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Bye Bye Birdie. Could you email me too. I've been watching the board and interested in your findi

Posted By: wanna know 2 on 2007-06-28
In Reply to: Looking for Lillybelle - bye-bye Birdie

since I also have been on the job search from you know where. I would be interested in any information you would want to share.


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You know what - I've been watching
FN posts now for a while - and I experienced nearly the same things myself years ago - the no work, the no answers to emails, the cherry pickers, the lousy QA and am watching someone else now who is being treated very well and makes me kind of wonder if they don't overhire and then kind of weed us out and see who will take what, etc.  I'm going to have to watch this other situation and see what develops... interesting!!
Trans. cos. watching board
Not the least bit worried. We enjoy a fair comment privilege to state our opinions, and we can make assertions and tell our experiences. They have no leg to stand on. I think their threats to initiate *slander suits* is hilarious, and ironic since MTs are the ones being acused of being sue-happy. If any of you transcription companies are monitoring this message right now, take this: You're a pathetic, crooked company, you cheat your MTs and your clients. Now try to find me!
I've been watching for years now - sm
I'd say you are correct. Lots of companies I've never heard of and most of them seem to be IC. You never see any of the big MT companies on here anymore it seems.

I personally would never take a chance on an IC job unless I knew someone who was already working there and actually getting paid.
The hospital I work just contracted to send our overflow to MDI. I've been watching as our SM

minutes slowly dwindle.  Last meeting we had, we voiced our concerns about losing our work and Transcend/MDI outsourcing overseas, only to be told that administration is happy that TAT is being met and so they are going to continue to send work to MDI on a daily basis and we don't believe they are sending OUR work overseas.


My hospital is a prime account to be sent overseas, a medium-sized community hospital, three (count 'em, three) ESL who aren't hard to do at all with the resting being very good, very American dictators, easy to understand.  No way would a service give this account to an American MT who could stand to make a good pay check doing this account.


I think the next step is to get rid of us all and send everything out.  If that happens, that's it for me, I'm getting out of transcription all together.  I know I definitely won't go to MDI for a job, like they would put me on this account where I could pull in 2000+ lines a day.


I've worked too hard all these years to be treated like my knowledge, skills, and education doesn't matter and to be paid peanuts for these skills I have worked hard to acquire, improve, and maintain.


I'm just really bummed today.  My job future isn't looking too good right now.  I hope I'm wrong. 


yes:I'd be more than happy to help you with that; please email me if interested.
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Take it to the politics board - not interested
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thought you might be interested in this, taken from the main board
It is a horrible story that is becoming almost the norm...

I was told today by a national transcription company that due to my lack of experience in the last eight years.... that I was unqualified to work for them as they need people with recent acute care status. I have worked for a group of orthopaedic surgeons for eight years and went to work for them because my job at the hospital was phased out due to outsourcing. I have 36 years of experience as a Transcriptionist and all but the last eight were in a hospital setting. I am shocked to find out that I do not qualify for their company. The work at our clinic is dwindling and even though they are hiring three new docs this coming year, none of them are going to be allowed to dictate as they will be required to use the EMR only. All of us sit by our desks waiting for that next job to show up and hopefully if you are lucky enough, you are the one who grabs it first. I used to work every evening and weekend. That has happened in the last five months. Sorry for the venting. It has been a tough struggle with a laid...
Why is everyone on this board nasty? I applied and happen to be interested. If you are not, stay o
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I have no idea...ask MTME. I've heard bad things about MDI-MD and am not interested! n/m
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TO bye bye Birdie

TO bye, bye, Birdie,


I wish/beg/hope/pray that you will write us a handbook, or at least share a report of your journey with us.  Seriously, I would very much like for you to write a book and sell me a copy.  I want to hear all about where you have been, what you have seen, and any insights you might have as to how we can individually and collectively make the necessary changes.  I'm truly not familiar with how things are going right now in other industries (except that nurses are getting better pay than when I was doing it), but I just know that I personally have been in a living nightmare ever since I graduated from the MT training and started trying to make a decent living at it.  The situation is worse now than it was just 2 short years ago. 


You have the experience and insight that would be most useful to relative newcomers such as myself.  So, please consider it, do it.


 


where is the post of bye-bye birdie?
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Bye-Bye Birdie, any luck? nm
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Birdie, where, generally, do you live?
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I've done that, too. Or at least an email of someone there currently.
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I don't know what's up with email, anyhow, I've only been
at JLG for just under a year but no changes and still taking to same people. It took me some time to get used to getting my check different weeks of the month and absolutely hate not getting direct deposit, but honestly I love not being micromanaged, I work when I'm supposed to and only PT so bennies are not an issue for me. I've worked for the worst so this seems just fine for me right now, but I'm always looking and if things change, I'm out of here.
Then email that too! I want a clean board and I think Adm does too!
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Actually, I sent you an email through your ad on the company board. Thanks! nm

I've never gotten a threatening email. nm
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Must be your email, I've been getting and sending
emails all the time.
That's the best post I've seen on this board
Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it love it!!!
:D
This is the only board I've been able to post on and

I've been a member for years here. I have a validated email address and have been using the same moniker for at least a year.


Something is not right.


Whoa! Where've you been? This board was
positively crackling with anger over all of Acusis' MT's getting a 10-15% wage cut. We all got a phone call last Friday. Maybe they just couldn't get to everybody in one day. And she conveniently didn't mention it this morning in the meeting. Since they do a pretty good job of keeping us from getting in touch with each other (unless you want to do it on their totally monitored company email), you should check in with this thread on MT Stars DAILY. It's the only way we all have of comparing notes.
Although I've seen many negatives on this board, I'm very
happy at JLG. Not having DD is the only negative I can think of.
Since discussion about OSI cannot remail CIVIL on this board, you will now need to take it to email.
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I have known this for a long time; that is why I NEVER respond to an email from ANYONE on this board

because it will identify your email address when you return their email.  When they ask me to talk via email, I just don't respond to them.  NO RETURN EMAIL FROM ME.


