Situations change. We are all in this for the money. Loyalty is great but appreciation (monetarily
Posted By: Don't look back. on 2005-09-27
In Reply to: What do you do when you accept a job or give someone your word, - people pleasing personality type?
And be honest. This is a financial issue and a matter of there is only so much time in one day. They may be shook up for a bit but in the end, they will remember you for the work you produced and your day to day performance and personal character traits. Give them plenty of time to find someone new if you are very fond of them and, in this case, you could offer to train the new person.
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Me, too! What a great change!
 Lots easier to use! Very happy user!
a lot needs to change...Great posting! .BRAVO.
I specifically liked this statement:
Why are MTSOs so afraid to approach a lousy dictator?
Exactly! The money was great, but the stress...
and long hours were certainly not worth it. I still don't get why JJ or whoever would care about anyone's bb name.  Personally, I have more important things to get my panties in a twist over. We all have our hangups I suppose. 
While I have made great money doing MT,
if I had it do over, no I would not go into MT. I would have finished college and gotten my degree instead. I am back in college now to get my degree, but it would have been so much better if I had done it years ago.
I agree with the MT who says after 25 years she is working harder and making less. It's the same for me. I am getting burned out after all these years, I can't type the long hours I once did, I can't see doing this for another 20 years. If the money was there like it used to be, that might be different.
You CAN make great money
... if you are good and have a decent line rate. I made just under $70k last year working at home in my 2nd full year as a transcriptionist.
Absolutely would. Love my job/career! Make great money. nm
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Sorry, don't post here often and not familiar. I was saying I make great money and stay at home w
Where do folks get these odd ideas?
Appreciation
I was wondering if the MTSO companies could offer a word or two of praise occasionally to those of us who are sitting here trying to make sense out of nonsense? I sit here day after day and all I get back is criticism. These companies do not have to wait until MT week to offer a pat on the back. Come on guys......
New appreciation
I've done MT off and on for 20+ years. Get burnt out, start again, etc. Every time I quit for a while, I come back with a better attitude and a new appreciation of this skill that we have that allows us to work part-time, full-time, seasonal, temporary, no boundary as far locations or age, and the option of bringing our work right along wherever we go (in most cases), and with increasing technical enhancements that make our work easier and less physical. Can you imagine typing every word and phrase out on a manual typewriter and making carbon copies? I don't care that no one appreciates my job, or knows what I do, or thanks me for doing this. That is not why I work. I work for money. And as I get older, I also work to keep my mind sharp and to keep this skill sharp that has taken years to perfect. That's just my opinion and I do understand that someone from a different age group is going to feel differently and that's just fine, but just wanted to share my outlook on things.
Appreciation
That is why I love the company that I work for currently. Almost everyday we receive emails on how they appreciate their employees and how much they are blessed to have such wonderful MTs. We even get emails from clients that the company forwards to us with compliments on how our skills and abilities. I love this company and wouldn't trade it for the world. I do wish that more companies were like this though.
$100 and letter of appreciation
Better than the candy apple and lay off notice that I got from a former employer for Christmas one year.
appreciation (or lack there of)
 One thing I have learned is that not many people understand this working at home gig. I will say though that after I have let my kids listen to a few of these dictations they are totally amazed and over the years I have helped them with the words to quite a few songs they couldn't understand. One daughter is now a pharmacist and she is totally amazed at what I can understand. My son-in-law, also a pharmacist, asked if he could let me listen to the voice mail from ESL's that call in prescriptions and he cannot understand. My sister and brother-in-law are doctors, so they appreciate my talent and work ethic. However, just today my second daughter got mad at me because I told her I could not watch her boyfriend's new puppy (not housebroken) and work at the same time. I have been doing this at home for over 10 years now, so they have grown up with it, and still don't always get it. I left a hospital job after a divorce because I was never around when the kids needed me and it was difficult to leave work for emergencies. I made double the income - at first with no benefits. I miss the retirement, but I wouldn't have been able to keep my house, so everything is a trade off. Only we can understand each other
Honey, you must not be getting enough love or appreciation!
