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Sorry. You're right. I guess I should have read that message more closely.

Posted By: nm--------MQMT on 2008-04-14
In Reply to: Yes, I know some still do. My message says they may not hire new with - dial up service. nm------mt




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Sorry - I guess we're getting to be like the Indians - we don't understand what we read
or type.
Read closely and notice the year, hello!
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.
I guess my first thought after reading your message is if this is so, why did you
apply there. Apparently people come to you and you don't have to, right?
I actually put a message on the moderator board...guess they didn't see it yet (NM)

Sorry, I just read the message
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Then I guess you don't know how to read. (sm)
It says in my original post that I DID (past tense) work for them.

I did move on and have a great job. The reason I am contributing to this thread is that I have personal experience dealing with this company and the fact that it has been going on for a long time.
Has anyone here ever read the message board
It's pretty interesting in that some posts have been made in regard to stocks being valuable based on the MTs.  One even said that As long as there is cash in the bank and transcriptionists transcribing it remains a viable opportunity.  I wonder if they know all the problems with keeping transcriptionists transcribing there.  I also wonder if that post came from Transcend management.
Read sixth message down!!
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They do offshore, read message below.
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Daphne, please read my message to you
I take great offense at your post!!! I am a perfectionist in my field. I have excellent grammatical skills. However, when I post on this board, I do not expect for my message to be edited by others. We all make typos, transpose letters, leave off letters, etc., when posting! If you cannot handle reading these posts, perhaps you should not do so. IMHO.
Guess I should have read this post first, huh ;-)

Can you be more specific as to what you need to know about a C-phone?  I'll help if I can


read sticky message "embracing..." on
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Sorry about that... didn't read the full message!

You can block your e-mail so no one can contact you privately; some people like to be contacted via e-mail, others do not.  I am not sure how to do that, but contact the moderator.


Even if you had posted the article, that is fine; I love working for a company that is the #1 publicly traded company in Georgia.  Mr. Gerdes just sent out an e-mail stating that we also were ranked highly in Forbes.   With all of the horrible economic news, I am glad I work for a stable company.  It's not for everyone though - to each his/her own.


LOL, guess I didn't read where it said subject (sm)
See, I'm just too dang stressed. Oh well, just don't sell my address, I get enough spam as it is and never read it.
Blackswan, I had to re-read my post. Guess who
You got it, Medquist! Isn't that unbelievably coincidental that many of us went down the tubes while working so hard for them? Wonder how many of us there are, who have gone bankrupt while gainfully employed with the Squid?
Medware please read message before glowing reply

I've seen glowly replies everytime anyone asks about Medware, but on looking into it I find a few things to be not  so great and am wondering why everyone who replies says they're wonderful?


First, top line rate 0.085 cpl doesn't seem really that great to me for someone with quite a few years experience in acute care.


Second, incentive pay only has one tier, so essentially anyone who can produce 150 lines per hour gets the same pay.  It seems like 150 lph should be able to done by even a newbie.


Third, the way to get a raise is to leave transcription (become an Editor sounds like).


Fourth, they obviously offshore!


Last, insurance while lower than some is still not really good.


With all these added up ... how does Medware still end up being AAMT top employer twice in the last five years and why does everyone on here rave about them? 


Whoops....Guess I should of proof read that! Been a long day.

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I guess if you're suited to
work on a less than adequate platform and like to run out of work all the time Chronicle is a good match for someone.
LET'S GUESS, YOU'RE 2ND SHIFT..RIGHT?--nm

Umm - let me guess - you're NOT the only source
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Yeah, I guess you're right sm

I shouldn't have used the 'sweat shop' analogy. It's just that the last company I worked for were notorious for 'line skimming.' There was that and now this. It just seems like how low can it go. I've been ouf of the industry for two years. I guess most of you have had a chance to digest these changes.


You're right though - ANY work is better than NO work at all. I guess that's the price we pay to work at home typing medical records.


What's a girl gotta do to earn an honest pay for an honest living, these days! :)


Not an O but I guess they're dime/dozen. nm
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Hehe.. you're right. And I guess in some cases
Except maybe 'screwed' or 'raped' might be a better description.
Oh, I read correctly. Apparently you're sm
not seeing the point - you accepted .075 cpl.  YES, I understand clinic notes.  You don't place much value on your skill apparently. 
Please go back and read "No, you're way off..."
and then read my reply to No. This was not a response to your post, so please simmer down. I was saying regardless of what the man-owners of the company are, we were just sweat shop labor and they never communicated with us anyway.
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.
Read that post below on hospitals? They're definitely good for great bennies! nm
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I did notice that one job posting stating exactly that, haven't followed the trend closely, thoug

How can a message be confidential if it posted on a public message board? nm

sm small message or see message...geesh..nm
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please don't put nm or call yourself nm if you have a message - nm means no message -sm

nm means no message.   sm means see message.   if you call yourself nm, then people might not click to read the rest of your post. 


just trying to help.


ps. if the money is there, why does that particular person's balance say zero?


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 can't give you the name of the message board, but it is not a free message board (HINT). There
Monitor, I hope this post is okay.
But that could be Leave a Message or Little Message! LOL
nm
Congrats! :) SM = see message. NM (no message)

Hope you're enjoying those slave wages you're earning.
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So you guys feel you're getting paid what you're worth with VR?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've never done VR, so I'm trying to understand.

You're happy with your paycheck with VR? Do you find the files to be as bad as the original post implied?
So you're telling me, basically, they're bad news?
They offered me 0.095/line and you know - it sounded too good to be true, but I SWEAR the recruiter told me they do not outsource. Oh brother... I just wish they'd be honest. I really don't know what to do.
Not the OP, but they're supposed to take out all the other taxes as you're an employee with th
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No, they're not losing money....they're gaining!
If a company charges their clients by the line, I'm sure that line rate does not go down even though the MTs pay does.

ASR pays about 2/3 normal line rate to its MTs. Their ultimate goal is to have the MTs do twice as much work. Therefore, the client is getting their work faster, but paying their normal rate, while corporate gets that money and the MTs get the lower line rate.

Whether the newbies want to realize it or not, MTSOs have not increased MTs' salaries in the past 10 years. They still start out at the same pay as the last century!

This used to be a very lucrative profession. Nowadays, most MTs are considered to be paid at the poverty level. You don't believe me, look it up!
I read your post. What do you want me to re-read?
and it seems those are your posts, too, so things just didn't add up and seemed inconsistent. If a place dropped me down to p.r.n. at 7 cpl or whatever and I already had another job where I could get 1000-1500 lines, I wouldn't give the first place a second thought so just couldn't figure out why anyone else would.
Hey, you're in luck then. They're hiring! (nm)
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If they're in Nebraska, they're www.medigrafix.com nm
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If you're an IC, you pay all your taxes. Otherwise you're an SE or employee. nm
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If you're PT you're required to work

8 of your hours in one weekend day.  There's no extra pay for it though. 


The face we're wising up is exactly why they're
xxx
We're not 'so scared' of it. We're trying to help
you to not make a huge mistake, but I guess you're determined to learn the hard way, so good luck with that.
If you're in the 37% tax bracket, you're making over
100K per year. Quit complaining.