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You want them to be held accountable for the fact they didn't hire you (sm)?

Posted By: huh? on 2009-06-20
In Reply to: Or it *could* be - Me

If I could guess maybe they didn't like your attitude, maybe they realized from talking to you that you were just the kind of employee they did not want to be accountable for (and from your snotty remarks on here, I bet they sure feel justified now that they passed on you)JMHO.

You say it is suspicious, why? What is suspicious about a company not hiring you? They do have that right don't they or do you just think anytime you put in a resume you should automatically get the job? Enlighten me please, because your post has me confused.



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We have privacy laws in this country, and you are held accountable. Our privacy laws
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I didn't have any trouble with the test after I got used to the fact sm

that I couldn't use my foot pedal.  The first and the third parts were easy, but I couldn't hear a few spots in the second dictation and had to leave blanks, but I guess that was okay because I apparently passed.


Maybe give it another try -- don't let the no foot pedal thing spook you. 


 



I didn't see that in her post at all. In fact I wrote something similar...please sm
I believe what she meant was similar to what I wrote which was that I felt a majority of the nasty posts probably came from isolated people that take crap all day. These types normally get walked on because they aren't outspoken enough in real life to say what they feel. Then they anonymously come here (or other boards)to take out their pinned up frustrations. It's merely an opinion and you know what they say about those.:)

The reason I believe this to be true is because I've encountered way more nasty people on-line than in real life. If some of the posters said the same nasty remarks to a person's face that they do hiding behind a screen name, #1) They'd get fired. #2) They'd have NO friends.
#3) They'd lose a few teeth.

Think about it.
didn't ask you to hire me. Why are you sm
not reaming out the person that can't read a post and rips into me. Get a life!
Didn't we just recently have ads to hire more MTs at Webmedx and also (sm)

have notices of referral bonuses if we referred people?  I am hoping they are ramping up for new accounts and this is just a temporary thing as new people are put on existing accounts. 


I know all companies have ups and downs and I have been around long enough to know you have to go with the flow, but I have seen many, many posts about this company over-hiring and am a little concerned.


Anyone???  Encouraging info please??? 


I totally agree. I try to keep myself accountable
mainly so I won't have to look back and wonder if I contributed to the trend! I tend to be somewhat erratic with focus problems (I suspect I'm a little ADD!)and over the years have developed my personal quota to keep myself accountable with the hourly rate.
Why not hold the company accountable for their apparent lack
of cash flow. If they can't pay, then they should tell their MTs and give them a chance to bail
Never. They do not and have never held a check. nm
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Nobody held your hands to the keyboard
  Go away!!
My line count is being held

Can anyone else relate to having their line count held until your supervisor feels you have helped out enough.  I always meet my line count and track my line count daily.  My line count is always significantly lower than my supervisors count every pay.  Everyday I go all out and really hustle to meet my line count. I type 10 minute reports and only get credit for about 50 lines. So, I hustle and hustle to make my count.  I am almost 1000 lines behind my supervisors count and I am tired.  I simply want to meet my line count and stop working, but I cannot get an accurate count until I have help the team produce more and more lines.  I am fed up. HELP!!! 


I'm not the one needing my hand held, now am I?
NM
I've never had my check held..
I realize there are some companies that have this practice, which is basically getting you in their pay period schedule, but I have never had this happen. I discuss this up front and all my checks have been mailed or DD within 2-3 days of end of pay period. You need to look at your contract.....it should be spelled out.
Dont know about the system you use but we all are held to a
98% or above accuracy, so I don’t think it is about whether you care about accuracy or not, I want my work to be as good as humanly possible. The particular hospital I do have done now for over 15 years, some doctors are quite familiar and then again yesterday was a nightmare with all the ESL physicians I had to put up with. I NEVER ever retype a complete sentence. Our formatting has been off lately as far as numbers, 4, 4, 4 and then a 2, 3 and so forth and yes it takes time for me to correct each and every one. Some people never like VR. When outsourced we had some to try and then gave up but I personally like it because it changes mistakes now that I do not have in my autocorrect, just seems to know. The #1 thing I think I like the most is I never thought it would be able to pick up on ESLs and thank goodness, it does them about as good if not better than our English doctors. With all the ESLs all around us now, I am thankful I do not have to hunt and look for every little word they say I cannot understand.
I've held my tongue about OSI and offshoring
I interviewed with OSi more than 2 years ago. One of my standard questions in an interview is whether or not the company offshores. The recruiter told me up front that the company did offshore on certain accounts that demanded it be done to save money. I accepted that and didn't have a problem with it. That was not the deal breaker for me (I got a better deal from another company on the same day).

