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When I find decent people who know the value of decent wages, I will!

Posted By: QueenieBlue on 2005-11-04
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    Thanks. Can you make any decent pay with them and are the accounts decent. What is your feeling
    that. Thank you.
    WOULD LIKE TO FIND A COMPANY THAT HAS DECENT FAMILY INS. BENEFITS AND PTO
    I have been working in-house at a hospital and would like to go home to work, but I am having a hard time finding a company out there that offers decent insurance benefits and PTO.. Any ideas are appreciated..
    You are being hypothetical while we are trying to find a co. where we can make a decent living,,,,nm
    :+
    I like it a lot. They are really decent people.

    My first paycheck was in the bank ON TIME and for the correct amount too!


    Companies are hardly offer FT employees any decent benefits so I think is going to be rare to find
    them for PT employees. I would love that too, unfortunately, I work too much just to get below average benefits. Best of luck in your search. Honestly, I think the only place you'll find benefits for part-timers is going in-house at a hospital.
    Yes, they are a decent company. Different personalites, overall good people. nm
    x
    For all the other people looking, are you finding a decent amount of other places to go to right
    now.
    Decent company, good people, pay on time, work low sometimes. nm
    x
    As a whole.. nice people to work for, decent benefits but the get off/on the system, work/no work,
    is maddening. I couldnt pay my bills or even work the schedule I was assigned. They would ask us not to work until work built up in the evenings and I specifically wanted to work days as I have kids etc. It just didnt work out for me but to each his own. It just seems there has to be a better balance in this business that what is happening.
    What would you consider a decent (sm)
    line pay? 8, 9, 12 (well, we can dream, right?)
    What is a decent
    hourly starting wage for QA anyhow, or are we allowed to talk about that here.  I have been doing transcription for 11 years, and like you all mentioned, Im starting to just ache.  I can do about two hours at a time, and then I have to take a break.  I had done some editing here and there, and was thinking this time about going to QA full time, but I get confused with all the pay rates.  Some are offering 3 to 4 cents a line, some are offering hourly rate, and I have no idea what a decent pay rate is for this position.
    Decent cpl pay.

    Does it seem like escription accounts want to pay less because you can produce more with the editing? 


    Never take less than 4cpl for editing.  That's the highest I've seen.  I personally won't take less than 9/10 cpl for the straight typing with those accounts either.


    Don't know about decent, but here are some

    Accurate Typing of Suffolk, NY - use Word and Hyperterminal.  Dependable Transcription of Florida - use Word, FTP, DSS files.  Documed of NJ - Word and email of files.  EFD of Alabama, but you need a Lanier or Cphone. Use Word and PCAnywhere.  First Choice - use Word and FTP.  Heim's in Pennsylvania - use Word Perfect 9 or higher and FTP.  LML Transcription in Illinois - use Word with DocShuttle and FTP.  Medscribe in Pennsylvania - only 7 cpl, use Word with DocShuttle.  Metro in Georgia - use Word and FTP.  MRT Services in Georgia - use Word and FTP.  MTs in Mass. - 7 cpl, pay weekly, use Word and FTP.  PRN Transcription in New Mexico - use Word Perfect and email, 7 cpl.  Transcription Connection in Ohio - 8 cpl, use Word and maybe ExText. (posters don't have much good to say about them, though).  There may be others and some of this info may even have changed in the interim, but it's a place for you to start from. Good Luck! ... Wanderer


     


