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Make an auto-response for their emails.."I DON'T WORK HERE!" nm

Posted By: R on 2007-05-20
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Do you get a response to those emails?
Seems over half the MTs on here that have tried to email their liaisons and D herself were ignored

I'm sorry but IMO, this is one burned bridge I'd NEVER want to cross back over. I'd rather work at Spheris than trust the powers that be at MDI-MD again. At least Spheris up front with their offshoring shenanigans.
Dont they make you feel like a child with the threatening emails?
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If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because

I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.


Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS.  That seems so unfair when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!


 


If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because

I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.


Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS.  That seems so unfair that their high paychecks keep coming in to mgmt -- when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!


 


Thanks for your response! I have also read Beyondtxt is not as great as they make it seem.

I'm seeing emails asking MTs to work OT.
Work is definitely available on quite a few accounts.
Emails daily regarding TAT, order of work
it's usually first thing in morning; then the auto-generated emails regarding STATS. Otherwise, it's *no news is good news.*

It would seem strange to get no communication at all.
Constant Transtech emails saying they know work is low, but flex . . . .
This is NOT rumor.  Does no good to talk to the company.  They themselves are putting out the NO WORK emails to us.  They are aware of it.  Why talk to them them? 
All of the WORK RELATED emails, IMs, phone calls, etc...sm
Up until 05/13, I was a production paid MT that was expected to work a very structured, 6.5-hour shift that was to be performed from 9a-4p. HOWEVER, the constant disruptions that came from my supervisor and other staff members (mandatory IMs, emails, phone calls, on-line meetings, etc) was considered non-productive and had to be made up. It took me 8 to 10 hours a day (on a good day) to get in 6.5 hours of transcription! I was then accused of not sticking to my schedule because many of those hours were done in the evening (after the office went home) and I was finally left alone.

Could you even try to imagine anyone else (regardless of profession)being told to stay after their shift was over to make up any time spent performing work related tasks? It doesn't happen and never will!

Why are we expected to be so grateful to be at home when the only difference is demographics? Oh, and maybe a water cooler...


First of all, the auto workers SM

have been protected from the realities of the world for decades now.  I have contact with them daily-you should hear them cry and complain over having to pay $4 a pay period to cover their family's health insurance.  Co-pay for a Rx went up from $2 to $5?  Oh, the complaining about what a raw deal they get.


These people all have cottages to summer in, multiple vehicles for business, leisure and sports and the rest of us have slaved.  No company EVER promised to take care of its employees for life.  We MTs have known that for years and now these people also can find this out.


Auto correct

Is there a way to keep the first letter becoming a capital when using an Expander after an abbreviation with a period?


Example:  1 tablet p.o. (and then when type bidx, expands to Twice a day, with a capital T because of period after the o.).  It seems I spend quite a bit of time fixing this type of thing.


Thanks for you help!


Notalways, Auto Hot Key sounds like something
I really should be using. I'm still looking stuff up dinosaur style. I just googled that term but got more than I wanted. Do you have a program you purchased, or is it some sort of free download? Do you combine a keyboard with additional function keys with it? Thanks.

BTW, I'm Just Saying, Expanders do help eliminate some of the proofreading for mistakes--yet another way they contribute to speed ($$). The words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs your Expander rolls out are exactly as you stored them. No need to scrutinize them for typos.

Regarding how many are doing okay, different boards do have their own group personalities. Many people just aren't relating to the serious problems many come here to share and discuss with others in the same boat, so even if they drop in now and then they keep moving.
I make 4 cents a line, work part and make
over $500 a week on part.
They use a built-in expander like Auto Correct
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Put them in auto-correct - copy and paste. Quick and easy! nm
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Say "Get Over It" to the auto workers and their families who are getting pink slips. sm

How do you think you would feel if you spent  most of your adult life working for one of these companies promising you security if you stayed with them.


changing docQscribe word expander to auto-correct

I have been hired at a company that uses Word auto-correct.  I have thousands of expansions in DocQScribe aco.user file.  I have found the file in my computer and brought it up on notepad.  Anybody able to have this imported to auto-correct?  I called the company support and they said it is doubful.  This may be a deal killer as it would take hundreds of hours to start from scratch.  Thanks for your time.


She has a right to a response, to work if she wants to!
Work is not just for those who need it!

Get over that idea.

Response to I too work at Transcend
Please email me and let's talk. I am not sure why don't have plenty of work when we send message out regularly asking for help. I would love to talk to you and let you know where the work is and believe me I could use the help!
Similar to DocQScribe, expansions go in auto-correct, horrible spell-check. nm
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I make more than that with Spheris but never have work. I would rather make $1.25 and have work. s
My SIL works for KS, and she gets paid double for linked reports too. Where do you get $2.25? I am ready to leave Spheris.
So you work for free? Typical male response, jerk.
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ExText is integrated with Word. Auto correct is a part of Word.
ExText is a Word based platform. When the page opens for you to type the document it will be just like you are typing in MS Word.
Webmedx - low work ? Can you make up lines when work available (sm)
or do you have to schedule a make up time or just do without the lines? 
if you CAN make it work - take all you can. I have 3!! go for it.
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You will work like a dog at 4 cpl and not make much.
I suspect they do not pay for footers, headers, spaces, etc. I used to work there and it would like me 12 hours just to make $100 and I think I am fairly fast. Someone wrong with that picture.
Make sure they have enough work
I worked for them maybe 6-7 years ago and they didn't have enough work, we were running out every day. They only had one major hospital account, the rest clinics. It was a long time ago, things may have changed. Be sure to check that out!
Nothing there to make you sad ...Still one of the best you could work for. SM

Why bring this thread up to the top after all this time? 


