Read closely and notice the year, hello!
Posted By: Worker on 2009-04-09
In Reply to: You'll never make $70,000 doing VR... so then why would you say sm - Jazz
The transcription business has taken a nose dive from what we used to make to now, look at the year I made this amount. Much happier now with VR because now I have made enough in the past to have a really good social security check coming in this year. I work part time, get retirement and SS and all those combined makes for an excellent income. Very happy now, thanks.
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I did notice that one job posting stating exactly that, haven't followed the trend closely, thoug
Sorry. You're right. I guess I should have read that message more closely.
Go to MQ board and read notice of new
bonus policy, came down yesterday. Judge for yourself.
This is THE BEST post I have read here all year sm
BRAVO! I could not have said it better myself.
YES you REAP what you SOW!!!!! YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY.
I am saving this...
I read some posts a year or so back (sm)
that it was a husband/wife operation - that the wife was super nice and very easy to work for - no comment positive or negative on the husband that I can recall - that they usually always got paid on time but there was that little bit about being paid when client paid - which is a little scary - I'm of the firm belief that a company - large or small - should have enough cash flow to pay their people - that is running a little too close to the edge for me - but if it is a good company and great platform, good docs - I might try them someday.
sorry.....intro should have read i felt the opposite last year....until
nm
Heck, no, lol. Didja read my posts. Taken 2 year to
how I actually DO my work. Just cause this is my fit doesnt mean it would fit you. Jobs are not one size fits all. And anyway, personally I think there are already too many on this acct. But then, dont all of us feel that way about our accts, lol.
AccuStat...any new info? I've read the archives that are a year old...
Notice is a courtesy, not a rule and they don't give you notice when they fire you
Giving a 2-week notice is common courtesy, and in most all my jobs, I have given them that courtesy; however, a company never gives someone notice when they are firing them. In my opinion, if a company does not treat their employees right, they do not deserve to get any notice at all.
As a matter of fact, I just left a company without notice. I felt horrible about doing it to my team but not to the company. While they never messed up on my pay, I was under constant stress. They treated several other people horribly and also changed all the terms of my employment contract within months of hiring me, which was going to cost me $800 a paycheck. I am the major breadwinner for a family of five and couldn't hang around a second longer losing that kind of money.
The only reason you would not want to quit without notice is if you want to use them as a reference and/or want the chance to go back to them in the future. I was advised by a recruiter that you should never put anything on your resume that is less than a year, so you really don't want to use them as a reference anyway, and you certainly don't want to go back to them.
Messing with someone's money is a big NO-NO, especially when they are costing you $400 for a second time. Heck no, I wouldn't give these people notice. There are some great companies out there hiring right now.
Feel free to contact me by email if you would like some more detailed information about the companies I narrowed my search down to. I was very sceptical about trusting another company with the bad luck I've had (just as you have) in the last few years, but I think I finally found somewhere I can be happy at for a long, long time (of course only time will tell, but I'm feeling very optimistic).
:) Best of luck to you!
I'm going to start watching this more closely also. (sm)
Do you think the lag will get worse as new accounts are added?
If you looked closely, they were dead on the vine THEN
It was all a ruse, a facade or pretense of caring. It was in an effort to avoid an en masse uprising and, to their credit, it worked.
The ONLY thing given any thought was the amount of $ involved and how long it took to get it to the bank.
Then you aren't reading yours very closely. Mine is wrong more often than it is right. sm
Missing PTO time and pay is always the case. To make matters worse, their idea of correcting it is to make you wait 2 weeks until the next pay day to get what is due.
Short attention span, now listen closely
I have reached the age of retirement. I do not have children to raise. I have a husband who pays for the housing, the vehicles and I pay only small household bills as in gas and electric. I have no debts. That was not the case years ago but now is. I work PART time now, my choice. I do not have to work 2, 3 and 4 jobs, don’t now even have to work part if I do not want to. I have money in the bank, financially well off now and will get in almost $2,000 a month now on social security because of my strong earnings in the past. I do not have to struggle like in years past. What do you not understand now? As my daughter says, don’t hate.
my first year I made 16k. Doubled that second year. Going on year 6 with (sm)
two local accounts I earned 23,000.00 and a national I earned 35,400... 58,400 this year. Don't ask me how many hours, though, I really have no idea. I'm pretty motivated. (When people ask me how many hours I work a week I reply as many as it takes I'd say 40-50/week. I am also a fitness instructer and personal trainer, about 5 hours a week or so. Decent money (sometimes under the table!) but mostly I just do it for fun and to be social and wear cute work-out clothes.
that first year was a rough one... but I consider it part of my education.
