Ask them to give you the ability to choose your work from the queue SM
Posted By: MissIndigo on 2008-07-28
In Reply to: How do I reject a job in Escription? - Was told to by the boss
They may refuse; but assuming you do have to sign off (I don't remember any more), you can explain that it takes too long. All they can do is refuse. Another--big--benefit is that you can choose several jobs in a row for a dictator or specialty you're having trouble with and learn in a day what can take months to learn coming through in dribbles.
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Right on, JMO. Also, when I have the ability to choose dictations SM
from a list (which I don't have at my current work, darn), I like to gather up all the dictations I can find for bad dictators and do them together to learn that dictator right up front, instead of struggling over months. I'll also use them to put together a template, which if dictation's really horrible will include a whole pack of phrases he/she has been known to use, a grab bag of possibilities to scan over. May sound like a bother to some, but it's a real serenity-saver.
He's trying to take away my ability to give myself raises
He doesn't want to pay me for my templates, my macros. He's taking AWAY money from me. He wants to change my "line count" to key strokes, so he doesn't have to pay me for a few paragraphs when it only takes me a few Keystrokes to put the macro in. It's like he thinks I'm cheating him! Isn't that industry standard?? Also I don't have the ability to "raise my production" what I get is what I do, every day I finish all the work.
The problem I'm having is what I make with them won't cover my living expenses any longer. That's why I asked for the raise. I mean I know as an IC i don't "ask". They said no, and guess what I have to stick around until I find something else. I won't find something better I'm sure, so I have to change careers. I'm having a very hard time dealing with this. Maybe cause I'm young and I don't feel like I know what I want to do. I wanted to be able to stay at home and raise a family, and now that dream is shot.
I'm just very upset you know, just ranting a little :)
Toolbar in Work Queue
Does anyone know what the expanded toolbar is in the work queue? It has about 7 icons at the top instead of 3?
It means to skip the jobs in your work queue that - sm
are by difficult dictators, or have no line-count-bolstering templates, or require too much backing up, re-listening, sentence restructuring, or nose-in-reference time to get in your minimum lines. That's especially true if the employer doesn't weight the job's pay by difficulty. Most MTs voice disapproval of the practice, but sometimes an gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do, in order to survive and make that next car payment, rent check, or grocery bill.
I work on Winscribe. There is the ability to
see which MTs are on Winscribe when you go into it. They also can see how many minutes it took to transcribe a report. They probably do averages. I do not know who you work for but I tend to follow the eight hour shift with two breaks and a lunch. It is easy for me since I came out of a hospital setting where I had to work that way.
I'm quite ABLE, I just choose to work my
job instead of babysitting my children!
Just because we choose to work at
home with kids, does not mean we are not giving it our best. My kids were in school when I went home (about 10 years ago) and I did so because the office I worked in was phasing out the MT Dept. It is possible, just because you do not think you could do it does not mean others can't either.
Some of us choose to work from home, though. sm
Yeah, that's pretty much a given, but those of us who work from home usually do so by choice and know what we're giving up as far as benefits, paid taxes, etc. Most of us do so because in turn, we have flexible hours and don't have to pay gas expenses, daycare (if you have kids), uniform fees, etc. There are pros and cons to everything, for both the client and the MT/MTSO.
My point is that outsourcing is NOT the same as offshoring, and if we were all to ban every place that outsources, we'd have to ban every client, and every MT would have to go back to working in-house. Personally, I like having the option to work from home. If I wanted onsite work with benefits and no longer wanted to work from home, there's no shortage of opportunities for that.
As for working for an MTSO and not getting paid enough, that's a whole other ball of wax, but that still doesn't make outsourcing bad, per se. It's up the MTSO to charge a decent enough line rate to pass it on to MTs, and that's where offshoring comes in -- with offshore facilities undercutting American MTSOs, it's getting increasingly harder to compete and yield a line rate that allows for paying SC MTs decent rates. We can only hope that offshore MTs continue on the recent trend of charging closer to the American MT rates (this IS starting to happen, slowly but surely) because the only advantage they have over us right now is their bargain rate. Take that out of the equation and most places are going to choose quality American MTs, hands down. Our best hope is that foreign MTs start figuring out they are worth more than the pennies they are getting now and start asking for more per line. ;)
Unless there's another work type to choose with Ctrl/W, I
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Queue
First I love this quaint British term, did I spell it right? queue, how cute! I don't claim to know for sure, but I'm thinking that you get the report based on its importance as far as TAT, do you think this could be true? I know what you mean about looking ahead and looking forward to certain dictators, but on what I am doing there really are not too many bad dictators. My thing is I just want to have lots and lots of work!
