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YES! 37 complaints against the company in 36 months.

Posted By: high five, E! on 2005-10-31
In Reply to: THIS link's even better! - Endiqua

THAT is why they changed the name and the website address.


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    What are their expectations of an MT with 4 months of experience?? What company?
    Geez
    No complaints here

    I went through CS and it was very comprehensive.  I have had no problem getting a job, and all employers I talk to love CS grads and also speak highly of Andrews and M-Tec also.  I think some of the negativity and bad speak comes from the fact that it is a self-paced course and takes discipline.  There are some who just rush though it to get working, and do not take the time to really learn.  Then when they get out in the working world, they do not have enough knowledge to succeed and end up giving CS a bad name.  It is always easy to find the negatives about anything on here as there are some people who will bash any school, company etc and you will find those negative people anywhere you go.  Seriously though, CS was great for me...I found work, they have great support and your fellow CS students on the forum are amazing with helping you out!  I have no complaints!


    IGNORANT TROLL. How about the complaints of numerous
    people who have also filed with the BBB and FTC? How about articles in national magazines? How about my own personal experience as a college graduate, MT course certified, and employed by a national transcription company? Yes, Alan tried to play his scam on me by telling me I needed his $397 package to work for him for free. I TEACH MTs at a legitimate UNIVERSITY. So THAT is how I know it's a SCAM. Would you like to see the emails he sent me? You'd better get out now before you get charged with fraud, too.

    Your hubby "wouldn't let you" spend money? That explains a lot. Con artists like women who have been belittled and don't stand up for themselves. They're easy targets because they're so obedient and gullible. Honey, no man tells me what to do. Wake up and smell the coffee. This many people CANNOT possibly be wrong. It will come back to bite you in the backside one day. By the way, how much do you make working there? I make $35 an hour teaching MTs typing, transcription and terminology.

    Oh, it's CHIEFS, not CHEEFS.
    Didn't she sell it, or just your company to an offshore company. The woman

    has a screw loose. 


    Going on three months...
    I am new also and just started working for an MTSO about three months ago. The first month I was only making 100 every 2 weeks, but I am now making 350 every two weeks on part time. I think when you get into two and three different MTSO or whatever, it would just get way to stressful and hectic. I would personally try and find one company that had enough work for you or another company that just needed a fill in, then together you should be able to pull of at least the &500.00 that you need.
    Thanks Camry
    GOING ON 4 months though..
    I take too much time out to research because I want my reports to be blank free. I also feel like I just am not getting the speed I should be. I am starting to wonder if its because mine are short dictations and it is taking so much time to load each one and then do all new demographics. I have found I am faster on longer dictations.

    Lets just keep on truckin!!

    Good luck though!

    That's exactly where I am at after 8 months.
    x
    40K? IN 18 months?
    I have been an MT for 9 years . First year made 30K.  Second year 33K.  Last year, my 8th, I made a whopping 36K.  Full-time.  Lots of normals/expanders.  You definitely are NOT going to become rich in this field.  If you want 40K within 2 years, you are going to have to do something else.  If you can wait several years, you may be able to do 40K, if you are lucky.  The pay for this field is actually going DOWN not up .
    Me too, they said I could try again in 3 months.
    I took my time with the test and got through the entire thing. I don't see how I was that bad. I'd like to know what my shortcomings were too. They said I could try again in three months. Good luck to all of us.
    MT for 6 Months....sm
    I have been working as a MT for about 6 months.  I guess I am still considered a newbie.  I make $.09 cpl and I am an IC and currently transcribe for 4 different CRNPs.  Some days I may transcribe for 2 of them and then there are days that I only transcribe for 1.  When I have 2 of them to transcribe for, I would say that I average 800 to 1000 lines for that day and it ususally takes me most of the day.  If I have just 1 to transcribe for then it would be between 400 to 500 lines a day and it only takes me a few hours.  Does this sound right for someone that has only been working for 6 months or should I beable to do more lines in an 8 hour period?
    No, the woman who owns this company can't transcribe herself, much less run a company.
    kk
    Any company that charges anything to work is not a reputable company. However,
    if a company offers a job and requires that you have a certain pedal and offers to provide it and then take it out of say your first paycheck or couple of paychecks, then that is acceptable.

