when I worked in house learning MT the first shifters were just like the mean folks here

• just an observation...pls sm - disillusioned
  • my observation - sm
  • I think that although it's great that we can work at home - that some of us lose our social skills
    • when I worked in house learning MT the first shifters were just like the mean folks here - maybe they had no social skills to begin with? n/
      • Well a social butterfly type wouldn't be attracted to this job in the first place - but this certainly compounds the
        • I am a very social person and I entered this job at home because it paid more money - Not in agreement
          • You were making LESS than THIS???? - amazed
          • I got into this because it paid more money and I didn't have daycare expenses. - I agree!
            • Unbelievable how people have different definitions of the exact same thing - sm
              • Yes, I made that statement because that's how I felt after - not antisocial
        • true true. - n/m
  • disillusioned - Tina
  • They do it because they (sm) - Lori
  • Meanies - Libby
  • to just an observation (NICE reply) - Nanna23
  • Still plenty of regular folks on here - don't leave!! we need all we can get. nm - fg
    • Let's clean up our board........sm - No meanies 4 me
  • Someone told me years ago..... - andromeda
  • Observation, sm - Just wondering
  • I was nice today, and people were nice to me. - I didn't get flamed today
  • what mean post made you post your post - posters wanna know!!!
    • not one post in particular (sm) - disillusioned
      • Sometimes - Sandy
      • i hear ya. I prefer being tucked away - where i'm
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Slow at the beginning of the summer. After the Fourth of July, people started coming in for elective surgery and things like that and work picked up.

It used to be really slow at Christmas, but with high deductibles on most insurance policies, December was fast becoming the busiest month of the year when I left.

at several different hospitals, we would bring a problem dictator to the attention of the supervisor, who then would present it to the HIM manager.  Most of the time the problem dictators got better after a discussion with the manager.  If it costs the hospitals EXTRA money, believe me they will take corrective action.  Money talks!

Sometimes, there are very legitimate reasons for corrections, as we all know, and I don't think Frustrated was upset about the legitimate ones.   There is a lot more of this careless dictator crap going on at teaching hospitals, but at least they have an excuse, they are new to dictating and usually feel quite bad for making so many corrections.  If they realize this and make an effort to be more careful, I don't have a problem with them, but there's just no excuse for the long-time dictators who carelessly make the MTs jobs more difficult.

While a certain amount of addendums or mind changing does happen, an "abuser" should always be brought to the attention of management.  No one knows about these dictators unless an MT brings it to the attention of those in charge.  Frustrated has a right to complain!  I feel her pain!

I had a dictator (on an account at an MT service) who made 10 different corrections to her reports on a regular basis & I am not exaggerating.  I had been instructed to join them altogether (in a time-consuming fashion) and fed up finally, I flagged them ALL separately for QA.  The transcription manager gave me a hard time about it, but I fought back.  However, when I talked to QA, she told me I did the right thing and that the hospital was having a "discussion" with that particular dictator as there was NUMEROUS complaints.  Dictator cleaned up her act a bit after that & I didn't have much more trouble with her.

and when I went on Maternity leave they set me up from home.  I started working for a national in January.  My other at home position went VR and they brought all the jobs back in house. I couldn't go back into the office as I have two little ones and the cost of daycare is outrageous.  What's the sense of working then?

We got paid hourly plus incentive pay.  Anything over 1100 lines a day was paid an incentive rate of 5 cents per line (plus your normal hourly wage).

So, if I typed 2000 lines in an 8-hour shift I would make:

$16.50 x 8 hours = $132

900 lines (1100 to 2000 lines) x 0.05 cpl = $45

Total for the day = 132 + 45 = $177.

We had a maximum of $1000 a month that we were allowed to earn in incentive pay.

Hope this helps you!

Chickadee

I'm a second shifter and I like to get on this board to break the monotony.  It's so quiet in the evenings when you're the only one working and the kids are in bed!

I love second shift tho!  I've worked second most of career.  I'm not what you would call a morning person! 

I still crack up at the time my dad came home from work to find my 2 eldest brothers room a shambles with clothes strewn all over the place.  Being a senior and junior in high school their clothes WERE prize possesions..until that day when they got pitched out the window into the backyard full of mud from all the spring rain. 

