Yes, small company wanted to charge me
Posted By: LRS on 2008-05-01
In Reply to: MTSO's charging ICs for use of platform? - Chris
$50. a month for 5 or 6 months to cover cost of software licensing fees. I would have taken the job if not for that major glitch.
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Audio hour charge - what is fair rate to charge company?
I got mine on Ebay because I needed Windows XP on it and NOT Vista. They wanted to charge me almost
it with Windows XP. So I saved money and did Ebay.
Company wanted
Now THAT'S what I'M talkin' about! There was a time when workers/employees could actually influence, shape and at times, tip that balance you so eloquently satirized. Ladies and gentlemen. It would help us to realize that our issues are indeed political issues.
You want to take back your job and get the respect you deserve? Take back our country first. Participate in the process. Don't wait until next summer. It is never too early to activate a political agenda. It does not only belong to us. It is the same agenda of those whose jobs have been or are going to be outsourced, a number of Americans that is expanding exponentially from what I understand. It is the issue of hard-working folks that do not have medical insurance or other benefits that were commonplace only a few short decades ago. It is the agenda of anyone who expects a living wage or better for an honest day's work and the ability to have, raise and educate their childern. It is for any person who believes profit and prosperity are not the same and that neither arises out of exploitation or oppression, be it in the work force, undocumented immigrants, sweat shop workers overseas who our corporations engage and with whom we are replaced, not even the refugees, survivors, casualties and other such collateral damage our war produces.
Look around. Surely you will find agendas and their supporters with ease and in large numbers. Speak out loudly and listen attentively. Go to the polls next year as an educated voter and do what you believe is the right thing to do. Keep trying until we get it right.
Company wanted
Awsome!!!! :)
YES. I wanted to ask company name, but then realized it
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EXCELLENT COMPANY WANTED
This has been "a long time coming" as my late husband used to say whenever we would buy a new car.
Anyway, I'm looking for an excellent company for whom I can work out of my home, at my convenience. I can provide 30-40 hours per week of service for you. I will provide my schedule to you on a daily basis and I expect you to make sure that there are a sufficient number of good reports for me to transcribe during that time period. I expect to be able to accomplish a minimum of 200 lines/hour. I will give you 90 days to make sure that I am working with clear dictators and am able to accomplish this. If there is no work available at the same time that I intend to work, I will not be available to "return later" when the work becomes available.
You must have a AAAA rating per any ex-employee or ex-IC that comments or has commented about you on this forum or any other forum.
You must have been in business for at least 15 years. I figure, if you require me to have a certain amount of years of experience, I should require the same from you.
You must NOT be located in California, Florida, New York, or Utah. I just do not conduct business with those states.
My charges per line are dependent upon the difficulty of the reports and the clarity of the dictations. I expect extra premiums for nights and weekends.
Please submit your resume along with 3 business references, 2 banking references and a better business bureau report. Be sure to include your employer ID numbers and the name of the agency and address where your license is filed. Please include the number of employees and ICs that you currently have working for you, including the dates on which the last 10 were hired and the dates on which the last 10 resigned, including their length of service and reasons for resignation. Please be sure to include details regarding the accounts that you intend for me to work with, including worktypes and number of ESL/difficult dictators and any program that you have established for training of those dictators that apparently have no idea what they are doing or how to dictate a clear and concise report, especially with regard to basic dictation etiquette.
Be sure to include your work and home, day and evening phone numbers, both landlines and cell phone numbers, so that I can call you at my convenience.
I will review your materials and contact you if you meet my requirements.
Good luck.
Obviously, it is fictitious; it is not a job wanted ad. It's simply my rendition of "turn about is fair play", based on a composite of the "help wanted" ads that I've read and experiences that I've had during the job search.
Excellent Company Wanted
How ingenious..I think this is exactly what the "doctor" ordered! I'm still  . Let me know where to sign up!
On a more serious note, however, it's sad that we have to seemingly resort to these measures just to get some attention. Hopefully, the people who need this message loud and clear know, when they read this, it's meant exclusively for them!
Bless you!
