TOTALLY AGREE

Yes, you are right. I dont know if there is a place out there that truly cares about anything other than the bottom line. They forget that without us typing, they would not make money either. They promise the world and deliver nothing even close, then have the nerve to get upset when they cant get good help. The old saying YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR is so true in this case!!! I'm looking for my own accts, I have had it with trying to please people who have proven to be not worthy of pleasing, or even of trust!

• Are there any good MTs left?? - Frustrated
  • Gee, I wonder... - MT in CO
    • yes - Yankee
  • I feel your frustration - Cindy
  • Yeah, and all that for only - Getting out of MT
    • agree - RS
    • Getting out of MT, I have left MT - maxine
      • yep! - manny ramirez's girl
  • Any good MTs left - Sher
  • Here is a good one right here... - mttor
    • That sounds all good, but none of us are - perfect even if you think you are. sm
      • She never said she had no life outside of MT, and it was rude of you to say that. nm - vb89
        • What success...she is a lazy, rich HOUSEWIFE..sounds like the - LC
    • "I am not in this to make...my husband does" - Hayseed
      • You go Hayseed! - MSMT
  • MTs versus MTSO - manny Ramirez's girl
  • Just let me say this.........sm - Hardworking-MTIC
    • Totally agree with you. nm - Fossil
  • What happent to the MTSO that pays what a good MT is worth. - MT in MT
  • are you checking references? - posted by good MT fading awaw....no message
  • The short and sweet of it, you get what you pay for. - nm
  • I consider myself a good MT, can I give you my side? - sm
  • We DO exist, really we do!! - see msg
  • I hear ya, - sm
    • rat's patootie - AnnieM!AnnieM!
      • I believe it's Auntie Em (as in Emily or Emma) - nm
        • Nooooo...... - AnnieM!AnnieM!
          • My New York relatives used to rag on me: - Hayseed
            • Toothless in NY - AnnieM!AnnieM!
              • As a total aside to this thread here... - Hayseed
                • Hey Hayseed - sm
                  • Ugh, after reading about the "deep cleaning"... - Hayseed
                    • A word about teeth--sm - nn
                    • There are still some dentists that do "sedation dentistry" - mdlfcrs
      • LOL - sm
    • TOTALLY AGREE - old schooler
    • Touché! - Frustrated
    • Well said..... - lb
      • Glad someone finally said it - taxydeer
  • What are you paying your MTs? If you're only paying 7 or 8 cpl - SM
    • I have only said these same words for the last - year!! I'm quite tired of hearing
    • HERE, HERE - Linda
  • I hear you loud and clear! sm - Anon MTSO
    • Be careful in your wording. Wannabe's? If you're referring to new MTs, then say so. It's - demeaning to refer otherwise. Moderator nm
      • Dear Moderator, the wording is what it is. sm - Anon MTSO
        • Transcribe your own work and stop trying to - run an MTSO using subs. There's your answer.
        • And will you admit there are plenty of wannabe service owners also? - nm
          • Using the term wannabe is still disrespectful. Please refrain from using - it on this site. Thank you. Administrator nm
            • Could you please explain why you find this term so offensive? - Animal Freak
            • Oh, and Squid JR is not disrespectful? And, no, I don't work for them. - nm
              • Where is that posted? If you see something disrespectful, REPORT IT! Each - post has a link you can (sm) Administrator
                • I'll find it and let you know. I was beginning to think this was all about - slamming the MTSO. nm
                  • Interesting. OP wonders what happened to all the good MTs and - sm
  • Please tell me you are worth working for. That you don't throw - all ESL dictators at us, that you (sm)
    • or this one is my fave tons of work.. - anon
    • Please tell me you are worth.... - EH

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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!

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.

I used to be married to a hunter.  The whole idea felt wrong to me and I hate guns. I haven't had to deal with hunting or guns for 20 years now.

I'm sure I will get blasted by some NRA people for saying I hate guns, but oh well.

