Oh I care, it's making a joke of the company
Posted By: sm on 2006-08-21
In Reply to: as long as it is not a legal document, who cares?--nm - kps
that used to be a professional organization. You think clients don't see this? Think again.
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All those folks care about is making MONEY.
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Curosity- I am curious if I am making the normal amount of money weekly for MT. Would anyone care
to share their weekly amount of pay?
Can the company making the deposit access your
Will the MT company paying my depositing into this bank debit check card account be able to access my checking account and take money out of my checking account?
When the company asked me to start making long distance phone calls,
they offered to pay my long distance for the charges. I then got a cheap long distance plan to make the charges for them more reasonable.
You need to JUST SAY NO to making long distance calls for them. If they will pay for it then do it, otherwise no way.
Do you care if your company offshores? ...
It really chaps my buns, and I will not work for any company that sends work out of the U.S. How do you feel about it???
Care to share the name of the company??? nm
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Care to share your method and/or company?
Sounds like you might be in Radiology. Appreciate.
Anyone care to share name of Company that pays so much?
I'm interested
As far as company VR for critical care it is not very good and I agree with the other poster. I tend
to leave little words in or if I have to take a lot of words out an extra word gets stuck in. It is a mess. If you are speaking of your own person VR at home to help I know nothing about that. With companies at this stage of the game you will not increase your productivity as you think.
sure i was. i'm making fun of the people who are making a case for background checks, etc
to do medical transcription at home as if they may do something AWFUL with the info they receive. So if you want an invasion of privacy let's REALLY invade it and make sure fat chicks don't transcribe because they are so busy eating they can't get the work done, they mess up the keyboard with food and if they are provided health insurance they will raise the rates for the company sky high because their health risks are higher than others. Then there are the psychological issues overweight people bring to the table. After we eliminate fat people, we can go on to eliminate diabetic people who may have low blood sugar while typing and go into a spell and type the wrong thing. I could go on and on through the process of elimination. How about prescribed medications that may cloud your thinking? So you take Ambien to sleep but you have an Ambien groggy hangover when you are transcribing? Should they transcribe. How about your teens are on your last nerves and you take a Xanax? Should you be allowed to transcribe?
Kinship care versus foster care/adoption
Having been placed in a position where I now have custody of my 3 YO granddaughter and going through the legal system, I sought an online network of relative caregivers for children. I would encourage you, especially since you are in Georgia, that if you take any children into foster care with the idea of adopting them, there is federal law that requires the state to take certain actions in a specific time frame. When a child is removed from it's bio parent(s), the state is required to investigate any possible relatives who can take the child before foster care is considered, but even before that, reunification with the parents is the priority. Once a child enters the system and is in the system for 15 out of any 22 months, the state is required to find permanent placement for the child.
The problem with this is that there are case workers who may favor a foster family and do not seek out relative care. I have a good friend in Georgia who had to fight all the way to the state level to get custody of her grandson after the child was placed from the hospital into a foster care home with the promise that the foster parents would be allowed to adopt. She has now adopted her grandson, but it was a long, hard battle to get the state to admit their own interests were placed above those of the child and/or family.
If you get a child placed through the state, please make certain there is not a relative who wants that child before you get your hopes up. The courts are now favoring return of children to relatives even after a child has spent years with a foster family who hoped to adopt them.
States get bonus federal funds by complying with the time lines and being able to close the case, so some states place children in foster care because it is easier than trying to locate relatives.
Didn't mean to go off on a tangent, but I can't imagine my sweet bella going to someone outside her family.
You realize by doing that they're making more money & you're making less? You should reconsid
If it was a clinic, it might have been urgent care, but it was NOT acute care. sm
Acute care refers to work in an acute care setting, a hospital, doing at least History and Physicals, Discharge Summaries, Consultations, Surgery notes, Emergency Department notes, and much more, including GI procedures, Cardiology procedures, Neurological procedures, Pulmonary Function Studies. It goes on and on and it means and acute care hospital setting, not a clinic.
I always figure if they don't care about their dictation, they probably don't care about their
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Dont care how many languages you took. Care
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Is this a joke?
You are a joke!
I would bet the farm that you are in management or just someone playing on this board, because I know the facts, my dear, and MQ DOES NOT PAY FOR SPACES and lots of other quirks are out there that we do not YET know about.
If you don't think the joke is
Why don't you just head to Walmart now and go buy yourself a new sense of humor - LOL LOL LOL
what a joke
or go to Walmart. The field is now paying close to minimum wage for newbies,really! At 6 cents per line and 100 to 150 lines per hour,it only equals 6 to 9 dollars an hour. That is great pay.......in India!
