Litt to no work since Thanksgiving, slow time and overstaffed too????nm
Posted By: MDI-MT on 2005-12-27
In Reply to: Can anyone tell me how the work load is at MDI-MD? nm - anon
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I encountered slow to no work the weeks preceding Thanksgiving and several days after but the past
few days it has picked up. Can I ask which account/accounts your on? I think that makes a difference. Mine are part f the Escription platform. I honestly got really ticked a few weeks ago when we had no work and they were still hiring. For one, it's bad enough when we have to share some of our work with the Indians, but how fair it is to hire these poor people who think they are getting work where there is none. It makes no sense to me either. Why not provide work to your current employees than drive them away by taking on too many new people.
Slow is normal from Thanksgiving through New Year's. (nm)
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Definitely overstaffed all the time.
Then they have problems cuz every one quits and they start over.
MDI/Transcend picked up where MQ left off, just learned more tricks along the way. Not a nice place to work anymore
I have 4 accounts, doing all work types, and I usually have enough work but this is the slow time of
year so we are scrambling a little for lines. Easy platform, paychecks DD, always on time.
Knowing that the only time work is slow is during
is wonderful and I will flex my schedule any time to keep my job at Transtech.
I think work is typically slow this time of year sm
and I am surmising they are not wanting a backlog to build because a lot of MTs are also taking time off for the holidays leaving a skeleton crew on some accounts. I am sure it will all be busier than ever in a week or so. I have been able to get my line counts and then some everyday so far. Everywhere I have ever worked gets a little slow towards the holidays.
Slow time of year = no work. Basically the same. If
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No - it is not always slow! Depends on the company and hospital. I have never been slow this time
Slow time is usually in September when everyone is back to work/school from the summer months.
Been doing this 24 years and never slow this time of year. Actually, I am drowning in work - can't keep up.
Still have to work on Christmas or Thanksgiving
alternating years, one year Christmas, the next year Thanksgiving and that is in addition to NY Day and Fourth of July and Labor Day. It's depressing. Especially to work on Christmas. I worked on Thanksgiving and after that I said never again. I missed seeing my family and I live 2 hours away from where Thanksgiving would be celebrated. No way was I going to still be at Medscribe when it was time to work Christmas.
I think it depends on the account. I always work Thanksgiving sm
Mem Day, Labor Day and New Year's Day and have 4th of July, Easter, Christmas Eve and Christmas off. This is what I volunteer to work, so that might be how all the accounts work. I do radiology so that is why we work holidays.
PLEASE NAME COMPANIES THAT WANT YOU TO WORK CHRISTMAS OR THANKSGIVING
I am very interested to see the list. Thank you.
If you are of Thanksgiving, you work Christmas and vice versa..
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Thanksgiving is weeks away, yet no work on TransTech this morning. sm
I have 2 accounts, with no work on either. I used to think they cared, but now I am not so sure. If there is no work now, I have to think the closer it gets to Thanksgiving, it will really be awful. 
I didn't sign up to work Thanksgiving, but I will in the evening for a while at least. I heard s
that so many MTs want to work the morning hours that there will be almost no MTs to cover any evening work. I heard like only about 1.2 MTs per account. If there is work, I'll have it to be sure.
Depends on the account. Work on VR lately has been slow. Just like all companies, we have slow times
Honestly though, I have only had 2-3 times in the past 2 years where it was like the other day...no work... It did pick up later but I just think it's important not to make someone think we're overloaded with work all the time. That would not be fair to them if they end up with high expectations.
Yes, but the only slow time for me...sm
was around the holidays for a couple of weeks, but now they are dictating like crazy, I guess they are taking on a lot of new patients. I still worry about this profession tho....I jsut pray daily that the account i work on does not go to EMR.
It is slow this time of the year EVERY - anybody that has done......sm
transcription for any length of time knows that.
Is this a slow time of year or what?
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Yes, I am. Things are slow right now, but I have been able to get it every time (sm)
I don't know for sure, but since they are advertising for 44 MTs for the new acct, I'm assuming some are already being hired, and that's why it is slow. But we will be inundated soon, so I can live with it. I like to do more than minimum, but I can manage on the minimum. It will pick up real soon!
How long does this slow time last. nm
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This is normally a slow time of season
in this field. No one wants to be in the hospital during the holidays, a lot of doctors are out, etc. Also, I think many companies are just overwhelmed with the responses they get to an ad.
Did this for 3 years. No slow time encountered. (nm)
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Is Future-Net Techology slow to pay all the time?
I've been waiting since last week for my check, still not here. Invoice submitted on 12/14. I guess, no pay, no work from me. Blah!
