13 cpl, 26 years exp, also not telling name of company.. nm
Posted By: Happy as a Clam on 2005-08-21
In Reply to: What company are you currently at, what is your base - please share!!!
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Just telling it as I see it after all these years
in the business, know what I am talking about. I was told by a manager in the early 90s I would not see voice recognition in my lifetime. Well, guess what folks, it is here and automation is taking over a lot. I am thankful for the money I made in the past in order to raise a family and it was excellent money BUT I am right on the money as far as what I have said, just type faster because I do not see this as a profitable job as it once was. Some agree and some won't but the business is down the drain for MTs these days. In the 80s I worked outside my regular 40 hr week and charged $20 an hour - wonder how many places pay that now?? You are lucky if you have any.
Please consider telling us what company
Please.
8 years ago she was telling the truth-sm
and at that time, my income from just ONE job was $45,000 a year, and that job had great insurance/PTO/other benefits. About 5 years ago it all changed, the income started dropping, and the benefits started getting harder to find and more expensive.
Today, I will be lucky to make $33,000 from my full time job and I have to supplement with part-time work. I do have health insurance and it is about $100 a month for single, so I am lucky there.
Yes, it's time to do something else. I'm tired.
MT: 24 years. Same company: 11 years same co. after buyout.
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22 years, same company 10 years nm
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I had been with a company for 5 years and
asked for a raise. Well, they said we have to audit you and we will see. I said okay (been doin the SAME doctor for years with a QA of 100%). They come back with "im sorry we are going to have to decrease your pay and put you on probation you only scored 92%. Really on the same ones i recieve 100%? I quit!! OH and if you want to know which company RIU.
14 years was not enough for her company!!!
Wow - I wonder what they ARE looking for! ha ha
18 years, 14 with one company
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16+ years, 14 with same company
And about to change.....but soooo scared to do it !!!
I work for a company in NY and they had to do this a few years ago. I think sm
that most will need to do this as the IRS does not think that MTs are eligible to be ICs.
The company that I work for had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines because of it all.
For insurance, for professional liability insurance, I was told that you have to be incorporated. I don't have a problem with this. If I hired someone to build an addition for me, I would want him/her to have insurance. Why should medical records be any different?
I actually make more as an employee. I still take my deductions as unreimbursed employee expenses (per my CPA), take home office expense and do not have to pay the 7+ % for SS match that the employer usually does.
I have been at the same company for 6 years, prior to this job
was at the same company for 8 years. I left company #1 because they lost the account to MQ and the company only had clinic work after that and I do acute care and didn't want to do clinic. While searching for another job I tested and was offered positions by 6 companies. I took PT positions with 3 of them. I had been using a C-phone with a small local and really had no clue about other companies. One job I kept for 1 year until they got rid of my account because they were such a pain. I quit one after 4 months.
I know someone who had 7 jobs in 1 year and that was only about 8 months into the year. She was a CMT and wanted the whole world to know it and treat her special, but the quality of her work was very poor. I don't know if she voluntarily left all those positions or was let go. When I was testing I was trying to get a feel for what was out there and thinking that company #2 might offer me better than what company #1 was paying. While this wasn't that long ago, it was when you could still get a decent line rate and I never heard of offshoring.
No, and I've been with the company 3 years. sm
If you're having problems e-mail me and maybe I can make some suggestions.
Well, with 8 years at the same company I was up to 11 and some change.
I always thought it was a terrible wage.
12 cpl, 24 years experience. I am not giving name of company.
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Well in my company, nobody's work was checked for many years~!
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Maybe your company wants it that way? I've used it for years and Never had it check
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Average pay to start with a company after being an MT for 5+ years FT?
I am new to the job marked (have worked on my own for 5 years) and am looking at some of the MT positions. Can anyone tell me (I realize all places pay differently) on an average your best guess at what a decent 65 character line rate would be to start? I had been offered 7.5 cents at one place and I thought that was pretty low. Would appreciate any opinions. Thank you!
