They do not need your SS# unless you are hired.

• Very strange - Siren
  • Several reasons ... sm - JMO
    • That is a lot of man hours of investigation - Ditto
  • SS# - Some big nationals request that too!
  • They do not need your SS# unless you are hired. - Don't give it.
    • That's what - Siren
      • They don't be needin' to ask our AGE, either! -nm - Flibertygibbit
        • Flibertygibbit - Siren
          • I still have the b-days, but I'm counting - backwards! So I'm about *35* . Flibertygibbi

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I must say I am very happy and I think other SE's will be, as well!!

I hired in at 9 cpl and can earn up to 2 cpl in incentive on every line I type!  I'm excited!  I can hardly wait to get started!!  Though I am only obligated to do 6000 lines in a payperiod, if I type 16,000 lines in the payperiod I get my extra 2 cpl and that makes for $1760 just for that!  I think that is pretty good.

My training is next week and I hope to be able to reach that with my first check!!

If all would please be calm, I'm sure that the new SE pay/incentive plan will soon get out there!!!  You'll be very pleased! 

My QA goes 99-100%; yet, I can still get 'ugly' comments from QA after 14 years on the job (only on certain accounts, because my QA is AWEsome on my primary). 

There is constructive criticism, and then there is the attitude I have personally experienced by QA of thinking they are in some elite group and that they are better than everybody...making nasty little digs and extremely unnnecessary comments.  Those personal comments are not professional, period. 

This does not sound like you, and not even most QA, but there are those few QA people, in my opinion, whose comments can be downright disparaging, condescending, and sometimes even sadistic. 

It is like doctors, almost, you know - how they seem to live in a world of their own and forgot how to deal with people as 'people' after a while? 

I keep saying this, but rather than degrade people, there should be more education for people whose skills are not up to par, and my biggest complaint, how are these people getting hired.  Perhaps recruiters need to get more input from QA, or QA should be involved in hiring. 

One more thing:  For QA who edit off-shore MTs (my apologies to you up-front, if you do not, but to make a point here), I have seen some pretty hideous reports from overseas; yet, never hear QA complain too much, or make rude comments to or about those MTs individually. 

For those 'lazy' MTs you call them, perhaps that is why you have a job.  If everyone was perfect, there would be no need for QA.  You make more than MTs, right? 

Also, it is always easier to read along with a report and see mistakes.  Heck, I even find typos QA people make, and even in formal letters I get from MQ, etc.  (There is even an error in Dorland's, haha). 

This is only my opinion, as I do not see how many of these so-called 'lazy' MTs even get past the testing stage. 

As far as being for the ''good of the patient," as I have heard before, if we were doing what was good for the patient, well, I could on about that one (smile).  Insurance companies and CEOs of hospitals do not seem to care much about the patients, because if they did, they would not be discharging before they are even well or healed, just to save a buck.  They would  not be outsourcing overseas, just to save a buck...

that says you agree to pay for return shipping when you leave, then the company is responsible.  If you don't have your original hire paperwork, ask them for a return shipping label.  If they say you agreed to pay for it, ask them to send you a copy of the signed agreement.  Make sure you save all correspondence.

there have been a lot of changes.  I emailed you and you did not respond so I now wonder if you aren't just trying to flame ETP.  With due respect, if you are meeting the guidelines for qualifying for benefits and after 9 months you aren't getting them, it makes me wonder why they wouldn't give them to you especially since you did not get a bonus.  They only gave bonuses to people who qualified for them.  They gave you the criteria to earn the bonus so you could keep track for yourself of every level that would earn your bonus.  You can always call HR.  Heck they even have an open door policy so you can email any of the head honchos.

If it were me and I knew honestly that insurance was a benefit I wanted and did not have, I would never wait 9 months to find out what the problem was.

d~

MT schooling, though had LPN training.   The first report I transcribed was what was considered the worst dictator on the account and I had 2 blanks.  The MTSO apologized for giving me that dictator, but she had to pick her jaw off the floor after she did QA on it and saw how well I did. 

