shouldn't the owners have made it a point to ask
Posted By: when the funds would be avaiilable? Even I know to on 2006-01-12
In Reply to: Not NSF. BIG DIFFERENCE. Funds available but not released and everyone was - KS MT
when I switch banks or accounts and I'm not responsible for the lives of many other people.
~~>scratching my head
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Since you are the queen of perfection, I shouldn't have to point out it is catastrophe. nm
Well, there you go! You made my point for me!
You come to an anonymous chat board to research potential employers? I suppose you play with Hotwheels when you want to test drive a car? Lick a magazine ad when you want to get a taste of the food? Anyone, including you, who makes a decision on where to work based on the unsubstantiated complaints from anonymous sources on a competitors gripe board, deserves what they get, and would NOT fit in well at SS. You just wouldn't be smart enough. We have the best and the brightest and honestly, your work life expectancy would be two pay periods tops.
You just made my point
Thanks! 
I agree with every point you made, D.
And I love the jagged little pill reference.
The "Bigot"
You made a very good point.
As patients, we need to be more proactive with our medical records by asking to inspect them every now and then. I have a close friend who was an independent contractor that tried to get health insurance on her own and was denied by several different companies. She finally found out that there was a diagnosis of cancer made in one of her medical records that was made in error. She finally found out that her doctor never proofread his reports and it was transcribed on one of documents, but she had to jump through hoops by providing all sorts of documentation to prove she didn't have cancer. It took investigation by the insurance companies to bring this mistake to light, but just imagine the mistakes that are not caught because of our medical records not being regularly examined. I think we, as PAYING clients of these physicians, should start demanding more accountability and accuracy in our records.
From the point I found out about my friend's problem I've been asking to see my medical records at least twice a year. My family does the same. Maybe it's time we start spreading the word.
I think I made a valid point. What is your purpose in
My point was that a lot of recruiters will talk up their company when people looking into them inquire about them. They're not supposed to do it, but it's done all the time. Anyone who is seriously looking into a company will know exactly where to contact them and TO contact them. Someone asked a legitimate question and got a rude reply from you. You got called out and you don't like it.
good grief, you made your point. sm
It seems to me 12-13 is better than minimum wage. Find a new company that pays more than 7 cpl OR as they tell us type more per hour (which is impossible most of the time I know). My point is, this profession is the way it is, it isn't going to change so you live with it, work around it or get into a new profession.
Not to belabor a point already made, but would you like a 15-line...
discourse on the difference between a hyphen and apostrophe? Does that really make your post more or less valid? I try to represent myself my best at all times, but I make mistakes, too. I have never had a breakdown to that degree over an inappropriate apostrophe or seen anyone else go over the edge over punctuation. Please relax.
Comprende?????!!!?????
Yes, MTTest does cut you off if you've made too many errors up to that point.
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Nope. I'm thru with this thread. I made my point. We all just need to agree to disagree with b
nm
Aren't MTSOs the owners? Well if owners of MT companies
don't want to work for that MTSO. There should be some idea of what is coming at us.
The "former owners" are the current owners. QT has not been sold (sm)
and I was told it will not be sold and is trying to get new accounts.
Former QT owners? I thought they were original owners
xx
I think that they were the owners but not very
friendly. The other services seemed to be having fun but they did not. Makes you wonder what's going on ?????
owners are not MTs.
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owners
are nice but the voice files are very hard to hear! Pay is on time as well. I had to use express scribe to transcribe.
You do know that the owners
of MSJ are accountants? (Unless they sold the place sometime in the last few years.) There really shouldn't be any problems with payroll since they are bean counters by trade.
Owners are not MTs and they have
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shouldn't ask but...
do you know the approximate line rate?
Shouldn't be the MT's job.
I DO NOT THINK IT IS THE MT’s responsibility to make followup calls after hired. What do you pay the people in the office a nice fat hourly wage to do? Sit in the office and surf forums and expect an MT to do their job for them? 
I can tell you one thing, if I wasn’t contacted back after hired I would find somewhere else to work! Jobs in this field are a dime a dozen. A company who would “forget” about me as fast as they hired me WOULD NOT deserve me, (usually most companies at least will wait a week or two to do that). 
This goes for all of the places that would do that to an MT and wasting their valuable time. The nerve of these places. Shame on them.
Just giving my 2 cents.
