I remember in the old days when you were not hired without
Posted By: meMT on 2008-04-22
In Reply to: Who stated they took the AHP - PSJ
at least 3 to 5 hears working in house - no in house on the job experience? - not considered.
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boy, do I remember those days
Make an appointment with your doctor asap and explain the situation. Ask for a Rx for Lindane Shampoo. It's more effective than the OTC products, which are also far more dangerous to use over a long period of time. If you are unable to have someone remove the nits, I would recommend using the product every 7-10 days for a couple of months, since that's how often the nits hatch, and within 7-10 days they'll be procreating all your head again.
It is imperative that you speak with the teachers in your child's classrooms and explain the situation to them. With the weather getting colder, coats are going to be thrown on each other and that's how the condition will spread, over and over again, from child to child. A letter also needs to be sent out to all parents about the problem. After that, you have to hope for the best. There's too often a "not my child" attitude which leads to noncompliance. It would take YEARS to finally eradicate the little monsters, despite the fact that you're doing everything you're supposed to do.
Trust me, I know. 
I remember those days
I graduated second in my class (Dean's List) in transcription and A&P. However, the real training was on the job. I had one doctor who was very ESL!!!!! I would work for ever on one of his reports, which would end up full of blanks, and I would only have transcribed a very few lines. He was very frustrating. I can remember one day going for a coffee break, coming back to work and sitting in the parking lot crying. I vowed I was not going back into the office, that I was quitting. Then I thought, my husband will absolutely kill me after spending so much money for schooling and training :-). I went back, and 18 years later I am still at it. It gets better!
I remember those days
They used to say you could make $80K/year tax free, but you had to live in a compound ...
I remember those days, too...
While it was a more casual and friendly environment between doctors and the HIM departments, I remember freezing up and getting so nervous when the doctor was standing there dictating live & watching (both about my speed and my accuracy). I only hope they knew I wasn't always that bad, hehe.
Does anyone remember only being allowed to gas up on odd or even days sm
back in the 70s, depending on what number your license plate ended in? brrrrrrr long, long lines
oh i remember the good ol days
I could never stand working with people a straight eight hours a day, i'm not an "on" type of person and not gossipy either. Just not my thing. A lot of backbiting went on and you could just feel the negativity in the air. At home I don't have that. My dog/cat never talk behind my back nor are they fake. They really and truly like me. Just kidding. But I remember those days well, couldnt get out fast enough.
I remember the days of refunds.. Now all we do is pay pay and more pay
Stinks to be us.
LOL @ both legs! I remember those days!
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Oh my gosh - I remember those days. sm
I started working at home 18 years ago when my son was born. I would have him in my office with me. He liked the bouncy walker back then. He would sit in it for about an hour bouncing up and down.
I would take him for a long walk and to the playground in the mid morning to tire him out. He would nap for a couple of hours in the afternoon and that's when I did some work. But, I have to tell you, I did most of my work at night when he went to bed. I had him on a strict schedule for napping, meals, bathing, and then bedtime.
Bedtime was 8 p.m. I started work at 8:30 p.m. and was done by 2 a.m. I managed 5-6 hours of sleep a night.
I lived on coffee and any other type of caffeine I could ingest. Not very healthy, but doable.
Back then, I had my own accounts, picking up and delivering tapes, etc. I took him along with me in the morning to deliver and pick up. It was very difficult, but somehow I managed.
It gets more difficult when they are more mobile, around ages 2 to 4. Then at age 5, they go to kindergarten, and you kinda get your work day back.
You know your child better than anyone. You sort of have to schedule your work day around him or her.
IC status worked for me in this situation. I don't think I could have done it as an "employee" type job with a strict work schedule.
Good luck ~ I hope this helped in some little way.
By the way, I still work evenings and night 18 years later, and I have daughter 16.
Hey, Brandi! I remember your stories about those days...
lol! Too funny. Yah, you Transquickers certainly did live on the wild side. I'm sure some still do!
Yeah, some days I do too, until I remember the typewriter.
Then I quit cussing my computer! lol
I remember this being in our local paper a few days ago nm
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Hah!!! I remember the days of 2000 lines!
Not with my company...A good day is 1600 lines. Horrible platform. Wish line count was better.
