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Horrible Attitude

Posted By: Wow on 2006-07-06
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That's really a horrible thing to say....just because someone feels confident in their skills is not a negative thing...it's a good thing....more people need to be "in love" with themselves and maybe the world would be a better place!


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    Horrible, horrible place to work. nm
     
    Horrible, horrible platform. Not
    user friendly at all.  The best tip I can give you is don't do it. 
    Yes, they are HORRIBLE
    LIES, LIES, LIES. Line stealers, no help. There are plenty of other companies to work for. Please don't let Soft Script ruin you as an MT. Good luck.
    They are horrible, horrible, horrible.
    They advertise about how skilled their MTs are, yet they are recruiting MTs straight out of school.  You need to start somewhere to get training, but you'll be sorry if you work for this company.  They'll pay you peanuts and try to steal some of that, treat you like a dog and just leave you broken.  
    This is horrible!
    Wow that is insane! I worked in medical records while training in coding and transcription. I was responsible for mailing the reports out. I made sure I got them out daily. The girl before me would hold them and the girl after me did the same thing. I never understood it. Those doctors need those for patient care. This is besides the fact that it just causes more work as the doctors will end up calling for the reports and someone will have to fax it to them if they need it whereas if they were sent right away time would have been saved on this. I think this is horrible as it ultimately will affect patient care not to mention productivity. In my opinion there is no excuse for this!
    I used to have 1 PA who was horrible. Every

    report was 20 to 30 minutes because he was such a bad dictator and was very disorganized.  He always said "thank you for this dictation" at the end of every report.


    I have several docs currently who say thank you at the end, some will say have a good weekend or happy holiday too. 


     


    How horrible!
    My prayers are with her and her son.. I have a 3 year old son and hearing this makes my heart break for them!
    That's horrible!
    I would definitly take these findings to the company. Your initials are on those reports, and it could come back on you, not to mention what could happen to the patients whose medical records are being changed. I wouldn't hesitate. What a sad way for people to act!
    that's horrible!
    Gosh, I cannot imagine working for even one week without being paid!  You surely have my sympathy.  Wish we could think of a way to REALLY get the word out about them - like a full page newspaper ad or something.  Wander if the Better Business Bureau would be appropriate?  Or at least the Labor Board? 
    pay is horrible
    That is funny cuz I had gotten an email stating that the starting pay is .5 cents a line 1-1200. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And that is not VR!!!
    I do it too; it IS horrible nm
    /
    OMG, how horrible!
    AHDI used to be AAMT, and it was my understanding that for what it's worth nowadays (IMO, zilch), the CMT credential was available only from AHDI (AAMT) after at least three years as a practitioner. This was a few years ago.

    It's hard to believe that these unscrupulous places are victimizing those who don't know any better. One place to submit a complaint would be the Better Business Bureau.

    This just sux. :(
    OMG! How horrible! nm
    ......
    LOL LOL LOL? What do you know about my attitude? LOL
    I know you are management and you know what? You can't put out this fire. Attitude? Why I'll just tell my mortgage company that my attitude was bad, I got a bad QA report because I couldn't interpret ESL dictator and could I please not have them foreclose on my house. Attitude indeed. Check own queenly gotta be right I'm better than you lowly MT attitude yourself.
    you can keep your attitude to yourself
    The information I got was in the email, not on actual paperwork.  If you don't want to answer, then go but somebody else.  I understand the concept of work more, get more, DUH yourself. 
    Attitude
    I am truly sorry if I offended. The question itself sounded kinda "duh" to me. Again, I apologize. I've been 46 hours with no sleep and okay, so my brain is not on it's best functional mode.