I had just left working as the MT coordinator at a small MTSO. While working in-house, I had opportunity to work alongside the marketer. There were several times when he would return from a potential client's office with the news that he could only get the account if he offshored it by client demand. If he took that account by offshoring it, he could get a bigger account associated with it that did not want the offshoring component or rate. From a business prospective, he gave up something small to get something bigger. The offshore component of the business amounted to less than 10% of the client base.

The OSI recruiter was open and honest with me. In my mind, that holds more weight than a recruiter that lies through the teeth just to get you through the door and you end up leaving because they can't deliver on the promises.

Climbing off my soap box now.
Spheris is a privately held company, there are no shareholders
I suspect this report is bogus.

Their latest press release says they are planning on increasing their domestic work force at the same time as their overseas one, to match their aggressive pursuit of new accounts. (Personally I think they ought to concentrate on servicing the ones they have.)
Couldn't Amphion be held liable for minimum wage
I'm just sayin'
This is a fact and you might as well accept it for what it is -- FACT !
It would be a sevice that uses ExText, such as Keystrokes, and I don't know who else uses it.  I would think that Keystrokes is as big or bigger than TT now, however, wouldn't you?
Me too. As soon as there is a little extra work they hire and hire and then noone has any. This
goes on all the time.  I get sick to death of it.  I think having 2 part time jobs is better so you have 2 jobs to count on.
Does KS only hire employees or do they hire ICs too? nm
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I didn't say I didn't care, I just don't understand
why the sudden outrage over HL offshoring.  
Very serious in fact.

They are advertising a nationwide position and then selectively weeding out geographical areas.  They need full disclosure or maybe they need a big fat lawsuit.  Either way, I'm not kidding.


I know for a fact that MQ wants my SM
hospital's transcription (I'm a hospital employee), but they won't take overflow only.  They want it ALL and won't take the account unless they get rid of the hospital employees.
I know it can be done - but not at MDI-MD. This I know for a fact.
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it can be just because of the fact sm
that the work has to be done. BUT, it only turns into that if you let it.

What I have found after working for years and years as an IC that if you are an employee who puts out a high quality finished product and do your best that the companies (maybe not all of them) will usually go out of their way to make you happy.

There was a time when MQ before it was MQ and still Transcriptions Limited was such a company. This all makes me so sad that this company has been allowed to be destroyed like it has. I know there are folks who are still happy with it and I am glad, but for the ones who are not and especially those of us who were around for years and saw the other side of the company, it is very sad.

As far as IC status, its kind of a trade off really. You are giving up benefits etc to be able to be an IC and not have to have set hours. But you have to work those hours out for yourself. If you have to be an employee because of benefits then the trade off is not having much flexibility. Either way though you do have control in how you let folks treat you.
Well, I know for a fact that..........
they offshore A LOT of the work because I used to work for them for 2 years, and was always running out of work for a huge, huge account which they lost? More like they gave it to those overseas to do totally. When I did work for them, you could tell that most of that account was being typed overseas because when you had to access a former document in the Chartnet on a particular patient, it would bring it up, and actually seemed to be typed like the person did not know anything about English, let alone medical terminology which was atrocious!!

