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how do you get calls from "all over the country" sm

Posted By: whats your secret on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: I work for a group of doctors ... - at home

if you don't advertise or anything? Wow, you must be out of this world!


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    That was "all some!" nm
    x
    No, we are no "all running OT". On most accounts, there is not enought work to go around sm
    as usual.  Same old, same old.  They overhire and the loyal employees cannot even get in their required 35 hours.
    could not find anything in archives regarding "All Type". Anyone have info on.....

    Do they only hire employees, or IC's also:  What platform do they use:  Are they a good company to work for?


    Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks.


    RE: could not find anything in archives regarding "All Type". Anyone have info on.....
    From their web site: At ALL TYPE, our goal is to recruit and retain the very best medical transcriptionists. We would like you to consider joining us. If you qualify, you would be a welcome part of our team of highly trained Medical Transcriptionists (MTs). ALL TYPE transcriptionists enjoy the flexibility of being in an at-home environment as full-time employees or if you prefer, as independent contractors. Our staff retention rate is high for good reason.Our MTs say they have never worked in a happier group or for a company that attended to their issues in such a responsive way. As a matter of fact, many of our new MTs are referrals from our existing MT staff. See what our people say....(click here)

    We pay our MTs highly competitive rates.
    You have the opportunity for career advancement.
    You'll use cutting-edge technology.

    this cracks me up "ALL my current accounts..are .wav formatted."
    the OP says, However, ALL my current accounts and most of my accounts throughout my career are .wav formatted.  And I started with tapes and a Selectric typewriter. Oh, and the word ergonomic had not been invented yet...uphill both ways, ya know
    "All kinds of industry is offshored" yep, & guess who started it early 1980s?
    .
    Must be another country, I have not
    heard of anything at all like this and I try to catch all news, not just local.
    What area of the country are you in?
    //
    Wrong Country
    They are outsoucing to Trinidad and Guyana, with others coming very quickly.
    moving to the country
    I'm moving to the country and will not have broadband or DSL available for who knows how long.  I have not been in this situation before and would like to know if any of you know of any companies that do not require either of these - I will have access to dial-up and possibly some sort of high-speed that is brought in by a radio receiver on the top of my house.  It's a good move - just maybe not a good move for an MT - any help with companies that do not require high-speed with cable or dsl would be appreciated. 
    and what country are you writing from?
    nm
    There are plenty of MTs in this country
    who WANT to work - and guess what? The work is not as plentiful as it was because of people like you who choose to support the economy of a foreign country rather than your own country. So, when all the US jobs are gone as you stated, it will be YOU who helped it happen, not us.
    I understand what you mean, Country Mt,
    and I'm sorry that we can't all agree to disagree instead of acting like dogs attacking each other.

    It's absolutely ridiculous that grown women feel it necessary to act the way some folks on here do.

    Just know you're not alone in your opinion.
    Country MT, you need to move - to
    .
    You are absolutely right. Also he is from a country
    My fault for staying for so long. I also stayed in a relationship which he said was situational stress, and when I got out he thought I should have stayed. I guess that was my fault too... I am going to a woman soon, but I already changed my job to a good one which I know will take care of me. So, I guess I solved problems without a shrink... how to wean off the nerve pills... or not! LOL.
    I tried it, but it kept dropping my calls. nm
    nm
    Ah, so you are the reason I got so many calls
    about my schedule and getting stats assigned to me allll day long!!  LOL!  You know who I am, basically in the same boat, and that I applaud them for the same understanding you described
    phone calls
    Is anybody transcribing for Steve who had the 15,000+ 3-5 minute phone calls between docs and patients, I believe? Just wondering if your making good money or not? Thx
    phone calls
    Oh my God I am and no I'm not making good money. I wish I had never started this job!!!How many did you get? I got 500 and I have a full-time job?
    well, what do you want...phone calls?
    They have to get you when they need you somehow.
    conference calls

    I hate them, hate them, hate them. 


    I have worked a few places where conference calls were utilized and INVARIABLY they covered things that could easily have been covered in a memo, in a couple of paragraphs even, only the call would last half an hour to an hour.  They were always a COMPLETE waste of time.   Paid or not, they were just unbearable. 


    Conference calls
    This just goes to show that not all things suit all people. As for me just give me the work and LEAVE ME ALONE! If there is something I'm doing wrong by all means tell me. One of my new accounts I WAS doing something wrong because I didn't understand how to attach a deficiency. I received a very nice e-mail telling me how it was done and I sent back one saying to let me know if I was still doing it wrong. Got back a very nice e-mail (from Q.A.) telling me to do #1, #2, #3. I got it. Nothing more needed. As for conference calls, I MIGHT tolerate one once a year, IMHO a total waste of my valuable time. I'm happy for you that you went back to your former employer, by all means BE HAPPY, whatever it takes.
    No more calls, please. We have a winner.
    nm
    I thought in one of the calls they
    said we would be staying on the accounts we are on with the same platform!? I must have totally misunderstood that... Did anyone else think that, too, or was it just me??
    Work is going to India or some other country. nm
     
    depends on part of country - I will take pay cut. sm

    I'm an MT x10 years, great for growing family.  Now that kids are in school going back for BSN (R.N. plus bachelors combined).  Husband thinks I'm crazy.  I make $55,000+ as an MT because of production + incentive.  I transcribe 300+ lph and have an excellent line rate with a national.


    I'm in the midwest, so as a BSN who does not get paid more than RNs here, I will take a huge pay cut, to the order of about $15,000 a year less.  Why am I doing it, because I want to be a nurse practitioner or a P.A. eventually and want to love what I do - that will be more money in the long run too with the higher degree.  I like being an MT, but working from home has turned me into a fat, lazy person who does nothing but type because it's easy money for me since I know the lingo and am well educated, plus I can type fast.


