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I hope you have more work than most have been seeing lately.

Posted By: nm on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: Filled out ... - My experience




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    hope you don't need a lot of work
    I was there 2 weeks and had only 11 reports, AND they refused to pay the training bonus. They said they could not release me to other accounts until I had completed so many reports for my primary, but there were none to do, so no backup.
    Hope it's where I work!!
    nm
    I dont work for MDI-FL but I would certainly hope
    that the rude poster below does not work for them. I would not want to work with people that rude. The original poster just asked a question, isnt that what these forums are for???
    I hope it continues to work out for you.
    I sincerely hope it continues to work out for you if you are truly a new Editor and not either of the 2 lead people posing as a happy employee. I have nothing nice to say about Shapin. I am one of the disgruntled ex-employees that never even said anything about them on this site! BUT.. I was certainly smeared around here and the most horrifying thing was it wasn't even true. I never even came into this forum until I was contacted by another QA they also did a number on. I kept quiet as I feel it is better to take the high road. Since I was enlightened I have visited this site frequently and have seen how many negative remarks there are about them. I have also visited some others and they were pretty bad also. I am not trying to stir the pot, but there are two sides to every story. The bigmouth is usually spewing there bull edition. Good luck to you with them.
    OMG, I hope not. You work over 50 hrs a week
    for 36,500? Sounds like a very big national I know. lol. BTDT and I quit real fast. Glad you are happy, I guess that's all that matters, but you're being taken advantage of IMO. And 2 weeks vacation is not that great either.
    hope you dont run out of work-- nm
    nm
    Hope you like to work on Christmas
    You have to work holidays and weekends.
    Hope you like to work Christmas
    and Thanksgiving
    ALSO my pay was usually wrong and never in my favor.
    Well I hope you get an account with work
    >:(
    I sure hope so! I'd never want to work for someone who chewed me out.
    and I am sorry if indeed the above poster did get chewed out. Mutual respect and customer service goes from supervisor and employee just as employee is to respect supervisor. Chewed out, sounds like a parent to a child, and even then criticism should be dealt with carefully.
    Oh I sure hope not - no work for weeks
    nm
    hope your spelling and grammar on work are better than this.
    x
    I hope it gets better! Can't afford to sit here much longer with no work. nm
    nm
    thx, hope the foot pedal will work oh boy nm
    sjflksjda
    Lets just hope they are not overhiring lately and we will find we are all going to be out of work
    especially after Summer.
    Well, I HOPE they're a good place to work...
    ... since I worked for TRS and thus got acquired by Transcend when TRS did.

    Interestingly... when I was job-hunting about 7 months ago, I basically read every entry in the MT Companies section of another forum (M T Chat)looking for companies that got good reviews. Because it got very good reviews there, Transcend was the second-to-last company I applied to, just before TRS. At that time, Transcend was only testing for acute care (my 36 years of clinical in multiple specialties wasn't good enough, I guess) so they told me no thanks. And now they've got me anyway.

    I am still reserving judgment because the merger only happened 2 weeks ago; and I am still working on my same accounts, under the same supervisors, on the same platform, so there have been no visible changes as yet....
    Sincerely, I do hope you're prepared to work for 8 cpl now
    Apparently MDI was one of the companies that paid their experienced MTs pretty well.

    With the merge, you'll be making less eventually. If you quit and look for a new job, you'll be making less, way less, than you were making at MDI.

    I'm another one who's BTDT, too. I went from making 11 cpl to now making 8 cpl. I tried HARD to find any company, obscure to well known, that will start off more than that. Couldn't find 'em. Probably won't ever go up, either.

