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Spheris cornerstone sucks

Posted By: rand_man on 2009-04-17
In Reply to: Spheris Cornerstone - Ayanna

Lots of people looking for other jobs now that Spheris is trying to lower pay and force VR on their MT's.


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Spheris Cornerstone
I am leaving. I have never in my life been so terribly angry and stressed daily as I have become at Spheris. Cornerstone is a joke. SR? Lol! Tell me you can lock the cursor to that sound indicator and not stop every 2-3 words!! What a JOKE. I have had it.
so, Cornerstone is Spheris' SR ?
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Spheris/Cornerstone CUE program/line discrepancy

I just started cornerstone last payperiod and there have been line discrepancies according to my mentor.  I show I did 3,024 lines last week and she only showed 1597.  When we had our weekly mentor call I showed her how you have to go to the next day to get all of the lines (i.e. 11/17/2007- 11/18/2007 to pull up the lines for 11/17/2007).  She also said that CUE only showed that I was only for 18 hours which is a load!!  I worked 40 hours.  She said that everytime it pauses it adds that to the time.  It pauses when I am spell checking.  But none of that added up to such a discrepancy. 


I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem.  Or maybe I just needed to vent.  I like the idea of having instant line counts but they are not even getting the same ones we are.  I have to double check my paycheck this time just to see if they are paying me all of my lines. 


No PTO, just TO. Sucks. Holidays off, no pay. Sucks. Otherwise, okay.
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CORNERSTONE NJ NO WAY
Cornerstone in NJ is the worst company to work for. She lies, lies, lies. She tells you there is work and as soon as you start making money, she pulls you off the account. She has done this to everyone I know who has ever worked for them. There are plenty of other companies to work for out there.
Cornerstone in WY
Does anybody know anything about Cornerstone in WY?

TIA
Cornerstone
Does anyone have any word on Cornerstone Transcription?
Cornerstone
out of new jersey
Cornerstone NJ
Whatever you do, do NOT work for them. I am not the only one, but Pam puts you on one account, then when you start making money, she takes you off and puts you on another account. She is a liar, shorts your hours and very nasty. She will start off as your best friend, but it is just an act. The owners won't listen, they say they trust her judgment. There is NO getting through to them. There are other companies out there. Good luck.
I am on Cornerstone
n/m
We will all be on Cornerstone
They are forcing this on all of us. Personally, i do not like this platform and find it hard to make a decent line count. I know my supe said that she loved this platform. However, if you are trying to make a living it is a different story.
Cornerstone
I think they added a couple of things but basically made it worse. They need to throw it in the scrap heap. You did the right thing by leaving.
Anybody know anything about Cornerstone
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Cornerstone (CUE)
Search the archives on here under Spheris and you will read plenty regarding Cornerstone, SR/VR, etc., etc.
IT and Cornerstone
Originally we were told we would have to convert our IT files to Shorthand, but by the time I was trained on Cornerstone they had decided to make IT compatible with it, which made the transition from the HITS platform to Cornerstone much easier. From the few minutes I spent looking at Shorthand, it did not look as easy to use as IT, but that may have been just because I was already very proficient at IT.
Cornerstone?
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Anyone with info on Cornerstone out of NJ?
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Any info on Cornerstone (CTS) in WY?
I've looked back in the archives and there isn't much info.  Just curious about pay rate, if they have enough work, if they offshore, how is management, etc. 
There is a Cornerstone Transcription in
If there is anything else you need to know, please e mail. (I live in Cheyenne).
Is Cornerstone the same as Clarity?
I quit right before they were switching us from TWS to Clarity.  Is this something new - did they scrap Clarity, rename it, or bring in something in addition to?
There is really nothing wrong with Cornerstone
Not that I have experienced anyway. Platform is easy to use and extremely compatible with VR...it just gets better all the time. They are always adding new features and VR is learning more and getting easier every day.
I don't have problems with Cornerstone
Lots of people complain about Cornerstone, but I really haven't found it to be slow or to be that big of a problem at all. The days I don't hit my personal goal for lines (2600), is generally due to lack of work, but not the platform. Lately there has been plenty of work most days and I've even gone over my goal some days. I keep trying to figure out why people are having problems with the platform. I have a lot of problems with the company as a whole, but the platform is the least of my worries.

They generally do come out with an update on the platform every 6 months, but those are generally good changes. It is a work in progress and I don't have a problem with them making updates that are beneficial.
Cornerstone Transcription Service (sm)
Does anyone work for this company or have any knowledge about them at all? Thanks!
Cornerstone Transcription out of Wyoming (sm)
Does anyone work for this service or know anything at all about them?  Thanks so much in advance!!
Anyone hear of Cornerstone in New Jersey?

They have a job listing on MTJobs that sounded pretty good.  I need information from someone who has dealt with them before, though.


Thanks


MDI-FL and Cornerstone Professional Services

Could I please hear from anyone who is currently working for MDI-FL or Cornerstone Professional Services.  I have searched for both companies, but would like to hear  how the people who are still working for these companies like/dislike working for them.  Any information would be appreciated...both pros and cons.


Thank you.


Cornerstone Transcription - Wyoming??

Anyone have any info - good or bad - on this company.  Did a search and only found the one in New Jersey.


