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Thanks for your kind words, it helps a lot.

Posted By: The OP on 2009-04-24
In Reply to: You WILL make it! - MT2

It is so easy to succumb to worry and disaster. (To me worry is disasted b/c I cannot concentrate on my job, which means less lines, less money and more stress... etc.) I am going to look ahead to the future and stay on task at present... I sure hope many people here are with me with similar approach.. our line of work is difficult enough without allowing negativity to stop us from succeeding and from paying our bills!


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Thank you so much for the kind words!
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I want to thank you all for your kind words SM

and suggestions.  It means a lot to me.  I'm a pretty optimistic person, so I believe something better will come along...but it feels good to share my frustrations with those of you who have been there, done that, and got the T-shirt!


I better go to work!  Have a great weekend everyone and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.


Just Me


Thanks for your kind words
I have 25 years of experience, yet am only in my mid40s (started while in college). I am glad you got lots of offers. It is nice to know that it is possible we are not all thought of as old and crotchety, that is exactly the word I was thinking of LOL. And you are probably right I should not judge all of them just like I thought they judge all of us. Guess I was getting paranoid after speaking to that 1 MTSO.... shame on me! Thanks for your reply :)
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Needing some encouragement. Have been bouncing around without a good work home since before Christmas last year. I probably will not give up my IC position either. Congratulations and all the best to you starting Sept 8. Perhaps we will be working together some day! :) Thanks again for your input.
Thank you for your kind words! s/m
I just finally felt like it was time to share the other side of things with my company. As expected, I was met with talk to your STM (I have) and get another account (I have 4). I just felt like I needed to be honest. I do love Webmedx in most ways. Just yesterday i received praise for my work from my STM. I have NEVER had a manager take the time to do that before I worked here. They truly are nice people. My family just cannot survive with the no-work situation more than just the occasional seasonal lows. This has gone beyond that. I realize that they over hire to take care of upcoming accounts, etc. We received another mass email trying to explain the situation and how expensive it is for them these days. I totally understand that, but my family is feeling it. I have not jumped ship yet, and I might not if something better does not present itself, but I wanted to share my most recent experiences with this company. Isn't that what we are all here for? To be honest and help each other? I am not bashing this company at all, and if I DO ever leave, I will miss it--but I will not miss my ever-shrinking paycheck. I suppose it is the same everywhere these days. Thanks again for taking the time to acknowledge my post. I wish you the best of luck in this crazy MT world! :-)
Thank you for those kind words (nm)

Thank you for those kind words (nm)

thanks for the kind words :)
so I don't know their tax ID number or whatever.
Thank you for your kind words.

What I was trying to do with my original post was spark some healthy dialog, and boy did I!   It’s clear that few are without an opinion on this one, from those who took my fanciful VR language as a true and scary representation of what VR produces each and every time (yike!) to the more Borg-minded crowd (Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated.)   My point – and I actually do have one – is in the title of  Judge Judy Sheindlin’s book:  Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining.  I don’t necessarily see VR as an intentional move by our MTSOs to cheat us out of money, but I also don’t see them taking the 30-50% cut in profits they are expecting us to suffer. 


 


Somewhere between steeling ourselves for a career move that includes saying  *Do you want fries with that?* and allowing ourselves to get all borgified  by our employers’ switch to VR there must be a middle ground.  I just have not thought of it yet.   Anybody have an idea what that might be?  Instead of just bitching and catastrophizing about this, I would like some constructive suggestions for peaceful resistance, should employer tell me my account is switching next month. 