I remember back in my hospital days...
when we had the more personal contact aspect with the docs. The ones who cared could/would actually walk back to where we were and you could ask them questions, have them correct something, etc., or the MR director could tell the heavy ESL docs to enunciate their English better, ha-ha, which sometimes actually worked. Our county coroner would tell us some interesting stories late in the evening. One lady plastic surgeon loved what she did so much, if you asked her a question, she would draw you pictures of what she did. I once handed an awful resident doc my earphones so he could hear what he was dictating; he was so embarrassed he slowed down from then on, so it made a huge difference. For a few years, to get the docs to get their charts done faster, the MR director held a contast; the winning doc would get a free trip somewhere. You would not believe how some of these guys would compete for this prize, cracked us up.
Yeah, those days are gone, but I hope to live to see the work goes back to the local hospital level. A hospital system the next town over to me did post 5 full-time Transcriptionist jobs last fall; I applied, just wanted an interview. I never heard back so I don't know how this panned out. I think I'd apply to return to in-house work if that ever happened. The job was definitely more interesting then.
Do you guys ever feel like just a number? Remember the good old days...
When if you had a problem, you could go straight to the manager and they'd take care of it right away, making you feel secure in your position and important? When I talk to my supervisor, I feel like her main focus is to get off the phone with me asap, being very short with me, and quick to say she will get right on something when in fact she never does. I just feel so remote and always worry about how long i'm going to have a job in the MT field because of how uncaring the supervisors are, not knowing us personally, not having a face to go along with the person, being able to yank us off an account we're comfortable with onto some ungodly thing where our line count goes down to zilch, and having NO control over it. I was never one to work around people because of all the backstabbing that goes on with women in the office, but I would love to have a home office to report to periodically throughout the year, and maybe work in-house a couple times a month, just to put a face with people and not feel like a number that would be easy to dispose of.
OMG I did too!!! Remember the raunchy equipment and "blue belts". People these days should
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30 hours divided by four days equals seven-hour days. Most of us have to work pretty much every day
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Working 6/hour days, 5 days/week I make
$42,000.00, but the work is there to make more if I want to. I'm in the southeast.
2000 low days, 4000 busy days
Did 43,000 lines last month. 6 doctors.
You can "make a living" if you work 16-hr days, 7 days
and if you rarely buy anything but food and the barest essentials in clothing. My balancing act is so precarious that all it'll take is one of life's little disasters (rent increase, sick pet, major car repair) to pull the rug out from under me. Not a good feeling at all.
550-650 lph on average. Some days more, some days less. It all depends. nm
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How? By working 12-hr days 7 days/week?
;LKJ
I have been asking for one since the day I was hired.......
I have been on this account for 2 weeks and it has been like this from day 1. My account mgr is telling me everything is low and that there are no secondary accounts to put me on......and I have experience in everything so I'm not limited in what I can do! I know this time is always slower but this is beyond slow. I'm trying to hang in there but getting really frustrated. They are still hiring and we don't have enough work to do. Then, they are rolling out this BeyondText voice recognition thing and while we show no jobs ready to be typed the ones that are at MLS, which means they are in voice recognition, is full......seriously considering going back to school because I see this field getting worse and worse. Harder to make money. I'm trying to stay positive but it's getting hard to do. Sorry everyone has to listen to me complain but my bills are really getting behind.
Same here. I was hired as IC
My company would not hire me as an employee. Never told me to work for other people. I am plenty busy, fulltime with this company working on one account.
The company I work for now has been in business for over 30 years. I have been with them for 1 year now. I do not believe they have had any trouble with the IRS or I think they would have told me I have to work for more than 1 company.
Oh you mean the one that likely hired her? LOL
Good luck. LOL.
Someone like that hired here and is
making slightly a dollar an hour less than me. Now THAT burns me!!! I have 7 years experience but because they upped the minimum starting wage after I was already here people are starting out with almost what I make- but did they raise anyone elses wage to compensate? No, that is not their "policy." I guess we get penalized for longetivity. If I quit and came back and was hired a week later I would make at least 1-2 dollars an hour more than I am making now. Sickening.
I don't think so. I just was hired for them and they were
pretty firm in the schedule. Someone has to work weekends so most companies have gone to a Tu-Sa or Su-Th schedule. After 6 months you can change schedule, but don't know if you can eliminate a weekend or not.