    I am utterly at a loss for words now as I honestly meant no offense.
    wow, what an attitude he has!
    Well, I am sure glad that I do not work for THAT company! Seems this outsourcing thing is getting WAY out of hand. He moans about not having enough MTs in this country - I think that they just need to get the pay per line rate up some (pay us what WE are actually worth for once, and quit sending it ALL overseas so that these companies can "SAVE MONEY??"). I would like HIM to live on what WE have to live on!!
    i like your attitude
    excellent point
    Someone with her attitude needs to
    go elsewhere. With her around, I was almost dreading coming on the board sometimes. She is always looking to start an argument or putting somebody down. I, for one, am glad to see her go, and only pray she stays gone. What a drag!!!
    Attitude is everything.
    My impression of your post is that management never gets it right; only you do. I wonder if they could ever do anything right in your eyes.

    It's too bad that there are so many people out there with the attitude that the company is "out to get them". There are a lot of good companies and people running them out there--just as there are good MTs.

    If I work with someone like you, I'm sure I already avoid you because I don't want to be around such a negative attitude; if you work at home, I'd like to say "thanks for staying home".
    With your attitude you should do the same
    Since the only thing you can come away with from this discussion is "give up and do something else"!
    Certainly, with that attitude...
    You will have a difficult time achieving anything positive in life, connections or not.
    Are you serious? The only attitude so far has been yours! nm
    x
    just me and my attitude?

    apparently not.


    It is a horrible shame
    because I have loved my job at the hospital and I still do love my work there, but MQ has put us in a position where we really have little choice, but to take a tremendous cut in pay or leave and if we leave, our options are limited.... no benefits (IC) or less money with fewer benefits.
    No work - it's horrible sm
    I just finished doing my resume. There has to be something better than this out there. Today, I rotated through 6 or 7 accounts, one job at a time from each one. Had to keep checking the profiles and was so worried that I would mess something up.

    I just got the Points review in the mail today, it was done back in July. I was doing 6 or 7 accounts at that time as well. I got BIG DEDUCTIONS for having a formatting error in an account that I almost never get to type.

    I am so very very sad. I used to love MQ. Guess those days are in the past
    Horrible place
    I would not recommend it
    That is horrible! I'm speechless. nm

    xx


    That's horrible. I just read that over 35,000
    x
    Mine were horrible and now I only
    have one day of crying for about an hour and then remember, oh, I must be having a period today! I was having them 17 days apart with breakthrough and heavy, I mean heavy cycles...2 pads changed every 45 minutes the first 2 days. The worst part was the emotional roller coaster. I would stand in the shower and cry all day on the day before, not knowing why, then understanding the next day.

    I took my PMS cocktail. First I tried Tylenol. After an hour if no relief, I took Annaprox. After an hour if no relief, I took a 5 mg Valium. If after an hour if no relief, I stopped working and started drinking...heavily!

    Now I don't know I even have them except for that one stupid hour of crying about every 2-1/2 weeks!
    You have done all you can to protect others, then. It's really horrible. I'm so sorry.
    (nm)
    That is horrible. I'm so sorry for your loss (sm)
    Those animals should be outlawed as well as the people who train them to kill. We have a Golden Retriever who is the sweetest thing in the world and we love her and she wouldn't hurt a fly. I am an animal lover but I do not like pit bulls. I also have small children and I'm thankful no one in our neighborhood has a pit bull. Again, I'm so sorry for your horrible loss.
    Yes, it was bad, but they can take an every horrible voice
    and make it better in a recording. She does not have a horrible voice, just not the strong voice that she THINKS she has. It will be a lot better when released on a DVD, just watch and see.

    TAYLOR ALL THE WAY TO WIN!!!
    Still having horrible hot flashes...sm
    and had hysterectomy in 1999.  I am 53 now and still have horrible hot flashes.  It is so embarrassing.  I can be shopping or whatever and all of a sudden my face is beat red and sweat is DRIPPING off my forehead into my eyes, my mouth, just a real mess.  I finally stopped having the night sweats , thanks to Estroven DS, but it has not helped the horrible sweats during the day.  I truly wish you luck and hope you can find something to relieve your flashes.  I  call mine, my own personal summer.
    Horrible experience?

