your short-term experience is why - 5 is nothing in the field. NM

• come on - seriously!
  • Just started at 10 cpl as an employee. - Have never had such a low offer.
    • Where would that be? - Jenny
      • Believe It, BUT..... - MsMT
      • Focus. - Have never had such a low offer.
      • Pay.... - Happy MT
        • Isn't FutureNet IC only, though? 10 cpl either way is good, but I thought they were - talking about employee status nm
          • FN - Yes it is...
            • Wow ... I would love that kind of pay! I do not care so much about PTO, sm - LTMT
              • Well then... - MT
              • Work. - Happy2
        • I make 10.5 employee status - mtmt
      • Just somebody stirring things up. Not true. - tell me lies
        • FN does pay 10 cpl, but - notalie
        • I have seen companies offering 10 cpl on the job ads. - Why so hard to believe?
          • They hired me for night shift and offered 8 and 4! - Not True
            • Check the most recent Focus ad. - Specifically say third shift differential.
            • That is what the recruiter told me. - sm
        • I make that too, have not had a raise in 12 years though. - nope
      • That is why people don't say where they - JD
      • It's because they are living in a falsehood. - another emtee
  • me too - agree
    • If you seriously make 10 cpl, could you please e-mail - No where near 10 cpl.
      • That kind of pay is for acute care because it's more - difficult than clinic.
      • I dont think you will make more than that for clinic work. - MQMT
        • And with 20+ years, you still get offered - the same the highest being 9.
        • clinic mt - NDMT
          • I work for local clinic 17 cpl - DJ
          • I'm making 9.5 for clinic work - Anon
          • 9 cpl - me too
            • Companies - Curious
            • I AM AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR - me too
          • Can you e-mail me the company you got hired with? - No where near 10 cpl.
            • your short-term experience is why - 5 is nothing in the field. NM - anonabon

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It seems like I only get the worst of the worst dictators from the hospital.  I see other "American" names but have never seen them dictate.  I get nothing but ESL or very poor dictators.  I do think they take nothing but overflow work also on certain accounts. 

I also  agree that they over-hire.  I have not been able to make full-time lines in the last 6 pay periods--never any work during the day, and when there is, it is the crappy (maybe leftover) stuff that no one else wants to do. 

QA is not that nice, and even though they know we get all the crappy dictators, they have told us that we are sending too much to QA and that until QA catches up because we are not figuring out our own problems, we cannot be assigned to any new accounts.  I already have 4 but still not enough work.  I am relatively new so decided to tough it out and wait to see if maybe there is more work later.

I don't HATE Webmedx, but they do have some problems that you may want to stay away from. 

Just my opinion...

I have only worked for national companies for 4 years.  

Softscript:  Extremely rigid schedule and not very willing to bend even for family issues.  They only allowed 2 flexes per month.

Currently, I work for a company under Spheris with very low work load right now.  I am seriously wondering about the future of the MT??     

I think it's human nature.  I used to hang out on the General Hospital board on ABC.com (I'm a soap opera geek) and it amazed me at how nasty some of those women would be to other posters who weren't quite up to snuff.  I've seen all out board wars develop.  If it was a full moon and I was PMSing, I enjoyed the spectacle, but most of the time I got a little disgusted with them.  Don't even get me started on how nasty it got before the election.  

I do get surprised at some of the negativity that is posted here, but I can understand how it's hard to be really super positive in today's world. 

Maybe I should have said horrible dictators, because some of the ESL guys are not that bad honestly.  It just happens that they used a horrible dictator with bad audio for the transcribing portion of the test.  You do have to think $$ these days, no matter who you transcribe for.  If you are on let's say an Ortho account, and there are horrible dictators there (ESLs and all) that it interferes with your income.  You are making $30,000/year - while on a previous Ortho account you know you were making over $40,000/year.  Honestly, aren't you going to look for a more profitable account??  You can be the best MT in the world, but it is still the dictator's responsibility for what prints out, isn't it.  Accurate garbage is still accurate garbage.  Is it profitable?  We really do work for the paychecks - not the doctor, the company, or even the patient for that matter.  If not, then you should be volunteering.

It really shouldn't be that hard to find out which female MLS started 4 months ago with 15 years experience and is making 10 cpl, since 10 cpl is NOT a normal starting wage at Transcend.  You are aware that discussing your wages is ground for termination, right?  You really have to be careful when trying to get those referral bonuses that you give accurate information.

