why speak of loyalty when as MTs
Posted By: we are mostly treated shabbily on 2006-01-13
In Reply to: I do believe your loyalty is displaced. No MTSO or national are loyal to MTs - Loyal One
Hasn't anyone noticed? This business is a sweat shop.... these MTSO have it made. They get cheap offshore workers and housewives and moms dying to work at home, busting their butts, turning their homes into sweatshops. Be loyal to WHOM? The company that treats you like crap and CUTS YOUR PAY and talks to you like you are an idiot? Oh yeah, RIGHT hahahaha you are nutso babes!
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Loyalty?
How can you be loyal to a company that took your work and sent it offshore and then turns around and blames you for the poor quality! The fact of the matter is, they took a good company, got greedy and offshored for cheaper MTs and LIED about it, to everyone!!!! Now, they are paying the price! She didn't show any of us MTs any loyalty when she decided to offshore; heck, she lied continuously about it for months, so how can you have any loyalty for her? For those of you who have been having low work volumes, why do you think that is? It's because the offshore company is promised a set amount of work, so they get the work first, then the loyal MTs get what's left! Think about how far things have gone down hill in the past years. Dust off those resumes girls
I go by loyalty s/m
The company that overall treats me the best takes first priority for me.
Loyalty
Loyalty should go 2 ways. If they value you as an MT and cannot keep you busy enough so that you need 2 jobs, they should not object to your saying you would love to help them out on that particular day, but you have a prior commitment. They do not need to know you are working 2 jobs.
Co. out for $, no loyalty to anyone. We should also
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Loyalty to MDI
I have been in this business 17 years, half of that time running my own service until people kept undercutting to the point it was not profitable. Before that worked for a major Fortune 500 company that has laid people off for the last 20 years all while increasing the salaries and bonuses of the top executives (I was laid off 3 separate times, dh is still there but after 35 years now has to work a terrible shift to keep his job and who knows for how much longer.) No offense but I always thought you girls who were so loyal to MDI were living in a bubble that was going to burst. This was not your family or your best friend. This was your JOB, working for a company just like any other company in this country and I learned long ago the employees don't matter. I have a few more years until retirement hopefully and was hoping to stick it out but I am seriously thinking I need to get out of this industry and go back to school. Reading the SEC filing about Transcend has me a little shocked and disappointed. As I said before everyone needs to do what they need to do for themselves. Good luck to all.
loyalty won't pay your bills
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While I'm sure MDI-MD appreciates your loyalty
appreciate your posting here, adding pokers to the fire of the already hurt/unhappy MTs. Give it a break, really. And you not only have to share that your experience is absolutely Mary Poppins material, perfect in every way, but you are compelled to discredit everyone else's negative experience. I'm not even involved, but it gets my dander up. Get over yourself. You're doing your beloved company more harm than good by inflaming an already inferno situation. I'm sure Carlotta agrees. In fact, I know she would agree with me.
when it comes to your own wellbeing, the only loyalty you need is to yourself.
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Honesty, Loyalty, and Integrity! sm
A company that will be honest, no matter what the cost. Integrity to keep our records and work in the USA. Loyalty to your entire staff, let them know how important they are to the company, as well as loyalty to your clients. Keep your TATs and promises to your clients. Keep your promises to your MTs.
A decent line rate such as 10 cpl or above and flexibility!
Hope that helps!
Companies have to earn loyalty (sm)
Besides, all prospective employees go through a background check. It's not like these MTSOs are completely in the dark. I cannot believe (or can I?) that some companies ask for people's screen names to monitor stuff they say on a message board. If they're that petty and paranoid, there's good reason for it, and I betcha dollars to donuts it has *absolutely* nothing to do with MT attitudes. If anyone is spilling inappropriate information here, there's a moderator to take care of that.
BTW, now that I'm happy with my company, I am loyal. In fact, I'm so positive that when *I* post on here about my job, people often give me this oh, stuff it, Polyanna attitude. 
The only thing that could possibly get me to leave is the promise of all that money getting my own accounts would bring. I don't think I'd like to deal with all the hassle involved, though...but if someone had a Powerpoint presentation to convince me it was easy as fallin' off a log, I'd be very interested!
No work versus loyalty
My pay period ended last week and I made $42. My supervisor is telling us to be patient and actually is getting angry when any MT starts to question what is going on. We have been told to be patient and the patient's are trying to meet their deductibles and that is why there is no work. I work for a huge hospital system with over 1,000 doctors with at least 30 outside facilities. Now, yesterday, we have been told not to log on again because the hospital has contacted them and said do not log in. I cannot go another pay making $42. What should I do? Be loyal or move on.
Thanks
No work versus loyalty
What company is this that you work for as the company I work for is the same way lately?
What happened to loyalty and ethics?
You sold out! You are a coward and you are weak. You are also a thief.
The last line just shows my loyalty and dedication (sm)
to my current employer, but desire to stay in the field of MT via a national company should my previous position not be offered when I return.
The people with the loyalty to the almighty dollar...