Thanks so much for your kind words.. You know I am
examining my heart today, and I think that I need to look to work elsewhere anyway. I really don't love being told that immediately I have to do this, even if it is a learning curve, and I need to be patient and it is a great company and all that.
I just don't like this vulnerable feeling when it comes to paying for my car and my rent and I guess that the fear is turning into disappointment and wanting to move on. I am having a delayed reaction the same people had last week. I need to move on now, my instinct says. When told that the industry is changing and I have to change with it, well, the bills stay the same and go up, so if the 2 don't meet then it's time for me to either work more hours doing straight transcription or get out of the industry altogether which takes time to do having done nothing but this my whole life.
I do believe I am going to spend today trying to get IC work for this payperiod so I can pay bills while I get a solid job with benefits for the next paycheck. Sometimes things like this make us examine our hearts to see what is important. To me providing for my kid is most important, and I am afraid that over-rides my loyalty to a particular place of employment. I never considered myself to give up, but I am tired of stressing and being uneasy. Need to take the control back, because nobody's gonna pay those bills but me!
Thank you for the kind words
It is MTs like yourself that make me think helping is worth the adversity.  Gourd painting is quite more profitable than MT these days.  Bird houses and different gourd art sell quite well at craft shows and flea markets.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
You know, that is EXACTLY what the Kentucky Derby rep said! 
Thank you for all of your kind words and thoughts!
Our lives will go on and we will get over this, but I will tell you, I have shed a few tears today. It was not only the job, but the friends and coworkers I was so fortunate to interact with while at Heartland.

Something has to be done about the US sending our jobs away! When is it going to end? So sad. A dark, dark day for us, but tomorrow will come, we will move on.
Thanks for your kind words, and being gracious...
is mostly because I have great respect for my team leader and don't want to leave her in the lurch. She has been wonderful to me, very supportive through some very difficult family problems, and that means a great deal to me. It is certainly not for the company!
Thans for your kind words. sm
I live in NC but am originally from Michigan. Been here 23 years. When I came here though I was working for TL/MQ and stayed with them 23 years until they went to employee status and it became such a mess. Worked for Future Net for 1.5 years but then decided to take a break totally. I know what you mean about the south paying less money. When I moved here I made money equivalent to what use to be paid up north and Future Net paid good also. But I am finding out the hard way it isn't so anymore. Thing that gets me is these places use to make you an offer if you had experience even if you didn't like the offer you got one. I have never had one tell me what they told me. There is something very fishy about all of this! 7 cpl for just OPs? I love to do OPs but not for 7 cpl all the time! Good grief!
Thanks for the kind words. See my Very Long Message

I've been in the profession a long time and I was actually surprised that I could not do the ESL and some of the other Docs at FN.  I've written twice about FN on this board, and I tried to give some of the positives, there were plenty of those too.  When I see how the MTs at some of the big nationals have to punch in and punch out, can't flex their time at the keyboard, have to use up PTO when there's no work available, get switched around without notice, I think FN is probably a whole other, superior culture to work in.  Experience is valued, consistency and regular production is appreciated, the line count as I have said in an earlier post is always correct, the checks are on time (so didn't really need direct deposit once I got used to waiting the few days it took to cut the checks.  My direct supervisor seemed to make assumptions about some situations without asking my version of who said what when, and that was a sore point with me.  They do assess a small monetary charge when certain mistakes are made, per employee handbook this is supposed to kick in after 90 days of employment, but I got my first official notice in my first month, while I was still learning the ropes. I did get quite a few calls about jobs that I never had in my queue being missing, when I never had them in the first place, resulting in having to do them and send them right away.  I kept daily written logs so I knew that I did not have these jobs in my queue. 


The quota is 1200 lines a day times 10 in the pay period to qualify for employee status and benefits, and there were quite a few days with no work available for the full 6-8 hours it would have taken to do the 1200 at my skill level,  and I never could get a straight answer about health insurance although it was a condition agreed upon when I was hired. 


I was sorry to leave, because although I really was unhappy with the quantity and quality of the dictation I hated to just give up.  Should say the sound quality was superb, it was just the actual Docs mumbling, snorting, whatever, that made doing the work so hard, and the general attitude seemed to be to just get used to it. 