Should I or Shouldn't I?
Went on interview with a hospital for transcription position. I've been a MT 29 years now, last 10 years working for various transcription companies. This particular hospital is very small, maybe 200 beds, but have merged with a larger hospital organization. At present the transcriptionists are paid only hourly, but director says an incentive plan is on the table but not finalized yet. The benefits are excellent. Toward the end of the year, the transcriptionists will have the option to work from home, all equipment and everything provided by hospital. There are only 2 shifts, day and evening, of which I will work evenings. The transcription also includes radiology. When I asked about a minimum of maximum line requirement, Director says transcriptionists are not on production per se but minutes typed, anywhere from 60 to 100 minutes a day, and that would depend on the difficulty of the dictator, as she would not expect the maximum if the dictator was difficult to transcribe. I will be getting a phone call tomorrow as to an offer, as the pay rates have changed since the merger, but the old pay schedule was a base of $10.80 hourly and max $18.80 hourly. There will be probably a 20 to 25 mile commute one way. What would you consider an acceptable offer. I know the bottom line is what is affordable for me, but just want to get you guys input on the whole take.
Thanks in advance!
RE: Should I or Shouldn't I?
Accept the hourly offer, my opinion, whatever the final dollar amount.
If you are an IC you shouldn't have to ASK to take
off, you tell them you will be off.
Right, but we shouldn't have to look it up
That's what those machines are for, remember?
Right - I shouldn't have to
they wouldn't hop along on their butts.
You shouldn't. But you will, believe me.
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You shouldn't have to pay a fee, but there is a fee
involved that is usually absorbed by the company, but evidently JLG doesn't want to foot the cost.
It is probably one of the OSi owners posting
yeehaw
Right on! Too bad more supes and owners don't - (sm)
check out this website and see what the world of MT is REALLY like. Most of 'em are too busy shopping for that new Lexus or other expensive bauble to know or even care what life is like for the folks that have to work under them. It's kind of funny, where I used to work they had a very hard time attracting new hires, and even retaining the old pros they already had! (Word DOES get out, doesn't it?) Especially now that we have amazing networking & communication tools like the Internet and MT Stars. If I were a manager in charge of MTs, you better believe that I would care how they viewed their jobs, and how my organization looked to others, and I would be reading the med. transcription websites. I now work for a company that you never see discussed in a derrogatory manner on this board, and in fact that had a lot to do with why I chose to work for them, rather than the many companies you read about in here. So MT managers, start treating your employees like the money-makers they are, instead of like dirt, and watch your companies (and your profits) grow.
The owners of MW are all in FL, so how is this true? sm
The owners are 1 family, all in FL. If someone is in new hampshire, she can't be one in the same as medware. I don't know how Medware could give anyone any work, there's no work for the employees.
PMT and Keystrokes owners
Thank you so much for the clarification! Jill was great to work for and very knowledgeable about transcription. I saw Yorkville and wondered if she owned Keystrokes. Now, I know how to get in touch with her to say HI!
LER stands for the owners name....
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Yes, the owners are accountants,
but I had mistakes in my pay and the line counter cheated, i'm sure of it........
Yes, however, the owners of the company
also have the freedom to do with their money as they see fit. Even though they could put it back into the company or give a raise to their employees, there is no law that says they have to do so. Waste or not, it is their money.
They shouldn't be taking someone right off the
This profession isn't greeting or flipping burgers at Wal-Mart or McDonald's. Why hire someone off the street with no skills in the first place?
Shouldn't u be working?
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FT or PT shouldn't matter.
Pay should be based on your abilities and quality of your work instead of how much you can do sloppy just to get your lines. There's nobody stopping you from going PT with several different companies. I would never put all my eggs in one basket since every place runs low on work or overhires, etc...
Makes more sense to me to work PT as an IC, unless you absolutely need benefits through an MT company, which I'd never trust since you don't know how long you'll have them if they don't have the work or lose the account, etc... Too many things could happen to be able to depend on a single MT company.
Shouldn't it be give, not get?????
I hope you are not a QA or in charge of anything to do with grammer.
Shouldn't be dreaded
It is a good learning tool for those people who utilize it. If you are down the tubes for one report in a month, and minor errors, then its time to look for another job. Your QA department is not utilizing this as a learning experience, but as a means of attack.
