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Lousy excuse for not paying...

Posted By: me on 2009-08-21
In Reply to: The problem - mtme

To me that equates to nonpayment for services rendered.


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That excuse is why they get away with paying us

Excuse me, the client is paying the
bill and they have the right to say how their work is to be done. If one MTSO will not do it their way, then another will. An MTSO cannot dictate to the client how they will do the work, it is the other way around.
When I am renting, I am PAYING; when I'm working, THEY are paying ME. sm
Seems I should be running a credit check on the potential employer to see if THEY are responsible with their money, not the other way around.
MQ IS LOUSY

I only worked there for the first two years of my medical transcription career and then got out because of how cheep they are and because they never had any work.  I went an entire summer (four months) only making a total of $600.  That was when I decided that I was never going to put myself in that type of financial hardship again. 


Believe it or not, there are a lot of companies out there that DO pay well, that DO have work and that DO know who you are.  Just keep looking around.  Don't settle for MQ or MDI.  Neither one of them are any good.  I should know, I worked for both.


Happy Elsewhere Now!



p.s.  My recommendation is to work for a couple of different companies.  Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.  This will help guarantee yourself an income and some sanity too!


CortMedical: Pay is lousy. nm
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And by the way, they are not lousy. They are a good
company. No company is perfect but this one certainly is not the bottom of the barrel.
They have a lousy reputation
I'm so sorry for those affected by this. I don't think I have ever seen a positive post about that company in the several years I have been coming to this board.
If you like getting docked pay for lousy dictators, go for it. nm
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Why would you limit yourself to two lousy companies? There are better. nm
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Lousy companies pay QA by line.
Reputable, better companies pay QA by hour. If offered line pay for QA, just say NO and look elsewhere or do MT instead. You're much better off and it will be a help to your fellow QA people. We all have to stick together on this and say NO to line pay for QA. I think confusion here is the words editing versus QA. Many places now call VR MTs editors. Not the same thing as QA. For companies that still call QA people editors, they need to change that title because QA people are SO not merely editors. ;)
Your lousy attitude is the joke!
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No, it is 3 lousy days PTO for 1st year. nm

6 cpl is a LOUSY WAGE, no matter what
Anyone who works for such an insulting amount of money is just perpetuating the problem. What happens if your employer loses your cushy account, you get switched to something tougher, and you have to actually start typing full lines (few to no macros), researching information, and having to actually EARN that 6 cpl? That's when you have to hope and pray that hubby gets a raise.
Pay is lousy and you have to go in-office to train for way too long!
This was a while back so not sure if they have become more with it by now.  Good luck!
Lousy tech support. rude QA
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lousy mgmt/response, unprofessional.
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II feel for you. I've had my share of lousy
dictators.  A flat rate sure would help, but  I still don't want to do dictators like that all day long. 
Is lousy, 4-5.5 cpl. I make 7 cpl at the company I work for now.
FN's platform really slows you down for editing as well.
I sure agree with you about the lousy communication. It seemed to be a company wide
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I have worked there for a few years now. Not a lousy company but a very good one. sm
Perhaps you did not meet their standards or perhaps they did not meet yours, but there is no reason for you to be on here bashing those of us that love working for KS. If you have specifics, please share. I will:

Good pay, on time every time.

Good account with plenty of work.

Good benefits.

Managers that are human and know that the employees are too.

Owners who care about the company and employees. They are involved but less and less with employees as they grow. Instead, they have hired managers that are great so that they can concentrate on sales and customers.

Growing company with no lost accounts, which is more than most can say.

Opportunity for advancement.

IT helpful and caring, especially since the major change in that area a few months ago.

I love my job and I'm not in Illinois either; I'm in Florida.
bad insurance, expensive & lousy line count
When Transform (in Wyo) started they used MDintouch which was great but with Vscript I spent more time waiting for new reports to open (because it would have to open Word EVERY SINGLE TIME instead of Word just staying open, and for them to finish sending. long reports were OK & you could make SOME lines/$$ but after 6 years I made less & less AND LESS until I quit because I would OWE on payday - yes, I was paying over $900 for really lousy insurance for hubby & I. I'm no slouch - being doing it for about 25 yr when I quit & typed about 110 wpm. So take no time to pound out a report but tooooo much time wasted waiting on things to grind up & download. HAS to be better offers...
You'd play lousy poker - obvious bluffer.

