Yes they did finally bite back
Posted By: TTer on 2009-08-11
In Reply to: And this time the company bit back, right? - Seen it
I also read those posts and picked up on the bravado with which the 'inside information' was shared.
I work for TT and the way they've been trashed on here since some accounts went to VR, they'd have defendants around the block if they were suing MTs simply for stating an opinion.
There's merit to this lawsuit or TT would not have even bothered pursuing it, plain and simple.
The moral of the story to everyone should be to keep the self-importance in check and to make 110% sure that if you're posting something as fact, you can indeed back it up. Otherwise, you too could end up being sued, not just by your employer/former employer but anyone else you are defaming.
I love working at TT.
And I could not possibly care less if I get flamed for that or not.
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The OP's right and it CAN come back to bite you.
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You can only kick a dog so many times before they bite back!
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I did finally hear back and did okay but I think I am done testing until I talk with someone about
what they are looking for. I cant get the foot pedal to work with the voice so it takes a lot of time to go back over and over the dictation.
Yippee - I finally got a call back and did the test files last night
I hate sent another email and even called, but she was out of office. When recruiter sent the test files, she apologized for being out of touch and even thanked me for my persistence.
By the way, I was not talking about Medscribe at all. It is a totally different company.
Wish me luck!
BITE.
Buzz off, old bag!
Ask the recruiter. They don't bite. nm
I'll bite
1. How long have you been working as an MT? 11 years
2. How many DIFFERENT companies have you worked for (even if it was only for a few hours) in the last 10 years? (If you left but came back later that is only 1.) I have worked for 1 private practice, 1 hospital, and 3 services.
3. How many companies have you accepted an offer of employment from but then never actually started working for them? None.
4. How many companies have you quit working for within the first pay period? None.
5. How many companies have you quit from? I quit my first job due to moving. My hospital job was outsourced. I have left 2 of the 3 services I signed on with by choice after 6 months at each due to lack of work or lack of flexibility.
6. Have many companies have you been terminated from (I guess the word “fired” from is no longer politically correct) i.e. you were not meeting line requirements, QA requirements, time commitment requirements (signing on late, leaving early), or being told you don’t have the necessary experience/expertise for the accounts assigned to you, etc? I have never been terminated as such, but did lose a job to outsourcing.
7. How many companies have you left because they were bought out by another MTSO and you did not like how the new MTSO was treating you? None.
8. How many companies that you were working for completely went out of business (was not bought by another company) and told you that you had to find a new job yourself? None.
9. What is the shortest period of time that you have worked for one company? (Even if it was only for a few hours) What is the longest period of time that you have worked for one company? Shortest 6 months, longest 7 years.
10. Have you ever continued working for your former company while training with a new company? Yes.
11. Have you ever worked for two different companies (2 part-time or 1 full-time and 1 part-time) during the same time period? For how many months/years did you work for two different companies? Yes, once. Overlap by about 1 week.
12. What is your primary reason for applying to a certain company (pay, insurance, flexible schedule, equipment provided, sign-on bonus, referral from another MT, etc)? Pay and benefits are my main motivating factors. I really miss the stability of hospital employment (pay and benefits) and have not found anything that compares.
13. What is your primary reason for leaving a company (cannot maintain minimum required number of lines, not assigned accounts or job types as originally discussed, running out of work too frequently, difficult platform, computer slowness/crashes, management conflicts, QA conflicts, other “bait and switch” type of issues where the MTSO said one thing but you ended up doing something entirely different, personal, family, etc)? I will leave if workload is not what was promised and running out of work unable to make line counts to maintain benefits.
14. Are you really happy at your present company or are you just working there because you are afraid if you try another company it will be worse and not better? How long have you worked at this company? Do you plan to continue working at this company for at least 1 year (of course barring unforeseen personal or professional events). Would you be willing to give the name of your present company? I cannot say Im really happy, but not entirely unhappy. Of the 3 MTSOs I have worked for, I am happiest at this company. I have been there about 4 months. I do not plan to stay with this company long-term if I can find hospital employment again.
15. Do you think you will retired as a Medical Transcriptionist (or in the Medical Transcription field, such as an Editor, Supervisor, etc) or do you think you will switch careers at some point before retirement? Im not sure. Switching careers at this point would require me to go back to school and being in my mid 40s with young kids still at home, I doubt I will go back to school within the next 5 years. I do think I will retire from the medical field in some area, just not sure if it will be MT unless a hospital job comes up.
told em to bite it........
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Oh boy. I have to bite my tongue on this one
Let me just say that if only one of the participants in this study would walk even half the walk that he/she talked, the MT world could be a better place. Talk about saying one thing and doing the complete opposite. Also would be more enlightening if the complete background history regarding MTing was published regarding some quoted in this article, i.e. the past companies he/she was running/associated with. It would shed a lot of interesting light and again, contradictions. Talk about 2-faced rhetoric. Sheesh. OK, I'll be good and shut up now.
