My friend worked there and hated them, but
Posted By: it seems like lots of people here like them on 2005-07-28
In Reply to: Check the archives - both good and bad. nm - ExTranscender
I guess it just depends.
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worked there for a month--hated it. nm
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I worked for them for over 5 years and hated to leave.
I just quit in the last 3 weeks. I loved it there.
They don't hate their employees. As far as your Spheris-specific complaints above, found the exact opposite to be true.
They're not going down the tubes; in fact, they are headed toward taking MQ's spot as #1 in the industry. They are #2 currently.
I had many offers to do QA and even go into management but I preferred to control my income by MTing. I made top dollars with that company and they were always working with me.
I can see you did not have a good experience there. Have you ever enjoyed any company you worked for or have you always had these feelings everytime you left one?
I also worked there. Hated DocQScribe & left after tech person toasted my
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my friend worked
for diskwriter and said they were a pain; always changing things and a bit demanding. but personally, I don't know..
susan
I have a friend who worked with me at MQ
and she went to DRC the same time I went to MDI. She told me a few months ago that Acusis (the Indian company) had purchases DRC and that changes were in the works. I have never worked for either DRC or Acusis but I really don't think Linda would have any reason to lie.
I had a friend that worked for Precyse - sm
She was told she would be paid in two weeks - eight weeks later, and several phone calls later, she was still calling for her FIRST check. She was soooo frustrated and soooo broke, that she had no choice but to quit that job and go back to her prior transcription job
I too had a friend that worked for Mxsecure
She thought it was a great company and highly recommended it. The person she dealt with though was a man. 
A friend of mine worked there
One of the accounts they have came from a hospital I worked for here in Ohio. A good friend of mine went to work there when they outsourced the radiology side. She got an e-mail out of blue with them stating they no longer needed her services. They did this to ALL of the 2nd and 3rd shift MTs. The reason she wants YOUR line rates is so she can the very least she has to pay. If she has this information up front, then she will not contact the MTs with higher line rates. They used to only pay 9 cents per line radiology and 8 cents per line acute care. They have also changed the way they post jobs as they used to post the amount of line rates for each specialty. Horrible Company!!
A friend of mine worked there over 9 years
She loved it, but lost her benefits for some reason and is moving on to a different profession completely. She wants to get out of the house, after 17 years of transcribing. She did go to NJ to train, but that was way back then. They treated her like royalty while she was there though.
I third that; friend worked for them and took about 3-4 months to collect his pay. nm
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I had a friend who worked there on a split shift yet (sm)
I was told I could only work my shift hours, no more, no less. I guess it just depends on what kind of mood they are in the day you are hired.
A friend of mine worked for Spheris
and she said they really sc***ed her.
I had a good friend who worked for them and had an awful experience.
She said that the work load was sporadic at best. They would either be drowning in work or starving. She said that her pay was late two or three times and when she questioned management on it they were extremely rude. She said that the owner/manager of the company was a nightmare who was prone to screaming fits and berating those who disagreed with her.
You can take this for what it's worth. I hope it helps with your decision.
friend of mine worked in their office in Annapolis - sm
Two of her checks bounced. Owner flies off to India every other week to check on offices in India. His sales force is US, but 90% of work goes to India. Apparently the owner takes care of the India people and sales force first and foremost before he takes care of the US MTs and editors. This was a year ago - I don't know if things have changed/
HATED IT!...nm
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Hated it!
I don't even know why I stayed with them as long as I did. There was hardly ever any work. I would ask to be placed on another account for more work, but the other accounts had no work as well?!! No direct deposit. My paycheck was never calculated correctly and it was hell trying to get the money I was actually owed. Having to log every single job you do and every single mistake found in the job plus calculating the line and character count at the end of the day was just ridiculous. I really have nothing good to say about this company.
I hated SPI
I quit SPI just over a month ago. I hated that place.
I hated it
Didn't make it two weeks. Management style sucked.
I hated it.......sm
But that is just me. too many difficult ESLs, and they make up the majority of that account.....I never liked Docuscribe....
I did not like MT World either and I hated being on IM all day. nm
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Ditto, hated it!
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Hated their platform, could not
make any money on it. Constant technical problems. I quit.
HATED ExText
Found the same thing. My production dropped dramatically using that system. The cpl rate was great but not worth it. With the time wasted, I could have been earning 1 cpl less and still making more with increased production.
I hated AC years ago, but....
I hesitantly applied for the RAD position. I don't know anything about Rad or Path with them.
I used to work for OSI and hated it
..
Are you kidding? I hated RadNet!
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Ditto everything he/she said! Plus HATED the time
I hated to have to leave my last job for many reasons.
It was working in-house with great MDs and techs and other clerical people. But I felt the OM was sanity-challenged and I was extremely frustrated by her need to make herself look good and everybody else look bad. If you tried to do anything for the good of the company, she was extremely suspicious of your agenda. I now work for a company where everybody seems to be interested in putting out a quality product in a smart and efficient manner. What a relief to be able to concentrate on work! And yes, I actually took a cut in pay from a great hourly wage. It's a shame to have to do that, but it was better than fuming night and day over work for me.