Do you pull from the queue when you want?
So you go into the queue and grab what is at the top at that time. So if you do not feel like working one day or that morning you don't have to pull from the queue?
I need to work at a place that is flexible that I can get work when I am able to.
Thanks
While the queue was empty
While the queue was empty, I logged in to my public library's audiobook section and found an audiobook called The Law of Attraction, which I downloaded for free and started listening to. It contains tips and secrets on how to attract good things into our lives, which would include abundance and positive experiences in every area of life.... I also found links online to free worksheets and all kinds of stuff. Here is a you tube link to explain more about what I'm referring to here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGCaLul8ms
Empty Queue - try freerice.org
An MT told me about this site, it's interesting..
Main topic is "Things to do online while the queue is empty." nm
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If they have no work to give, they cannot
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Where I work it's the 'nice' name they give the
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Not that I don't want to give you the company I work for...sm
It is Alphamed, but I wouldn't recommend it to you because I have hardly any work right now so I know they aren't hiring. If you did work there you would go broke if you didn't have a husband to back up your pay.
I know what OP means...Give you crap work
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They give me plenty of work everyday, so I sent a
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Why should this MT give away her hard work? She should go after what is rightfully hers.
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GIVE IT A REST: Liberals work every
stop with the moronic stereotypes!
The only ones LIVING OFF THE TAX-PAYERS are the pariah's in Congress and in the GRAYHOUSE.
Spend a little more time doing your homework and a little less listening the babysitters on the right: LIMBAUGH, hannity, et AL ad nauseam
Give her the same amount of work on the days
near the end of the pay period that she seems to be doing the rest of the days. I worked for a friend's niece, and if she did not think you were going to get the work done, she would yank it from you even if you were frantically trying to get it done. She has a TAT to meet, and good accounts are hard to come by.
Give her less and less work. When she complains, tell her those adhering to TAT are getting the
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from each according to his ability, to each according to his need?
The communist manifesto
And if you want to give your labor away for free, you will always have plenty of work. nm
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the ability to procreate does not mean someone is not gay.
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Ability to get job is what matters most
Yes,Andrews and M-Tec are more expensive than a CC, but if you want to work from home, the companies that are looking to hire you don't know if your CC program is adequate. Some are, some aren't, and there are lots of them around the country. The companies know that if you successfully completed Andrews or M-TEC, you are likely to succeed. There are so many posts on these boards from newbies who can't find jobs, yet M-TEC and Andrews grads get hired. I was hired fresh out of school by a large national, worked there 3 years, and was just hired by a smaller MTSO. Getting both jobs was a breeze. I have never had to test for a job. Both companies told me they hired me because I am an M-TEC grad, and they did not feel testing was necessary.
I would never voluntarily give them "my" normals, my work product. SM
The nerve of these people. 
No set hours, no min/max amount of work, and give us newbies a chance.
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Can you give us a hint you work for? I'm sick of cherry pickers too
You just know they are giving you all the crap they dont want. 
On-call work is for docs and EMTs. Give it up and save your
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I do have a recommendation. The Phillips comes with the ability
to download twice and I would make sure I set that up. Download to the file that will be coming to you. Then use the backup download to a file that is totally separate. I call it backupvoicefiles. I have found files in the backupvoicefiles that for some reason didn't come to me in the regular file. They would have been lost if I didn't know to check this. Phillips has no explanation for why this happens. I have been most happy with the Phillips equipment especially since I figured this part out. When the girls are looking for work that he claims that dictates and I have not transcribed, I know the approximate numbers to check and have them go into the backupvoicefile folder and check to see if it is there.
Good luck. My doctors love the Phillips better than they did the Olympus and much fewer problems. 
Must have been my ability to overlook. Now that it's pointed out,
I did scroll back down and see a bit. Guess I'll go back to overlooking them again, life's easier that way.
