Check with the school that you paid money to for MT training.
Posted By: deb on 2007-02-21
In Reply to: How is one going to get experience, when no one will hire without experience???? - Birdie
If they can't help you get a job afterwards, then you've been robbed.
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TRAINING SCHOOL--I WANT TO START A
training school to produce quality transcriptionists using something like HPI's CD and cassettes. I have purchased several from different transcriptionists and I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to start a training program. I know the local colleges are going to come after me in every way they can just to prevent me from infringing on their multi-million dollar Transcriptionist training, but they teach them and charge them for soooo very much that transcriptionists do not need, and they stretch their programs out for two years. I already have a transcription service with 6 employees, but want to expand and I have just interviewed about 8 applicants who knew absolutely nothing about the meds we use now, and especially about the AAMT guidelines about not using q.d., q.i.d. q.h.s. etc. One woman had been seeking a position for a year, but everyone in our area wants "experience." She is a very fast learner, intelligent, and I only have to tell her things once.....but after a two-year college, making the Dean's List, I am training her!! I want to start the "training" school cuz as it is now, I am doing it for free, just so I can get an excellent, long-term employee... Has anyone every tried doing this and did the colleges really come after you with lawyers? How can I term it, charge for it, but not require a "teaching license" so I do not get in trouble? I am clueless on this, want to be careful not to step on toes, but am very tired of training students who graduate for free. Feel free to email me if you need to...... PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Fun in Transcription Training School
If I had a hammer....... I'd hammer . . . . .
B--A--R--B! I know I would. Today I have the displeasure of being having to be trained for a new job. Since the Heartless, Inc. I used to work for traded me as an employee for 29 Indians in Bangalore who will now do my job.
Medical transcription itself is second nature to me, but the hoops and hurdles on how to get the job done with their company is what they are trying to teach me.
You know, this information she conveys to us is all covered in the company handbook under, "Redundant Rhetoric." That's under the subsection heading of "Everything You Will Never Need to Know."
I never do well with the whistles and bells of any new job. Our trainer has been systematic in this group conference call presenting the material. She is very windy in her explanations of "do this, don't do that, .... can't you read the signs?"
no, I'm sorry . . . I can't. She lost me about an hour ago.
Instead, I worry. I'm not sure if I have attention-deficit disorder, or irritable HOW disease. Maybe my give-a-flip is broken, but something has gone terribly wrong.
I can still hear her now, but . . . . I have not actually understood a word she said except, "Um, and So Um." I hope they aren't, um, going to test me on it, so um, apprehension is my middle name.
I interestingly study the flight pattern of flies.
She said, "That about summarizes it. Do you have any questions, or comments?"
'Summarizes" was a buzzword I was looking for. It signaled the end. Over! Finis! Yeah! Magically, I was awakened from my coma.
A dag-gone medical miracle, no doubt.
Well, it was either her words that woke me, or now that I think of it . . . . . it may have been the pain from the cat claws piercing my back as Buddy cat tried to jump up on the back of my chair. We'd have to study that a little more to know for sure.
I was relieved, but that did not last long.
Apparently, next up on her synopsis of fun-filled classroom activities was, "HUMILIATION," just before the part on "TORTURE."
She called me by name to reiterate what she just taught us.
I am totally bumfuzzled. I've been fritzenfrackered before, and this feels a whole lot like fritzenfracker to me. I hate fritzenfracker. My heart beats like a bunny at about 500 beats a minute.
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking it must be the same feeling skydivers experience the last two seconds before impact, after their parachute has failed to open.
A long pause of silence follows.
My mouth is instantly cottonball dry as I choke trying to speak.
"Mari?" She said. "Mari are you there?"
When all else fails . . . . I know it's best to just be funny.
It may not work but it's a ploy to stall for time so I can crash course myself and maybe come up to speed on what the heck she was talking about. Yes, I learn fast.