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About loyalty to MQ, sorry lm
Unfortunately, MedQuist has been made who they are by buying out so many small & medium MTSO's over the years to get where they are, and I wonder who was not thinking about a consistent "MQ way" while they were doing so. I mean, as much as we refer to McD's and Wal-Mart, when one opens they sell the same/serve the same around the country. MQ was like a game of Pac-man, gobbeling in hyperspeed.
In doing so, they made deals with the sales to keep things "as is" it seems from some of the posts and the vast inconsitency across the board has led to so many, many different ways of operations, how MT's have/were treated, how offices are ran, mass exodus of inhouse employee's. We see this in the praises of some CSC's with plenty of work, treat their MT's with respect, then of course, the nightmare CSC's. This total opposit just does not make sense at all. If some need work, then give them work from an office that is overwhelmed for crap's sake...spread the work and $$ amonst all. I don't have a big suit in my closet or a big degree hanging on my wall, but it sure the heck seems like MQ could save $$100,000' in just "consulting with the MT's" in how work flow could be consistent, accurate and done with pride, care and loyalty, instead of paying those high priced suits that seem to come and go like a revolving door. In their quest to be the biggest and best with the hypertechnology, they have forgotten what it's really all about...the patient and the MT who is taking pride and time in doing that record because the MT is not breaking their backs working 12 hrs to make what they did in 6, they know the account, they know the dictator and that does not leave them guessing. I know when one of my doc's says something really off the wall, out of character and does not make sense...as in being interupted when he's giving me drug allergies, says NKDA yet gives the patient Cipro because of a PCN allergy...that's a discrepancy that needs to be sent to QA, so that the next person or someone reading that record does not just glance see nkda's. I got a very nice thank you from the doc on this and it's only because I know he was very annoyed at whoever was bugging him, and this is because I have him night after night, year after year. That's what happens when you have accounts you are proficient at...they get done in quality and faster!
This is how you can have so many people on either one side of the fence or the other when it comes to MQ..and there really does'nt seem to be much in the middle. If MQ has treated someone decent and fair, then it's easy to be loyal to them and vice versa. There's just never one side to a teeter totter and we may see a huge imbalance one way or the other with the anticipated packets...........I just wish they would get here and calm a few nerves!
No loyalty...
I worked for the same two groups of physicians for many years and when they were able to cut me out, EMR or make office staff transcribe for less, they did. It's all about the $$$. I never was able to get any of them to sign a contract other than one that stated that they could let me go at any time or I could let them go at any time. Of course, I would have been more considerate and gave them notice and been honest about it. Even at cut rates, they are always looking for a better deal. One of the office staff who took my transcription work on the side at cheaper rates recently called me and said she needed help, etc. but at her lower undercut rate.. (what a joke) I at least had the satisfaction of telling her "No thanks". She said she did not know it would be this "time consuming" she has no life, yadda, yadda... They thought it was soooo easy...NOT! Sorry about your situation.. it's a tough lesson we all eventually learn.
No loyalty again!
Like you, I worked as an employee for a group of 18 physicians for over 21 years. I retired early, then they begged me to be a contingent employee because they had no one to fill in for vacations, sick leave, etc. I agreed and it was a pretty good deal. They paid me as a regular employee, albeit contingent basis only, which was fine with me. If I wanted to work, I did; if I didn't or couldn't, I didn't! Then a year ago they switched to a new Dictaphone call in system (whereas before we transcribed from tapes). I said, "There goes my little part-time job." Oh no, they wanted me to stay, blah, blah, blah. Bottom line: They got the new equipment and didn't even have the decency to let me know they weren't EVER going to use me again! Over the years, I paid for much of my own equipment working at home for them and had been their ONLY Transcriptionist for over eight years (with 8 docs at the time!)until the practice got too large. In fact, I had more experience than all of the transcriptionists there! Several of my coworkers thought it was pretty sad but they couldn't do anything about it, of course.
Again, money talks and since I was most probably the highest paid transcriptionist there, they wanted to dump me to help pay for their leased equipment, I guess. Finally when I asked the lead transcriptionist about all of this, she said they weren't going to use contingent people any longer. So my opinion of docs has definitely changed during the last year...and NOT for the better. Sorry for the long post but I get angry every time I think about what they did.
