New technology and 1/2 the pay .. you're the stuff MTSOs dream about. nm
Posted By: They like MTs who cannot do math on 2009-05-23
In Reply to: Not staying back in the dark ages - l man's
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You're in a dream world, hon.
MT companies, on the whole, do not cheat MTs. There are a few who do not deal ethically and a few who are transcting business illegally but on the whole, MT companies do not cheat MTs.
That is as ridiculous of a statement as it is to say all MTs are cheaters and poor quality risks and they should just fire all of them and go completely to voice recognition and offshore! Not true, right?!
If an MT cannot produce enough work to make minimum wage (or even less than $10 hourly in my opinion), chances are this isn't the most productive work for that person.
However, with this being the free US of A, you are free to sit here and make nothing if ya want! So, go ahead.
Please stop with the let's band together fantasy. It really sounds like a spoiled child trying to bully the whole neighborhood into submission of their personal vendetta.
I think you're better off without the histrionic, small MTSOs (sm).
My experience with the small companies is that the owners are typically emotional and don't run things professionally. Surely they're not all this way, but my experience so far has been 100% this way. You're better off without the small-timers, but if psych is all you can do, I'm not sure where else you can find psych-only work.
Keep searching. All the good stuff is kept in house now. If you snag Op reports out here, they're
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Who said it was a dream job?
I'm one who freely criticizes MTSOs when they deserve it and the downside(s) of the job. MY ORIGINAL post was merely to state what I realized one day when I had to actually GO OUT into the real world and deal with some of the things most people have to deal with EVERY day...
It made me stop and think: Ok, you better start being more grateful for YOUR job... (because I'd go completely bonkers if I had to work at most any job outside the house now).
Dream on
My dream has always been to
sell shells for a gift shop on the beach. Actually, if you move to Nassau in the Bahamas, you will probably make tons selling stuff to tourists from the cruise ships. I know we threw a lot of cash (mostly my whole paycheck MTing that week, so you know how low I make these days) for beaded hair for my daughter, a necklace for her, and 2 shark tooth necklaces for my sons. Man o man. To retire to the islands and make a mint. Though, the grass (or sand) is always greener (or tan) on the other side, however it may be. LOL.
Dream on
NM
My dream job....sm
I would like see an MT left with the work/account they are comfortable with. Currently work on 4 different accounts, which actually equals out to about 7 or 8 different facilities and all have different acct specs and then can't seem to get anywhere with a line count because I have to check acct specs every stinking report to see how they do things. I also agree with the VBC. Spaces should be paid, period. We have to put them in, they should be paid. I do also refer employee over IC. Also, agree with differential for working weekends. I, personally, am sick to death of working weekends (but still do it), but if extra pay was offered, there may not need to be such a dire need for all MTs to have to work them. Even rotating weekends would be better than every weekend. I also think the platform should be productive, nothing with 15 different screens/windows to jump back and forth on. Consistent QA; i.e. one QA says do this and then another QA says that's wrong, do it this way. That is so frustrating!!! About pay, I think it should depend on the account, i.e. all clinic notes, all easy dictators, then 7.5 or 8 cents would be fine, but if you're doing all ESLs and doing difficult reports in a difficult field, i.e. transplant, or hematology/oncology, then I think pay should be higher. Well that's my 2 cents. Keep the board updated. There are plenty of MTs looking for jobs, I'm sure you would have no problem filling positions.
MT dream....
Fair pay, but like GP, would be willing to take 8 cpl or even 7 cpl to help a decent MTSO get started. Consistent dictators. Too many times we get lumped into accounts where we don't get the same doctors but maybe once every other month and it's hard to get them down pat that way. Again, like a previous poster, matching us up with our strong suits. Mine are clinic and psych. I prefer those over OP notes. I actually hate doing OP yet get stuck with them all the time. Actually, all the points that GP posted are all ones I'd agree with. At this stage in the game though, I think that communication is key. I'm fortunate to have a great Team Lead where I work, but I've had jobs where you never hear back to a question or a request. I wish y'all luck and let us know how it goes. I bet you'll get a lot of people wanting to sign up! Oh, if you make testing a requirement...don't use MTTest, it's horrible. And remember too that a lot of great MTs don't test well. I've found that out before and even I am guilty of freezing on testing. Consider a probationary period in lieu of testing.
