You'll notice this person didn't sign their name --fishy??? nm
Posted By: Diana on 2007-09-19
In Reply to: i smell fishy? who puts sincerely in their post on here?? NOT ME! nm - seems odd
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I agree, fishy. If you're an IC you'll have to take out approx.
30% on top of the 25% they're going to keep, but will you have to claim earnings of it all, even their 25%. Hmmmm, I think I'd be asking a LOT of questions because why aren't they just saying you'll make 9.75 cents instead of 13 cents that you'll really NOT be making.
I'll vent and I'll sign my name sm
I have two IC contracts right now. I recently went back to a job I had quit earlier in the year to work for the other company I am still working for.
The newer job has 80% ESLs. I transcribe OP notes primarily and I can fill in other work types as the opportunity arises. I am frustrated with this particular situation. After 6 months, I am making less money and working longer hours. I am past the learning curve and I should be doing better, at least in the number of hours I am spending doing the job. We have run out of work for 24 hrs at a time at least 5 or 6 times since December 1, and in November it was more than that. I have a friend who worked for this company as well and she was having similar difficulties. The only thing that we can figure is that they are shorting us line count some way, because after 6 months at it, it should be easier/faster/more money, but it is less and less every single pay period. It is not a nice thing to accuse a company of doing, but it SEEMS that way to us. I am fed up with being expected to type every single OP note that comes in 24/7 and meeting the 6 hr TAT for them on weekends, evenings, holidays, wee hours of the morning...
I took back a job I held for 2-1/2 yrs. The team leader has changed and this gal thinks that I should be on call 24/7 for whenever she has work. I might have some at 7 a.m., or perhaps not until 6 p.m. or later. I can't plan my personal life and between these two IC situations, I find that I am not eating on a daily basis, not showering on a daily basis and not sleeping more than 3 or 4 hours at a time. I have lost weight and I don't feel very well. I woke up today with a rip roaring head cold (my first in nearly 8 yrs) and it has already moved to bronchitis and I am expecting pneumonia by the weekend because I develop it very easily. I already have deep pain in my back.
Yes, I should call in sick tomorrow, but I really can't take the fallout. The job I took back I am covering for another gal who wanted vacation over the holidays and if I have to call in sick, the team leader will call me and pitch a fit about how this is my responsibility. It IS my responsibility, I did say I would do it, and I will do it, despite being quite ill. In the past, when I worked for this company, they would not allow me to call in sick for a "cold" without a doctor's note. I worked through many illnesses with them and only called in sick when I developed West Nile Fever and while I was sick for over a month, I only called for my last 12 reports one day when I could no longer see the computer screen because my head hurt.
The problem is that yes, many MTs lack work ethic. They don't take their responsibility seriously. This is not a work as you please career, not even for an IC. I can see the MTSO's point of view, I truly can. Like finding experienced, reliable and capable MTs, for the MTs who are these things, finding a company will treat you like a human being is equally difficult. I sit here, feeling lousy and like I am an utter slave labor with no consideration whatsoever. I know that my work needs to be done, but when I am this sick it is better that someone else do it for the sake of the work, for accuracy and for speed of getting it out. I know that I am needed, but to be the MT these companies need me to be, I also need to look after my own health.
I will also mention that when I have asked for vacation, I have been approved for the time, but the MTSO queues up my work and calls me then I am not on the system getting it done. I have told them I had been approved for time off, but the MTSO didn't schedule anyone to cover for me and I am told to get on work, vacation or no, if I want to keep my job.
Thus, I work 24/7/365 and have for years. I work sick, I work when I am in pain (I have an AI disorder), I work exhausted from staying up all night covering for others who are allowed to call in sick and have vacations when I can't have either. I work having no health insurance and not being able to afford the $125 a month to buy some with a high copay so I can see a doctor. I work without breaks for breakfast, lunch or dinner and I sometimes come close to having an accident because if I leave my desk to go to the little girls' room I get nasty calls about where I am at and what I am doing.
Many MTs are mistreated, and I am one of them.
I am the 63rd person to sign from GA
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Name-calling is the first sign of an ignorant person
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No, I didn't sign up,
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don't blast me please..I didn't notice that stupid
 long morning.
I didn't sign up for it, was begged to do it when company was in need. sm
I try to do everything asked of me for those who pay me and somehow don't know how to say "no" when I am asked to do something. I was begged and I caved in and agreed.
oops - didn't notice "born" that's funny for sure
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Didn't you guys sign a contract stating what and how you were paid?
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I didn't notice George Lopez head but I think I noticed Dave because he is
skinny and standing next to Carmen E. you can't help but notice how out of proportion it is. He is a bobble head.
