any chance they are hiring? I did work for an office that got ate up by MQ..but I had just left.
Posted By: curious on 2005-08-03
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Those are all very good reasons why I left the office, - sm
but at least I could leave at the end of the day, and afford to buy things at the supermarket on the way home. Money worries have become the big glaring issue that is always there, and won't go away no matter how hard or how many hours I work. And then, all that gets sabotaged when you run out of work. (Which is happening to me as I write this. I intended to work all afternoon and evening today to make little extra, and now that's not gonna happen.)
So everything is a trade-off, I guess. And as much as I hate to think about having to have a "work wardrobe" again, or deal with all the issues you mentioned, I hate it even more that I haven't funded my 401K in about 3 years, nor my savings account, which has been dwindling because I keep siphoning funds out of it to get by each month. I'm hoping to land an onsite job before my savings are depleted.
Would you by chance work for
MD-IT
Dont you think some of the better work and ASR work goes to the newbies they are hiring lately. I
am sure it goes somewhere because I will be finished with all jobs and the next morning there is ASR work from 14 hours ago. Odd right. Where was it. Probably in another pool so we dont get it and others do. I am pooled for ASR so I would have gotten it but didnt.
By any chance did you work for OmniMed?...
I did and I was out of MT awhile and then when I got back in it, I realized they were out of business. I now work for Amphion, that has a lot of the same people. You could try them. I think there is also AccuStat in Wisconsin.
Pay kids work around office, renovate office.
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Well you gave her a fair chance, asked her to stop. It's a shame she didn't take the chance. n
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Who do you work for & are they hiring?
RIU is hiring MTs for clinic work
go to www.riunlimited.com to apply.
Yes they have been actively hiring..unfortunately there is not enough work to go around. nm
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I'm interested, too. Can you say where you work? Are they hiring? Thx. nm
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I don't think thehospital I work at is hiring.
We are over staffed right now. They treated me like gold when there was lots of work. But now that the work load is low, we are not worth as much.
They opened up a new surgery center and it is its own entity as they hired their own MTs, thus that took away about 30% of our work.
can you say which company you work for and if they are hiring?
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No set hours, no min/max amount of work, and give us newbies a chance.
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Maybe all this hiring with no work has something to do with the proposed 1 hour TAT?
Wasn't that kind of TAT mentioned in a company email?
Yes we are out of work but did you ever stop to think what kind of people they are hiring to flood
the accounts. I happen to know they AINT good and the blanks keep rolling in and are passed on to the hospitals because Amherst QA does not fill them in for whatever reason. Probably too stupid to understand the hard STUFF. I do QA and I know this is true.
funny no work; seen lots of advertisement and looked like hiring frenzy lately. nm
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Good. Why dont you send some our way. What office do you work for so I can call and get your work.
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Do not work for Amherst if you can work for any other office in MQ. It is terrible. They overload
accounts terribly. We are always running out of work or need to have 8 or 9 backups to get lines in. This is the way it is. There may be a few out there that it is different but I do acute care and was just transferred there along with my office and everyone in my office is in the same boat. Not a good deal at all.
reason I left graphic work...
My husband had a massive stroke several years ago and I just could not handle working outside the house and taking care of him, so I learned MT so I could stay home with him. I have continued to do the graphic work on the side since, but he is finally to where he can handle me not being at home, but he still seems disappointed that I won't be at there. I guess I am going to have to make my pros and cons list and figure out what I am going to do. Thanks.
Has anyone actually left MT to work at Burger King?
I am just about ready to throw in the towel. Just wondering if others have left MT and worked at Burger King or places like that? Thanks!
Local clinic sent all work to the Phillipines one sunny day. Left their MTs
It is not only India. I really cannot say there is an answer other than find politicians who feel as deeply about the "Employ America" slogan as the American worker and American business owner who is a patriot.
Does anyone on her work for Amherst MQ and how is that office to work for.
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I heard they were not nice to work for. Knew people who have worked there and left.
This is secondhand information, but I trust the people that told me this.
What MQ office do you work for?
I have over 25+ years experience and have been with MQ since 1997. I sure am not getting 9.5 cents a line! I had to fight to get the tiny raise I did get. What's your secret for getting the 9.5 cents??? 
I work at a vet's office
That's my main second job. I usually have two or three transcription jobs.
I used to work in an onc office
and I can tell you that even though the doctors may sound cold when dictating, most of them are not that way in the office. As for feeling sad for the patients, I cried at least once a week when I worked in that office (and I only worked 2 days a week). I got very attached to these patients as many of them were coming every week for their treatments. But in the end, I felt privileged to have worked there. I made it my job to get to know these patients personally, to let them know that someone does care. Many of them left our office smiling and that made me feel good inside.
My OB once asked me if it was depressing, and I told him that while losing a patient in our office was always sad, but the patients were no longer in pain, and that I would rather deal with that loss than trying to explain to a new mother the loss of a baby any day. He agreed, said he never thought of it that way.
I'm currently working on a children's hospital and it's very saddening some days. The pediatric oncology is the worst, though. You just never expect something like that to happen to your family. You just kind of wake up one day and cancer has reared its ugly head.
