Agree to the concept but what I would offer is to show the doc the advantages of going digital and
Posted By: happy FTP'er on 2006-06-07
In Reply to: Sorry, disagree -- be prepared to do all accounts - Patti
most of them want to buy new toys anyway. As an MTSO, I stay up on the latest technology that will help all of us do our jobs better. For example, what if he has a stat report? That can be dictated and posted to the FTP site, done and back to the office in 15 minutes. Can't do that with tapes. Plus with digital files, you can copy them as you transfer, so there's a file in the software program, one on the ftp site and one at your office, just in case somebody gets erase happy. I feel the quality is better. Once in a while I get somebody who has a phobia about the big bad Internet but I would at least sit down with them and explain some things. Most fear comes from ignorance anyway.
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Love the show and the concept!! Wish that were me with that kinda problems...
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I agree. There are advantages to both.
I worked for a company that had a call-in system but also picked up and delivered tapes. I had to either work in-house or drive to the company headquarters and pick up tapes. I have done both. Although the sound quality was usually better, I hated the call-in system. If, for some reason, you failed to pump the pedal for too long a time, you were disconnected. Doctors called in 24/7. Since you were on the phone, there was no screen to look at to see how much work you had. I was forever getting calls from the office telling me that I had more work on the system, or a stat. Now I work for a company using the internet. With the tapes, I was 45 minutes away, so they could not just spring a tape on me. Although it seldom happens, it is easy for them to send you a voice file and ask you to do it stat. Given all the advantages and disadvantages all the way around, I prefer getting dss files. However, if I could get a client close by that paid well and was easy to work with, I would not hesitate to pick up tapes.
Just because you don't offer digital sm
to your clients for fear of losing them to digital and it's possibilities, don't think someone else won't come in offering them a free, easy transition to digital. Most likely someone already has. I would not make that your reason for transcribing tapes. It's a no brainer that a company could call your client saying we'll charge you .08 for 800#. You dial in for your dication and we have it printed in your office for you. You're not safe because you use tapes. You're just behind in technology. No rudeness intended, just stating the facts.
I agree - consider the new job offer; but also consider, sm
if you can have unlimited work available at either job. That to me is a big plus or are you limited by how much is available. Whichever one has the most consistent work available, is the one I would work for, or I would try doing both for a few weeks to figure it out. I know that would be tough, but in the long run would be worth it.
The higher line count does not necessarily mean it is the best fit. The work may run out; however, the lower line count may have consistently a larger volume and you will never run out.
If you are unsure, as an IC, you can try both, just will have to put in a lot of hours for the first few weeks to figure it out.
I have always done that and always have 2 IC positions, sometimes 3.
Good luck in whatever you decide!
I agree...this seems like a very good offer.
NM :)
I agree. Not all docs are digital.
pursue - the ones that still use tapes. How nice it is to throw that tape in, transcribe, print, and return it to the office where you are visible and can stay in touch with people and smiling faces! You get to the see the docs you transcribe for as well who usually say "How are you?" What a wonderful feeling! Not everyone is digital and "cpl-minded". Landing these types of accounts is like catching the biggest fish in the sea!!!! Thank you for all that you share Patti! You obviously have a passion for this field and a passion to help others! 
I agree - Absolute best show on TV!! nm
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I use both and like both as they both have their advantages..NM
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I agree - thought the show was borning - NM
NM
It has advantages and disadvantages.
Crappy accounts with ESL doctors, poor pay, long hours, social isolation, just another number to a big corporation.
But on the other hand, no drive to work, get to work in your PJ's in your own home, and the very BEST part is I get to be with my child everyday and I would not trade that for any position or any amount of money! It is just one of the many sacrifices we make as parents. It is the one thing that makes the long hours and frustrating doctors not seem quite so bad.
However, it I were not a parent things would be different.
Hope it gets better for you :-)
Advantages and Disadvantages
Every job has its pluses and minuses! It all depends on what is important to you and how you look at things. I want to stay in the MT profession for a long time and I will make every opportunity count! I will not be broken down by decreasing wages or anything else. I feel positive about my decision and let's stop putting the profession down!
Nancy
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Thank you. I agree. Lack of enthusiasm in my work is bound to show up
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Offer 1 week notice, but willing to offer 2 if they would be in a bind. Also, (sm)
make sure your resignation letter is written with class. Never good to burn your bridges.
sounds to be like she has no concept of time.
