First post in response to mine only validates my statements and rests my case....Thank you!
Posted By: PathGuy on 2006-01-15
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In my case she did not post, I did looking for a C-phone, she then emailed me saying she had one -nm
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Hi..
Yes, I can relate here. I took a job for 6 cents a line just for the sake of doing family practice soaps again.....and even with my 20+ years of experience and Instant Text, I can only make about $8/hour----I know I am worth more than that, but getting an assigned doctor account is not easy to find, but this surely isn't worth my time. Like you said, once you pay your quarterly taxes and self-employment taxes, and state taxes, what was the sense of working??? Thanks for allowing me to vent---I think I am going to quit my new job!!!!
Since it was in direct response to my post...
Why do you care? Grow up.
what a dumb post/response to OP....
I, too, was wondering if one goes somewhat deaf, and has hearing aids in place, how one could transcribe.
TO THE OP (ORIGINAL POSTER) - it was a good question, too bad this poster who responded first was a nonresponsive and completely nonhelpful answer...
anyone else know? I cannot imagine with hearing aids in, unless they go behind the ear, how we would be able to *hear* well doing transcription...unless, of course, we had it aloud, on speaker/audio...
I'm facing this down the road, I am sure.....
Read the post this was in response to,
where she says QAs are merely janitors & belittles the amount of knowledge it takes to be a good QA.
RESPONSE TO PRIOR POST
The link is not working for me, you can access it at:
www.presstelegram.com/news/ci/_12022094
Did you really read the post??? Your response is rude
and not necessary. If you take the time to read it, she wants donations made to a childrens charity. BUT is saying that if not, gift cards or money would be great . Did you think possibly maybe that would be because the "money" can be given to the childrens charity and the "gift cards" could possibly be used to buy things for the childrens charity. She was not bragging about having all the stuff or having a yard sale; she was just making a statement of what they are having to do so they are not overwhelmed with 2 households.
response to your insulting post on consulting
Wanting to start out with a consultant is called being prepared and nothing to do with my capabiilty of handling a business. both are very two different entitities. Its like operating any other business to get started. If it was not true there would not be any consultants out there. both of you might have started 20 years by the sounds of your posts and it sounds like you might have hit it lucky getting by without contracts. I would rather be safe than sorry but more power to you. I guess it makes you feel "superior."
Post under word board help for better response. NM
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Link is under response to prior post
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Regardless, the post above mine was way off. nm
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Your post coming in as mine and saying about the same
wading in and I was saying you do not want to just jump in, not if your salary depends on it, too much anxiety because takes a while to learn. I was training when I learned the ops and like you, my favs.
Your words- not mine- very first post you put on her
you stated I wanted to work at home and shared my reasons for wanting to work from home (my children). I guess you have just had a bad day because you are not remembering what you posted in the first place. I stand by my post.
wish I had read your post before I put mine sm
you worded it better than me. But the bottom line is the schools and the promises and the desperation of the MTs graduating.
I am sure that you, like myself, have warned plenty of MTs about these schools and the expectations to no avail.
I dont' think there is a feasible solution that MTs are going to comply with. I will just be glad to get out completely.
I wouldn't use lower case. I'd use upper case. Don't worry about it. nm
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Who's Laurie? The single mom post was mine
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that post was not mine..screwed up posting.
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duh, sorry, didn't read post below mine. NM
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Two times mine didn't......but I think I saw a post
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Yes, I read your post, and I just re-read it, and I've copied and pasted for you in case
you've forgotten your own words! Your post above is 100% different "flavor" to it, now all positive and cheery! Your first post was 100% doom and gloom every which way, including "raining on your parade", and "if you want to go forward"...God, sounds like she's talking about jumping into oncoming traffic! Here is your quote:
My first boss (the one who hired me as a new grad) gave me some words of wisdom that I haven't forgotten. She said that transcribing at home with small children NEVER works under any circumstance. Either the work will suffer or the parenting will suffer.
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How can the word "NEVER" in caps be interpreted in any positive way? You took about 8 paragraphs to cover every aspect and completely dash this poor woman's dream. I'm not blind, I'm not talking about day care at all, I'm talking about the total negativity of your original post! You know exactly what I'm talking about, cause you added some sugar to your second version! And that's much nicer than the first!
Agree with above 2 statements. sm
I also think the lack of quality of some MTs has reflected badly on all MTs. All MTs are thus stigmatized, looked down upon and we are not considered to be the professionals that we are and thus the whole industry has suffered.
With short arms, I need chair with shallow seat, good back support and high back. Want arm rests
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Dubious of company statements
I noticed this trend - when any "protective" software I have is fixing to expire soon, suddenly I supposedly have all kinds of dangerous viruses and corrupted files - and am warned a few times a day that my system is going to implode and I can only avoid complete and utter destruction if I renew my contract or upgrade to their better and more expensive virus coverage. But when I delete their expired software and move on to another company, they don't find anything wrong with my system....until their free trial is ending soon, then the doom and gloom reports start again. The one real virus I got was while I had McAfee - and it somehow escaped their notice. I dumped McAfee a long time ago - but they still email me regularly trying to lure me back with paranoid propaganda.
The above are confirming my previous statements
Cannot leave the children but yet going down the drain unable to make a living. Sounds really smart to me.
thanx for all your input.. A new MT friend of mine asked about it, said I'd post it.. You've
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Back your statements other then deluded and demented.
