work is decreasing because VR is replacing 10 MT's with 2 and India et al is taking 2 jobs out
Posted By: of every 5 on 2006-05-24
In Reply to: Does it seem that work has decreased in many areas since - just to have plenty of work
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Which is why India keeps taking our jobs away. nm
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SGS, cheap and would rather ship your job to india, where they have 100s of MTs taking our jobs!
Yes, on eScription...making about $5 and hour if lucky! they quote you a pretty good line rate for typing, but half that for editing, and it's mostly editing. then, with all the crap they throw at you, (this dr. wants this, be sure to fill in that, don't submit a report w/o this, and 30 pages of account specifics?) it's time consuming. and the templates are a nightmare, the drs. are all over the place on them, not following them, so when editing them it takes forever. @ 4cpl you can spend 15 minutes on one and make $1.00. RUN!
Especially if your jobs are going to India
is to pad for the future since they have been banned from advertising on MT Stars - thus losing a huge potential job pool.
Well it ain't slow in India where your jobs are going.
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We need to team up together--India says they will have all of our MT jobs by 2010 (I think)
EVERYONE!!
It is time that we take a stand together and fight for our jobs!! We need to encourage others, especially our younger generations, to work as MTs AND we need to broadcast that the American peoples medical history is going offshore!! Let's not let them take our jobs!! Let's give them a run for their money!! I am not a prejudiced person, but I believe that we should do our own MT reports and they should do their own from their OWN country!!!!! If you are with me, send me an e-mail!!
Jobs being sent to India - good companies who don't outsource
I've been working for a company for a few years now. This company has started to remove several job types with greater turnaround times to India from our exiting accounts. There was not enough work over the holidays to get in all of my hours (I know work is normally slow then), and this trend is still continuing. We used to have a primary account and a secondary account as a back-up, but now I'm working on at least 5 or 6 accounts just to have enough work to complete my 8-hour shift.
Direct link to their ads in India on YahooGroups MTIndia-Jobs.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTIndia-Jobs/message/69
Cherrypicking is when you work from a pool of jobs and being able to reject the worst jobs to those
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Decreasing 401Ks
Yes,my 401K has decreased by about 40%. How much it decreases depends on how it is invested, and the only way it can go to 0 is if the investments you have it in become totally worthless. This is pretty much impossible unless you had it invested in a single stock, which you can't do in the Spheris 401K plan (I was a Spheris employee up until July, and had a lot in the 401K, and I know what the investment options are). What you're describing doesn't make sense. Not trying to cause trouble, just curious about what you are saying, as it does not seem to be possible.
What it will get is ever decreasing wages. n/m
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Maybe they are replacing the OP! sm
She says that they are nitpicking her work. They might need someone to take her place.
They have a lot of work; that's why they're hiring.
Is Axolotl getting new accounts or replacing MTs?
Are they hiring for new accounts? Is it Acute Care or Clinic? Seems like a lot of chatter recently on the board about companies running out of work between Thanksgiving and Christmas and I heard Axolotl was a small company with very few acute care accounts to begin with. New accounts don't always go live when expected. Just wondering how much work there will be for new hires. Since you currently work there, any other info you feel comfortable passing on would be appreciated such as ESL and QA. Thanks.
Speech Rec replacing MT in future
I work with Speech Recognition every day and, believe me, there is no threat of it replacing me as an MT for a very, very long time. It does not have a clue as to what doctors are saying or which part of the body it is talking about. Most of my time is spent fixing what it put and I could actually type it faster. It does put together very funny sentences though and that kind of lightens up my day. LOL Not to worry.
So YOU are the one taking all the work!!
Just kidding
I give her a couple more months and she will take a serious nose dive. She has to keep replacing he
and start all over cheating them out of money.
try taking your own advice and work on that
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I'll tell you how its taking work
Say you, and others like you, come on (or remain on) at the beginning of my shift. The work volumes drop dramatically as YOU make up your hours - TAT issues or not. By the time you've made up your time, there's maybe an hour's worth of work left. That runs out rapidly as my shift was already FULLY staffed, and I get stuck sitting there the whole 12 hour window - and if I'm lucky enough work will trickle in during those extra 4 hours that ALL of us scheduled to work my shift that are fighting for it can get their time in and call it a night.
Night after night I run out of work an hour or 2 before my 8 hours are in. Sometimes I only have 20 minutes left to type - but I am forced to sit there 4 extra hours in order to get that stupid 20 minutes - knowing I'll be short EVERY night, so if I don't make my 8 tonight, the chances of me making it up another day are very slim, because everyone is flexing all over the place. Sure it gives us perfect TAT - it also gives us 4 hours of our lives a day, wasted and unpaid!
No I do NOT want to make it up on my days off. I am already spending 12+ hours a day chained to my workstation. My days off are sacred for my sanity. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it certainly bothers me, and I quit the last job I had where flexing 24/7 was expected.
I know you need to make your hours. We all do. The MTs are just doing what they have to do. The only real solution is to STOP OVERHIRING. Otherwise flexing eventually gets forced on every employee on every shift, whether they mind it or not!
NO FAIR LEADS TAKING BEST WORK - sm
But I don't suppose this is a new issue, is it? Leads have to get in their lines, too, which I was surprised to learn - however, it shed light on a lot of things, like getting all crap/ESL, difficult work, this was before good work went VR and we actually did have some good dictators.
But as soon as one of the good jobs turned up in the MTs queue (after a while can often tell by MD ID#) - it disappeared just as fast, replaced by a piece of ----. Had asked lead a few times after this happened, who rudely answered that, what difference did it make to me - I hadn't started on the job yet, anyway.