My thought on the matter would be that I felt that it might have worked out and I might have stayed with FN because of the 90 percent great people, but only if it had been possible to work in-house for a while or at least to have instant message to some of the QA people so I could ask the questions BEFORE I had to send the report in, rather than getting a marked up report, or as more usual, just an e-mail with the missing words after the audio of the report was long gone.  I don't know about you but I am best at building my knowledge of any Doc's dictating style if I can research in my books, then on the net, then inquire of the QA in charge of my account, all BEFORE sending in a report, instead it went the other way around and I often had to send in what looked like it was not my best work, but in reality was my best effort. 


They DO load their LARGE program on your computer, and although I purchased a new XP computer with all the bells and whistles for the job, the platform had many wrinkles in it, seemed to cause problems with importing the demographics, and did lock up on 3 or 4 occasions, causing a 1/2 day loss of work. 


Well that's a long post all right, hope you'll forgive me if you've made it this far, but I decided I should put down all the bad AND the good in one post to see if it helps some people make up their mind.  I'm well aware that it may have been my problem all along and that I was just not suited to the particular matchup of company, platform, and accounts. 


Good luck to everyone searching, it is a frightening and tiring process.  Hope it works out great for you wherever you decide to work. 


Thanks for your kind words. I will hang in there, and hope
I find a similar pot of gold. If not the fact that the odds become in our favor when we go through this enough, but for the fact you speak from experience. Your kindness is truly appreciated!
You guys are awesome. Thanks for the kind words. nm
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Definitely need the Sted's Derm&Immuno Words and a Path&Lab Words to do derm. Lots of weirdness!
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Sted's Ortho Words, a lab words book, at least 1 drug book, and your AAMT BOS 2nd
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Thanks, That helps me a lot!
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it helps if you put where you live - sm
you stated microcassettes accounts - so more than likely maybe something nearby or a hospital that perhaps still dictates the old fashioned way - (AND YES, THERE ARE HOSPITALS THAT DO STILL USE TAPES!!)

so whereabouts do you live
I am FT clinic if that helps! We need a few more
FT MTs on the account I am on due to them adding 15 docs to us.
Hope this helps
It isn't hard to find entry level jobs with the right education. A lot of companies hire from the top 3 schools. Career Step, which I went to, and had many job offers when I first graduated. Andrews and M-Tec. (Hope I don't spark a huge debate on schools, lol).

All companies vary when it comes to hours. Some let you work in a 10-12 hour window, some require a set schedule that you must stick to or get approval not to, and if you get a true IC position you can work whenever you want as long as you have work back in Turn Around Time which can be 24-48 hours or less.

My best advice is to get into this career for all of the right reasons. You have to be willing to learn new things every day, put in a lot of hard work, and it is not easy at first...don't give up if this is really what you want. It isn't just sitting at the computer typing all day..the kind of job people say they would love to do. It is very hard work and very stressful at times. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

Hope that helps. Best of luck on your road to being an MT.
thanks, that helps a lot. One more question, please. SM
If I have this installed and the Transnet makes some of my Word commands different, does this mean if I am typing in plain Word, then those commands are still different.  In other words, when in plain Word, does Ctrl-S no longer mean Save?  Thanks for your help. 
Hope this helps
DSP is a compression method that was written specifically to address the requirement of recording human speech. This method removes a considerable portion of the potential sound spectrum. However, the removed data has little impact on a listener's ability to understand what was said. The algorithm rounds off many of the highs and lows associated with the tones found in the original spoken words. Listeners may no longer detect some of the emotions that may have been inferred by these tones, but the actual words will remain quite clear and discernable.

This CODEC is an excellent choice for recording dictation. The CODEC supports a Sample Rate of 8.0 kHz with a Sample Size of 8 bits and mono recording. One hour of Truespeech recording can fit into about 4.5mb of disk space. We suggest the use of Truespeech for Dictation type applications where the speaker's emotions are irrelevant.