    How so? 


    The reason I am asking is we are terribly understaffed where I work.  I have worked at a mental health/behaviorall health facility for the past 14 years, where I have been the senior transcriptionist/coordinator/supervisor.  I have been very under-staffed for the past five years, with no one understanding my position and why we are unable to keep up with our workload.  There are four transcriptionists including myself, with one calling off all the time, and who is protected under FMLA.  We transcribe for 42 physicians/'therapists.. 


    A few months ago we again inherited our inpatient unit, and we (transcriptionists) refused to work weekends as it was not in our job description and we work our butts off now.  So, administration hired Transcription Connection to handle the inpatient unit reports, which I totally understand with Medicaid requirements, etc..


    I have since been out on surgical leave (major right foot surgery) since 04/10/07 and am not expected back to work until 07/16/07.  We are terribly behind with me being gone and this one Transcriptionist calling off all the time.  We basically have two transcriptionists at the current time working their butts off.  Rumor is that administration is going to turn everything over to Transcription Connection because we cannot keep up.  Now, I asked to hire another transcriptionist way before I went out on major surgical leave to get her trained, etc. to help with the workflow, but you know how that goes. 


    Anyway, I was thinking if our reports are going to be turned over to this transcription service, we will be out of work.  I was wondering about them, as I am (was???) going to apply.


    Any feedback is helpful.  Sorry if there are any typos, as I am basically blind and do not have my glasses on - - LOL!


     



     


    That's horrible. An MT should get credit
    for the finished product - that is what you are responsible for - and what  you should be paid for - anything less is crappola.
    Paid by VBC - its horrible. Do you really think it
    I currently have a job as an IC, getting paid 10 cpl, but only for visible black characters. My boss said this is the way it will be soon for all MTSOs in the country. Period. She really gave the take-it-or-leave it speech, as in leave the industry, as everyone is going to transition to VBC. I could see it if the MT pay rose accordingly, but 10 cpl as an IC and not getting paid for spaces is a huge pay cut. I gave it a month, but the difference is huge. Anybody have any feelings on if this is really going to be the way it is? The accounts are decent enough - If I were getting paid a normal rate for spaces I would be making decent money - $30 an hour range at least, but with the no spaces, honestly an lucky to average $10 an hour. Anybody have any experience with this? Plus, IC status - no bennies and taxes on my own. Does anyone really think all MTSOs are going to convert to this soon? Any comments appreciated.
    On my acct are 2 drs. that all know are horrible.
    to just do our best and email acct manager the job number so she can alert the facility.  Facility knows the work of those 2 are going to have more than the allowed amount of blanks and we just have to let them know when those jobs are coming through. 
    Hourly was horrible for me.

    worth production wise.  Did you know that hourly MTs make the median income of around 14.00 an hour?  I'm not sure what your thoughts are on this, but I can't make it on 14.00 an hour anymore.  I quit the in house job (it was outsourced within a month of my resignation) and I make more per hour now right here in my home even working at 8 cpl than I did hourly.  I was expected to work constantly even onsite without vacations or a holiday.  Whenever I took off work, the work was sitting there piled up for me when I got back.  And yes, the floors would hollar for reports and the physicians would hollar for reports. 


    No way would I go back in house doing MT.  I'd rather poke my eyes with sticks.