Dream job
Small business is the driving force for all economic recoveries. Good luck with your endeavor.
I would like a flexible schedule with lines to be done in a specific time frame no set schedule. Extra pay for weekends, holidays, second and third shift, rotating weekends, the extra difficult dictators.
Make part time available, I am unable to work full time any more but part time work is doable and willing to work a rotating weekend.
Quit rewarding the cherry pickers and the work hogs. Platform easy to learn, do not be a slave to BOS, do not turn down people without experience in large facilities. Small facilities have strict requirements also even though the variety of specialities is limited.
Dictators need to be trained on dictating system used by faciliites and must have decent sound quality.
Support staff willing to help with all problems. QA be helpful and explain why something is incorrect. Dictation testing must have good sound quality.
Would like to be contacted if you get your dream up and running.
Are you kidding? This is my dream job!
And yes, I could be doing something else. I have a bachelor's degree and a number of year of management experience in health care and business. I've been an MT for 2 years now and LOVE it. I am NOT struggling, and my company has treated me very well, thank you. This is the best job I've ever had, actually - a perfect fit for me, and I love working at home. If I had to make 50K + to support my family, I would go do something else, but I make a reasonably good income, have benefits, have all the pluses of working at home, and love what I do. Nothing personal, but working for the government would be my idea of a nightmare. Just goes to show, to each his own!
Ability to dream
Haven't lost it yet but getting really close :)
I found my dream job after being with MQ for 12
years. No weekends, no phone calls, plus we have holiday pay. It is a smaller MTSO but I am much happier. Money is about the same, but no ASR and I can pretty well work my own schedule, no set hours.
There is no such thing as a dream job
We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and determine what our needs are and find the company that can meet those needs. Companies change all the time, not just in the MT world, and so do MTs' needs change. Sometimes, you have to decide whether to stick with something and make it work or find something that suits your current needs better. 
I know there is no dream job...but I was just looking over the posts (sm)
and was referring to one down below from another ex-MQer who said they found their dream job. I realize I'm looking for something that doesn't really exist.
Sad to start a new dream job only to
be starting your second week and there's no work available. They told me the account they were putting me had a lack of MTs and they were only hiring two of us to help catch up. I guess the two of us were really, really good (or something) because the account is completely caught up and now I've got nothing to do. 
Sad to start dream job
Does this company start with a W by any chance?
dream on! Seriously if a company sm
did that, they would never have any openings anyway!
Let's dream and dialogue about this
I think this is possible... and exciting. This is an awesome bunch of highly skilled and loyal MTs, as we all know (and were told so often). So. I don't know where to go with it, but I'm willing to be a focal point to get a dialogue going. Contact me off board when you have time. Worst case? We dream of something much better than what just happened these last few days as we all pick up the pieces and determine what is the best course for each of us.
You sound like a dream boss!
I'd be very interested in applying for employment with your company. Please advise how I might do that. 
Christmas Past - dream on
.... Just wanted to share what was done at a hospital I worked at in the good old days when I was a young one ..
Hospital gave each employee $300.00 to $500.00 dollars each as a bonus. You got a turkey for your family. AND, the grandest catered Christmas party at a local exclusive private club with dancing all night!!! Can you believe that?!?
Yes, you are living in a dream world, but you might get 11 cpl
nm
Where did all the ex-MQers get their dream jobs? (sm)
I left the Q after many years to go to a highly praised company on this board and I'm in the same boat I was at MQ...no work. Things were okay for about a year but now the honeymoon is over. I've been in the biz over 20 years and thought I would work for MQ until I retired. Now I find myself in the position of having to look yet again for another company and believe them when they promise me steady work on my accounts. I'm beginning to believe such a place doesn't exist anymore.
I can only dream of using a DOS-based system
again. Loved WP51 and had great production. I hate the mouse. Anything that takes your hands off the keyboard slows you down.
