctor or health professional to do my job for a day - correctly. I can guarantee they would absolutely not be able to do it. I thought I was a professional... but now I realize I'm just a worker, so I need to find one more job that will last me at least one more year, and hopefully provide more than $15,000 annually, which is all I made last year as a full-time employee with 2 other companies who kept running out of work or had continuous problems implementing their new and improved dictation systems. I have more system down, system issue messages than Carter's has liver pills from these companies. I'll bet management got paid though. Maybe if I can find another job in the next week or so, I can hang in there until I can retire in 2010, and then just do this part-time to supplement my $900.00 a month social security check. I am not a happy camper anymore. I'm just really disappointed in the direction this profession has gone in over the last 6 years or so. I'm fed up with listening to these educated idiots, slurp, chomp, snort, guzzle, and burp through their meals, tell jokes while the minutes tick away that I don't paid to listen to and rattle, scrape, bump, ding and click through the report because they're not prepared to dictate when they sit down to do the report. Then I get to listen to them hem and haw as they click through the computer screen reading the patient's history while they're trying to dictate the current report. Taking phone calls and leaving me hanging, with the minutes ticking away that I'm not getting paid for, coming back after 5 minutes and hanging up on me. I'm tired of my feet swelling from sitting here for hours on end, dry itchy eyes, and my brain on overload with new drugs, mispronounced drugs, procedures, and failure to provide even the basics, like who the hell they are, the patient's name, ID, or date. It's clear that they feel dictating patient reports is beneath them. It's pretty clear that most of them just don't want to do it, so very few bother to do it right. So much for patient care. Maybe I'm burning out. Just can't quit yet. Have to earn a living, and I still care about quality, and I still care about doing it right. I just wish more of the other people I have to deal with cared too.
Many are quitting
Many MTs are quitting, have quit, or are in the process of quitting. I believe it is really what they want. They have a heavy offshore workforce and it seems that more and more work is going to the offshore service. There is barely enough work to go around unless you devote 24 hours a day to them to adjust your schedule as needed to make any lines. A recent post a few weeks ago stated that there would be a 39% paycut across the board in May, but I can't verify that. The post sounded like it was someone who was in management at one time. I do know for a fact that our manager told us that a lot of work was being sent to the offshore now. I'm not a disgruntled employee, but I do know that every single person on my account is looking for another job outside of the transcription field.
quitting with grace...
how about "I appreciate the opportunity you have given me, but due to circumstances beyond my control (such as the fact they are a national), the position just is not working out right for me at this time. Hopefully if circumstances change, you might consider me for re-hire at that time."
More advices on quitting
I think this site might help. It's a full article on the do's and don't or quitting
http://www.askmen.com/money/career_100/111_career.html
Anybody quitting Medquist before Oct 1?
Wondering if anyone was leaving before the pay cut.
Precyse....I am quitting
I had a team manager that was manipulative. Lots of people are quitting right now because of things like that. She can be real nice too and give gravy work, depending on what side you end up on. Also OT..Thats a joke. Don't work any OT because you make less for OT than your regular day the way the figure it. The last time I worked OT I made less than 6 bucks (not plus 13.00 bucks an hour or anything like that, just less than 6.00 bucks an hour!) an hour for OT. I had trouble making my line count and used to be a very good producer before I got there. I'm not sure if it's because you spend so much time with the stuff that you don't get paid for, like searching for or changing the ADTs, searching for addresses, sending copies, etc. and not getting paid for headers or what. Maybe I just couldn't concentrate, I don't know, but I've decided I stayed there too long.
On the verge of quitting MDI-MD
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Anyone else thinking of quitting?
I have other offers but I love the platform and the account. I have not had work for almost a week straight and before that about 2 months of little work. I am just wondering if everyone else out there is ready to move on. We get SOS messages when there are 5 jobs on the system, on a holiday, stating everyone wanted work....well here it is. Hardly. I have 4 accounts and they are all dry. Is this everyone's experience???????
