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It's quite low, too. Check posts here from back in August. sm

Posted By: I'd keep looking but JMHO. on 2008-03-31
In Reply to: Shapin - Dawn

Posts from August said editing was 1.5-2 cpl and there were comments that pay wasn't on time. I've never heard any positives about this MTSO, so if I were you, I'd keep looking.


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Might check the archives as I think there were some negative posts a while back. NM

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I sent them an email back in August and never heard back sm
Is this company on Long Island? I checked out their website and even tried calling once. Were you successful in contacting them? All i know is that the company is owned by some doctors.

Check out the OSi posts
That should give you a heads up on OSi. They also send the good jobs to India, so they are no different from Spheris. Don't know anything about Spheris. Very sorry for the troubles you are having to endure.
You may want to check out posts below...nm
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If you check my previous posts...
I did explain my experience with them.
Check recent posts about J&J.
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Check the archives - there were recent posts about them.
USA Only!
Check the old posts here. There are a lot of people unhappy with them. nm
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Navesys - I would definitely check back in with them!
I am going to try this again.

I would definitely check back in with them. I have been working for them and can say that it is probably the best job I have had as an MT. They pay regularly which is a plus these days. The people there are great to work with and are so helpful. They believe in giving the MT's the things they need, to do the job. I am really happy there.

I would check back in with them. I know they are growing which is good to know as well.

In my experience with a few bigger companies they say they do not send to India but they really do. They do have a website as well. Not sure why the other MT could not pull it up.

Good luck!
Please check back with us and give us
an update on what you thought of the training and how you are doing?  Inquiring minds want to know;-)  GOOD LUCK and hang in there. 
I would check back with the companies
and just ask them what you may or may not have done wrong so you know in the future. I have done that in the past and they are usually polite and helpful.
Check thru the recent posts here that have them running out of work. nm
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Check the archives and more recent posts. Lots of info there.
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I read some posts a year or so back (sm)
that it was a husband/wife operation - that the wife was super nice and very easy to work for - no comment positive or negative on the husband that I can recall - that they usually always got paid on time but there was that little bit about being paid when client paid - which is a little scary - I'm of the firm belief that a company - large or small - should have enough cash flow to pay their people - that is running a little too close to the edge for me - but if it is a good company and great platform, good docs - I might try them someday.
If she had ripped folks off back then, why no posts before now?
Not take sides, but if what what you claim were true, think about it -- Don't you think there would have been posts about it by someone out there back then??  I searched the archives on this Allstate company and there have been lots of positives posted on here about them and the owner, Deb.  Just remember, there are always at least two sides to every story, and it just seems to me if if Allstate or Deb had ripped off a bunch of people a few years back like you claim, surely someone would have come forward before now.  Not taking sides, but it almost appears as if some disgruntled ex-employee has made it her mission to recruit as many of her friends as she can to post anything and everything they can think of to make this company (and it's owner) look bad.  As with any posts/comments, I'd take these with a grain of salt....
Put money back from each check. That is how you afford to pay taxes.
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Couple of posts here on page 11 near the top and then back during the summer, you should find a
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Geez, it's so illegal to hold back a last week's check, regardless of the reason.
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Terry..check the archives..you posted this back in 8-23-2007. See inside.
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Posted By: Terry on 2007-08-23


end of august, NM
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I left MQ for OS in August

Couldn't be happier!  I started out at a higher rate than I was making at MQ after 3 years.  I have 1 account and 1 secondary.  You can actually contact QA if you have a question.  If I have a question for my supervisor, I hear back from her in less than hour.  Sometimes in a matter of minutes.  I like my job again, and even DH commented earlier this fall about the change in my attitude.


I got a phone call last week from MQ asking if I was interested in coming back.  Uh, noooo.  And no I don't want to hear about all the wonderful changes you made. 


I am waiting until 1 August
and if it is still this low, I am asking for another account.
I started with Keystrokes at the end of August (sm)

and I like it...very nice people to work for and very helpful..