Give them a week's written notice...I'll be leaving xx/xx, please forward final check to . t
why would you have to say anything else?
Sorry, didn't realize I used same name - different QA person here
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Oh, sorry then. I didn't realize that the only person allowed
Get over yourself. You're no peach either, hon.
I said I didn't want to cause trouble. I'm a nice person.
I don't want trouble here either. Keep it nice.
You'll have to ask your tech person if it's possible. Or set up another puter with a KVM switc
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Obviously, Heather didn't - but I'll take
I will always LOVE the Beatles. I LOVE YOU - YEA, YEA, YEA! 
Thanks. I'll look again, didn't see that cheap
before.
Since I didn't get any answers, I'll re-word! sm
I am looking for an LD company that will cover MTs usage. Also, really want to hear from people who have had their service for a considerable period of time without problems.
Since the poster below didn't really answer your questions, I'll try...
While I agree that things are being done to try to do away with transcription eventually, I think that hope is a long way off. Here goes:
1. A lot of work is being outsourced to places like India because they can do the work much, much cheaper than a US MT. Some hospitals won't all their work to be outsources, but the thought on this board generally seems to be that most don't care or don't know.
2. In order to work at home directly after school, it is highly recommended that you only attend one of the top schools. Two of them are Andrews and M-TEC.
3. Most companies, if you are an employee (not independent contractor) will provide you with all the equipment you need. You will have to have an internet connection and pay for that yourself most likely.
4. I believe the average you can expect to start is in the 6 to 8 cents a line range. How much you make depends on many other things, though. If you studied very hard and have a knack for MT you will do much better.
Hope that helps a little. But just remember...yes, working at home is a nice benefit for some, but there is a con for every pro to doing this.
OK, I misunderstood. Didn't know there was another way. I'll check out Google Desktop. Thanks.
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Can you use a plus sign for hyper and minus sign for hypo?
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fishy
Something is really fishy about that. During my three tenures with MQ (yep, bump my head), I received a SE W2 and taxes were taken out. Challenge it. This might be part of something more serious. They might be behind on their quarterly deposits and IRS is going after us.....May be inform tax advocacy group. (I do taxes and I had to do that for a physician).
Not fishy at all sm
The company I work for released me from Full QA on day one. They, of course, then had me send any blanks to QA. Two months later, I was one of the first released to full production, meaning two or fewer blanks could go to the client.
Sounded fishy to me
They are both identical, polite and too exact and to me sounded like it was someone attempting to appear to be American. Maybe I am a skeptic but that is my gut feeling. 
Sounds fishy...
What I would do was say that you received a call from your insurance questioning the visits. That way its not you questioning, but the insurance. Sounds like she may have found a loophole. I think you would know if he needed chiropractic care at age 9. hmmmmm
Fishy story
First of all, I would believe the woman was calling not for your husband's friend, but for your husband. This isn't my first rodeo.
Second, even if it was your husband's friend the female was looking for, you still have a problem. Your husband is running around with men who cheat on their wives. Birds of a feather flock together.
So in essence, you should not be mad at some unknown female. You should be worrying about alcohol and infidelity issues in your own home - which is a more real problem than some unknown female. If you allow your husband to drink and go to bars where other femals are, you are asking for trouble in your home and apparently you have it. Best of luck.
sounds fishy to me
Your first paragraph makes me think you are being scammed. If you can't install an Expander program how will you ever learn to use one of the better ones to your best ability (to work somewhere better down the road). I have literally thousands of expansions in my program and it goes from company to company as I change jobs and my production only increases as it grows. If the computer crashes, it's on CD backup and I can put it on any other computer. Don't know about these features in WORD, as I have always been more pleased with an independent expander program. More versatile. If this is THEIR computer and you enter your expansions on it, you might lose all your hard work if you stay for a while and then quit. Think about this. *Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.*
This company may provide templates and you change a few things here and there, but this disabling thing really bothers me, especially if you are new to transcription. They've got you backed into a corner as far as developing your skills is concerned. It's in your best interest to know and use ALL the programs and featues that help us make money. I don't think they are being fair to you. I've worked for 2 places with accounts that relied heavily on templates and both paid me for everything whether I typed it or not. Maybe they are only paying you for what you put in and not what automatically populates. If so, another reason to quit, even if you can whip these things out quickly. It sounds to me like you are being taken advantage of. You have to make sure the document makes sense in the end and not just what you inserted or changed, right? You deserve to be paid for the whole thing from my understanding of what you wrote and use whatever tools you prefer to use to reach that objective as long as it doesn't interfere with their software. If it does, go somewhere else where you can develop your skills and become more marketable and be paid accordingly.