Quitting without notice
Well, if someone hadn't told me I would not have believed it. First I am the relative that couldn't keep her thoughts about such things as hiring newbies with a contract that states they must agree to work for 30 days for free to determine if they are good enough to get paid or running off in the middle of a HUGE hurricane forecasted for Mexico and leave 4 kids with a babysitter and no emergency funds left for the sitter. I am also one of those that have NOT been paid for work done. First I would like to say that XXXXX is a great mentor, I learned a great deal from her, including that there are MTs out there that do not apply the ethics of medical transcription into their own life or the lives of their employees. As for upsetting her clients, I just informed them of the violations going on like file sharing after signing a confidentiality contract, some were quite shocked and I am sure she lost work because of it, but after the smear campaign she launched, I don't know what she expected. As for pay, you get paid as long as you work for her, you can ask just about anyone who has quit, and they have not received their last checks. Her famous excuse that I know that at least 4 MTs have heard is It must be lost in the mail. Funny how the only checks to get lost are those due to past employees and not current ones.
Quitting in droves
Well people are quitting in droves because they're sending all the best accounts to India, then forcing US MTs to train as guinea pigs on new platforms, such as Clarity. As we help them get the bugs worked out, we go broke in the process. Overstaffing is a problem on some platforms (radiology was mine), I worked 6-7 days a week for the last 7 weeks and couldn't even make production, fighting for every line. Supe lied to me and promised me a new platform, only to schedule me for training on Clarity. Glad to be gone!
For OSI employees that are quitting
If you work for OSi and have found another job because of their decision to stop paying holiday pay -
Which companies are you switching to?
Please email me if you like.
I want to make a move ASAP and don't know where to turn. TIA
Is everybody quitting Amphion, hopefully?
Just gave my notice. The substandard pay for the amount of work I do is not doing it for me anymore. There is a better way and I found it. From what I understand there are quite a few more leaving this very strange company too. The least they could do is add a minimum wage stipend for all the unpaid busy work. Not my problem anymore.
I'm planning on quitting too. sm
I liked the idea of working for a smaller company and one that didn't offshore. I worked for a BIG company that offshored, and I didn't like it. Actually it started out as Edix, then Spheris came in and took over, and it all went down hill after that. Once I found out they sent to India, I quit. I'll be doing the same with MDI, probably after September, since I already submitted my September work schedule. Good luck to all the MDI transcriptionists.
If you're thinking of quitting
I rarely ever post but I just wanted to let people know what happened to me so they can avoid the same experience I had. i'm not gonna mention the name of the company here,but anyone who works for this company knows the problems they've had with their payroll and getting their direct deposits on time.. and how the owner is uncaring about how many bounce fees she causes everyone to have to pay, or how people can't pay their bills when their DD doesnt show up until Monday. She just turns off her IMs and doesnt answer emails. Really great person to work for.. Well.. aside from those problems, i just wanted to warn people that when you do decide to finally leave the company, just be sure she doesnt owe you anything before you leave. Do a slow down, so that she owes you as little as possible by the time you quit, unless you don't have any equipment, like a foot pedal or anything, that she sent you that she can use to justify holding your final check(s). She has done this to a few people I know of..and I'm sure there's lots more I don't know. I can't say if she pays right away if you don't have equipment,.she probably does ...but I know what happens if you do!!
I had a foot pedal that belonged to her, and she held my final TWO CHECKS on me. She owed me one full check and for two or three days into a new pay period and held them both. When my next to last check didn't show up as expected and I called to ask her about it, she said its "company policy" to roll all money owed into one final check. She happened to be on vacation, so I returned the equipment,but still had to wait from the 4th of April until the 26th when she returned from vacation.. I waited and still didn't receive any money from her, so I emailed her multiple times with no response.. Then i happened to check my bank balance and found out she had deposited the check for the 2-3 days in my account..but the full check she owed me wasn't there. I had expected a paper check from her, so I didnt check my balance for a while..I just happened to check it. When i emailed her about the money, she didnt even bother to answer me to say she had deposited it, so its a good thing I checked or I'd still be waiting. I finally called her. since she refuses to answer emails, and she said she would look into what happened with the other check first thing Monday morning...This was last Friday.. today I FINALLY got my money from her. only more than a full month and 266.00 in bounce fees later!! So, the good news is she will probably pay you..eventually...but who wants to wait over a month with no check? I know I had extenuating circumstances because she happened to go on vacation, but she also did payroll early, and there was no way I could have gotten the pedal back to her before she did payroll. She knew she was going to hold both checks and didn't bother to tell me that when I emailed her to tell her I had mailed the pedal back and would be expecting my check as usual on April 14th.. so I got a nice little shock when my DD just didnt show up on the 14th. Maybe others get their money a little sooner, but still ..who wants to wait for their checks for that long. Well anyway, I decided to let people know what happened to me, just so they can avoid it happening to them.
