LOL!!! Great reading!! Mentoring program straight to QA at
Posted By: OSi!!! YIKES!!!! on 2005-11-03
In Reply to: HOW ITS FOR ME - NEWBIE
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Don't know about the mentoring program but...(sm)
I've been there 2 years. At first it was great. Lots of encouragement and help. Now it's so-so. I was hired for set hours and one thing they insist on it working your scheduled hours. They also insist on hitting the 12,000 lines per pay period. I don't work weekends unless the accounts are getting backlogged.
Pay is the same as other companies. They always pay on time and it's direct deposit if you want.
They use Extext, which I like, and there are a LOT of ESLs, also like other companies. Some are good, some are bad. It depends on your account.
I'm sure you will be getting a lot of answers to your message, some pro, some con, so it would have to be your decision.
AIM mentoring program
I have over 20 years experience as an MT/editor and answered AIM's job posting yesterday. I got a response within a few hours. I was a little concerned about not being paid for six weeks and had already decided that I would not agree to such terms. This morning I began researching the archives for information, and I would encourage all of you to do the same before applying. Do you know how much I appreciate all of you and the effort you put forth into saving all of us readers from potential disaster? Thank you very much! I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of my colleagues a very Merry Christmas! 
I would like to apply for the mentoring program
I would like to apply for the mentoring program at Heartland, but have heard horror stories about them. Would anyone out there apply for Heartland if you were a newbie trying to get a foot in the door. Also, are there any happy MTs at Heartland. I have searched the archives and only find very few. Any infor would be helpful.
Thanks
Anyone Have Knowledge of Heartland's Mentoring Program??
I have been offered a position with Heartland in their mentoring program. Anyone have experience with them?? I want to hear the good AND the bad before making a decision! I'm hoping this will be better than what I've found so far, which is an apprenticeship and I am NOT making enough to survive lol
thanks
Just do they offer a training/mentoring program
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The mentoring program does not pay 8-1/2 cents per line. Believe it is like 6 cents.
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Great program!
I would highly recommend the AIM program to anybody! I have finished the AIM program and now I am hired with Allstate working on a great account! I feel like the money I paid to my school was a waste because I learned all from Deb and the AIM program. The 12 weeks flies by and by the end you will feel so much success! The QA is wonderful and they never hesitate to help you if you have any questions. Good luck to you Mary and I wish you the same success that I had through the AIM program!
I agree. The TTer's should have own board. Tired of reading about TT, about how great they are, e
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Internet - kind of a DQS-like program. Great company. nm
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For a great radiology program, you want Fusion RIS (formerly RIS Logic)
https://www.merge.com/estore/software.aspx
Now THAT'S a nice, quick, simple radiology program that you can use ShortHand with and WinScribe or whatever waveplayer. Ahhhhhhh!
D&L Services offering a great bonus program. Why not,
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You made a good choice. The staff is great, program simple. Welcome! nm
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A wax doll, a long straight pin, and a lock of hair - great therapy. nm
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OSi mentoring
No, I did not go through their mentoring program. However, it is an excellent program. Be sure to give them a call!
Mentoring
Try Meridian or Sten-Tel. If you are a CMT try sending a cover letter for her resume to Maureen Martin (mmartin@meridianhcs.com
AIM Mentoring anyone?
Please tell me any detail you know about AIM Mentoring. I am about to make the leap but I have never heard a word about them. I would truly appreciate any info. Thank you.
Mentoring Programs can be
awful experiences, depending on which company you work for. My past experience was with Heartland and the mentoring program there was obnoxious with a capital O. I had to leave because of family issues, and I learned nothing while in the mentoring program. My general knowledge of the MT field, what I learned through general life experience or through MT training, certainly NOT from the mentoring program, is what kept me at the job. Had I had to rely soley on the mentoring program at Heartland, I would have been one of the many in my group that I just recently learned were hastily fired now that the company is changing hands. In your own situation, don't feel too bad if the company you applied to doesn't get in touch with you as soon as you had hoped or at all. The universe is sending you a message. Try, try again and NEVER give up.
Mentoring Programs
OSi has an excellent program for "newbies." You can apply through their website, http://www.ositranscription.com, being sure to include your school and certificate information.
If I'm not mistaken, Spheris has a similar program, as well. You might want to check with them. http://www.spheris.com
Best of luck to you!
MT mentoring programs (employment)
Hi,
Can someone tell me if or what they know about MT mentoring programs? I'm being considered for a couple through well-known companies that were actually referred to me. Then I heard from someone else that you have to be cautious because someone they knew wasn’t paid. I've been looking for a job a long time now and I was almost hired. It fell through because they couldn't hire after all. Like I said, I'm waiting on some feedback from a couple of mentoring programs but it will be in January. The last few weeks I've had to put MT employment searching on hold because of the upcoming holidays; Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. I would appreciate any feedback on this thanks.
