Now MT companies in India have control over the work produced. Quality is much
Posted By: better. Have to agree with above post. on 2006-05-30
In Reply to: It they can't type a grammatically correct sentence, it doesn't matter how many degrees they h - nm
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INDIA, INDIA, NEWBIE LOOKING FOR INDIAN-OWNED COMPANY-FORGET AMERICA COMPANIES HIRING NEWBIES!!!!
  Our country sucks when it comes to teamwork. My experience is in hospital transcription and 95% foreign dictators. Most of my dictators are from India and surrounding countries. Give up you all,  India is already way ahead of us!
The company that I edit for the ONLY quality MT we have is from India..that's pretty sad!!
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Offshoring to India is the direct result of declining quality
being produced by American MTs. The declining quality being produced is the direct result of inexperienced, under-educated MTs being churned out by these online MT schools.
Sounds like just where you work. Most places don't check so tightly on the lines produced AND you
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Too bad companies don't pay by QUALITY instead of experience. nm
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That would not be an option. We only control posting of companies
that outsource offshore by removing those posts. Whether a job ad is in-house or home-based would be too cumbersome of a task to differentiate as not all job ad posters indicate what type of position they are posting.
they have prisons in India, just like we do here - but apparently these companies
feel that Indians are honest people. Then what are the jails and prisons for???
I guess you forgot about India and all the other offshore companies they deal with, ASR and EMR.
That is the plan. They have hired all management lately that have been involved very heavily with overseas companies. Now why do you think that is. I dont think you see the whole plan here.
no work late...she raved about the quality of my work.....sm
I have emails raving about how good my work was. The trouble came when I started asking questions about pay and complaining that she was sending me work when was convenient for her and not when I needed it. She would stay up all night and then sleep a good part of the day. I told her before I started that I wanted to work early mornings. She said that was no problem whatsoever, BUT then I would see no work until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. She would promise me work and send it to me and it would be the wrong voice files, so I had to delete and start over. She was SO disorganized. She said that she has 50 happy transcriptionists and complained that I wanted some samples. I did not know how she wanted things formatted. It was just a mess. The day she "fired" me (I have never been fired before in my life), I had basically told her that morning if things didn't change I wasn't typing another character.
Of course she had 50 happy transcriptionists. Her work was being subcontracted by a lady in Atlanta. She didn't have contact with these transcriptionists. There was a middle man. I told her I could guarantee the lady in Atlanta provided her transcriptionists with some sort of guidance or samples. The hospital system had some sort of weird thing in place where some places needed soft returns and some hard returns and she told me you couldn't mess with that but I was unclear on exactly what went where.
I don't think I will ever work for a small company again.
Anyway, I have drafted a demand letter which I intend to send Monday. Someone below asked for the name of the company, and I would rather not say until this all pans out. I will definitely post the name of the company eventually. I just don't want her to know what my plans are at the present time. I don't know if taking her to court will do any good, but it is worth it to make her miserable. It is a 2 hour drive for me, but I called and I can file via the U.S. mail. So it is only one trip.
Are you a bad MT with lousy quality work?
My calls are answered immediately, i've been on the same account for years, i'm praised for my work, receive emails thanking me. Maybe its YOU and not THEM?
Well, yes, but then the quality of the offshore work (sm)
would be worse than it is now, with not enough people to edit it, it would get way behind TAT, and eventually it will come back to us.
It's definitely a work quality issue.
I'm having a tough time myself. I had the ultimate in great MT jobs up until just recently. Seriously, my Expander stats were running about 70% per day. Now I'm doing maybe 20% on my expander stats because I have a new job where the dictators just ramble on endlessly and backtrack often. It's about $11 an hour and the schedule doesn't work for me either. After I pay taxes and equipment costs, I might as well be working at Burger King or Walmart. I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't make it on this low income. Maybe those sweet accounts only happen once in a lifetime, and my sweet account is gone to VR.
I was better on hourly. Quality of work was better
Poor quality is just that. It has nothing to do with work ethic.
Goodness.
No India where I work. TONS of work. nm x
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Lots of work but I work with some India MTs too.
