Honesty best policy
Posted By: Tink on 2008-10-24
In Reply to: Tired of being an MT - Made a mistake. - wondering
I don't think it would reflect badly on your son if you're just honest with the person who hired you about not being able to be on your feet for so long. I would suggest telling him/her that you didn't realize how difficult it would be to be on your feet for so many hours and that you've made a mistake. I think everything should work out just fine in the end :)
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Thanks for the honesty
I really appreciate it!! I must say the only reason for doing this is not just my son. I am currently working a job where I make pretty good money, but am bored to death and have no challenges what so ever. I'm not sure if I have any advancement opps there.
I do have experience in the medical field and feel comfortable with medical terminology. I am looking at this as a career change to challenge myself. I know this is no cake walk, it is going to be extremely difficult. I don't expect to make big bucks, I really expect to have a big decrease in my salary......which i'm saving for.
People expect to become MTs and make wonderful money only doing a little bit of work...WRONG!! You are going to have to work long hard, sometimes frustrating hours to earn your dues. You must be consistent, it's not for an unmotivated person. You have to be a self starter and have somewhat of a passion or drive to really make it.
Even if I don't decide to become an MT now, i'm sure it's something I will pursue in the future. Possibility once my son is school age.
So you want honesty
I believe I have been honest if you look at all my postings. Sure I'm letting people know about the discounts, I posted the websites to find docs. I'm not trying to recruit people real hard because I just got started in the broker business myself. And as far as the MT stars terms of service. I wouldn't call me trying to help people as advertising, which was my whole goal in the first place. I am a medical Transcriptionist working from home and if it wasn't for my husband's insurance I would have none and definitely would jump on the Ameriplan discount program. So I can relate to other MTs working at home and are looking to save money on costs. So don't talk to me like you know me, because you don't.
Thanks IC for your honesty! (nm)
:)
In all honesty, I think you, yourself, have some
doubts, and thus your posting not just to 'cry on our shoulders'. So, perhaps you should listen to your heart and that little nagging voice that's telling you something isn't quite right here. You know the details of your life - follow your gut feeling, which is that something just isn't quite right about this.
Honesty?
Honesty. I wish companies would just be honest with you right at the beginning of your interviewing process. If you can not promise steady work, just tell me please. If your interpretation of the AAMT BOS is different from your QA people, just tell me please. If there are no specific guidelines in which you measure the quality and accuracy of your MTs, but leave everything up to the individuals reviewing the work, please tell me. I promise it will save both you and me a great deal of headaches down the line. I try to be very truthful about my experience (or even lack thereof), please be truthful about your company. After a while you get so frustrated your productivity drops, your zeal for the job at hand is lost, accuracy goes down the tube as you try to decipher if you should do it by the CP, BOS, or hope you get the same QA person who told you to change something (incorrectly) in the first place. I do not mind ESL or difficult dictators, I just do not want them one right after the other. Once in a while I would appreciate the easier dictators that I know you have stashed away. Thank you..
More honesty.
How about employees who are truthful about their experience? How about being available to work when you're scheduled, not when it's convenient for you? As with everything else, this is a two-way street.
Posts like yours keep blasting away at the employers. There are good employers out there, just like there are good employees and not-so-good employees.
Go ahead, fire away. My asbestos suit is back from the cleaners.
Thanks for your honesty. sm
The more I hear about the "other owner", the more I distrust her.
In all honesty....
Here is my opinion. Screw Karma and all of that silly BS.
As I sit here at my computer right now I see my husband, a man who loves me and I love him with all of my heart. We have stuck by each other through thick and thin. We have been there for each other and I would do anything for him.
I see my little daughter who depends on me for things like M&M's and pretty jewelry and who I would die for in a second without another thought.
NOW...if some snotty little MT who had no more resect for me as a co-worker, let alone a person with a family to worry about and INTENTIONALLY sat there and picked through all of the good reports and left me with the junk--in turn costing me the ability to provide my daughter with her M&M's and pretty jewelry (or worse), you would have to hold me back. I would go about it in as professinal of manner as possible, but you can bet that my supervisor would be left with an ultimatum of who he/she was going to keep. Especially in a situation where they can't afford to lose anyone, as you said. You have the upper hand. How dare she sit there and purposely take money our of you and your family's pocket! And to sit there and do nothing is not only cheating yourself, but those who depend on you.
Whew...
Appreciate your honesty...
That's what I'm looking for. In my short MT career I've already experienced the "losing my job to India" fiasco! The transcription company I worked for before laid off all their US employees to ship everything overseas because it could be done cheaper! Thanks again for your honesty. Guess I'll keep plugging away and hope for the best, huh?