Loyalty-sm
I know summer is usually a slow time in the field of medical transcription but I have sat for many days now with absolutely no work. The past two pay periods have been extremely rough. I like the company I work for but I can't afford to sit idle. I have started looking around and have even sent out a few resumes. I feel a bit disloyal but I have to eat too. I find it hard to believe that there is absolutely nothing!
Do you ever feel anxiety when there is no work, and if so, how do you deal with it? Am I being disloyal by looking for work?
LOYALTY
It was wonderful, especially since I was single Mom and just lost a supervisor transcription position at a hospital that closed. I was lucky and landed another job immediately with a private clinic, but was able to take my daughter on a few trips with this extra money and pay off a few bills. I feel really fortunate now because I just remarried a year ago and money is definitely more stable, but i still hate being treated dirty when I was so loyal to this clinic.
Is $1000 to much up front???? There really wont' be that much typing involved, but my time in finding all this information on my own was a pain butt!
sometimes these situations
can be a blessing, by causing us to realize we can't do it on our own, that we NEED God...and again we learn to TRUST and depend upon Him.
Sometimes there are situations where
"forgive and forget" don't work. Leaves it up to all parties involved to work with the best solution. Gifter may have solid, personal reasons for having issues. I can relate. You have to respect that.
I also have been in these situations before sm
I have been working at home now for 17 years. My kids are 18 and 16 now, the 18 year old in college; however, while growing up both were athletes and in every sport year around. I have seen other kids who never had a parent at their games or special occasions. My kids always appreciated the fact that I was there, never missed a game or event, and always home when they got home from school. That in itself is reward enough.
It brought about a sense of love and security, at least for my two kids, while growing up and knowing Mom is always there. They could call me at lunch or after school before practice if they needed something, etc.
It grounded them and brought stability into their lives and they excel academically.
All-in-all, I would never trade this profession for anything else. It has paid off big time for me.
Now, I just have to wait about 10 years or so for grand kids and the cycle will start all over again!
Isnt' this one of the main reasons, we who have children, work at home?!!!
Even 4.5 is too low. doctors do not change - they still hem and haw, change, change stuff along wit
It is just not enough for the work. Speech is great on the wrists but you are not just reading what is typed, you are making a lot of changes. I have a hard time doubling a lot of days with all the changes I have to make. Just my opinion.
Blind loyalty.
And third comment. ISSUES! Just because this person is American and lost her daughter does not give her the right to call everyone but herself incompetent. She CANNOT call these people criminal w/o EVIDENCE. I wish you would think that thru. If she is so SURE these people are criminals, let her step up to the plate with EVIDENCE and share that with the world she is urging not to take in the two brothers who were released for LACK OF EVIDENCE. So tell us what EVIDENCE she has to stand in judgement of everyone. Oh that's right. She is American and lost her daughter. We don't expect evidence just rambling emotions based on.....????
You owe them no loyalty, especially if they don't pay squat.
Send them a note thanking them for the wonderful experience but giving your two weeks notice or whatever because you have accepted employment elsewhere.
Loyalty goes both ways
How loyal is the company to you if they pay you peanuts, and how hard would they cry if they decided to "down size" and let you go?
IC loyalty dilemma
The owner of the company I contract through has a strict policy that you do NOT ever converse directly with the client. I am on an account where there are 4 of us doing it. One girl continuously keeps writing the client with everything from asking about formatting to asking what some medical terms are. I have asked her in a prevous e-mail to please not do that, due to the work policy. She has continued to do so. I don't know what to do. If I turn her in, she would know it came from me, and would I be a rat? She claims that she and the client made an agreement to e-mail each other without telling the owner of the MT company.
Thanx for any input!
MT is co. business. Not about loyalty to MTs,
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getting paid is showing appreciation for my work. that's all i care about.
who cares if some supervisor "appreciates" me? i'm in it for the money not for someone to "appreciate" me.
