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I'm sure the attorney has time to "live on this board" like we do. nm

Posted By: beth on 2006-07-09
In Reply to: Does your QA staff do 500 lines plus an hour? Ask your - sm

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Contact the Labor Board, the Attorney General's office,

send them a certified letter with return receipt giving them 10 days from date of the letter to issue you your money.   Be sure and keep documentation of everything. 


I've been there quite a while, pay on time, growth spurt right now, so good time to get on board,
new accounts and lots of work, and before someone says it, I'm not management, just an employee.
yet you have time to get on this board
and make hateful catty remarks about someone you probably do not even know??? Some folks are just downright meanspirited and get off on being that way... tsk tsk tsk
Have you taken the time to get off this board &
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I think there are way too many MTs on this board with 2 much time on their hands-sm
I feel like in am in 2nd grade again.
Nobody on this board works. They don't have time.
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Time to check the "Jobs" board
There are other places you can work.


Do you really think owners have time to come on this board to know there are any concerns? sm
If you really and truly believe they are offshoring, ask them. Tell them you have concerns and that you have heard they were outsourcing!. I know for a fact that L is still quite involved in the company and believe me, they have hired new people; people who just couldn't cut it and were not good enough to put out quality work; QT has always, always prided themselves in quality! If an MT can't do quality work, why keep them? It's a waste of time and money! I just know one thing, I will do my all this week to help get us back in TAT. You do what you have to do!
On another board, every time MedScribe is mentioned, SM

there is one particular person who jumps in with the story that she ws never paid by them, and then the company does not get discussed.  So you have not experienced this problem and are relativey happy working there?  I just looked at their website and it actually looked like a good company from what is there, and their ad looks promising also.  Might just be worth checking out, but on that other board, you're just never able to find out anything!  I'm so glad you posted.  I also found out they hire ICs so maybe they'd let some MTs start out part-time to see if they liked it or were, as we say, a good fit  LOL


I have known this for a long time; that is why I NEVER respond to an email from ANYONE on this board

because it will identify your email address when you return their email.  When they ask me to talk via email, I just don't respond to them.  NO RETURN EMAIL FROM ME.


There's tons of info here if you do a board search. They get discussed all the time. :) nm
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Comments on this board from 12/2005 said staff was overwhelmed and had no time to help their MTs.
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I think someone on the Main Board had this problem a short time ago. Maybe a search there will show
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attorney
Honestly, i would sign, collect my severance, and get another MT job. They have NO right to tell you who you can work for and that basically you have to leave your trained profession for a year. You know the MT business you cannot leave for a year and expect to get any kind of job again.
get an attorney
Absolutely get an attorney and go to your state labor board. They can take it much further than you can. Do you have any idea who is doing this to you and why? Your employer is unbelievably short-sighted and your co-worker - I don't even know what to say about that person! Best of luck. I am so glad you have some evidence.
D is an attorney
Just as a piece of information. Of course, she'd tell you to serve on jury duty.

All these weeks/months that the MTs from MDI have not had enough have been during the preparations for this merger. D was just taking care of herself -- she traded you all in for her retirement fund. She may have always talked like everything was about family, but at the end of the day, it has always been about business. I'm not a current MT with MDI, but worked there long enough to understand her personality.

Best of luck to all of you!
Attorney D
Thank you for the reminder about D being an attorney. I had completely forgotten about that. For me, that fact explains her actions a little better...
I had my attorney look at a contract also
I was asked to sign a really outrageous one.... not for Sten-Tel. I don't want to mention the company. It's hardly ever on here and I think I was the first and only person asked to sign one. Basically making me a slave with varying pay and other horrible things.
NO, they cannot! I consulted an attorney about this.
The consensus is that no one can prevent you from earning a living. Noncompete clauses aren't worth the paper they're written on and can't be enforced. What are they going to do, taunt you about being a traitor? Tell them kiss off and talk to your attorney IF they ever find out about it.
About contacting an attorney - sm

I too would like answers because half a truth is worse than a total lie because you mislead with half the truth and do much damage.  Please clarify these issues for us.


