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I couldn't agree more!! Bravo!

Posted By: TS MT on 2008-08-03
In Reply to: Note about the MTs making lots of money - sm - Jill




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Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself
Never had a problem with MQ until DQS. I am chained to this desk from sun up to sun down just trying to make the line count. It was NOT like that before DQS - I actually made very good, but now I can barely get by. What is really disturbing to me is that it is obvious a very big problem to a large number of MTs, yet MQ turns a blind eye. I guess as long as the big dogs are getting their fair share, then they are not worried about who is actually keeping them in business - the MTs. Without us, where would they be??
Bravo! Applause! Yes! I agree completely!

Very well said! I couldn't agree more! (nm)
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couldn't agree more

I worked for MQ for 6 years,  and they went from bad to worse. I am glad I do not work there anymore. I worked every weekend (my choice) and almost every holiday for them. They do not give you any differential for working w/e or holidays and will try to screw you out of any $$ they possibly can.  After 6 years, no one even said thank you, good luck..nothing!!!  I now work for a company that actually appreciates my work!


Couldn't agree more, LOL! (nm)
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I couldn't agree more
I am so tired of reading messages from miserable, crabby MT's, who blame their lack of production or being fired from a company, on everything else, but themselves. If that poster was fired from Spheris, it was with good reason. If you cannot cut it at Spheris, they cut you loose. You have 90 days (3 months) to meet your production goals, and judging from your spelling and grammar you probably started on a fairly low level account. I have mentored MT's, done editing, QA audits, and transcription, and the only way to make money is to work HARD!!! That is something that so many people that I have trained do not seem to understand. You have to work to make money and to get your production in.

I totally agree with your post, and I just wanted you to know.
Couldn't agree more (sm)
Feast or famine is correct, but you have to fight for work and fight even harder for some decent communication.  I give a thumbs down for this company.
Couldn't agree more
I applaud how well you put this. I have been in this profession over 45 years and still love and respect it. Perhaps it has become all about the money and who makes more, instead of taking pride in ourselves and the work we produce. Money is important, but it is not everything. If more people would strive for quality, stand by their good morals and ethics, and stop worrying about outsources, voice recognition, etc, perhaps this profession could be elevated to where it belongs. For now, I will also continue to be the best I can be and keep moving forward. Remember the Dictaphone??? I remember using a tape recorder and a manual typewriter -- oh my.
I couldn't agree with you more - sm
When I worked for a company, (before I went into recruiting) I would need to find subcontractors for projects. I heard yes, yes yes all the time and I would tell them the deadline. We even paid very well ($3.25/double spaced page which comes out to $30/hour or up) We paid more if it was a tighter deadline. Come the day of the deadline I would hear excuse after excuse after excuse oh my kids were sick I needed you to pay me up front because I didn't believe you were actually going to pay that much or this was the best I had the choice of going out with a man to try to get married so I wouldn't have to do this kind of work or working, which do you think I picked.

So you're right, work ethics have gone right out the window.

Unfortunately, that company decided to offshore a lot of their projects - as much as I am against offshoring, I couldn't blame them.
Couldn't agree with you more

Google is not a reliable source for spellings, terminology, drugs, etc.


I have had MTs tell me but I found it on google


 


I couldn't agree more
      We don't need to know the intimate details of how the business is run, but for loyalty, dedication, and effort at furthering the well being of the company (not just a paycheck), we deserve to  be treated as more than a means to an end or cog in the wheel.  I hope each MT who did the right thing for QT sees their efforts rewarded in the future.  This situation has brought grief to a lot of people - time to move forward and close the door on QT once and for all.  They don't deserve any more of our time or trouble and can be absolutely certain they'll never be worthy of it again.
I couldn't agree more!
I have been with KS since this past February and have never been happier! I have two excellent accounts; one ER and one basic 4 hospital account as a backup, and I never, ever run out of work. I also have an excellent rapport with my lead MT and I love it! I make excellent money there, and my check is always direct deposited right on time without any errors. I had worked for a few other companies before Keystrokes, and they couldn't even come close to KS as far as how well they treat their employees, etc. KS has been a huge breath of fresh air to me, and I feel very fortunate to have had such a positive experience with them! I am sure I am going to be bashed left and right and be accused of being a recruiter or management, but I am just an MT with an opinion.
Couldn't agree more
Was so tedious and time-consuming.  I hardly believed it is being used.  My hands cramped and you cannot advance with the footpedal while you were listening and it jumped ahead too fast which caused you to have to constantly back-pedal.  No, thank you.  Horrible. 
I couldn't agree with you more.
WORKING phone numbers are especially important.