That is the nicest thing I've seen on this board!
kk, you are one sweet person to offer a newbie a start like that! If you believe in karma, this good deed should come back to you two- or three-fold. Good luck to you both!!!
butt out. LOL. It's a PUBLIC board that you've
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I must've gotten lost--thought this is an adult board
Go back to your friends at MySpace...you'll fit in better there.
Should've read my email sooner, they did invite me to finish the test -sm
Mine did have 4 dictations. None of them were ESL, though they were a little more difficult than most tests I've taken.
watching everything they do
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Then we best be watching our backs
and socialism has really been around longer than we think because I was let go from a job in the year in approximately 1962 because of an abortion. That is right. Worked at a children's hospital that was affliated with a bigger hospital, went to the bigger hospital and was fired from the other. So I guess socialism is nothing new, right?
What is odd here is watching the MTers
busting a gasket because of their inability to work at VR. Anyone who cannot make money doing it usually say it is for slow transcriptionists when they know they are the ones who just cannot catch on on how to make a buck from it. All the companies are headed that way. I read people say I can transcribe over 2000 a day and then they say I cannot even do $100 a day with voice. I see everyone going elsewhere, going to work at McDonald's, going to have to pay them what they make at straight, aint gonna happen. I have 25 years and tired of working my fingers off, want to do the easy way now with voice.
Guess I better start watching for it. sm
I sent in my papers last Friday.
trans companies watching

Funny story - several companies watch this board and feel they can use the information posted as a slander suit against those doing the posting.  Funny thing is, all posting would have to be proven inaccurate and if they are not the companies spoken about, then why would they worry if it were them.  If it is them, then they would also have to prove it was not true.  Be careful posting, there are several who monitor and act as if they are one of you.  As you all know the signon information, including what some feel are initials are usually an acronym or petname. You could be mistaken for someone else.


Most should probably spend their time making sure they keep their nose clean and their people happy.  Not only do they drive us crazy in our professional lives, they have nothing better to do then to reach into our personal lives as well. 


I have been watching this KS bashing and hope that it never happens to sm
my company. You are horrible, bitter, miserable people who seem to have nothing better to do than throw in 2 cents that mean nothing. I am apalled at the childish behavior of adults and profassionals.

Long distance? All of my 32 of my employees have to provide unlimited long distance or be local to Atlanta. They all have either cable digital or Southern Bell and no one complains as it is not very expensive and does not really add to their regular phone bills.

If you want more than 0.06 per line, you have to be willing to give and take too. MTSOs are here to make money too and I think you would be very surprised to see that we do not make as much as you think, maybe even less than some MTs.
I'm going to start watching this more closely also. (sm)
Do you think the lag will get worse as new accounts are added?
yeah, they are watching and people take the bait

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Watching who is posting for jobs to keep current, but not
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Don't be watching and waiting. Been there for years and never any type of acknowledgement...nm
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You take the Geritol and start typing, Missy. Big brother is watching! They
Can't put up with that kind of bull from my employer!
I was told by several actual Indiam MTs that they were trained by watching ER episodes and typing SM
as the show was aired. They were rated on their speed, not accuracy! He said that when he did start working, the actual reports were to be edited in the US, so accuracy did not matter. I found this shocking, although the best line rate there at the time was 2-3 cpl. His accounts that he was assigned in India were for many US VA hospitals He has since come to the US and works online for a major company, last time I spoke with him, he was getting 11 cpl. He must have been trained with one of the more complicated episodes of ER...LOL BTW, I did tell him that he should be an entertainment industry MT, he would probably make more money...
I've been there quite a while, pay on time, growth spurt right now, so good time to get on board,
new accounts and lots of work, and before someone says it, I'm not management, just an employee.
I'm interested too

I've thought about going back to Transolutions, and this looks interesting. How are they coming up with the hourly rate offered to each person, do you know? What sort of accounts? I was wondering if this was a crew of people who went around getting the new accounts started or filling in when there is an overload on accounts. Is there any special or different training? Would I be working on the DOS or Windows platform?


Any info would be great.


C-Bay has always been interested in HIS,
I wouldn't be surprised if they jump on this offer.You have no chance if C-Bay buys HIS as they don't have a domestic team! If you think HIS has too many indians, C-bay is owned/operated/managed by them!!
Also interested.....sm

Please post only if you have worked there in the last year. There are lots of negative posts from late 2004, but from what I understand, there have been major management changes since then, so I'd like to hear from those of you who have experiences from 2005.  Thanks!


You might be interested in the within
http://www.whydowork.com/forums/about2494.html&highlight=
Why? Anyone interested would already know where
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Interested Too
Any other feedback, pro or con, appreciated.  Thanks!
VERY INTERESTED
Hi,
I am very interested in your company I have experience with Medical Transcription and I would like to send you guys my resume. If you would please get back with me asap. my e-mail is gsopiglet143@yahoo.com
If you are interested
in an employee status position, most require that you type a minimum of 150 lines per hour. You could probably easily find an IC position with an MTSO, they are not usually as strict with the hourly line count. Also, working as an IC allows you to work more than 8 hours a day to get your desired line count.
Sue, I would be interested...
I would be interested weekend or back-up transcription. Let me know how to contact you. Thanks!