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I love the concept of a homeowners situation.
My mom's development has one and no one is allowed to hang clothes outside (too trailer-esque), they have to check with the association to see if the color of the drapes in their front windows are okay, and so on.
On the other hand, our development does not have an association and our next-door neighbor just put up the ugliest rust-colored old fogey looking awning over her front door, the guy down the street has a fence that looks like a medieval fortress, and so on.
If you want to keep an attractive neighborhood that way, a homeowners association is a must. Otherwise you never know if your neighbors will have taste buds up their butts and create an eyesore that the rest of the neighbors just have to deal with.
Remembering the concept that funerals are for the living, I would
take my daughter. You say, "I feel uncomfortable going to a funeral where I have only met the mother of this child once (at a birthday party)" but you aren't going for the mother. You are going for your daughter. I think this would be a wonderful opportunity for you to teach your daughter how to care for others at a time of loss. It is best to start with funerals of people that aren't that close to you, in order to introduce some of these ideas without personal grief getting too much in the way. Then when Grandma, Grandpa (or closer) go, it's not all completely new to the child.
Not a new concept, Hope. Works this way in all industries.
If you can't give yourself a break, at least give us one.
I personally enjoy VR work and make better money, even with a reduced rate. It's faster. Easier.
I'm no sheep, heck, I'm not even religious. But I have grasped the concept of what a lie is.
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I do tapes and digital. And I was told if I'm not logged into the digital system, they assume I&
BUT she wants me logged into the system by 9:30 a.m. So I'm confused too. I've decided that I may come back to her and just say I'm not going to do the tapes anymore. I hate the tapes anyway. The voice quality is horrible, it fades in and out. It takes me twice as long to transcribe their tapes than the digital.
it's TASTE. You have lost sight of the original concept of the posts.
i'm not doing an ethical evaluation on why i am drawn to toby keith or if he may be gay or rock hudson's qualities if he was gay or jude law. it is just the type of guy women are drawn to and why. shallow has nothing to do with the discussion. but you aren't paying attention are you?
If you can show proof you did this work for them, they then have to show they paid it in order
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This is a very basic computer skill/concept. You copy files to another drive using Explorer.
There are very detailed instructions in the Help files that accompany Windows. You can read those for more information.
Basically, you open Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). Locate the files you want to copy, highlight and right mouse click. Choose Copy. Now, find the location where you want to copy these files (usually another drive like D: or H:, whereever the flash/jump/thumb drive is located) and paste the files there.
love, love, love the show. hate american idol. this show is for real.
the only reason i entertained watching it was because of mark burnett and as usual he has such genious casting and editing. btw, don't know who anything about "metal" music but these performers make me like it. love marty and jd as performers. HATE JESSICA. susie is so nice and so emotional. it seems they all support each other and enjoy each others skills. regarding ty and bob marley, ty was excellent but he also lucked out on the song! bob marley was genious too and his music is very easy to listen to. i don't like 3/4 of what the others are given to sing but their performances make me love the music. dave navarro shines on this show, very gracious for the most part and letting the contestants down easy when they have to leave. he was great last night with brandon (?). sweet, sweet show. i am so impressed with everyone involved.
Can I offer something? sm
I have a 13 yo boy. He sounds much like your daughter, wonderful kid, straight A's very much likes to hang with the family, etc. Never had a problem with him. However, he knows that I mean business. If a child is going to sneak and do stuff that he/she knows parents won't like I say give them a consequence to remember. Maybe you either have to take a few days off work and go to school with your daughter, explaining to her that since she cannot be trusted you need to attend class with her to be sure everything is going okay or take everything away from her and let her know that since she is not being responsible enough to come to you and she feels the need to sneak things past you, you have felt the need to remove material possessions from her life until she can become responsible enough to handle it. She is giving in to peer pressure which of course we know will only get worse. Emphasize to her that she is number one to you, you love her too much to allow anybody to influence her the wrong way or to let her waste one day of her life doing things that will not benefit her. She is God's gift to the earth and she should treat herself as such and expect others to treat her the same. If her friends do not respect that her parents will not allow her to do certain things, than those friends need to go bye bye. I know this sounds tough but guess what, you are not raising an 11 yo you are raising a strong, wonderful, beautiful, smart, wise woman, she is only 11 for 365 days.
