I totally can't believe that after 15 years

• QA question ! - susieQ
  • Provide the service you are being paid to do... - Chief Editor
  • These are not petty! These are major sm - 30 year MTr
    • 2-5 years in acute care wouldn't solve this (sm) - Another QA member
      • you are correct. I should have said sm - 30 year MTr
  • I do QA also and agree with that QA - she is helping you really. nm - hvlmt
  • These are basics. All of you should know - QA specialist
  • I totally can't believe that after 15 years - QA99
  • Listen to your QA - you might be up for a review?
  • Sounds like she is giving you - excellent feedback and you
    • not true. Crux is, she is being treated differently than others - in her ofice.
      • It will make her a better MT if she learns to do it right - so what
  • To SusieQ - Albert
    • .... - to Albert
      • that is the most ridiculous bunk i've ever heard! - whole thread belongs on comedy board!
      • What someone else is silly enough to pay you, has no bearing on your ability or character. - nm
        • .. but im sure you know that already - you are RUDE
          • Naaaaaaasty lady. Bad lady. Pooh. - gonna go drown my sorrows in a Pina colada.
            • and if she chooses to swim with..sm - ignore the florida troll-I live there too
              • my original post was perfectly - I was nice, and courteous!
  • I have to wonder if this is made up BUT if you are - genuine, then I would
  • Tell her THANK YOU! - TopMT
  • Wow, that's really awkward that you are being treated - differently than other workers. sm
  • I have only been doing this for a year.. - TM
  • I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
  • Your QA person is correct. More thoughts inside. - QA Mgr
  • bottom line it's what client wants...sm - every client profile is different but
  • Been doing acute care for 7 years now, - MT
  • I do all of them too! How long have you worked there? - Is it just too hard to retrain yourself or what?
  • I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
  • Some rules I follow..for #6, I think the first time an abbreviation is used, you expand and paren th - I agree with QA
    • that would be same rules not some. - yikes..me again
  • 15 years of experience and you don't know - these rules?? Very sad. Nm
    • everyone else has responded, - sad? Oh please ...
      • Not trying to be rude. It is just sad that this - sm
  • They are all correct style and grammar rules. More concerning are the gross HIPPA violations sm - MTSO
    • portability and accountability act....nm - It's HIPAA - health information
  • These are all normal things for me as well. - they are correct
  • Looks like your QA is going by the AAMT Book of Style - nm
  • I believe all of the examples you have here are - correct. It's the way I do it.
  • #2 should be 82-year-old female, - Wannie
    • Thanks to (almost) all - susieQ
      • RE: Thanks to (almost) all - Shelly Hendrix
  • With the exception fo #6, which we have been told - me
    • grade typing back in the 60s...lol...sm - taught 2 spaces after a period in BASIC 10th

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I am sadly with the Q and 3 years ago, before DocQScribe and employee status, I used to do over 300 lph.  Totally loved it.  Yes, making 10 cpl.  I used to work 5 hours a day and have a minimum of $1500 in 2 weeks.  When they would offer up bonuses, I would make over $2000 in 2 weeks. 

Now, I barely can bring in $900 (gross) in 2 weeks.  Thanks Q for taking away my primary accounts 4 times and stuffing me in the pool.  I am drowning.   

I bet if I found antoher job with a primary, I would do that again.  The search is on.

how can you go wrong?  Me with 20 years, I have been there and done that.  This CMT jizzjazz just came about as far as I'm concerned.  I've had a wealth of success and have my own accounts that do not require I know a book.  They go on my integrity and no I'm no where near perfect, but who is?  I have seen a lot and have experienced quite a bit in my years, and I'm only 37.  So go figure?  Wow, has this profession evolved?  I basically had 3 years of transcription in high school/medical secretary, and fell into it, but gee whiz, how this has become a production oriented/dog eat dog profession!

I only IC for one company on-line along with having my own accounts, and I can say the company knows the difference between IC and employee.  Yes, believe it or not, they will ask if I am available.  To me, that's true IC status.  I work from a pool, which is fine by me because if I get busy with other things, I know someone is keeping that client happy with that company.  I only do it for the experience and thoroughly enjoy my work. 