Couldn't agree with you more.
I got the feeling they (management) are all laughing in the background at the MTs. No respect at all. They feel the MTs are a pitiful annoyance to their daily working lives. Very dehumanizing.
Couldn't agree
more with you sm! We are only one sector being affected by jobs leaving this country. I've been around a long time in different venues, and like all of you very disheartened and saddened by what has transpired, but we must make something positive out of the negatives here! Make your voices heard, just not on this forum!
I couldn't agree more
I have always considered myself loyal to the company I work for until the end, but now with all the uncertainty and unanswered questions, I'm thinking that loyalty schmoyalty, maybe I had better move on too.
I couldn't agree with you more, they are the worst! nm
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I couldn't agree more with your post...

and especially with getting the media involved. Nothing is going to happen until people realize what is happening to their personal information. It is just now coming to the forefront, thanks to the media, the reality and effect of what happens to our personal information when all of these companies have access to it and the result thereof. It's on television every time we turn around; our personal information being *out there* and in the hands of who knows who, stolen and disseminated in whatever way someone or some company chooses. As well, physicians truly need to understand that companies are outsourcing (I don't believe for a moment that most of them understand this fact). That aside, the effect on the lives and work of the American MT is something that needs to be known, and the media is the only way the information is going to be released to the general public. Using American MTs is the only way this information is *safe*, to so speak.


Additionally, as you state, using us to correct all of the mistakes made by the client in ADT and not paying us for it is so absurd, I am sick to death of it myself. I run across it every day (and MQ (for whom I work doesn't pay us, either). On one account I have, in particular, virtually nothing matches in ADT and if we don't get it correctly, it IS the fault of the MT, no matter what (??). We get email after email about it from out PS on up. Also, everything is done to lessen the line count, no matter how awful it looks. ASR keeps lessening our pay. Everything is beginning to look as if it were done by Indians or Pakistanis, etc., and it's not as if I have anything against those people, in case anyone wants to jump on me for that statement, other than they are being given our jobs. However, the work is substandard.


As an aside, can you think of any better way for a terrorist organization to infiltrate?


I couldn't agree more...it was beyond ridiculous.
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Amen...I couldn't agree more. Thank you. (nm)

I heard that and couldn't agree more! LOL nm
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Absolutely true about the Q. Couldn't agree more with you. NM
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Couldn't agree more! I don't hear other ExText client MT's complain about
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I used to have a QA guy that couldn't transcribe, couldn't fill in a blank,

but was anal retentive when it came to punctuation.  You would have a report with 10 blanks in it because of poor sound quality, and he wouldn't fill in one blank, but he had put commas all throughout your report, or taken apostrophes out, etc. and he wasn't correct in his punctuation a lot of the time.   Several of the MTs complained about him and asked to not have him do their QA, so he was demoted from QA to an MT.  Well, as I said earlier, he couldn't fill in a blank.  I saw a couple of his reports and there was blank after blank in reports that I had no trouble with at all.  He also didn't proof his reports because he would have inapproriate/incorrect expansions in them.  Not sure if he left on his own, or didn't really have a choice.  Anyway, talk to your supervisor.  Maybe this person is just on a power trip, knows you are new and wants to train you to do it her way, even if your way isn't incorrect.  I think punctuation is a valid issue, but if it doesn't change the integrity of the report and there are no other errors it shouldn't be flagged by QA.    You could also take into account her corrections and maybe try to use a few more commas, etc. and that might help.  