I'm pretty motivated.
Last year, there was a letter sent that told us what we earned the previous year. sm
In the past, it has been all or nothing; if you did not hit the lines for full time for the year, you did not get PTO. I talked to my lead this morning about a last-minute vacation and she told me that the yearly packets are going out in a week or so and that the new policy will acrue PTO by the pay period or month. I like that a lot better, but she also made it sound like they are upping the amount of lines needed to acrue PTO. I normally get between 15 and 20,000 lines per pay period, so I am sure that will be fine but I am worried about the periods that have lower volumes, like most of January every year.
Webmedx lets you carry them from year to year sm
You can accrue up to 140 hours (I think) before you stop the accrual process. Don't have to use it all in one year.
I would stick it out, most places are slow now through the end of the year every year (nm)
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I read all read all the threads in the "companies" section
of another board, MT Chat, and Googled each one that got positive reviews. If they had a website and a way to apply online, I did so. And that was how I got hired at TRS. They were not advertising at the time. By sheer coincidence I applied to Transcend just before I applied to TRS, and they were not interested in what I had to offer at the time. And now they've got me anyway, since they bought TRS. Interesting how things work out sometimes.
Companies with negative reviews, or company queries that got only a terse I sent you a PM reply, I passed over.
I notice you are on here a lot and I know
for a fact that Spheris does not want its employees to participate on these boards, especially with their equipment. Is that what you are doing?
MQ Notice
My Story: When I quit MQ a couple of years ago (and I had been employed by MQ for a few years with an account that requested me personally), I was kind enough to give 2 weeks notice and offer training/assistance to another MT to take over my account to ease the transition for the client and MQ.
I was informed that my 2 weeks were not necessary and I was done. They took me out of the system so I could not get in to work even 1 more day. They do not care who you are or what you have done for them, your outta there.
notice
BTW, absolutely no correspondence from them since that time. Was FT employee, their computer, still have it with no word on what to do with it!!
I did notice that too.
I wonder why more do not post here about it. I searched the archives and found only a few posts about them.
Anyone else notice..
The job posted on job seeker's..whose pay range was from 4 cpl to 8 cpl depending on experience?? Seriously, if your newbie, do you really think you could eat on 4 cpl..and I thought VR at that pay rate was rough..straight typing at 4 cpl..Wow..glad to see cost of living keeps going on up but wages go down. I think I'm insulted.. LOL
Did you notice
their wonderful command of the English language? Get real!!
Since it was w/o notice
She is supposedly still working here, wonder what she is doing now. Wonder if she is typing now.
notice
I would try both if you can tolerate it. You don't want to start this new job and decide it is not your cup of tea and be without a backup plan.
Notice when someone does not like they always say something like
less experience or slow but I have more years in than you, 36 this year and actually transcribe straight in a day around 2500. Now I can make around $22-25 an hour and that is ok with me. We are checked x3 months at our job and expected to have 97 or above which I always do.
did you notice
When you spend years at these companies that don't give raises, they bring on new people who make more than we do?
60 day notice .... What??
California is an at will employment state. Your employer can let you go and does even have to tell you why. That is the way it is. A sixty day notice does not even make sense. I have lived here for lets just say over 35 years and had a business (not MT.) News to me
I always notice that too. nm
I gave them my notice. I was looking
for a job when I found them so I'm not worried. Good luck to you. You might need it.
2-week notice
It seems if you give a 2-week notice, companies are pretty forgiving... I would give it a try.... the worst they can say is No... or the best they can say is Yes!! You don't know until you try! Good Luck!
2 weeks notice?
I am considering leaving MQ. As an IC, if I give two weeks' notice will they let me work out the two weeks, or will they just have me quit immediately? I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. I am looking at starting with another company. I am perfectly willing to give two weeks' notice, but at the same time I don't want them to just dump me immediately and not have any work until I start with the new company.
Did I say that clearly??
2 weeks' notice
I was an employee, not IC, gave my 2 weeks, had no problems with working those 2 weeks out. They asked me to stay on part-time if I could do 20 hrs, 6000 lines per pay....
MQ notice policy
I am leaving MQ (Columbus office), have accepted another position. Does anyone know MQ's policy on termination. I would like to be nice and give them 2 weeks, but if I do, are they just going to tell me goodbye and no more work? I'm an SE, so I could just wait until I start my new position, then fulfill my SE lines at night for 2 weeks.
Any input appreciated.