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Sure, if you like your work going to India (sm)
after a few months!!
They're a MQ clone, without the mafia connections.
I would think that our QA scores honestly reflect the quality of our work
and are not infuenced in any way by how we interpret the status you may or may not hold. Hopefully, you are not basing QA statistics on whether or not you like a certain MT's attitude about you.
Excellent sound quality and just leave me alone to work! nm
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i would not babysit them. if their quality is that bad on resume, it would be on work ethics too.
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Not sure if this will work, but hit control shift 8. This might take care of it.
Hope it helps
Come to India, lots work for you.
You be happy there.
Hahah!a! Funny typo: not quality 'scAre', quality 'scOre'. LMAO!...nm
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Control, shift, space, all at the same time, should work...nm
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Can you afford to work for India wages (sm)
Don't even listen to people trying to sell you a class, study for something with a future.
I did formal training and MT was pretty good for a while, but now I wouldn't recommend this career to my worst enemy!
Yes some crappy India people get this work
But I think it is also a great opportunity to keep this IN the USA.
I work on an account that just came back from India sm
They had an outsourcing company that sent their stuff to India. They were so unhappy, they brought the account back to be done by AMERICAN MTS.
But the poster below me is right, the government IS doing something, they are making it easier and more financially rewarding to go overseas. One day and sooner than later, the American worker will be so poor and so economically depressed that America will no longer be able to import goods/services from overseas because we can't afford them. By that point, we'll be gardening in our window boxes and stockpiling foods that we will no longer be able to have or afford.
The tip of the slippery slope towards another Great Depression.
Oh well, as long as it gets our work out of India and back to us
I would go back to the office in a second for decent money and affordable benefits.
Winscribe is fine where I work. But if a mic is malfunctioning, sound quality is suboptimal.
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Work in a hospital and no one cares about quality, unless there is a malpractice law suit involved.
All anyone worries about is quantity. The work is terrible and the only time anyone even acknowledges it is when a doctor is being sued. When my son was operated on I had to marked his leg in permanent marker before surgery because left/right get mixed up so much. You can tell reports that comes from India and my supervisor sits there and laughs with us. Due to the "freeze" we haven't had raises in over 5 years.
Do you honestly think MQ doesnt send work to India, etc.
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I think that depends on the quality. Do you honestly think there is good quality just throwing every
MT on any account like they are. I also think QA has been told to not waste a lot of time on blanks so I think the hospitals are getting a lot more blanks. I certainly have more when I get in a hospital I dont know and they talk 100 miles an hour.
I thought quality was a given. Speed and quality are not mutually exclusive. sm
I maintain 99% accuracy above on my reports. However, the original question was regarding personal preference, and I have stated mine, and I respect your opinion as well. :-) I do think if I was working in an office or hospital setting, the setup you mentioned might be more profitable in the long run. There are too many interruptions and such when you have other people running in and out, phones ringing, etc.
I doubt that anyone but me really cares about the lines per hour it takes for me to do a report. They just want an accurate report in a timely manner. I take pride in my work, and would never just slop something out for the sake of the almighty buck. And, as an added incentive, I work for 2 companies, and one of them has my name on each report. I don't have a problem with it, but I did think it was a bit unusual at first.
Oh well ... I must confess that what I'd TRULY like is to be paid lots of money to just sit and play Battle Phlinx on Pogo all day long, but as of yet, no such luck. 
Question. How many MTs sit and wait for work when companies overhire and there is not enough work
on your shift. Is this what these companies want for people to sit around and wait on work. As an IC, this probably doesnt amount to even close to minimum wage. What do you do in these cases of no work and sitting waiting for practically nothing to come in when obviously lots of others are doing the same thing. It actually almost seems as though you need to have 2 jobs to survive in this business really. I cant image how you can get the lines in they require. Crazy business this is.
I am fairly new with my company and I tried the control Y one time, and it didn't work, so I thou
into the "global" normals, I will play with it again and give it a try. How long have you been doing transcription? Have you stayed with the same company for a long time? I worked at a clinic for 6 years, hospital for 8, and now this new national for 3 months.....I hate feeling new!