Oh, I couldn't understand them. I didn't try them all, but the first couple, I couldn't und
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couldn't -- you couldn't care less
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Couldn't...you couldn't care less.
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BRAVO!!! If I did not have to pay QA and could get everyone to
type 200-250 lines an hour, I could pay more. QA and part-timers kill our rates.
BRAVO!
The last thing I want to do is interfere between an MT getting a job, OR an MTSO finding help.

That said, the whole purpose of the board is to save fellow MTs from bad experience, and (are you listening MTSOs?) put some pressure on MTSOs are are 'not' doing the right thing to make corrections.

How hard is it anyway to admit when you've made a mistake and correct it?!

Good luck in your search. I learned a difficult, 'expensive' lesson with this company: Specifically ASK if 'your' payment is tied to their payment.



Bravo for this! ... nm
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BRAVO FOR THIS!!!!! ...nm
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Here! Here! Bravo
Very well stated. AHDI did sell us out and I, too, refuse to give them another of my hard-earned nickels.
BRAVO!!!!!!!

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!....nm
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BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!

Best thing I've read all day!  Let her try and respond to that. 


to this I can only say: Bravo!....nm
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Well said, Wendy - Bravo


Bravo!!! Hey Maggie......
Can I come work for you??
BRAVO! Absolutely right.
2 types of trouble makers #1 the person who likes to start trouble just for fun and sits back and watch other people suffer as they fall for it. #2 The green eyed monster who cannot see something good happen, so needs to try to ruin things which obviously are good. Then, there is every one else, those who worry not and rely on truth not rumors, and the other who pays attention to the trouble makers. These type of people need to take a walk and calm down. Count to 10 before writing or reacting. Learn how to treat a reactive mentality by proactivity or meditation. IMHO. Rumors are just plain wrong. Word from the horse's mouth just plain right!
Well, BRAVO and KUDOS!!!
Well-put.

In fact, SO well put I can't even add anything to it.

I'll just say DITTO. :-)
Bravo - you hit the nail on the head!
I want one of those hourly paid positions they're offering now. I was on a good account, then they switched me to another hospital in that system - and it's AWFUL. And cherry picking GALORE!!! You can watch it happening right before your eyes! Totally absurd. I went from 250-300 lines an hour in training and right after, to 100-150 lines an hour now, if I'm lucky. Pitiful ... totally pitiful.
BRAVO. TY for the courage to post this. nm
 
Bravo! You are a smooth cookie!

You have what it takes.  You are a fighter!  I think you'll survive and this is coming from an MT with 20 years in this business.  I am not an MTSO owner.  I service my own accounts and do my own work. 


Everything you have said is so true.  I think that many forget how they got started in this business.  I also think that work-at-home Moms should be respected and not bullied.  I know where my place is in this business.  I know because I have the income to prove it.  However, I am also a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, etc.


I have seen job ads that look as if my 8-year-old typed them up.  The normal course of action is an interview, a phone call if interested in hiring you, and then you take the job or you decline.  Then, comes the personal information. 


I went to one site just to check it out, clicked on apply online, and the first question was social security # and this is the largest MT employer ever.  How can they ask for that to simply apply with all of this fraud that goes on today. 


 


If that's the case, bravo for her for standing up
for her beliefs. I took a stand on mine when I quit a former job. All the best to her if that's the case.
Bravo! You stated that perfectly! $50K for me, too!
Then AHDI can call me and maybe we'll talk.
Bravo - see there are true IC companies out there.

Please realize fellow MTs that usually an IC works multiple accounts and that can mean multiple MTSOs.  You don't need to put all of your eggs in one basket.  If you are asked to work a set schedule which does not allow you to transcribe for other clients, then that's employee and you should be treated as such.  The IRS expects you to contract with more than one client or vendor; it just plain looks better since we are considered self-employed.


A plumber doesn't always work for the Jones family, they do work for the Smith family and the restaurant down the street, etc., etc.


Bravo! Your message should be typed and placed on
But most importantly, of course, on the desk of every MT company CEO across America.

Greed is NOT good. It's why our entire economy is in the mess it's in today.
oops, long night should be BRAVO
and who am I to post when my fingers feel dyslexic by now :)
BRAVO, well spoken. (clapping and cheering) nm
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Bravo for you! Keep up the good work! You should be so proud! nm
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