Now that one worked as they never ever let a pair of shorts even touch anything but their dirty clothes basket.  Now, I'm using the same standard on my boys and just the uncles telling that story keeps them in line

never as much as a single episode of no work available.  Much to my dismay, I have found out that MTing from home for a nation is so unpredictable, in so far as what your paycheck is going to be every week or 2.  They all say "there is plenty of work," which is probably factual.  However, the nationals are primarily interested in pleasing the client with their promised swift turn-around-times.  What they forget is that if it weren't for the MTs, there would be no turn-around-time whatsoever.  It's really very discouraging and quite unfair.  Most people try to adhere to their monthly budget, which is impossible when one never knows how much they are going to make from one week to the next. We ARE the providers, not peeons, and resent being treated as such.   

Yes, that problem brings you right back to the lack of early stimulation, schooling success, etc.  You can offer the world, but just like the "horse to water", you can only do so much in getting people to accept education and work hard at it to be successful.  It is NOT a solution to have people work at McDonalds, and unless they are literate, other options are just not going to work.  I would guess that all states have vocational training in community colleges that provide tuition assistance, scholarships, and financial aid for those in need, but again, the ambition and dedication to finish something like that needs to come from the individual.  Also, chasing down dead beat "fathers" is fine, but maybe young girls/women need to be smarter about taking reproductive chances.  Nobody died not having sex.  Perhaps more education in that arena is something the government could do.  But again, you can only lead a horse to water, and people ultimately have to be responsible.  We need to stop sugar coating the facts in our society in fear of offending somebody.  The facts are that blacks are disproportionately more impoverished in America, but they also have babies at a 70% out-of-wedlock birth rate, and that is a problem.

Finally have given in and am switching from WP to MSWord. I work from home. If anyone has any encouraging words about MSWord, I certainly would like to hear them. So far, I am going crazy, i.e., I have put in "gray boxes" but when I enter my autocorrect short cut for the "shell", my cursor goes to the bottom of the page and I have to page up 2-3 times. I am missing something?

Any help would be so very much appreciated

Thank you.... bw...

I used SH for a year. To me, it was like AutoCorrect, which I used to love, but IT does so much more. I've been using IT for about a year. There are so many things you can do with it that you can't do with SH.

As the other poster said, check out the productivity website and you will fiind zillions of ideas.

I had an in-house job for 3 years, hired in off the street, no experience.  Three months later, another girl hired in, same situation.  Paid hourly, no ESL, and we had the opportunity to talk to the doctors in person about any issue.

By the time I left, I was the highest producer in the office.  She was still struggling with the simplest words and phrases, still asking the same questions she asked the week she hired in, still needing help from somebody else all day long. She would cry from frustration because she couldn't get her act together.  Other people that hired in after her got the hang of it much faster and were soon helping her too.  I asked management on many occasions why they just didn't show her the door, and they said I was being harsh and that some people just couldn't learn as fast as others.  I wonder why she didn't just go find a different kind of job instead of hanging around driving herself and everyone else nuts.

In time it all gets better.  Usually.  Some people aren't cut out to be MTs, for them it never gets better.  I felt the way you do when I started out in-house (no former training).  But I was stubborn, and I learned, and knew I was getting better.  Then I started working at home - BIG learning curve, had no idea my hospital job was so easy!  But I was stubborn, and I learned and improved.  Next job - more learning.  New accounts with constantly changing specifics - keep learning.  In this job, you learn every day - a new phrase, a new production tip, the fact that you've been spelling something wrong, etc.

Just take a deep breath and realize they are trying to help you.  Thank them for every correction, because its what they need you to do.  Make a lot of notes.  And you can and will improve, if you're stubborn enough to make your investment pay.

You can actually reset your computer from qwerty to dvorak, then just change out the key locations on the keyboard instead of buying a new keyboard.  I just really don't feel like relearning anything right now.  The fastest typist in the world uses the dvorak keyboard, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. 

Has anyone done this?  It looks good....but I need to know before I spend the money. 

Thanks.