what a joke, you could make more working as a cashier
Posted By: sm on 2005-12-07
In Reply to: Back Suite Corporation? - hopeful
at a grocery store for that amount. I tested for them to see if the work was as easy as they say and the sound quality was terrible. Definitely not worth it.
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Wow, that you would even make a joke about the BTK killer...
is really frightening. I'm not kidding. This will be my last message about SS. You've made your point--you are CRAZY. I don't usually post on here and this is one of the reasons why.
Fine, if any MT wants to work for your company, SS, be my guest. But remember, there is a reason no one else has spoken up with a positive story about this company. 
Sorry, but I made more than that as a grocery cashier 7 years ago (nm)
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patients care....tell post office, tellers, cashier, neighbor,
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Is it possible to make $$$ working
and not report?
I make more than that working there...
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Why make us hard working MTs have to .....sm
deal with that every day. I love this board and it is very unfortunate you do not have to register yourself here. I am sure you would not be posting all the garbage that you do. You would have to actually stand behind what you post.
You'd make more money working at McDonalds. I have
20 years of experience in acute care, can do anything, including the most difficult ESL dictators. They offered me 6.5 cpl as an IC. After I stopped laughing I told them no thanks. They offered me this without any testing so it was not a reflection on my work. I may have gotten more after testing, but wasn't interested.
I make more than that working for large National, which SM
provides all equipment. I do not have to pay for long distance. I have benefits, paid time off, health insurance and a wonderful supervisor.
I am really glad you posted. I haven't felt this satisfied with my company for a long time. Now I know why I am still working for them.
And by the way, if you expect your MTs to paid 8 cpl and pay for their own LD, they must be starving and/or homeless.
I make more working at home that I ever did on site
the most I made as an MT on site was 8 bucks an hour.
I make twice what I made working at a hospital.
And I even work for MedQuist, no less! 
I make $4000-5000 but NOT WORKING for a national
I just couldn't even make $1800/month working for a national because they kept running out of work, or had me tied to a computer for 7 days a week, or I was getting up at 4 a.m. just to try to get some work before running out. I certainly would never work for MQ because I would have made less than $1800/month, but that's just me. I now do it independently, and I'm not bragging, but most of my months vary in the $4000/range. A couple have been less, and the most has been $7000/month. JUST NOT FOR A NATIONAL. NO WAY, NO HOW!
I make about $1,500 a month working about 20 hours per week.
Believe me, I'm not bragging or slamming anybody at all. No way. I'm frustrated with my own income because I'd like to make more. I'm willing to put in more hours to do it, too. Honestly, I'm not that fast. I have one very small local account and one small MTSO I subcontract for. None of it is verbatim, it's clean up the grammar as you go, which totally slows me down.
I won't work for a national any more because I couldn't make enough money there. I wasn't willing to tough it out for three months until I could make their line counts, especially when they had me on their worst accounts, pools of hundreds of dictators per hospital so I couldn't use my expander, and a new account every week.
I've said before that if I'm going to do MT, it's going to be on my terms. I won't chain myself to a desk or be "on call" all day long waiting for work to come in. Nationals don't pay you to sit there and wait for work. That's bull. Being on call IS working. Other businesses pay their "on call" people at least minimum wage. They skirt around the issue trying to use SE and IC terminology, but it's just a way of paying us less to be at their beck and call.
Don't give up on MT entirely. You'll find your fit. It just takes some searching.
Umm..only if you think working longer to make same $ is a raise. Thanks for the offer.
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I make good money with them and love working there. sm
Here is why: I have one account with a backup account that I have only used twice and both times because they needed help not because my primary was slow. I do 1600+ lines in 8 hours. I started at 8 cpl and was raised to 9 cpl at 90 days. I have as much work as I want and while my PTO days are less than the last place I was for 8 years, I make more during the year. I literally made $17K more with KS last year than I did with MQ the year before. I am higher this year.
