SGS, cheap and would rather ship your job to india, where they have 100s of MTs taking our jobs!
Posted By: PC MT on 2008-11-07
In Reply to: Are you on an eScription account? - nm
Yes, on eScription...making about $5 and hour if lucky! they quote you a pretty good line rate for typing, but half that for editing, and it's mostly editing. then, with all the crap they throw at you, (this dr. wants this, be sure to fill in that, don't submit a report w/o this, and 30 pages of account specifics?) it's time consuming. and the templates are a nightmare, the drs. are all over the place on them, not following them, so when editing them it takes forever. @ 4cpl you can spend 15 minutes on one and make $1.00. RUN!
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Which is why India keeps taking our jobs away. nm
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work is decreasing because VR is replacing 10 MT's with 2 and India et al is taking 2 jobs out
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Especially if your jobs are going to India
is to pad for the future since they have been banned from advertising on MT Stars - thus losing a huge potential job pool.
Well it ain't slow in India where your jobs are going.
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We need to team up together--India says they will have all of our MT jobs by 2010 (I think)
EVERYONE!!
It is time that we take a stand together and fight for our jobs!! We need to encourage others, especially our younger generations, to work as MTs AND we need to broadcast that the American peoples medical history is going offshore!! Let's not let them take our jobs!! Let's give them a run for their money!! I am not a prejudiced person, but I believe that we should do our own MT reports and they should do their own from their OWN country!!!!! If you are with me, send me an e-mail!!
Jobs being sent to India - good companies who don't outsource
I've been working for a company for a few years now. This company has started to remove several job types with greater turnaround times to India from our exiting accounts. There was not enough work over the holidays to get in all of my hours (I know work is normally slow then), and this trend is still continuing. We used to have a primary account and a secondary account as a back-up, but now I'm working on at least 5 or 6 accounts just to have enough work to complete my 8-hour shift.
Direct link to their ads in India on YahooGroups MTIndia-Jobs.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTIndia-Jobs/message/69
Transcend does not pay for anything. Cheap, cheap,
and nasty. This editing stuff is horrible and it might guarantee a job in the future, but you will be better off on welfare than trying to spend the time fixing the stuff that it spits out. The program does not work half the time and never has worked right but they will never fix it so it does work, so don't even bring the subject up. If you work there just keep your mouth shut or you will be in the dog house the rest of your career. You might make mistakes in typing or editing, but you cannot even see what you typed before you send it in, but you are responsible for it (you type in the blind). Of course you can pull up the AI sheet and print it and keep it at your desktop, but who needs to thumb through 56 pages of instructions to find how to do 1 simple thing.
This place is really the bottom of the barrel and QA is horrible. Training is even worse.
Transcend, do not even bother to respond to me. I am quitting anyway, but you really need to let everyone know that your rah, rah, rah team stuff is just talk and nothing is ever done to make the job easier.
Jax probably got 100s of resumes. Did even 1 MT get a reply
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You did 100s of reports in a day? What are you, wonder woman? nm
LMBO.
Can you imagine the 100s of applicants
I could not even imagine working in HR for TT right now! I would not apply there now, it would be impossible to try to stand out among all the applicants. Its crazy!!!!!
Employee. 0.09 cpl, 100s of normals, and downtime paid.
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Their ad is still there, dated 7/12. Probably bombarded with 100s of resumes and hired the
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It's about cheap now
Cheap to us, that is. The middle man profits and the competition from the Third World has made working for many MT companies sweatshops. They deny that, but it is exactly what they are. I've come to believe some of these companies are downright sociopathic.
My guess? Many of these companies are living nicely off our backs without a clue about everyday trials of transcription. The ones that aren't are having to compete with the sicko ones and the result is the same. I think it is going to backfire big-time someday, too, but I'm not sure what it will take or how long it will take. But I do know American MTs, American patients and even some American healthcare providers are becoming equally pissed and fed up with these slick-talking brokers.
I agree your best bet is get your own clients or go back to a hospital. If you go back to a hospital, become the MT manager and make it a policy not to off-shore, diligently audit and have a way to trace, then press charges if they do. Even better, contract out to individual MTs or let MT employees work from home. It's exactly what I plan to do and hope the trend continues.
Cheap
I have been getting a lot of Indian work from various clients to re-do. I was hoping that perhaps if enough of them have to pay for it twice, at least once at American rates, they will see that they are getting about what they pay for sending it to other countries. One can dream...
too cheap
That is sad, but some will work for that. You are QA, hold your head up high girl. If you continue to work for that kind of money, you really hurt us all
Actually, that is cheap. Most places much more. nm
nm
Yes they are very cheap & you can e-mail
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64 bucks a DAY? Not very cheap! Especially
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However, if you are willing to sell yourself cheap,
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Axoltl very cheap
If I recall last year at this time it was about $100 per paycheck for family coverage. Left in the spring so not sure what is up now.
Medscribe horridable and cheap
No wonder they are constantly hiring. Maybe they should try to keep what they have.
cards are cheap... and so is the thought.
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Offshore, cheap, bad management. nm
boss hires cheap MTs
This is the deal. The boss hires cheap labor and for whatever you get paid, you turn all these lousy typists into perfect products. They might get paid 6 cents a line, slave wages and whatever you get paid... she/he gets a crew of professionals out of nothing. Same happens to me but I think yours is hiring out of a school or promising to train them.
If Indian labor is so cheap, how come.......
there are getting to be so many Indian-based companies here and in India, owned by Indians? Do you think maybe this is a lucrative field for owners of transcription companies?
it's such a catch 22. Everybody wants cheap stuff yet
and get paid top dollar. You simply cannot have both. Not with the CEOs having million dollar salaries and all. because God forbid they make less than six figures. it's disgusting...