Brenda R.
MT mentoring programs (employment)
Brenda, Thank you for the advice. All I want is training from a legitimate and accredited school and to work for a legitimate company? Is that to much to ask?
Webmedx fits that bill, great company, great benefits, great pay and always on time. NM
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Does the MQ DQS program contain the ShortCuts program, or do I need to buy it? nm
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DQS is not a "Medquist" program, it is a program used by MQ. (nm)
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Great company, great boss, great account!!!nm
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I also enjoy QA and enjoy the mentoring aspect
as well as the contact with the clients and MTs. I feel it is very rewarding personally. I also enjoyed being an MT (I earned between $30-$40 an hr way back when but those were the days). I was fast and burned my body out by being fast. Because I was fast, QA only pays me about half of what I earned as an MT and I only had to work as an MT for half the time that I have to work as QA.
I do understand there are different personalities and if the above poster does not enjoy QA, I definitely would not care what people think. I would get back into MTing. We have to try and be happy as this job no matter what you do can be a very tedious one.
System great, pay good, everything great, but most managers from old Edix, problems, poor people ski
when you are out of work, you are out of luck. If you are good at brown-nosing, are tough enough to be without any self-esteem, and have maybe money coming into the household on the side in case you tick someone off, then you may succeed, for a little while.
Don't ever ask questions or have problems with anything. Don't ever have a problem. Don't think you will have any control over anything you do, either.
A few 'good' managers remained when I left, but the new ones were all from the old Edix, and were completely into numbers, cared nothing for individual MTs...if there is work, you BETTER be working. If there no work, you will hear nothing, no one will help you.
You are pathetic! I have a great life, loving family, work for a great company.
You might want to fix that.
You really don't have to shout (angry person), but yes you are wrong!!
That is my last word to you!
I will add that getting a great pay check every other Friday from Medware really puts a huge smile on my face.
Oracle is great. Bayscribe is wonderful great line counts.
The trainer at OTI will always answer any questions about the platform and if you have any problems they have already worked them out, so just ask. Good luck!
YOG - Lots of work, great office staff, great money. NM
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You are reading about another
company .. MSI and MDI are not the same company. I have been working there for over a year and have never seen a bad post about this company. My checks are direct deposit and always on time and correct and this is strictly clinic and radiology,.not acute care. Florida is home to MDI and MedScribe also and neither of these companies ever get very good reviews here. There is another MediScript in another state as well .. but not this company. I have been pretty happy here.
That's not what I am reading at all.
I think it's just if you set a schedule and your supervisor agrees to it, then you have to stick with it.
What I don't get is how we are supposed to work hours and also know how many lines or minutes we'll get done. I am not used to thinking in terms of working hourly. I can guesstimate how many hours to say I will work, but it won't be exact. I bet it was a suit who came up with that idea.
OSI not for me after reading all the
posts below. I tested 3 weeks ago and never heard a word until yesterday, when I received an email stating they were not hiring at this time. Good reason why! Looks like OSi goes down in the crap book with the rest of the MT companies just like them. It wasn't too long ago that I read they were really great to work for. What happens to these places in such a short period of time? Glad I accepted a good job with another MT company and did not sit around waiting to hear that they weren't hiring at this time. Why didn't they wait longer to tell me? Good grief!
I am not sure, but reading some of the --sm
above posts, it looks like MW was bought out by SPI, or vice versa. perhaps that is the *other name* the SS department was seeing. I still wish you luck though.
then why are you reading and sm
responding to my posts. I guess your posts are so interesting no one can resist?
seems I am reading this more and more, no pay
She can google.com
The name of her particular state name plus labor department or department of labor.
Can look in phone book for legal aid assistance or again, google.com her state, maybe country too and key in legal aid assistance.
This is bad. Since she is owed about $1000, they cannot honestly say the work was not acceptable and thus, no pay, this much money is not accumulated overnnight. They would have to know her quality/expertise so-o-o-o. If it was not acceptable, they would not have let it continue (SEE) I would get on it, Keep the board posted.
This is the second one this week I have given suggestions. With legal aid, she would provide the company name, phone, fax, email, name to contact. Maybe can print out the home page of the company (from google.com) Explain the circumstances, if you have kept a log of daily work, make a copy and provide this, any other type of paper work, employment sign up paperwork. They will do the contacting for you, the labor department or legal aid. I would contact both myself. or .
I cannot believe what I am reading here,
I quote from your post
'I also have a side business where I deal with the Mayor, City Council, and various others in government and they all write like me too!'
What kind of mayor, city council or govermment is this ??
Using correct grammar and spelling is 'pettiness' for you?
Where are you from?
I stop now.