I have since moved on because I actually need to work!!
No I just know for a fact that
TTS treats their employees very poorly, does not pay on time, if ever. Will warn anyone I can to stay away from there. Not trying to jab at anyone, just trying to protect someone else from falling into that. Take a look at all the posts on this board, we can't all be wrong can we?
No it isn't; its fact
Some of us have no problem with facts.
I know for a fact that this happens...
one of the MTs I know who also does QA said she sees this all the time, that some QA people will just take out words or put in words to send the report through...so it does happen and I am sure this isn't the only company that this happens with.
what's a fact? nm
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fact is
Management can't let you know anything because they don't know themselves yet. They have to have work to survive first for themselves and then will give out the work to those who are still waiting for it. It you quit, you quit, just more work for them and when it picks back up they'll hire more if need be. What don't you get, happens with every company. They'll throw you a job here and there to keep you hoping and it's up to you to stay or go.
I believe it's also due to the fact that
some people (a lot of them on this board) will look for any reason to badmouth and complain. I don't come here often for that reason either. It gets really old and discouraging to see nothing but negativity and bashing each time I come here.
I am in fact an MT. Do you not know
what benefits your company offers? 
This is very true. I know this for a fact.
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It's a TRUE FACT
They change that divisor however they want. It's true. I know it for a fact. I hope to see them go under!
Fact or fiction?

Fact:  It was posted on this forum that Karen, the ex-HR person, was let go on terms that were less than good.


Fact:  It was posted on this forum that Karen, the ex-HR person, in fact stole HR files of new hires/possible new hires when she was let go.  This was the reason/excuse why so many MTs who applied at KS during this time period were never contacted about their possible hiring/training.


Fact: I know this is fact because it happend to me while I was in the process of trying to "get hired."


Fact:  In the last 3 years, there have been 2 pay decreases across the board at KS.  This is also posted in the archives on this forum. 


Fact:  Last summer when the second pay decrease was implemented, it was brought out that there had been a first pay decrease before and Lee and other management people posted on this forum that this was not true.  Well, we know that was a lie as the archives tell different.


Fact:  We know that many, many people cannot get past the initial interview and actually work for KS because no one contacts them.  This is also posted on this forum again and again.


Fact:  We know that any time some MT tries to post an honest response about their unfortunate experience with KS, all KS management including the owner get on here and call the MTs liars and bash them, blaming them for being a bad MT.


What other facts should I get straight?


Fact or fiction?
Bravo!

Only thing you left out is the FACT that this entire thread will probably be deleted after your last stated fact has taken place.

Thank you!!!
Fact or fiction? Please sm
I have to add one thing. You can all take it or leave it at your own discretion. It is true, as Lee knows, and as does the moderator of this board.

Lee personally handed over my personal home phone number....yes.....complete, total lack of confidentiality in its utmost form as I know it to be......to the moderator of this board.

You may call it what you like. Perhaps they felt it was for the "good" or in my "best interest". The FACT remains that this was an unlawful, immoral, and blatantly disrespectful act on Lee's part. If Lee was so concerned, she should have called me herself rather than handing over my personal info to someone else.

Disagree if you will. I have no problems with disagreeing. I do, however, have a problem with anyone who hands over my information so quickly and willingly when she is by law instructed not to do so.

I rest my case. And, I'm sure this will be deleted, also. Sigh.......at least I finally got it out of my system!
Fact or fiction
Actually, I wasn't. In fact, I have always tried to be one of the peace-makers, believe it or not.

But, you're right. I do expect to be kicked out now.

Oh well........
I haven't. In fact...
the thought never even occurred to me till the other day when my Editor told me another girl on the account almost went with them but chose not to. She's now in the same boat I'm in and regretting it, I'm sure. My editor knew people who worked in-house for this account but have since lost their jobs and she has no way of finding out where this account went. I definitely can't ask the owner of the company I'm with because emails go unanswered 99% of the time.
I agree ... especially considering the fact
that all I was doing was interviewing. It was in poor taste, I thought, especially considering the fact that I am an IC working PT for Transcend! Struck me as rather ironic. But really, I've encountered a lot of interviewers making comments about MQ, but mostly just the fact that they feel sad for the MTs - nothing about the company itself, until this interview.
Yes, as a matter of fact I do. sm
I haven't worked for MQ, so they, indeed, may be better than MQ. However, I have countless accounts with Webmedx and still run out of work. I can do all work types. I bounce around on many accounts. I am completely out of work some days. It usually picks up later, but who has the kind of life that they can be around all day waiting for work to trickle in? And bouncing around on many accounts costs the MT.

