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I agree, strong accusations and easy to do anonymously.

Posted By: PassingThru on 2006-06-06
In Reply to: Wow!!! I am not familiar with Rhonda and why would she use her real name. Which platform is she on? - anon

Use your real name, like Rhonda had the guts to do. Even if what you say about Rhonda is half way true (doubtful) -- at least she had the guts to use her real name.


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Pretty big accusations if she is not familiar with you and your
company.  Also, if is isn't true, why are you scanning the boards to make sure nobody is saying things that aren't true?  Somthing is fishy here!!!!
Their assumptions/accusations are based on ignorance
Much like any other type of prejudice, their assumptions and accusations are based on fear (translated into ignorance). They think that because of their shortcomings and inability to be successful at it, then it's impossible anyone else can be successful at it.

I've stopped wasting my time and energy trying to reason with or explain VR to any of them. Their minds are made up, so let them go work for Jane Doe's little MTSO around the corner that has very little work because they don't do VR. The industry will force them to find other careers in a couple of years anyway.

Their loss, our gain.
I agree Chartnet is very easy
to use, however I do use my Expander all the time.  My old hands need all the help they can get. 
How do we do this anonymously?
I have their memo stored stating the entire plan for offshoring - how do I send it to the administrator?
Agree about Oncology, not easy account . sm
to learn, especially the medications, about half of which are experimental and not on the FDA-approved marked yet - thus, limited lookup and references on them.  I did Oncology FT for 3.5 years at the Q for MD Anderson and was quite a challenging account/specialty that had to be slowly learned.
Can We Hear from Management please, even anonymously.

How is it that you require say 1,200 lines and 8 hours a day to qualify as a full time MT, yet you overhire to the point that this is impossible to accomplish??  You want us to use our PTO during **slow work** days?  They have ALL become slow work days.  Furthermore, how would you like to use your PTO while you are at work?  Do you not plan vacations with that?  Do you really expect to keep qualified MTs when you do not supply them with work?  This is nothing new and nothing occasional.  This has become the norm with so many companies.  You are MISMANAGING YOUR ACCOUNTS!!!  This is something YOU have done.  The responsibility for this should not fall back to the MT who has absolutely no control over the work flow.  And by the way, while 1,200 lines a day might make you happy - I personally need more income than that.  If you don't want to increase our pay rate - how about increasing the number of lines we are ALLOWED to transcribe??


Any response whatsoever to explain this would be greatly appreciated!  Remain anonymous if you wish, but please tell me where the logic is in this.


I agree. I am only part time so far, but I love it. The platform is easy, and sm

the people are great.  I feel very fortunate to have stumbled onto them.



No wonder you post anonymously and work at home.
With that personality. Lash out irrationally lately?
Why no. They posted anonymously so they could be bluntly honest.
What's surprising about that? If they post their companies, they would get harrasing emails from miffed applicants. Who needs that?
I agree that it is an easy platform, but compared to other platforms I have used, lines are harder
to get, probably counted or weighted differently.
agree, IMEs are great $$, easy reports, miss them, would love to find them
nm
They are going strong!!

AccuStat has moved their office to a larger location in Myrtle Beach and opened a couple other offices in other places as well.  They have not shut down.  I have worked for them for four years now and they are going great and a great company to work for!


Responses too strong
For someone who is just happy with their job. Something fishy here.
This company is only for the strong of heart
or the very desperate.  Owner and QA degrade you and they do want 7-day coverage.
My accounts were not dropped. They were still going strong nm
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Unbearable is a really strong description
for an account.  I've read similar on other forums, so think I may pass.  Difficult, challenging, OK. Unbearable = a bit scary.
Those things go to the strong, who FIGHT for them.
and tell themselves how 'lucky' they are to have a job at all. I sometimes can't believe how brainwashed so many MTs are.
Profitable and strong company

In your speech you said the company is still profitable and doing well. OF COURSE IT IS, why wouldn't it be when you pay slave wages to educated, knowledgeable workers. And like the prior poster, I do assume you will be taking pay cuts as well.


Anyone know of a company, easy clinic work, easy Word format, dependable pay? Help!
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How strong is the tech support at your MTSO? nm
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Last year PT was 600 lpd. Lack of communication & strong
s
A bit strong. Transcend is good depending
I have worked with them in the past and returned 3 months ago. I am on a really really difficult ESL account, and I am having a learning curve to get to my full-time lines. But, the team lead and my regional manager have been a safety net for me by being very supportive and always addressing my concerns. I must say my account is not for the faint of heart, but the Beyond TXT is fine for me and I am getting there. The major reason why I am sticking out the learning process is because of my supervisor is so supportive and flexible with me taking longer to get my lines. I just about make my bills, and did not make the sign on bonus which is a negative. However, I will stick it out b/c I know that I can do it and make good money here. If you can do ESL and get a good supportive supervisor I would suggest you give it a serious consideration. I do believe there is money to be made at this company and there are a lot of people who have been there many many years. Good luck to you.
See, it is working, we are strong and standing up for our American sister MTs!
We can make this a positive. You are already doing that! We former Heartlanders appreciate what you have done for us. We cannot remain silent.
I love it. It is fast, easy to learn and easy to use.