    A decent MT should be getting off QA sm
    by the third full day of work, an excellent one sooner.  Congrats to you.  And yes everyone, I am saying that under most circumstances (unless the company has a strict QA time period of a week, 2 weeks) you should be off!
    Decent job
    Just changed jobs, went through a Med Tran headhunter type of service.  This has turned out to be a total disaster.  So, looking for new employment and am very interested in getting hooked up with a company that uses EditScrpt platform by eScription.  I have two years experience in that platform and love it.  Any suggestions?  Not willing to try this headhunter service again as they were less than truthful with me.  Actually just looking for a job with a decent company that pays more than slave wages.
    Is there a decent IC job anywhere
    Cannot find 1 IC job that pays decently with 24 hour turn around, and only 1 day on the weekend required. Scoured the ads left and right.  Any ideas? Not MDI-MD please (BTDT), anywhere else would be appreciated.  TIA 
    very decent company
    Everybody is great and helpful. Wish you the best..
    First of all, have a decent attitude
    Lets face it, working for a living sucks.  Unless you're doing whatever your passion is and getting big bucks to boot.  MT is not my passion, but I still put all I can into it, in order to get a paycheck and stay on the good side of my supervisors.  Simply a good attitude, work when i'm scheduled to do so, focus so the quality is above 98%.  I agree, its getting bad in this industry, you can complain all you want, but some of us are working hard to hold onto our positions...at least until we have something better to fall back on.  I don't have hubby to pick up my slack so I do what i'm told and collect my paycheck.
    spell decent!
    nm
    Is 8 cpl a decent rate for an IC who SM
    just graduated from school in October, only my 2nd MT job and a fairly easy clinic account with no ESLs? Quite a bit of 'normals' info in our reports too.

    Am I getting the shaft or about normal for a newbie?
    The OP is saying she has no decent work, which
    obviously seems lack of work. Your post sounds more like a confessional to clear your own guilt - apples and oranges! You have oodles of work, and the OP doesn't! Get it?
    Decent living..

    In short....the answer about Is it possible to make a decent living with them, without having to work 40 or 50 hours per week?.... NO 


    All the decent docs have

    TransTech did a big hiring blitz back in October last year for a new account, but the account almost immediately started going to VR, so the doable dictators left in a hurry!


    The jobs that get sifted towards the MT's out of VR machine, thus, are the very difficult dictators that should be warned about their dictation habits.


    The ExSpeech (editing platform) is very awkward and time consuming, so it is a catch 22 for the MT's. ExText has a good spell check and is easy platform to learn.


    TransTech does not allow the MT's to check/verify our lines in the manner in which, in my opinion, we should be able to do. The CTRL I function does not give even a close line count and our pay stubs do not show it either -- just the word *piecework*. We can go to iChart; however, it does not show an immediate line count nor the jobs or line count per report -- only a total line count for a period of time per TransTech's counting method. It is a lot of trouble to go to iChart to get an immediate line count each time you choose to check your pace. We should be able to do this right from the platform/software that we are working in, IMO.


    It seems our lines have been much harder to obtain in the past several months -- I suppose more to the dictators shuffled our way from VR, than anything that Transtech is doing with the line counts. I can't imagine them messing with our line counts in any form or fashion, as some companies have been accused of doing.


    VR is the way of the future in order for the companies to be more profitable for themselves, so this is what we have to look forward to -- those of us who remain in the MT profession.


     


    Well that's a decent amount of $
    NOT to walk away from. Depending on how much you need it though I would still consider not taking it... and not signing.

    Then you are completely free to do anything u want without any worry.

    If you need the money, however, you appear to have little risk with this contract being prevailed upon in court.

    I'd say you don't really need to 'panic' anymore - :) you'll be OK with either choice.

    Good luck.




    Looking for decent company

    I'm looking for a decent national company. It's really important that they provide the computer since mine is ancient and they accept satellite internet because I live in rural Maine and that's all available here. I support a 4-person household and really need a company that's dependable. I was looking in Webmedx, Transcript USA, and Transcription Relief Services. Anyone know anything about any of those. Not interested in Diskriter, Transcend, JLG, Spheris, or Precyse. Oh also, are all the companies going to ASR now? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


    She said she was looking for a DECENT company.
    .
    and maybe you'll get decent MTs!

    The pay was decent and everything was good except
    I never knew how much work I would have - sometimes too much and sometimes not enough. That was a while back, though.
    Decent company

    They are a decent compay with better than average pay and good benefits.  Pretty flexible as far as scheduling.  Platform is user friendly and easy to get lines with.  Team leads and supervisors are nice and helpful.