"Whew!" I said sounding out of breath. "I just got away! Sheesh! Don't worry, I'm okay though. Ya'll didn't pay the ransom did you?"
She said, "I'm sorry. What was that?"
"You didn't pay the ransom did you? I was hoping you wouldn't pay, because I knew I could get away.
Did I miss anything?"
Now our trainer was now stunned.
She was speechless. She stuttered. The class laughed.
"No, I'm just kidding." I said, "What was it you asked me?"
She said sternly, "I asked if you could review what we just learned here."
Since I didn't have enough time to fully absorb the information . . . . again, I went with funny and fritzenfrazzled.
"I could," I said, "and so, I would, but you know, um, I have to be honest with you here. . .
(I used her favorite words of 'and so and um' to summon some sympathy from her, so you know, maybe she would not send me to the New-Hire Firing Squad. At a minimum I hoped they would give me one last cigarette before they shot me. )
"And so. . . . Um when you started talking about the PDQ, the RSVP, and the ASAP, ADT, you lost me. I tried to pay attention, but mwah, mwah, mwah Charlie Brown's teacher, and I don't get it."
"What!" She said. "Sounded like what?"
"Um, you um, sounded like . . . . Charlie Brown's teacher." I said boldly and daringly.
As I explained it all to her, I imitated the sound to properly apply full effect, ". . . And the next thing I knew, Poof! Mwah, mwah, mwah. Hmmm . . . unconscious."
My fellow classmates laughed hysterically.
I thought, "Yeah, right, laugh, encourage me. I should be carrying a sign around my neck that reads, "Will work for laughs."
This is not funny. I'm through. This isn't the standup comedy club you know for Pete's sake. They aren't paying for funny here. I know, I'm as good as fired.
As the class continued to laugh, surprisingly the instructor apologized in cutest her baby talk. She said, "Oh my! I am soooo sorryeeee. You should have said something! Does anyone else feel that way?"
The rest agreed, "Mwah-Mwah, Mwah, MWAHHH!" They said excitedly in unison.
Realize here, that this woman has a very bubbly, yet violating voice.
Imagine if Barbie could talk. That's our trainer. The high-pitched, I've-been-in-the-sun-too-long voice. After a while, listening to her felt a whole lot like fingernails scrapping the chalkboard.
Apparently her sun-baked idea is that we are going to do it all over again.
Oh no, uh-uh. I can't take anymore. Uncle! Put a Fork in me, I'm done! Hearing her for one more minute is too much. Keep the training pay. I need hazard pay.
I have to do something different, because unknown to her I am a nice person until I've had enough. When I reach the point of total aggravation and frustration . . . . if a butterfly happens by and softly touches me I will grab a hammer to smash that &#$&*!. I know this about myself. I try to control it.
"Excuse me . . . . Barb," I asked interrupting her, "May I be excused? I gotta run and get a flyswatter."
"Mwah, mwah, MWAh?" The instructor asked.
"NO ma'am it CANNOT WAIT!" I said frantically. "This IS an emergency!"
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Did you go to school, or are they training you from scratch?
The only scenario I can see is if you didn't go to school. These days, seems like nobody trains from scratch, but if they did, they'd probably pay a rate like that.
Yeah, money, that's it. I paid $20.00 for my dog. Money is NOT THE ISSUE
walk him daily, play ball daily, he sleeps in my office daily while I work. Yeah, I got a lot of money, NOT HARDLY. And, my dog is HORRIBLY HORRIBLY ABUSED because he wears a collar around his neck. It's people like you that make me sick. I am done defending my use of the shock collar. I am going to continue with it and my dog will continue to be pampered , educated, fed, kept warm, and love me for everything that I do for him even when I remind him that his barking needs to stop. So, with that said, I will not respond to any more of your CRAP in reference to the shock collar.
Is MTATHOME.com a good training school?
