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Anyone who thinks it is "okay" and we should "accept" the way society is changing ...sm

Posted By: Citizen on 2006-04-24
In Reply to: The *American* AAMT now giving memberships/CMTs to foreign MTs.... - Sort of says it all, doesn't it?

is the reason why it is. The ones who just roll over and take it, should be ashamed for not having backbone and standing up to globalization for not standing up for themselves, our country, and our children and their children. This is the reason why we the whole people are losing control of our government and what they control, offshoring, loss of privacy, etc.


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I beg to differ - they are "okay" to work for if you want
the bait and switch game. Some of their accounts are overflow accounts, so you get the no work syndrome often.

The owner is great, but her sister is a witch!
I agree with you 100% This society sm
is totally lazy. I also have worked QA and WILL not ding someone for a comma versus a semicolon. I have seen MT services that will pick that stuff to death and let the medical errors go by! That doesn't even make any sense.

I also got into this profession working in house and also learned how to use a library and other resources. It confuses me as to why folks on this board are so against using books! Has the internet taken over? It seems to me that folks don't even know how to use books anymore.

I like your post and you said it so much better than I could!
This is a socialistist society. They just don't want to use the "S" word.
1. I work to pay for my stuff.

2. I work to pay for their stuff.

3. Some people have to work to stay afloat, while others don't have to work at all and they have a free house, food stamps, bus pas, and can reproduce like rabbits because we're paying for them all anyway.

Just keep working and shut up. Everyone needs to have their hands in your paycheck, so just keep typing.
In a litigious society such as ours, medical sm
record documentation will always be around, however, not in paper form.
OMG - an American Gourd Society!
I love it! I am so getting into this! I live in Ohio and there are always craft shows and farmer's markets, pratically every weekend. I'm really good at painting, so am not really interested in doing the paint-by-numbers thing, but are there any books you would recommend for me to get started? Maybe just two or three?
I think we now live in an "entitlement" society. nm
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Sorry, the quote should have been "what society has done to us."
Can't say that I am in that category.
Me thinks you think too much!!
 Thus, the problemo!
SHE thinks she's the only one who knows how!
who is that unqualified for the position she's in. You're either SD herself or someone she put up to posting this nonsense because she's definitely an approval seeker and would be horrified to know that she wasn't fooling anyone.  Keep shoveling.  I find it amusing. 
Better thinks about it
They don't pay for spaces.  They fine you for mistakes.  Everyone is mood at that company.  Horrible experience working for them.  Better think about it.
Nothing yet. Am I the only one who thinks this is odd???
When companies switch insurance plans, they do it months in advance and not keep working on it long after their insurance is canceled.
The OP thinks she is SM

being specifically singled out for bad treatment because she **dares** to question them.  Completely ridiculous.  I know all of us would like to believe the world revolves around us, but the reality is that an MT that questions my corrections or feedback is barely noticed by me. 


Just like MTs, our working conditions have deteriorated over the years and the majority of us have the same priorities as MTs, getting the work out the door and keeping the office off our back.


Me thinks somebody is a bit paranoid.
I've worked other places and I've never done as well as I have at TT. I doubt they pull the bull you state.

For me, I planning on being there until I retire. I think you should back up your info with FACTS, not RUMOR.
Me thinks it isn't the platform...
that causes the problem, but the company you work for that controls how the lilnes are counted!
She thinks she's texting
.
Me thinks you are not really 'admin.'

Miserableor not, if anyone thinks their
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It's called someone thinks we


who's happy??? Not everyone thinks you are the cat's meow.
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What a minute, one thinks it is fast
and another thinks it is slow and cumbersome.  I'm confused now.  Can you give details please.
What an idiot this person is. Thinks he has all

the answers and really doesn't have any of them.  He doesn't know who I am and cannot comment on anything about what transpired when I worked there. 


I have absolutely no reason to lie about my experience with SS.  It was a horrible place for lots of reasons and I'll tell anyone who asks about the company my experience to spare them the headache.  IF my QA scores were down (how could they be I was in QA), if I didn't stick to my schedule, etc. and got fired I would admit that also, but none of it happened - I QUIT and H did beg me to stay. I know it is hard with all his sliminess to believe he could beg, but beg he did. 


