wouldn't her lawyer guide here on that? NM
Posted By: anon on 2009-08-08
In Reply to: We have to unite and fight back before other MTSOs - try this. Maybe by a petition
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Use TurboTax and it will guide you... excellent
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Did you find a "style guide?"
I have received no answered to my concerns. There are things that are required that differ from the norm for transcribing. Again, it is unfair to require us to be technicians as well as skilled MTs.
Passed in Feb 2008-CMT Review Guide
Humans require a leader to guide us.
Or we can lead the pack...if we have leadership qualities recognized by our peers.
Peace will guide the planets! Finally! nm
Are you really a lawyer?
Are you really a lawyer?
the Lawyer said....
In using .PDF documents are encrpyted by a date when it was turned into .PDF and somewhat protected by tampering. Like a scanned or picture it could be detected by experts if needed to undergo tests. Thus making a case to go into court.
everyone needs a lawyer
If that's the case, everyone on these boards need attorneys. We all can state our opinions without the fear of being tromped on like you are doing. If you like the company, that is wonderful. Goodness gracious. Calm down. It is okay.
You are a lawyer then?
I certainly am not a lawyer but I cannot possibly imagine a company being required to pay OT they didn't ask to be worked. So far as emails I have personally received asking for help to meet TAT,they ALWAYS say something to the effect of....if you have not met your line or hour requirements...if they want over time they ask for it and they INSIST on paying for it!!!!
One thing I do agree with you on is the discipline you mentioned. Might be a good idea for someone to let management at TT know what is being said here and I would personally be delighted if they could identify the malcontents and FIRE them. All-in-all Transtech is a good company...not perfect by any means...but as an old goat with nearly half a century in this business I can tell you there are a WHOLE LOT worse companies out there and I hope some of you find them. You deserve it!
I am not a lawyer but I wonder
what the Labor Commission might say about requiring someone to work for a week without pay before hiring. I'll betcha they would say plenty. Might be worth running it past them. Where do you live? I know that in California that kind of nonsense would never fly.
I wish people wouldn't be so encouraging. Then maybe we wouldn't constantly run
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Now that's funny, I wish I was a lawyer and not an MT,
I could delegate work to the paralegals and make the big bucks instead of sitting here 10 hours a day, often 7 days a week with swollen legs and an aching back.
i hope you pay your lawyer more than your MTs. lol NM
I would contact a lawyer
Keep all your documentation and contact a lawyer. Good luck! What a low-down scheme - and I think All Type is behind it 100%!
Anybody know a good lawyer?
We need to,like the court reporters did, file a class action lawsuit against these snake oil salesmen who want to jettison our tried and true dictation and transcription mode of medical record keeping. They have every trick in the book to try to convince doctors and hospitals to do VR or EMR and it hasn't turned out very well for them. They spend more time with their nose in the computer for EMR point and click entry than they do with the patient. VR, well don't get me started. Anyway, the court reporters fought voice reporting and won and now they don't use it anymore. We can't just keep sitting here like potted plants. We must do something.
Maybe the best advice your lawyer can give
is to leave well enough alone when these threads start. I have personally witnessed your responses on countless threads on more than just one board, and I am always amazed at how you just don't understand you hurt yourself more than any posting of =rumors= about your company. You say we don't know how you run your business. Well, we know a lot more about it now with your post than we did before, don't we? (psst, so do your competetors) Is that necessarily a good thing? I don't see the CEO of Medquist running around on here trying to imply legal ramifications or trying to help us understand that company's way of conducting business. In 1997 I quit a company where the owner sent out a memo telling employees not to discuss it on the internet. It amazes me that an owner believes s/he has the kind of control over anyone to regulate what the people who work for them think or do OR feel intimidated that your lawyer is going into the Big Brother Business.
For the record, I have never looked into working for your company, am not a former employee/contractor, have no interest in doing any sort of business with you whatsoever. The reason I mention this is because I have mentioned this to you in the past and it continues to fall on deaf ears. You do more harm by what you say than any of the MTs, editors, students, curious onlookers, do here. If you try to hold your head up high and let things be, the reputation of your company could possibly benefit, but then, I don't control what you say, think, feel or do, either.