So were you hired?
The test was very easy. I sent it in, but I have not heard back.
They do not need your SS# unless you are hired.
You may think you are being hired for
the morning shift, and then they tell you that only evening shift is available, 2-10 p.m.
They hired you as LPN, so they cannot
all of a sudden change your contract and add also the duties of an MT and not even pay you for it.
But you can do it in the evening at home.
Is the doctor your employer when you do the MTing?
I just was hired with the new SE pay/incentive!!!!!
I must say I am very happy and I think other SE's will be, as well!!
I hired in at 9 cpl and can earn up to 2 cpl in incentive on every line I type! I'm excited! I can hardly wait to get started!! Though I am only obligated to do 6000 lines in a payperiod, if I type 16,000 lines in the payperiod I get my extra 2 cpl and that makes for $1760 just for that! I think that is pretty good.
My training is next week and I hope to be able to reach that with my first check!!
If all would please be calm, I'm sure that the new SE pay/incentive plan will soon get out there!!! You'll be very pleased! 
How do these people get hired, if they are so bad. Also...
My QA goes 99-100%; yet, I can still get 'ugly' comments from QA after 14 years on the job (only on certain accounts, because my QA is AWEsome on my primary).
There is constructive criticism, and then there is the attitude I have personally experienced by QA of thinking they are in some elite group and that they are better than everybody...making nasty little digs and extremely unnnecessary comments. Those personal comments are not professional, period.
This does not sound like you, and not even most QA, but there are those few QA people, in my opinion, whose comments can be downright disparaging, condescending, and sometimes even sadistic.
It is like doctors, almost, you know - how they seem to live in a world of their own and forgot how to deal with people as 'people' after a while?
I keep saying this, but rather than degrade people, there should be more education for people whose skills are not up to par, and my biggest complaint, how are these people getting hired. Perhaps recruiters need to get more input from QA, or QA should be involved in hiring.
One more thing: For QA who edit off-shore MTs (my apologies to you up-front, if you do not, but to make a point here), I have seen some pretty hideous reports from overseas; yet, never hear QA complain too much, or make rude comments to or about those MTs individually.
For those 'lazy' MTs you call them, perhaps that is why you have a job. If everyone was perfect, there would be no need for QA. You make more than MTs, right?
Also, it is always easier to read along with a report and see mistakes. Heck, I even find typos QA people make, and even in formal letters I get from MQ, etc. (There is even an error in Dorland's, haha).
This is only my opinion, as I do not see how many of these so-called 'lazy' MTs even get past the testing stage.
As far as being for the ''good of the patient," as I have heard before, if we were doing what was good for the patient, well, I could on about that one (smile). Insurance companies and CEOs of hospitals do not seem to care much about the patients, because if they did, they would not be discharging before they are even well or healed, just to save a buck. They would not be outsourcing overseas, just to save a buck...
Hired by Spheris in May.....sm
All I did was send my resume. Recruiter called within 2 days promising me the moon and the stars. I never tested, never had my credit checked. I have "Equifax Credit Watch" and get notification if there is "any" activity including credit inquiries. They never checked my references...professional or personal. They sent me the whole kit and kaboodle even though I told them I would use their computer as required, but I didn't need a monitor, keyboard, mouse or modem. After my "training week" getting paid at $7.00 an hour, they had the nerve to tell me I would be started at 6.5 cpl after recruiter told me I would make much more because of my experience. I was gone before they had a chance to take a deposit from my paycheck. I was more than happy to send them back all their outdated equipment. So please don't generalize when referring to nationals.
Unless you signed something when you were hired
that says you agree to pay for return shipping when you leave, then the company is responsible. If you don't have your original hire paperwork, ask them for a return shipping label. If they say you agreed to pay for it, ask them to send you a copy of the signed agreement. Make sure you save all correspondence.
I was just recently hired by
Transcend and am receiving the equipment today or tomorrow, will train next week. I would not worry about the interview if I were you. She was very nice and we had a nice talk. I am leaving MQ. Welcome.