Platform very easy and quick - easy to get used to. :)
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It's just not easy to do for most of us. nm
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Does anyone else think it is just as easy to go to a different
company as it is to learn new account at the same time you are learning a new platform that has a lot of problems? 
easy to put an end to it all
Doesn't matter if QT says they are not closing or not selling, it is all in what the account decides what will force the hand.  You have one big account, lose one big account, you do the math. 
It's VERY easy
All that you do is hit F6 and it brings up all of the old report. As far as I can tell, they go back about a year.
easy as pie
Super easy and I find it super fast.  Check out www.escription.com
I cannot tell you how easy it is to get someone's SS#
and have a grand time with it! Try explaining it to the hospitals that want to outsource to certain national companies that don't do a background check on employees or that the threat to take SS# just by when doctors dictate them is easy - can you imagine how easy it is for the offshore companies to do it. If I can do it in the states working for a national company, imagine what the offshore companies can do!
EASY
I was wondering the same thing. The ad said It is easier to edit than type, and they pay hourly. I don't like their choice of words though. Neither is EASY. It all takes skill. I, too, am curious--Who is TMMG?
Its not easy being a
You're right the girl probably didn't have a clue of how poorly she was doing and thats not playing fair. However, training is not easy. Companies don't want to lose people, especially if they're not paying them much, soooo you're stuck being positive positive positive even when the work is horrible, and people tend to get offended at the least little bit of feedback. Its a bit of a squishy position and at times the person training has to go to great lengths to justify their own position. Not easy I assure you. I for one was told I was sending too much feedback, apparently learning how to do things right was not at the top of these MTs list. You cannot completely blame the trainer, but management who lets the MT call the shots.
Easy. NM
nm
Not the OP, ...is it easy to set up?
Do you have to buy anything other than the router? I have comcast cable and already have a router...just don't know what to do with it.
Easy.
You need to go in and put in the BKSP command where the number goes and back the hyphen right up to the command you then you eliminate the 105 painful times you need to enter!! A snap!
Easy.
You need to go in and put in the BKSP command where the number goes and back the hyphen right up to the command you then you eliminate the 105 painful times you need to enter!! A snap!
easy to say....
nm
It's not as easy to do that now as it used to be sm
If you're SE or IC, you can do that, but with most companies going to employee, MT can only work 40 hours and if one can't count on working extra, which goes into overtime and not always offered, it makes having just one job not feasible if MT wants to make X amount of dollars in as much time as it takes her/him.

I wish I could just do one job with OT when offered, but I really need the security of having the PT to get what I need to make ends meet.
I'm sorry. I must have it easy there, which SM
is reason I, unfortunately, can't leave.

I really feel badly for you. Sadly, that's why company has the reputatation it does. They are more concerned about happiness of offshore MTs.
Easy. Take a job anywhere. It will be prn because
there will be no work. They will want you to type prn but demand you live up to a line count and schedule they will not promise work to fill, thus it ends up prn for you, and great for them. Sorry, just the facts. Imagine a company that was honest and actually hired for prn. There's never be anything comparing what it is like for full time or part time these days. JIMHO
Very easy---
go into program files, find ShortHand file, click on that, that is where all the things are. Go to the SPF files, find which one you have your abbreviations in, you had to have named it something (you can check the opened shorthand and look at the tab on the bottom that shows what you use for your abbeviations), copy that file (I use a fast whatchamacall it that you plug in) or you can copy in a separate file until you can copy it to a removeable file, just paste it somewhere, then when you want to copy it to another computer with the Shorthand program on it, just paste it in the shorthand file (like where you copied it from on the other computer). When you open up the Shorthand file, you will have to click on the new shorthand files and add it so it will put a tab at the bottom.
So easy to say that when not you
The poster said she made good money and needed the job. It is the lady's job and she calls the shots. Sure the person can quit and cut off her nose to spite her face. That is just business.
Thats easy for you to say
Thats easy for you to say when you are getting offered 8 and 9 cpl. I am just testing and testing and testing and testing and not even getting offered anything.  I need work and if I am offered 7 cpl typing for 1 or 2 dictators I will take it because you can still make money at that.  I don't mind working 2 jobs because that way you always have something to type. 
It is easy once you are used to it. I love it! xx
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Test Was Easy

BUT if you don't have years of experience you won't be hired by them.


Easy tests
Nope, you can't go by that. In fact, you can't go by anything but your own experience. Make your wisest decision. Use your gut instincts. That's all any of us can do.

It might help others to answer if you named the companies, but I understand why you can't.

Good luck. :)
Yes, for 2 weeks, which is easy on the
That works out to be 200 lines an hour. What type of work do you do?
Easy to spot
     lol  :)
not easy to find
find it after clicking on company board, as it's not listed after you click forums and only after you click on company board...
I knew it was too easy sm
Probably too good to be true but I will try to straddle both jobs. My current one is a stinko place, lotsa junk dictation, no $$, so T seemed like a big step in the right direction. However, I got it too easy. My experience with both MT and nonMT jobs is if you get them too easily, there's usually a reason why -- nobody else wants it.