I'm glad someone else is feeling it though with regards to IC versus employee.  Some will really get upset and say that the MTSO needs to cover the account and need to know when you are going to work.  WRONG!!!  The MTSO needs to cover the account.  Period.  The End.  They do not need to know what your hours of operation are or how many lines can you type in an hour. 

I don't mind doing legal and will do it now from time to time, but be prepared to be totally bored out of your mind.

At least that's the way I feel.  I love to transcribe, learned legal in college, went on to get my paralegal degree, etc., etc., but I did temp work when the kids were younger, which was about 90% medical and I would never go back to legal except for once in a while.

Booooooring.

It would take me all night and pages and pages to describe what a bad person my ex-husband was.  After six years of putting up with his OCD, verbal abuse and alcohol, I left him the house, took the kids (5 and 1) and didn't look back. That was 20 years ago.

I wasn't looking to get married again, but I did.  After 13 years I only complain when hubby doesn't see things my way. :) 

My older kids, who were 5 and 1 when I left, are married and have kids of their own now.  My husband gets the Father's Day cards.  Their "real" father sits alone in the perfect little house I left behind and let him have and he drinks himself into oblivion every night because nobody is "perfect" enough, including his kids and his grandkids that he never sees. 

Sad, but true.  So glad I smartened up and got  out of there when I did.

What is the big deal.  Look at your clothes, cars, items in your house.

I have been at this only two months and am bored already - its the isolation and the repetitive work I have.  I have a clinic account with a small learning curve, so now my blanks are for the most part garbled words or medications that are unrelated to the specialty area.  I'm still building up speed of course, but now getting distracted/bored/daydreaming is slowing me down.  I count my blessings that the work is not that difficult but its a trade off.

I KWYM about short vs. long. I usually have 1-2min reports and that keeps me going but when I get a 7 minute one, especially if it is the person who talks very softly, pop goes the Diet Coke can!

I thought I would like working alone at home but now realize that I like to be around people.  Funny the things you learn about yourself that fly in the face of what you think you are like. 

I think I would be able to do better in house, but what I really want is contact with other human beings and a little more variety in my duties.

Empathizing right there with you.

Just in case I'm not understanding, but seems okay to say ALL MTs; probably programmed so they can hit one key and it automatically goes to all MTs entered in this particular email function.  Just like they have a feature where when on vacation you can have email sent "i'm on vaction, will return such and such time.

Using own email, I think we all do?? At least thought so.

I posted my resume on MT Stars a couple of years ago and, like you, I was flooded with calls.  The company I selected, I didn't even know existed.  I have been a very happy camper for 2 years, plenty of work, decent pay, great tech support, wonderful people who make you feel like "family."  Best move I ever made.

I think maybe the reason why people keep allowing themselves to be used and abused by companies with sporadic work is the known versus the fear of the unknown factor.  Believe me, the stress of starting a new job is small potatoes compared to never knowing you will have enough in your paycheck to cover the bills!

Only because I have a neighbor in her 50s, she's tall, still thin, not a wrinkle, so obviously she has kept herself up.  Its not about age, but about wearing the right clothes for the right shape.  She wears tanks, and also long form fitting dresses, very stylish and i've also seen her wear shorts.  I hope to look so good when i'm in my 50s.  Of course if she were out of shape, dying her hair the wrong shade and wore black eye liner, it would be a whole different story.  50 is supposedly the new 30.  But if you have as great of a figure as you did in your 20s as you do in 50s, show a little of it off, we don't die once we reach the age of 40! 

We never went on vacation with our kids and left them with grandparents to come back and find out that our own lack of parenting resulted in somthing that our own kids may have been doing behind our backs all along.

Give me a break. Blame it on gramma?  How about staying home with your kid and taking a good look around to realize that he's the one that's hiding things, not your MIL.

There is obviously a lot of hatred between DIL and MIL here. 

Message for you mom, "get a grip."  This stuff doesn't all happen because their at gramma's for the week. You're obviously doing something wrong here.  Forget your "vacations." and your "rules" and be there for your kids. Teenagers LIE.  It's been going on for centuries.

You can go on "vacation" when they're all grown up and gone.  By the sounds of your message, I would say the sooner they go, the better.