Joke of the Day
It's a beautiful day in the neighbor. Sun shining, have been outside with my short sleeved scubs, sat on the porch drinking coffee. TAT is 15 minutes, life's good. Check e-mail and my lead thinks so too. She sent this joke and I had to share it...
THE SHORTEST FAIRY TALE EVER TOLD
Once upon a time, a girl asked a guy "Will you marry me?"
The guy said, "NO!"
And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, drank cocktails, always had a clean house, never had to cook, had sex with whomever she pleased and farted whenever she wanted.
THE END
IT WAS A JOKE!!!
No sore loser here. I could care less.
BOS ... what a joke!
What is most comical to me is that the BOS in one edition says "abc" is correct and in another changes its mind and says "xyz" is correct. My view is they need to keep "making up" stuff in order to keep publushing something to make money!! Now don't get me wrong, some of their information is good information, but, IMO, some is definitely not.
is this a joke or serious??? i can't tell! (nm)
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it most certainly was not a joke...sm
and did you even open up that post of mine and go to the link I provided with an explanation and a diagram of exactly how to do the Lion Hatha Yoga exercise for TMJ?
Sheesh............incomplete are ye? *rofl*
It has to be a joke. Please tell me it is
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What a joke . . .
 Got an offer for a job -- specialty that I just love, but only 5 cents a line? Come on now! I have over 2 years just in this one field of transcription. Plus they expect me to pay for malpractice insurance? Okay 5 cents a line at 100 lines an hour for example -- less than the state minimum wage plus I am supposed to pay for malpractice insurance. Hey -- I'm not the doctor! Doctors are leaving my state because they cannot afford malpractice insurance. Get real.
What a joke
Wow! Liability insurance via AAMT is $700.00 a year! No, this was not a VR editing job. It was typing reports in word as an IC. No way am I even considering it. I do not have 20 years under my belt but I do have a few years of experience and I am worth more than 5 cents a line.
Me neither, must be a joke (sm)
someone is playing, and they probably haven't posted anything yet.
Obviously someone who can't take a joke
Lighten up.
What a joke.................
Only a couple of companies I worked for EVER mentioned BOS. The companies I work for now couldn't care less about the BOS....they think it's a joke. I think so too. Who knighted them the know-all of the transcription world? None of that junk was around when I started, the doctors don't even know what you're talking about if you mention BOS......nuf said!
And I QA their QA - it's a joke! - nm
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they are a joke
33 years ago they contacted transcriptionists through the mail at their place of employment, preaching their primary goal was to get us recognized by all and confirmed through pay as professionals; after all, your average gum-popping secretary/receptionist could not do this work without the education adhesed to this field. Compensation was to reflect this.
33 years ago. 3 decades.
The only thing that made my pay reflect any degree of profssionalism was the start-up of production programs (NOT, I might add, created by the AAMT) when I was making 60 - 70k, until the supply and demand changed.
AAMT, however, took in a ton of money in memberships, and changing to ADHI has not shed one ioda of their diligence towards deliquency. Now mighty advocates of outsourcing and soliciting membership outside our borders, you'd think common sense would jump in to keep us from going global - now THERE'S a goal! Oh, but wait...there's no money in that, is there?
What they could and should have done differently was left us alone.
It's a joke
It's a joke. It truly is. I have been editing for many years and my cpl has gone from 9 to 4. I am struggling to pay my bills and they think because you do twice as much you make more. what they DON'T tell you is that there are all these little glitches they use to "ADJUST" your pay and if you don't make production.. yes, production as that is the key word now for what they want you to REALLY do, then you lose more and they have to pay you minimum wage versus what you actually make.. which is 4 cpl now in Escription.
No, it's not a joke...
It's called common sense. Supply and demand. There are only so many OPs to spread among a million MTs. We've already suffered from the over-supply of new MTs in the last 120 years or so due to all of the MT courses available (instead of learning on the job), which has resulted in lower pay. So now you want to do the same with OPs? Call me selfish if you want. But that's the way it is.
It was a joke. Do you REALLY
have no sense of humor? How sad.
Ahhh, its a joke...
I have a father, son, and BF whom I love and care for. BUT THAT IS TOO TRUE! HA HA HA! That is what makes it funny!
It's a joke - lighten up
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AAMT is a Joke.
From Pressure Valve Board:
Regarding the AAMT Book of Style? That is the biggest farce on this planet.