I love Chartscript. The account I am on is wonderful and yes, I use ShortHand with it.
Good to me? I made $61K last year with them and so far this year, I am at $56K, so I will pass that for sure.
No to paid holidays but if you work them, it is time and a half.
If my account needs extra help, they offer time and a half for weekends.
I would rather work for less per line and be able to do more lines than make more per line but struggle to get 1000 lines in a day.
There are nay-sayers for KS. They are strict on quality and expect everyone to work their schedule. Not all accounts are great, but that's anywhere. The only people I know who left were either let go for either quality or not working their shift or they quit because their lead was about to fire them.
Curious, can you make more money working for a hospital rather than a clinic?
I've never really did acute care and curious?
No one called you a joke, just called the post a joke because
we all know better, but you're entitled to your opinion. You're the one insulting saying those of us who don't like SS probably couldn't cut it and that is the reason for our complaints. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who ever worked for SS to agree with you about how wonderful they are. They aren't getting new accounts, yet they always have an ad running - umm, let me think why that is.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
What a joke...
There software is the worst around! It is not MT friendly, very slow and locks up almost every day. Supervisor is clueless.
It was a joke...
It was an unpleasant experience. The recruiter is nice but does what she can to get people to come on board. If you ever have a problem, she will be right there to solve it. She will never set you up. She will always be there, so call. Believe this? I gotta bridge for ya to buy.
I just saw that same ad! What a joke!
Good luck to her finding someone.
what a joke
dont believe if you are transcribing the old fashioned way...on different accounts...with a 100 different docs... that you are making 1000 cleared a week. Sorry. Dont believe ya!
Is this a joke? sm
Your post makes me think that perhaps your work was unacceptable. Your grammar is horrible. Is English your first language? I find it hard to believe you are a professional transcriptionist.
they are a joke!!
They said I was hired. Then they sent me a file that said testing for $ to determine my rate of pay. When I opened it, it played the song Bridge Over Trouble Waters. What a complete and utter waste of time dealing with them!! Unprofessional.
another joke
Hey - Lets all give some recruiters some advise! I could make that quite length, but I don't really have the time today!!!! Maybe MTs are busier than recruiters!
no joke there
I have 6 years experience in radiology just recently started with a company at 8.5. I told a friend of mine to apply as she was familiar with the platform (2 years), but NO experience with radiology. They hired her a 8.25! 
No Joke sm
I was not the one who called it flavor of the month, I just asked for the website. Thank you for your information. I am weary about the nationals. I am losing my job in April after working from home for a a hospital for 9 years, due to Voice Recog in my radiology dept. I do not want to work AT a hospital, so what choice do I have to start researching these national companies. Talk about a headache. So many negative people out there on this board, I can't find anything positive about any company hardly. I mean, come on, are there any good nationals out there? Not by the sounds of the people on this website! You can email me if you would like. I would like to get the FACTS!
Thank you and good luck to you!
This is a joke, right?
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Yup...SPI is a joke.
I completely agree! I am glad that I got out of there when I did!
Actually it was a joke
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IMO, they are a joke - sm
Turned them down for an acute care job that they were practically begging someone to take (and STILL are) then months later I took the ortho test and they told me I flunked. Yeah, I'll bet. BTW, they never recognize you from previous resume submissions. If they would look through their old apps, they would see potential MTs instead of going through ad after ad for new ones.
The joke is on OSI.
I know 2 team leads who do the same thing, when one is on her scheduled shift at OSi she will put her OPN status as away but she will be actively working on another job. I know this because I have 2 computers- one for each job. I obviously can't type on 2 accounts at the same time but I have worked at OSI on my scheduled shift and she was scheduled too at the same time but she was sending IM's and emails on the other computer at the same time that she had her away OPN sign turned on. The joke is on OSI. They would have a fit if they ever caught them. At least 2 team leads do that which I am aware of and I also know about the manager with the 3 jobs.
Sorry this post turned into an OSI post but they have so much crap going on at their company its hard to avoid it.
no joke!
