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How far back to I have to scroll?

Posted By: Tracey on 2006-06-12
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    Just scroll back several days and search the pages for webmedx. nm
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    You have to scroll down to see their ad.
    They are not focus.
    Just scroll down the page
    There have been plenty of recent posts on this company. Also, look on page 2, 3, etc...
    Scroll down and see posts below...nm
    nm
    Scroll down a bit...there are more posts
    All I know is the offer wasn't very good and they offshore...enough for me.
    no need for archives - scroll over to
    bb
    scroll down the page a bit...sm
    low pay, expensive benefits, often not enough work, but nice people.
    Scroll down the page, others with you.
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    Just scroll down, this has been discussed
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    scroll down this page

    scroll down - they were just discussed - nm
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    Never mind; I see now that you have to scroll down
    Still loving the 10-12 hours a day for 3 days in a row. Not.

    Can anybody figure out what $1.25 per 1000 characters really equals in cpl? Their ad says it ''equals out to about 9 cents a line,'' but my calculations aren't making any sense (probably because of spaces not being paid, I'd guess? ... I don't know how to convert from 65 cpl with spaces versus without).
    scroll down this page for talk of better
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    Scroll down, there is test in the post. nm

    Go to your original post. Scroll down a bit and look
    for the see related messages in blue.  Click on that and you'll get past posts. 
    Scroll down a couple pages (sm)
    There are a few posts about them, nothing good that I saw.  I do remember complaints about not enough work and the owner needing to sharpen up on his communication and people skills.
    scroll to posts from the date

    03-03-2007. Theye are posts from management regarding PT issue.


     


    If you'll scroll down the page there have only been about
    2 dozen posts about them in the past week.  
    What? There are a ton of TT MTs posting here. Scroll through the last few pages.
    I would estimate that 95% of what you see posted here about TT is positive.
    Yes, I was wrong in that I couldn't scroll down
    person is basically a third party, getting us the work while we can still enjoy IC status, who cares?? Let her do the work, if that's what the MTs who work for her want.   I certainly would rather sit back and transcribe and not handle all the other MAJOR stuff that comes with having our own accounts.  Its a heck of a lot more work than you intimate.  I'd gladly pay for a middle man to handle the big BS stuff, not worth the pennies more to me.  So, to each his/her own, right?  Peace!! Get upset at other bigger issues out there!
    Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and
    go to page 2. There's a list almost at the top of the page. Hope this helps!
    Scroll down and read the numerous posts over the
    last week or so.  Also dozens of posts in the archives. 
    Scroll down the board. This company has been asked about
    several times this week, if not every day this week.   Not much info other than they don't pay very well. 
    Tons of stuff in the archives or scroll down a
    bit.  They have been discussed extensively here recently.  For the most part it is all good. 
    They have been discussed within the past week, scroll down and
    see if you can see the post.  S/B lots more posts in archives.  Nothing good. 
    For icons scroll down to "post reply to this msg"
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    If you scroll down you'll see lots of info.
    NM
    try holding cntr down and using mouse scroll.
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    Scroll down a week or so. Tons of good stuff. Great company
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    I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM

    The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.


    Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 


    There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 


    I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 


    Good luck to you!


    Phoenix Medcom- Another apply a few months back, ask to take a test and never heard back??
    I applied a month or two ago, received an email from someone asking if I would take a test and said she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week, so I hurried and immediately and told her I'd love to take the test. I never heard back. I waiting thinking she went on vacation and would contact me when she got back to do the test but nothing...very strange..Just wondered if this happened to anyone else.
    Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
    Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.
    I sent them an email back in August and never heard back sm
    Is this company on Long Island? I checked out their website and even tried calling once. Were you successful in contacting them? All i know is that the company is owned by some doctors.

    Hopefully, you will hear back. Unfortunately, I immediately heard back from MD-IT
    but somehow with over 16 years of experience, I blew the test.  I was soooo disappoionted and yet pretty stunned.  I am by no means perfect but I haven't flunked a test in years.  I expected it in my early years but not this far down the road. I was so confident and they will not tell you which part you did not pass and why so it really just blew my mind.  I must have been in shock for like two hours after I got the email. Oh well, someone will want me....hopefully.  I was thinking about OSi but I don't think I could take another rejection if I never heard back. 
    I had the same thing happen, went back to MQ, went back to KS and could not be sm

    happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.