If resale doesn't work, consider your local Freecycle chapter to give the
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I admire your ability to forgive and hopefully this will all blow over - however, that being said,
please make sure that Animal Control did not list this as an "incident" so that it may not be used against your dog in the future, even if no charges were filed. A lot of states have a strict "no bite or 3 bite" policy and would not want this to count against your dog later in life. My brother-in-law's dog bit a child when it got tangled up in her bicycle wheels (granted she should not have been that close to the child in the first place), so we've learned to be very careful about our animals.
What if you post messages under a different SN (AOL gives you ability to create several).
I remember posting a response. Received an e-mail began which began with "Hi" and my name. This was rather unsettling as you can imagine.
My 10 yo dog has lost ability to use hind legs
She was put under anesthesia to have a large mass removed from her chest. What I thought might be a malignant lump turned out to be lipoma. She had hip dysplasia all her life and was arthritic but never thought she would lose use of hind legs. Surgery was today. Picked her up at 5:00 and now, 4 hours later, I am truly concerned. She is a weinaraner. I am to give her 10 mg of prednisone daily.
Geesh, I wondered why the vet didn't bring the dog with her when she talked to me. And when we discussed surgery, I mentioend that anesthesia was hard on senior dogs (it was hard on me and I am healthy adult).
Just wondering here if she will recover. Maybe smeone here knows something about this. Thank you
What someone else is silly enough to pay you, has no bearing on your ability or character.
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I think tier level should be based on the ability
to transcribe jobs assigned to the particular tier. My first job as an MT (I worked in house) required that I do all work types including OP reports. We, of course, did not have tier levels assigned; we were paid hourly. But, we were required to do all work types.
I think any transcription service can well assess an MTs ability
requires so many test files to be transcribed is taking advantage of applicants.
My husband just signed up for group life insurance with work which will give him 10x his salary if
he dies which will leave the kids and I with almost a million bucks if he dies. Of course I would much rather have him here more than anything. He had just 150,000 in insurance but for some reason just opted for this group thingie. When talking last night I asked him if he died if I could marry again and this man got so upset with me I thought he was going to cry! He told me absolutely, positively NOT that I could not remarry ( am 31!). He is 35. LOL
Poor guy. Leaving me all this money and I supose the thought of me sharing his wealth with someone else makes him sick!!
I told him he could go ahead and marry if I should happen to die. I want my kiddies to have a great mom and person who loves them very much. Wouldn't you agree?
How do you feel about your spouse or partner remarrying if you or he dies??
We have the ability to see each others # of reports and # of lines. We are to report to super
visor when one person has done 150 exams a day but only has a minimum of lines typed. In radiology, it tends to average out. They are watching it for morale's sake as well as they figure if the MT who jumps jobs is probably cheating elsewhere in the job or her/his life. Too many ethical ones these days to settle for a cherrypickers.
It depends on your skill level, your speed, your ability to do the
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Mine isn't working either. Wonder if they've taken that ability away or archived stuff so we
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When I worked on site, we would judge docs by ability to dictate ...
As it turned out, our assessments were usually correct as to who the best/worst doctors were by the way they dictated. It was not necessarily just that they pronounced words correctly. It had more to do with general sloppiness and lack of attention to detail.
The girl was 13, the rapist a distant relative they took in. Give money, give food and your time, b
you don't put your family at risk by taking in strangers. That's just plain foolish. There were over 3300 registered sex offenders in NO. Where are they now. In your community? Perhaps in your house? Good luck.
oh our lovely government does give illegals medicaid, foodstamps, and housing so in term we give tha
i have been through some rough times lately and had to apply for some help. there are signs, big signs, all over our offices saying "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE LEGAL TO GET HELP". so we and our government do give them our benefits whether they are legal here or not. now that is messed up. i am helping to support them so they can take away my jobs and i can't even support my kids and yes i get benefits, wow $75 a month in food stamps which lasts not even a week in a household of 6. don't get me wrong, i am thankful for any help at the moment, but i get penalized for trying to work my tail off and still can't survive.
there was recently an article in our local newspaper where one of our local school districts tried to charge $1000 a year for each illegal student enrolled. it was bulked and the illegals got a lawyer to sue for discrimination. the school district merely stated that they had to HIRE extra teachers that could speak the foreign language just to teach these children and were trying to offset some of the expenses. ridicilous!! so again our taxpayers money is paying to educate illegals as well.
So many to choose from...