    If you want to be a nurse, as another poster said - don't do it for the money, do it because you feel in your heart it is what you are meant to do because it is a very, very demanding job that requires a great deal of knowledge and skill.


     


    Are all of their accounts out of CA or spread across the country? TIA (NM)
    xx
    Does Transcend outsource out of country?
    I was told when I was hired that their editing is for VR.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?
    I know for a fact they offshore, what country I don't know.
    In an interview a team leader let slip that they offshored and that is was the good stuff that was offshored. 
    Try a board in a third-world country
    because it sounds like that is who is left working for them. 
    And the jobs will then be shifted to another country.
    It will always be about the almighty dollar and companies will always be able to find someone in the world who will outbid American MTs.
    Our whole COUNTRY is full of complete
    *
    Not my responsibility to develop their country

    It stands to reason if they built their own hospitals, which they could easily staff with all the Indian ESL dictators we currently struggle with (while we hand them the moneymaking easy ones on a silver platter), they then could do their own transcription for their own healthcare providers.  Why the heck won't big business invest in building them some of their own hospitals?  Because this is about profit, NOT altrusim for our fellow man!


    Maybe you're going to retire in a couple of years, so you don't really care about the future of this industry.  But if not, when you lose your current job to outsourcing, will you still deny there's a problem?  Or will you take another job for less pay, again and again, until the industry completely leaves this country - then will you realize there's a problem?  When you are forced out of this industry, and find the competition for other types of work is harder than it used to be, will you see a problem then?


    Its not just this industry being outsourced.  I grew up in Michigan!  Its turning into a ghost state due to loss of jobs to outsourcing.  That's an example of an entire state being affected, and its only one of many in the rust belt.  But I guess you don't know anybody there, so you'd rather sympathize with someone halfway across the world.  It is not ok to undevelop our country in order to develop others.  Maybe when our homeless shelters overflow and our streets are full of beggars, and every undeveloped company has cable TV and McDonalds on every corner, we'll quit being in denial at what we are allowing to happen under our very noses.  But by then it'll be too late for us to reverse this trend of trying to raise the rest of the world's standards at the expense of our own.


    It's a free country. My son is currently fighing to
    keep it that way.
    At least Ireland is a country we could consider moving to.
    X
    Has anyone that has posted your resume on here ever gotten any calls out of it or what should I
    expect.
    Poopy.. why don't you just tell the person that calls
    that you already worked 40 hours for the week? Is that so hard?
    LATE NIGHT CALLS

    Call blocking instructions are in your phone book.  These vary from company to company.  Check you phone bill and see what numbers they are using (probably more than one line there).  If this fails and they keep calling (imagine how many lines they actually have) then send them a formal letter stating your problem with their phone harrassment and the exact days and hours of their callsand cc it to all their clients.  Maybe they are hurting for transcriptionists and hope you have changed your mind by now or that, gee, now that you're awake you might as well type?   If anything, this should cure you of them forever and everyone who read your post will remember!  I once had a friend (actually a really nice lady) who had a similar problem (although ot with SPi) that went on for a year.  They woke up her kids and husband, her dog, her cat and she looked so bad from lack of uninterrupted sleep.  That  was in the olden days before caller ID and call blocking.  She finally had another friend convince her to hand out THEIR numbers to car salesmen and insurance salesmen, etc.  That was really harsh, but the calls she got soon stopped and it was apparent that because they stopped that all along they were consciously and deliberately calling her.  Another tactic might be to change your phone number.  Good luck. 


    Yes we got paid for conference calls
    .
    I always get paid for conference calls.
    xx
    Well, we seem to get nothing but pladitudes on the conference calls, sm
    so honestly, I was hoping to get some sort of info on here. There are a lot of DSGers who are upset and frustrated and could very well jump ship. Then they will have no one but newbies and what will that do to the TATs. I seems to me that a little honesty about what is going on and what is being done about it would go a long ways towards fostering loyalty. Of course, that is just my opinion.
    Yeah, the recruiter calls me up,
    calls me by my first name and starts chatting. (I wonder who on earth she is?) When I finally establish that she is an SGS recruiter and start asking serious questions she becomes rude and I tell her thank you but I really am not interested. Guess she forgot to go to charm school.
    When I worked with her, she made calls

    to people when there were backlogs to get more help.  She used to ask me what she could do/offer me to get me to come onboard full-time, so I always figured she was in upper management in order to be able to offer that.


    We find out how much of a pay cut on the calls tomorrow.
    It'll go the way of the others, no more than 50%.
    Sorry, but not according to one of the largest financial insitutions in this country.
    They totally disagree with what you say. I have talked to them in depth
    I wish the majority of sheeple in this country would wake up and
    see the reality, but they won't until it's too late.
    Which nationals do not send work out of the country?

    Which nationals do not send work out of the country? I need to find another job.


    TIA.


    The wealthy elite are running this country.
    And they would prefer that your money be in THEIR pocket. They will share as much as they have to and no more.


    Gorgeous horse country right outside of Philly!
    Google areas near New Bolton Medical Center in Pennsy. If country is up your alley, there are lots of great towns. If you like cities, then Philly is for you! Go EAGLES!!
    Doesn't matter what their country of origin is, - sm
    if they are now Americans and working in the U.S. If that is the case, they ARE American transcribers! But even though our compnies that hire them are paying U.S. taxes (though probably less than they should, becuse of loopholes), are offshore employees paying U.S. Social Security and other taxes out of their wages? NO. So it undermines our economy in that way, as well.
    Keystrokes is and will not send work out of the country. sm
    The owners feel strongly about that.