I understood what the other poster was saying
Posted By: playing devil's advocate on 2009-05-18
In Reply to: This is what I said. - SS
Of course your management will know what type of report you get. What the other poster was saying was that the end product would be the same if it was corrected by you through editing or corrected by you through erasing and straight typing. Being familiar with VR editing, I can tell you that some reports are so bad that it is far less time consuming to completely erase the whole report and type it than it is to try to correct it. This often happens when the physician or account is new to the VR platform. It sounds like you have been very fortunate to be placed on a VR account that has been trained for a while now and so the reports generally come through as a breeze. I've been on the other end where it was much easier/quicker to erase the VR report, enter my shortcut for a particular procedure and make 1 or 2 adjustments than it would have been to edit all the garbage that came through.
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What is not understood is that is that OVER AND ABOVE
throughout the day. And NO she never said that at all. For goodness sakes, if she had answered that one question without cryptic I start here and do this and then do that and come back and do more when it is available. That doesn't say if she worked more than 8 hours total or not.
She understood?
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I never understood why anyone would
pay a company to work for them. Shouldn't it be the other way around? There are tons of companies out there that don't require you to use their computer and who do not charge for the foot pedal, software, etc. 
I understood what you were saying. s/m
Very few things make me more angry than people who bend over backwards to not do what they don't want to do. I always say to cherrypickers: If *you* don't want to type a certain report what makes you think *I* want to do it? I know I'm flexible because whatever comes across my screen is what I've been hired to do. Reminds me of an op that I was privileged to get to do the other day, a quintuple bypass with the worst ESL I've heard in years. I think God Himself would have had a hard time understanding him. Obviously someone was HAPPY they didn't do it because the DT was way out of sequence. It took me exactly 1-1/2 hours to complete the sucker and when I was finished it looked like swiss cheese. I was at the end of my shift but when I heard it I wasn't about to sign on off and leave it for someone else. That being said, I do believe I can call myself flexible. For all I know Ms. Bend Over Backwards Happy may have been the one who skipped over it. And speaking of which...cherry pickers can cherry pick in so many ways that no company can do anything about it. I'd like to wring their necks right off one and all!!!!!
Understood - i'd go over her head. SM
I agree that different STMs manage their work differently but I'd sure talk to someone higher up. There's no reason for one MT to run out when others are inundated.
Not sure if you understood financially I am not able to
switch careers. Bless you if you have enough money to do that for yourself.
Luckily, I am not one of these people who does not have a good job, I do, but whatever the reasons, mainly greed in my opinion, I am losing a lot of benefits and money steadily.
if you want to blame the MTs that is fine but one thing I have never understood is managements lack of ability to well manage. when I was in management people were not qualified never even got positions so not sure who is to blame really. why do all these (yours words) shoddy MTs get hired. Management is an art, and companies that let this go on just so they get their work typed - I do not think a lot of them really care how it gets done. Now I am speaking of the bigger companies. they pawn off any conscience they have on the MT making us solely responsible for caring for the patient when if anyone was really concerned about the patients healthcare would still be not for profit and not a business like it has turned into. But we MTs are the only ones expected to put out 99-100% work or get our pay reduced in many cases?
Gotta run right now but I could not disagree with you more really in some things.
I understood your point
I understand your point totally. My point was that they actually promote those 10 days off without pay as a fringe benefit, when we have many more than 10 days off due to no work, or at least this has been my experience since October. Add this to the constant hiring and it makes me sick. I work with Editscript and they won't let me have a dictaphone account. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything else yet.
yes, understood BUT it is the fact that sm
it is more -- it is that we are losing our jobs period. I don't blame the phillipines or India employees, that need to make a living just like us. It is when we become the minority.
Just like all the foreign born doctors are here (and bring there cultural attitudes with them, I might add. I believe in sharing and a better life, but we no longer even have a choice of American born, attitude, culture physicians,etc.very very few in my area which is
Victorville, Barstow, Apple Valley California. Just are none, not even half a dozen.