Thanks for your honesty
I thought I had seen where MTs were making more money with VR than with straight typing because either they were slow or had problems with their hands.
Sorry negativity and honesty are same in this
NM
Where is honesty and integrity? WHen did it
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Honesty about working schedule
I do note that many transcripitionists I know of personally, are going to school for either a degree or training in another field, and right now it is finals everywhere. Many transcriptionists are struggling to keep the balls in the air between working and going to school, among other things. This, of course, does not make it okay to skip your work. However, I do know friends who work for industries outside the medical field, and are going to school also. Their companies let them take off a few days here and there for finals or mid-terms. Just my opinion.
There's nothing wrong w/ honesty, it's the nasty
rude, mean, demeaning and downright vicious comments that we're talking about. Just because it's not all "rosy & lucratiive" doesn't mean you can't offer a nice word of encouragement. Why step all over someone's dream just because your dream didn't come true with this industry? Maybe it's not all about the money. Maybe someone is going into this field in order to be at home with their family. You can be honest without being nasty and rude, that's the whole point here. Be honest, tell it like it is, but for heaven's sake, KEEP IT FRIENDLY.
Time for some honesty with the hubs. He'll never know how
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I have found that honesty is always best. I've quit a job right after receiving the equipment S
because a better offer came along. I have always just been honest, tell them that I've decided to accept another position. I apologize for any inconvenience, ask them to instruct them on how they would like me to return the equipment, and then I always ask that they keep my resume on file. They are usually pretty diplomatic about it. They'd rather you tell them up front than waste their time and yours in training for a job you're not going to be happy with.
Policy (SM)
There is policy about this.
Please write the Administrator about this (admin@mtstars.com).
Goldbird
I think the policy is
as long as they have an American office (storefront) they are still considered American and they do not allow offshore MT's to post resumes - but that is an I think.
If only this policy was followed with consistency, now that would be new!
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It seems like you have to ask the company what their policy is (nm)
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you may have been sold that policy
it doesn't mean you could have collected on it.
Yes, came from hosp. If was co. policy, they
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Check the policy. It says......
unlimited long distance, person to person, then you will get busted. It may take a little while but they'll get you. I learned the hard way. I used Vonage and it worked great.
If it is your company policy, then you have
to do it. I would keep track of it though, check for errors, etc.
Not if you have a company policy
I never said it was an insurance policy. Are there not programs set
up for a reason? Is there no government assistance programs set up so that people can get help momentarily when they need it? I am not talking about depending on it. I am talking about OUR tax dollars going back to us during a time of legitimate NEED, not out of laziness. Do you think they are better spent in Iraq or a lot of other bull crap spending that is done on people not in our own country? We pay for this! No we don't have to expect our government to help us in times of need. Move to freaking Africa. Those views would fit in real good over there. I hope your kids go to private school. Wouldn't want the government taking OUR earned money and spending it back on us.
Deletions are made according to policy. (SM)
If you have a complaint about a post, take it to the Monitor board.
Goldbird
You'd be better off getting a private policy. Premiums are
cheaper, though still expensive, and you don't have to worry about insurance if you make a job change. Shop around, should be able to get a family policy for about $400.00/mo.
Or try to get the kids a separate policy
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Fair Access policy
I have DW7000 professional and even with the extra download and upload capability they will still shut me down if I go over their limit. Also I am on SatMex and have had occasional trouble as long as I have had the system. Sometimes I just want to run over the dish and modem with my Jeep!!
I would read your health ins. policy
My husband's policy specifically states that even if a married couple get separated the spouse no longer has insurance coverage! The coverage definitely stops, on my husband's policy, when a divorce is final.
I would want to read a copy of the health ins. policy for sure. Just my 2 cents. :)
Each company has their own policy for how they handle it.
I only worked for one company that deducted and that was YOG. There is no industry standard, at least that I am aware of. I'm going on 6 years at my current company and have never had a deduct.
That depends on the company's policy.
Each company defines it's own policy. Most all do pay it out but since offering paid time off is not mandatory by any federal or state government, there is no mandate that a company HAS to pay out any accrued but unused paid time off.
Your Human Resources or Benefits Department will be able to direct you to the policies that govern this for your employer.
Ex-HR'r
Official policy puts it best . . .
from the 2002 AAMT Book of Style:
"Obscenities, profanities, and vulgarities do not belong in a patient's record unless they are part of direct quotations that are essential to a report."
In 20+ years of transcribing, mostly psychiatry, with, as one might imagine, a lot of profanity, I've always just typed whatever the clinician quoted the patient as saying, and have never had a complaint.
Good luck,
CTT
Advertising policy of MTStars...