    I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.


    Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 


    I was reading about the back up help. I would like also to have some back up work.
    I am not getting anywhere near 12,000 lines this go around.  My goal is 12,000 lines each pay period.
    click on your post and then scroll down a bit and click

    on related messages.  You'll find posts there and also there have been posts within the last couple of weeks if you'll scroll down. 


    There is nothing good to say about SoftScript.


     


    Page 2, scroll down towards the middle of the page, NM
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    Back away from the hoops!! Back away!
    I worked for them about 6 months - same mess to get hired - FBI check is right! It was unreal. I was so excited, though - they promised me the moon, and I really thought I had found my new home after centuries with that other company who shall not be named.  What a disappointment, to say the least. All around horrible experience, and I would NEVER recommend them. Certainly they were not worth the hoops at all. Total waste of effort.
    Back to ya!
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    Thanks for getting back with me!
    x
    Has anyone gone back
    to Transcend after receiving letter asking you to come back?  If so, how are things this time around?
    I'm not looking for a pat on the back and
    I know it is like that everywhere but I'm sick and tired of cleaning up after this person, getting phone calls begging me to fix this or that because they can't count on this other MT; I mean the list goes on and on. I know that in this field flexibility is everything but I'm also not bending over and taking it anymore, I'm flexed out!
    They got back to where

    Get off of her back!
    This was a simple question. If you don't have the answer, don't post. No get in the shower!

    Wanna play?
    We can BACK IT UP
    As a Medquist or MQ employee, and I have seen many on this board, we have legitimate complaints about what has been going on.

    The REAL FACT here is that many of our offices are closing or have closed, we have been transferred to the Amherst office, we have no work, no one wants to discuss it and many other issues. There are problems and this is a FACT.
    RUN and don't look back.
    They are BY FAR the worst company to work for.  Pay, even though it is direct deposit, was never on time. Sure, they offered to pay for you overdraft fees, but it took forever to actually get your pay.  And they would never tell you in advance that it was going to be late so you could avoid the problems.  Plus, they had horrible supervisors that did not know what they were doing.  Always were IM you and causing you to lose time while wanting to chit-chat....They had some good accounts but lost them due to being unprofessional and other reasons that I do not know.  Stay away!  Horrible place! 
    RUN and don't look back!!!!..sm
    I was an employee with them.  I can sum it up.  If you don't mind not knowing when you are going to receive your payday (even though it is direct deposit) then they are a great company.  Honestly, they are horrible.  They are the most unprofessional company I have EVER seen and been employed by.  It was not just one instance of pay arriving late, but I quit at the third time in a row.  And they did not warn you ahead of time....they mentioned it the DAY that you were supposed to be getting your payday, and they did not do that until so many people raised such a stink over it!  Plus, the so-called supervisors are a joke.  They do not know what they are doing and are the most foul-mouthed individuals I have ever seen.  PLUS, they keep IM you ever few minutes to where you cannot get your work done. They had an EXCELLENT account and lost it due to so much unprofessionalism because they could not get their act together.  Please, run and don't look back...otherwise, you will just be looking for your paycheck that doesn't arrive until weeks later....
    Well, they can come back now!

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    MTStars has been staunchly against the offshoring of American Private Health Information, but realizes that MTStars must evolve with the ever changing views of conducting business in the global economy. The hands of time cannot be turned back on the widespread transfer of information globally and as of January 1, 2006, MTStars opened itself up to include the global environment.


    Back up help.

    If anyone is interested, I have an oral surgery account that I need back-up help with every once in a while.  This will be p.r.n. Very easy.  0.07/65-character line with spaces.  Will need wave file player and MS Word.


    Back-up help
    I would be interested in helping you out when you need it? Would you be interested in helping me? I need back up help for a clinic account (2 docs) on occasion also. Do you happen to have a call-in line of some type?

    Sue