But doesn't that happen every time
Posted By: But on 2007-04-17
In Reply to: If a job can be rejected, refused, or hung up on, it's being cherrypicked. nm - Keep a list of the awful docs to look 4 a pattern.
somebody gets off for their break or the end of the day?
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
It doesn't happen everywhere. nm
x
I hope that doesn't happen to me...
and was told they would still have work for me afterwards...I really like this new place and am only working for them right now.
Do you think you can e-mail me initials or a hint to who did that, so I know to stay away? Were you just one day locked out of the system or just no work in your general work pool? That's craziness on their part. Talk about feeling used.
...feeling a little nervous now.
hope this doesn't happen to you
Our company decided not to do direct deposit any longer because of Indymac. 
ABSOLUTELY. Poverty doesn't just happen. The programs
shouldn't just pay you to sit on your butt and do nothing. People need to be working for what they get. I wouldn't care if they shoveled public sidewalks in the winter here, just make them earn what they get instead of just giving a handout. After a while, they'd want a better job than what they could get for what they consider "free money" and they'd work to find a job. Pay for training if we must, but compel them to GET A JOB or do the work that the government needs done. Why pay a Dept. of Public Works person $15+ per hour to shovel sidewalks when we could give they welfare patron a shovel and make them earn it???
Time will tell. Who knows what will happen. Let the best woman win! nm
x
AZ doesn't change time? sm
Why don't y'all change time? I thought the whole country did it...y'all are lucky! 
Transcend doesn't pay on time?
What about Medquist? I hadn't even thought about a company not paying on time...
Vonage doesn't work all the time
I had AT&T but wanted to try Vonage. 2 a/c's - one was fine with Vonage (in fact better quality). The 2nd a/c is too tinny, etc and I can't use it. So try it out first.
This "business" thing seems to vary. When you ask them about a "business" a/c they told me I didn't need one. Now I am running into people all over who have phone cos bugging them about usage. LOL - it says "unlimited long distance" - it doesn't matter if you use it for friends or for dictation. I'd be curious to see what happens with a lawsuit, because they may lose. Business a/c's are generally for people with multiple lines and special needs re quick repair times. It has nothing to do with how much you use the phone to call one number.
I'd try confronting them with this.
I spec. told Vonage what I do and asked if I need a business a/c and they told me now also. See if they change.
Our Directway doesn't work all the time -
it depends on the weather. So far this has been a mild winter and it has been working great. I don't know how it would be for Meditech. I get my work on CDs.
Time in as an MT doesn't tell the entire story
I now have 12 yrs in as an MT, this calendar year. I have made 10 and 11 cpl in 2007. The job I love I have 9 cpl, but with so many normals and knowing the job so well, I make really good money and pretty fast.
I was offered 7 cents in October to do OPs. They were told to take hike!
I have taken an employee situation in the last 2 weeks. I am to be paid 8.5, have to work a Saturday, but get 9 cpl for that day. There are incentives and more importantly VERY affordable medical benefits and I choose my plan. There is vision and dental as well, PTO that is more than fairly figured, etc. Because they will match my FICA taxes as an employer does, these things added up to very big bucks in my favor versus IC because I had paid 23% of my income last year in taxes and yes, I have an accountant who is very good, I just do not have expenses much because I have my house paid for.
As I started to say, what type of experience for those yrs is very important too. I have every specialty, but pathology. I am an acute care MT and OPs are my thing. This makes me so desirable on the market, even I am surprised by it. I look at the platform, the hours, benefits or lack thereof, and then I ask myself if that cpl offer is worth it or not.
I have a friend with about 5 yrs of experience. Her specialties are neuro and rheumatology and this is all she will transcribe, period. She can't work more than part time, is about 150 lph and refuses to take less than 9 cents. She has little to offer a company for that 9 cents. To contrast, for my 9 cents I am very flexible, have plenty to offer and because I have such varied experience, I can "plug in" to almost anything.