OSI ALWAYS hiring, good MTs ALWAYS quitting
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don't think I will get paid for transcription I did before quitting
I worked for several weeks for a transcription company and things did not go very well. I worked VERY hard trying trying to do my best work and just was not making very much money and things did not look like they would improve. I up and quit and now they are not answering my e-mails nor have I received pay for the work I did do. The quality of my work was great. The platform was hard and I spent too much time trying to find patient accounts I believe. Does anyone know what recourse I have? It is not a lot of money at all, yet I worked so hard to make it work. Or do I chalk it up to another bad experience? Thanks in advance.
Re: Zmed and quitting without notice
I doubt that it is legal for them to keep half your pay if you quit without notice. I am willing to bet that any Labor Board would uphold the worker on this one. I have never worked for them, interviewed with them once, found them creepy and said no.
Quitting, more work and other melodrama
And you know I police everyone else because? Quite the assumption to make, eh? And spoken like a true cherry picker. Do my own work? Nah, I'm too busy doing the work everybody else has decided they're too good to do and they throw it back. Yes, please explain exactly how I get to do MY OWN work. Either you are a cherry picker yourself or you don't have people cancelling jobs and throwing them back for you to do, which results in a pretty crappy line count at times. You don't know me, don't make assumptions about who I'm policing. And, betcha the non-cherry pickers aren't afraid of us police!
Quitting MDI short notice
I quit with only three days' notice. (I have always given 30 days notice for leaving MT jobs because I am a high producer and I want people to have an opportunity to get an adequate replacement. However, there were extenuating circumstances of offshoring involved here.) I e-mailed D. and told her that if I had been given two weeks notice of the merger, I would surely have given her two weeks notice that I was quitting, but that, in all conscience, I simply could not work for any company that offshored, that it violates my principles as an American, so I hoped she would understand why my last day was going to be August 31. She wrote me a very kind and gracious e-mail back saying she understood. I started my new job the very next day and have never looked back. My unasked for advice would be for each person to follow her (or his) own conscience. You know how Jiminy Cricket used to say Let your conscience be your guide? Or as they said on Star Wars, Follow your instincts..... Do what is right for you, for whatever reasons your own circumstances dictate. Good luck!
I see a lot of people posting on here about quitting MQ and I was just wondering where they all went
and is it better. I guess we wont know what we are up against yet for about a week then we will see what happens.
Sorry to hear of any quitting. I am on the "busy" account..
I do like it a lot, but I also worry about overhiring.. and forcing me out of a job that I love..
I don't recall saying I was quitting, just gonna wait and see. nm
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Are the part-timers quitting DeVenture?
It's been about a month now with very little if any work for part-timers. Anyone else quitting?
Yep, hiring again. Are people quitting or what? There never seems to be a lot of work to me. nm
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WELL SAID - OSi people are quitting in droves including management
that's what forums are for.
Dont bother. Not enough work to go around. People are quitting.
I guess at this rate, they may be hiring if everyone ends up quitting due to lack of work. They will come on here and state that we should just call the office and you will get put on another account. That is a joke. We have all tried that and you get ignored.
"People are quitting" -- who? I work in the home office
and no one has quit in the last month.
see post below "if you're thinking of quitting"
that's the one.
Forget my check is 2 weeks late, I am quitting my
job because I have to use some of my ink to print out paperwork. If that is an honest-to-goodness complaint, you need a dose of reality.
A printer with ink will cost about $30 to $40. My company owes me $900 in back wages and $900 in current wages. Yes, I refuse to work any more until I am paid, but I am still out almost $2000. All they say is check is in the mail.