There was a thing on TV, I think it was PBS where in India, the Hollywood cartoonist (there was another word for it, I forget, anyway, their jobs are outsourced from Hollywood to India because here it would be 73 million and there it is 30 million to do the job.
There must be some solution where the U.S. employees are able to survive too.
Look what they expect us, very well versed, very skilled technician in the medical field, who must actually know more that the doctors (they get an inch to the left or the right and they need to call in a consultant, and we are offered, 2.5, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8 cents a lines.
Figure it out, say 1000 lines a day, that is 125 lines an hour TIMES THE ABOVE to get your hourly rate. This why the MTs are frustrated. This is WHY.
Not Seymour, but I understood the post.
Seymour wasn't making fun of ESLs. Anyone working for Transcend would know that there are several accounts that are very heavy ESL. Seems kind of [fill in adjective of choice] to post an ad for 1 account that is no ESL. Most people aren't foolish enough to believe that the majority of applicants are going to apply for a heavy ESL account when there is one with no ESLs. We're also not foolish enough to believe that if we get hired for the no ESL account we'll be on that account for long before running out of work. The no ESL ad is a carrot. I'm just figuring (from Seymour's post below about Gone with the Wind) that the Scarlett interpretation is because Transcend is in Atlanta.
Oh, I understood your point perfectly.
Your statement was why call it a holiday if you don't get paid. To which, and I say again, it's a holiday whether YOU get paid or not, something you should have made a note of when you were hired.
And, BTW, individual beliefs and holidays and pay - and our attitudes to such - are all related to our human existence, existentially speaking.
KUDOS TT23,,,like you I understood what TT was doing
they explained rather clearly. It is a shame that this situation (which was only meant to help TT MTs) got so blown out of proportion. These are just rumors, bad rumors,, it amazes me how someone could totally miscontrue a very clear email!
I understood her to mean she was paid hourly plus
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Exactly! Glad you understood (& I'm ex MQ myself so I knew it when I saw it too!) nm
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Understood, but MTSO's cannot afford
to sue every poster on these boards because of their bad press, or whatever you want to call it.. defamation seems extreme, but I didn't read the comments made by the posters who are being sued. Most people here post general angst-y things about companies and if a judge were to read over the comments on this board, to get an overview of the climate and what is considered normal conversation and postings on these boards, they would probably see that this is a normal, everyday occurrence on message boards. Are they going to shut down every message board? Where would they start? As someone said, some of the angry, horrible postings in the political forums are much worse than anything said on the company forum. IMO. I believe that on these boards the MTSO's AND the MT's BOTH post angry things at times. No one is innocent here.
Oh, I understood the post precisely and still
the people letting VR just go thru in order to not be docked should be immediately terminated.
I never understood how MTSOs came up with not paying for spaces. sm
You have to hit the spacebar just like anything else, and the document would be pretty darned hard to read without them. I refuse to work for cheaterhead companies like that. Thanks for passing along the information.
Hello??!! I'm the original poster! I think I can respond to the poster who replied to my original
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Not that poster but
why was she rude? I didnt see anything rude in her post. So she got more lines than you, how is that rude? I work at Transcend also and I got my lines in that I usually get. I had to type a different shift of course. I work different times of the day when it is slow and I always manage to make it.
Also, the email that was sent out I think was very considerate. Any other company, when slow ( and they ALL get slow), just slows down with no explanations, reassurances, or care.
That's not what the poster said. Poster said
If the poster was hired at 8 cpl last year and makes 13,001 lines to qualify for the incentive (0.0025 cpl at 13,001 lines) that means the poster only makes 1072.58. But the MTs hired after Nov. 1 at 10 cpl makes 1100.00 for only producing 11,000 lines. Tell you what, that would freak me out if I just got hired there. Because no matter when you get hired, in a few short weeks or months you're just the old worn out mare to them.
Are you the same poster as below?
I appreciate your comments about new accounts coming on board in January and June. That is very likely.