I make 0.725 cents per line after 5 years with the same company - nm
I make 0.725 cents per line after 5 years with the same company - NM 
I've worked weekends for 10 years, now I want to move onto a company
that does not require at least one weekend day. I realize hospitals are open 24/7 but you would think that companies seeking good MTs would be more willing to offer a M-F shift.
I've never come close to earning $20 in years of doing this. Troubles with every company, usually
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So why are you telling me this?
I already said mine are grown. And don't be so quick to judge others. You have no idea what circumstances others are in. Judge not, lest you be judged.
I'm telling ya!
Gotta agree, but I worried that messing with the structure of his mouth might take away from that voice. It gives me goosebumps too!
You could certainly help us out by telling us what the...sm
platform was that turned out to be a low-line maker.....
And tell us the one that has been good too!!!
Thanks!
Thanks for telling me this!
I now have been contacted by four others who went through the same thing. This will really help if they don't respond to the complaints I filed. Thanks for taking the time to tell me.
Dianne
So what you are telling me is...
I should just go ahead and apply at places states I have two years experience and test for them. Then, I can get experience without any? Kinda?
The OP WAS telling it like it is.......nm
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Keep telling it, maybe they will sm
listen to you. They are not listening to me! You said it exactly as it is. This is not a "school" career. It is by learning. Maybe the school gets you started, but it still takes years of learning.
I do feel sorry for the folks who went to these schools thinking that was all they needed because they really got taken advantage of. I don't know if any hospitals these days train folks or not. My opinion is if you have been in school then you need to go work in a hospital/medical center/teaching facility for several years before EVER trying to coming home and do this. you just cannot make any money at this working on production coming out of school. There is no way. Let me rephrase that, maybe you can but on a limited basis with an easy account, not a lot of foreign dictators, one or two work types etc. But, in order to do everything it takes YEARS!
Uh, yea? Do people really think it's going to go away? I'm telling you...
Those who protest our efforts to defeat terrorism, and those who hate George Bush more than they hate those who want to kill us, really need to wake up. These people have the ONE thing that we DON'T have...... Patience. So many people would like to think that 9/11 is a thing of the past and that if we just mind our own business, this will all go away. They will out wait us, because they know that we have no patience, and they will strike again. If we don't remain on the offense, no matter how unpopular it make be among the "kum-ba-ya" crowd, we will eventually perish. Giving "peace a chance" will be the end of us. These people don't operate as we do, and we better realize that right now before it's too late.
Do you mind telling us
who you work for now?
My DH was telling me McDonalds was going to do this too,
but inside the US...not India. I think we should boycott the drive throughs that don't use in-house workers. Take the time to walk inside and place your order with a real person and make it a point to say so. Of course, the only way it will make a real statement is if EVERYONE does it, so what's the chance of that. So we'll watch our MINIMUM WAGE jobs now just creep away as if nothing is wrong, right!
Would you mind telling me..sm
Did it take you long to learn to use it and where you purchased it? I have only found it for about 189.00 and was hoping to find somewhere that sold it a little cheaper. Thanks in advance.
I was just telling my DH what a cute name that is!
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I just got through telling someone yesterday
what I do and they said what I have heard umpteem times before: "Hey, I can do that, too." ARGH!
Do you mind telling me how to do that? sm
This Vista experience has already given me a headache.......any help much, much appreciated. Thanks.
Everyone is telling her she has no choice
because if her employer says "jump", she should say "how high". What was she supposed to do when they said work from home, say "No". She was just criticized on an earlier post for standing up for herself and telling her employer no. There are many on this site that have to be "right" about everything. Contradiction is not "right".
If she was a recruiter, she would be telling--sm
where she works and plastering the name everywhere. Obviously she has not done that.
There are too many other *unhappy* ones trying to jump on her bandwagon. I wouldn't tell anyone else either, if I were her. I wish her all the best.
I'm educated, too, but you don't see me telling
medical providers what they should or shouldn't say in their reports. You knew this would blow up when you posted it, so don't play all innocent victim here. What does using one word have to do with the patient's privacy? It certainly didn't stop YOU from posting it on the Internet!
Right, Mary...Keep telling yourself that
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That's what management is telling us. sm
It seems if someone can edit 1000 lines an hour you wouldn't need many people to cover an account and/or you would always be running out of work.