1.  Why would the company go to all the trouble to pull this two-bit prank when they could just say good bye to you if they wanted to.  You have been ranting to all of us on shift with you for months about how you have been mistreated and were going to sue the company and demand unemployment.  You did not tell the good MTs here who are ready to take your side and defend your position that All Type has a 3 strike rule and that you have told several of us that you were written up once for failing to make production of 1200 lines a day and then spewing some pretty foul language in an email to a supervisor about them making you do OP notes and type ESLs and how that was not fair to you.  It is an acute care hospital.  That is what we do.  Do you remember telling us about being written up for falsifying your time card?  Honestly, that is pretty serious.  If you were the one telling us that, i cannot even imagine what you are not telling us and what your personnel file looks like. 


2.  I have not seen anyone leave, voluntarily or involuntarily on our team in some time.  So who are you referencing when you say a lot of people quit or were fired.  No one stays at a company that is horrendous and unfair out of the kindness of their heart.  Are you telling us you just felt sorry for the company and the management team you hated and stayed to help them out? 


3.  Evidently you believe that you are a very high caliber employee and MT.  I would think you would be able to go anywhere and find a perfectly wonderful job.  I know most companies are just begging for real talent.  Unemployment is probably your only alternative because we both know that you are NOT capable of working in any acute care setting - and unemployment and legal sources are going to laugh you out of the offices if you tell them the truth! Even if you fail to tell them the real story, your history is well documented.   


4.  From all of the foul statements you have made about this company and their management for months and threatening legal ramifications if they mess with you - I wonder why you would want to be a part of a company that you have made clear to any of us who will listen how much you hate All Type and all of the management.  I also wonder if you do not know that from the beginning when you started making statements to the rest of us about lawsuits - that the company most surely handed your file over to a legal team.  I suspect the legal department has been involved in all of this for several months. 


Good luck missy.  I have worked with you for well over a year and your professional behavior and abilities leave a lot to be desired.  You have been so disruptive that most of your team has blocked you from IM and we are all glad that your drama from 4-12 everyday is finally done.  You should have been doing your job instead of driving us all crazy with your IMs and maybe, just maybe this company would have valued you.  As it is, what goes around comes around and your cheating, backstabbing, and lies came back around to you.  I salute Karma!!!


Not an attorney, but have 2 in the family ...sm

My son-in-law is a newbie lawyer who does have an interest in labor law and the like.  I've had numerous conversations with him re. the MTSOs and all they're able to get by with.  Regarding your post above, the difference is ASKING YOU TO and REQUIRING YOU TO. 


In any job paying on production, if there's no work on your shift DUE TO NO FAULT OF THE EMPLOYER (and this does NOT include having sent your work to VR when you on a straight MT shift and you're out of work) they may REQUEST that you make it up at a later date - this must be a mutually agreeable time.  But THEY CANNOT REQUIRE you to make up work at a specific time - they must pay you minimum hourly wage for your time in that case.   


Try the Attorney General's Office...
for your State. Worked for me and I was an IC. Got my last check. Good luck.
Disagree. One letter from an attorney
to their clients would change this picture...

They broke the contract first by not paying according to agreement; that's all I'd need to either contact the clients directly myself or pay $100 bucks or so to have an attorney do it for me...

Again, you aren't looking for payment by contacting the client, you are advising them in advance that you are suing their provider and that they should be prepared to turn over documents/be subpoenaed.

Or, just roll over and hope the company chooses to pay you. Whatever.
Have an attorney send them a letter with
a copy of your contract. Also, as poster below says, look for a new job.
No Texas and will be seeing my attorney tomorrow.
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Update - saw my attorney and filed for

Two people at the unemployment office told me I have every right to claim unemployment.  My attorney looked over my contract and apparently the owner didn't cover all her avenues and he found a loophole and told me to file.  BTW - one of the ladies at the unemployment office told me they are seeing more and more MTs filing. 