See what I mean? If the job is full of ESLs who are difficult, you have little QA support, the platform sucks, the people are not decent to work with, etc. perhaps you need to rethink the money issue. I had a job this last year at 10 cents and could do well to top out at $22 an hour, but my 9 cpl gives me $35 an hour.
There are just too many unpredictable facets to say what is a good line rate.
Why on earth are you begging him for work when he doesn't pay on time? nm
nm
If memory serves (and most of the time it doesn't!), isn't it # to speed up and * to slow down
You just repeatedly hit the # or * keys to the desired speed, right?
Why not have 1/2 a cup of coffee spread out over a longer period of time so it doesn't jolt ya? T
.
I agree - doesn't sound like it's worth your time to fight her anymore. NM
x
You spending 3K in gasoline to make 4K plus all that time on the road?That doesn't make sense Pat
Why are YOU attacking HER? Just because she doesn't want kids, doesn't mean she needs a psychi
xx
how could it not happen?
and how could we have stopped accepting ESL's? I dont know about you but I have worked as an MT for many years and there is no way we could have stopped it. First of all, doctors come from all over the world, medicine is a universal language with many different accents..that is just the way it is. Most doctors I have worked with have accents. That is part of the job, learning ESL doctors. I personally dont want any work sent overseas, even the mumblers, ESL's, etc.
This used to happen to me
This used to happen to me back in the 1970s..When I told my doctor, he said it was just that I woke up before my body was able to start producing my chemistries and such fast enough..So I was suspended, if you will, for a few seconds, which felt to me like minutes..I can remember waking up in my mind but my body would not move and I would panic thinking I have to get up..move arm, move leg, get up!! I believe totally in the paranormal and spiritual word. I have had experiences in the spiritual world both with family who have passed, animals who have passed and just researching it myself..but..hmmmm..I will have to research what you post about the not waking experience..I tell you, it is quite a frightening experience. P.S.: I love Sylvia Browne..I have gone to three of her seminars in Los Angeles..
Does this every happen to anyone besides me? (please SM)
After transcribing for lengthy periods of time, do you feel irritable? Kinda like you want to run to the nearest window and jump out cause you feel all this inner energy but have to sit in a chair and type and it is driving you nuts?
I probably need to takes walks or do something physical but am working 8-10 hours a day.
Just wondering if I am going nuts or what. It is rather unnerving, this feeling. Maybe it is menopausal as I am nearing that age, also. Can anyone identify with this strange feeling?
Where did this happen?
/
Don't ever think it cannot happen to you. You are in
zz
this always does not happen
That is not true. There are too many people working and not enough work. They will always tell you the same thing; it is slow during the holidays, it is slow during the summer, it is slow in the fall, the holidays are coming, etc. there is a storm outside, anything to just shut us up. They just think we are stupid.
changes happen everywhere (sm)
I used to work for another company that has since changed its name and merged with another company. We had so many changes in the 2 short years I was there, enough to make your head spin. Most of the time they were changes not to the advantage of many, or they made it more difficult to keep up with the changes.
Having had this happen to me I am
going to tell you that you have to get a restraining order on him both personally and for a distance that includes your home and such. Then go to the phone and satellite people as well. If you give the phone people access they can monitor but you have to be willing to prosecute when they hit the nail on the head. I suspect it may well be the same with your satellite folks.
My husband had passed away and I got involved with someone who smelled money .. being an idiot I fell for all the honey/dearie stuff and it cost me money and it cost me my home and damned near my life .. never mind my self esteem. You had better come clean with your family and get their help because it is misery alone and that is where I was save for a few friends who almost did not believe me.
I never thought I would see the end of it .. but I am here alive and kicking and believe me it is a good lesson to learn. I am recovering slowly and have days I could probably commit murder yet, but first start with your computer and have it reformatted, get it cleaned up and then scan it every damned day if necessary.
Never had this happen (sm)
but common sense says she was scammed. Why would you have to pay to get a grant? Sounds fishy to me.