Further, let this Book of Style (BOS) be known as the Book of SLANG. I resent that this organization represents transcriptionists, when in fact, the Transcriptionist is the last person they do represent. They constantly change the rules for how we are to transcribe something, make up the most ridiculous rules and expect us to adhere to them.
For example, in 2000, it was "plantar flexion," in 2005 it is "plantarflexion." This is the same organization that states it is okay to mix English and Latin language in a prescription dosage to write q. day and q. week. Please. That would be like writing a sentence in English and Spanish.
I suspect all of the freaky changes to the English language are to justify their existence and feel like they have some sort of purpose for being. Frankly, I am over the AAMT, and their Book of Slop.
What? I dont get the joke.
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These MQ checks must be a joke.
 According to my taxes last year my salary, which had remained at a very stable figure for the past 6-7 years, suddenly decreased almost $11,000 dollars in 2004 after beginning DQS at the beginning of the year. There is no way in hell that this check for $140 bucks is going to make me happy. How convenient that there are no dates on the letter indicating what the time frame is on this "incorrect compensation." Love the general "Dear Medical Transcriptionist" - cannot even humanize us by putting our name. Such jerks. I am furious! 
I thought it was a joke
or some program I had never heard of. :)
If it's such a joke, I wonder why companies are willing...
to waive the usual 2-year experience requirement for M-Tec grads??? Of course the program is self-study. What did you expect? Try a community college MT program and see how far you get when you're finished with it and want to find a job.
Obviously it wasn't for you. It's still the best MT training available.
AAMT is a joke
I was transcribing long before anyone dreamed up the AAMT, or the "CMT" degree/rating/whatever, that members can earn. Yes, they DO support offshoring, and also speech recognition. They also are getting rich by convincing Newbies they must join these organizations in order to get a job, or must have that stupid "CMT" after their name in order if they want to get higher-paying jobs. They are also the ones who came up with the job title "transcriptionist". It seems like ever since that title became the norm, the transcription field (which USED to be a good, respected, middle-income white-collar job) has begun a downward slide towards being unskilled sweatshop labor. At least that is how it is often perceived today. Back in "The Day", we were called "Transcribers", and it was something to be proud of. The "ist" in "transcriptionist" not only feminizes the job title, it also seems to demote it to the level of other low-paying "women's" jobs, such as "receptionist", "hair stylist", "typist", etc. I refuse to use the new term, and still refer to myself as a Transcriber. I laugh when people correct me and say the machine I get my dictation from is a "transcriber", because it doesn't actually "transcribe" anything! It is a dictation system. Or a transcribing machine. Or a Dictaphone. Or whatever. But I am the one who ultimately transcribes, so I am the "transcriber", not some lame machine!
And I refuse to be railroaded into testing for that dumb "CMT", either. According to what I've read and heard, you not only pay a wad to take the test, but few, if any, people ever pass it on the first try. I think that is the whole idea, 'cuz then you have to pay AGAIN to take the test again.
I earned my reputation as a TRANSCRIBER through years and years of hard work, NOT by paying my hard-earned $$ to a couple of broads who dreamed up this get-rich scheme.
You're right about the help and support on this board. This is the best MT board I've ever seen. That "other" board, even when it was free, was a small "clique" of AAMT-people with what often appeared to me to be very narrow-minded views on just about EVERYTHING, not just transcription. And then then started charging $$ to use it, and I stopped going there. MTSTARS is everything any Transcriber could ever want, and I love it.
PS: You can also find useful things, such as drug spelling, use, etc. on Google. How did we ever exist without the Internet?
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It was just a joke, gee whiz. nm
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Haha! the joke is on me.
I reread my post right after hitting enter and saw I spelled "their" instead of there! It must be getting to me tonight! Sorry!
HIPAA is a joke
as long as these private records continue to travel overseas beyond the reach of the long arm of U.S. courts and law enforcement.
To Mac: HAHAHA - NO JOKE - sm
I absolutely love DEAL OR NO DEAL - *ROFL* - so JOKE OR NO JOKE - answer is NO JOKE sweetie!!!
*winks* @ Mac and laughs!!!! 
That was a joke, because nobody replied for a while.
The site can be addicting, but of course you can run it in the background. If you have the foghorn on you can hear when a bottle comes in. :o}
12-15 cpl as an employee? That's a joke right ; )
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I like it when they make a joke...sm
It shows they are human just like the rest of us and it makes the day much nicer to have a little laugh !!
Ya, definitely not a joke. I shoulda said that!
I'm guess I'm kinda known for being slightly "off," but this video is most definitely not in any way humorous. I actually felt my neck veins twitching as I was watching it. Gotta love big business.
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