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No pay. No work. Plain and simple. I have never heard of not paying before during training. You can

Posted By: Are they serious???? on 2006-10-31
In Reply to: I've been offered a clinic position making 0.72 cpl - yea right

bet they are getting paid by their client on the job that YOU did. How cheap can you get. RED FLAG..RED FLAG.. run.. run fast.


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OSI plain and simple
Speech recognition, outsourcing, massive turnover, only the beginning. The only way to offset this was to offer more benefits but they also upped requirements to receive them. You can't make more lines if more and more companies are outsourced, and two new ones have been added to that, Mayo and Sarasota--Ochsner already was. They aren't being that generous with benefits in the long haul and as someone said the other day nobody will stick around long enough to actually receive the benefits.
Well, plain and simple - they just don't care about the MT -

they want to make $$ - meet their turnaround times (for which they get paid more), take on clients, hire more MTs, perhaps lose clients, leave us all hanging with no work and as long as they can make a profit off of us, they could give a darn about all us lowly MTs.  Run out of work, too bad, and they don't need to give an explanation or they can just say they have new accounts coming and please be patient  and string us all along.  Plain and simple, they are in it for more profit, don't care about the MTs, kinda know we are all at their mercy cuz we have to have a job, but plain and simple just giving us all the runaround. 


Somebody prove me wrong - please. But unless you work for a company, can honestly say you never run out of work and never get bounced around on different accounts - spending YOUR  time logging in and out to scramble for work, please don't respond with how good your company is to you.  Yup, you guessed it, I am having a bad day, bad week, and bad past months working for MTSOs.  Unless you are making a decent wage, every hour of every shift - as management and owners are - you are being used and abused.  Feel more like I am on-call lately than an FT employee. 


this is a flame plain and simple. NM
NM
Plain and simple, you have to be able to handle the difficult dictators in this profession if..
you want steady, appreciated work by a national company. There are so many hoppers out there who bounce from company to company, and then come here to complain about it. Trust me, we have all had our share of tough dictation over the years. When I started MT over 20 years ago, I cried daily trying to get through those many mumblers, ESLs, etc. to make mere pennies an hour. The experience and skills that I gained by hanging in there made me a successful Transcriptionist over the years. I started out in-house, and then obtained a few local accounts, and built from there. I ran a small MT service with several subcontractors helping me. I am now with a small national, the name of which I don't want to mention. I make a good line count of .11/65 characters with spaces and have absolutley no overhead. If you are an experienced and skilled transcriptionist, there are companies out there who will pay you what you are worth. Don't settle for less. However, if you are new and inexperienced in this profession, do not expect to make a good living until you have built the skills necessary to succeed. If all that was involved in MT was getting the easy dictators or accounts, it would not take much to be good in this profession. A company needs to see that you can tackle whatever comes your way. No one ever said it was going to be easy!
For real??? I have never heard of paying
for QA's time. No way would I work somewhere like that.
Never heard of them. I thought the 16 hours + 2 weeks of training
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x-press - it's not all that great - heard they are paying late these days also
nm
"Just me" means just me and no one else, that simple, go to work
nm
I just do my work and when rumors crop up call and ask. Simple as that...
too much panic and speculation makes for an unproductive day.
Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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Say WHAT???? No work during training??
I am bringing this topic up from further down, as I cannot believe this, and its going to disappear by tomorrow to page 2.  I have also been recently hired by MDI-MD, and know of several other MQMTs, some of whom I think started this week, and THERE IS NO WORK during training?  We type 5 jobs and there is NO work?  I just bought a computer for NO WORK?  Please somebody tell me this is a joke or misunderstanding or something.  Its not right, but I could see it if we were working regular amounts, but 5 jobs a day and there isn't that much? I don't want to waste my time. That's awful.  What are we going to do when MDI-MD is it? The only income?  I am sick to my stomach over this.
Paying to work

Hi Jodie:  I am so sorry you were subjected to such treatment.  Unfortunately, this business has become so dog eat dog.  You can check my post below yours.  So sick of being treated like a dispostabale commodity.  There should be an oversight committee to review these companies, and they should be fined for unfair practices.  As Christians, we have to forgive them, but we can be honest and tell others what they have done to us.  Maybe we can protect others from falling into the pit.  It hurts to be used like that.  God Bless, and good luck with your next endeavor.


