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You are correct with the commas, they can make a world of difference in a sentence but she was counting me off because I didn't put a comma before the word and when doing a list, which is totally optional.  This was just an example of the stuff that is being nitpicked at.  Clients are always right, the problem is there is no real instructions there to clarify things.  It tells you how to do the demo screen, the format, but doesn't say things like do we bold or capitalize allergies, etc.  I keep all emails sent back to me for feedback.  I will have 1 person tell me something that is not in the instructions so I keep a note of that and then another QA person will tell me something different for the same thing.  For example we have a doctor who dictates a chart number.  I asked QA if we put it in or not.  One said yes so I did, the next said no and counted off for it.  I have gone above their heads but it does not get me anywhere. 

I hate work now because I am so nervous everytime I type I am wondering if I am going to be counted off for something, are they going to write me up and fire me?  I have worked extra every time they ask for volunteers, have learned new accounts when asked because they were short people and like everyone else here I need a job, but at what point is enough enough?  I am trying to find somewhere else to work, and maybe I'll have to work both places until I either get fired or find another company that is good to work for, I don't know.  I have been with this company for 2 years now and loved it until the old QA person left and they have new ones now.  Thanks for letting me vent!

For you and anyone else to post your opinion or opinions as many times as you like and it should be done without being bullied.  However, I think that some are so miserable with their own life that this is the only way that they can feel better about themselves. 

I have over 27 years of experience and like probably most everyone else on this board, I have worked LOTS of nights, weekends and holidays.  There are a few companies out there that do pay more than 7 cpl and have Mon-Fri schedules, the problem is that they are few and most MTs are smart enough that if they get hired on they stay.  Just keep looking, do lots of research, watch the ads VERY closely and hopefully you will get lucky.  I wish you the best of luck, as I wish all of my fellow MTs, even the ones with the most negative responses. 

MQ takes out SS taxes and federal taxes, but not state taxes.

Correct me if I am wrong about this.

Any word ending in a "y" does not get the - between it and the other word, as in weight-bearing, fruit-bearing. Sorry but I used 2 work 4 the Grammar Police back in 1903.

percentage of ASR was actually more in the range of 75% to 90% with more and more accounts being switched to ASR.

I think the software issue rides along because you actually are accessing the software through your own PC and your own internet connection as an IC.  I think it would be a little different if the company controlled which PC you used, which sites you used, etc.  But in essence as an IC we are using our own equipment to access the site or platform needed to transcribe the file. 

I work for an online company where I use an FTP site, but it doesn't cost me anything, and I do not have set hours, quota for lines, etc.  I work as much as I want when I want.  It makes no difference to the contractor as they have other MTs to pick-up the slack or to cover for vaca, sick time, etc.  I am an IC and it works for me.  I also have 2 of my own accounts and I actually worked a little bit with the one of them as he wanted to stick with tapes and I didn't want to go digital for just one small account.  So, in essence, he kind of chose the method of choice for dictation, but I agreed since it worked for me as well but my line rate reflects that deficit of having to pick-up tapes.

This is their way of actually driving the wages down.  Say you make 10 cpl.  Not worth anything really if there is no work.  So you move you.  The next person is hired at 8 cpl.  Same thing.  By now they probably have it down to 6.5 cpl.  Wow, look at the money they are saving.  It is also to their benefit to have too many MTs sitting around not doing much but have their TAT perfect.  In my opinion, this really has an affect on the quality of their medical reports and their significant need for more QA.  They can get newbies (3-5 years) to take these jobs at lower wages.  So what if they are not very qualified, they have their QA.

What is wrong with very experienced MTs who work hard, do more than the required minimum, are reliable, and can cut out some of your QA cost.  Does that not make sense?

we're being screwed over big time, used, manipulated & disrespected - sad, disgraceful how this MT biz has turned out.  The MTSOs do it for 2 reasons:  (1) GREED;  (2) Because they CAN.   They don't have to look us in the face while screwing us.  Lower & lower wages, having to work time/schedules when not being paid for that time, more & more unpaid work required of us, impossible accounts/dictators, VR at 40-50% salary cut but requiring the same skill, training & knowledge.  We all know I could go on and on ranting about abuses of MTs - and I'd bet if this dark side of the profession were publicized, most people would be appalled. 

I was trained as an RN quite a few years ago and left in my last semester due to a MVA & always meant to return - so how did I wind up here, I ask myself??  Burt out doesn't describe it - sure, I could call errors to the doc's/QA's attention - but, unless I believe it would have a significant impact on PATIENT CARE, not the $$$ sign in the MTSO/doctor's eyes - what the heck.  Flag a doctor's mistakes - like we went to medical school and they didn't - like we're getting paid 6 figures like them, instead of the 0.08 cents a line.  Unpaid research for doctor names they don't have 2-3 seconds to spell.  WHEN TURTLES FLY!

We're not paid to do the hospital's bookkeeping on their demographic boards but are held responsible.  If the doc says, THE PATIENT HAD A TEMPERATURE OF 109 AND HE REMAINED AFEBRILE (swear on my firstborn - this happened to me a few days ago) it's supposed to be OUR job to flag it.  Is it any wonder why there are no more MEN in the MT profession - not as home MTs anyway.  I like to think that we are like a windmill, i.e., keep huffing and blowing and pushing and we keep turning and turning, but there comes a time when that windmill has turned as far as it can, stops, and has to go back in the opposite direction.  They'll keep pushing as far as they are allowed to. 

I have never seen such a decline in pay in all of my life.  I left an hourly job due to outsourcing and was only making 13.48 per hour.  I see ads on indeed.com for on-site MTs and the salary is still the same.  I started 17 years ago at 7 dollars an hour and thought I was doing something special.

I have had my own accounts for 10 years and I do not dare raise my price b/c I know they'll outsource or some other MT will come along and underbid me in a minute. 

The all-American MTSOs cannot compete with the national ones who can have MTs transcribe the same reports for 4 cpl.  It can't work both ways.  It's a neverending trifling mess.