Hi everyone. I was just wondering if MTATHOME.com is a reliable and good training school for me since I am looking to make a career change to Medical Transcription. Anyone who has been apart of there training program, your comments would be greatly appreciated. I'd just like to get some feedback on this company to see if I should go with them as my training school. Thank you.
-Hunter DuRant
Not getting paid for training
Has anybody run across this? I recently started at a company where after 1.5 hours of training on a new system, I was started on an account BUT after being promised training pay, find that I'm only getting paid production at 4 cpl, no less.(for VR) Obviously I'm making no money. It takes time to learn something new. Is this even legal? I'm certainly making less than minimum wage. Is this the standard practice? Say it isn't so....
You ARE getting paid for training, at 4 cpl...sm
the standard going rate for VR....it is up to you increase your speed to make more money. You didn't know this going in????
B.S. in HIM, no MT school, OTJ training for that skill, but the HIM classes for the knowledge. nm
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I was offered a job and they said 3 months paid training
Does this sound like a little much according to what you are posting?
If they offered 3 months paid training SM
it is probably a mentoring program (whether they told you or not) OR they are going to pay you a ridiculously low rate for typing for those 3 months.
Yes. Three months paid training? That's just ridiculous unless you're working
in the office. What service can afford to pay an MT for three months of training?
Specializing usually does not take more paid school
Most companies are more than willing to train you in the speciality that you want to go into. When I went into psych nursing fresh out of college, I was trained right on the job for 6 months. Got paid to be trained. Also, many of the hospitals in my area have a surgical program where you go to school at the hospital for 6 months after your RN and get paid the RN salary while you are attending their surgical classes and clinical. Of course, you have to commit to stay for a period of time with that hospital and work for them, but if that is what you are interested in, that should not be a problem. I know a nurse at a nursing home in a rural area who makes 80K/yr plus excellent benefits.
MT & RN 
Check out M-TEC online school. Seriously the
I attended it and had absolutely no problem finding a job. If your GPA stays above 93% you have almost limitless options for employment after graduation. It's a tough course, but that is why it prepares you so well for this VERY tough job! They also cover technology issues. Good luck, and I'm sorry you had a bad experience with a bad school. I would recommend finding a school that helps with job placement once you graduate.
Isn't tjat why we get paid so much money? :)
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MTs with less skill s/b paid less with that money going to the best
I can do xxxx but it makes me sick when the slackers get the exact same pay as me. Please don't give me the xxxx story that I can make more by being more efficient.
NOPE, took a lot of money, dad paid,
bought, ran to meetings, everything to try to make it work. Multilevel just don't work for the little guy and that's the way they're set up. Try as you might to change the way people think about multilevel, it's possible that a lot of little people already got stung by that bee!
POLL: Home School vs. Charter School vs. Public School vs. Priv ate School...
Pros and cons of each too. I have two little ones that will be starting school soon and I would like opinions on all. Thanks in advance! :)
Actually, no, it's poor you! You're the one who paid all the money
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It wasn't right in that I paid money up front
for a 3 part procedure. The physician performed 2 of those, ok. He FORGOT the face lift. I worked at the same hospital he was head of the plastic's department over. Got that so far? When I told him on my first followup visit he forgot he wrote me an IOU on his letter head office stationary. You following so far? After this time he did not want to take my calls about the money and I went to hospital mediation. He told them he would not be part of that. Hold on- there is more. He started calling me personally at my home in threatening manner. Eight (that is 8 in numerical) months after my original surgery he dictated my report and put in he did the face lift- He falsified a legal document on me and my hubby was always with me- I can not fight city hall- Hold on, we are getting to the end- I called lots of lawyers- all said no case. Elective surgery- not an emergency appendectomy, not brain tumor surgery - elective- are you there with me? I finally because I HAD TO HAVE A JOB, just let it go. I could not risk my job by going after this department head surgeon that worked at my hospital. I hope you understand this time and if not, can't explain any better.