Don't have to have the last word to have the last laugh, and I'm having a good one.


Such an easy mark. . . such a short fuse.  WOO!  I am laughing out loud. 


For a lousy 3cpl, I wouldn't even bother to read
Gawwwwd!
They use DocQScribe software, like MQ, that a lot of us say eats your lines and gives a lousy line
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It's all the variables that can make it difficult - lousy software, mangling ESLs, inaudible dic
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Let's see...lousy sound quality, dictators with no skill, unavailable QA, running out of work.nm
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I am having a T-shirt made, "My job was outsourced to India, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
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Excuse me.....what?
we need more details please.
Excuse me, but...
I would say 200 million in DEBT is pretty much going down the tubes.  HS was a great place to work, but Spheris leaves much to be desired.  I won't even dignify your last comment with a response. lol  I was with HS since the very early days, so I am sure I was with the same company longer than you were, as I just recently left myself.  Oh wait, every company I ever left? Let's see, 8 years at one and 7 years at the other one.  I would say that was a pretty good track record, dear.  Sorry you had to make it personal.
Excuse me? But where, exactly did
I simply expressed that radiology and pathology will always be around and need to be transcribed and that the school sounds like the cost is too much. Where am I missing the bullying/harass?
excuse me? you don't know me...sm

ooh - someone woke up nasty or stayed nasty all day, huh?


IF you are presuming to know me, you're coming out of left field...and you have a choice - you did not have to respond.......


Go enjoy your weekend - hope it doesn't rain anymore on your parade.......          


              


Excuse me! Wow.
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Excuse me? If I say they did, they did. I ought
to know. My start date was the 1st of the month. Actually my first payday was supposed to be in the bank the 15th of the next month. So do not tell me NEVER when it happened to me. I also know others it happened to also. I do not post things that are not true. I have all of that information and the emails that went with it saved so if you want to post an untruth and say it never happened, you don't know what you are talking about or your memory has lapsed...depending on which KS MT or mgmt person you are. You won't intimidate me dearie, not when my bank account is the best proof along with the documents that support it.
another excuse
I worked for a company that said they maile dchecks Tuesday but it was postmarked friday, and the best excuse was that their bank had an error and they had to wait to send checks, and when they went out - they bounced, so another week or two before the money actually came - anybody ever have dealings with a bank that in themiddle of having the account they began holding your checks for mor etime - usually that is beacuse you bounced to many outgoing, so they hold your deposits - but as MT we are stupid and must believe the hype. I say if a check bounces, press charges, show them we mean business, and if oay is late - tack on surcharges, after all you are contracted for work and pay date is part of the contract. there should be no ecuses, we are not allowed any room for our TAT, we work very hard for the money
There is no excuse for this
The company I work for I don't have to rely on the dictaphone website for my line count where I work now, I look under the sessions stats which are DISABLED on your system. Even if there is a lag there is no excuse for the awful line count, the line count lag has nothing to do with your production. You can put all the shortcuts you want in but your're still gonna work your fingers to the bone. I do about 270 lines/hr now, where I used to do about 150 there if that and that was really struggling. When there is that much descrepancy then I have to wonder what the difference is. Headers and footers are not counted on the account I work on either. Hope things have changed for your sake, if so, thats just great and i wish you luck!
Excuse me but...
I am not the one calling someone small minded. I do fit in at DSG. It is a great place to work if you are a dedicated hardworking MT, so thanks for the compliment and good luck with your job hopping. Hope company #26 will be able to please you.
Well, excuse me!!!!
make roughly $15 an hour? But you REFUSE to do high ESL's. I am glad to know that you can find a job and be able to REFUSE work and make your coworkers pull the load. HEY, KSMT2, how does that make you feel? LMAO. You two are a joke!!!!!!
That's always the excuse

You must not have met their standards.  No, they are just a lousy, disorganized company.  They did not meet my standards, and I am not the only one.  There are many MTs who have had the same exact experience.  This is not new information.