When I recently contacted a lawyer who represents outsourcing employers about what I thought was a rather intrusive employee handbook with strict verbage about talking about that company in public and even in private email, her response to me was to sign it. She reminded me that it didn't change what I thought, but employers don't like employees/contractors bad mouthing them, and then asked me why I felt it was a big deal. So now I'm going to offer you to think about that from your side. Employees/contractors don't like employers bad mouthing them, and by the way, why is it a big deal for you? Tend to your business and let go of what you can't control.
my 2 cents for what it is worth
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They'll be getting a letter from my lawyer...
... if I don't get a check by the end of the week. I already informed her of that. We'll see how easy that is to ignore. She isn't in the US right now or I'd sure be calling her every day, multiple times a day until I saw a check.
It's definitely illegal... call a lawyer and you will see.........sm
There are lawyer who specialize in labor law and they will tell you. Although young people can be ill, this is slanted toward the eldery as far as the bias. And right, you cannot discriminate against someone who is handicapped and I'm sure they have a lot of medical bills. I'm telling you, these companies are in for some trouble!
wrong answer and any lawyer
the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage. If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule. No one knows when the work is available. These companies place work into the system at any given time. It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.
Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us. As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way!
This sounds like one of those lawyer commercials --
Thats good and great, always consult a lawyer.
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Lawyer alert! Fishing for info!
Looking for biziness??
Uhmmm shouldn't you be consulting your lawyer
Ya know this has taken over the entire company board, and it's not fair. No one can even ask regular questions due to all this mess.
issues talk to lawyer. This is easier than starving?
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At my company I'd ask for $18; probably wouldn't get it, but I wouldn't go lower. nm
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I worked there a long time ago. FInally got paid by going in with a group who got a lawyer. sm
I can't believe they're still in business!
Well, call a lawyer then. A good one. You could even get court costs paid by your employer probabl
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I wouldn't do it again...
I was trained on one portion of an account (4 new hospitals they got), and it was GREAT! I loved it, told my husband I was SO happy working with them. Then, training ended ... I got switched to the hospital I was hired for (although no one told me that during training), and OMG - it's AWFUL. I can't make a dime. It's either all ESLs that I absolutely cannot understand (and I've been doing ESLs for a long time), or English-speaking guys that are terrible. My rate has gone down tremendously. And, if you have tech problems - you have to e-mail tech support and wait for them to respond. So, like this weekend, I have tech problems and am sitting here with my thumb up my nose waiting for a dopey teckie to get on my problem. I begged them, in an e-mail of course, to CALL me so we could resolve the problem and I could get back to work. Still waiting for that phone call, and it's been since yesterday evening. So, no $$$. About a month ago, I would have told you - GREAT place to work. Right now, I'd have to tell you to RUN AWAY!
I wouldn't do it
Diddles:
To me these things are a big red flag about a company. My reaction would be that they are very controlling and if they are trying to control your speech on the Internet there will be many worse things to come.
I believe a lot of these companies make you jump through hoops, i.e., testing, paper work, etc. before they give you any answers about specifics just so you WILL feel like you have already invested a lot in time and emotion and will not turn back, which is another very good reason to not allow them to silence us on the Internet. There is very valid information to be shared about companies which is neither bashing nor praising but just that - information allowing us to make a decision about whether a company would be a good fit for us or not - BEFORE doing all the testing.
You must have some doubt in your mind about this or you would not be here asking the question. Go with your gut instinct. There are many good companies out there who do not impose these types of restrictions. 
LOL - wouldn't last a day at TSI.. is that
supposed to be a compliment? LOL....
I wouldn't say that...sm
most companies do not say how much they pay because anyone that was any good would not even test then. They also do not base pay on how well you do on the test. You could ace it and still get offered 7 cpl because that is what they start at, no matter how much experience and knowledge you have. Raises are also few and far between. jmo
I wouldn't
It took 7 weeks of my waiting around to get work and then they finally got me on an account and there was no work. One problem after another. Passed between departments, no one ever giving the complete story.