Many of you haven't noticed Advertising policy of MTStars lately.
http://www.mtstars.com/advertising.htm
No more sponsorships from MTSOs etc. The truth is being spoken on these boards and it always hurts. You can't remain sober if betrayed by some company or individual. You would have been speaking the same way if you were in their shoes.
I love MTStars for being unbiased (what people say nastiness). It's not like MTChat or MTDaily etc., where the posts are deleted and board owners are instructed to keep their & posters mouths shut for annual sponsorship of $500 by MTSOs.
It's the advertising policy of MTStars..
Many of you haven't noticed Advertising policy of MTStars lately.
http://www.mtstars.com/advertising.htm
No more sponsorships from MTSOs etc. The truth is being spoken on these boards after change in administration and it always hurts. You can't remain sober if betrayed by some company or individual. You would have been speaking the same way if you were in their shoes.
I love MTStars for being unbiased (what people say nastiness). It's not like MTChat or MTDaily etc., where the posts are deleted and board owners are instructed to keep their & posters mouths shut for annual sponsorship of $500 by MTSOs.
Looks to me like this is the current policy, approved 10/2004, and
nm
Health Insurance policy for 2006
is now charging a supplement payment for smokers and those that live with smokers. Does anyone else have this policy or getting for the next year? This not through MT companies.
Well, my life insurance policy is worth more than I am,
especially the more I try to make MT work for me. Oh, well. It used to be a lot worse. I cut up my credit cards and made power payments on those. I have my first credit card now in 10 years. Yours isn't bad. You can do it.
The national I work for has a no blank policy. sm
Plus you have to have 90% no blanks to QA to get bonuses and to maintain full-time status. This is very hard sometimes with some of the dictators that dictate from across the room, while the ward is going ape, and this all right next to the telemetry monitor and the ringing phone or at home with the yapping dogs in the background.
But I have found our QA to be forgiving and understanding, so I am getting more comfortable. I think they have a high standard so we will step higher, but they understand the reality, which I think is good.
DH says he definitely would not go through what I go through to be sure there are no blanks, but I am hoping that in time it will get easier, and I will get more productive, and I think it is.
OUCH! I had a private policy with BC/BS for $180/month sm
and it was a pretty good plan -- Affordablue -- had a $25 copay for office visits or something like that. That was just a single plan, though. It included dental coverage too, bot other than covering for routine cleaning and such, it was kind of useless when paying for crowns and other "big" items.
Sounds like you have a good deal. Fortunately, I am working for Transtech now and have affordable insurance .. whew!
I know you are looking for BCBS, but my United HealthCare policy SM
will allow my kids to stay on until they are 26 if they are not married and still living at home, whether they are in college or not. I double checked about it, and it's true. Also my dental is the same way but a different carrier.
If you leave one job and get a so-called bridge policy for your SM
90-day waiting period at your new job, this this also qualify as no break in coverage.
I'm getting ready to switch jobs, and there is just no way that we can afford the Cobra payments.
From my experience, they only offer a policy that pays...
cash for time spent in a hospital. Unless things have changed, I don't believe they have "regular" health insurance policies. I wouldn't buy from them anyway - they did a hike on my car insurance to over double one year about 5 years ago - I went to another insurance company and saved enough to cover my homeowner's insurance. They talk a good game, but it's just that - talk! You might try Anthem - I see them advertised on TV a lot now for individual policies. Good luck in finding something!
What about just a catastrophic policy in case something major happens?
Anthem I know has some cheaper high-deductible policies. Most nonprofite hospitals also have organizations to help with medical bills for the uninsured/lower income patients.
Read the policy and procedure manual, maybe something is in there.
I do not believe there is a law, but you could check with the labor department.
There was no announcement of this policy change? Sounds like it's time to go. nm
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I'm with you on the illegals, but paying taxes is not an insurance policy.
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I do not carry E&O insurance, but I do have my equipment covered under my HO policy.
My office is in my home and, God forbid, there should be a fire, I'd be out of business. I have coverage for my computer, printer, fax, phones and loss of use on a separate rider. Also, should anyone injury themselves coming or going from my office while doing business with me, their injuries are covered. Perhaps this is the information you're looking for.
Times change..including this policy about who is able to post. About a year ago,
this board started letting everyone post job openings, at least to what I can remember. I know at one point if they were India-based/affiliated etc..then they could not advertise but since anymore it is so rampant with companies being associated with India, they started letting them post. I could be wrong but this is what I recall.
Yes, it does constitute "creditable coverage." The only policy I found that was not considere
short-term policy. As you can tell, I've done this A LOT... So, I've hit every scenario..
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