And there are plenty of similar opinions if you simply look over the archives.
Here's an interesting fact....
http://www.transcribing.com/asmart/line_conversions.html

In the good old days we were paid 7 or 8 cents per GROSS line. So, even if an MT makes 10 cpl now, it is less than what we made then. And let's not forget the fact that a line was a line regardless of the amount of characters!

We're all just getting ripped off big time!
fact of life??
Currently, offshoring IS not a fact of life; however, it will become so if we all lay down, roll over, and beg for the profession to throw us the proverbial bone. I, too, have been in this business for almost 20 years, but there is no way that I will ever just roll over and play dead and just say it's a fact of life. If all of us have any passion for our profession, any compassion for our fellow man, any compassion for our fellow MT, QA, auditor, what have you, we all will not take this laying down, but will take Mary's initial letter from yesterday (can we Mary??) and send it to every senator, governor, any politician, newspapers, hospitals, clinics, etc., and get the word out to Joe Q. and Jane Q. Public, and see what everyone has to say about what has become the true fleecing of America.

I'll tell you what I don't understand; I don't understand why you are NOT outraged by the outsourcing of American jobs, any American jobs.
FACT is that was 3 years ago, sm

Things are completely different now.  They screwed up, some people were let go after that happened.  The MTs who did it under the table were just as guilty, they knew it was wrong and unethical.  Things are not that way now at all.  The only way people will know is if they try for themselves.


Why not look at it that they have embraced the fact
that the world is connected now, and everything is international. We are all in contact now and offshoring of all industries is here. Why not go with the times, stop being so prejudiced, and try to embrace change? It sure is not going to go back to the way it was. I just joined AAMT, and am glad I did. I am willing to accept change rather than keep fighting it. It is a battle already lost.
SPi fact sheet
http://www.spi-bpo.com/web/spi/text_page.jsp?fldr_id=239&service=_Show_All
I do know for a fact, that they just acquired
a brand new HUGE account from a hospital in the state they are located with a few ESL docs and some very, very easy docs, along with radiologists that are super easy. Sweet account. Give them a try.

I hope this is okay to print because I'm not giving the name of the hospital.
What about the fact that you don't have to leave the
I know that 8-9 cpl is a little low but when you take into account the fact that you do not have to leave your house, I think that counts for something.  If you went out to work, you have the expense of gas, travel time (not paid either way), lunch (usually not paid), need to buy clothing even if that is scrubes, put on a happy face, get along well with others, and when the work runs out on-site, it is gone.  There is no room to make extra.  You either take time off with/without pay when in fact if you were at home and the work runs out, you have the capability to take on more work.  I think this field has branched out so much.  It used to be included in a medical secretary's job description and pretty much performed right in the office.  That does not seem to exist any longer.  More and more this profession has become an entity in and of itself as has the medical profession.  There are so many specialists now.  I have seen this profession evolve.  I see a doctor for this and a doctor for that.  It used to be see one doctor, he/she dealt with the issue, end of story.  This is no longer the case.  Now you see the PCP (report generated in most cases), then you see the endocrinologist (report generated), cardiologist (report generated), ophthalmologist (report generated), dermatologist (report generated) and if you make it that far the psychiatrist (report generated).  I don't mean to make things light folks and I am not a TT'er, but I just see that with time things change.  How often has anyone who has been doing this for more than 25 years heard or ever saw for that matter an advertisement to work at home for doctors and healthcare facilities?  Make money while working from home transcribing medical reports?  There was a local hotel planning an entire day to have people come and get information on being a medical transcriptionist.  The entire forum would be this subject.  Can you imagine the people that go to hear what they could possibly do from home and make such great money?  Come one, come all.  It is open to everyone.  All things considered this can be a good thing.  The sacred field of medical transcription has flowered, blossomed, and become a really attractive to a society that is tired of traffic, gas prices, and being under the stress of working under the bosses' supervision.  Okay, I think I'm off of my  now.  Have a great night! 
That is very old news. It's been a fact for
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Another fact about Spheris: They lie about
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Aside from the fact that you are right, was it necessary to be so cold?
If you have never experienced infertility, you should just keep your mouth shut. Sorry, just my opinion.