The office that I work for is going to EMR in May
I went in for training a few weeks ago and it's all set up on my computer. They will still need transcriptionists. I was told that consultation notes will still have to be transcribed. There's too much information in them that you just can't point and click everything. Also, we fax all the work we do, so we still have to fax all notes. It looks like it's going to make my work a lot easier. Now, down the road maybe they won't need us full-time, but I've already been preparing for that by working as a legal Transcriptionist as well as a general transcriptionist.
Yes, better to be in an office than NO WORK at all.
What office were you offered 9.5? The one I work in does NOT go over 8.
I am the only MT on the account I am doing and the client REFUSES to have anyone else do it..i figure leverage, but they still wont pay more than 8 NO SPACES. I never have blanks, never mess up at all, work ALLLLL the time. Where or where did you get 9.5?
I work out of the Dallas/SW office and
over the past 4 years, I have had slow work once or twice but have never run out. Now, that doesn't mean that possibly some accounts were not out but the accounts I work on provided me with work so that I never lost a line from it.
Enjoy the boards, Michael!
Do you work out of the Seattle office?
Just curious. Our Portland office closed recently.
I DON'T GET IT????? I have NEVER run out of work EVER. We are ALWAYS swamped at my office!!!
Sorry to hear your office is so slow. Come to the Dallas office...you'll never run out of work.
That stinks. Must be the office you work for because
I had nothing but STAT reports for 5 hours straight this a.m. and then reports went back to last Friday's dictation. I wish there were some way I could send some out to you.
Weird thing is that in the last couple of weeks I have logged on to find no work, but within an hour, I have plenty of work. Uh oh. Is it my turn? 
Try to find an office you can work out of where other MTs can help you out!
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The office I work for some of the docs went
Now the office staff who handles the dictation are griping because they don't like Cbay. They say it is hard to get the work back and it always needs edited. The docs are behind on editing because they get caught up doing other things. I had the staff say they wish the doctors would not have drifted.. makes my head well, but you get what you pay for... 
Work in office and home
The office provided me with software in order to hook up to the office over my DSL line. Just connect to the company's software and the computer works as if I was in the office exactly the same way. And anyone in the office can see what I have typed instantly! I love it! I would much prefer working at home than at the office however!!
I used to work for a neurosurgeons' office (SM)
They didn't test me when I went in for my interview. The HR lady said they would find out soon enough if I didn't know how to type. I guess that makes sense!! I worked there for 2 years
I would work in the office in a heartbeat
if it meant a liveable wage and no more sending of OUR jobs to INDIA. Working at home holds no great thrill to me. It's the paycheck that matters. This work-at-home thing is what started all this fiasco but nobody wants to give up their flexibility blah blah blah.
Which office do you work for if you dont mind.
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LOL tooo funny. You work in this office?
How do you know?
I always ask via e-mail to whomever I work the most with at the office
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In-office work is different than working at home. That's just the way it is. If it seems too
rigid to you, maybe you should stick to working for the nationals.
I used to work in the master bedroom and now I have my own office. I could
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When you work in an office, you can see when others are manipulating the system.
so don't judge her for knowing
Well, part of the reason I do NOT work in an office sm
is so that I CAN take the time to stop and feed my child, or put a band-aid on a scraped knee, or read a quick story... My children are a priority to me and the distraction they cause is acceptable for me. That doesn't make my work ethic any less than yours IMO, I work more hours probably. I work some nights after the rest of my family is sleeping. My work ethic is such that I get my work done and still give time to my children when they need it.
Does anyone send cards or anything to the office they work for? (sm)
Years ago when I worked for a smaller company a bunch of us made a big box of goodies and mailed it to the office. They were such great people, helpful and cheerful. The company always sent us something and we didn't want to just send to the owner of the company so we felt a card in a box of goodies everyone could share. Smaller places have more of a personal feel .
Now I work for a larger company and home made goodies may not be such a good idea. (The shipping alone would be a killer.) I guess a card addressed to "everyone" will have to do it. Thought about having X-mas cards made up with my family picture on it and sending that to kind of help them also put a face to the name. Too much? Think I would be better off with just a standard card?
Those of you that are doing anything for the office you work out of, what are you doing? Would love to "borrow" a really good idea.
TIA
Who me? No, I work for a local nephrology office.
Never worked for Spheris.
If it is a medical office, they should have one as we all sign one when we work there -- nm
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Going back to Office Admin Work
Hello everyone. I wanted to sign in and thank everyone for all the info that has been posted on this board. It was a very important web site for me during my short transcription career.
After being laid off from a company in Michigan 3 weeks ago, I have searched for and found an office manager position in a non-MT environment. I'm going back to my routes in Admin. I tried to make a career change a few years ago. Maybe it was not the financial environment to make such a change or maybe it is just not for me. What ever the case is, I'm leaving. I have invested a large amount of time and money into this dream but sometimes you have to know when to "fold 'em." Lucky for me hubby is on board and not making me feel bad about our investment or how this dream of mine drained our finances.
So, again, thanks for all the help and good luck to everyone.
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They are and that is why we dont have work then. They bring in other offices and run your office out
of work because too many people are on the account then. Make sense. Nope.
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