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Mine didn't seem to work when I had it minimized, so I'm stuck using their own expander, which

Posted By: stinks. Not staying, anyway. nm on 2005-08-19
In Reply to: Can you use the ShortCut program with DQS? I'm getting different answers from the techs. nm - Don't want InstantText or the auto-text thingie

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I sure didn't get that from mine - do you work on Radnet by chance? sm
That's a hospital-based platform and anyone who works on that is more inclined to have issues. Whatever your platform problems, they are not company-wide, that's for sure.
Just keep it minimized and use it. nm
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No one is stuck with the worst. The work is not pooled like MQ. It is by account and FIFO. nm
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mine didn't go that way... c msg
i tested. first email from them stated i passed their radiology tests, and they would contact me during the next recruitment. two weeks later, i received an email with attachments to download. these included pay scale of 7 cpl WITHOUT spaces, manual or templated headings, and i had 24 hours to accept or decline their offer. I sent them an email obviously declining.
I didn't get mine yet. does it come sm
UPS or regular mail. They asked me when I filled out my employment papers 3 weeks ago what size I wanted because they were sending it. I wonder when it will come?
Just got mine today - some didn't get them yet
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Mine didn't say error either
This is the part that is so unsettling for me too.  And the fact that the human resource/payroll person doesn't even know what is going on and the fact they will not let her know what is going on is what is unsettling for me.  If they would just come right out and let us know what the heck is going on, then I would be a little more at ease.  But, no one is saying ANYTHING.  However, supposedly the money is there.......
That is too funny - if I didn't think someday one of those reports might not be mine!

Maybe we should all band together and just shoot those VR reports straight through - JUST FOR ONE SHIFT - take our money and see what happens.  Guess we could find out if there is any QA in place and if the MTSO gets any feedback from the hospital.  It might be a lesson for the MTSO to learn.  I spend lots and lots of time - follow word by word - in my VR jobs but the pay just is not there doing VR that way.  I do see bad reports in my search of what other MTs turn in and it is really scary.  BUT - bet they make more than I do at the end of the day.  When will the hospitals and the MTSOs figure this out???? and pay us more for quality than quantity.


Hmmm..everyone got different tests huh..Mine were over 5 minutes a piece. I didn't do them. I thi
someone is trying to get free work.
Yes, work that expander (sm)
I know that when I was at a hospital there was a limit to how much you could put in  your text Expanders because there was only so much memory for them.  Now that I'm at a service and there's no limit, I consistently do 300+ lph. 

I am lucky in that my main account has maybe 15 regular dictators I can get used to and I have a lot of entire reports saved (common stuff like colonoscopies or cholecystectomies, and I just make changes as they say them).  I do have to be flexible, though, 'cuz if my main account's caught up I get my backup account(s).  My line count goes down when that happens, but not by all that much.

When I was at the hospital, sometimes people would ask me for help and I'd watch them type a sentence or two and I'd be like they didn't put 'chest x-ray' or 'physical examination' in an expander?  I think there's a book or an article somewhere that can help you make most of expanders (sorry, don't remember where; search the archives here and you can probably find it).
Mine did not work but, they did try it
I ended up having to go with theirs, but they at least attempted, and they overnighted me one that would work. The pedal is plug and play basically. I no longer work for them, but they even make it easy to send it back if you leave.

:) Good luck
I am stuck at OSi

I tried full time with another company but had issues with their platform and couldn't make my line count so now I'm stuck back at OSi full time and hate every minute of it.  I'm too depressed and downtrodden to even keep trying.  I feel like I'm in an impossible situation.  This has been going on for years and I don't know where to turn.  If I make another leap which doesn't turn out I will be in the same boat.



Looks like you are stuck with us.
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Sorry - that should be "sincerely" - the "c" key stuck on me again!
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should be thought, T key got stuck. nm
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Way too mny companies for anyone to be stuck
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You bit on it, and now you're stuck!
You can't trust everyone in this profession.  One day, you'll wake up and realize what you're doing, which is defending someone who obviously knows how to make a buck off of people like you.  Have a nice life!
I work there, and a friend of mine just started. It took RO
about a week for her to hear back. Good luck! :-)
Me too, me too! Mine was 2639! I heart MT work! nm
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8.5 cpl?? Are you sure it was NE? They've had pay stuck at 7 and 8 cpl for years! nm
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It's true that the new MTs get stuck w/ crap
I found that to be true and got nowhere when I asked to be moved. The person who started this thread is making the right decision by leaving and so am I.
Are U new there? Get stuck with an atrocious acct out of NY? nm
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Oh my...Ever get a word stuck in your brain...sm

that you know is wrong, but you use it anyway?  That is what happened there.  How embarrassing. 


I have been stuck with companies that subcontracted
I work escription and love the platform, but have been stuck working for a company that subcontracted from I don't know where. I have looked for other companies to work for, but find so many subcontract for the company I work for (who gets the work from someone else) and are connected somehow. How can you find the source company to work for? I would really love to know that. Thank anyone in advane who can answer that. It is very true that the more people who take a piece of the pie before you, get the best pieces, hence more money.
She is stuck in the stone ages and wants to
send everybody to India who prefers the internet to books.
That is not true on all accounts. Mine is always out of TAT with plenty of work.
The teaching hospital accounts are pretty busy all the time. Ask to be put on one.
The hospitals that I have worked at and the ones that friends of mine work for sm
all have a two week delay between the last day of the pay period and the payday. Same exact lenght - ends on the 30th, pays on the 15th.