Your 16 years of experience has obviously not taught you that there are many different situations in this field that make switching from account to account very difficult.  As the previous poster stated, specifics for accounts can involve much more than formatting, oftentimes involving individual physician specifics, just one point that makes your "docs are docs are docs" theory ridiculous.  Multiply this by 5 or 6 accounts, each having totally different platforms, 50 doctors dictating, half of which are ESL's.  You stated "As an MT you should be able to transcribe any doc out there".  Really?  I would love to test you on a 45 minute arterial bypass graft report transcribed by a doctor right off the boat from Turkey.  Your holier than thou attitude is ignorant, insulting and argumentative. 

When my adult children are here, I feel a need to stop working for short periods of time to go to the mailbox, cook, take out the garbage, etc.  An MT is out his/her best when we hit that "flow"...you know when your fingers are flying in sync and your voice player is on above 100%...but you need to stay in the flow.

When I was on an acute care account, I also did voice recognition and dictated what I was hearing in my headset to save my fingers with a better line count than by using my fingers (never got above 350 with voice, though, as I left the account before I could get higher BUT I was doing this for more than 50 docs).

Having an ergonomic environment does contribute to better productivity as your hands, back, legs, everything feels better and it is easier to get into your flow.  After 25 years of keyboarding, I only have tired muscles in my hands but no symptoms of carpal tunnel (TYG).  I really do encourage people to take advantage of abbreviation Expanders if for no reason other than to save their hands so they can still open jars when they are still in their 50s. 

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I'm having a difficult time with a new account.  There are many things that are being changed when I know I'm right.  I even reasearch and can verify why I do what I do.

What would you do in this situation?  I'm going crazy.  I'm having a hard time because I can't do something I know isn't correct regarding grammer, medical term spelling, etc.

Help...I'm so frustrated.

Just a short story to share with you....The other day I picked up 6 tapes to transcribe.  All the tapes *looked* like there was plenty of work on them.  Two tapes I had to listen through both sides (took about 1-1/2 hours) because THEY WERE COMPLETELY EMPTY.  I called the one office these 2 tapes came from and jokingly threatened that I will have to start charging for TIME.  I spoke to the doctor personally who claims he didn't let the tapes run.  I didn't believe him at first but then after the call, I realized whoever changed the tapes out (that would NOT have been him) probably accidentally hit the PLAY button on both occasions, so the tapes ran almost to the end of side A. 

I have been in this business for close to 30 years and have heard many MDs going to the bathroom, chewing gum or eating food, entire phone calls heard on the tapes, entire discussions with the patient(s) on the tapes, driving and dictating (where all you hear is the traffic), walking and dictating either through the halls of the buildings or around their homes, DOGS BARKING incessantly in the background, and then the worst, the absolute worst in my mind is MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND which comes through very loud, louder than the dictator.

So, like I said - all this stuff is common even though we DETEST all that.

Have a great day! 

AND since when does a company only charge 12 cpl?  Yeah right.  4 cpl is not fair.  Most companies put every incoming person on full QA for a short amount of time anyway no matter what simply to make sure you are doing the work their way.  Even as a newbie, I wouldn't take less than 7 cpl and there is no way on this earth I would ever consider that now. 

What is unfortunate is that all the newbies have the AAMT CMT stuff shoved down their throats from day one.  Plus I see on all these message boards how hard it is to get your first job.  I know when I started, I was mortified.  I didn't think I would ever work, but creativity goes a long way and I had a job in less than a month with a great wage of 10 cpl that I negotiated for.  I never, ever take the first offer and I always stick firm to what my decided bottom line is which is based on what I want to make. 

QA is no excuse to pay someone next to nothing.  And you know what, if all of us joned together and decided not to work for those wages AND also refused to go to physicians who off-shore their back office work, we could come a long way.  There are a lot of us in the industry, and this would take us a long way to getting where we want to be.  It took me a little while longer to find a pcp, but it was worth it to me.  Besides the look on their faces when I asked how their transcription was handled was priceless.  :)