Lastly I want to applaude you for even caring. When my son was in sixth grade a mother of a girl he goes to school with showed up at the awards assembly and was taking pictures of my son. I sat down beside her and when I cheered for my son as he got an award she said "oh is that your son" to which I replied "yes it is" and she said "oh my daughter is so in love with him, that is why I am taking so many pictures" I just wanted to punch her, what is she teaching her daughter by doing that? I explained to her that my son was 11 and had no time for girls, he was heavily involved in basketball and church and would not be allowed to spend time with girls for quite a few years. She was appalled at what I said. I walked away, hoping she would think about it before her daughter met up with a boy whose parents don't expect the standards to be quite so high.
Job offer
Are you kidding? There are people out there who do QA with many years of experience who don't make that. Jump at the chance.
You might ask them if they offer (sm)
combat pay or double or even triple time to come in whenever needed.
Got a job offer
I got an offer today. As you stated, I requested to be paid for headers/footer, etc. and that was acceptable to them. Right now, I'm not getting any work from any of my other jobs and haven't for the past month or so. I think this is their downtime or something, which doesn't pay my bills. I don't know whether it's smart to take the job w/CyMed or not being that this company offshores work. However, I'm a single parent trying to make ends meet any way I can -- even if it means accepting less than desired. Any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it. 
Got my offer.
They offered me 9 cpl. I think that's okay. Been out of the biz for a while. I would like to be an IC someday....
My DH had a job offer there once...
We traveled there to check it out and by the day we left, I was TOTALLY against going there. But it's highly individual. I can't stand living out in the middle of nowhere, which was where we were going to end up (Evanston), with a 2 hour drive one direction to SLC down out of the mountains and 2 hours in any other direction to "nowhere." If that wasn't bad enough, the clincher was the park ranger in Evanston who told us that winter up at that altitude is basically 10 months. ENOUGH for me, DONE, FINISHED, I was OUTTA there. It snows until June and starts back up in September. That may be different in Laramie or other places, but up on that continental shelf high altitude area of southwestern Wyoming, it's COLD! We didn't move there.
The first offer should be better.
However, the font and margins the client uses on the gross line account will impact the line count. Best advice is to run a test on some documents that you have right now using both methods and see where you come out.
Thanks for the offer
I live in PA and as much as I hate the winters here I'm not sure my husband is ready to pick up and leave but thanks for the offer
They will offer up a job you will see SM
on all the boards on your own anyway, and if you refuse that job and tell them to find a different one, you will never hear from them again.
And they can say thank you and offer their first newborn
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I wanted to offer ...sm
our RV that is in our yard. DH reminded me that the kids still sleep there because of our house fire (dishwasher door caught fire). Our house is still in disrepair.
I'll have to find another way to help.
Cuban offer
Yeah, but W isn't alone as a world-leader in surrounding himself with Secretarys and admins who are mostly dicks. Actually, I'm surprised Fidel made the offer-unless he's got all the Dr.'s families locked away for "return-receipt" purposes
Yes, they do offer benefits.
I wasn't aware that they hired SE or IC. I was only offered FT or PT employee status with a set schedule.
You may offer to do ops on several accounts. That's
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Do they offer anything besides VA facilities now? nm
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Actually, they do offer insurance to SM
part-time associates after 2 years. They also have insurance that full-time associates can get during their 90-day waiting period for their regular insurance to kick in after they are hired.
Absolutely take that offer!
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RUN AWAY FAST FROM THAT OFFER!
I had to purchase the StartStop foot pedal for $200. The first day was a nightmare. The second day was worse. The third day was just pathetic, but the fourth day was okay after I sent them a nasty email. I had to explain to them, I was a Transcriptionist and not a translator. They put me on another account with doctors speaking English and as soon as I got my line count decent, they put me back on the ESLs. Their accounts are 99% ESLs. When I say ESL, I mean they do not speak any English whatsoever, i.e. "thrappy" is therapy and "palowang" is electrogram <---- I am still trying to figure that 1 out. Their QA/editor must be an online transcription course poster and have no experience in grading a transcriptionist's work. They constantly change your report, spell it wrong, and then turn it in to the client with words misspelled under your name. Then to top it off, they send you nasty emails stating your accuracy rating is low due to mistakes. When you go view the corrected report, your report was actually right and they were the one who changed it for no reason because they do not have grammar, medical terminology, etc. So I would not take any offer with them. They are more of a learning transcription company who have not mastered transcription itself. Therefore, they are not capable of grading an experienced transcriptionist's work because they are still learning.