 


 


Are you saying KS is paying OT now? I never got any and I work a lot! nm
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Who is paying better for clinic work?
I have 10+ yrs experience also but and I am a slow typer so clinic work is about the only way I can make any kind of a line count. I have been avoiding the 7cpl clinic work because I can't find anything that pays better. Where are these clinic jobs anyway?
boy i'd never work for a company that didn't pay for training
-- that ought to be illegal -- as long as you are working, ie, training, you should be paid!
Their training schedule kind of got backed up and so far the only training..(sm)
I've had is one short Bayscribe session. But I extended my 2 week notice at Medquist and I have until July 17 now to get some training in at MDI and do some reports to get familiar with the platforms. I'm looking forward to it! 
I would not work there. I did and found out they were not paying me fairly. sm
They are not a good company to work for.
They use Emdat. Only paying 7-8 cpl + production. Clinic work. nm
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You obviously do not work there. They started paying the extra a while back for OT. sm
nm
I can't say enough about their training team. Excellent training!
The people at Medware are all just great. I wish I would have joined the Medware family sooner! They are very flexible and caring!
do you mean company training or med transcription itself training?
nm
Low line counts; paying long distance; getting crap work skipped by others.
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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.
That is just plain sad
nm
A lot of them just plain don't know!
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It is just plain courtesy...
I'm well aware (as I'm sure most ICs are) that you don't need permission to take a few hours off or a day off but it is just common courtesy to request it off. I requested this Sunday off because I will be out of town for the day, I know my company cannot say no but I did commit to working Sun-Thurs and I can't change my Sunday plans so I have agreed to work extra this week and a few hours tomorrow morning. Again it is just common courtesy to pull your share and to try to be accomodating should you need time off.
Well that's just plain dishonest then.
I wonder if the MTstars quote was actually written by the the recruiter him/herself then.  I think I'll pass on this company then.
just plain dumb!
I have a couple of docs on my primary acct. who start every report with the patient's name and SS#. I can't believe an MD would be that clueless! There definitely should be some laws about those things!
And they do just plain nice things (sm)
like send restaurant gift cards when you've worked hard.  Nice to be given information, too.  The platform could be better, but the lines are really excellent.
If it's mainly plain films, go by page.
If the reports run the gamut of radiology, go by line. You could really jammed up doing long rad reports for a buck and change, especially with a lot of MRIs, CTs, PETs, nuke med, interventional rad, etc.

Good luck!
You're just plain nuts. nm
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MTSO or just plain stupid

The IRS has EVERYTHING to do with this.  IRS defines criteria for employee vs IC status, MTSOs laugh all the way to the bank at IRS and MT ICs because MTSOs have been on the non-legal side, pushing the limits, with little to no work force resistance.  Factor in the lack of employee benefits and although ICs may work as hard and put in as much hours as employees, ICs  make significantly less per unit than MT employeese.  Company owners have taken the risk that we are all just so grateful to have any income, that we won't fight IC vs employee status.  In fact, these company owners make millions of dollars annually filling employee jobs with IC employees without benefits, confident that no one will blow the whistle.


IRS laws clearly distinguish between independent contractor and employee status:
 
ICs:  Enter into a signed contractual agreement with Contracting Party, providing service of completing projects (work). 


-  Contracting Party CAN define begin/end deadlines, length of time IC service is required, basic guidelines, definitions of project and expected outcome.
-  If Contracting Party demands IC adhere to step-by-step instructions, supplies training, or insists IC work during specific hours of the day, specific days of the week, 30 or more hours per week, IC is an EMPLOYEE, entitled to all benefits afforded by definition, INCLUDING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.


ICs: ICs purchase, procure and use their own tools, equipment, software, lbooks and other learning materials and training programs to carry out contracted project. 


- If Contracting Party loans, sells, leases, provides or pays for arrangements for loan, sale, or lease of tools, equipment, software, reference materials or books necessary to the project IC is an EMPLOYEE entitled to all benefits afforded by definition, INCLUDING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.