Left MQ in August...still getting e-mails. (nm)
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When I applied in August, he said they use only in-house staff. nm
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No India? Most of the work goes there. I quit last August SM
could not make any money there.
Email said conference calls would happen in August. nm
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Medware..There hasn't been anything on this board since August 2007...(sm)

Does anyone who works for Medware care to share their opinion about the company in regards to steady work, flexible schedules, platform, benefits, etc.?  You can e-mail me if you wish.  TIA. 


They offered me 9.5 cents a line in August of 2007
I don't think that is very low.
August 2008 we were sold to CBAY after the announcement in May.
Check it out. As for me, I'm still here, still loving it, doing great, always get my account, making 10 cpl. I'll stay until I get fired.
To any Spheris employees, I quit in August and would like a copy SM
of my YTD earnings. I have called HR but they never return my call. I forgot how to access the online ADP. Can anyone give me a phone number to call, payroll number or something so I can call and get a copy of my earnings? Thanks.
The formal QA department is new only started last August. Before that, it was up to the lead MT'
to do QA. That obviously did not work for them and they started a QA department.

Ortho has only done formal QA reviews.

Radiology does QA reviews but internally and only comes to the MT's if there is a problem, otherwise tells them they are doing well.


CEO hasn't left yet, she's leaving in August. Co's are bought and sold all the time and I
think this is that big a deal.
After 8 years in the business, I start buying presents in August, cause I know the slow period SM

is coming around the holidays.  :-)


Not to say we dont all starve and Im not totally stressed out come December, but at least Ive got my gifts :-) 


On the MTIA website, those entries are dated July/August 2006! Now, in 2008, if you write your...

congressman in support S. 810 or H.R. 1653, you are supporting an act governing federal grants for scientific research or abstinence teaching in federally funded sex education programs,


And, I'm not saying I don't support those two issues.  I'm just saying it has nothing to do with outsourcing.  In order of effect real change, we must at least sound like we know what we are talking about.  Writing our congressman in support of a two year old bill that no longer exists or writing out congressman about outsourcing and reference bills that have nothing to do with outsourcing, makes us all look like uninformed weiners!


Check Monster, CareerBuilder, MedHunters.com. Check with the companies you see listed if they're
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Do you work in-house here? I applied last August & was told in-house only and they weren't
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Does background check include credit check?

Posts from April said everyone gets 8.5 cpl/newbie or experienced. Recent posts said
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I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.


Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 


There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 


I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 


Good luck to you!


Phoenix Medcom- Another apply a few months back, ask to take a test and never heard back??
I applied a month or two ago, received an email from someone asking if I would take a test and said she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week, so I hurried and immediately and told her I'd love to take the test. I never heard back. I waiting thinking she went on vacation and would contact me when she got back to do the test but nothing...very strange..Just wondered if this happened to anyone else.
Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.
"You can check my credit if I can check yours"
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Hopefully, you will hear back. Unfortunately, I immediately heard back from MD-IT
but somehow with over 16 years of experience, I blew the test.  I was soooo disappoionted and yet pretty stunned.  I am by no means perfect but I haven't flunked a test in years.  I expected it in my early years but not this far down the road. I was so confident and they will not tell you which part you did not pass and why so it really just blew my mind.  I must have been in shock for like two hours after I got the email. Oh well, someone will want me....hopefully.  I was thinking about OSi but I don't think I could take another rejection if I never heard back. 
A few posts about them about 3/4 of the way down this page between the DSG & Diskriter posts. nm
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I had the same thing happen, went back to MQ, went back to KS and could not be sm

happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.


I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.


Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 


I was reading about the back up help. I would like also to have some back up work.
I am not getting anywhere near 12,000 lines this go around.  My goal is 12,000 lines each pay period.
Credit check, FBI check was not for
me. The notion that if you don't pay your bills means your not a responsible person really kills me!!! Lots of people have $$ problems, especially if you are an MT, LOL!!! They are the only company I know that does these checks. Seems a little anal to me!!!
They can check mine if I can check theirs...nm

Back away from the hoops!! Back away!
I worked for them about 6 months - same mess to get hired - FBI check is right! It was unreal. I was so excited, though - they promised me the moon, and I really thought I had found my new home after centuries with that other company who shall not be named.  What a disappointment, to say the least. All around horrible experience, and I would NEVER recommend them. Certainly they were not worth the hoops at all. Total waste of effort.
Thank you. I will check into it.
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