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Unfortunately, false statements of high pay attract
sorry, i didn't read your post before I posted mine...says the same thing, pretty much! :) nm
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Good thing you kept all your wage statements. You'll have
a fight but at least you have the proof you'll need.
Please check out Snopes.com for false statements/urban legends
before posting. This is an email that has been circulating for a while and it is not true. See the link for an explanation.
oopsie! 2nd response in. Just followed 1st response.
Funny! Mine is almost as large, and I don't mind cleaning mine!
It's no problem at all. Besides, I'll take lots of oodles of square footage any day of the week over living in a sardine can!
Tiny statements from a tiny mind.
We are trying to figure out how to get out of this screwy place without being screwed any more.
Upper case is lower, lower case is upper. Using InstaText. Anyone know how to fix this?
Aargh. It happened all day yesterday. When I brought in text that was all caps
IMPRESSION:
and had lower case on keyboard (as always do), it reverses keyboard commands. This is driving me c-r-a-z-y.
Should just post all their open positions in one post and only be allowed to post one of those a day
nm
Won't be of much help to your case..
back in the middle 70s.. then got certification in 1987 by AAMT. Been at this for 30 years. Still going strong.. working 2 full time jobs.
In my case, it was because...sm
we live in such a rural area. I call it in the country. A subdivision was built nearby and I know of a couple of people on my road that were requesting DSL too. They put it in on my road shortly after the subdivision was built last year.
Well, in my case....
I work for a local hospital, deal with my boss and QA manager all the time, go in for meetings, and work a set full-time shift just exactly as if I were in-house. No "maverick" status for me. I have to play by the rules. The only difference is that my butt is in the chair at home, as opposed to the office. And I have worked inhouse numerous time, so I know how to do that and had no problem.
what would you do in this case?
I am a Transcriptionist with about 20 years experience who has a job which I do not like anymore, I used to liike the national that I work for but things have changed so much in the last six months that I almost cannot get up and get started and I even work second shift! I am thinking about changing jobs but need to move the first part of December so will need time off and have a bunch of company coming at Christmas so have taken time off. Do you guys think there are any employers out there who would hire someone to start, knowing that they are going to be needing time off in a month? I need to find an employee position because I need health insurance. I am a good worker and very seldom take any time off, this just happens to be a time when I need to.
In that case,
maybe they are afraid he will go to the EEOC - some of that stuff may be illegal age discrimination.
well, in that case, thanks!
Hehe. I've seen that (OP) before and never knew what it meant. But since I was the person who started this post I was too curious not to ask. Thanks for the info--learn something knew everyday! Happy memories to you!!!
looking for a case, are ye?.......nm
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In my case...
it was in our court decree that ex would carry me for 6 months. I then had the option to COBRA on, think maybe I had the option of converting to a private policy also, can't remember for sure, but it was too expensive, so I got my own policy. I don't think there was any way in our case, as his company was a smaller one, that they would have carried me as a "non-family" member on the company insurance. I know that you can work it out in the agreement that the ex pays for the COBRA as part of the settlement, which mine wasn't willing to do. I also thinks it depends on who the insurance is through. I had a family member who was involved in a divorce where it was a federal agency health insurance plan, and they had only 1 month to remain on insurance as per that agency's policies. I would be checking out what the exact options are, as you don't want to be blindsided with a lapse in insurance coverage. It's tough. I was a stay-at-home mom for 15 years and just starting out as an MT not making much so kind of scary. Good luck to you!
Definitely not the case...SM
He wasn't in jail over there for anything. That was a misreport. The only previous charges he has are in the US for child porn.
not sure what is going on in your case
The place I used to work had this function disabled but never told me about any feature that I could go back and see jobs listed there for any given date. I was told by this company they didn't have that information. I now work for KS and work on that same platform- Extext. They do not pay for headers or footers but the session statistics is enabled and I can check them at any time. The other company I worked for I could type and type 30 or more reports and the number was always the same 500, 600, 700 lines, ridiculously low. The Ichart website where you had to check was always lagging behind so was impossible to verify how many lines I was getting credited for each report. I type half that many reports now and the number is around 700. I feel like this is more in the normal range. Not sure what the situation is where you are but if it sounds suspicious why give it any more of your time and energy trying to figure it out? There are too many companies out there looking for MTs these days. Keep looking until you are happy and feel like your line count is fair.
So right ---- That is almost ALWAYS the case!
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In case get job somewhere else, ST is yours.
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Of course, you are right in which case IC needs
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I wish that was the case for me
This week the doctors that I work for saw 221 patients which meant 221 notes. Actually more. One doctor is notorious for waiting days before he dictates and then he dictates 20 notes or more all in one day from previous days, plus some of the ones from that specific day. Arggg. I still have a boat load and I'm off Monday-Wednesday next week.
If that's the case, you are are NOT an IC
As an IC, you set the work hours, not the MTSO. If they are calling you and asking you to leave dinners, conferences, etc., as an IC you say you're not available. If by doing so, they dismiss you, you are an employee and not an IC.
An IC sets their own rate and work hours. The MTSO (or client) either accepts those or not. Period.
I don't think you'd have a case at all.
They'll just find someone else who will do that. They have the right to make agreements on what to pay just the same as you have the right to agree to what you will/won't be paid, too.
Just simply state, "I'm sorry but I bill in this manner" and if it isn't suitable for them, then you need to find different clients.
As unfair as it may seem right now, you have to be careful what you force in business. It is not the emotional energy or financial resources to force anyone to do it your way.
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