Probably shouldn't ask, but whose pay got lowered 1 cpl?
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We shouldn't matter. Only you
If you feel the need to push then go for it. Do you think your coworkers really care if you have work or not? I highly doubt it. 
Meant shouldn't have to pay
Granted, they shouldn't lie to you about
it, but they are not obligated to tell you one way or the other why accounts suddenly drop off.
Shouldn't have to beg for paycheck
Even if you change jobs while the DOL is investigating, you can still collect damages through civil suits. There are a lot of employment lawyers out there that are working on contingency - no money up front - because these cases are now being won and employers are having to pay up for breaking the law.
Although you shouldn't have to be a squeaky wheel to receive a hard earned paycheck, keep squeaking that wheel after you've left a company if a law has been broken. Believe me, there will be results in your favor if you have documented everything well.
First, it shouldn't have been happening sm
often enough for anyone to notice, meaning if they are truly monitoring, that person should have been dealt with immediately, not only when people complain.
Second, why would an email like that be sent to all the MTs? If all of you aren't doing it, why punish everyone with these threats?
Whoever the **same person** is, that person should have been called by management and given an ultimatum.
Not at all! They shouldn't get preference over
regular MTs when work is low. They should be basically just another MT; line up for work like everybody else and run out like everybody else. We have lead MTs in our company too, who get paid extra to perform the lead duties but they don't take preference over the rest of us, i.e., they don't get work before/instead of anyone else. In this company, editors edit, not MTs (lead or otherwise).
Should I or Shouldn't I take an in-house
hospital job? My friend at the hospital that I worked for as an IC for 10 years stated they are looking for another FT MT. I left because the only way they would hire me as an employee was 2nd shift MT until an opening opened up on first shift, which I couldn't do due to my own admission that I can't stay awake past 8 p.m. most nights. I'm an early morning person.
I have been working for a national since then. I miss the hospital although we only have 40 doctors and I really did get bored transcribing the reports every day, but I kinda miss the camaradie of the job. Can I work a 36 hours per week job and follow all their rules? I don't know since I've been a free agent for over 7 years; i.e., not very flexible with the hospital. I know the other MTs at this hospital would jump for joy if I were to get this job. They've been waiting so long for this. They all came to my aid when the last opening came up, but the HIM was totally strict on having to work 2nd shift, which I couldn't do then. Now she is gone, but I don't know if I would still have the same constraints.
I have been thinking of submitting my resume just to see what the outcomje would be. I can always turn the job down. After all, would I even get an interview because of my age? I don't know what they would use as an excuse not to hire me....
I'm really in a dilemma here. DH states I should follow my heart. Nah, I want to follow the money and bennies. Does anyone know what the average hourly pay is for in-house MT in a part rural setting in the northeast? I know it would be hard to answer, but I figure I would need $20/hour or more to make it worthwhile. Is this possible?
TIA
If the owners name is Lisa please see message
She is a really nice person, runs a great company and pay is always on time. Wish I would have stayed working for her. Probably one of the only jobs I regret not sticking with.
Probably because the board owners don't need to deal with
hostile emails or lawsuit threats from peeved off people. One MTSO threatened to sue me and MTstars when I posted the truth about their documented unfair business practices.
MS in FL has owners who are control freaks and whatever happens
There is one person there (still after 4 years) who would sell you down the river if he thought it would make him look better to the owners but tell you to your face how wonderful you are, unless you have the putzvah to politely debate the issue. Then his boxing gloves come out and the verbal abuse begins. It really is slave labor there. I've been in the office, I've talked with the owners. I know things will never change there unless they start losing clients, but the clients they currently have are so grateful ANYONE will transcribe their reports, they STAY with MS!
And that, my dear, is why nothing changes at MS in FL.
You won't see some of the bigger ones here. I know for a fact that the owners of sm
KS do not come on here anymore. I went to one of them a few weeks ago, and she told me not to get worked up about the posts on here, that not every company is for every person, just just like every MT is not a good fit for every company.
I just emailed her with the request put here today, and she responded that she would not answer any posts on here; every time in the past that she did, things were twisted around and turned ugly, both with the bashers and the cheerleaders, that MTs with questions should contact the companies directly.
She also asked me if I needed more work as I seem to spend a lot of time obsessing about these posts, which really threw me for a few seconds. On thinking about it, she's right.
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