In all fairness, work should flow naturally - first come, first serve, with the next available MT for the next available job. But as long as the Leads have control over this, they'll continue to get the best work. Lot of complaints also on this board re. Cherrypickers and blaming the MT (who get blamed for most everything, anyway) we need to look at WHO has control over work distributed and who benefits from having that control, and it's not the MT. 
Much good work going to India. Bad work left
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Now most of the work is done in India.
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To say the work that comes in from India is awful...
... is an understatement. I would pull some of those jobs that had beentranscribed in India and there were some that had entire sections crossed out and retyped because they were wrong (and scary wrong too - wrong medications...). The hospital I used to work for uses them and when I still worked at HealthScribe India was doing this hospitals discharge summaries. I refuse to use that hospital because I know the transcription will be of very poor quality andI refuse to play games with my health and the health of my loves ones.
Work is going to India or some other country. nm
All of CBays work goes to India. nm
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Most of their work is done in India by Indian MTs. sm
Tell your lead person you need more work and commit to it. They will work with you if you are good with a high accuracy rating.
Good luck - been there, done that, ain't going back ever!
Thank NAFTA for work going to India
AAMT cannot discriminate because of this law (I asked them years ago). I think 50% of new MTs being from India shows their determination and pursuit of excellence; perhaps American MTs need to follow their example and compete! I challenge MTs to be the best they can, and that is at this pont determined by their ability to pass the CMT exam. Go, girls!
Exactly. India work stinks.
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You are a fool to think US work won't go to India
Happened to a group of us. We had a US force and India force, and guess what, it was more cost efficient to send ALL work overseas, hence all US employees laid off. You really are naive to think they won't do that someday, but I hope you drain their pockets dry before they do.
What has sending work to India done?
We have upset the economy of India, creating an even larger rift and making the poor even poorer because we have inflated the economy in the cities and of those who have had a chance to be educated. The poor have lost even more footing.
We have lost job opportunities for our own Americans, but the companies continue charge the hospitals the same amount for transciption, however their overhead continues to drop, corporate salaries continue to increase and our rate of pay stays the same or drops.
India is a country that allows very very little importing of anything made in the US, so it is a 1 way deal for them.
The individuals from other companies do not pay taxes, so we continue to pay to support those in our country who have gone on the public roles for aid and assistance.
Wouldn't it be nicer to have some of these people working again?
Yes they do send work to India
I know because they told someone I know who is a facility that they would if they wanted their work sent over there.
go to India and work with those people sm
you support so well.
I wonder why they don't send a lot or all of their work to India? That's where a lot of work&
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I *do* work at Precyse and most of the work is going to India
Yes that is the company MQ uses to send work to India.
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I edit the work that comes back from India. (sm)
Not sure why they did not tell you the truth. That REALLY bothers me.
Anyone know anything about Cbay out of Maryland and if all their work goes to India. Do they use any
American MTs or what is the deal.
Yep, all the work is in India now. I bet the quality is great! sm
They'll get theirs in the end. They should be ashamed of themselves. What a crappy way to tell us too. The supervisors didn't even have the balls to tell us, they made HR do it. We should file a lawsuit.
MDI-FL has India contact they supply work to. nm
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Yeah..they are dishonest. They most certainly are in India. Do you really want to work for someone
that is dishonest?? not me..
Check the archives. Most work done in India, they
have office in India. I have never seen anything good about them.
Webmedx does NOT send work to India.
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Transcend most certainly does send work to India.
And they are proud to have these partners
Plenty of work if you live in India
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Correct --did NOT off-shore work to India sm
The rest of the post was **...SENT WORK TO INDIA A FEW MONTHS AGO** making it sound like MTs were laid off BECAUSE their work went to India.
If you have any familiarity with this company, you know that the none of the DRC/Acusis accounts are allowed by the clients to be typed outside of the US.
So YES, there was a lay-off, but NO it didn't have anything to do with India.
PS: Offshore and outsource are not the same thing. But you know that, too, right? ;-)
It's not just overhiring. They are sending the best work to India.
They have always sent work there but I believe they have geared up these efforts in the past six months, and the easiet work (ER). That is when I noticed there was not consistent work. I had to move on and so will others.
No India? Most of the work goes there. I quit last August SM
could not make any money there.
Spheris sends most work to India. SM
They are most certainly NOT a company to work for, if you are a single mom.
Does Transtech send work to India? nm
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Not hiring because they send most their work to India
That is why I work 2 jobs, 1 FT and
1 PT, so I NEVER run out of work. If 1 runs out, I switch to the other. It is working out great. Ya got to keep ya U-know-what covered. (Hope I'm not banned for that.)
PT IC's who work 2 or more jobs (sm)
What kind of interesting schedules do you keep? Do you work X amount of lines on X days? Days versus evenings? Weekend sometimes? Just trying to get an idea and be creative with my scheduled and would love to hear how you manage to juggle...thanks!
Would you work two jobs if the first
says you cannot work for anyone else as long as you work for them and that all your transcription time must be for them only? This includes above a 40-hour week. Do you think they'd find out if I did? I am thinking of it because of the account I'm on and cannot make any money with.
My account is very complicated and they are always asking for extra help on it and it does not pay well. The account specs and headers are very intricate. You are supposed to know when dictators want stuff that they don't even ask for and the specs are constantly changed and updatead. The company does not pay for spaces or headers. I made 5.39 cents yesterday for two hours work. That's nuts. I've got two years experience and am not toally new, but can't make any money on this account and the company can't hardly keep anyone on it either. They don't seem to understand why they can't anyone and keep saying is it such a nice account. Duh!
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