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I do believe your loyalty is displaced. No MTSO or national are loyal to MTs
even though they claim to be. Loyalty is earned just like respect. This is a business just like any other business. If one company cuts pay, takes away health insurance, etc, why should any person or MT be loyal to that company? If promises are made and then broken or lies are told, why should any MT be loyal to that MTSO or company?
On the other hand, yes, if the MTSO or national and their people take care of the MT and provide her/him continuous work flow, as promised, pay on time, and work together with an honest and respectful relationship, then, yes loyalty should be mutual and reciprocating.
For you to just come on here and claim MTs should be loyal to company is very improper of you!
Ok, those are my cents worth! Have a good night!
Loyalty to Companies Who Have No Work and Expect a Schedule from YOU
There have been many discussions about MT's sitting around waiting for work to file into their queues.. many being told to get more than a few accounts and work on their backups (which, we all know, is someone's primary account) when their primary is out of work.. so we go 'round in circles.
Then we have discussions about companies putting us in work pools as opposed to assigning us work daily...
I have been sitting here thinking, if I were a painter, wanted to paint fences, and I showed up with my brush and paint bright and early in the morning, and was told to come back tomorrow, the fence has already been painted, but there will be another fence ready to paint tomorrow, please come back, we want you to paint our fences.. I say, OK, I understand, and so I come back tomorrow and when I get there I see that half of the fence has been painted already, someone came before me and painted it, even though I was promised the work of painting the fence. They say, try again tomorrow. How many days would you show up to paint a fence? Every day? Don't you (eventually) feel like an idiot standing there with your brush and paint with nothing to do??
Does the company owe you any loyalty at all?? If they don't want your services, why don't they just say so instead of keeping you coming back ready to paint every day? Then when it DOES get busy, they call and say WHERE IS EVERYBODY??? DONT YOU CARE ABOUT PAINTING THE FENCE? Like we havent been standing there with our brushes all week waiting to paint.
What I don't understand is the lack of shame from the people who behave this way. Once in a while things happen..NOT AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
I really don't understand the logic of the people who have no problem with this. You do understand that by doing this, you are simply helping these companies to continue in this fashion, not feeling that they owe you ANYTHING.
Overhiring is really the finaly insult. If you don't see that.. you are closing your eyes.
I completely concur. Find a good one, or move on, quickly. No loyalty involved. The don't sm
have any to the MTS. NONE of them.
Loyalty has nothing to do with it until you find the company for you. Be loyal to THAT company.
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They don't want the MTs to speak with SM
each other because they might share information on line rate, how easy/hard the accounts are and MOSTLY because they do have favorites who get flexible schedules, high line rate and cake accounts and they don't want groups of people emailing each other and discovering this.
speak for yourself
I have a friend who works there and makes over 75,000 a year.
Speak for yourself
I think you have it backwards. There has never been any mass exodus unless you consider 3-4 people a mass exodus. Actually, those 3-4 people might still be with the company if not for a certain someone who egged them on until they quit. This person herself stayed on for another couple of years trying to stir the pot with complaints about fabricated events. This person finally left a few months ago.
Crap happens, no matter where you are, who you are, or what you do.
Transcend is STILL a good place to work.
Too bad so many people don't have the wherewithall to actually work for a company longer than a few weeks before they come to false conclusions about a place and then quit.
speak for yourself
I have been an MT now for 7-1/2 years and make 50K. Not sure of how many babysitters do that in 40 hours.
I can't speak for everyone, but I like it here
I have a great lead, who is very knowledgeable, kind and even funny at times - and she tries her best to keep things running smoothly, and pleasant. I don't know how the other leads are, but I would at least give them a chance. I've got no complaints.
Did you really speak to him?
I was a one of those MTs who made 3cpl. If he denies that they pay newbies this amount...he is lying. If he denies that you have to wait a month or more to be paid...he is lying...unless something has changed.
I can't speak for anybody else,
but as far as these posts go, I use the same initials all the time, so no, I haven't posted multiple times under different names, but I do know of several people who quit this place because of the owners nastiness, and lack of work. Even a QA person quit who was getting paid hourly, in one week she had a total of 6 hours work, nobody can live on that. I was there eight months and they kept promising me work, but it never came. It's landmark and made up of disgruntled ex-MQers.
Can't speak for all MTs but I have been
MTing for about 5 years and looking to get out of this field. I do not want to be an old timer. I have found out that hard work does not always pay off in this field. I worked 7 days a week with this company because I was eager to learn the account, learn the dictators and bring up my line count. When my lines got into the extra money range -- BOOM - here come dictators that were not around previously. I'm sick and tired of the games MTSOs play and don't want to complain about the same thing 25 years from now. The other thing is this - they are looking for people to work the holiday with no incentive. As far as I'm concerned - let the owner of the company work. I'm tired of their games.
OBVIOUSLY I DO NOT SPEAK FOR EVERYONE...
Not everyone is smart enough to get out of a terrible work enviornment, and that is why they are still in business.
please don't speak for all of us
I have no interest in this company either, but I dislike board bullies who tell people what they should or should not post about. Another pet peeve -- responders with check the archives reply. We can post and respond to what we like -- we do not need people (besides moderators) patrolling these boards. Think Dwight on The Office . . . . you are he!
