I interviewed to work in a pharmacy ... haven't heard yet, but -- sm
Posted By: Debbie in NY on 2006-03-27
In Reply to: Good jobs to segue into?...sm - Old MT
the company will send their pharmacy clerks to classes and pay for pharmacy tech certification, even though it is not required in New York state. Waiting to hear back from them this week.
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I read the story and they interviewed people who work in the
Luis Vuitton store. They said they had 3-4 of the debit cards used just that day. Other high end stores were reporting they were being used in there as well. One guy on tv was interviewed and said he was unemployed yet he was going to buy a car. That means he'll probably have no insurance, probably no license. Every single taxpayer is paying for these unemployed, young "disabled" people with a bunch of kids who have chronic back pain or <insert whatever disorder here> to go shopping and not for needed things like food and diapers.
Haven't heard any more
but if all the MEs would do it, we should refuse to do ASR on October 1st. This is really a disgrace what is going on with the company and with what is going on, on this board at times (which is really sabotaging our professionalism.
Haven't you heard?
Ethics are only for the "lower orders" translated - us peons. a mantra for the rest of us
Bosses are to boss - peons are to peon.
I haven't heard from her yet...hopefully soon. NM
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I haven't heard anything about
it being the last season, but the way this show goes, you never know what's going to happen. That's why it's such an awesome show. I hope it never goes off the air.
I haven't heard anything...is this new? nm
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Haven't heard of her, but I will look it/her up! nm
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no i haven't heard
normally that indicates something that's not true.
where did yo hear this? on the news or through email?
check with snopes.com yet?
and patient personal info is not my problem. I follow HIPPA and that's all I can do
Haven't you heard the joke---
Men are like parking spaces-- the good ones are already taken and the ones that are left are handicapped! 
Haven't you heard of metrosexual
They have nice hands. My 27-year-old son is one. He is definitely not gay, a true womanizer, but fastidious in his dress and manner. He is 6'4", beautiful blue eyes and dresses to a T.
I haven't heard of this, but I did a quick (sm)
search on google, and came up with intradermal papilloma of the breast, or milk ducts, here is one hit I got. It is a benign growth in the milk ducts. Hopefully, it will be as the receptionist said, and clear up for you in short order. I'll cross my fingers for you....
http://www.alegent.com/16816.cfm
Haven't heard, either, but I'm going to check. This is very distracting :). nm
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If you haven't heard it already, you gotta listen - sm
Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, in a radio interview with Garland Robinette.
I can't even begin to describe the love for his city, the desperation, heartbreak, and anger in his voice. Talk about the captain going down with his ship. He's not going anywhere. He is my new hero.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/index.html
The link to the radio interview can be found at the link above.
I've heard of it and looked at it but haven't done much research on it.
I think that my first impression was it was NOT HIPAA compliant but I could be wrong on that. I'm curious enough now to take a second look.
this is a real dead subject, haven't you heard?
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oh good grief. Haven't we heard enuf of this? Educated people are just
Haven't heard in years. Supposedly making it harder to get money
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Haven't had it, never heard of it, but after I read your post I googled it, and lots of info avai
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If you work for MQ, how come they haven't provided
you with a foot pedal? Ask and see if they'll send you one.
One day I had to go to my local MQ office to have them look at my computer, and on my way out, they handed me a foot pedal for the "new upcoming platform."
Then when I received my computer rental in the mail a couple of months later, they sent me another foot pedal (same as the first one). A back up?
And finally, when they trained me for the new platform a couple of months ago, the booklets, some new headphones, and a NEW PEDAL came in a nice box to me!
So anyway, as an owner of three foot pedals free from MQ, give 'em a try. 
I haven't missed a day of work in 10 years
I can't believe so many ICs do this, taking days off! It's unheard of to me.
I don't blame you for getting frustrated. Seems no one has a good work ethic these days.
I work on my days off, but mainly because I haven't gotten 40 hours in for the
week and if I feel like working I am able to do so. Not working extra or anything, just have not gotten in a full week.
Great company but like everyone else they over hire. Haven't had work since before Christmas *sm
because it is a slow time and I refuse to get up at 4:00 a.m. to beat someone else to it. I am in the process of obtaining a second and third account and am going to start looking out for myself from now on. I now understand why there is such a turnaround with MTs and companies - seems like the companies overhire and then the MT has to look elsewhere - they work at the new company for awhile until they find that they have now over hired and then they look elsewhere. I have been with MDI for a few years and I plan to stay there but I am going to take on another job or even two so I do not sit idle when times are slow.
pharmacy URL
www.rxcanada4less.com
have you interviewed them?