I was hired at the same time you were and
there have been a lot of changes. I emailed you and you did not respond so I now wonder if you aren't just trying to flame ETP. With due respect, if you are meeting the guidelines for qualifying for benefits and after 9 months you aren't getting them, it makes me wonder why they wouldn't give them to you especially since you did not get a bonus. They only gave bonuses to people who qualified for them. They gave you the criteria to earn the bonus so you could keep track for yourself of every level that would earn your bonus. You can always call HR. Heck they even have an open door policy so you can email any of the head honchos.
If it were me and I knew honestly that insurance was a benefit I wanted and did not have, I would never wait 9 months to find out what the problem was.
d~
I was hired w/o testing - sm
Started looking for 2nd job when started having low workloads on my primary job; sent out 2 feelers and both asked for tests, then one of them called me and said not to bother with the test, my experience said it all. What a good feeling - to be appreciated!
Have a great day.
Yes, I have been hired before w/o testing. nm
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I was hired for 5cpl..lol
My first job offer was 5 cpl just a few months ago (what a joke). I knew it was low, but I was trying to get my foot in the door. As it turned out, the company was a nonpaying company  and I quit 2 months later. A few weeks later I was offered a job making almost double. I agree that 5 cpl is low, but I gained experience in acute care so I guess it worked out in the end. 
Normally editors are hired from within the
company, though I occasionally do see postings looking for editors/QA. Almost all the posts I have seen are wanting people with at least 2 years recent QA experience or 10+ years MT experience. Editing tends to pay less than MT. Some companies pay per line and ideally you should be able to edit more lines a day than transcribing, so you might even out. Some companies pay hourly, but the hourly rate is usually considerably less than what you would make as an MT. There are various kinds of editing - VR, editing offshore work where you have to edit 100% of the work and correct probably 50% of it, editing where you just fill in blanks, and then fill in blanks and 100% edit files on a regular basis to monitor quality.
it's how many got hired 30+ years ago....
When I was hired for my first account I had no
MT schooling, though had LPN training. The first report I transcribed was what was considered the worst dictator on the account and I had 2 blanks. The MTSO apologized for giving me that dictator, but she had to pick her jaw off the floor after she did QA on it and saw how well I did.
I have had a love of anything medical-related since I was about 12. I used to read Gray's Anatomy for fun. I just had a natural aptitude. I was only doing about 600 lines a day and that was w/o an expander/macros.
your very welcome. you mentioned the other gal was hired sm
so she could possibly take some home to do it so i thought well why can't you take some home too, at least temporarily until you are better healed with your feet. you could put in 4 in-house, go home and then late that evening maybe put in another 4. i think breaking up your time at the computer into some sort of split shift would be the best thing for you and your feet. but do check into the requirements (maybe not asking the lady over you as she seems to not want to work with you). it typically is not 40 hours at all places.
Have Experience, Can't Get Hired!
I can't figure this out! I have over 10 years' experience, but I can't get a job! The company I work for is closing, so I began to look around, but doors are slamming in my face left and right.
I learned through a mentor about 12 years ago (spent 2 years under her) and have worked in acute care for a small company for the past 10-3/4 years. Is it my lack of schooling?
What are they looking for? I thought it was experience.
Just got hired to type into EMR
Three doctors refuse to type into the EMR's -- they are older but there are still some out there. So just got hired to do it for them. This is the second time I have been hired to do this. Takes a little longer and charge by hour and not line, but still a job and keeps me current on the new technology.
Is it possible to be hired by a hospital
for an at-home MT position? If so, how would you go about applying, mailing resume, searching Internet job databases, searching hospital web sites? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to e-mail. Thank you!!
Our Co hired about 20 grads from
Hi Rae,
The company I work for hired 20 graduates all at one time from Med Workshops and they did well. This was about 1-1/2 yrs ago.
We contracted with Med Workshops to provide the graduates based on parameters we were looking for. Because our Company spelled out the training, it was hard to go wrong. Students got a break on the normal tuition costs.
I understand they are a medical transcription staffing school; the only one I know of.
Didn't they tell you when they hired you?
You are supposed to pull a rabbit out of your friggin hat! Yes, certified magician Transcriptionist s/b next to your name! It's frustrating when QA gets mad at you for not being able to figure it out and leave too many blanks, and when you ask if someone can talk to the doc, forget it.
She just hired 5 FT people for a new
account, so she isn't at this time.
Oh, they'll be hired all right...
...but they'll be paid in rupees.
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