And why do we put up with all this garbage?!?!?
Posted By: tiredwornoutMT on 2006-08-13
In Reply to: What would you consider a fair cpl wage for an experienced MT? I'm not interested in what the - SM
Because we've been forced to...that is why. I own a small MTSO and I have become frustrated myself. I could outsource overseas and make more money, but that is not an option for me as I have worked for companies who did offshore and only paid me 8.5 cents/line with 25-years experience! I cannot afford to stay in business and compete with companies who are outsourcing overseas. I have become so frustrated that I have found a new niche in health and wellness (the next trillion $ industry) and I am setting my goals for 1 year in this nasty business and then I'm done!! I think other frustrated MTs should try to find other ways to make money...Life is too short to do something that is so frustrating 10 hours plus a day. I've been in transcription for 25 years and began on a typewriter with a reel-to-reel machine...and this is what we've come to. Let's leave this nasty business to the offshore companies who are willing to work for peanuts...cuz I'm done being abused, disrespected, etc. 
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regarding you saying you have enough garbage -
what a disgustingly racist thing to say.
Garbage in, garbage out.
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BOS garbage
Ditto on the above. As a proofreader for years, I find the books mentioned above are much more correct and usable than the book of style promulgated by AAMT. They just change something if they want to willy-nilly and expect us to go for it. I think Gregg's is a great book and their many others. I find it difficulty to understand why major companies would want to follow a bunch of rules promulgated by a gaggle of uneducated transcriptionists in that book of style. It is very irritating to be forced by an employer to use some of those things which are obviously and patently incorrect:
That's right. Garbage in, garbage out...sm
Some are too quick to blame the MT or equipment or sound waves or man in the moon for poor quality transcription. Standard dictation equipment carries a better sound quality today than ever, better than the average cell phone as far as sound goes, and we have no trouble at all understanding our friends on the phone, right? It's the dictators. And it's not just the ESLs that are causing the problem, but most dictators, native and foreign, are just plain inconsiderate or thoughtless. They shuffle through charts while they make us wait and sleepwalk through a patient history, then speed 78 rpm through meds, labs, which are the mainstay of a dictation. Who cares where the patient went to grammar school? Just take the extra 3 seconds it takes to spell me the name of his PCP!
BOS garbage
I agree 100%. It is crap! I was typing for years when this so called "bible" was introduced and I was expected me to change what was corrected to begin with. First off, I had two years of typing in school prior to becoming a MT, by the way I started out transcribing on a typewriter...remember those, So, I did not buy into the BOS rather let my Drs make the call. Since they put more trust in me than that book...well I guess you figured it out. It never happened. Personally, I would never work for someone you used the book. Garbage, all about making money.
what garbage!
I live in a New York neighborhood where I do not come into contact with blacks who speak Ebonics.
And if so, I could certainly not understand what they are saying.
If you were of European decent and somebody would insinuate that you are Indian because your syntax is not QUITE American, wouldn't this strike a nerve with you?
One can live a looooong time in New York, without having to understand or talk Ebonics.
What a garbage you post!
just change it to Garbage...
cuz that's what they are!
I only have a second to answer. Same garbage
happened to me. My lawyer didn't give a hoot about me. I paid him big bucks, too. This is what I did and BOY DID IT WORK. Look in the yellow pages under lawyers - I can't remember the name, but lawyers are governed by a formal something or other, just as physicians are governed by the AMA. Seriously, I am just sneaking here for a second, but I know you can find this info. Its who the laywers answer to. Call that number and tell them you want to file a formal complaint against your own lawyer for improper handling of your divorce matters. The people at the # for me were super nice. They have formal forms for you to fill out, and once you call and ask for them, they ask you for the name of the attorney. The attorney gets contacted. The minute mine got contacted that I was about to file a complaint, he did all the stuff he was supposed to do a year ago, and promptly refunded ALL OF MY $$!. It was great! The divorce papers werer revised. I got my stuff, my freedom, my maiden name back AND my $$. I have to run. Bye
How can verbatim=garbage?
We transcribe what professionals dictate. These people went to college for a long, long time to learn their profession. Who are we to say verbatim=garbage!!! Become a physician, then talk that garbage! Give me a break! We average $25.00 an hour if we're lucky as transcriptionists, and these physicians are making much, much more than that because they went to school to be a physician and treat patients. Come on! Transcription is just that, typing what the doctors say verbatim, maybe correct a little inconsistency here and there (we're all human), but to say the physicians' statements are garbage is wrong, wrong, wrong! If we were so bright, we wouldn't be typing, we'd be doctors!!!!!!!!!!! Let's give credit where credit is due! Bottom line is no doctors-no transcriptionists! AAMT is just another company out there trying to turn a buck! They don't know it all and neither do we for goodness sakes! Do the best job you can because believe me if you are that important in the medical field (as a transcriptionist), you'd make what the doctors are making!!!!! I'm sure I'll get blasted for this one!!!! Oh well!
When US MTs refuse to edit their garbage
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I am white and offended by that garbage post as
well. I am so sorry there are people like above poster in this world. A nice informatie post turns to garbage - oh well. 
And if you get truly garbage dictation, you'll never break
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I work early morning shift and I get the garbage
leftover from the day before. I will often get 6 reports from a very difficult ESL dictator and they may be over an 8 hour period of dictation. When there is such a gap in the dictation you know you are being assigned these reports, not just luck of the draw. All work is assigned by the office. I have seen my line count drop about 4000 lines/pay period the last couple of months because I'm getting such bad dictators. I don't mind doing my fair share, but it certainly isn't fair that my line count is being affected like it is.
I have complained to my supervisor and it got better for a couple of months and now it is the same crap all over again and I'm looking to move on.
Yes, all utilities, garbage pick-up, home repoairs involving your office, etc
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Went to pig roast. Chefs had no idea how to cook pig. Ended up smelling and tasting like garbage.
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To finish...no one obviously feels like typing up, so the night people get the pool garbage. Grrrr.
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