If you can put your MT-princess resume out there and get a better job that doesn't require you to spend thousands of cents on ink, you should go for it.
honestly, no I didn't read. Pretty sure I'm quitting NM
remember, (I'm sure you don't remember :) just saying, I went through this with Spheris, stuck it, ended up leaving anyway
Sad but true. You're asked to work NOW, then asked to stop NOW, then go again and then stop
If you dont get off the minute the hospital asks, even if you have no idea that they have requested that your to be off, then the hospital MTs steal your work right out of your queue and I mean reports you have already done. I dont understand the concept of having a contract with a hospital and then having to fight for work with the hospital MTs. We should have guaranteed work during our shift and enough of the the hospital wants you to help right now and then a few hours later they want us to stop working as the work is too low. It is crazy and I couldnt work like that so I had to quit.
I actually thought of that. I even thought of trying to go back to MQ part-time!! (sm)
I just wonder about hours at a second company. I work days (and some nights) with this company. I have a set schedule but with the no work situtation I've been on the computer at all hours of the day and night. Right now I have no work, so I would love to jump on at a company #2 and start working. Do you have to have set hours at your company #2? Thanks for the suggestion.
You aer required to work 3 holidays each year ... not sure about the quitting early thing. nm
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bit of advice - sm
I have worked in many hospitals over many years, and after a bit of trial and error, I have found that this approach has always worked in my favor -
I STOPPED sending resumes to HR departments. Why? Because I would inevitably end up with a computer generated letter "thanking me for the resume ... on file ... should a position come up ... blah blah blah." I would contact the hospital and say I am responding to the position that is open, what do you mean you don't have a position??? The response would be "Oh, well someone should get in contact with you soon then."
By the time an HR department got off their butt to start calling in people for the position, chances are the transcription department was into overtime and overtime meant loss of $$ and next thing you know, it was being outsourced.
So I cut out the HR department, and would find out the name of the head of medical records and send my resume to that person. The person would either go to HR and say "contact this person for an interview" or would contact me themselves and set up the interview.
I would even send a resume to the head of medical records even if there was no opening because you never know. Hospitals may have onsite transcriptionists as well as outsourcing. But if the hospital realizes that there is the possibility of another Transcriptionist right in the area, they may be able to utilize me. Hence, I would get a phone call.
It's just a bit of advice - don't always rely on the website for transcription positions.
my advice is ask MQ for more than that...
if you have the experience and are 'seasoned' you should start out at least at 9 or 9.5. be firm. they must need MTs. if they say they do not pay that much say you are sorry to hear it but you have other offers, and everybody is paying at least 9 now...(IF you are as good as you say and you tested and passed, etc.)
men do this- they push back a little...
even if they simply will not give you more than say 8.5, they will at least know you are not stupid. if you take it at 8.5, tell them you want a review in the near future and expect to make more than that...
geeze, I started at 9.5 there a year ago...?
if you are good, demand to get paid what you deserve.
Thanks for the advice - sm
It's not a lot of money, but since I was courteous enough to send the equipment back immediately, I just don't understand why they aren't paying me. I am not going to drop it though.
Thanks again!
K
Here's my advice sm
If you are on your own and don't have a spouse or a second source of income, this isn't the job. You've really got to have some backup with Webmedx. This is not the company where you'll be on one or two accounts and have all the work you can do. This is scraping for every bit of work you can get some days and bouncing around on lots of accounts.
However, the benefits are very good. I'm not sure if they take them away, though, if you can't make your lines. Surely not if there's no work, but if there is work and you have trouble, don't know.
IF you have benefits through a spouse, I would go elsewhere and be an IC. I would not be here if I didn't need the benefits.
Good luck making a decision!
I appreciate the advice, but would like something a
see my advice
If you have been working for someone else, take a document, do the word count and the line count and see what you would need to charge per word to equal what you want per line. I also worked for someone that did that and lost a lot in letters and consults as I charge by gross line. She paid 1 cent per word also. In medical there are more longer words than shorter one. I would not do it for less that 2.5 to 3 cents per word as I just looked at one of my documents and it would have taken probably 3.25 per word to make what I did off of that document. Good luck. With words no spaces are counted.
I need advice
Does anyone out there know about Entente Health Care. Has anyone ever worked for them? I have been offered an Editor position with them but I was wondering how they are to work for. I hope I am posting this in the right place since I am new to this. Any comments appreciated.
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