Take it to your Prosecuting Attorney's office
They will quickly act on it. She will pay or be arrested. If it is for more than $100, it is a felony charge.

The only way I got my money is by sending him a letter from my attorney.
Essentially, all I did was go to a lawyers office and have them send the guy a letter of the amount owed otherwise face legal action and the guy sent me my pay.  Callstreet will tell you that they will pay these great rates and then when you do the work and in the time frame they want, when you see what you are ACTUALLY being paid is SIGNIFICANTLY lower.  This is an Indian guy who uses anyone he can get his hands on and then screw them out of hard earned money.  They conference calls are brutal to get turned around in an extremely short period of time and then to get screwed out of the proper pay is a slap in the face.  He does the same thing to services he uses overseas, too.  I've seen posts on an Indian website about this guy cheating them out of pay, too.
Also contact your state Attorney General
consumer fraud division. Contact the local TV station that has a department for such fraud and ask them to investigate. Once you go public, you will be paid. Best of luck to you.
Being a small MTSO myself, the second attorney is correct sm
Honestly, here in the Northeast, the courts will not uphold any noncompete clause written in that manner, signed or not signed.

If it affects your ability to make an income and provide for yourself, it will not hold up in a court of law in the great US of A.
My attorney told me that noncompete clauses
are illegal and not enforceable because one person cannot stop another person from making a living EVEN if you sign that noncompete agreement. I went through it with both a pharmaceutical company and a transcription company trying to prevent me from working for their clients or competitors. I can see their point as an independent contractor when it comes to offering the same services and essentially stealing their clients. However, as a former employee, nobody can tell me who I will or won't work for. The second attorney is correct, and I would follow his advice.
Report to BBB, then contact attorney general's
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We all need to band together!!! And we DO need to contact an attorney. This has become CRIMINAL!
This is not legal!
Hmmm but interesting....will the attorney actually be able to find out WHO is posting?
I thought this board was secure and identities were not revealed????
call attorney general and do not work until paid
that is BULL
what kind of attorney did u all hire and in which state? What if u are spread
all over the US and there are like 8 that were not paid? Do we get an attorney in the same state as the loser who did not pay us? Or what is your advice there? What did u do? How much did it end up costing u? Plz reply via email if you want.
make complaint to your state attorney general sm

google.com you particular state attorney general and read up a bit. Here in California I know I have read things in the newspaper where Jerry Brown was investigating this or that and taking action, scams was one thing.  Type up the problem encountered, find the website and send an email with all the facts (complete) so that enables a proper investigation.  If nobody complains, they get away with it.  They depend on people not knowing what to do, or feel, what is the use.


Here is a link for my state, can click the titles, they open


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=california+state+attorney+general+consumer+fraud&rlz=1R2GGLJ_enUS333&aq=3&oq=california+state+attorney+g&aqi=g6.


contact the attorney general in the state she is in and the better business bureau and
call the local newspaper and something like ABC on your side. Put the heavy duty pressure on her.

Funny some of us were written letters by company attorney when we posted our concerns here
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MedQuisters, topics from the Company board are being moved to the MedQuist board. MQ posts on

the first page of the Company board will be removed to open up space for other companies to post.  Enjoy the new Medquist board set up for you.


Thank you,


Administrator


Are you the same condescending person the word board? I thought this was called "Company Board.&#
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Didn't you post this on 03/04/06 on both the Company Board and the Hospital/Clinic MT Board?

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This was moved from main board to company board. Replies don't transfer. nm
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This is the Company Board. You should have posted on tech board. nm
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there is a board for local talk. this is company board. thx
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Posted on wrong board. Plz see Seekers board.
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Sorry! Wrong board. Reposted on Main board. NM
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There is a comedy board...put your remarks on that board. nm
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Then this is the "Unprofessional" MT board. Pulic board,
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I can't give you the name of the message board, but it is not a free message board (HINT). There
Monitor, I hope this post is okay.
You already have your own board. Now you want a board for the ones who leave??
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