The MTs here who are sobbing, as you say, and cannot have it both ways ARE the ones who did keep a fairly regular schedule and did for years, and now for the last couple months the rug has been pulled up from under them.
To the poster(s) below who is/are asking
about TransHealth, I am the one who answered your questions and got flamed for being honest. This is exactly why I said before I will never put why I hated a company again. I have no reason to lie, but just believe me when I say it is definitely in your best interest(s) to stay away from this company. They are the absolute worst out there and that is saying something!!
Not that poster, but I know what he/she SM
is saying because I have worked with a number of people over the years who will look you straight in the eye and tell you that they were the best transcriptionists and in fact they were terrible! Usually they had a bunch of years in, but they had limited value - like typing only 1 type of work or had only worked at 3 little rural hospitals, like that. They functioned well as long as the dictator was American and spoke at a normal rate of speed but they would never be able to do the kind of work a normal transcription service has.
Not the poster above, but that's how I met this
person. I had a problem and posted about it on this very board, and this person was so kind and caring and helpful. Nothing to do with a job - but with med transcription. She has been a mentor AND friend to many, many MTs for no financial gain whatsoever at all - thus anyone even bothering to post in her defense, let alone know who she is. She got nothing out of me, had nothing to gain from helping me - just went out of her way to help me, and I know has done the same for others. A really nice and professional MT - one who wants to help others newer to the field, etc. I don't see her post here anymore for a long time, and I just pray that she does not read the boards either. Really an all time low for MTs to post personal attacks on a person - I'm sure Admin isn't aware of it, or this whole thread would be in the trash where it belongs.
I think the poster was asking
what companies require you to use an FTP site to download your dictation files and send them back. I understand what you mean, but the company I work for does not require MTs to use an FTP site. I could be wrong, but I think that is what the OP was referring to.
this may be the same poster over and
over again. Diskriter has a huge turnover. H-U-G-E, both inside the main office and with transcriptionists. I couldn't take it any more. I was jumped from one account to another to another. I was told to work weekends and when I would work the weekend, I sometimes would not have any work. I actually made $23.00 one weekend after an 8 hour shift. I was fuming! They supposedly had all this work, but I certainly wasn't getting any.
I should state that I have been a Transcriptionist for 12 years, so it's not the quality of my work or lack of experience. When I first started with Diskriter, I was making my line count and my pay was not that great, but I figured I would stick with it. It just got worse. I left. I'm sure everyone has a different experience with them.
I'm not that poster above, but as far SM
as my experience with them went, he/she is speaking the truth. I did a SmartSource account and then went to work directly for Diskriter and it was like night and day. More like NIGHTMARE working for DR directly. The PTO, the health insurance, holidays, everything was totally different and much less than when I was on the SmartSource account. DR's ever-changing management was annoying because you never knew who was running what from week to week.
I think that poster was just trying to help SM
because if you wait for the administration to come onto a public bulletin board to address your questions, you will be waiting quite a while.
Not the other poster, but yes, I would say they-sm
have a lot of work that is actually worse than on the test. I wouldn't recommend this job to anyone who doesn't have a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of ESL experience. All of the accounts are pretty much the same, littered with these horrible ESL doctors.
Not the poster but
I got mine from transcriptiongear.com. You can buy it directly from the Instant Text website too. I paid 180 four years ago, but it was worth it. I have tried all the Expanders out there, and this one is by far the best!
For poster below not OP
.
poster below is right - MDI-MD
 where'd the little blue smiley guy with the thumbs-up go?
lol. Not as if I am the only poster who gets
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Sure am! And also a certain poster on another
board, one who likes star trek. There was no alternative other than to make this move! My DH probably does not realize it is reality, and I am sure I will be told to bring in the money, anytime soon. But in the meantime, he can help me now. I sure would love to have e mail buddies. Just don't know if the e mail stuff works on this board right now. In the meantime, I will be here saying hi, this place and another have certainly gotten me through a lot lately, especially for companionship. THanks for all your kind words, that is for sure!
For all this poster said.
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These could all be the same poster using a
showed how unprofessional she is by ranting on the other thread. This is so yesterday. 
