I got the same letter from SBC (which is AT&T LD)

using onesuite.com.  I called when I got their letter and canceled my LD immediately.  LD is only 2.5 cents a minute at onesuite.com.  You have to pay in advance and then you dial an access number and then the number you want to reach.  I liked unlimited better because I could dial direct, but for now I guess I'll use onesuite.

• Unlimited long distance...I know this has been discussed before...but..sm - Worried!!
  • lingo lingo lingo... - LingoMT
  • I don't mean to be rude, but the answer is to work for a company - that pays for long distance.
    • Not always ... as a poster pointed out below, with One Suite, it is $1.80 per hour. sm - LTMT
      • No, onesuite is $1.50 an hour, not $1.80. - I use it daily. nm
        • 1.80 for me ... have to use their access. nm - LTMT
          • Onesuite is an option with MDI? - sm - MTK
            • Sure, you can use it if you don't have unlimited LD. In fact, they will sm - LTMT
        • $1.50 an hour sounds good until you calculate FT at - about $250 a month (nm)
          • And you still end up making more money paying LD. sm - LTMT
  • How in the world did AT&T - find out?
    • No, unlimited is not really unlimited. They know - and list all the calls you made on your bill
      • Wow - that's terrible! (no message)
  • I have unllimited LD through my cable co (sm) - barbv
  • Do not go with Verizon either, they did that to me without - MI-MT
    • I just signed up for Verizon Freedom - sm - MTK
      • Yes, it sure is. I was told on 3 separate occasions that - MI-MT
        • I'm in the process of looking for another job (sm) - MTK
    • 800 numbers - mtathome
  • I changed my line to a business line, talked to a supervisor sm - Long-time MT
    • SBC - Kay
    • I changed ATT LD to SBC business sm - Happy MDI MT
    • That is the response they all give you to get you - sure
      • Been using The Neighborhood or SBC unlimited for the last 5 years now. sm - Long-time MT
    • I am on the phone with them right now...thanks..will let you know how it goes... - Worried!!
    • neighborhood - with MCI
  • I use Vonage - sm
    • I am not too smart with computer technical stuff, but you can use Vonage - MI-MT
      • here's how it works - sm
        • Makes perfect sense. Appreciate the info and I will be - MI-MT
  • Long distance - MT8
    • phones through router - sm
    • What cable company? I am supposed to have - Road Runner digital phone
      • RR Too - MT8
        • Okay, good! You told them you were - using it for transcription? I am debating
          • Didn't tell them, but I'm on it all the time - MT8
            • Thanks! I can't wait till they get it hooked up. - SBC dumped my LD, now I'm dumping them! num
  • I just got a letter too...please post what plans are available to us...TIA - Me Too!
  • I got the same letter. sm - xx
  • I got the same letter from SBC (which is AT&T LD) - last week. So now I'm back to
    • Oh man....that is NOT good...how do you make any money? - Worried!!
      • Gosh - 2.5 cents a minute is only $1.50 an hour. - Imake about $25 an hour. Of course,
        • You are off on your calculations unless you - ??
          • NO, you're off. 0.03 x 60 = 1.80 that's without a direct onesuite connect sm - Becky
            • Onesuite has local access now for 0.025 cents - instead of 0.03. So it's $1.50/hr. nm
          • What in the heck are you talking about? - sm
        • And then consider when you work 9 hours a day 7 days a week...that adds up to way TOO much! - Me Too!

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this one about new pay plan............ "Pay rates based upon experience, skill, and work difficulty" is the first 'highlight'....... I have been asking for a raise since MAY and I am level 3 typist, highest level MQ has....  Supposed to be contacted personaly by someone in the future.  Hmmmmm, wonder what they will offer. 

last year from SBC so I switched to MCI.  I was completely honest with MCI and told them what I needed it for becuase I did not want them coming back at me telling me I was not using it according to their guidelines.  MCI is expensive though.  By the time you pay for taxes and everything else my bill is around $80.  I wish I could find a job that is totally internet based.  I started to check into Vonage but I could not understand how that worked when they kept telling me I had to pick a phone number or a different area code than the one I have and you can't speak to someone who speaks good English to get an accurate explanation.  I also would like to know what everyone else does or how they get away with it.  I wish the hospital that I work for through the company that I work for would have a 1-800 number for the transcription.  I would even be willing to pay my employer a $10 long distance fee or something just so I do not have to pay out $80 every month. 

the impact the lawsuit has had simply to start change within the MQ organization. 

Here's pertinent part of letter that shows changes coming.

From Frank Lavelle, President

To all statutory medical transcriptionists

July 14, 2005

We would like to thank you for your continued service and support. We know that the key to our success is the people who work so hard for our customers everyday.

At MedQuist, we are determined to become the medical transcription provider of choice for statutory employees. Over the past several months, with your help and input, we have been working on developing a pay plan and comprehensive benefit program that will enable us to set the standard in the industry. We recently announced significant changes to our benefits program for full time employee transcriptionists and within the next few months, MedQuist will be announcing a new pay plan that will address the feedback we received from medical transcriptionists in response to our survey on pay issues.

Kkay, what exactly do you include in your introductory letter?  Have the business cards already. 

Thanks a mil!

spoken specifically to FULL TIME and PART TIME Transcriptionist categories and anticipated changes for those only.

They should have addressed it to ALL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS WITH MEDQUIST...or more completely indicated all of the positions they have working for and with MQ.

I don't work FOR MQ, I am a contractor.  MQ is my client.   I am responsible for all my equipment, sick time off, overhead.

I am not an employee....in simple terms. 

When they write a letter addressing changes in offers MQ is making to ALL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS doing transcription for MQ, I would have paid attention.

who wrote it and are now trying to make it smell better.

and it was a waste of the time for the MT who got it.

All these silly pre-letters and anticipated packages that nobody can tell you what is in them or what they are about, and 1/cent checks being mailed out to people, just make MQ look really foolish from a business standpoint.  If they were trying to run people off, they did a darn good job.  And if they weren't trying, then whoever thought of this business strategy, needs to go rework it.  Because in my case it  was the final obtuse act by a smarmy company that helped me make the decision to invest my experience in the competition.

THanks, that would be great if any one had any samples that they can post here without the transcription companys name.

THanks

Send in a resume/letter to the head of HR and the MR Dept asking if there are any openings and if the use an outside service would they please pass on your resume to them as you are very interested in working for the hospital.  Wouldn't hurt.  Better than a phone call and they can see on paper what qualifications you have and perhaps sign you on as an employee, IC or something.  

Do a hard return after the letterhead section and after the centered section.  Hope this works.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks guys. At least I feel better knowing that I have checked everything where I thought it should be. I actually went into autocorrect and typed in my own corrections so that if I accidently keep the shift key down (I dont know why I do it, but I seem to not be able to lift that finger up with the second letter) it will correct automatically.

I also feel like they should get input about thier program from typists so that we can give them feedback.

Thanks for all the suggestions. It helped alot.