    It's horrible, all old records mean nothing sm
    Our docs' private practice uses this now. As patients we asked where our old records were as no more charts and we both had very serious illnesses. Told they are in the basement should they have to refer but were asking questions they should have known the answers to. It was as if we never existed on the face of the earth to them after 18 years. I'm disgusted, it's like your past history means nothing to them. I would like to slap them but I can't. Jeesh, what next? The pharmacy now connects electronically to them and we were told not to call for Rx anymore, just call the pharmacy. The pharmacy said it could take up to a week. We have to call and remind them to check their computer as we are waiting for a refill okay. Robotic! Electronic supermarket checkouts, Rx's, digital phones, no people. Even the casino uses paper tickets now instead of money coming out. It sure goes in as money though! And if it ever does come out in a ticket, you have to go to another "machine" to get the money. Don't gamble but once or twice a year and just a sign of the times, everywhere you go, no people - just robotic machines. Surgery included! Detachment from people!
    Horrible platform. There are different
    versions. I have worked on Meditech and Meditech Magic and there are horrible.  Any platform that you need a manual for is pretty bad. 
    Maybe it's your attitude to begin with.

    Change your tune.  Be sugary sweet when you think someone is being rude to you and see what happens.  Pay it forward.  Give someone a smile or a kind word.  Let someone in line in front of you.  Just do one little nice thing per day and it will multiply.  People are never rude to me.  Everywhere I go, they know me by name because I take the time to be kind to them.  Gas station, grocery store, bank, school, doctor's office.  You might have to fake it 'til you make it, but you can change your outlook and how you perceive the world treats you.  If someone is "rude" to you, blow it off.  Maybe they're having a bad day and it's nothing personal.


    Their attitude usually starts it!...sm
    I've dealt with some really helpful techs, but mostly alot of real winners (not):

    One experience I had at MQ (no longer work for them), but I told the tech that the modem they just sent to me was fried. He told me that was impossible; they check everything before shipping. He made me do this and that for about an hour! When none of that worked, he said, "you don't know anything about transcription equipment do you?". I told him I knew enough to know when a modem is fried, and probably said something else! He told the supervisors that I was rude and whatever else he wanted. The next day the supervisor called and alluded that we had a "personal problem"! UGH!

    After two supervisors had me do this and that with the modem and computer, they decided the modem was unusable and would ship me a new one (24 hours later with me losing work time while paying them to rent the equipment, not to mention getting stressed and frustrated wasting time with the tech with an attitude).

    Your being frustrated and sarcastic is perfectly understandable! But, yeah, they "tell" your supervisor!
    There was no "I'm better..." attitude in my post.
    Your perception of me is that way because you don't like my point of view, my success, my refusal to be a part of the pity party like everyone else.

    I gave the OP a good piece of advice. Save her money and work on healing the heartache of this situation. I stated in my post that it is a heartache and her frustrations are completely right on.

    Too bad if you don't like my advice. I'm not cat fighting with anyone. Sounds like you have PMS!

    Take some Midol, will you!
    nice attitude
    xx
    And it is exactly this kind of attitude....sm
    that will continue to keep MTs classified as clerical help. Until we start taking some accountability for our own professionalism, nobody else will sure recognize it!
    18-year-old with attitude
    Our son is a sophomore in college now. He works during the summers for clothes, books, etc, but we pay his monthly tuition. He is almost 20 and just now got his license, no car or truck, cannot afford to insure that right now. Last year we paid 700.00 a month for tuition, this year 1300.00 a month for tuition, but he is a good kid, has ADHD and studies hard. Tuition is a lot to pay for every month, but if he can get a good education, works hard, etc I am willing to pay for it. He is home now for winter break, helps me around the house with everything and is a good kid. We never thought he would go to college because he struggled so in his vocational school in high school, but his last year of high school he studied and turned his life around, got help with his ADHD and now seems to be on the right track. I opted not to take out a lot of loans for him because I do not want that burden on us or him in the future. Do what you think is right for your son. Of course their attitude is everything. We don't mind helping our son out because he has a "good attitude" and wants a college education so he does not have to work as hard and as many hours as his mom and dad do, as we both have 2 jobs each.
    lol Who are you to say her attitude is out of line?
    lol
    She probably doesn't have your attitude and THAT
    nm
    It is all about the attitude, not the accomplishment!
    x
    Only if you want..its all about attitude and effort.