    My belief is that companies that charge you for software or anything else is trying to make money off of you.

    While $11.95 isn't much, figure that amount times 10 or 20 or 100 and what do you come up with? Smells like a scam to me.
    company was sold so they have no company to hire you after graduation!
    They are not a reputable school and I went there so I should know. Even when they did have Trans. Relief Services they never answered my email about employment upon graduation.
    I began at 65 LPH. At 18 months, I am at 350.
    .
    I've been at this for 6 months...
    I'm an IC getting paid per MB of dictation, but it averages around 6 cpl. I've been trying to decide if I should stick it out until I can put 1 year of experience on my resume or get out of there. The problem I've seen is that none of the companies are paying newbies worth a toot. Right now, I have a dream of a dictator. I'm the sole MT on this account through a national. Is your work easy at least, to counter the lower pay? That's what I keep telling myself when I'm tempted to run for the hills. You never know what you'll get with another company. The work may be awful.
    6 months and still searching!
    ;) So, I've taken the ball into my hands, and I must say, it hasn't helped!

    I've applied to numerous companies that were willing to hire a "noob" but heard nothing back from any of them.

    Does anyone know of a few more I could look up?

    I graduated with a 97% accuracy, so I'm not worried there. Let me know! Any help is appreciated!
    Congratulations! I have been looking for months, but am not giving up.
    .
    In the first 6 months of this year. I'm not new to this, though, so I moved on. nm
    s
    did it in 9 months of about 35 or so hours a week
    Worked HARD those hours too! :-)
    You can collect unemployment for three months. NM
    "
    6.5 cpl for acute care and then to 7.5 within 6 months - NM
    xx
    I think I posted this same post 3 months ago....
    and today I look up drugs every so often but still NOTHING like I use to!! It does get better trust me. I have been doing this for 3 months and loving it.

    It gets better. *hugs*
    Worked for Spheris for 6 months.
    there are better places to work for that pay much better. For the new MT, they have a great training program and mentoring, but I did not stay there longterm as the pay was very low and the benefits were awful. I only wanted to be an employee for the medical benefits, but their medical was more expensive than if I purchased it on my own. The account I was on was also horrible (mostly ESLs). I was stressed day after day trying to make my line count. Since being away from Spheris, I have never had an issue with meeting line counts and actually do 2x the amount of lines each week working 10 hours less. I don't know what it was about there, but I just couldn't get over 120 lph. I would never go back there, but I did learn a lot while I was there.
    10,000+ dictation minutes in 6 months.
    I went to Career Step so that is all I can compare it to. According to the eSmartMed site, Career Step has 1320 dictated minutes to transcribe (not sure if that is accurate as it has been so long since I went through the program, but it is probably close). It took me 7 months to get through Career Step doing those 1320 minutes, so I don't see how it is possible for a student to do 10,000+ in 6 months. If I had had to 10,000+, it would have taken me years to complete the course, not months.
    It only took me a couple of months to get out of unpaid status!
    Great to get my foot in the door!
    took me 9 months to graduate from Premier Program with M-TEC
    Worked at it 5 days a week, just like a job.
    We only hire a New Graduate with 8 months experience or more
    We no longer hire new graduates right out of an MT program. We recently did away with our Apprenticeship Training Program and only hire new graduates with 8 months or more of MT experience.
    A frriend who was there ran out of work all the time (within the last 3 months) & the techs screw
    s
    Career Step only give you a year, so at M-TEC you have 18 months and will learn a LOT more.
    Your post made it sound like you would rather take more time to do the course, but there's a reason M-Tec requires it done in 18 months.

    You can't really learn if you drag it out longer than 18 months. You have to keep doing it, working at it, familiarizing yourself with it, in order to learn it. That is why they push you to not drag your feet, either do it or don't do it!