I always have a ton of questions, and talk with the recruiter at great length about what I am looking for and what they are offering. That might help hone it down.
I have heard both good and bad--and I work there.
I am a recent transplant due to the company I was working for, TRS, being acquired by Transcend on April 1. No fooling. So far, so good....
If I remember correctly, according to their website, they require 5 years of acute care experience--which, when I was looking for a job, I did not have, and therefore they would not even let me test. And now they've got me anyway. Go figure.
My own experience has been fine so far, but I am still working under my former TRS supervisors, on the same accounts. Others' mileage may vary.
Please feel free to e-mail if you think I can answer any more questions. I am crankybeach at yahoo dot com.
I interviewed with them and turned them down
but can't remember all the details. I think they offered 10 cpl for IC and 11 cpl for lines over 12,000 per pay period. You have to "punch the clock" , which I just won't do. Sorry I don't remember other details.
from pharmacy, didn't like them..sm
I use the gel mouse rest and also a wrist rest in front of the keyboard. I also make sure to take LOTS of breaks. I also have a paraffin tub but rarely use it.
canadian pharmacy
Hi, I've used feelbest.com (located in Ottawa, Ontario) numerous times and have had nothing but good results -- give them a try!
So you've interviewed MOST of them?....LOL
Saw a program on CNN or one of those stations, and it was a call center in India filled with hundreds of well-dressed professional-looking MTs and they said: *average age 27 with a business degree* compared to "average age 49 in the US with no degree"....
Seeing hundreds, and it was a 2005/2006 show, - I believe that show. You may have interviewed a few dozen Indian MTs IF YOU are in the US but not MOST Indian MTs. *S*
Have a nice day!
I would call the pharmacy. sm
My pharmacist has let me know on more than one occasion that my doctor prescribed something that should not be taken with the meds I am already on. Scary! Good luck!
I interviewed for a job today
Most of it went well. They pay the same cpl as most the other companies I have looked into. They pay for headers if you have to type them in yourself, which is better than what I got elsewhere. The scary part is that all they pay for is the training phone call and then straight production, they really don't give you time to lean the account to build up speed and make money. I asked the interviewer if the account they were putting me on was busy all the time. She said yes. I asked her if it was saturated with ESLs. She said, "it is out of Texas, What do you think?"
Those were the only 2 red flags I saw was the straight production after the 2-hour phone call and I might be stuck on an account that is saturated with ESLs. I did like the fact though that I will be using eScription instead of ExText. I never used eScription before, I have always used ExText so I am excited about learning something new. I do need health insurance and theirs was pretty inexpensive. I am not sure what to think. Am I going to be in over my head?
I applied to 2 more places and have not heard from any of them yet. I did hear from one Friday and they said I needed to fill out another application. I filled one out online and they e-mailed me to fill out another one.
I did pharmacy tech for a while.
Studied up on math for a couple of days, didn't take a course or anything. Passed the test. It's pretty much a crap job, too. $12 an hour, low person on the totem pole, lots of negative coworkers.
Its the highest rate I have heard of for IC work
I have not heard of rates that high where I live (Tampa, FL.) The highest I have heard for IC work is 12/13 cpl and thats pretty rare!
If thats pretty common in your area then dont back down, but around here that would be considered very high.
Hope it all works out!
I live in Georgia and I have never heard of this - I just work! nm
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I don't know anything about transolutions, interviewed, tested, and
offered position with Cymed. The pay is average, lots of ESL, offered 0.5 cpl more if I do more than 1800 lines a day, which I do occasionally, but not often enough that I would have a bunch of extra $$ each pay period. The person I interviewed with was an HR person and hadn't the first clue about transcription, so her answers weren't very good to questions. I did specifically ask if the offshore and she reluctantly said they do. I know they offshore to the Phillipines and probably India, and they are support of the move to offshore to Trinidad. I was offered 8 cpl and have 20 years' acute care experience. I was told there were lots or opportunities to earn big $$ in bonus money, but I'm not looking to be chained to my chair another 4 hours a day. My main decision for declining the position was the offshoring.