I agree. Big companies are killing the American dream
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Agree on the dream world. Here's a short list of places that have
A Better Type - new company? Out of Washington, has an ad on the other jobs board. Alphabest - up to 11, must use Bytescribe or a specific foot pedal. Ascend - on whatever account used MediTech Direct. B-I-G Enterprises - possible 9 to 11. Digital Transcription - Arkansas, Olympus software only. (People are testing here now and saying the test is atrocious.) First Choice - 10 to 11 on weekends, use FTP and Word, no software. Get Back Jack - need own LD and Cphone. Paladin Retrieval - 10 to 11 on weekends, need own LD and Lanier. Superior Global (not Global out of Texas) - 9 to 11 cpl on weekends. WebMedX - possible 10 to 11 on weekends or nights or maybe a combination? Don't know if this is situational based on experience or across the board.............NM
You can thank technology!
With all the available options with the internet now, overseas, voice recognition, etc., it has become the ruination of MTing as we knew it. Not to mention other things. Customer service jobs going overseas. Small businesses folding due to the internet shopping competition, like Ebay. And look at the children of the new mod-world, they don't even go outside to play anymore, they chat on the internet and hang out on MySpace.com. It's a very scary world.
CPR Technology
 That line about we take care of our people is laughable. They might take care of some favorites.
CPR Technology
Email me if you wish.
Not just technology
But the corporate mentality behind it. Now there are exceptions, but in general, once the suits saw $$ in Transcription, that was all she wrote. The hospital corporations may think they are saving $ but all they are doing is redistributing who gets the real $ and the quality of the medical report suffers in the process.
With technology progressing the way it is,
there's no reason the hospitals can't hire people in other states to do their transcription for them over the Internet or a toll-free phone line. I live in a very rural state, and that's what it's boiling down to. The hospitals can't find people willing to work inhouse, so they're setting up dial-in or Internet access for off-site transcriptionists. I worked for the local hospital for a while at home. We got sick leave, vacation pay, insurance benefits, and bonuses. I left them for a different job, but I wish I had stayed with them.
what has modern technology got to sm
do with my post about folks working from home and not taking this job seriously while raising kids? Obviously you want to argue the book versus internet thing again and its not going to happen.
Go back to India.
That "other technology...." sm
is already on the scene. It is EMR using POS terminals. Yep, we will just become generic patients with point-and-click illnesses, just as we will become unemployed persons with a huge fund of knowledge. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee, but you'd better have a dollar!
I think this just fabulous technology!........nm
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MultiModal Technology
Just wondering if anyone is currently working for a company that uses MultiModal Speech Technology and if the platform is MT friendly? I have a job offer and this is what the company uses and it sounds like an easy platform. Thanks!
MQ technology has always been #1. Platform is state of the art
and others pale in comparison. DocQScribe is their newest platform, and its great. Really fast, really efficient for us regarding demos, etc.
To the MQ MT who posted above re state of the art technology... sm
I tried to email you through your post above; but got a message that email address was incorrect. Need to ask a question about your post. Thanks.
Transcription, Technology & Support (TTS), NH?
Any information on this company out of Chichester, NH?
Transcription, Technology and Support
I was thinking of applying to this company. Could I please get some feedback as to the pay, work types, platforms and work flow? Thank you!
Transcription Technology Support nm
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Transcription, Technology and Support
My pay was wrong several times. I was paid someone elses lines and my line rates were reversed and it was paid late often.
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Transcription Technology &Support, LLC
Anybody with any more input on this company? Thanks!
TRANSCRIPTION, TECHNOLOGY & SUPPORT
Does anyone have any information/experience with this company?
Anyone know anything about TTS (Transcription Technology & Support LLC)
Anyone know anything about TTS (Transcription Technology & Support LLC)
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Does anyone know anything about this company?
Transcription technology Systems
Does anyone know about this company? They claim to be flexible and pay for spaces on 65-character line. Sounds pretty good so far. Any employees of TTS out there. Thanks for any information.
Suzy Q
Transcription, Technology & Support
I was just offered a job through TTS and even though I searched past posts, I am so scared !!! I have been with the same co. for 14 years, so this is a big deal to me. Any feedback would be SO appreciated. Any present or past info?
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