Can you even install a medical spellchecker on the computer??? This just sounds nuts to me. What about reference CDs for specialities, etc.???? I prefer my own computer so I can put whatever I want on it. Worth the expense in my estimation and I don't have to wonder about what other stuff the company has put on it that I don't know about to watch my work habits, etc.
Good luck to you whatever you decide to do! Just don't let them walk all over you if you are new--not if you can help it. I know getting experience is important but so is making a decent living and bettering your skills for a better future.
I agree. Kinda fishy isn't it?
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Way fishy! You're being used and abused. This is NOT
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i smell fishy? who puts sincerely in their post on here?? NOT ME! nm
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That is true, when you sign up you sign up from the
day your former insurance terminated. Then it is on a month to month basis.
I work for the person. I know. Very excellent person, personally and business-sense.
It is an INSULT to have QA hovering over seasoned MTs who know what they are doing. She trusts her MTs and again if there are questions there is one person, a trainer, who can answer them via phone, e-mail or instant message or you can send the whole report to them if you choose.
Point was is the person willing to make up for the slack of the person who types 1 job when there is
if that is all they WANT to type. Is the person who wants to be a supervisor willing to make up for those people?
You have crap supervisors, editors and mts in the business like you have good ones. Sadly, the really good ones of all of them are few and far between.
When you have a QA person that is picky and another QA person that is very lenient where does that
leave the MTs because some are getting a lenient reviewer and others are getting one that picks at everything. How do you reconcile that issue with the difference in QA mentality. Some people make out well and the other people could be just as good but dont. I wonder about that.
The person MTSO pays is the person who
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It'll be the most expensive magazine subscription you'll ever get! No point in joining. nm
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I'll go! I'll go!! I won't take hormones and will be ready to defend your honor :) n/m
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No. It'll be the most expensive magazine subscription you'll ever get, and it's unnecessary
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You'll get used to it. It is keeping the right leg propped up at the same time that'll be the
When I broke my ankle, I was just grateful it wasn't the hands. Without our hands we'd be totally screwed.
I broke my right ankle slipping on ice and was lucky to have gloves on because the palm of the glove was totally torn up and my hand was okay.
Good luck and be sure to do your exercises when it is time.
Well of course we know that now. Back then we didn't because he didn't allow unfettered access.
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right we children didn't tattle to the administrator did we. BTW, didn't you think we were &#
because some half-witted idiot said everyone was jealous because some other anonymous poster said they were going to be a doctor. Didn't they call it doctor envy. Oh yeah, that was all about you wasn't it busy-body MT. You with your degree and premed but yet you still post here and acuse others of jealously. I dunno but you and dano seem so close, I can't put my finger on it but I would say you could be computer clones. Jealous indeed. Children indeed. I think you are blowing your covers) dano and busy body MT. This whole "jealously" thing makes me think that you may be one and the same poster.
I didn't go into labor until 2.5 weeks later, so it didn't work. Sorry!...nm
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One person's "custom" is another person's
"house arrest". I'd never go to the Middle East because of how they treat women. I don't agree with their laws or "justice" system. For example, the woman who was gang raped as punishment for the actions of her 12-year-old brother, a boy who wasn't even an adult. How's that for a "custom"? Let's not forget bride burning. Burqas.
Besides, foreigners don't follow our "customs" when they come to this country. Half of them don't even bother learning English. Instead, we're expected to pay for healthcare and foodstamps for illegals and print everything in Spanish.
I won't be oppressed or treated as a second class citizen, and I wouldn't treat others like that either. A "custom" is more like putting up a Christmas tree, not being abused based on your gender.
i'm sure it will vary from person to person.
I recently did the same thing and am loving it! The freedom from time clocks, the better company, make losing the benefits well worth it to me. You need to set up a plan to have $ set aside for taxes though. I should have done this years ago!
Wrong person. I'm not the person you were
any money. You have a sucky attitude, a "poor me" attitude. Get off your lazy whiny a$$ and work instead of complaining and you will make money. I have one account at 10.5 cpl, two at 14 cpl and one at 15 cpl. I make a lot of money, even on the 10.5 cpl. But I'm not sitting around whining either. And I didn't whine when I made $6 an hour.
It'll happen. You'll find your fit.
You might have to kiss a few frogs first, though.
Oh she'll spice it up alright, she'll be
placing hidden cameras in the other ladies' dressing rooms! LOL!
continue your goal; he'll/they'll get used to it/over it
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sorry I didn't have time to thank you, but I didn't forget!!
Didn't you tell me?!?!? No, Liza, you didn't tell me. Hooray for you! lol
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I did not notice the OP asking you about what to do.
Mind your business if you have no answers to the question OK? 
Bye now! 
PS: I hate when people come on here with an agenda and preach when all that is required is a simple answer relevant to the original question. 
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