Thanks for your message, it helps to know...
I am not alone in this battle. I was naive enough to trust MW and that is my fault, I should have been checking my account all along. Then the fact that they offered no explanation, no compensation for the lost investment that can literally never be recovered, and just blew me off is very upsetting. The head of HR just about hung up on me at the beginning of all this, said she had nothing to do with the 401 and referred me to payroll. What a way to run a business, employer of the year twice no less! I gave my notice but still have a week to work because I feel my integrity and work ethic is something to be proud of, even though they have not been fair to me. Live and learn, and move on is all I can do at this point.
Caller ID Helps Me
I have caller ID and whenever I see an 800 number or one that says caller unknown or an unknown name I just don't bothering answering it.
Thank you for your comments. It sure helps! nm
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you don't have to clock out but it helps sm
as far as your lph (lines per hour) rate for bonus money. You finish a job, when you release it, you are asked if you want to release this job yes or no and there is a box that says do you want to clock out. If you want to clock out at that time you put an x in that box and release your job and you get clocked out.
Hope this helps.
Local company uses this method with full-time being 100 dictated minutes. Have a friend who works there and says she can meet this requirement in about 5-5 1/2 hours, but very qualified. 
Here is what I do, hope this helps

Here is what I do, go into START, control panel, add or remove programs, and do that part.  Then, I go to My Computer, C Drive, Programs (and delete out any remnants).  You will also still need to definitely take it out of the main part of your computer which is REGEDIT.  To do that is very easy, I do it all the time with NO problem, learned it off my computer guy, actually. 


START, RUN, type in regedit, OK.  On left side in regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE, Software, and then just right click on the software name and it will allow you to delete it with a question screen asking if you are sure you want to do so.  If you know the exact name of the program or even the exact name of the file it was in, you are safe doing this.  You would also need to check in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and just do the same procedure over again.    Hope this helps you.  It looks complicated, but is not.


It certainly helps if you're not. :))
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what helps me is breaking up my day
in 2 and 3 hour shifts. I can just keep my head above water this way and some days I may go above that point.  I have heard a few others here share this same strategy.  It is hard to sit here for 8 hours straight, day in and day out. I can produce more in shifts that are broken up. Also find the time of day you feel you are most productive. Good luck! 
Ok, that helps! Is there high
turnover or are they acquiring a lot of new accounts? 
Any information helps. There's nothing
wrong with tooting your own horn! :)

I guess I was just wanting to know if I would get paid on time for the work I did and if there was a steady work flow. Those are my 2 main questions.
hope this helps....see msg
www.etransmed.com

I don't know anything about the company, myself.

good luck!
Thanks PTtrans any info helps.
Thank you
thanks...I did what you suggested....the info helps.
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Well then, I hope it helps to reinstall. Come to think of it...SM

when I say that I get those double letters, maybe that is when I open my SC after loading my program.  I have no idea!  I've never noticed.  It's just not a consistent problem, and even when I get the double letters, it's not on every expansion that I'm using, just kinda hit-and-miss.  But maybe this is what the problem is! 


Anyway, I hope you get your problem sorted out.  When you reinstill, your .sc dictionaries (or whatever they are called) will just be right there waiting on you.  That is how it was when I got my update.  Good luck, and thanks to you, too.  :)


so basically no platform. thanks that helps a lot.
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...a good thing to have. Really helps! NM
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I drink one just about every day. Helps with periods. sm
The soy actually makes my periods shorter and less cramps, which is a HUGE deal to me.
I'm not using them for weight loss, just as a high-protein, low fat meal or snack, especially on days that I do weight training.
Amazing how a little communication here and there helps. I wish they'd
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I would recommend them as an employer if that helps -
I don't know what specific questions you might have, but if you want to post a couple I will try to help.
labor board only helps if you are
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It is by account. It helps that the owner and managers are
transcriptionists! It is determined before contract.

I asked about this when I started last year, so I know that is the way it is done.

I make great money there.

I know there have been bad posts here, like with any company, but I have had a great experience and plan on staying through my career if they will have me.
Try Keystrokes out of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Hope this helps!
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I use mine too, but the tech helps me when I need it - doesn't matter
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I type radiology and the ortho book helps
I also had to get a medical & surgical words book to help with some of the procedures. They were well worth the money - got mine on ebay pretty cheap.
It wouldn't surprise me that the co. didnt want to pay extra for something that helps me but coul
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