I do QA, too, and that's one of my biggest complaints! There are tons of search engines and I can't figure out why some MTs can't use them! And the thing with the punctuation, that's another issue, especially since the company I work for outsources to India - they just type it exactly like it's being said, whether it's correct grammar or not - like they know!
YOUR a joke (sic)
Maybe you should spend your time learning basic grammar rather than bashing others on a chat board.
You do know that was a joke, right?
This has GOT to be a joke!
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Joke's on you then.
I have plenty of heart and plenty of compassion --- FOR PEOPLE WHO HONESTLY DESERVE IT!
But what is predominating this board is all-out whining and a week-long pity party.
Don't bother feeling sorry for me. It seems like you have your hands full feeling sorry for yourself.
Tragedy of great magnitude. If this is the worst thing that's ever happened to you, consider yourself blessed!
If you think this is a joke, how would you...
if you were one of the people who heard this week that their wages are cut in half? No joke. In 1 week, you have half the cpl rate.
Fortunately, whether you liked it or not, this was a joke/parody. What would the pay cut for management sound like?
Unfortunately, there are some MTs who have to figure out how to make a living on half the CPL and only a promise that the platform will be better/faster.
This is a JOKE, right? Please be a joke.
MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
DAH is not a word. DUH. You are a joke
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I agree. SS is a joke
They just lost a major account. Actually it's not that bad if you don't mind constant negative, nagging, threatening global emails about things that don't even pertain to you, and if you don't mind using your own equipment that they get into with PCAnywhere to install their software and freeware which also spawns junk mail and spam. Oh, and if you don't mind footing the bill to call long distance to attend their training.
OMG. And I thought their MT pay was a joke. nm
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This is a joke - this does not happen.sm
There is obviously a disgruntled ex-employee posting things here. The training period is not 2 weeks, it is 90 days FT, 180 days PT. They do not let you go because you can't meet line count. There are at least 20 MTs who did not make line counts last week and they are not being let go, they sent this out in an email to let everyone know they have to keep up their production of 1200 lines per 8 hours. I can't believe the lies being told here. They also do not hire new grads, must have 3 years acute care and believe me you do need it. QA is also excellent and gives feedback and supports MTs to help get up to line count. GET REAL!!!
I really don't believe that, that 4 of them are making more than they did before. What a joke.
Why does it always have to be love it or leave it with these corporate sallies? Certainly there is room for liking working for a company, but not being satisfied with everything they do regarding MTs, and promoting decisions geared to keep the employees happy, disagreeing with those that do not.
Tons of MTs might, but could they pass the tests and do the accounts I have done for years? Every management person claims they have trouble finding qualified MTs, and a lot are leaving because they HATE ASR, and do not wish to be turned into underpaid editors.
3 cpl for editing? What a joke! sm
What are these companies thinking (and for an IC position too!) I am so sick of all these low paying jobs. Everything is going up except our pay. Anybody know of a good company looking for editors that pays decent?
Holiday? What a joke...sm
Are there any companies out there that actually pay their MTs holiday pay? Amphion makes you use your hard-earned, very-slowly-accru, or is there better? Just doesn't seem right. I would think they could pry their wallets open a little bit wider in this respect.
Is this another joke? I'm confused.
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The joke, "Silly," sm
was this company had absolutely nothing to do with speech recognition. Yet another recruiterism. I rest my case.
Focus is a joke
I worked for Focus about 3 years ago as an editor. Perhaps they have changed, but back then it was just ridiculous. Very rarely did I get an 8 hour day in. It took me over a month to get my first paycheck. I just couldn't make a living working for them with such an inconsistent work flow. But, like I said, that was 3 years ago, so hopefully they have changed for the better and I wish you luck in your career!
It was a childish joke. nm
No joke! You should be compensated
to respond in a nice way! I would let you great team lead know that you are really plugging for them so your team lead can maybe get you a kicker!! LOL 
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