I got into this because it paid more money and I didn't have daycare expenses.
I have more time for a social life now that I work at home. I go to lunch or coffee with family and friends. I used to run errands on my lunch half-hour at my old job and either pay my bills or balance my checkbook on my breaks. I know all the other parents at the school now, so we get together on weekends or chitchat at the school. When I used to work outside the home, I was so exhausted from dealing with crabby people all day long that I just wanted to isolate myself at home on evenings and weekends. Now that I work at home, I actually seek out friends to keep from getting isolated.
Money talks & the smaller the amount paid out,
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I am a very social person and I entered this job at home because it paid more money
than the jobs in the office and I was a single parent. I just learned to balance my life outside the work environment with things that did allow me to use my social skills
Speaking of rip-offs, anyone have any advise on how to get back money paid for a product you never
received? I needed a Dictaphone C-phone for my job (was using a loaner) and put a note on the equipment board pertaining to this back in May. A woman contacted me stating she had one for $100 (I only needed the phone, power supply and phone cord). She said she was going away for 3 weeks and to Western Union the money to her that night and she'd send it out the next day. I did not like the high pressure and was still shopping around anyway so I told her I'd wait the 3 weeks and contact her then. About a week later she emailed me stating she cut her trip short but was going away again that Friday (It was Tuesday), I had by this time decided to buy her phone. I mailed out that day via Priority mail a M.O. for $100. She was very anxious for the money, and thought I'd sent it Express Mail, which I of course informed her I did not. She stated that it should be there by Friday and if she did not see her mail that day that she'd have her mom check the mail and then mail the C-phone to me. After 2 weeks I emailed her as I had no phone as yet, no response. A week later still no phone, emailed again, no response. Then I called her (looked it up) and she claimed her email was "broken" and she had not received my emails but would email me back as she was on her way out the door to a baseball game. I asked her how can she email me back if it was broken??? So then she backpedaled and said she'd call me.... I held my breath at that point. So the next day by some miracle I get an email from her stating her mother had mailed it regular mail, no way to track it, etc. So supposedly it is lost. I emailed her back which it appeared she did not get as she did not respond to my questions but she did email me again saying she'd return my money.....again I am holding my breath. That was 8 days ago. She is in OK, I am in VA. If she sent me a refund promptly it would have been here by now. Now when I call her, she does not pick up, and no answering machine either. I am planning now to mail her a copy of her email and my response to getting my money back. I am assuming at this point that I was taken for a sucker and was obviously too trusting. Right now I don't have $100 to burn (who does?) with my drives to the hospital (60 miles round trip) for my daughter's chemo, doctor visits, etc, on top of only making about 1/2 what I used to make due to the changes in my life right now. In the meantime I got kicked off the account for which I needed the C-phone for (add insult to injury here) due to problems at the company I was working for, so that does not sweeten my disposition any. So does anyone have any idea how I can squeeze her and get my money back? Contact the police there for fraud? Small claims court in OK? I am a persistent pain in the butt and will keep at her until I get my money back, if it is fraud then she picked the wrong person to screw with, if it is on the up and up then it is unfortunate but she should have insured it to cover her own (and mine) butt, and sent in with a delivery confirmation too....but you know what they say about hindsight. Any ideas???
I do not get extra money for typing and supervising.. I get paid salary which means
 I get to type the stuff everyone else has rejected!
Wwwowoooweeeiiieee.. lucky me and my 3 dollars an hour!!
We paid hourly with incentive for high production. So she's making money when she's just
sitting there. I don't know if it is a habit or not because this is the first time I've really had to work with her for any length of time. I usually only work a couple of hours a day with her when our shifts overlap. I think I'm definitely going to ask the girl I'm filling in for what she thinks about her.
they are charging you money to perform a background check ?
???