The poster below is right sm
BOS is fine and we have to have SOME sort of industry standards. HOWEVER, the account specifics have to trump the BOS every time. The client gets it how they want it, BOS to the wind. Now, if your QA person is always changing her mind, that is different.
I don't like she didn't want to go back after the fact and listen to your blanks. I don't care how she gets paid, that is a waste of time, period, end of that story, thanks folks. She may well be an idiot, if she actually thinks that saves her any time. It would increase her billable hours...still an idiot.
Take a bow, poster, take a bow....
Thanks for saving me all of that typing and waking me up.
For a fleeting second, I thought maybe I needed therapy because I actually ENJOY my job and make very decent money.
Again, BRAVO!!!
Thank you! The other poster obviously sm
has a reading comprehension problem.
I did not take as the poster
ripping apart the company, she just stated her experience with the company to date and her frustration. I can totally understand her position, wanting to be hired by a certain company, applying with them, getting excited because they send you a form to complete and then nothing after that. I have gone through the exact same thing but luckily once I did finally hear from the company, some months later, I had had enough people to tell me to run and RUN fast from them.
Again, I just took it as her venting her frustration, as so many do, on this forum, just as you have with previous companies. She did not give her name so it really makes no difference what she said about them. I know that management from some companies watch these boards and hopefully some of them will take a hint if they read a post such as hers and change things .... yep and I am still waiting on that million dollar check from Ed McMahon. 
above poster
My company sends a 'thanks but no thanks' letter if you don't meet your line requirement. Maybe your company is heading in that direction with you.
Read your contract!
another poster
is really quick to judge when she has not walked in our shoes. I was told time and again that several huge accounts would be coming on in September and October. And who are you to tell anyone else what they SHOULD be doing. Please do not SHOULD on us, please. As to we will still have jobs. Some of us have too much integrity to sell out to working for people who offshore. I guess it is all in what you value.
another poster
Your self-righteousness is most unbecoming to you.
Regarding another poster
I don't think we should waste time on her. Remember that old Southern saying that you should never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll never succeed and it only annoys the pig.
Another poster
No people do not want sympathy and attention. They do want to be treated decently. Perhaps you do not understand the concept.
I don't think I am above everyone else. This poster...
chose to belittle me as being an ignorant housewife MT. I explained to her that I was not.
If you have owned your own MT business and have tried to treat your employees fairly, I am glad for you and sad that you are not in business anymore.
Are you not in business because you were undercut by companies offering rock-bottom line rates? If so, you should be mad, too.
What SHE said (poster above me)
Nicely put ;-)
I didn't see anywhere that the poster who was....sm
saying they're making $13.50 an hour editing works for Transcend. Where-ever they work you should be giving them kudos for making more money instead of bashing them!
Never said the poster was from Transcend
I said that explains why some would be happy making $13.50 an hour, doesn't necessarily refer to that individual poster. Also, if thinking that the poster is a little naive for being happy at $13.50 an hour is considering bashing, then what she posted about the people upset for taking a wage reduction is bashing also. What goes around, comes around.
I suspect you are the same poster from sm
yesterday with all the anger and craziness in all your posts. What you just posted is SUPER passive-aggressive. You really do need to get professional help--maybe not with that poster's ex-husband, but with someone.
Typical of mentally ill - they focus on something completely irrelevant when someone asks them to get help.
There is WAY more to this story than this poster is saying.
Don't believe everything you hear about Transcend. The GOOD MTs like this company!
I think what that poster means is that SM
to ask for a job to do only 300 lines per day (which for an average MT is about 1-1/2 to 2 hours a day) and a specific kind of platform AND to just "hop on during the day" is just too unrealistic in today's world.
Most companies who hire for part time want a true part-time schedule, 15-20 hours per week, 600+ lines per day (versus normal full-time 1200 lines).
I mean, think about it. 300 lines a day is maybe 2 consults or 2 H&Ps, 1 psychiatric report....see what I mean? It's really not much work at all.
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