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Are you really a lawyer?

Posted By: Cheeseburger on 2005-12-06
In Reply to: Email me. we will get those people - MT Lawyer

Are you really a lawyer?


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the Lawyer said....
In using .PDF documents are encrpyted by a date when it was turned into .PDF and somewhat protected by tampering. Like a scanned or picture it could be detected by experts if needed to undergo tests. Thus making a case to go into court.
everyone needs a lawyer
If that's the case, everyone on these boards need attorneys. We all can state our opinions without the fear of being tromped on like you are doing. If you like the company, that is wonderful. Goodness gracious. Calm down. It is okay.
You are a lawyer then?

I certainly am not a lawyer but I cannot possibly imagine a company being required to pay OT they didn't ask to be worked.  So far as emails I  have personally received asking for help to meet TAT,they ALWAYS say something to the effect of....if you have not met your line or hour requirements...if they want over time they ask for it and they INSIST on paying for it!!!!


One thing I do agree with you on is the discipline you mentioned.  Might be a good idea for someone to let management at TT know what is being said here and I would personally be delighted if they could identify the malcontents and FIRE them.  All-in-all Transtech is a good company...not perfect by any means...but as an old goat with nearly half a century in this business I can tell you there are a WHOLE LOT worse companies out there and I hope some of you find them.  You deserve it!


I am not a lawyer but I wonder
what the Labor Commission might say about requiring someone to work for a week without pay before hiring. I'll betcha they would say plenty. Might be worth running it past them. Where do you live? I know that in California that kind of nonsense would never fly.
Now that's funny, I wish I was a lawyer and not an MT,
I could delegate work to the paralegals and make the big bucks instead of sitting here 10 hours a day, often 7 days a week with swollen legs and an aching back.
i hope you pay your lawyer more than your MTs. lol NM

I would contact a lawyer
Keep all your documentation and contact a lawyer. Good luck! What a low-down scheme - and I think All Type is behind it 100%!
Anybody know a good lawyer?
We need to,like the court reporters did, file a class action lawsuit against these snake oil salesmen who want to jettison our tried and true dictation and transcription mode of medical record keeping. They have every trick in the book to try to convince doctors and hospitals to do VR or EMR and it hasn't turned out very well for them. They spend more time with their nose in the computer for EMR point and click entry than they do with the patient. VR, well don't get me started. Anyway, the court reporters fought voice reporting and won and now they don't use it anymore. We can't just keep sitting here like potted plants. We must do something.
Maybe the best advice your lawyer can give

is to leave well enough alone when these threads start.  I have personally witnessed your responses on countless threads on more than just one board, and I am always amazed at how you just don't understand you hurt yourself more than any posting of =rumors= about your company.  You say we don't know how you run your business.  Well, we know a lot more about it now with your post than we did before, don't we?  (psst, so do your competetors)  Is that necessarily a good thing?  I don't see the CEO of Medquist running around on here trying to imply legal ramifications or trying to help us understand that company's way of conducting business.  In 1997 I quit a company where the owner sent out a memo telling employees not to discuss it on the internet.  It amazes me that an owner believes s/he has the kind of control over anyone to regulate what the people who work for them think or do OR feel intimidated that your lawyer is going into the Big Brother Business.


For the record, I have never looked into working for your company, am not a former employee/contractor, have no interest in doing any sort of business with you whatsoever.  The reason I mention this is because I have mentioned this to you in the past and it continues to fall on deaf ears.  You do more harm by what you say than any of the MTs, editors, students, curious onlookers, do here.  If you try to hold your head up high and let things be, the reputation of your company could possibly benefit, but then, I don't control what you say, think, feel or do, either.


When I recently contacted a lawyer who represents outsourcing employers about what I thought was a rather intrusive employee handbook with strict verbage about talking about that company in public and even in private email, her response to me was to sign it.  She reminded me that it didn't change what I thought, but employers don't like employees/contractors bad mouthing them, and then asked me why I felt it was a big deal.  So now I'm going to offer you to think about that from your side.  Employees/contractors don't like employers bad mouthing them, and by the way, why is it a big deal for you?  Tend to your business and let go of what you can't control.


my 2 cents for what it is worth


~~~~~~~~~


Einstein:  Insanity:  Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.


They'll be getting a letter from my lawyer...
... if I don't get a check by the end of the week.  I already informed her of that.  We'll see how easy that is to ignore.  She isn't in the US right now or I'd sure be calling her every day, multiple times a day until I saw a check. 
It's definitely illegal... call a lawyer and you will see.........sm
There are lawyer who specialize in labor law and they will tell you. Although young people can be ill, this is slanted toward the eldery as far as the bias. And right, you cannot discriminate against someone who is handicapped and I'm sure they have a lot of medical bills. I'm telling you, these companies are in for some trouble!
wrong answer and any lawyer

the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage.  If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule.  No one knows when the work is available.  These companies place work into the system at any given time.  It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.


Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us.  As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way! 


wouldn't her lawyer guide here on that? NM
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This sounds like one of those lawyer commercials --

Thats good and great, always consult a lawyer.
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Lawyer alert! Fishing for info!
Looking for biziness??
Uhmmm shouldn't you be consulting your lawyer

Ya know this has taken over the entire company board, and it's not fair.  No one can even ask regular questions due to all this mess.



issues talk to lawyer. This is easier than starving?
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I worked there a long time ago. FInally got paid by going in with a group who got a lawyer. sm
I can't believe they're still in business!
Well, call a lawyer then. A good one. You could even get court costs paid by your employer probabl
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