The OP said she was low on work on one particular account.  She asked if anyone else had experienced this.  I responded I had been low on work on that particular account as well.  The original thread really ended with OP saying thanks, she just didn't want to think she was the only one experiencing the shortfall.  So now she does not have to feel that she was singled out to receive less work.  I don't think that was ever the case, it never has felt that way to me.  And the fact is that there has been more than enough work available on that particular account for this entire past week. 


Neither the OP, (Anon) or the respondent, (myself - Wise) wrote anything in any way negative.  Certainly NOTHING was said about any particular person, including about any particular recruiter.  It was strictly a question about work flow. 


Why people have posted emotions, such as stunned, or saddened, about a very routine question, is beyond me.  If we worked in office, we would certainly ask our coworker about everyday matters such as this one.  While a short period of low work load can be frightening and frustrating, knowing that I'm not the only one reassures me that I'm not being singled out. 


Just as the recruiter writes in the latest ad on the other site, DRC is the best MT job I have ever had, and I am glad to tell my MT friends about them. 


These knee-jerk reaction posts insinuating that something else was written really serve no purpose except to inflame. 


I can see that it will be better for me to confine my answers to individual e-mails from now on for anything but the What's for dinner? questions. 


 Wise


Because I make 10 cpl, work 9-5, M-F and
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As an IC I make .09 and work
freely on my own.  I REALLY do love working for them!  They are very flexible.  I have had a good experience with them!
Do you get enough work to at least make
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I only make about 20K but then I only work

They can't make you do it. They can tell you when the work is there,
as someone else said, if you can't or don't want to work at the times they have work available, they'll find someone else who can. The client IS allowed to specify what they want/need, there is no set rule about that, but they can't MAKE you do anything. They can stop offering work if you aren't meeting their needs, but unless they pay your taxes, they can't set your hours for you.

The painter analogy is good one because if you hired a painter, you can tell them you don't want them there in the middle of the night, what painting you need done, what kind of paint you'd like, etc. A good IC painter is going to do their best to provide those things to please their client and obtain more work or referrals, but they certainly don't HAVE to do so. They could still show up to paint in the middle of the night while your family is sleeping and use lead-based paint, but would you keep that painter on or find a new painter who can work during the day and uses the paint you prefer?
I'd make sure which one has enough work.

With Transcend, too much instability. If you want to find yourself jumping from account to account when one runs out, then you'd do fine. Personally, it is too frustrating to me to constantly have to jump around. It hasn't always been this way so I suspect either overhire or sending more work to India than they already do.


 


 


You'd better make sure you work your
I take it these are employee positions.... No IC should be working a set shift; if you are, you are really in a desparate situation.  LOL  - too funny how MTs will stoop to scramble to test and await a response from someone who obviously cannot even post a job correctly.  Just my 2 cents.  This Debbie Hicks lady needs to get over herself in a big way.  The ones who got the job ; check back and let us know how it goes -  
Isn't asking you to make up work..
.. that wasn't available during your schedule like asking an employee to sit on the office with no pay for their work schedule, but please come back at midnight to see if we have work for you?  Um, how is THAT legal?
ever wish you could work at Walmart or somewhere and make enough??

There are days when I shake my head and wonder what the he** was I thinking 20 years ago when I decided this is the life for me.  NOW I am stuck to the money like glue and nothing pays like this ... so I'm damned if I do ... damned if I don't. 


We were shopping the other day and I thought Ahhhh bliss.  To take a job at Pier One or Starbucks and SURVIVE ON THE MONEY!!


stupid industry.  Thanks for sucking the joy out of what USED to be a decent job. pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffft


you don't make errors doing MT work with
i cannot believe that
If you do work graveyard, they make sure there is not
enough work to make your line count, so why work those hours?
I could work 24/7 and not make a dent, though
it does tend to be slow around the holidays.  The dictation is lower, but you would think that there would also be several people taking time off too and that it would balance out.
I do not think they overhire. Instead, they make sure that we have enough work. sm
I don't Meditech. I like it actually. It really is just straight typing!
I can understand that if the work is low. While you need to make

up lines, it isn't fair to others to not have work on their shift either.  Depending on the workload for my accounts the work is only low about 1/2 day on Mondays and then there is lots to go around, which is when I try to make my up lines. 


so you work 2 jobs to make that much
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Me too. You work, you make money. SM
You work well, you make more money. You work smart, you make more money. You work long, you make more money. You work hard, you make more money. The key word all else depends on isn't zone, it's work.
You are an IC - they can't make you work all those hours unless you want to. sm
I'd just tell them that I was cutting back to X number of hours per day.
How are you supposed to know when the work will be in to make up?
We are not privvy to how much work is in the system at any given time.  We only know what is in our queue.  This is just absurd on so many levels.
I would rather work on 1 account and make more money, than 5 different ones! No thanks. sm
I think their new program absolutely sucks and there are a heck of a lot of people who say the sound quality is horrendous. I wasn't sticking around to find out. I made my decision as soon as I saw what it was about and knew it would slow me way down. Hey, to each their own. If you like it, fine. I am happy about my decision and glad I did it.
it wont really make a difference anyway as there is NO work!
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Are you saying that Transcend DOES make you work 1 year before? : (
Thanks for the info!  I was thinking of applying there.
make that what I do know "is" that..........sorry now back to work :)
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How much can I expect to make the first year of MT work, around $20,000?
or more