    Umm - decent insurance? - nm
    x
    MT should be getting these things PLUS a decent
    x
    Decent for PT work
    I worked for them for several months.  It was OK.  The work was pretty difficult and I have a lot of experience with ESLs.  I always got paid, but not always on time.  QA is a b***h, but that was just my experience.  I'd personally keep looking.
    R there any decent companies
    I don't want to hear from anyone with Keystrokes. Any other companies? TIA
    Spheris decent?
    Spheris insurance is reasonably priced but horrifically poor coverage; up to $3000 annual deductible. Pay used to be excellent; you know what you would get according to level of account. If you wanted more cpl, you could transfer to a higher level account. No more. Pay is top secret (lower). No more account levels. Flexible schedule not likely but depends on your supervisor/account needs. Most accounts now transitioning to some/most SR (even lower pay). PTO only if FT. Incentive is decent and attainable if FT. Resources are excellent to do your job (help loops, desktop references, training modules, etc.). Direct deposit always on time. If you don't need good insurance and can work for what they offer you, you would probably do okay.
    DECENT DICTATIONS...sm
    It's known as electronic cherry-picking by the Leads .. as the company claims not to outsource work.  There have been 1 or 2 who are very adept at this.  After 3 years with the company, I know generally the makeup, percentage-wise, of good, mediocre, ESL and dictators who just plain s**ck.  So when I get almost a whole shift of crap that takes me 3 times longer to produce, well, figure it out.  There is 1 lead in particular who likes to pick out the good dictators right out of my queue and replace them with garbage.  I have actually called her attention to this on more than 1 occasion.  I'm no tattletale, but this is my living, and my next e-mail will be cc'd to mgmt and all the Suits I can think of.  The Leads are literally taking food out of our childrens' mouths.  
    Do you know if they are decent to work for or anything about them?
    Thanks
    It's decent. They are always working to improve it.
    You have to click to different pages to run searches and add copies, but the platforms runs pretty quickly. They do listen to the MTs in working towards perfecting it. It all takes time though. I've been with them for several months now and they have upgraded twice. I don't think you'll have a problem with it.
    Finally found something decent sm
    10 cpl weekdays and 14 cpl weekends,  YES!!!!! what company you may ask, email me privately, she is in need of at least 3 MTs.
    Very decent bennies. If you do ESL, you can get 10 cents
    a line with bennies.  Check them out. 
    I was so glad to hear this!! They are a decent

    a decent company despite the posts here.


    Best company to work for as an IC. Decent cpl etc...nm
    nm
    I'm glad you are getting decent money
    but I'm really hurt by this.  I feel used now. 
    Any decent companies hiring?

    Does anyone know of a good MT company that is hiring?  Here is what I am looking for...


    Flexible schedule


    Taxes taken out


    Differential if shift work is required


    Software that allows decent line counts


     


    THANKS!


    There are other honest MTs who turn a decent
    pull the plug on them before the notice can be fully worked...suddenly you cannot access your account because the MTSO found a replacement and locked you out.

    So for whatever ill feelings you have from people who have burned you, there are MTSOs who do the same or worse. To use your obviously bitter thinking, isn't it good all MTSOs are perfect? ~rolling eyes~
    Disagree, DSG pretty decent (SM)
    I never ran out of work. Uses DocQScribe but must do something different than MQ as I had no prob making 1500 lines/day on day 4. Exceptionally supportive to MTs -- encourages sharing of normals and other info. They offered me top line rate right at the start, plus weekend bonus (IC). Management was wonderful, responsive. I'd be there still, but I screwed up.
    You have a decent team leader.
    Mine is not that great and is not flexible.
    Who has decent health insurance?

    I just got notice from TransHealth that they are changing our (already sucky) insurance in two weeks to an even suckier plan. I cannot afford a $1000 deductible. If I had that lying around, I wouldn't need to work!!!


    Is there any company out there with a decent FAMILY healt insurance plan that won't cost $1000 a month in premiums?? I have 10+ years of acute care and multispecialty experience with 99% accuracy. Why can't I insure my family!?


    There ARE no more decent MT jobs out there anymore -
    .
    I think nobody is answering because of the word *decent*...LOL
    nm
    I think decent is $12-15/hour; not really low, not really high.
    nm
    Are there companies that use a decent platform?
    Currently using ExText with Transnet and it is so slow. Need to find a company with some decent software that runs faster. Im getting frustrated, and some days are worse than others. Today is a worse day.