No, profit is they charge the company say 15 cpl and pay
transcriptionists 8 cpl.... the difference is PROFIT... If they pay a Transcriptionist for 75 amount of lines and charge the company for 100, that is STEALING
small company
You just keep your eyes open all the time. Keep looking. You will find them. Opportunity comes knocking at the strangest time if you just keep looking.
small company would not pay.
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It is a medium-small company...
but isn't hiring at this time. MTs tend to stay as they are treated with respect as well as paid well. The pay is based on a 65-character line with spaces, an 11-word line or gross line, depending on the account.
Oh no... This is a small local company. nm
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Small company in Ohio did that to me.
Had Indians working on something called Expresive. Wanted to pay me by the hour to put all my normals up on her FTP for the other MTs, then I got all the difficult OPs, asked to QA for 2 cpl, then stopped giving me acute care work & switched me to Rehab on a cumbersome Meditech program.
I'll bet it was the same small company that
nearly did me in as well. Do they come at you for compound modifiers? Yikes! I felt the same way - just could not do anything right, decades of experience. I finally got thru the constant QA barrage, and now am glad I did. But I know the feeling. I left the job down the road, part time and just too many rules so that it messed up my other jobs!! I would get its the same small company - they have very high QA standards, which is great on one hand, but...I also knew that some of it was a tad ridiculous! I would be sick while working, and that is NOT good!
No, I work for a small company in AR
Do you work for a national and, if so, do you like it?
Just a very small private company. nm
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I'm with a small local company....sm
so that doesn't help you, but I have heard good things about WildBlue, you might want to check out their website.
They're a small company in Texas. Would that be the one? nm
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I make more than that as an employee for a small company ---
Maybe it is time to change to that?
look for a small local company in your area
I worked for a small company and although I did get paid by the line, I made way more than $16 an hour and could pretty much name my own hours to work. I did, however, have to pick up tapes!
I work for a small local company.
It seems that the smaller MTSOs pay better than the nationals. Maybe that would be a good avenue for you to try. I just think the low rates offered by the nationals are insulting.
Yes - I work for a small company in Iowa and
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I've know the owner and it is a small company. He doesn't know the first
thing about MT, word processing programs, etc. I have worked for the company through 3 owners and now I do prn work for him.
How do you do 2000 a day? Do you work for a national or small company? nm
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Unlimited Long Distance + C-phone, small company needs MT
I currently need an experienced MT (at least three years - actual medical typing) to cover a 2 doctor account. Very simple dictation - SOAP note format. This account is looking for another doctor, so that could add in. Currently, very small amount of dictation - approximately 800-1300 lines total per week. 24 hour turn around.
If you have a c-phone and have unlimited long distance, please send me your resume + 2 references for people you have actually typed for. Start rate 8cpl (65 character). This is an IC position.
I am the owner of a small transcription company in Virginia - have had stable accounts and great MT's for over 13 years. THANK YOU!!!
My first job was a total cold call to small local company...got hired over the phone- sm
give it a shot. Look in your yellow pages or on-line white and yellow pages and see what you can come up with. MT Daily has a list by state of MT companies to with their contact info. Also test your butt off anywhere and everywhere on line, you will learn a lot during the process. I found it quite enlightening when I was doing it 3+ years ago. Good luck.
New. Wanted to put in a better card to support a game my 17yo DD wanted to play.
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Charge what the credit card companies charge when they don't get paid on time!!!!
if mt paid 9, editor paid 4 or 5...how can company charge 14 and make it..sm
I know the going rate in our area is 14 cents per line. As MTs most companies here pay us 8 or 9 cents a line. Now add in the Editor rate at 4 or 5 per line..you are paying OUT more than you can charge a line. How would companies stay in biz?
Unless all work is sent by the company overseas at pennies per line, this would not pay for a company.
just curious how this works out
Doubt you can charge 15 cpl for VR work to the docs - you can't even charge them 12 for straight
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A small national is a national company that is smaller
than a big national. There are a few "big" nationals, where they have hundreds, if not thousands of employees. I work for what I call a small national, only has about 30 employees. An MTSO could also be considered a small national.
small mentality usually means small pocketbook
Still make more than you and I but that is deserved. They've put the effort forward and educated themselves.
you don't have to charge $60/HR - all you have to do is charge a good rate and then..
work smart, not hard. If you have a great dictator, charge him 14 cpl on a 65 char gross line, then set up your templates and word expanders, you can make $80/hr. But you need all three to work together, otherwise you might only be making $60/hr. Some people are just really good at what they do - shouldn't they make more if they are more productive?