I have had a love of anything medical-related since I was about 12.  I used to read Gray's Anatomy for fun.   I just had a natural aptitude.   I was only doing about 600 lines a day and that was w/o an expander/macros.

Three doctors refuse to type into the EMR's -- they are older but there are still some out there.  So just got hired to do it for them.   This is the second time I have been hired to do this.   Takes a little longer and charge by hour and not line, but still a job and keeps me current on the new technology. 

Hi Rae,

The company I work for hired 20 graduates all at one time from Med Workshops and they did well.  This was about 1-1/2 yrs ago.

We contracted with Med Workshops to provide the graduates based on parameters we were looking for.  Because our Company spelled out the training, it was hard to go wrong.  Students got a break on the normal tuition costs.

I understand they are a medical transcription staffing school; the only one I know of.

You are supposed to pull a rabbit out of your friggin hat! Yes, certified magician Transcriptionist s/b next to your name! It's frustrating when QA gets mad at you for not being able to figure it out and leave too many blanks, and when you ask if someone can talk to the doc, forget it.

I don't have to own a computer, don't have to update a computer, keep paying for equipment upgrades, virus protection, pay for internet.

I will have health insurance, holidays, PTO, retirement,

WORKMANS COMP!

I have worked for M!Q for 6 years with them never giving

an iota more.  I have 20+ years of acute care experience.

What does this say for medical transcription??????????

It says I can be an idiot ...holding a SLOW/STOP sign and otherwise

sitting on my arse and make more money and have benefits than knowing the equivalent

of a first year resident and typing my brains out for a company who is

making zillions off my back.  MQ has done this to me....

My head hurts!  My pocketbook hurts.  You know what is unbelievable, they

don't even try to compromise.  They act as if they are the only game in the

world.   Frankly I don't think people can survive on the money they are willing to

pay for ANY of the work they are offering any more.  Let them eat cake.

buh bye 

What comes with that is that sometimes there is no work. The people who were NOT hired for a specific shift don't have to "save" work for you. They shouldn't have to.

No, I don't sit for 40 hours and then do another 20, but as an IC, if I needed money, this is exactly how I'd get it.

What you do

What comes with that is that sometimes there is no work. The people who were NOT hired for a specific shift don't have to "save" work for you. They shouldn't have to.

No, I don't sit for 40 hours and then do another 20, but as an IC, if I needed money, this is exactly how I'd get it.

What you do with

Kinda curious what the consensus would be on this issue.  If an MT is hired for acute care,  why would you find 99.9% of your queue full of ED/ER job types?  Is this not a bait and switch technique?  Trying to get people in the door with lots of experience and then give them whatever is convenient for them.  This just doesn't seem right to me.  Upon inquiring why this was happening, as this was not what I was being hired to do, they dismissed the issue without a plausible explanation as if it didn't matter or it shouldn't matter like I was being annoying to them. 

Well, it is a tad annoying to me.  How would you deal with this?  Put up and shut up or get out?

I thought acute care MTs were hard to find with 20+ years experience and usually on the job boards all you see is acute care needed. 

what the doctor dictates.  We can't be expected to have to catch their mistakes - they're supposed to catch their own.  That's why they're being paid the big bucks and we're note.  Years back, we weren't expected to know all this stuff -- the meaning of every word we transcribed, the normal/abnormal lab values, what a particular drug is used for, and I could go on and on, and we were paid better, appreciated more & respected more.

I do agree that we must know how to spell medical words and words of English usage.  That's what they get for their 7-8-8.5 cents per line.  I do NOT believe that we should have to look up doctor's names, on our time, when the dictator has it right in front of him/her and would take him/her only 2-3 seconds to spell it, thus also avoiding any confusion.  But I guess that would be too easy.

I didn't always feel this way.  Years back, when I was treated as a professional and compensated accordingly, I performed as such.  If I want to flag a doc's mistake, I do it for the PATIENT'S sake (but for the grace of God it could be me or a loved one lying in that hospital bed) - and as a courtesy to the doctor.  But they really expect too much for too little.