The above poster was telling it like it is
I was making big bucks back in the 80s and outsourced, went to another place making 20 thousand less, outsourced again and now work for a company making 20 thousand less, so add it up and that is 40 thousand less than the job in the 80s. VR has and is cutting what an MTer is making and from what I am reading on the boards, companies are going even lower than say 4 years ago in the salary. Maybe you have not done this job long enough to know how it has sunk but it has. I first trained on the job in 1973 and older MTers know this. It is not a good profession like it once was. I would never tell anyone to get into this job- only if you have other income and just want a full time job for part time pay. The job where I have worked for 19 years now has ESLs coming out the woodwork. We did not have this when I started there in 2000. It has changed and not for the better. You are sugarcoating something that sinks more and more each year. I raised a family on what I USED to make but now only work still because I do not have a family to raise- could not on the salary places pay. I would definitely tell anyone now thinking about this as a profession to think again. People say - I want to work at home so I can stay with my children- this alone has hurt this profession. We are thought as not having a real job to start with. People think you work from home- you got plenty of time. I hate it when I see- Oh, I get to stay home with my kids, not that they love the work - just to be at home. And people wonder why this job has sunk so low??
I found it very telling...
... that after all this time of trying to get everybody to "upgrade" to Vista, last summer Microsquish finally "saw the light" and released XP service pack 3. All the tech people I have ever talked to opined that Vista was the biggest hole in the ground ever to come down the Microsquish pipeline. And now they're getting ready to inflict another new version on us. Good grief.
I applied/interviewed for something like 30 jobs last fall; and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them, without exception, REQUIRED XP. If I'd jumped on that Vista bandwagon, I'd have been shucks-outa-luck.
BTW, would you mind telling me sm
what he did or did not do?
My husband is the worst when it comes to telling me I don't get out
enough. He doesn't realize that I never liked the office politics at an outside job. I never, ever did anything social with my coworkers. He's an extrovert and a social butterfly. I like people and I like to have fun, but I would rather spend fewer hours working and more hours with my family than to spend time in a negative office environment. Also, don't most mothers and wives give up a lot of their friendships? It's a sacrifice we make because there's not enough time in a day. I still have friends. However, most of my friends were guys before I got married. Male/female platonic friendships pretty much stop after the "I dos". The rest of my friends moved out of state. And everyone else is busy with their own husband and children. We get together maybe once a month.
It's a semi polite way of telling someone to
"F--- off".
it's possible they're telling the truth
I use Sylcount and ran two counts on the work I've done thus far this month: lines and pages. I have Sylcount set up to count spaces and tabs only.
These are my totals from 9/1/05 to 9/9/05 --
Total Lines: 9505
Total Pages: 333
Ave Lines/Page: .2867867 (round up to 29 lines per page).
Three pages: 29 x 3 = 87 lines
Example? No.. I think they are telling the truth because its true.
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i've started telling him that he better
never start a fight, but he can stand up for himself and finish it!! the direction our country is headed is terrifying!
You usually have to pay for FTP, she was telling us this site is free.
FTP transfers voice files from your doctor or company you work for to you. Actually, many national MT companies require you to have FTP access, so this is good even if you don't think you will use it right now. Later when you need it, the free offer will be gone and you will need it but will have to pay $$$
I AM SO MAD I COULD SPIT! I can't believe what the posters below are telling you!
My husband installs hardwood floors for a living. Because of the house boom there are times when he works for 2 or 3 weeks straight. On his day off, he sleeps most of the day - which is probably what your hubby is doing. Like another poster stated, he probably does not realize what it's like on your end. He's looking at a day off with peace and quiet. Sure he misses you and the kids, but for some reason men always seem to see things differently. Just don't mention coming to see him and I bet he calls you and asks you to come on his next day off. Just give him time and DON'T LISTEN TO THE MANHATERS BELOW!
Stop telling me how to punctuate!!!!!
I have at least two doctors that say *comma* after every single sentence. It drives me crazy!! If they had their way the whole report would be one long run on sentence. UGH!!!
Oh, sure. I can see telling 62 year old DH to "go outside". LOL
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