Well, yes, but then the quality of the offshore work (sm)

• What would happen if everyone who works (sm) - Food for thought
  • Does paying your bills rely on offshore? No. Easy - for you to say don't do it. nm
    • What? Not only easy, but I did it Still pay bills. - AG
  • I edit offshore, seen nothing makes me worried for - job. Qaulity I see is BAD & not getting better. nm
    • What I see makes me think US MT will eventually - come back strong. nm
      • you mean Quality? not qaulity - Northoftheborder
  • Offshored work - Mting
  • Too much work is sent offshore so if everyone - me
    • Well, yes, but then the quality of the offshore work (sm) - OP
  • I don't know because I'm not quitting because of that! - nm
    • So you are in favor of training them to take your job? - nm
      • Don't have to train them - they've already taken it - elizabeth
        • They haven't taken mine. - txmt
      • They cant take direction, make same mistakes over. - US MT edit is "cleaning up" US work. Differe
        • That's what I said - like a maid. - nm
          • Are you saying there should be no editing - of anything? nm
            • Many newbies and even oldies and VR - Americans only. - Of course not.
        • Differe = Difference? If you want to pay - my bills I will quit editing offshore. nm
          • You act like that's the only job out there. It's not, trust me. - nm
      • They'll NEVER learn the stuff I'm correcting - see msg
        • I would like to edit Indian work - SCMT
          • Then go ahead. Not me. - HA
          • A lot of MT companies do. I'm not giving any names. Check archives. - If you like being a maid and cleaning up people
            • That was supposed to say cleaning up people's messes. - P.S.
              • Always thought housekeeper good altern. for MT. - Good pay, set own hours, not share with IRS.
                • Oh, so you don't pay taxes? - NM
                  • Of course pay taxes now. Ever hear of 1099s? - or whatever they are called? nm
                  • I pay taxes now and take ALL deductions - I can. nm
                    • Can still do that and not help the Indians earn our money. - NM
                      • Taxes post made in reference to cleaning houses - and not sharing with IRS. nm
        • There are good companies that do not offshore -hopefully will never have to. - OP - I understand and agree, but
  • More food - Kathy

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I have emails raving about how good my work was.  The trouble came when I started asking questions about pay and complaining that she was sending me work when was convenient for her and not when I needed it.  She would stay up all night and then sleep a good part of the day.  I told her before I started that I wanted to work early mornings.  She said that was no problem whatsoever, BUT then I would see no work until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  She would promise me work and send it to me and it would be the wrong voice files, so I had to delete and start over.  She was SO disorganized.  She said that she has 50 happy transcriptionists and complained that I wanted some samples.  I did not know how she wanted things formatted.  It was just a mess.  The day she "fired" me (I have never been fired before in my life), I had basically told her that morning if things didn't change I wasn't typing another character. 

Of course she had 50 happy transcriptionists.  Her work was being subcontracted by a lady in Atlanta.  She didn't have contact with these transcriptionists.  There was a middle man.  I told her I could guarantee the lady in Atlanta provided her transcriptionists with some sort of guidance or samples.  The hospital system had some sort of weird thing in place where some places needed soft returns and some hard returns and she told me you couldn't mess with that but I was unclear on exactly what went where. 

I don't think I will ever work for a small company again. 

Anyway, I have drafted a demand letter which I intend to send Monday.  Someone below asked for the name of the company, and I would rather not say until this all pans out.  I will definitely post the name of the company eventually.  I just don't want her to know what my plans are at the present time.  I don't know if taking her to court will do any good, but it is worth it to make her miserable.  It is a 2 hour drive for me, but I called and I can file via the U.S. mail.  So it is only one trip.

Healthcare has expanded.  Offshoring is a way to have large volumes typed in a short amount of time.  Most offshoring is larger hospitals and institutions.  Your smaller practices stick with the smaller MTSOs or ICs.  Offshoring is not due to crappy MT work.  These posters with their greater than thou QA attitudes need to get over themselves.  QA is to assure the client receives an accurate document. 

I just heard of an institution that I worked for when with a company that offshores.  The reports are horrible with a lot of blanks being sent back to the client.  So tell me, how is their QA?  Notsogood!!!  LOL  QA is a short sell.  It sounds good in the contract.  Your reports will be QA'd, bunch a bologna.  Oh palleezzz!!  Get over it already.  I highly doubt there are physicians sitting around saying "Hmmm, this American MT really stinks and leaves a lot of blanks, I think I send my work to India..."  Yeah, I'm so sure! 

concerned that by doing this, you are helping yourself out of a job?  What if these companies hire nothing but Indian transcriptionists because they are so cheap.  Won't that put all of us out of jobs eventually?  or am I just being dense.  My company recently asked me if I would "edit"  (aka "train"), and I refused. 

All anyone worries about is quantity.  The work is terrible and the only time anyone even acknowledges it is when a doctor is being sued.   When my son was operated on I had to marked his leg in permanent marker before surgery because left/right get mixed up so much.  You can tell reports that comes from India and my supervisor sits there and laughs with us.  Due to the "freeze" we haven't had raises in over 5 years.  

I maintain 99% accuracy above on my reports.  However, the original question was regarding personal preference, and I have stated mine, and I respect your opinion as well.  :-)    I do think if I was working in an office or hospital setting, the setup you mentioned might be more profitable in the long run.  There are too many interruptions and such when you have other people running in and out, phones ringing, etc. 

I doubt that anyone but me really cares about the lines per hour it takes for me to do a report.  They just want an accurate report in a timely manner.  I take pride in my work, and would never just slop something out for the sake of the almighty buck.   And, as an added incentive, I work for 2 companies, and one of them has my name on each report.  I don't have a problem with it, but I did think it was a bit unusual at first.

Oh well ... I must confess that what I'd TRULY like is to be paid lots of money to just sit and play Battle Phlinx on Pogo all day long, but as of yet, no such luck.  

Thank you. 

Goldbird

How good is the quality of the performance of your managers or the guys at the top?   Anybody want to evaluate that?   Can they get their raises based on our evaluation of their quality?  

Let's see now.  Which CEOs were named in lawsuit?  F for quality.  How many managers do we need to give us stupid pep talks?   F for managers.  QA this post MQ and all other nationals who decide they reward us on "quality"   Look in the mirror and fix yourself.

Quality is quality whether an employee or not.

pretty bad overall--even the Americans.  I would say with most national services, the accounts are about 75% ESL (30% terrible ESL), 20% fast Americans who don't care and 5% really good gravy dictators.

This is for acute care dictation--large hospitals.  Another problem is there are so many dictators in 1 facility that you hardly ever get the same ones day after day.