Flea-bite-a-me
We're not the only ones who are upset.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/aug/18/medicineandhealth.lifeandhealth
flea-bite-a-me, anyone?
ok, I'll bite - where do you get your info?
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Another coordinator bite the dust at OSi?
I think I'm gonna go ahead a bite...
 I turned in my Keystrokes paperwork today for a RAD account starting Monday. It looks like most of the problems are with acute care accounts with more positives on the RAD accounts. I'm not worried about OT/paid holidays because I have an actual IC job with plenty of work if/when I want it. I'm just hoping that being this RAD account is new, there will be enough work to keep me qualified for medical. I see others who just posted recently are new hires also--good luck to all of us!
The truth will bite us if we are not careful
The reason why these groups prevail is that folks like us sit back and do nothing. Maybe that's because we don't know what to do.
At any rate, don't pass it off as senseless babble. It's about more than just medical transcription, but the medical transcription industry may be a bigger player than we all realize. Of course, the biggest players are money and commerce. It is reality.
I first heard about the Illuminati more than 30 years ago. Back then, the commentary was combined with predictions regarding the card with the magnetic strip that could be used to purchase such items as groceries, which has become reality but has not fully evolved to its final potential, such as disallowing the use of cash and only allowing certain obedient individuals to obtain stuff using the magnetic strip card. It was also predicted that this magnetic strip could hold over 100,000 words, which would include a synopsis of all of your transactions, including what books you checked out of the public library. There were some far out disturbing predictions such as the one where the invention of cable televsion was just a way to get the public to pay for underground fiberoptic wiring that would eventually be used to spy on every individual. I wonder what the new digital TV situation might have to do with this endeavor.
If you haven't been on the planet for as long as I, you may not remember the days before the invention of the ATM card. There was a time, for instance, when the only way we could pay for groceries was with cash and checks. There were few credit cards available at the time, but none could be used at the grocery stores or at so many other places as today, including drive-in fast food restaurants. Times are changing, albeit very slowly, but it is scarey to think of the end result.
I have no idea what we can do as individuals to combat the evils of the Illuminati other than to stop using money and to be totally homeless and starve to death, etc., which is a fate that I fear anyway if I continue relying on the medical transcription industry for a living.. I would certainly love for someone to enlighten me.
You said Bite Me first. As for Xmas? - I was off, thanks very much. PAID too. nm
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don't complain about how your hospital has too much work - it will bite you in
the hiney!!!
You may end up losing your job to an outsource service and end up making less money with horrible benefits!! Count your blessings.
Let's just say I'll bite my tongue for fear of
getting kicked off the board for stating how things have been since they started offshoring. But I think you get the general idea.
Email some of the people who enjoy it there and see what they have to say. They won't bite! :) nm
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I can't believe a supposedly professional adult said bite me! HA!!! sm
Now we ALL want to work for Proveros and get invited to bite the management woohoo!
sry--meant I'm gonna go ahead AND bite
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Bite the Wax Tadpole??? No, I have never heard that expression before, please explain ...
You learn something new every day..
Yes, I finally did.
Very, very small local company. I'm crossing my fingers that this will be my home for awhile. It's been a difficult journey trying to find some place that did what they said they were going to do, doesn't offshore and has enough work.
FINALLY!
Finally someone saying how pathetic it is to see those types of posts and them not take it off the board! I posted one like that a few months ago and the "board patrol" wiped it off here that day!
You are correct. So many of the people act like teenagers on this board that I have found myself coming here less and less. It's no fun to sit and listen to griping, complaining, cussing, and down right rudeness on here all time time.
We should be coming here to get away from that! Let's party! Have fun! Be happy!!!! 
Finally...
I applaud you. The others need to pay attention. I give you A+ for what you said. That was well said.
YEA - SOMEONE finally GETS IT!!!
do you think they are finally (sm)
doing what most others are doing in being so cautious to meet the TAT that there is not enough work to go around? Wondering...
FINALLY!!!
This is a refreshing change. Thank you SO MUCH for not being all doom and gloom like the rest. Its nice to hear that there is a glimmer of hope out there.
PS... We probably don't hear from MTs like you very much because you're actually out there working instead of here (like me) transcribing my thoughts for free.
I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM
The accounts weren't too horribly bad. The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production. When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day. We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest. Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day. Then, they started counting lines. Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.
Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind. Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense. Then, we are told only check the blanks. I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word. Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota. I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on. When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards. Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production. So I left.
There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production. I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler. There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks.
I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there. Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly.
Good luck to you!
Phoenix Medcom- Another apply a few months back, ask to take a test and never heard back??
I applied a month or two ago, received an email from someone asking if I would take a test and said she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week, so I hurried and immediately and told her I'd love to take the test. I never heard back. I waiting thinking she went on vacation and would contact me when she got back to do the test but nothing...very strange..Just wondered if this happened to anyone else.
Hip-hip Hooray, finally
someone explains exactly what is happening at MQ even at ST.Louis office. They put so many people on the accounts, you get switched back and forth from account to account. It is feast or famine in a way. During my scheduled shift, which they asked for, there was no work. If I was willing to switch accounts daily and multiple, and sit on the computer and wait for work, I could make the line count, but I had to sit and wait and watch when the work was available. This was ridiculous.
