The standard line the office gives me -grrr
Posted By: IC MT on 2008-06-06
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Whenever I run out of work, I call the office. It's a waste of time. They have a standard answer which is "umm, umm, let me check, um, can you check back later in an hour?" Which later became "um, um, let me check, um can you check back in two hours?" If there is no work, can they not just say it's slow or there will likely not be much work today? I find this insulting. I never know how to respond since I can't really say to them "Liar, liar...." Lol. What would a better response be? I have stopped calling now. It's frustrating!
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Yes, 65-character line is standard. You
were lucky if being paid by the line still, including blank lines.
Line padding is not using standard abbreviations and
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not OP, but what is standard font for gross line that most are using? sm
how would you go about it if the acct suddenly decreased font size from 12 to 10, but expects to pay the same? to me it is kinda like a decrease in my pay!!!! well it is technically because i am doing the same amount of work for less money and i am not happy.
On-line office Nuisance
 There are on-line co-workers that are also a huge nuisance to a hard-working MT. I used to work for a smaller MTSO and we used IM to communicate. There was a real pain in the buttock on the same account that I was on. She never worked much, just pleasured herself by flooding my screen with IMs day and night. It drove me nuts, but I "put up" with it because I loved my doctors. I would hide on IM, still she continued to disrupt me. The IMs weren't even work related 90% of the time. Mostly I heard stories about her family -- like I cared and lie after lie about how her children were sick every other day. You name it -- they got it and I ended up typing her files. The money was good -- when I got paid on time, but the stress just not worth it in the end. I completely understand co-worker frustration. Working from home does not always solve the problem. I actually had less co-worker crap in the office. LOL
Grrr...cherrypickers
I am so SICK of cherrypicking. I just got a HUGE job in my queue by the worst author on my account, which, conveniently, had been skipped by everybody else working today, leaving me, apparently the only person with a conscience, to slog through this crap. I just don't understand the mindset of the cherrypicker. I would be wracked with guilt if I took all the good work and left the bad for everyone else. If anyone reading this is a cherrypicker, you are a thief. You are a selfish, pathetic, disgusting thief, and I hope someday you get what's coming to you.
Isn't that aggravating...grrr sm
 We had a very persistent ex-nurse at my old job who wanted to do transcription. She kept pestering my boss for an interview and testing. When it came to the testing part, she found out it was not so easy and finally quit pestering our department for a job.
grrr - more confusion
I tried calling HP and they recommended Word Office Suite 2007 (another $400) - but I think I read somewhere that 2007 is not compatible... ?? and that Transcriptionists are going with Word 2003 ??
My favorite speciality is the office who dictates it and pays the highest line rate.
It's the money, honey, that matters to me.
Grrr! I just had a doc who spelled the abbreviations!
COPD, that's captial C, capital O, capital P, captial D. LAD, capital L, capital A, capital D.
Plus...
Patient has been in drug recovery - that's R-E-C-O-V-E-R-Y
Really? I did not know that. Thanks so much.
Grrr...not only do I hate transcribing for NPs
I am getting to where I just can't stand the THOUGHT of doing this at all for 11 more years (unless I hit the lotto or by some other miracle my mortgage gets paid). I am terribly burned out and broke, to boot. There will probably be no MT industry in a lot less than 11 years anyway, so what am I so worried about? The decision will be made for me. There HAS to be a better way to pay the bills.
Yup, and hate regular phone calls like that, too. Grrr....nm
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exact same thing, like excruciating to extremely grrr
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Off in the head, maybe - took 150 minutes. Grrr. Didn't want it. Couldn't turn it down. nm
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Have most people had good luck with their MQ office closing and moving to the regional office. Have
things gotten better or worse for you.
Yes, I lost mine. I upgraded the Office 2000 package to Office 2003. sm
I have over 2000 autocorrect entries and lost them all as well as my supplemental dictionary for my Stedman's spellcheck. Lots of grief!
Maybe you will be lucky and not lose anything. Good luck to you.
Might be able to rent one from an office supply or office machine repair shop
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I gave a tin of toffee for each office and a Lia Sophia necklace to each office manager. ~nm~
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I gave a tin of toffee for each office and a Lia Sophia necklace to each office manager. ~nm~
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Office politics. That is why I enjoy working at home. In the office,
people are in other people business. Just mind your own business.
Can anyone suggest an office in MQ that is not run like this Amherst office. They are absolutely
pathetic. I wonder how many other MTs are in that office in the same situation.
Just DQS from my office was transferred and the rest are getting on DQS before the office closes.
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Pay kids work around office, renovate office.
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A gross line is anything on a line is a line. A line set at 65 characters means it sm
has 1-inch margins on each side. The maximum number of characters on that line would be 65 and that includes spaces. If there is 1 character on that line it is a line.
A standard 65-character line usually consists of 65 characters with spaces unless, of course, the employer does not pay for spaces and then it would be 65-characters without spaces.
Office 2003 so far, but going to Office 2007 as soon as I can. nm
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Anything on the line makes up a line even if just one letter or number. Every line of print is a
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Gross line = each line on page counts as a line, even if it's only 1 word. nm
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There is no standard and most of us are not
privy to that information.
There is no standard.
It will depend on how much experience you have and how well you are doing with the work. My first company kept me on QA for 6 weeks, although they typically kept new MTs on QA for the first 12. My second company kept me on QA for 2 days, and for my current company I sent 3 reports through QA and then was released.