Won't help with the cheap labor issue though.
nm
As you are probably well aware, ink jet cartridge are not cheap these days...
I'd have to know more details, such as exactly how many pages per month would you be printing. I hardly print anything at all and I find my cartridge drying up on a monthly basis....
Horror stories about cheap transcription
FYI, there is always someone out there who is willing to do transcription and/or editing cheaper than someone else. There are those clients who only look at the bottom line cost. But they must employ sometimes at least three people in-house to make the corrections. I wonder if anyone at the client source ever looks at the overall costs to get that report on the chart and done correctly. I am amazed at how some transcriptions even stay in business. Just my $.02 worth.
One more time for the cheap seats in the back..sm
Upson vs. Sexton - I might as well just put it out there, since you won't let it drop. Same first name.
I never said the man was a criminal. Those words didn't come out of my mouth and NEVER would, nor would I even say the man in the original post is a criminal. Paying three months late and not having the workload promised doesn't constitute calling someone a criminal in my book. Shady business practices, maybe, but never would I go so far as to call someone a criminal, ever, based solely on a story someone posted on an online MB whom I have never met, especially not without hearing the other person's side of the story!!
YOU are the one who called the first guy a criminal and claimed he stole money. Someone mentioned theft of services, not that he stole money, just to be clear - and we don't know there was even a crime committed here, so perhaps you should worry a little more about what comes out of your own mouth. There's no proof a crime even took place here, only the word of others - one who said she was paid 3 mos late and one whose friend has not been paid in 4 mos. Yes, that is awful to not be paid, but unless they just flat out refuse to pay, I'm not sure anyone should go so far as to say it's a crime. (And just to play devil's advcoate, I wonder how many complaining about being paid late were ever late on any of their own bills? Just a thought.)
To those who do feel there has been a crime committed against them, get a lawyer, find out your rights, and file a suit against the person. You can bet those companies would do the same to any client who didn't pay them.
Thanks to the poster who stood up for me. It truly was just an honest error. My personal apologies to Brent Upson, who is NOT Brent Sexton. I do not owe anyone but him an apology.
That's what I was just going to say. They want to offer cheap transcription services. There goes
jobs..When you have people advertising they will do the work for cheap..no wonder providers use cheap transcription services rather than our companies. You'd be surprised at how many doctor/facilities would jump on cheap Personally, to me, it's offending. Why pay use decent wages when you can get cheaper.. 
Nope. Just CHEAP. And 'cheap' and 'good'
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Are we in the same skinking ship?
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You will "jump ship"... ???
That's the chance you take for IC status. There is no loyalty.. it's a CONTRACT position with no gaurantees. You aren't required to commit to a schedule, they can't ASK you for a schedule - if you don't feel like working, you don't have to. That's the perks. An employee can't do that. On the flip side, the perk of being an employee is that they come first. They have to comply with a schedule, they are REQUIRED to work even if they don't feel like it. You might want to do your homework on IC status. If a company doesn't give the full time employees the work when it's slow, then there is a problem. If you are worried about special treatment - you should then become employee status. You don't have to take the benefits. Some companies will even pay better if you don't take the insurance.
Jump ship
Their pay plan is horrible to work with. The bonus is based on your QA score, if I'm not mistaken from the month previous and that goes through the whole next month. So if you have a bad month, it will haunt you for the next month!
I jumped ship too. (nm)
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I jumped ship
glad I did.
jump ship now
you won't be sorry.
Yay! Here's to hanging onto the ship!
nm
Sinking ship?
Noticing where I work several accounts no longer sending work...very few new accts also this year. It's a medium sized company, not huge, so this worries me. Anyone who has worked for a co that has fell apart, I wonder what some signs were? A little nervous here!!!!
sinking ship
Could be that they are sending offshore instead......I am hearing that more and more companies are doing this (especially the medium to smaller ones) because of lower rates. Not a rumor but just a thought.
More info on the ship
No, it's not that company. I do QA and haven't seen anything that looks like offshore work, and I worked for another company previously where I did do QA for offshore - you can tell that stuff a mile away. There's been a shift in mgmt and I just wonder if clients aren't as happy, sales maybe not as strong??? I don't know. I have a job now and it's a good one but I would also like information about what's going on other than what everyone is doing wrong, you know what I mean! :) I was just hoping people who have experienced this might have some other things to look for.......
Jumping ship
I agree with you on the panic thing, just went to VR about 2 months ago and it is definitely not what was presented to me. I am looking into LPN courses, a year and a half, will make better money than I am now, and keep doing VR on the side. The VR money would qualify for pocket money for sure.
Cherrypicking is when you work from a pool of jobs and being able to reject the worst jobs to those
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I hate this kind of cheap shot post. What's the deal? nm
nm
I've said this before, but I'm ready to go sit on the beach and sell cheap stuff sm
to tourists ... has to beat this. I passed burnout a long time ago. I am not sure what the next stage is supposed to be. However, in the meantime, I have to make a living. Maybe I could open a margarita stand and compete with the little kiddies and their lemonade stands .. hmmm ....LOL
Not flaming you, but where would you ship to? Might be jumping
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Couldn't you just ship it back yourself?
Fedex or UPS could probably ship it back for $30-40, is my guess.
From what Ive heard with everyone jumping ship
there of late, they must need MTs pretty badly. Don't ya think its time for them to regroup and make some changes for the better?
Thinking about jumping ship
MQ is making some poor decisions and I am debating whether to stay on for the ride and see if things are better once it is bought out, or just go somewhere else. I was looking at Diskriter...does anybody have any experience with this company, and if so I would love some opinions on it. TIA!!
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