    Just sayin' that you should be prepared to budget your living costs for the amount of money you'll be missing each month compared to what you were making at MDI. It's awful, I know, been through it. Going to school now to do something else, getting out.
    You are fortunate. I hope you always have work and it stays that way and doesnt change.
    :
    Good luck to you. Hope they are lenient with the benefits with all the low work. nm
    .
    There's plenty of work. Hope you like working every weekend and holiday. nm
    /
    I am glad to hear that a lot of money can be made with MT work. This gives me hope for the future.
    $$
    I hope the not meeting line count was due to being on your part and not due to lack of work or I'
    be ticked off. I can see if someone just didnt do their line count for whatever personal reasons but I have heard of people saying they couldnt do their line counts due to lack of work. That would stink if it was through no fault of their own that they were punished.
    Hope Transtech is NOT still hiring, because we are all fighting for work right now OVERHIRE big time
    Be careful right now, because TT has much overhired, promising something big coming up, but nothing seen by the MT's yet, just LOW WORK load.
    I did to. Work late shift and did not check msg in time. Hope to get recap
    nm
    Hope this fan ain't
    nm
    hope not
    I certainly hope 20 hours per week requirement will not be part of the new rules.  I think a line count requirement should be sufficient.
    hope not!
    I hope not, I need to work 50+ hours for them to make ends meet, otherwise I will have to get another job.  Is it okay to work for two companies??
    I would hope someone would
    do the same for me if asked.
    I hope I do not have a bad
    experience with them.  That is why I am only going PT and if it does not work out, I will still have my old job to fall back on.
    Let's hope so!

    t


    Well I hope..
    The facilities start to catch this and crack down on the companies.  My part time company wants ALL reports looked over.  We don't penalize for sending blanks to me and I do a quick read over everything (except for a few MTs who do not require this).   I worked in Escription and what I saw on there was SCARY!!! 
    I hope this is better.

    I worked for an offshore owned company where it was all about quantity.  Company even kept a HORRIBLE MT just because she cranked out the lines.  Didn't matter her quality was crap and was considered a joke by middle managment.  India did most typing but with US edit.  Typists changed regularly so it wasn't like they learned to do better.  Quality would improve slightly and then would notice, after couple of months, that quality was crap again so we knew we were dealing with a new batch of typists. Even so, the push was always on to get the jobs off US edit and send Indian work straight to client.  Of course, the clients never knew they were not getting US editing anymore, as they got no price reduction when they no longer had that level of work being done on their jobs.  The problem is the facilities accept the crap work so why should the companies change.  It took a while but I finally found a US owned company where quality matters.  Now one of the first questions I would ask a prospective employer is if they are US owned.


    We can hope so, anyway! nm
    nm
    I am like that too, so I hope you are right! nm
    x
    I would hope
    that a physician would read over their dictation. I mean aren't they liable for anything that is wrong in the medical record? Sheesh!
    Hope?

    Ok, thanks to all of you who gave me information regarding decent online MT companies.  however, of all the recommendations, none of them appear to hire new grads.


    be honest with me, am i pretty much doomed to working for a bad company for 2-5 years until I gain enough experience to be hired by a decent company?


    ..this does not seem promising :(


    I hope not, but
    I think some of the clients are going to dump them anyway(especially a big one who has been burned before by off-shoring) once they are no longer all U.S.-based. I think they probably expect this. It seems that many of DRC's MTs have been around a long time, many come from hospitals and also have MT management experience or former small MT company owners (or both). So we know multiple facets of the business. It occurred to me that if I were still in a hospital sending out the work that it would be a hard sell to keep a company that went from U.S.-based only to one that had previously been India-based only. I would probably dump them.

    I'm not sure Acusis fully realizes the percentage of Americans who are highly offended and even disgusted by this off-shoring transcription craze. DCR previously appealed to those exact people.

    I do think they will try to get us to sign something to agree not to work for the facilities that dump them, which may further cause an exodus to other companies who have similar accounts or will be getting those accounts.

    I'm (still) waiting for the questions to be answered from the webcast.

    I simply cannot quit right now. I have a backup plan but it's not workable yet. I wish it were. Things not only have to remain the same, but actually be better or I'm ending my long career as a MT, period. It's down to the last straw on the camel's back for me.

    There is Hope
    I am been an MT for two years now. When I finished school (a crappy course I might add), I started at 8 cpl. In three months I went up to 10 cpl. About one year later, I got sick of the cherrypickers and work stealers and quit. I found another account where they pay 16.25 cpl...no joke. I also got a second account (so I have two now). The second account pays $2.00 per report and you don't get reports over 2 minutes long. I know this is not the norm and want to acknowledge how fortunate I am. (I am an excellent MT, however. It is not strictly luck). I earn between $8,000-$10,000 per month now. As a single Mom and no other income, I couldn't be happier.
    I hope you are right, but - sm

    I turned them down for that position and a few months later asked what they had open and they offered me THE SAME one again.  Too weird for me, thanks.  And the people who hate Meditech far outweigh the ones who like it, I am afraid.