I like Triscuits with with cheddar cheese, lean summer sausage, and jalapenos, or Triscuits with mozzarella and hot salsa. Other than that, fruit, nuts, popcorn, veggies.
who to choose???
Any info on Precyse Solutions...Silent Type....Breitner ????
Need to give decisions by Friday...help!
ok believe what YOU choose to believe....sm
And empty, not-yet-used concentration camps do not physically exist in the USA, yes? And your president has told no lies in 6 years, yes? 
SHEEP I tell you...........BAAAAAAAA.......
Which would YOU choose?
Hi, MT's!
I'm trying to make a decision about my job, and thought maybe your input would help me put it into perspective. I'm thinking about changing my MT job. I have gone over a long list of the pros & cons, and still am up in the air about it, and hope to make the most informed decision possible. Here's the situation:
I have transcribed since 1975. I have been at my current job for roughly 29 years. Still, I am a long, long way from retirement, if ever. Most likely the earliest that could happen is 2025, but I'll believe it when and if it happens! I have always worked in-house, initially for services, then for a hospital, and for the last 29 I've been at a multispecialty clinic. 20 or more years ago or more, it was a decent place to work, but that has all changed and now it's very stressful. We get blamed for every mistake the doctors make, management communicates with us very little, and what they pay us has not even begun to keep up with the cost of living. Still, on the plus side, my commute isn't too bad, I enjoy the variety of specialties to type, and I have the most seniority. Although our pay isn't so great, we do have paid time off and fairly decent healthcare, though it must be at our own clinic. We have a 401K retirement savings account through work. Our pay is by the hour, with no overtime offered, so we have no opportunities to increase our earnings. I've been saving to buy a condo, but at this rate it's always out of reach.
I have had my eye on a national service lately that seems to be much better than most of what you see offering jobs out there. I have a couple friends who work at home for this service, and they recommend it very highly. The service pays on production, and when I tally my daily work that I'm currently doing and convert it to the service's way of paying the best I can, it at least SEEMS like I could make a lot more money. The service also has a 401K, health insurance, and paid time off. The hours are very flexible, which for me is a huge plus. As long as you do a set minimum amount of lines per pay period, it's all good as far as they're concerned.
Lately I've been so stressed and unhappy in my current job situation that I'm almost ready to take a cut in pay, if that's what it takes, to be able to work at home, where I can control my environment (heat, air-conditioning, light brightness, office ergonomics, etc.) Working at home for a national would also free me up to be able to move to a less expensive area. That would help if the pay WAS less, but if the pay was equal to or more than I'm making now, then I could be socking a lot more of it away towards a down payment on a first home. And if I finally did get to buy that home, being able to take short, "meaningful" breaks from typing (instead of pigging out at the candy-machine) would make it possible to take care of that home, as well.
As it stands now, my list of "pros" for taking the at-home job is quite a bit longer than the "cons". And just the opposite for my current job. My biggest concern is the longevity of either position. I am reasonably sure that bit by bit, MT work in the US is going to diminish. The question is, which one is likely to fold first? Our clinic already sends extra work out to a service, rather than pay us overtime to do it. Over the years our MT Dept. has shrunk considerably. The more it shrinks, the more work gets sent out. Although we are told otherwise, my gut feeling tells me that it will continue in this manner until the department is eventually closed, and all the work gets sent out.
But, when I read all the message boards here, and people working for MT services talk about how much of their company's work is being sent to India, or being partially transcribed with VR, I have to wonder how much longer "live" MTs are going to be around in the service venue, as well. And I don't think being an Editor wouldn't be an option for me, either. Not only would I be bored to tears, but instead of paying more than MT, which it should be, it appears to pay quite a bit less.
So, if you knew you weren't going to be retiring in the next 5-10 years, and you wanted to continue being an MT (it's the only thing I know how to do), do you think there is more security in staying with a long-term employer that not only very callous towards its employees, but is slowly but surely whittling away at their transcription department? Or would you take the "unknown road", and go with what is currently a very viable and successful national company that would let you work at home, but may already be offshoring extra work? (I haven't been able to find out if they actually do or not.) I don't relish the idea of having to "start over" as a new employee, but the idea of having less stress and more freedom also appeals to me quite a bit.
If you were in my shoes, how would you base your decision?
Thanks in advance for any ideas you can throw my way!
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