To Excuse me?
Well stated!
Excuse me????
Who do you think you are to say this has never happened to me?  I have been an MT for 20 years!!    Aren't you doing the same thing as the cherry pickers by whining about the crappy report you got?  You guys actually look up the job to see if someone dumped it?  Are you that pathetic as well that you can't handle transcribing the thing either?  It boils down to this - If you are good, not a single report will slow you down.  If you are a terrible MT who only can do easy reports, well, I could care less what you throw back in the pile.  If my child happened to see a doc who was ESL and an MT started whining about getting the crappy report and spent even a second trying to see if someone was cherry picking - well, I would fire their lazy butt!!  All I'm saying is do the darn reports and quit worrying about people who cheat, they aren't any good anyway!   You guys call yourself MTs?  Please!  More like a bunch of babies!   This is why being an MT is no longer considered a profession.  There was a day when we cared about doing our part for the physicians and the patients.  Now we have a bunch of typists complaining and whining.  We actually used to get paid very well!  I can see why rates have gone down - there aren't any real MTs out there anymore. 
Excuse me?
You guys are such a joke! 
Excuse me?
When did I defend anyone?  No wonder you get so upset about having to do the lousy reports, you can't even read!   This is a waste of time.  Have fun being paranoid....wah...wah...everyone else is getting the good reports....poor us!    Sheesh!
Excuse me?

I say again - you can't read nor do you understand the definition of words.  Ignore means refusing to take notice of or to reject.  if does not mean to defend.  MyGosh!  Please tell me you are not an MT?  You are just making it worse for yourself.  Give up now, ok?   


Excuse me? sm
I don't work for TT but, in my opinion,  if your statement rings true that lead MTs take/get work when others don't have any, that's gross mismanagement and should be delt with somehow, through emails to upper management. It's bad everywhere, low work, ASR lower wages, but there is no excuse for such behavior.
Always an excuse
Sounds my company.   Raises are as rare as hens teeth. I know that the economy is bad but they always try to find an excuse not to give us a decent raise.
Excuse me mis Desertflour, but unless you have my name - sm
I suggest you shut your trap. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. And as a matter of fact, Miss knowitall, you do not know who I am whatsoever. And if you do have my name, I suggest you go ahead and type it on this board. Because I can bet your pathetic paycheck that you do not know who I am.
Excuse me.... but I beg to differ!
MDI MA is a great company, pay 10 cpl, and I am assuming the software depends on the particular account, as I work in BayScribe and it is very user-friendly and productive, everything right at your fingertips. Everything is on one page, i.e. your demographics and transcription page, one click and you have your physician roster, one click spell check, one click to bring up a previous report. I am loving it.
Excuse me??? Just because my experience with them was different than yours was

doesn't give you the right to be so rude.  Don't tell me what I have or have not experienced.  Don't tell me what I did or did not receive from them as far as software or packages.  YOU DON'T KNOW!  Man, you are the pathetic one, you egotistical BLOWHARD.  If people don't agree with you, you insult them personally.  I feel sorry for your family, that's what!!  Having to live with you.  I'm glad I left MW because I don't work at the same company as an offshore-supporting know-it-all like YOU!!!  Has it ever occurred to you that I'm not wrong?  That my experience with them was nothing like yours?  No, because you are omnipotent and think you know everything.


BTW, I made $60 so far this morning in less than two hours on MY OWN account.  You can keep MW.  I know how much, or rather how little, they pay.


Oh excuse me but I DO work there

You say that just because someone has great things to say about a company, this does not make them a cheerleader.  Okay, I can give you that.  However, just because someone posts negatives about a company, this in turn does not make them a liar, troublemaker or a troll.  Why are people so blind?  YOU may very well have a great experience there but that does NOT mean that everyone there does.  We do not always get treated the same and if we don't, it doesn't always mean that it is because of a poor job or work ethic.  I am sick of people acting like they know everything about their company.


excuse me, why do you care? NM
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Im sorry did you FAIL? LOL what an excuse.
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