I'd still charge by line, just charge a lower
rate, like maybe 8 cpl. Do you have to pickup and deliver work? You could also setup a one-month contract until you see how it goes and then you can figure out the best way to charge and go from there. You could also charge a flat rate per page and keep it fairly low.
One office I charge .12, another I charge $2.25 page--nm
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wanted to try it but wanted to make sure
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Just wanted to let you know (SM)
 That my cat is doing much better than a few days ago. He's eating food, and I saw him drinking today.  I've been giving him subcu fluid for the last couple days. We are moving to Nebraska on the 6th, so I hope the trip isn't too stressful for him. 
Well, I'm having fun playing with this  ...I was in mtstars withdrawal there for awhile. Hope you all are having a great day! 
Bye for now 
Chickadee 
WANTED:
Come to work for Soft Script. If you are a "newbie" transcriptionist, do not mind us stealing your lines, enjoy rude, threatening, and hateful e mails, and among numerous other things - you like to work for less than minimum wage, then we have the perfect position for you.
Yes folks, this is what you will get when you go to work for Soft Script, it is a lot of fun, everyone should try it.
NOT!!!!!!!!! 
That was exactly the one I wanted to take.
However, there aren't any Irish dance instructors in my area. I searched ebay for the instructional videos last night.
I have always wanted to eat my
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I can't believe you wanted to
Lame 'O' Rama!
I just wanted to be sure you all saw my...
"Thank you" down below. The response to this post was crazy and I appreciate the solid support you have given. Please pray for me to have the courage to face this leap of faith. He says he wants to make things better and that he loves me. I have not told him that I love him since he hit me in the eye two weeks ago and he has noticed. I think he realizes that I am tired of all the nonsense and that this could go either way right now depending on his behavior. I am strong, but I just have to believe in myself. I'll keep you all posted. Thanks again. J.
Just wanted to say thanks
to all of you who responded to my post a few weeks ago about insomnia. I decided to try the Melatonin, and it works wonders!!! I sleep like a baby every night and I don't suffer any side effects. I also like knowing that it's all natural
Anyway, I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!!!
i wanted to say too
when my mom was contemplating having the surgery, the surgeon provided her with names and numbers with patients who already had the surgery so that she could talk to them and see what their experience was.
I wanted to be....
An archaeologist/paleontologist (sic), a zoologist, or a veterinarian. Then I found out how long it took to go to school. That ended that!
I wound up going for computer programming. Hated that. Loved typing and computers but hated the programming end of it, so went into accounting. Me....who flunked math in school, but it challenged me and I was good but not enough typing for me. Then did typing for a book company...got bored. Now I'm an MT. What a life!
Please don't ask my age. LOL
Just wanted to add . . .
It is a blessing to have this site to go to where there are others who truly understand the pain/abuse we take/put up with. Only another MT could possibly understand what it is like at times.
I also wanted to add this ...
Many may actually know the terminology but make mistakes in their transcription or typos. Still, it is incorrect and it cannot be accepted.
Hearing correctly is one thing; transcribing it correctly to the document is another.
I think many errors happen on the transcription phase, not the hearing/understanding phase.
Thanks so much! That was exactly what I wanted to know....nm
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I really wanted to ask
my former PS to send me a picture but I was too shy and knew I should not anyway. His voice sounded sexy and just by the way he talked about things in general I had a feeling he was.
yea... i NEVER did whatever I wanted
and as an IC i had every right to, but I stuck to my 24 hour TAT for seven years unless I was sick... i NEVER did vacations, I Never took time off... EVER. Now i'm kicking myself for it since after 7 years they have betrayed me.
Wanted to add
I wanted to add that I do work someplace else also because I don't believe in this industry you can put all your eggs in one basket but I do think Transcend is a nice place to work overall.
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