Goes to show neither of you have been in the MT buisiness very long - It is always slow this time..
of the year..... nm
It's usually pretty slow this time of the year and TT is no different. The new accounts
they are hiring for will be starting next month and from what I understand they will need to hire more than 120 MTs between now and the end of the year for the four new hospitals, so I am not too worried about it.
I would wait it out because it is slow this time of year anways...
then after the holidays, if no better, time to start looking...good luck and hang in there!!!
It's neither. It's ALWAYS slow this time of year, between Spring Break and Easter.
By the week after next we'll be drowning in work.
The only time I have ever been slow is during X-mas time...
when most other companies are slow too...but I have never run out
beds full at the 4 hospitals I type in Texas (this is never a slow time)
It is not just a slow time....they lost a huge acct and moved many MTs to other accts.......
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always slow this time of year...doctors take extra days off, et cetera.
it will pick back up again soon...
Not sure they are so bad, just overstaffed.
Always best to keep a part-time job in your back pocket for rainy days.
MDI-FL overstaffed again, so
no money there.
Overstaffed
MDI is definitely NOT overstaffed if you are working on BeyondTxt.
Both Transcend and MDI are way overstaffed, no
work half the time. T/L told me they had to hire more people because the work might pick up before long. What a dunce.
yes, but I was told as an IC that if work was slow ICs get no work since they are nto employees
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was told by management MDI-FL was not overstaffed...
but here I sit with no work. Either they are overstaffed or the client is getting ready to bail.
You are SO right..the least backlog and emails fly. Overstaffed now for sure. nm
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Figured out why teamleaders like accounts overstaffed.
They get a big bonus for meeting objectives of keeping reports in turn-around time. What a joke. We starve and they get fatter.
Unfortunately, there are too many companies out there overstaffed with MTs but short on managers and
people who are supposed to work with you on training, get you set up etc. Nothing is worse than taking a job and just sitting there being nonproductive because they havent gotten their crap together. I think we've all been there. That's a deal breaker for me. If I have no support in any shape or form and no organization, then you have no employee. That's my motto. Life is too short to waste time like that.
Thank you! I'm looking for part-time work to supplement my no-work full-time job.
You must be slow, so VR will work for you.
Personally, I could not live on 13.50 an hour, or 12 an hour or some other equally low rate of pay. That is not even typing 200 lines an hour, and if you are so experienced, you certainly did not work on your speed skills. Your editing speed is just as slow, obviously.
VR will only help people like you who are very slow at transcribing. It is not going to help those who work much faster.
IBM selectric? I knew people who could transcribe 2000 lines a day on those things. Think what they did when computers came in.
Your post is confusing to me. Yes, I use an expander and a computer,and I get paid for my work because I did the input. I am also going to have to do the input for VR but that will pay half of what I make now. Forget it, sista, I am not an idiot. And I have yet to see an ADT feed that worked without glitches.
Like I said, you sit under your mushroom, let the owner and management make money off you while you sit there and work for a rate of pay that won't allow you to buy peanuts or popcorn cuz those are luxury items on your rate of pay.
slow work
I know three gals in the same boat. Love the company... hope I don't have to find a new one!
slow work
Is this usual. Wondering if to start looking again.
slow work
Is this usual? Wondering if to start looking if it does not pick up.
Slow work
Same here, only out of work a couple of times since I starte for TT in August. By far, I am much happier with them than my previous employer.
Work slow!!!!
Is anyone else having a hard time with work right now. The company I work for is sooo slow I am bearly getting 350 lines a day! I think they may have overhired back when they were swamped in Sep. Not sure if I should look somewhere else or try and stick it out. Any suggestions?
Believe it here, work has been very slow
Again, I ask what accounts/types you are on that you have so much work, because my accounts have had little to no work at all for weeks now, and one has been slow for months. I would be willing to move to one of these busy accounts that are always being spoken of, but don't know what to ask for because nobody will actually name these very busy accounts. Thanks!
work slow down
Is anyone having problems with work slowdown with Imagestat?
Work is slow and sm
while I am not having a problem, many are. It is only employee status, generally only full time and you will have to work a weekend day, we all do. They offer nice insurance and it is not too expensive, but you have to maintain at least 11,000 lines AND 80 hours every 2 weeks to keep it. Some of us are struggling, though I know I am not. I will tell you that folks who work 2nd or 3rd shift have plenty of work.
All in all, it is an excellent company with wonderful people. I don't want to work for anyone else, EVER.
Work slow down
My supervisor assured me this happens at this time of year and I tend to agree, and she is really good about letting me make up time. I do wonder about how many folks they hire, but I know we are going to get more customers. I have asked to be considered for those accounts.
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