Those situations different than STAYING in bad
Robbery or scamming are an in and out situation that you have little control over. Staying in a bad job is usually a long term situation that you CAN control. It is hard to change jobs. However, the longer you put off starting the process, the longer you are allowing yourself to stay in a bad situation. It is sad to think you would give someone else such control over your life that you let yourself be abused. And the only one that can change something like that is YOU. The buck stops with you when it comes to who has control of your life.
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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You read my post ABSOLUTELY correct. Supervisors don't need my appreciation nor
do I need their's. We all just want to get paid if you are honest. I don't have time to worry if I am appreciated by MQ. I just want them to pay me for an honest day's work. I guess that shows they like me, they really, really like me. Talk is cheap. I get it all the time from MQ CEO/management, how much I am appreciated. I just want to paid for my time and don't want to hear all the talk. I mean who really cares. So if they appreciate me and don't pay me for my efforts, what do I do with this "appreciation"? Bank it?
Yeah, I'd have to let them start helping with the cooking to learn some appreciation (sm)
"Sounds mean but I came from a family of 7 that had only 1 income and we ate what was put on the table and if we complained too much then we had liver and spinach the next night. "
That's hilarious! Your parents were smart! I grew up the same way, except that spinach was one veggie we liked, and mom only made liver twice a year because she hated it herself.
There have been similar situations posted before.
I'd be looking for another job and if they owe you any money I'd start trying to get it. Send a certified letter, contact labor department, etc.
In true IC situations, the company CANNOT set your hours...
However, your contract can stipulate that you do a certain amount of work within a certain timeframe. They also can ASK you for a general idea of when you will be working, but they cannot make you/tell you that you have to be working certain hours. If they tell you when you have to work, you are not longer an INDEPENDENT contractor - "independent" being the keyword here. If they set the hours, you are an employee.
You seem like a person who can look ahead and do analysis of situations...
you definitely should take the at home job. You will make significantly more money as long as you actually are on the keyboard. I think it's a surprise sometime as to how much time is actually spent transcribing and how much is wandering around. If you time yourself at home, just to take the laundry out of the dryer can add up to 10 minutes in no time. So take that into consideration. You won't get paid for 8 hours - you'll only be paid when your fingers are actually making contact with the keyboard. Check your line production at work if you can to get an idea of how many lines you are actually cranking out in a day.
Now, that being said, you need to take a good long look at what is coming down the pike for MT. In all reality, MT is not going to last until you retire. Don't forget, what is left of MT is going to have to be either a) spread around amongst all of us or b) competed for by all of us. When there are more MT's than MT jobs, you can bet pay and working conditions is going to go down. So right now, while you have a job, you need to be thinking and planning where you are going to be when you lose your MT job and can't find another - or at least another that pays decent...Ask yourself, what would I do if next year I lose my job? and start exploring options that way. Me - I'm enrolled full time in nursing school for a BSN. I wasn't sure I could go back to school at 46, but I am and doing it quite successfully, no less. I still have at least 15 more years to work before retirement...so just plan ahead...
Did you ever notice how many real life situations (sm)
there are where you can say it reminds you of a Seinfeld episode?! I still watch reruns - never get sick of it.
Not all 8 cents a line situations are created equal sm
I am coming off a job using Extext and going into one using ChartNet. I have used Smart Type for over a decade and for Chartnet I have to go to Instant Text. I am able to do over 200 lines an hour after about a week at the new job. I will get to 300 again in a month or so. I say again because I have not done that much in a long time.
Extext...I loved it when I first used it, but after 18 months I can't get above 170 lph and that is with echoes and normals with lots of free lines, and that includes dozens of normals and report shells I have made myself. It won't get better and that is poor pay at the 8.5 cpl base rate, but then again I always have bonuses of a couple of kinds and shift differentials...but I can't do better than 1200 lines a day with any consistency, not in 8 hours a day.
I work a job in MedRite. Like Extext, it is a Word client and rather similar. Top rate for MedRite is close to 300 lines an hour on a horrid account with 80% PLUS ESLs. It is just a faster platform.
Enter ChartNet...never used it. Had to switch to Instant Text...never used it. I have been working about 5 days on it and I can do 200 lph and only one doctor so far who throws me for a loop when I can't do that. She is not an ESL, but a slurring motor mouth who skips around and forgets what she is doing on the phone in the first place.