    Good luck to you.
    Accustat Carolinas pays some 2 after they work for free for six months...just crazy.nm
    nm
    so you've been MT'ing for 6 months and I've been at it for 25 years but I don't know
    what I'm talking about...that's a good one. The purpose of this board is for experienced MT's to give information to new MT's. One of the developments in this field is its recent downturn. We have a responsibility to be upfront with what we see, know and any conclusions we might draw. With less than 1 year of experience in the field, I hardly think you're in a position to give an educated answer regarding things like job markets, global influences and technological challenges. But then again, people like to only listen to things they like to hear...so have at it!
    What company?
    Hello, I recently read your comment and was wondering what company that was that hired you as a newbie? I'm just starting out and I need to work at home to be with my son. Would you mind networking with me! Nice to meet you..e-mail me at kennyandjenny@hotmail.com
    thanks! Sincerely, Jennifer Hokanson
    Company Name
    Can you say what company you are working for?
    company
    this company is advertising on the job board - Dictate4Me
    not sure if this is the same company, but...

    A friend of mine who was recently looking for a job had been talking to a lady from New England Transcription (not sure if this is the same company??) and had been given the total run around from them. 


    First the lady said that they paid 9 cents a line to start, then when my friend got the contract (which she had to call the lady for 5 or 6 times), it said 5 cents a line.  Then she never heard from the lady who hired her until the day before she was supposed to begin the job.  Then, the day she was supposed to start, she was told there was no work, and she should call back in a few weeks. 


    Needless to say, she didn't take this job, but it wasted about 3 weeks (from the time she accepted the position until they told her it was no longer available due to lack of work). 


    If this is the same company, maybe ask for the contract up front and review it carefully.  Ask what the work load is like and all that good stuff.  Hopefully it's not the same place.


    Company
    May I ask which company you are working for?
    Take the job if you like the company
    I would take the job if the company seems professional. The pay rate seems reasonable for someone coming out of school. If the people you are working for are helpful, you will gain tremendous experience. If they will help you with further training, then you are off to a good start. Taking a job with a higher rate and being in over your head might not be the best path. Just my opinion.
    What company is it?
    .
    If you like the company then I would
    You can load it and it will have (I think) 2 operating systems but XP should work fine. Not a lot of places are compatible with Vista yet that I know of.
    Why do you think that the company you
    work for should bend over backwards to give you the account you want? I am sure other MTs are on that account, so would it be fair to take someone off just because you want it???? If you want to find another job fine, but don't think that just because you want certain accounts you will get them. We all take the bad with the good.

    About the company
    Yes i surely can. It is a SCAM company, STAY AWAY from it if you don't want to lose your money and time.
    What is the company name
    What is the company name?
    I have yet to see a company that uses MAC. The
    programs used are not compatible.
    bad company
    If they are the company that asks you to give them $400 (or something like that) then stay away. Any company that makes you pay for their "software and training" is crap. There are too many better companies out there that don't require you to pay to work for them. Would you go to any other job and pay to work for a company? It's a little backwards.
    If it's a reputable company, yes. SM
    Some companies do charge a small lease or rental fee.
    company advice

    Just wanted to know if anybody has ever worked for Breitner Transcription and what they are like?


    Thanks!


    I think that depends on the company

    I think some companies but a time frame on when  you can test again if you do not do well the first time.  Good luck


    depends upon the company

    The company I'm an IC with is located in CA but I live in TN. Since I've had a problem with my sleep for *years,* it was an ideal situation in terms of what accounts to put me on. I'm in charge of H&Ps on three specific accounts. They need the reports by 6 a.m. their time, which is 8 a.m. my time. No problem. It's rare for me to sleep until 4:45 a.m. Usually, I'll get up around 2:30 to 3 p.m. I just go back to sleep for a few hours when the morning rush is done. My work day ends by 4 p.m. my time, which is 2 p.m. their time.


    Position at company
    I am a newbie but would be interested in the company that is hiring. Could you how to reach them?
    Sounds like a company I know in
    Alabama near 280.  If it is and you want to talk, send me an email.  I worked there before.
    This is problematic. You may get a company that
    specializes in ER notes to test you. You should also look for ads featuring in clinic work. There is no way that you can apply for acute care because you don't any OP experience and it doesn't appear that you have much other acute care. Good luck.