Definitely not the standard. I would not
work anywhere where I had to pay to use their software. Keep looking, there are good jobs out there.
the pay seemed standard
BUT good luck getting on. I was hired, given a start date, and 3 weeks later finally quit because I had 3 different people asking for the exact same paperwork that had been sent.
Me too. It's always been the standard for a
reason, because it makes it easier to read. It's a crock & I don't plan to quit putting 2 spaces after a period.
Unfortunately, this is the standard.
If 4 cpl is the VR rate, then you are getting paid, but if they had stated a certain number of hours or days for training pay, then you should receive that amount specified as training pay. If they simply said you're paid for training, that could very well mean that you will be paid your training rate for your 1.5 hours of training. What company is it?
these tests are standard for this age and despite what sm
poster below said; they are usually done with routine pap smears and sometimes no mention is ever made from doc about what they are doing. fight ins company.
That's kind of standard, isn't it? I mean (SM)
every hospital and every MT company I've ever worked for, to be a full-time employee you had to account for 40 hours a week, either by working it, or taking PTO, unless you were covered under FMLA.
I think sometimes we expect even more flexibility working from home and forget the fact that working from home IS flexibility -- not having to go into the office, being in the comfort of our home (if we want our children or family around us, that is our option--not so in an office), etc.
The 40-hour expectation is very standard, in my experience. You have PTO to use for when you cannot make up your absence. My guess is they will offer more PTO with this new plan coming up.
Try not to panic or be upset. No one knows what the new plan will be. We will each have to decide if the new plan is what we need or not. If it isn't, thank goodness there are other companies to work for out there.
Please try to relax.
Wow. That's quite contrary to the standard.
Usually, 32 hours is part-time and 37 starts full-time.
You've been quite fortunate!
I HAVE to get to work now. I don't wanna. LOL I'd rather stay and play! LOL
I think the standard now is use numbers (6)
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I only took the standard deductions
and it still happened to me. What I couldn't understand was that I was supposed to be in a less likely audit bracket because that year I was an employee, an IC and an SE. (they were trying to see if I met employee status on my SE account).
Isn't the standard deduction much more than $2K? nm
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Double standard
So we expect MDs to always have their complete attention on every word out of their mouths, which would be nice, but some of them put in 70 or more hours a week at the office/hospital, and have mountains of dictation to complete each week. But we expect them to never make a misspeak, even though on these boards we have a heart attack if one poster points out another poster's spelling or grammar error. Never mind that we are supposed to be better at English than the MDs, but we don't have to use our skills in writing posts (which is MUCH easier to do well than never making a misspeak), even if the post has to do with getting a job. That's quite a double standard, if you ask me.
What is the industry standard...sm
Tried to post this on Wednesday, will try again...I need to know what is the industry standard conversion for minutes dictated to minutes typed? Not how much do you do - but what is average for one hour dictation - how many hours typed. Bosses think we're taking too long but we do not get automatic demographics and need to look on log sheets (if they arrive and if they're correct) for everything from patient name to referring doctors, addresses, patient #'s, etc. So I need to give him an "average" number of hours dictated equal "X" amount of hours typed taking into consideration the lack of information, the searching we must do and the various typing speeds. I'm not going to "judge" anyone's advice - just need some input from those that have been there. Thanks for sharing.
AAMT is only the standard on
That account would be the one I type online. The other accounts, that are much more profitable than the typing I do online could give a rat's crap whether I'm certified. They think I'm great, and they pay me for it. No QA (don't need it), and my TAT is great. I'm very reliable, accountable, and have a lot of social grace. Not a machine here.... typing out those lines for the almight online MTSO's. Just type for one, and thank goodness they are fair, and I don't feel like I'm "doin' time". I get raises, and they don't hassle me all day through IM or nitpicky QA issues. Spent 1-3 days in QA when I first started, and now whatever they give me, I type, and do not require QA. 
There is a standard scale!
I know this is an old post, but I just ran across it. There absolutely is a standard scale. The AAMT website has it under an article titled Metrics for Measuring Quality in Medical Transcription (2005). I wish I could give you the exact page, but I only have the .pdf of that article - but it was only downloaded last week, so it'll still be there. 
That's not a standard description, so
you can only be sure by asking the person who used it.
Industry Standard for VR Pay?
What is the industry standard for VR pay? Specifically for someone just starting out.
Agreed, standard set, so
who would that be? When can we start? Who wants to help? What about a committe appointed and administered through a university with Merriam-Webster, Stedmans, NIH, etc. on the committee. I once met the man (on the phone) who started Sno-Med. Wish I could find his phone number. Maybe he could help us all. All this middle-man stuff and uncertainty has to stop. Thanks for your post.
yea but it is industry standard!
and also as i put in my email to my doc... the templates and macros BENEFIT YOU!
The old standard used to be three times the sm
length of the dictation is the typing time so 30 minutes would be 90 minutes. I'm not sure with Expander programs on one end and then horrible ESL and sometimes horrible audio - what the "standard" is now - I definitely struggle with it though :)
What is the difference between PRO and Standard?
Standard is to allow 3 to 5 minutes of
transcription time per 1 minute of dictation.
Your standard deduction -
Do you have other things to count such as mortgage interest, etc? If you don't, then yes, your standard deduction would be the better deal.
I just finished a personal income tax preparation class in my accounting program in college. I always thought I was doing something with those deductions too until I took this class. Went back and looked at my old returns and lo and behold, always just took the standard deduction.
Personally, I am just upset that I took so much time keeping up with all those receipts and so forth!!!
is the standard for medical transcription. nt
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