The Extext work has been 90% OP notes, my specialty. The others are all the basic 4, and I have to say that I went from clinic for many years to OP notes, skipping the rest in between. I have very little experience in DS, CN and H&P notes, VERY little time with those. I'd be faster with them if I had done more of them before.
Part of speed is the expander, part is the platform and part is you. It doesn't matter how great you are as a typist and how perfect your expander, if the platform isn't very good you can't make money at any line rate. If the platform is good, but you are not Expander savvy, you won't you make it either. You can, however, be like me and a poor typist with a great expander and a decent platform...and STILL make money. LOL
In MY experience, the largest problem with making more money is the expander GLOSSARY, not which program you choose. I have heard some of the craziest stories about how to use an expander while on this board...ridiculous, wonky, time wasting, counter intuitive toro pu pu!!!! If you are struggling with an expander FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME. I am happy to spend my time helping anyone who will genuinely give my methods a shot.
How can you feel loyalty to a company that so clearly has no regard for a large portion of its MTs.
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Life's full of situations where you're backed into a corner
a winner thinks outside the box and takes a chance rather than be ASSURED of a life-time of misery.
You're the type of people who live in the same town their whole life even when there are no jobs and complain that they're unemployed.
Complacency will get you nowhere, neither will whining about having no money when there are other options but you refuse to look into them.
Your employer may be partially responsible for the trouble in your life right now but the only person keeping you in this mess is you.
Interesting! Fiber is used in constipation and diarrhea situations, which I always thought was
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Wow. After reading all of these sad situations and posts I actually feel pretty blessed. I did sm
Have my car repoed about 8 years ago and it was the most embarrassing moment of my life. I've since come out of a rut with me working and having a husband who works FT. We are blessed. We have definitely struggled with our bank acct. being overdrawn to the tune of 700.00 before, but we luckily came out of that and it only happened once. To everyone who is in a dire situation, may you find grace and peace in God. Believe in miracles. Don't give up. Good luck to you and I mean that in all sincerity.
Don't change. I had to change back to cable. SuddenLink DSL stinks! nm
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detrimenal impact on your life. Loyalty is gone. Almighty dollar has taken its place.
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Proof positive that an hourly rate would eliminate those types of situations.
Change provider vs change to business plan
In your place, I would seriously consider changing providers if there were others available in your area, but I'd ask around about their service quality first. It may not be any better. If there are no other providers, then consider changing your service package to a business account rather than residential. They're usually more expensive, but they also tend to get faster service if there's a problem.
Last summer, I had no electricity for 3 days due to severe storms, but there were some 600,000 in the same boat with me. We just had to wait it out. It's a downside of working at home.
change attitude, change life
The first thing you need to change is that defeatist attitude! I know that's hard at times like this, but that's when you need to most.
I won't go into detail, but my financial situation is also at an all-time low, we couldn't even exchange gifts., daughter in hospital twice, & no med insurance)..but then I heard about how much worse things were for others around me this season. Now I'm thankful instead!
Make money? I'm not making any money because of my decision. You read my reasoning
You can agree with me or not, but don't make false assumptions please.
You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
I also blew some money signing up with Quixtar... The only way to make any money is to bug everyone
you know into signing up. I felt like a snake oil huckster. I hated it. I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money.
RUN, do not walk away! I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!) Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing. Then make a business out of it. That's the best way to have a side business. Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar? Not so much.
The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
Yeah, money, that's it. I paid $20.00 for my dog. Money is NOT THE ISSUE
walk him daily, play ball daily, he sleeps in my office daily while I work. Yeah, I got a lot of money, NOT HARDLY. And, my dog is HORRIBLY HORRIBLY ABUSED because he wears a collar around his neck. It's people like you that make me sick. I am done defending my use of the shock collar. I am going to continue with it and my dog will continue to be pampered , educated, fed, kept warm, and love me for everything that I do for him even when I remind him that his barking needs to stop. So, with that said, I will not respond to any more of your CRAP in reference to the shock collar.
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