Can't speak for everyone else, but...
I got fed up with everyone bashing me for making positive comments! I love my job at Keystrokes. I have been here since January and am very satisfied with my primary account and my direct deposit paychecks.
I have answered several posters requesting information about Keystrokes, but, frankly, I do not appreciate the negativity I was shown in response from some anonymous posters. Therefore, I chose not to respond to this post - but I guess I did, anyway!
I can't speak for TT
but I use the cntr I feature where I work and what I see is what I get paid for, this already has headers and footers taken out, and I don't find anything amiss with it. I find it to be very fair and accurate. Guess every company has their own way of what they count and what they don't and is totally up to their discretion.
I can only speak for myself, but (sm)
I was told that my doctors would be about 50:50. That was 2 years ago. I have since added several backup accts that have more ESLs than the original one; but I have yet to encounter one where I had that bad of a time with it. Like the above poster said, you can pretty much figure out what they are saying by looking at samples; also, as someone else said, more than allowed # of blanks, give to QA. I wish I knew what this acct was everybody is complaining about (I'm thinking it might be the one I do). First initial of the place maybe? Can we do that?
I cannot speak for others, but I was .....sm
asked to go part-time. I basically lost all my benefits when I went part-time though. They worked with me for as long as they could, but we just came to an agreement and that is what I did. I am not sure what others have done though, so I would go to your supervisor and tell her your concerns and see what you can work out with them, as they tried their best to work with me, so they should work with you. Good luck. 
You speak for most of us
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Have to speak up here.
Amphion's accounts used various degrees of BOS and some none at all. In fact, there were accounts that required you to capitalize every drug, generic or name brand. They don't strictly follow the AAMT BOS, they follow their own rules, and many different ones at that.
That does not mean they do not speak clearly.
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please don't speak for me
we are ALL not in a sad state. and ya know what.... right now this is my dream job. I'm happy as a clam.
Speak for yourself. 50K is OK with me. nm
Can't speak for others, but
I've never even come close to running out of work. The platform is great, there's a fair amount of flexibility, and the people are absolutely wonderful. Webmedx was just named 2008 AHDI Employer of the Year -- and it didn't surprise me at all!
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, KEEP YOUR VR..NM
SPEAK FOR....
yourself. There is every arrangement from nuts to diapers in this industry. People need to learn to speak their own experience what happenned, not conjecture. In turn, let people speak their opinion and dont say they're so wrong. I have worked in manyh responsible jobs in m life... in hospitals. Nothing has come close to beating me up like this industry. And I'm working on it!
Well, at least they speak...
...the same language....sort of!
I can't speak for TT...
But I have worked for Keystrokes, and I found management there to be extremely flaky. I guess it depends on what exactly you are looking for. The pay is okay. They are pretty flexible with scheduling, but you will not get overtime there despite the fact that many leads there push for the MTs to work overtime on a regular basis. I'm sure there are other MTs here who work for them and can give you additional opinions.
Speak for yourself!
I get so tired of hearing the discouraging side of this job. I for one am very happy and do very well as being an MT. I make 11 cpl/60-character line, have excellent health insurance (110.00 a month for family), and the flexibility of working the hours I want to. I have worked for a hospital for 17 years, been home now for about 13 of those years. I am an employee and could go nowhere else and make 25 to 28.00 an hour like I'm currently doing. We all need to support each other. There are good jobs out there, but sometimes you have to look for them or make the best of the job you do have.
You don’t speak for everyone- should be I want her here
You are assuming because apparently not everyone delights in her postings.
Speak for yourself, but I'm a rather shapely 56-y-o MT whose been sm
transcribing over 30 years. I stay trim making several trips to the fridge daily.
I'm a recruiter. I can only speak for myself, but
I would never post a rah-rah email on a board. Maybe others do, but it really kinda makes me sick to my stomach to think that they might.
I keep an eye on the boards, but I certainly don't run to management to report on State of the Boards. If they want to know, they can read it themselves!
Good thoughts in the post above, though!
Once again you are way off base. I can only speak for myself
and about 20 other people who left OSi a little while back and we are all doing great, couldn't be happier, all working for a great company with awesome people. To be quite honest with you....you are our entertainment!
If things were so good at OSi you wouldn't be on here trying to draw MTs in for them. OSi is over, face it punkin!
I would speak with a recruiter
The line rate could vary according to experience, office, account, etcetera. I only know what I was offered and would not want to steer anyone in the wrong direction. As I said before, it was about midline according to what most nationals are offering, but the great account I have plus the wonderful platform allow me to make more in the longrun with increased production. I have been with 3 other nationals and really feel I have found my "home" with Cymed.
I'd really like to speak to you about radiology at MQ.
Can I email you or would you email me?
busymting@hotmail.com
Thank you!
"We have all tried that?" How can you speak for everyone? sm
I did complain and received a tertiary account. It did get a bit slow for a few weeks around the holidays, but everything seems full speed ahead now and I have more work that I can get done. I never considered quitting. MDI has been very good to me. Sorry your experience was not the same. :(
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