Seems to be getting paid with a cash "card" instead of a check. Done at other types of
s
Check your line count and what you are getting paid for. Don't trust what they SAY you are gettin
:P
i don't find mistakes if i spot check. so i don't relisten. costs money you know.
paid to type and listen once as i type.
They steal your money and then send you a check and you are thrilled. Give me a break.
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Check your records and report what she has paid you, you do not have to send in a copy a 1099 - nm
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All you mentioned in original post was about the money. Explain the rest of the scam. The check
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If you paid by echeck, you will receive your gift pull once the check clears the bank.
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I saw this happen in MQ office while training. Supervisor was supposed to be training but
account was behind so she did transcription while she collected salary for "training" me. Of course I asked others for guidance rather than bother the furiously typing supervisor. I don't know if she cherry picked but she definitely double dipped into the MQ payroll.
1099 ? Is the amount on the 1099 only the money paid to you in 2008. So if I did not receieve payme
than that $$ would be on my 1099 for 2009 not 2008?? I have to invoices that were due to be paid in 2008 but I never received the $$ until January of 2009. Do I have to claim that money on my taxes this year or next??? Thanks in advance for your help.
For QA consulting I'm paid per hour; QA instructing (college) paid salary, QA editing paid per li
I am an IC and work for two different MTSOs as well as instruct at a business college.
there is a world of difference between MT training and NP training
honestly, I am in nursing school and have lots of health care experience as a paramedic and medical assistant. I think you can relax and leave your family's health either in your mother's hands or their physician's...
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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I did that with 2 kids with time mgmt and a high school girl who babysat 3 days a week after school
nm
The cost of running a private school or any school is expensive....
Why do you think public schools are so run down and can't find good teachers? Because the government and people to not put forth the effort or $$$$ to improve the educational system.
Make money? I'm not making any money because of my decision. You read my reasoning
You can agree with me or not, but don't make false assumptions please.
You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
I also blew some money signing up with Quixtar... The only way to make any money is to bug everyone
you know into signing up. I felt like a snake oil huckster. I hated it. I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money.
RUN, do not walk away! I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!) Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing. Then make a business out of it. That's the best way to have a side business. Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar? Not so much.
The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
if mt paid 9, editor paid 4 or 5...how can company charge 14 and make it..sm
I know the going rate in our area is 14 cents per line. As MTs most companies here pay us 8 or 9 cents a line. Now add in the Editor rate at 4 or 5 per line..you are paying OUT more than you can charge a line. How would companies stay in biz?
Unless all work is sent by the company overseas at pennies per line, this would not pay for a company.
just curious how this works out
The School of Hard Knocks is the best MT school
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But how much are the US EDs gonna be paid? Typically this work is paid at 2-3 cpl. nm
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You don't get paid an hourly rate you get paid by line - sm
so because of how you are paid (not an hourly rate) you don't get OT, especially if you are an IC.
I would move on. I think it is so unfair not to be paid for spaces! I think we should get paid
per keystroke, but that'll never happen. I just think that these national companies are going to keep finding ways to cheat us. I found a job working for a hospital as an employee, paid hourly plus incentive, and they let us expand everything! Somebody's gonna have to kill me to make me give up this job. I will never go back to the national's again.
I feel for you though. I know that for us MTs those good jobs are few and far between and some have little choice but to work for the nationals. I just happened to luck into the job I have now. I just applied at the right time.
Good luck to you whatever you decide.
If those companies paid a fair wage, and paid more
all came out equal, people wouldn't feel the need to try to make up the deficit by going for the good stuff. I actually prefer the harder, juicier reports. But I can't make a living doing only that, because the pay is not commensurate with the difficulty. So even though I prefer not to, sometimes I have to pick up some of the easier, more boring 'line-o-matic' reports just to make ends meet. Tell your MTSO to make it work their while, and MTs will stop taking all the easy work away that you obviously would prefer to keep for yourself.
You wont show UE being paid because it is employer paid -
the employee will never have to pay this.
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