Unless he is being interviewed by another teen (probably not), shorts are NOT appropriate. What is
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Canada pharmacy recommendation
I've personally used this pharmacy in Canada by mail and they have been great.
Pharmacy tech in my area (sm)
is pretty well paid. Plus a lot of insurance companies that are hiring pharmacy techs are requiring you to have coding. So this is all a work in process to get the most education I can get before going back into the work force. I am not going to be able to work full-time but I would like to know that I have gotten the best education I can to do what I have planned to do.
I like the "science" of the pharmacy tech profession...at least the part of it that works with the total parenteral nutrition compounding etc.
I'm looking into pharmacy tech or polysomnography.
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New career/pharmacy tech? s/m
OK - let's hear it. I think it's time to get away from transcribing, and I'm researching taking a course for pharmacy tech. Anybody do this, know someone who does it? My kids will both be in college within the next 2 years, so crappy shifts and teen supervision will not be an issue anymore. The good and the bad, please!
Thanks to all --
My son has been a pharmacy tech for about 10 years (sm)
and is now back in school to become a radiographer. I believe his course was about a year long, and he had to get about a year's experience in a drugstore before getting hired at a hospital. The hospital pay is much better (he makes about $20/hr in Portland, OR) and is less stressful in his opinion because he prefers being in his little cave mixing IV chemos to waiting on customers. Still, it's a dead-end job in the sense that there is nowhere to go from here; you can't be promoted to pharmacist, for instance. He's still young and has decided he needs to make more money and do something that might offer more opportunities over time.
My understanding is that there will be lots of jobs open to pharmacy techs in the future, so if it sounds like something you'd like to do, go for it! Good luck to you.
I interviewed for an in-house pathology MT - sm
position a few years ago. What they did was a transcription typing test, so I had actual dictation and of course they timed me. I did okay there I think without any errors I was aware of but speed wise I tend to type a lot slower when being tested as I just freak at typing tests. Then they interviewed me, and I feel so dumbb at interviews, 2 people at once, totally dumbb questions for the most part with nothing to do with transcription. I thought I did well but did not get called back. They gave me a full tour of the facilities, etc, the MT office, the lab, etc. Let me "interview" the MTs there too. It was quite interesting.
well, I interviewed for an in-house job Monday
She said by today, Friday, she would let me know if I got the job. She told me I was high on the list of being hired, but she was still interviewing. It is already nearly noon and I have not heard a word. I looked at the job board and the ad for an MT is gone. Is that bad news for me?
I have heard of this two different ways -- Where I work now, we have no blank accounts which mean
that you must leave a QA marker for the QA department and if they can't figure it out, then in most cases they can leave a blank. Where another friend works, her no blank account involves calling other MTs for their input, also as a last resort, can call the hospital and ask for assistance with the chart from the floor.
I should also say that DD #1 started out at a grocery store pharmacy
then went on to the hospital after 9 mos or so.
Lord forgive me for saying this, but at the start of this, they interviewed her roommates on CNN, I
think. Maybe Fox. At any rate, the girls were rather "smug" about it all, said that Natalee was quite taken with this Dutch kid and had basically "dumped" her friends the last 2 days to hang all over this guy. When they were asked what was "so special" about him, they said that Natalee was quite flattered that he was paying attention to her, as he was considered the "#1 Catch On the Island"...So, that certainly explains why her friends weren't "covering her back". She had ditched them more or less to be with Romeo. Happened to me a lot in the "old bar hopping days" with my girlfriends. One would hook up with some total stranger, and just dump the rest of us "singles" for the night. Luckily, they all lived, though we did have a scary encounter now and again, this being in Southern Florida.
I'm not happy with my current position, but I've interviewed
tested and me offered positions with at least 12 other companies and none of them have anything better to offer, all less money, all set schedules, etc. Read the job boards and see what is out there and if you want to test the waters take on a PT IC position - of you can test and interview with multiple companies without making a committment.
Interviewed last week, 1200 lpd, low pay, lots of restrictions. I said no. nm
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Can anyone recommend a good, safe Canadian pharmacy? NM
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I heard they were not nice to work for. Knew people who have worked there and left.
This is secondhand information, but I trust the people that told me this.
Pharmacy tech 15 weeks, polysomnography 7 month course at local community college..worth a shot!
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