I have had this happen before...
and was told that it can just sometimes "happen". Sometimes the test can be done wrong, etc. Hopefully in your case, that will be it. In my case they did a repeat PAP smear, and everything was A-OK. Try not to worry and stress too much.
Anybody ever have this happen?
It seems that the owners to the company I've done work for over the past week have simply disappeared. I cannot contact them via phone or e-mail. Has this ever happened to anyone here? They could be on vacation, I guess? There's no work posted since Friday on the FTP site either. Weird, huh?
I had that happen too
I use the Olympus pedal and had never had any problems, until one day . . .
Anyway, I unplugged it and plugged it back in and that worked, but now it happens all the time (VERY irritating). For me, I think that it may have to do with playing .wav files (vs. the .dss Olympus-recorded files) because it seems to happen with the .dss files only when I have been transcribing .wav files and then switch, but with the .wav files it may happen even if I walk away for a while and my computer "goes to sleep".
I have had this happen too
and it mostly happens when using my doc's templates. These templates were originally done in Word Perfect and altered to be compatible with MS Word. I think it has something to do with that, but I don't know how to correct it, other than to get new templates.
How did that happen??? Should have been
x
I have had that happen, but
like you said it always goes away pretty quick. This hot tea is really helping, I am feeling it less and less. Whew!!!
I Had Something Like That Happen
I was supposed to be on review for 5 days and I was still on review after 2 weeks. My accuracy was 99.6%, so I wrote the guy above my supervisor and told him I'd been on the 5-day review for 2 weeks. He apologized and the next day, I received an e-mail telling me I was off review, had 100% accuracy now, and was doing great.
I would say that he just forgot. The guy was not upset I contacted him, and I've had DSP (direct submission privileges) since.
Amanda, RMT 
Where in MO did this happen??...nm
nm
Had that happen to me once as well
The company took a 15% pay cut on all employees - including the CEO and board officers, although they did get to keep their hefty yearly bonuses that the employees did not get. I stayed a year on the promise of it being given back, then left. That was 12 years ago. I have a friend who still works there and she is still waiting....
OMG, I cannot believe this would happen.....
If you watch all of the news, a lot of parents leave their children in their vehicles all the time "just to run into the store long enough to get" blah, blah, blah and the vehicle is left with the keys, child sleeping in the back and all stolen. So what, pray tell, are you talking about??? Stupidness can happen everywhere and it does. Sounds like, duh, I didn’t know it would happen in my community.....
Anyone had this happen to you?
Yesterday, I gave my notice to the company I have been IC'ing for the last 14 months because I found a job that pays more and pays weekly by direct deposit. My boss acted like I committed a crime and has been a total jerk ever since. This is not the first he has acted like a jerk. Anytime he has a bad day, he takes it out on his transcriptionists and treats us like crap. I am just really tired of it and needed a change. So now, he is not communicating with me or sending me any work. Have any of you ever had an experience like this?
This is exactly what can happen when you
network. Let everyone you meet know that you are a medical Transcriptionist and love your job. These are the kinds of situations that land you your own accounts. Good luck. 
something has to happen first
We should be concerned and most of are very concerned about data transferred overseas, but until something happens, something bad, something with a direct link, no media attention of substance will be directed towards it...and economic deals are first and foremost, security second.
While I would like to see that happen, too,
The bottomline is cost. By paying for a service to come in and handle the transcription, the hospital frees up valuable office space, has no asset investments to upkeep or even purchases to make, does not have to payroll employees and all the benefits and SS taxes, etc. Having employees is very expensive.
Hospitals have got to cut costs to continue providing services. Obviously, the less they pay out for running the business, the more funds are freed up for investing back into the facility.
Transcription services (small or large or nationals) offer that solution.
This used to happen to me using
a different program, and the other MT I was working with told me about hitting some combination to turn it off. I think it was CTRL shift period or ALT shift period.
Does this ring any bells with anybody else?