Hello! I can't offer any advice, other than
to share that I was in nearly an identical situation about 4 years ago, right down to even selling our antique furniture - not that it was worth all that much, but I had collected it over the years and it was the furniture we used - the chairs, kitchen table, etc. We did lose everything - even many friends who could not understand how everything went so wrong so quickly. I am also a Christian, and I got the most criticism from my prior church family. We had done nothing wrong - just a series of snowballing things went wrong. We had to move to a completely different area of our state. No doors would open for us other than from strangers hundreds of miles away - we weren't asking for handouts - just a house to rent that we had the $$ for. At any rate, I had kids as well, pets - beloved animals that I had to euthanize as not one animal organization would help me - the Lord could not have squashed me further. But he stopped right before I broke permanently, and I then trusted that this was meant to be - 4 years later, I am so blessed beyond my wildest dreams. Everything I lost has been restored and 10 or 20 fold, I have a great job, great new car - though a practical one - and I look at nothing the same - nothing matters as other posters have said - My kids grew so much into great mature kids thru this tragedy, all have new close awesome friends, and we found a church that was absolutely the perfect match for us. I am just picking at different topics, but it was such a tragic experience that in the end turned into such a blessing. We just had to hang in there when nothing made sense...and we got pruned of a lot of - stuff - in our lives, but all for the best in the end. Please feel free to write me as well if you would like to talk. I certainly understand 100% what you're going thru and how depressed you feel. 
I can't even offer a comment to you.
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Not much to offer, but legally I don't even
think his mother could get his $ before you, his wife. Something sounds fightable there. Sounds like your hubby has a lot of growing up to do. When a guy marries, he should lessen the relationship with his mom, and transfer his love, attention, devotion, loyalty to his wife. As long as his parents are willing participants, doesn't sound like you have much of a chance. I had been in a vaguely similar situation - my husband's controlling parents were ruining our marriage - they actually wanted us to divorce due to their own control issues. We separated, I moved to the other end of the state. My husband quickly followed, and once out of his parents' WEB, we were able to focus on our marriage, and he was able to see the negative influence of his parents. I'm sorry you're going thru this. PLEASE keep us posted!
Thanks, max. We got an offer and it is now under contract......nm
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Then, I would say 9 cpl to 10 cpl would be a decent offer.
Go for it!
Which offer sounds best?
I have only worked for 1 national and there I get 0.969 cpl for 65-char with spaces, and right now the incentive is 1.5 cpl at 7,000 for ALL lines typed (inctive is subject to be discontinued soon possibly). I have an offer for 0.95 cpl with for 55-char line with NO spaces and 1 cpl for all lines with 98% quality, but a VERY slow platform. Second offer is 0.85 cpl for 65 char with spaces, 1 cpl bonus over 6,000 lines for only the lines over 6,000, but a pretty good platform. So much to figure and think about my head is swimming. The second 2 jobs have much better benefits. HELP!!
Interesting job offer
I can't take it because it requires too much traveling, but I was offered a position where I would go to hospitals and clinics and work with docs and MTs going onto VR systems. I said I charged $36 an hour for it and once again I think I low balled myself. Any ideas where to look to get ballpark figures for this sort of thing? I would LOVE to go to hospitals and train doctors to be better dictators. I told them if they wanted to use me once in a while or do more local places I would consider it.
new grads and what they have to offer
very little experience, work very cheaply, anything just to get an opportunity. What a reality check it will be for them when they realize theyre going nowhere in this business after a couple of years, no raises, no opportunity for advancement, and still be making the same (or lower)$12/hr they started out at, all the while cost of living going up. Bright futures, I think not. Burn out, YES. These newbies will have to work even harder than we have to right now to make ends meet, maybe even take a second job. You are fortunate to have your own accounts and your own work so..... I don't think you understand whats going on in the world of MTs that work for these companies who work them to death.
dunno -- WAS considering the offer, but not now.
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Yes! That is a good offer.
I worked for one company that paid $1.15 for everything from plain films to MRIs, and $2.25 for interventionals only.
Even if you have a relatively heavy load of CTs and MRIs, that is a good rate. I would take it in a heartbeat. Go for it! 
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