I finally learned
after three months of lies and late paychecks I quit. Great docs, but if you can't get your money, it doesn't really matter. Don't do it!
FINALLY THE TRUTH ABOUT OSI
About a year ago one of the owners, Andy Renfroe was speaking for all of the owners and sent a companywide email after OSi got caught sending work to India. This is a portion of the email that he sent to OSI employees, and this is why people quit and are still quitting OSI in droves - because OSI never admitted this until they got caught! This is the truth and you can take it with a grain of salt if you want to.
I always did. I finally left. nm
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RAD MTS-good pay finally
Just got put on an acct for 9 cents per gross line plus $1.00 per report, did not know how it would work out because by other account pays 14.5 cpl. Well, let me tell you I am making 10-13 dollars more per hour, what about that!!!!
They finally did pay me Friday
Well I finally did get all my pay, minus the western union fees. But what it took me to get it was almost not worth it.
OK finally an answer!
Well I guess you realize you've just identified yourself...
From what I can see you are upset about 50 lines a day; 1/2 of 1% 0.50%. Yes that adds up over a payperiod, but it's still a small difference.
How many lines did you lose doing all this posting? :) kidding.
It's up to you how much you stress over this, but you may see conspiracy here when all it is an internal calculation that doesn't count a signature line for example - where your counters do.
Is it really outside the realm of possibility that there is no intent to defraud here?
finally quit!
just quit my job yesterday and a weight has been lifted. I had been experiencing a lot of issues in the past 6 months and finally thought to my self, I've had enough!
I finally did leave!
Paradise has been found right here in my own back yard. Actually, it was always there, I just needed to kick myself in the arse to make the move back there...so glad I did....like you have no idea how glad! I actually LOVE my job again. Small MTSO, lovely ladies, not too bad pay, and the best part is the the mental anguish has completely disappeared.
I feel so badly for the people still trapped there. There are some fantastic people there who deserve so much better but, like me, have to stay because, well, you gotta do what you gotta do. If I still had to carry insurance for my husband, I'd still be there, pissin' and moanin' and growing more bitter day by day.
My faith in home-based medical transcription has been restored and yes, I feel rejuvenated and back to my old self again. Thanks for askin!
Thanks KS MT...she told me 2/1 so hopefully it will finally be 3/1..otherwise, I will just (sm)
have to drop mine until I find a plan on my own. I just can't afford over $500 per month anymore.
finally someone who knows what they are talking about
wow!
Thanks to both of you for the support. I *think* I am finally done with the Q...sm
after spending a productive day with potential employers.
I'm just afraid someone is going to pinch me and wake me up from my dream of finally escaping.
Finally...somebody..Bingo. Thank you cm... NM
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finally, someone else who feels the
way that I do. We are all human beings with feelings and deserve to be treated as such. Thank you.
Finally someone speaks up for the MTs...sm
and tells it like it is. It's sad that the MTs, who are the mainstay of the transcription business, consistently get the brown end of the stick. MTSOs and QAs are the only ones that have a right to make a living, right? Our kids deserve to eat 3 meals a day, just like theirs do. The busy MTSO and the QA who thinks filling in blanks or looking something up is beneath him/her needs to wake up. Since when is their time better than ours?
She must have run away finally..what a loon...nm
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Hahaha! I think she finally got it...She
should have exited with a formidable
'I screwed up'....LOL,
same with 'deenibeeni' !
The ax finally falls at TT
Email went out today that everyone is now being asked to make speech editing a part of our daily routine! Stated traditional is now the exception and not the rule anymore and we must all move in the same direction to remain competitive.
This was the LAST thing I wanted to hear, but I sure knew it was coming judging by the way work has dwindled compared to what was available a year ago, whether it be holidays or the middle of the year. I have no desire whatsoever to move towards speech and I am very upset knowing I have to. It is not that I am against trying it, I have just gathered the opinion from this board that more than not do not like it and do not make as much money. I absolutely cannot afford to take a cut in my paycheck in these times.
Not even 1 hour later came another email touting the great responses and lots of them! Well, everyone at TT already knew they could try speech at any time...so why wait until today to inquire if they were so excited?
Good day gone bad for me....
I'm glad someone else finally said this...
It seems in some ways as if TT will hire just about ANYBODY. I too have been shocked at the quality of the transcription from some of the other TT MTs. TT just doesn't pay that well, either. I do like the people in the office. They are very nice. But, unfortunately, nice won't pay my bills.
FINALLY, offshoring to take a hit.
 Did anyone see the news conference this morning where the administration is going after the offshore companies? No more tax credits/loop holes for sending OUR jobs overseas. Yay, yay, yay! Now, maybe we can finally turn things around.
Finally, someone with a bit of sense about her
I am glad someone figured this out. You bottom lined it, out of a job, life is going on for the company as before.
Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.
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