That used to happen to me, until one day I said no. SM
I had just gotten back from a plane trip out of state to my father's funeral! The response to my answer no was one of shock. I no longer work for that company, but I think it was just the account manager's personality, a bit frantic.
had this happen
Several times and spoke to Dictaphone - they went in - deleted some logs, but still happens. Then when I do not make my count, I do not want to hear it - now I log on an occasionally will get the first minute of a transcription and the player stops responding. I love the program, but becoming a pain in the butt. I thought it was me lol, told no one else had this problem.
net with never happen without
 - don't you read posts? Obviously, net needs an IT person or net would be up and running by now. Oh that's right, she needs money too! Maybe she sent the money already sent to her to her new boyfriend overseas. Good luck to her! But, I think this forum will be just fine! 
You must like it here or you wouldn't have posted! This site has never been All-American, and so what if it wasn't then and/or isn't now! Whatever floats your boat! I like it here; I don't mind it at all!
What do you think will happen when the MT
finally trains the VR so well that it nearly starts to churn out 100% accuracy? Do you think your MT editing job will still be needed? If this takes place, and there is a good possibility it will, how much do you think they will want to pay then? I am afraid that the MT's wages will even worsen in time with improved VR accuracy, which is unbelievably sad to predict.
I have never had that happen to me.
x
That is just not going to happen...
some of these doctors have been dictating like this forever and they are not going to change...part of life I guess
I have had this happen too s/m
I had one doctor so mad because "I" was losing his reports. Well, I would type his reports daily, send him a log with all the reports typed with dates and then weeks to months later get phone calls because they couldn't find his reports and would say I must have missed them. Well, when they get a daily log, why didn't they cross reference and make sure all the reports were there? He stopped dictating for about 3 months, but did come back.
There was another doctor in the same practice that would actually cross reference my log with his own appt schedule and if anything was missing, he would call to verify that I didn't get the report. He would even admit that it was probably his fault that he missed the report, but wanted to make sure before re-dictating. He only called about once a month on one patient so it amazes me how the other doctor could be missing 5 or so patients a month.
He did come back though, I don't know if he tried someone else out and finally realized it was his own fault or what, but he did come back.
As far as the secretary doing his dirty work, don't most people delegate what they don't want to do? Think of it that way. Just try not to take it so personally and just think, maybe it is a blessing in disguise at this moment!
Sorry you had that happen to you.
I am a SE and I rearranged my schedule and worked Thursday through Sunday. As a matter of fact, so tired of working through the holiday I am resting today. Not all US employees are like that. Maybe you need to interview people differently so that you can find people who will stick by you. I am not saying I would want to work every holiday and holiday weekend, but if it meant bread and butter on the table for my children, my family and I make sure to support the decision to do it. Please don't close your doors to US MTs. There are some of us out there, although weary, who appreciate a good job.
This will never happen. All MTs saying
'no' to VR? You are dreaming.
There are ENOUGH newbies out there who would gladly take the jobs, VR 2-3 cpl in the beginning , then 6 cpl.
You cannot put the clock back on the advance of technology.
If it will not happen in 1 year, then in 5 years.
I had that happen to me before
with WMX. I applied for an orthopedics position, was tested on everything except orthopedics. I passed their oral test and the written tests, including their level 4 tests (or whatever the ESL files they sent me were).
After passing their hardest testing, the recruiter offered me a measly 7 cpl and told they needed me 3rd shift instead of the 2nd shift position I applied for.
I declined the offer.
What I have seen happen
I have been doing this now for years and years, since it was very invented, I think. The hospital I work for (and have for the past 20 years before VR) was at 1 time very, very picky about sentence structuring and the like. Whole new ballgame when VR came in. Relaxing the rules was the name of the game, totally changed. I care about how things look but don’t think it is as big a deal to them as in years past. I wish VR was out when I was a newbie some 36 years ago now. Just to think, had to learn all those ESLs and all those medications and now. Oh, well, guess that is technology working for us. You still have to know what you are doing because VR just does not do all the work for you. The platform I work on needs watching like a hawk every single word in order to get correct. Maybe some are better than others.
|
