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Can anyone with knowledge say if the pcl pay I currently receive will remain the same with Transcend, part-time or not?  Staying on straight transcription? 

singing their praises awhile back.  I was just wondering -- is everyone still happy?  Are the line rates good? Plenty of work?  Good benefits?   It is hard to find a company nowadays that are willing to pay a decent line rate.  They may want tons of experience (I have 30+ years), but then offer a line rate that I would hesitate to take even as a newbie.  Quality work deserves quality pay. :-) 

I worked for this company for a couple of days and went elsewhere because they offered no benefits.  I was to have received a check on the 30th of July for work done the beginning of July and didn't get it.  After repeated communications, they have told me it has been mailed, overnighted, etc., etc. and I still haven't gotten it.  Now they're telling me it was overnighted today (we'll see) and the amount they told me is way below what it should be and what my time sheet shows.  The president of the company is now emailing me!!!  I have wasted so much time and energy with them and wondered if anyone else has anything to say about them.

Just curious, I have been an MT for about 18 years - and then stopped for a couple of years.  I am now working for a service.  I read posts about running out of work.  My question to all of you is:

Is this pretty standard with any service you work for?  I know it is hard for them to control when the docs dictate, etc.  Just wondering.  Are there any companies that have somewhat of a steady workflow, or are there more MTs than work available now a days?

Anyone have experience with Phillips Medical Transcription? Is pay on time, etc.? Thank you very much!

Okay guys call me an idiot for not knowing that Medware has an India division!  Now, I'll risk the flaming yet again.....Can you recommend companies who offer employee status without outsourcing to India?

Good health insurance coverage at a reasonable rate for single person, nice organized people to deal with, paid on time, and the sooner they could put me to work, the better!

Please feel free to email me privately.  My address should be somewhere on this page!

Cindy

I work for a large MTSO and after four years have not received a cost of living increase. Is this standard operating procedure? Things cost more than they did four years ago. Do you think CEO is getting the same pay as four years ago? Any thoughts?

nm

Anyboy ever have a problem with this company?

Questions to ask the company your work for:  How often are the lights turned off?  How often does your phone get shut off? How often do you lose internet service for nonpayment?  How may checks -payroll or otherwise did you bounce this month, this year? How many IRA accounts did you take money from?  How is your inhouse turn around for employees?  How many excuses can you come up with for my late payroll?  You want a schedule of my availability, but do you offer work to keep me busy during the time you insist I be available?  How many times have you paid your full time employees late?  How many times have you asked your fulltime employees to invest $17,500 into your company while bouncing checks?  How much did you spend on a christmas party without bonuses paid to your employees and even paying them AFTER the holidays late?

You would be surprised what one company's answer would be.  Home base  =  PA.  Beware people.  What is good today is not always good tomorrow.  Am I bitter, no.  My dream job as an inhouse employee was shattered when my eyes were open.  And I left on my own because of it.

any info?

No Jobs from MTSOs involved in offshoring, sending good/easy dictators to India, Pakistan, Philippines etc and keeping the ESL garbage for us here.

I am currently working for a company that uses a Word-based platform, obtaining the dictation through TransNet and WinScribe.  I have a job offer with another company, part-time, that also uses a Word-based platform, using Iscriptor.  Does anyone know if this will be possible? 

TIA!

Would appreciate any suggestions for companies who are hiring acute care and/or rad MTs, IC or SE, at a line rate of 9-10 including spaces and headers.  Thanks in advance.

How about several of us go in together?  Or I can start a business and have a few of you to be partnered into it?

We can each invest $35,000 as investment capital to purchase equipment, advertise/market, secure legal and accounting services, etc., and then we have an MT-owned company?

This is for the MTs who have to keep an Excel log for jobs and need to add up the minutes transcribed at the end of the day.

I've done some footwork today and discovered a Microsoft page which tells you how to enter times into cells:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266691

I haven't figured how to automate it, but basically Excel recognizes minutes and hours if entered in the following format:  hh:mm:ss.  So if you have a 5 minute 12 second job, you would enter 00:05:12 in that cell.  Then at the end of the day you enter the formula =Sum and the cell range (the link gives specific example) and it adds up your minutes and seconds automatically for you. 

I thought I'd share.  I've been adding my account by hand because I didn't know how to sum with minutes and seconds till now.

Please tell all the good and bad!!

Thanks

Anyone heard of US Transcription or work for them...would like to know the good, bad or ugly about them and if they are hiring? I have just sent my resume and waiting to hear.

Thanks!