Thanks.
If you will notice, if you ignored the MQ stuff, there is nothing else other than that here.
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Did you notice that the poster said that was
make really good money with my own accounts. I have made anywhere from $40,000 to $105,000 a year, just depending on what kind of accounts I had and how much I wanted to work. If you don't believe it, it's no skin off my back. There are lots of us who have done it and know. There is a huge difference between 8 cpl working for someone else and 14 cpl working for yourself.
Quitting without notice
Well, if someone hadn't told me I would not have believed it. First I am the relative that couldn't keep her thoughts about such things as hiring newbies with a contract that states they must agree to work for 30 days for free to determine if they are good enough to get paid or running off in the middle of a HUGE hurricane forecasted for Mexico and leave 4 kids with a babysitter and no emergency funds left for the sitter. I am also one of those that have NOT been paid for work done. First I would like to say that XXXXX is a great mentor, I learned a great deal from her, including that there are MTs out there that do not apply the ethics of medical transcription into their own life or the lives of their employees. As for upsetting her clients, I just informed them of the violations going on like file sharing after signing a confidentiality contract, some were quite shocked and I am sure she lost work because of it, but after the smear campaign she launched, I don't know what she expected. As for pay, you get paid as long as you work for her, you can ask just about anyone who has quit, and they have not received their last checks. Her famous excuse that I know that at least 4 MTs have heard is It must be lost in the mail. Funny how the only checks to get lost are those due to past employees and not current ones.
Two weeks' notice
Wow! Somebody's actually getting decent treatment! That is news!! I bet there's a lot of very wistful, envious people reading your post of which I am one. I've never had that experience myself.
Did anyone notice the email has been sm
incredibly silent at HIS? Where's the email they promised about applying for unemployment and all of that? Taking their own sweet time. I can't wait until they all lose their jobs in Toledo.
Heart of Quality my behind. That whole campaign was so phony. If they want to have their employees in India, I think Colleen and everybody should move over there and live. Move the whole base over there for God sakes. Get the hell out of here!
I've already put in my notice...sm
It would have been nice to know when I was hired by the smaller company just 1.5 months ago that there would be a merger. Mergers take months. Why would an employer withhold that type of information? There were so many changes, inconsistencies, and broken promises, not to mention late pay, I just decided to call it quits until summer is over. Companies like this make me want to go back to school. Grrrrr.
giving notice
To anyone that has left Spheris, did you give two weeks notice? If you did give two weeks notice, did they just tell you to quit then? After almost 6 years, I'm finally getting out of there.   
I'm very tempted to just quit and not give notice, however, I have about 3 days of PTO time also I don't want to lose.
Also is it normal for anyone in an employee situation to have to get someone to cover your hours if you want to take off? I'm going to a bridal shower in another state and needed a day off and was told I had to find someone on my team to cover my hours otherwise I couldn't have off. Also whenever I ask to have a day off I'm always asked Why? Why is it their business? So glad I'm getting out of there.
giving notice
in most states, if you give notice to a company, and they tell you to leave then, they are responsible for reimbursing lost time, etc - because you gave notice and expected to work and earn money. Check out your state and verify. this would go for any company requiring a notice period.
LOL didn't notice the ist..
That's pretty funny.
2 weeks notice
When I gave a 2 weeks' notice as an employee I worked the full 2 weeks. When I gave the notice as an IC, I was done immediately.
Ever notice when you ask these whiners (sm)
if they have a backup account to work on or advise them to ask for one, they never have any snappy comebacks. 
How much notice did you have to give? sm
Was it a full two weeks, or did you just quit and start looking?
notice none of these replies indicate
how long ago the person worked there. I have been there over a year and have posted previously on the positives of SoftScript. As I have said before, no company is perfect, but this one works just fine for me. I like being able to choose my own schedule, work independently, actually HAVE work, be paid on time and know that everything is done in America, no outsourcing here. Whatever mgmt problems that were around before do not have anything to do with my work today or my paycheck.
Giving notice
If you are required to give a 30-day notice to your current employer and don't have a start date yet for the new job you were just offered, when would you actually give that notice? Now that you intend to take another job or when you actually have a specific start date for that new job? Thank you for your advice.
Thanks. I guess I did not notice it...
And now that I read it I still don't know how she felt, so I guess I should e mail her directly... I guess I am just reading too quickly. Thanks for your help.
2 weeks notice
I am afraid to give my 2 weeks notice . . . what happens if they say they don't want me to finish out the 2 weeks and I have no income? Has anyone had this happen?
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