I produced what you do and made less
Where do you work? I worked my fanny off, produced 10,000 lines per pay period and got only $800 per pay period, for about $16,000 a year since we do not get paid vacation. IT STINKS
Please, please, where do you work?
Is this the nonsense produced
by the "University" of Phoenix? Too bad your husband can't attend a real school.
Fortunately, I did not have to waste my time in such a place. I have a B.A. from Michigan and an M.A. from USC. I also skipped a grade at the private school I went to in Bloomfield Hills, and still graduated in the top 1% of the class.
My father is a dentist, and I did not need financial aid.
BTW, I'm black. I have confused a lot of racist white people, and it has been interesting to watch them struggle with their limited beliefs.
In any case, some of the comments here are ignorant, and reflect a limited exposure to the world. If this is the intellectual level of some MTs, no wonder this profession is deteriorating. Fortunately, I have other options.
Foot pedal control/knee control? (sm)
My sewing machine has a knee control built into the side of the cabinet and I find this very comfortable. I would like to somehow do the same with foot pedal I use for transcription. Can figure out how to mount it, but having trouble adjusting it so the 3 pedals are not an issue. ANyone done this or have any input?
Foot pedal control/knee control
Though I have not had experience with this type of modification, I have repaired numerous footpedals and have some information that may be helpful. Generally, the footpedal is comprised of the primary circuit board, the wiring to the computer, and the three switches for play, rewind, and fast forward. These switches are easily removed from the pedal with a screwdriver. With basic soldering, you can lengthen the wiring to each switch, or even replace them with different switches you can get at a local electronics store. With a little bit of creative engineering, you could mount some knee -controllable switches that could control the footpedal.
Usually lines produced and not hours. Have seen 600 lpd for part-time min. nm
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Brain natriuretic peptide...hormone produced by the
heart.
Mention that you have noticed a decline in lines produced
That will open up the lines of communication. She may be struggling with personal problems, fatigue, any number of things. She may not want to *bother* you with it, but I am sure she will appreciate your concern. Good luck!
Used to think we were using India, but now realize India is using us for our med. info, jobs,
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lines produced also depends on type of account, doctors, specifics, platforms.
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I use Control N to end a job - Control T is for when viewing an old report
Don't know what you are talking about
yep, control, control, control... that's the main
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k, that is your opinion, i stated mine. poor quality in my opinion shows bad work ethics if they do
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I am one who will not work for those companies SM
If they outsource to offshore, I will not work for them.
If they treat me like dirt, I get out.
I see ads all the time for "experienced MTs only apply." Then they turn around and offer you 6 or 7 cpl. How insulting is that? I won't work for them either.
There are a couple of good companies out there - but not too many. You need to be able to pick and choose in this business. IMO only desperate people work for desperate pay and put up with the crappy services and what they dish out. I kind of feel sorry for all the new MTs out there that have to put up with this crap just so they can get a foot in the door and try to get some experience so they can move on.
If more of us refused to work for those lousy companies, maybe they might reconsider their business practices. I doubt that offshore MTs are going to work for paltry wages for ever. They are now beginning to demand more money for their services. Let's see what happens with that.
any companies out there that never run out of work??
 It is too much to ask for work to be available and not have overhiring??? 
Companies NOT to work for
Do not work for the following companies if you expect to make decent wages or if you even expect to get a paycheck without having to beg for one. Hum lets see.
Medquist, KJM Trans., SoftScript, Superior Global, Zylomed, Medvoice, A to Z trans., D&L Typing, MedWord, Spheris, California Trans., Unlimited, ... there are more but I just can not think of them right now. Mostly, you will not find anyone paying what they use to pay before "Offshore" began. So if you find someone who you are averaging at least $18/20 dollars plus an hour, KEEP IT.
Work for 3 different companies. sm
.10/65 no headers/footers, .10/65 with headers/footers, spaces, etc., 1.70 per minute with 25% extra for stat or 8.5 gross with 25% extra stat.
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