I know it was not a type and know poster thinks
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I hear you. I pay NO attention to how good someone thinks they are.
With all that wonderful experience, if you cannot pull the testing, you have just proven you don't know your own skill level.

I got a call the day I sent my resume and answers in. Maybe you the OP is not all that she thinks s
the positions that had open were not a good match for what she has done. I read her post a few times. It says that her skills do match the opening that she applied for, not that she was a bad Transcriptionist or anything like that. Their question sheet is pretty specific. If she was looking for hours that they did not have available or a type of account that they did not have openings for, that would explain it. At least she heard at all. I applied to at least a dozen companies, many mentioned here often as good or great companies, that never even acknowledged my application or resume. Each experience is obviously different.
Me thinks the 'lady' doth protest too much - nm

So what exactly IS your point, if any, besides the obvious pedantic and self-righteous diatribe?


Me thinks the lady doth protest too much

I do not know All Type or any of the people involved in this but it have been reading along because I am interviewing with them next week.  I was very upset by this and scared that I had made the wrong choice.  You have made a lot of statements and I was thinking that you were treated unfairly and that I hoped you proved your case in court and maybe make our place in the industry a little stronger.  We are the lowest people on the totem pole in every company and we do get kicked around a lot.  But you now sound like you had it in for one particular person at your company and have worked very hard to cause problems for that person.  I just do not know why you would stay there or even want to go back if you hate this person and she makes you this unhappy with your life and job and she singled you out to cut your pay so drastically.  I agree with the other poster who said you have wasted a great deal of time on this and that you should move on and find yourself a better job with a company that is a better fit for you.  I think you have gone too far and become far too emotional when you get this dangerously close to slander. 


Me thinks the lady doth protest too much

I do not know All Type or any of the people involved in this but it have been reading along because I am interviewing with them next week.  I was very upset by this and scared that I had made the wrong choice.  You have made a lot of statements and I was thinking that you were treated unfairly and that I hoped you proved your case in court and maybe make our place in the industry a little stronger.  We are the lowest people on the totem pole in every company and we do get kicked around a lot.  But you now sound like you had it in for one particular person at your company and have worked very hard to cause problems for that person.  I just do not know why you would stay there or even want to go back if you hate this person and she makes you this unhappy with your life and job and she singled you out to cut your pay so drastically.  I agree with the other poster who said you have wasted a great deal of time on this and that you should move on and find yourself a better job with a company that is a better fit for you.  I think you have gone too far and become far too emotional when you get this dangerously close to slander. 


Sorry, that should be thinks…fingers too fast today
NM
There's only one way to find out if an employer thinks you'd be as suited for a return to this

.


Yet, second company thinks it should work and not mess up other platform (sm)
I will feel better when the actual technician sees about loading it. Not that the recruiters don't know their job, just nervous.

I had others report they are using 1 computer for 2 different companies and maybe having to use a second pedal. Let's hope we are lucky.


Hafta laff -- SM thinks she's quite the master of sarcasm.

