What do you think your company will give you for Christmas: (Survey, I guess, LOL)

• What do you think your company will give you for Christmas: (Survey, I guess, LOL) - ok, that time of year
  • Mine came in the mail today... - ME2
  • Ha Ha Ha! How funny you are!! Three accounts. - No appreciation.
  • No x-mas gift - Sandy
  • The company I contract with always sends something.... - jus me
  • They give me plenty of work everyday, so I sent a - ETMT
  • Nada! My work and paycheck are enough! - Appreciative MT
    • You're lucky. I get lots of work but have - trouble collecting my check. Ready to dump 'em
      • We need to know the names of these companies. - sm
  • We always get something for Christmas and MT Week sm - KS MT
  • I really don't know but the best gift I could get is what I have now and that is 2 of the most te - Blessed
    • Mind sharing the names of the 2 companies? - nm
  • Christmas bonus - Patti
    • Just curious what state you are in?sm - AzMT
  • $100 bonus 3 years running - guess I will see soon if it is still the case. - nm - xxx
  • Have gotten as much as $3,000 in the past. - Ellen S.
  • The Stedmans Word of the Day calendar. - I like it.
    • What a GREAT idea! Good for your company. nm - The gift that keeps on giving., and it benefits th
  • $100 and letter of appreciation - wispy
    • My boss routinely gets drunk during holidays and fires - oh, you too
      • Boss? - Wow
        • Her hinchman calls and tries to convince you that she really does not mean it. - NO
          • henchman...maybe I've been misspelling...lol - hinchman? thought it was....nm
          • She will be dead from cirrhosis in a few years probably then - nm - xxx
  • We got a free turkey,which I donated to charity. I can afford a turkey, - somebody else may not be able to. nm
  • Years ago, I used to get a $25 gift card from the hospital I worked for. - diddly
  • Already know - sm - passing through
    • At least it is something useful. You could always - me
      • Do they give them MTs anything for Christmas? - New to MDI
        • Sorry.. duh.. long long day. I mean THEIR MTs.. - New to MDI

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Do you have a favorite you went to?  I'd like this to be a positive thread, fond memories, that sort of thing.

I worked for a very large hospital for about 4 years.  Every year at Christmas, the company party was in the cafeteria (a huge, monstrous cafeteria and half of it was curtained/walled off for our party).  The party was during an entire 24-hour period on 2 different days.  We could sign up for 4 hours time (paid) to go in groups to the party during our shifts.  When we got down there, after showing our badge, the CEO would hand us a crisp new 100-dollar bill.  They would have tables and tables of all kinds of fantastic snack/finger foods and desserts.  The TVs were showing videos that were scanning the crowd the whole time.  There was a band that played some and upper management would put on silly plays, sometimes children's groups would come sing.  We really had a good time.  Everyone got to enjoy the party.  We went home with an extra $100 in our pockets.  Enjoyed good food and entertainment and got paid for it!  Then we were worthless the rest of the day in the office, hahaha, while we continued to snack on all the dozens of goodies that clinics and offices had sent to the us, the transcription department.  :)

Now, we don't get THAT working from home, huh?!  Hahahaa 

require you to produce a certain amount of lines, but then only pay you for the lines?  My personal opinion is that we need to redefine this whole production pay thing because the MTs are getting screwed in the deal.  If we are paid on production, then we should be able to produce the minimum and then our work day is done unless we choose to work the entire 8 hours.  If they want us on the system for 8 hours a day, then they should pay us hourly plus incentive line rates.

I personally think that companies should pay all MTs a base hourly pay, like say $12 per hour and then 5 cpl on top of that or something to that effect.  Or say $12 an hour and you have to produce at least 1000 in an 8 hour period and anything above 1000 in that 8 hour period you get an extra cpl rate as incentive.  I would be working my tail feathers off if I was offered that.

Could anyone tell me if they are an IC or an employee and who they work for?  I am trying to find out if I should change all of our IC's to employees or not.  Also, could you tell me which one you like better?

Thanks

I hope I posted this in the right spot! Kind of new to this forum, especially with posting messages.  I downloaded a medical transcription survey from 2007 from the MTIA web site which I thought was very interesting and would like to share it with you all if you have not read it.

I loved the summary point stating "Doctors do not generate revenue, documents do. Accurate and complete healthcare documents are essential to a doctor's and institution's revenue cycle."

I remain hopeful and optimistic that in the future that we will once again be recognized for how important our jobs really are.  All of us can go out and get ourselves a medical secretarial position or other positions in the medical field, but it takes a special talent to do the job we do, and I think many people who think our jobs are not worth the money we deserve, possibly can't do OUR jobs.

This is the link and if it does not work, go to the MTIA.com web site, search under press releases and it is the Bentley MT survey for 2007. Hope you find it interesting.

http://www.mtia.com/Downloads/MTSurveyReport-Preliminary.pdf

Do you believe that:

A:  Poverty is mostly the result of poor choices in life, either by yourself or by your parents and grandparents before you, thereby setting up the vicious cycle.  Early parenthood, out-of-wedlock births, no father in the home, recycled boyfriends in and out of a home, lack of early childhood stimulation with books/toys, lack of routine and academic expectations, etc. 

OR

B:  Poverty is societal.  Poor people have no choices in America and no real opportunity or ability to raise themselves out of poverty.  The way to end poverty is to increase social programs until people are not living in poverty anymore.  Poverty is societies fault and the government's fault and therefore theirs to fix.

Which is preferred, Notebook or Desktop for working 8+ hours per day doing MT?  Any specifics you'd like to share about processor/memory would be helpful.  Upgrading my computer and deciding which would work best for me.

I have the opportunity this spring and summer to speak to MTs and business owners in various parts of the country, and one of the topics I'll be discussing is voice recognition editing.  After working with it for a year, I have my own opinions on the subject, but I'm hoping to collect information from other MTs who have been performing both editing and traditional transcription for the past 6 months or longer.  Your participation would be greatly appreciated.

The link to the survey is: http://www.webstream.us/survey/index.php?sid=1

Jay

asking about how MQ can do better.  We got a letter telling us the findings 9 months later and on it apparently lots of MTs beitched about no pay increase and they are looking into it.  That was 3 months ago. 

MQ is too busy plotting and planning how to rip off the clients and MTs to be bothered with the current problems.  They have a bazillion managers but no one seems to be able to keep the simplest things done on a timely basis. 

do what is right.  If she fails to do what is right, then go about this in an adult way and not act like such a child.  "you suck"  That is so immature.

She is responding to you and you are eating her alive.  Why would she put herself out there to be treated like this if she didnt mean it. 

I am really astonished at how people can act on here.  Would you treat people like this in person?  If you do, I cant imagine you having very many friends. 

Remember we are all "HUMAN."