    OSi MT's - there is hope!
    Ask your friends.  Send your resumes.  Apply on line.  You WILL get offers.  You WILL get paid for working on holidays.  You WILL be appreciated.  I got out last year before this latest debacle.  I left because of pathetic management in general and numerous other reasons.  I have NEVER looked back.  My base pay at my new company started a little lower, but the incentives have me making more than I EVER did at OSi.  I was also one of the 100% supporters and eventually learned that basically every nasty thing said about OSi turned out to be true!  Get out now before you are stuck working the upcoming holidays for nothing.  Other companies are hiring!  Get out before all their positions are filled because OSi MT's are leaving in droves.  My good OSi friends and I went with OptiScript, Keystrokes, Diskriter and WEBMEDX.  Good Luck! 
    There is hope at SPi!!
    Guys, things have been bad at SPi, but there is HOPE!  My manager informed me today that Chris Lally is back in ops!  He's back as regional manager, so things should start looking up.  Hang in there...
    Hope at SPi
    I disagree with you.  the only way SPi could get better would be if someone on top of the hierarchy started listening to the account managers who really really have good ideas, and even some of the regional managers.  They need to get rid of this useless op manager who is sabotaging the company and unless they do something really quick there will be so many lawsuits filed and unfair labor practices that they will sink faster than the Titanic.
    I hope so. sm
    I sent my resume off day before yesterday.  I received a response that it looked great and they would call me in the morning, that was yesterday, still waiting.  That's okay, I would rather go with AX -- how long does it take to get a response from AXL after you submit resume?
    I sure hope so!
    I can't take this much longer! Not only financially, but mentally. I'm going crazy not being able to work. I'm used to putting in 10-12-hour days, 6-7 days a week because I usually have so much work on my accounts, and now nothing!
    Just hope it gets better
    5 reports a day is not much. They finally gave me the okay to 5 more45 minutes  before quitting time. 
    I hope none of you....
    ...hold your breath. I was with them for years and for a time was immune to the cycles but I saw them come and go, and believe you me, it cycles good, kinda good, bad, really, really bad, BAD, people hired, people fired, people asked to come back...people let go...etc., etc. I know what I'm talking about.

    I wish it were different but it's not, and I wouldn't wish this company on anyone, and if you're still there after all they've done, then you know what I mean, and you will soon see......same ol' same ol'. Just wait. Not being negative, just realistic and truthful.
    I sure hope you are right...
    nm (no message)
    Wonder if it's who I think it is. Hope so
    nm
    I sure hope so...

    This will blow the minds of MTs who all along thought they were ICs when in fact they were really employees.  Nevermind TAT, it plays no role.  I work for a company that is truly IC.  No quotas, no set schedule.  I did, however, contract with them (MTSO = my client) that I would get the work done in 24 hours from the time of dictation.  They set nothing other than they would like the work back within 24 hours.  If I cannot work on any particular day of course if I can I give notice out of courtesy, but I do not have to report to work each day.  As far as I'm concerned each individual voice file is a job that I've agreed to transcribe. 


    Any company demanding and/or requiring you transcribe a certain amount of lines each day is in fact employing you and not contracting with you.  If a company is having you hang on IM while they monitor you all day, that is employee not IC.  If a company assigns you work, that is an employee not an IC.  An IC chooses when they work and how much work they do.


    P/S:  Most ICs have more than one client.  I have 3 and 1 of the 3 is an online MTSO.  They are my client not my employer.  I am self-employed and I make the rules, not the other way around.


     


    I hope you are not on the

    same account as me as this is the 5th day with no work.  Yesterday they sent out an email saying that all accounts were low so it does not sound like it is one platform. I work on two different ones.  I don't think the platform is the issue.  There just is no work. 


    I think you would get more information from the person who says she has OT.  Get that account and you might be okay.


    Good luck.


    I hope so!
    If she doesn't, I would tell her to call Superior Global and request the money from them since she was working on their accounts.  That will get TTD on the ball!!!  Or at least tell TTD that she is going to call Superior.  You don't mess with peoples pay!