In case anyone thinks Escription is a good thing!!
This is just the beginning as more and more records are residing on the internet. And when you go into see your doctor, he is more concerned with making his laptop work and inputting info than he is listening to you. My friends are angry about this as they see it more and more. So EMR, internet, etc are more trouble than they are worth and we can only hope we go back to the way it used to be.
That poster thinks this has nothing to do with spirituality or domestic violence.
See below. She says we are in left field suggesting that. So, the words suck it up has nothing to do with how we treat other people or how we choose to be treated, that is just take the beating? Okay, well if I am in left field, and she has typed me in a psych note, I suppose I should suck that up too. Answering here because I wanted her to read above once again so that this poster can put 2 and 2 together, instead of calling me a nut. Thanks for listening.
that will be changing
sup's have already said you have to work 40 hrs from sun to sat on the new plan. Glad you are a happy MT at MQ, hope it continues, lucky you
They are out there, but changing to VR...:(
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Transcend really thinks we are stupid and would never know a little line count manipulation.
They picked the wrong people to try that on!!!
Must be a skinny person who thinks it's that easy. If it were, trust me, we'd all be thin.
No one wants to be overweight, noone what to contemplate surgery, but I think there is a conscious choice to want to live and will do anything to keep doing that with a decent quality of life. It's not always by choice that people are overweight. All I can think of here is ....empathy.. and I applaud anyone who cares enough about living to do whatever it takes, no matter how drastic. For some, it's their last chance to live so spare us all with the Just diet and exercise speech.
That's because they probably keep changing your divisor
to count the lines to match whatever they want to pay you. They are so bad. Taking money from transcriptionists who do all the real work and have the experience and intelligence that THEY USE to make THEIR MONEY!
Changing careers
I was a Transcriptionist for 11 years and going through the same thing - less pay and terrible accounts.  Changed companies a lot, but it was always the same - little or no work.  Finally I had a friend of mine who is a doctor (has her own family practice) tell me that she hired a company out of India to do her work for 7cpl with 24 hour TAT and they would incorporate it into her computer system.  This was the last straw for me and I got out.  I found a job transcribing and captioning videos for the deaf and hearing impaired students at a local university.  I also take classes with a couple of these students and take notes.  There are other things out there - I am happier than I have been in years!
I am looking into changing fields..from MT
to coding but don't know if at 53 I'm getting too old to switch OR if coding will go the way of transcription as far as being computerized. I know MQ has new transcription/coding computerized equipment but I'm hoping and praying billing and/or coding will continue to be done by humans for a while. I just don't know that much about billing/coding now to know what the field looks like but I've contacted a couple local schools about classes. 
Changing world

It appears that management and supervisor positions are going down the drain.  Reason being, a lot of them are working for two companies at one time, thus  drawing two paychecks.  The company officials who know nothing about transcription management have no idea that it doesn't take a full day to manage transcriptionists.  Same being with QA and Editor positions, they are going to line rate now for the same reason.  Seems like a few unworthy people have just ruined it for everyone.  The trend now is going toward no titles of authority and just everyone having responsibilties that will cover a full day including typing in that job description.  I wouldn't say thats really a bad change, I would say the companies are wising up, it is a business after all. 


In defence of some though, there are though companies that assign 50 hospital accounts to one supervisor which is just terrible because they are on 24-7.  Bottom line, it is no longer the prestigious job it used to be.


Changing World
******
changing speed
go to the transnet player, click more at the bottom right, and it gives you options you can change.
The forever changing AS...
 
Ever changing workload
If those people had any clue what they were doing, things would not be the way they are.

Have you ever worked for a company who suddenly sends out an email that says -we got a new acount- -it's already been added to your pool- -here are the account specifics- ...and has done this repeatedly with no warning whatsoever.

No human can keep all of those account specifics straight. If they had a brain, they would divide up those accounts and lessen the number of accounts in the MTs pools. In other words, if there are 100 MTs, put 3 accounts in 50 MTs' pools and the other 3 accounts in the other 50 MTs' pool. Does this not make sense?

They are so thoughtless and inconsiderate...will assign jobs to you without telling you or asking you if it is ok to do so, and then will send an email ordering you to stay on the system until you have completed all jobs assigned to you.
Unbelievable! I'm outta there as fast as I find something else. Hate it...hate it...hate it.

OMG! Changing Ribbons! LOL :)
This is way down the page, so you may not see this, but YES! I had forgotten all about changing the ribbon! Too funny! Man that takes me back! :)
changing MT jobs
hi out there -  I have been working with TotalEMed, now Spheris, for quite awhile -- pay on speech recog is 0.05 line and transcribing 0.06 line and am thinking about another company - does any one know of a company they have had a pretty good experience... I was thinking about the Northeast Transcription, Medquist and a few others.  thanks so much for any help with this.  I have about 7 years exp.
They are changing platforms and we will all be
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company changing pay??
So, we have just been notified that our company will be changing our pay basically to 2 cpl on any templates and macro information and our full line rate on what we actually type out!!  What??  Is this normal?  It just seems like crap, especially before the holidays to just in a sense lower the money we are making.  I mean, this would make quite a difference in the amount of money you were originally making wouldnt you all think?
Why is TTD changing names.......sm

On job seeker's board, TTD has another add but now they posted the company name as TMinc????


Guess they are not getting resumes or responses to their ads.  hmmm


I have no issues with HRP, changing
choices very easy.   I just may be used to it as I have to do it with my husband's company every year through their own system.