Everyone is always bickering and knows it all.  I am by no means a recruiter.  I was just reading the posts, had been there myself, and thought I would offer some friendly advice, but some people think they know everything and try to discourage others from something good.  Sad world today.  Sad people.

"Palpation over the muscular tissues reveals mild tenderness in the bilateral paraspinals (s/l: clavatus or quivatus, and spiro-glineal) region."  I can't figure it out and am hoping someone out there will give it a shot!  The words in parentheses aren't words I know, they just sound like what he's saying.  TIA.

Do you want no QA department at all? Do you want to not have to have your work checked all the time? I'm not sure what you mean.

nm

or any ethnicity within a derogatory connotation, it most certainly is racist.  Go check your dictionary for the definition. 

Does management really not realize that if you run out of work on your primary account and have to work on 3, 4, or 5 different accounts that are unfamiliar and sometimes all on different platforms, that in itself is limiting?  I've done this so many times I can't even begin to count them.  I'm lucky if I make $8 an hour doing this, and the ONLY way it would help me reach my needed rate to qualify for full-time benefits is if I do it 15 hours a day!  How is this 'self-limiting?' If you're THAT familiar with your backup accounts where you're making what you do on your primary, you're running out of work consistently and this would make what they say about it being occasional an inconsistency.

Hello everyone, I have been reading the posts on this board for the last couple of weeks.  Most of the postings are helpful, but there are some who just break out into an all out war with one another.  I have not been able to tell if it is the majority or not yet.  Why do you think that is?   

Do you think this field makes you feel that you have to compete one another?  Do you think that is because of the isolation?  Working at home is isolation, but even in a hospital setting you are isolated.  Let's face it, we have those earplugs stuck in our ears all day.   We have the ongoing pressure that we have to get our line count, or more.  Do you find that there is a lot of hostility in this field, or is it just because we are women?  Do you think it might be that we feel unappreciated?  We were even told by a coder, at the hospital I worked at, that we were nothing more than glorified typists.

Let's face it, with the amount of time that it takes to master this occupation we could have all had a degree in something.  Some of you already have.  If you work by the line - if you have the experience, the typing skills, use your abbreviation expander, and have a steady work flow - you can make a decent living - but based on the typing skills, work flow, etc. etc. it is not a guarantee.  That is a lot of pressure when you think about it.  That is a different kind of pressure than other jobs.  I am not trying to be negative, I just noticed that there seems to be a lot of hostility and I noticed that at the hospital, where I worked, for 15 years also.  I got along with everyone I worked with.  In order to be able to get along with the transcribers I use to work with, I had to become very thick-skinned, because basically they were just mean.   Has anyone else noticed this?  Do you think it is the job?  What do you think?  I am not attacking the transcription field, just something I have noticed over the years.       

Why isn't there anything that we can do as transcriptionists to make our profession stable again?  I take this career seriously because I NEED full-time work.  There are so many companies out there that are using this forum to really take advantage of the members here and elsewhere.  I recently interviewed for a company who actually had the audacity to expect me to work for a week before being put on the payroll, and this was after extensive testing.  I have over 20+ years in this industry and thought that I had seen it all.  This encounter  nearly created a hardship because I would have had to give up another position.  When you apply for a TRANSCRIPTION job, unless discussed prior, you should be given a Transcriptionist job and not have editing at 4 cpl be given as your put up or get out.

Just my opinion, but I believe that MTStars should screen their employers before allowing them to post.  The content and frustration seen in the posts can attest to that.  We are real people who need to have an income.  If I was doing this for just extra money or wanted to be home with my kids it would be another story.  But this a matter of survival here. 

Thanks for listening!

Thank you for your response.  I have found that when a name of the company is mentioned in a negative way, the post disappears.  I am not a newbie at this, in fact, I worked for one of the major companies who actually tried to recruit me (for extra time after my QA job) to search the board to find out if any current MTs were complaining, etc.  I, of course, refused and luckily did not suffer any repercussions because of it.  I feel that this board is valuable and should not be abused, but you must be careful whose name you mention and in what way.  I am beginning to feel it is a never-ending battle to stay employed in this field with some of the stunts some are pulling.  A recent one was a degree in medical transcription?  I guess there possibly is such a thing now, but what are the rest of us experienced MTs supposed to do - lay down and die?  Where I live the majority of major hospitals including the one I currently work for are either outsourcing or cutting wages down, so many of us fall victim.

Thank you for just letting me have my say.