I am not trying to argue, but I don't understand what you find wrong with this. The companies (all of them) need time to bill their clients and to process payroll. Some of the smaller ones probably have to wait to get paid too.

I work for KS and get paid on time every two weeks. The consistency is important to me as a single parent. I tried working for a small company but found that they had to wait to get paid and unfortunately, GMAC would not wait for me to wait to get paid. Going to a national like KS solved that problem and I can count on getting paid on the 1st and 15th of each month.
you are ignorant and stuck in the Middle Ages...
VR is not always bad, the bad is that the pay is much, much too low. It should pay the same as straight.
It has been a couple of years but I tried to work there and lasted 1 day and so did a friend of mine
The ESL were AWFUL.. It was all I got and I could not understand anything they said. They were out of California so had a real mixed bag of ESL but none of it was doable.  Things could have changed, who knows.
If you have to use what THEY say to use, you're stuck. Ctrl + I and logging in to iChart do not
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I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Sorry for those who stuck around!! sm
I sure hope you find something soon......my heart goes out to you. Lesson learned, I suppose. When people show you who they really are....believe it.


I was in Fort Wayne so I dont think we know each other. I stuck it out until 2005, SM
pay went down, down, down.
If there's no lifeboats left, we're stuck on this Titanic n/m
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Mine listed Thurs. and Fri. as official company "holiday" but then said we have to work Fri un
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2400 lines, I'm stuck on that number. 8 hours??? I want to see her answer that one.

outstanding account(s) to do this in 8 hours.  We had one whole week lately with no work at all, maybe get 30 lines an hour.  And it wasn't just our office, people were calling NJ also about not having any work.


 And if you are doing quality work, you have to be slowing down to make out the slurrs and bad grammar. 


Well, her day will come.  When they turn her into an editor, and her accounts dry up into nothing but VR let's see what happens.  And her account must be very simple (tasty for VR grabbing), it will disappear. 


LOL


I bet you 1 million $$ you won't find one on mine. Mine is
2 years old and it does not have a 9-pin serial port, nor does it have a game port.   I have used both ports on other computers so I know what both ports look like.  I also have a company provided computer and it does have the ports on it. 
OSi didn't work out for me...lack of work sm
I worked there for about 3 months last year, and even though I was on 3 different accounts, I was continually running out of work.  They wanted me to flex to meet their schedule needs (working on my days off and late at night), but do to having small children, and having to have a babysitter when I am working, I need a set scheduled, and they just couldn't handle that.  I also thought they micromanaged.  I like to be left alone to do work.  I ended up slinking back to the Q after 3 months was up. 
Didn't work for me
Not a great experience for me. I felt they did not have a clue as to what an MT was/did, espected way too much, way too soon. Training period of a few hours, then expected to make line count within 1 to 2 weeks on brand new account that no one had done yet - actually expecting a brand new employee to implement the account (huge) and make 1200 lines a day at the same time! I had 25 years' experience at the time and lasted there a very short time as I am older but wiser now!
Didn't work well enough for me.

When pressing the foot pedal, sometimes it would do nothing or would hesitate before hearing any dictation.  I found this unacceptable and a pain in the butt.  I don't think Vonage is allowing MTs anymore.  At least, that's what I last heard. 


didn't work for me
disorganized, wouldn't know QA if it bit 'em, lots of files to download and cross reference, have to wait 6-8 weeks for first check, lots of phone calls (interruptions)....
Job didn't work out

Personally, I think it is the company that should feel bad.  What did you do to make you feel bad when the company turns out not to be the same as they seemed to be in the sales pitch?  If you showed up on the first day of this job and couldn't transcribe, do you think they would hesitate to let you go? 


What we need in our industry is more courageous folks who will stand up for themselves and not take any @#$%#@#$ from these companies that basically lie to get you to work for them.  They are taking advantage of us and it is only because we are letting them get away with it.  I know, cause I've been there.  I stuck it out with one awful company for 6 months.  After that, there have been some that I've rejected before we got past the contract.  There were at least 3 that I quit after less than a week.  Same story.  The job was totally different than it was supposed to be, according to the description of the recruiter. 


Don't sweat it.  Just tell them goodbye, it didn't work out.


 


Didn't work for me...
I tried working for them, but they told me I could not work a flexible schedule, no matter that I would get my required amount of hours...when I say flexible I mean I need to work off and on with no set scheduled times to work. They were always calling me wondering why I wasn't working...this was the pits.
I tried this, but it didn't work. Thanks. nm
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LOL, you must be one who didn't do their work

As stated many times, if you work your schedule, meet your line counts and produce quality documents, you will do just fine.


If you cannot produce quality documents, if you do not want to work the schedule you set and if you cannot produce the minimum line count which you were aware of when you were hired, (1200 lines), then don't come to Axolotl.


Axolotl is not the place for MTs who do their own thing. If you are disciplined, want to make good money and have good benefits, then it might be the place for you.


did that, didn't work either
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you WISH you didn't have to work sm
from home---have kids???? How about be thankful you CAN work from home if you need to work from home.

If you are only doing this because you have kids you are probably in the wrong profession. you are saying your employer has serious mental problems.......you are working and you get a check correct? You work from home and don't have to face this person correct?

Sounds to me like he isn't the only one who has some problems!
it's been done - didn't work out well. n/m
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I thought you didn't work for MQ????????

MQ is not for the transcriptionist.


MQ is for the company.


Okay - that didn't work. Try mditrans.com
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If they didn't want weekend work,
I would have taken the job. But who wants weekends? That stinks.

well, I didn't work between the holidays at all....
so I don't know about that time period, but I didn't have any work at all on Tuesday, 1/3,