ICs invoices Contracting Party for payment of services, arranging for CP financing, up front partial payment with final payment at completion of project, or payment submitted @10, @30, @60, day terms. 


- If a Contracting Party pays ICs on a regular biweekly or bimonthly  basis, through scheduled direct deposits, ICs most probably are employees robbed of the benefit of matching employer funds contributed their Social Security funds, as the law provides for Employees.  ICs (business owners and other self-employed) are solely responsible for payment of their individual quarterly state and fed tax installments, their own Social Security with no SS contribution by employer.


The IRS has EVERYTHING to do with this and by collective silence, MTs continue to allow MTSO's continue rob them.  After the lack of appreciation MTs have suffered, loss of jobs to VR, overseas, I think it's time to stand up and demand what is rightfully ours. As they've already dropped our wages to 0.06 - 0.08 cpl, and turned us against each other as we have to fight for our share of the work, we can only benefit from saying, Enough is enough.


(To poster:  You've been ill-advised.)


And being rude is just plain rudenss. No need
for it, either. 
Wow, either your comment put her on a pedestal or you're just plain mean
I'm guessing that you're mean or bitter. I read her ad, and it makes sense. MTSOs don't have firm accounts, or maybe very few of them do, but they lose accounts all the time and get new ones all the time. Nothing is stable baby!
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, IT'S KNOWN AS "LOSING FACE" fm
Don't see how an MTSO can inspire faith and loyalty in his/her employees by blowing sugar up their collective behinds 1 day & all the while sticking it to them.  Call me sweetie pie, sugar cakes all you want, but don't do it in the same breath as telling us we'd all have to joint a 50% salary cut club, telling us that the low work for MTs is because of the Huge responses we got for our VR takeover and that because these brand-new VR'rs are so very productive all of a sudden -- (Why not chuck the euphimisms and say straight out, There's no work because it's gone to VR - in addition, we had to overhire a bunch of newbies as prophylaxis to a lot of expected resignations - added benefit, we don't have to pay any more bonuses to keep work in TAT - but you guys (you really do rock!) did pester us about low/no work, but will just have to FLEX until November when the new accounts (Ugggh) show up...hope your landlord, grocer, hungry kids are as understanding as you are, sweetie, sugarplumb - You're all the best! 
You can have 2 sets of headings in ShortHand, ones that are bolded and others that are plain. I had
accounts like that also, one using bold headings and the other not. For the bold headings, I would put maybe an x or a number behind the shortcut, such as HPIx for bold and HPIxx for without bold, whatever suits your fancy.
And this is why every company overhires - MTs don't stick it out - the plain truth
nm
AMEN! All this stuff about being nice is just plain silly.
nm
Why personally attack this poster? That is just plain wrong.
Every post I read by her is good-natured. The only people taking things wrong are the ones listening to the green-eyed monster. IMHO.
Any companies offering just plain Word and upload to FTP?
nm
People do make mistakes sometimes. Maybe it was an oversight or plain ole mistake
on someone's part, an unintentional mistake. It is possible.
what training? no training for me, first day they Tried to give me 2 ESL....
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they did not come up first. An hour of training is not really training.
nm
Have heard it is one of the best to work
for. Strict QA but owner is very MT oriented
Not heard a work about this. sm
Interested to hear from someone.
I work for Web too and have never heard of J&J - sm
why would we need helpers when we have just bumped up our hours? Makes no sense to me.
I work at MDI and I have not heard
anything at all about accounts going to VR. Where are you getting your information?
Anyone out here work for or heard of Orion (OMT)?
I just tested for weekends only work and was wondering what other's thought about the company/pay/support, etc.  I tried to do a search on the names but nothing came up.  I applied through the Job Board so hopefully someone here has some information to share...good or bad.  TIA
Accentus--anyone work for them? or heard of?

Can anyone tell me if this company hires part-time with employee status or IC status only. Do they provide equipment? How many hours do they require for p.t.???


Thanks if you know


Anyone heard of or work for Teletrak?
Any info is appreciated.
I had applied for PT work and never heard from them. nm
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