I absolutely HATED Meditech.
Slow isn't the word! The spellchecker was a total PIA to use and my text Expander wasn't compatible with it either. My company did offer a teensy weensy rate increase but it just wasn't worth it...plus they recalculated the lines on us. Meditech counted 55 characters but our bill rate was for 65 so it was like a double whammy, so what you saw on the screen was not what you got paid for. Total ouch.
When I used Meditech, it was on a dial-up connection and when it dumped (several times a shift), guess what? I lost my work! 100% completely unrecoverable.
Oh the memories still make me wince in pain.
Hated it enough to leave a company
that couldn't take the time to use it right. When a company USES it properly, it is not too bad. When they don't bother to have the doc's office fill in the necessary information and then not bother to build the necessary data bases, it is real hard to earn a living.
I hated working for Transolutions
The platform is terrible. I have never in my life struggled getting lines, always getting at least 250 lph, but on that platform, it was terrible. As for United Healthcare, be prepared for your premium to go up with that change because they are very, very expensive. I paid $700 a month at my last company with United Healthcare as the insurance. It was at Spheris, and I left after being employed there for 5 years because of the high insurance premium.
I hated transolutions also... the reason they
have so much work is because they can't keep people to do it. You will receive mountains of notebooks and papers during training to try and figure out, the platform is horrible, they DON'T COUNT SPACE OR PUNCTUATION Keystrokes PEOPLE, tons of data to enter on ADT screen, you have to manually add any doctor that is dictated in the report to the cc list (give me a break), lots and lots of busy work, QA IS A NIGHTMARE. I stuck it out for 2 months just in case the whole thing was just me, but nope, it wasn't, somehow lines just didn't add up. I couldn't get out of there fast enough! I would NEVER work for them or recommend them again!
My most hated dictators are not the ESLs, sm
they are sloppy dictators who talk at the speed of light and mumble but still expect an accurate report. 
You're right that there is a lot of work. I just wish we had a definite payday. It would be nice to know if I'm getting paid on the 4th, the 8th, the 10th or whenever. That would be my only complaint with the place. Otherwise, it is easy work with great people.
Left there last year. I hated the
platform and the dictators and voice system horrible. I was unable to make any money. QA was a draw depending on who you got. Good luck.
hated it, quit after just a few days
because so many things were just plain weird and tons of discrepancies. Some things work with the keyboard, some don't. I could go on.
No cherry picking here. I always hated that and love that about
TransTech. Their feeling is that you have to take the good with the bad.
Back in April they did -- hated that platform!!
One of the main reasons I left.
I hated Amphion, lasted 3 weeks
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Oracle........I hated it ....soooooooooo slow
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Yep...great insurance, but I HATED working for them.
For years I had wanted so badly to work for Axolotl. I was finally hired and found it to be one of the biggest disappointments ever. Left there and never looked back.
I hated YOG. I had horrendous accounts, couldn't get
samples, they called 24/7 wanting me to work extra, even 6 months after I left. I was only there about 4 months and left before Carole sold-out despite saying she would NEVER do it.
My account is on Meditech, which at first I HATED, but now I do not mind so much. sm
You can look up old reports by the same doctor, information about the patient such as lab tests, medications, etc. It just took some getting used to for me.
Like the other poster said, from the email that was sent out the other day, it sounds like they are phasing out part-time people, although I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask, especially if you want to work a shift where they happen to need coverage.
Good luck! 
I used this years ago, first hated it, but once got used to it, it was not so bad. Good luck :)
You will get used to it. Build up a lot of shortcuts, like you are probably acustomed to. I'm sure you'll do fine.
Before you JUMP ON ME, yes, I have done VR with Transtech and absolutely hated it because
I cannot make the same money I can with traditional transcribing and I like to see a good report when I am finished. I am a sole provide for myself and MUST MAKE GOOD MONEY to survive in this world! I am not working for the fun of it. Again, YES, I have given VR a chance with Transtech already -- unable to use expanders/briefs/etc. NOT ENOUGH money to be made with VR -- 1/3 of my line rate, not hardly.
Hated VR. Made less money that straight transcription..sm
I was extremely boring and mindless work. People say they doubled their production/lines with VR. That is true but remember if you make 0.08 straight typing and 0.04 doing VR, you are making the same amount of money. I made about 150 bucks less a month because the dictators were horrible and I had to end up typing almost all the reports over. I will never do it again.
I actually have always hated to be called a typist. I do not just copy type. sm
I am a transcriptionist. 
I did that insurance stuff too. Hated it. Happy to type only 1 voice now
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years ago (2001?) someone strongly steered me away from TRX Portland...she hated it. But that's h
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EDiX ...hated the platform, absent mgmt, no support.
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I hated it there, they sent good accts to India (spheris global). nm
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Tell your friend to RUN (and I do mean RUN)
The best way to describe that place is great money, but job insecurity. They routinely fire MTs without any warning whatsoever for trumped up reasons, and there is a lot of office politics and backstabbing that goes on behind the scenes. They just fired the president of the company a few months ago, and wouldn't even allow him back into the building to get his things. Now if they will treat the president of the company like that, just imagine what they would do to your friend.
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