Sad way to run a business in my opinion.
I wouldn't even consider it!
There are MUCH better companies out there...and ones that pay every 2 weeks as opposed to monthly! I would NEVER take a job that paid only once a month!
...nm up there. Pay wouldn't go over 9 cpl not even with
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I wouldn't...
I am an experienced MT with 30+ years of experience. I just left this company. First of all, they outsource ALL of the good job types/dictators to India. Secondly, whatever the Indians can't do, they send to ASR. If you are happy to be relegated to an ASR Editor making peanuts, or transcribing the really, really bottom of the barrel reports, then go for it. If you are looking for respect, honest and open communication, plus decent pay, I wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole. I wouldn't send my worst enemy to Precyse.
you wouldn't know...
you are not morbidly obese. Until you have lived a day in my shoes, save your opinions for someone who cares.
And they wouldn't be the only
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I wouldn't run s/m
I would politely tell that recruiter where he could put his job and that would be where the sun doesn't shine! This should tell you what kind of integrity this company has. Congratulations to you for doing the right thing and giving appropriate notice.
P.S...... and I wouldn't be doing this for a
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Me too, and wouldn't want to be anywhere else! sm
I can't believe how many MTs on this board are so miserable and getting SO ripped off! Direct Deposit is always on time for us at Webmedx, pay rate fair, good incentive plan. And I have plenty of work (most of the time, you have to admit that everyone runs out occasionally).
Why wouldn't you ask up sm
front in order to avoid wasting yours or their time what the pay scale was, or at least ballpark. The time allotted doesn't sound unreasonable to complete the test. If you bring experience and skill it's do-able. Someone who cannot complete in that time may not be the best match. Definitely ask up front next time about pay scale and if it's in line with your expectations. If not, you thank them anyway, but no thanks and move on.
I wouldn't be so sure about that,
Check the labels in all your clothes, check the boxes the toys came in, check everything. Very little we buy (even at godalmighty walmart) is made in the US. Just because you buy it here, don't be sure it's made here.
Exactly why I wouldn't do this with others.
Sounds like your mom and your sister want the benefits of having their own accounts (higher pay), but want someone to do the extra work for them. Not the type of people I would want to get into business with.
I wouldn't, because it seems that all
that is a joy in your life you would not be able to participate in. Our pets are just 4-legged children and it would take a lot for me to have to get rid of any of them. You do what you have to do, especially these days, but I would have to keep exploring options at this point.
I wouldn't think so...sm
Im having almost the exact same problem. Im short on work, have sent emails to owner, etc..no answer. Looking for another part-time, no luck so far.
I would think that would be beneficial to them..being you are already trained and will require little if any startup time.
WMX wouldn't be so bad if...
ChartMatrix wasn't as slow as molasses. Don't know anything about Enterprise though. Is it faster than CM? Any rad accounts for Enterprise?
you probably wouldn't want that job anyway.
Probably has a LOT of ESLs, so that is why they test that way, to see how you do. Of course, we are all cold testing and that is always daunting. I hope you hear from one of the other companies. 
I wouldn't say more than what has (sm)
been said. There are people from the company (not us peons) here daily and you are lucky to get what little info is given here. You can keep asking but I doubt very much anyone else is going to go into any more than what is here already.
I wouldn't do it.
Sounds like they are getting their work done for free.
Ten reports is an unusual number for testing purposes. Just 3-4 is more like it.
I know, but wouldn't you just like to know? (sm)
I have been lied to from a company before as to why we were getting a pay cut. I guess curiosity is getting the best of me. I am thinking the MTSOs are charging like 15 to 16 cpl, which would mean that most of them are keeping half.
It definitely wouldn't be for everyone
But I know there are several of the fundamentalist Christian groups that would do just fine, and I'm sure there are at least a few muslim MTs. If I didn't like to drive, smoke, schlep around in jeans, and have responsibilities here that required daily attention, it would probably be worth considering, at least for the short term.
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