Just my own reading
It lists the closing date as 08/31/2009 and since it reads at closing or shortly following, it can be at any time now. My first guess would be support staff as there would be a lot of duplication of services...IT/tech support in particular comes to mind. I don't know that they'll actually fire MTs....doesn't look good for the can't get qualified MTs here on US shores if it comes out they fired their highest producers.
Think you are reading in more than there
Defensive? About what? I only stated what goes on where I work and I said why would a place send the good out and keep the worst? I could only wish that would happen, especially with the ones I did yesterday. I think with the onslaught of all the ESLs we have now that people perceive we get the worst. If I worked Monday through Friday the dictation is like berries and cream and then comes the dreaded weekend and all the ESLs show up. I thought perhaps the ESLs might be low on the totem pole when it came to seniority and perhaps that is why so many dictated then. (Just my thoughts, could be wrong). As far as I know all the dictators at the place I work are on VR, no matter how bad they sound. Only straight I do is with interns and if they stayed longer than a month, they probably would be put on also. The person asked for opinions and I gave mine.
Loved Alltype! Great management and great accounts.
wah - i miss it there!
After reading the below notes sm
After the below notes, along with things posted here in the past, I'm truly beginning to believe it has something to do with who is your supervisor/QA. I have been there for a number of years, have been very happy and still am; however, I have heard a few things about other supervisors that makes me believe I am one of the lucky ones. Sad, but I believe it is true. I believe Amphion's management reads these posts once in a while. Maybe they'll give this some thought.
Let me just add to my own post, on re-reading it.
Mind you, I spent many, many nights - as I work graveyard shift - usually with a baby nearby - sobbing my eyes out over the injustice of it. I had to work for the most unfair MTSOs ever on the face of the earth! But I still stuck it out - wouldn't give them the satisfaction of knowing I cared. Because they DO know they are doing it to the unfavorite MTs - its part of the big game - like being in a popular clique in school. But down the pike, so to speak, I am so glad I stuck it out because I can literally type anything and hear any dialect or accent - ANYTHING. I can hear the King of Garbage perfectly and fly thru it! So, yes, it was a horrible painful experience, and my heart goes out to you.
After reading everything posted here, it
that did not endorse or encourage offshoring but finally accepted that it was here to stay, then taught the Indians how to have their own web page, then began to charge people subscriptions to the web page.
The only difference I see since the Embracing Offshore declaration is an upgraded web site with an increase in paid ads from MTSOs who offshore (i.e., more revenue to the web site), a post here and there defending those same MTSOs in various threads by asking us to understand their pay structures, a sporadic reference to webmaster (denoting the site is being monitored more and treated more like a business) and an far greater tolerance for newbies asking questions (perhaps to help those MTSOs grow some acceptable newbies to hire or fill in the gap those companies QA staff can't provide individual attention to?)
Think about the whole overtone of the board and the posts. It has become an MTSO board. I'm sure if I were an MTSO of US MTs only and I was supplementing my income with a website, at some point I would need my website to be my main source of income as opposed to that from transcription.
Deja vu all over again from the mid 90s.
I'm sure they are reading as we type. sm
But I'd definitely let them know that we aren't taking it lying down. I was going to email Dennis myself today.
They are too nosy. You know they are on here searching for their names.
I hope they are reading this!
I would not doubt if I am layoffed earlier than July 7th! That would be another story.
I am emailing everyone people have mentioned on this board and also Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, the list goes on.
after reading many posts sm
on this board, it seems to be the ole bait and switch routine that these companies are pulling. I feel your frustration.
Or reading their audits, bad MT's!!!
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DUH...my fault for not reading
the ad in detail. At the bottom it states they are a private company not associated larger one of similar name.
I have been reading ALL of these posts--sm
concerning KS, and I have seen one consistent trend. It is mostly just ONE person posting negatively about KS and that one person, from her own posts, admits that she could not cut the mustard with KS. Sounds very much like sour grapes to me..but then, that is just my opinion. Ignore her. She is just looking to cause strife.
So - I'm reading a TransTech ad for MTs, and - (sm)
in their list of perks, one of them is hybrid vehicle reimbursement. My question is, if the MTs are working at home, not driving to work and not driving around to pick up tapes, why would it matter what kind of vehicle they drive?
In reading some of their posts...
It seems that people have been abandoning jobs because they are either unfamiliar with those reports or don't like the dictator, etc., and an E-mail went out that they are monitoring the system and watching for people who commit this company no- no. If caught, big time trouble lies ahead. This comes from a recent E-mail from management. Too many people are doing this, and they are finally cracking down. I am assuming this is what the poster is referring to.
You are wrong in how you are reading this. sm
You still get vacation; it is still paid at your hourly (production) rate. This bonus plan actually gives you one week to make incentive; the week you are on vacation, you won't.
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