 


TIA


Cornerstone Professional Services
Cornerstone Professional Services is a very bad company to work for. They lie and they have trouble keeping people.  Find another company!!!!!
Cornerstone Professional Services

How is this company?  Do they pay on time? Is there is enough work? How is the QA staff? How is their platform?  How are the owners?  TIA


sorry for so many questions, but I like others am looking for a truthful company with stable work that does not, dog me out.


Cornerstone Transcription Service was out of Cheyenne. Don't know
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Now that sucks and it says
right on the orchestral page (haha) that NO ONE got a pay cut with this plan. So I guess you got it by divine intervention? Huh?? You have my sympathy.
Man, that sucks! sm
I wish MTs had a forum where we could post all these companies so they don't get lost in the many threads here.  I was burned too by an MTSO out of Ohio. 
One that really sucks...
Also, I always seem to get stuck on the clinic notes and those range from 6 lines per report to 25 lines. So that takes forever.

I just arranged to have daycare for my kids for 4 hours a day and now I cant even pay for that.

I have been in this for 10 years and it has changed so much since then. I am making less now than I was 10 years ago and I have all of this experience. I have to make this work for 2 more years until my son starts school and then I will be okay.

I guess I am just diappointed that they do not pay for quality and experience first and production second.
That sucks
because I'm having to work like 12 hours a day most days just to make enough to pay one or two bills.  I really like working for them and everything though.  I'm looking into Medical Coding schools now so maybe I can do one or the other, or both, and maybe make more money that way. 
Oh - I see. Well, that sucks!! nm
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it sucks

Yes, a whole penny or 2 might break these companies.  They keep us at a low rate thinking that will encourage us to get on there more for OT and type more.  I am afraid it it beginning to work the other way for me.  I am furioius that I asked for a raise and they never even had the decency to get back with me to deny me any increase, after asking them twice.  I guess its too embarrassing for them to say why they are so cheap and can't fork over a penny extra per line.  If this economy was not so bad and there were actually jobs available I would be there now.  I am sick of having to type every single moment of the hours to get paid.  When all these other office workers and other kinds of workers get paid for just standing or sitting there is there is nothing for them to do.  Nobody says lets count how many new accounts you have opened or how many groceries you put through your line and you get paid by each piece.  I really miss the old days of working for a doctors office or clinic and getting paid by the hour and then getting OT if working OT.   I remember times when the older women that I worked with were not as fast as me and they still got paid a decent hourly rate even if they weren't typing as fast.  8 cents a line is just spit.  My company loses people everyday and they don't care.  I would like to tell them its because of the pay.  They would rather train a new person instead of keep someone that has been there for a year or two.  I don't know what their thinking is.  They just think, oh well, we'll jst get someone else. 


AT&T Sucks lately
I have skeptiwebber, but later in the day it suddenly cleared up. I was on the phone with AT&T yesterday for about an hour, maybe with so many of us calling them they decided to do some checking and found the problem. We never had this problem with Bellsouth.
OMG that sucks

And why couldn't they have told us this MONTHS ago when they knew the account was changing to VR?  A little warning would have been nice, to give people time to get their resumes polished up, etc.  The timing is horrible too with all the MDI'ers looking for work, the job market's got to be really tough right now.


Good luck to all my former team-mates - maybe we'll meet again in a better place some day.


That sucks
So you are now working for 5.5 cpl for straight typing?
I think it sucks and is not very user
I will never work on Meditech again, but to each their own. Good luck to you.
Lanier sucks
I really really hate this company. The hospital I was working in with them to get out of the old DOS platform. It took them several weeks to get it up and running, and I use the word running loosely. Most of us worked at home and they could NOT get the home employees up and running. We had so many service calls it got to the point they were telling us we had no more calls per contract. The system couldn't count lines either. It ended up with the employees having to come back in-house to work and because of the lack of ability to count, the bonuses were gone which averaged 1500.00 a month. A 65,000 a year job GONE because of those goofs.
TRANSCEND SUCKS!!!!...sm

Transcend has turned into one of those companies that do not give a crap about their employees anymore.  They just put us on VR and then cut our pay by 40% but did not bother to tell us about the pay cut until yesterday, which is 12 days after the pay period began, but the pay cut started on August 1st, which means if you were planning on getting paid 7 cents per line for all lines typed from August 1st to August 12th, then that is just too bad.  I guess we have to figure it out.  Maybe I can call my bank and ask them to cut my mortgage by 40% this month since my employer cut my pay by 40% with absolutely no notice.  They are so full of crap.  They have people quitting left and right.  I know of at least 3 MTs who have had to get 2nd jobs because they NEVER, EVER, EVER have enough work to go around.  I had to bust my butt to get the few lines I can get by working at 2, 3, even 4 a.m. because that is the only time there is enough work to work for a couple of hours straight without running out.  I used to be one of those MTs telling everyone how great Transcend was.  What a fool I was!!  They really got me this time.  I know that these National companies are generally dirty, but I NEVER, EVER though that were this dirty.  They just went from being one of the best companies to work for to one of the worst in a matter of a few months.  One more thing, they just switched to this new platform called which is for transcribing and VR, and it SUCKS!!!  It is not user friendly and has all kind of problems with it.  Now is definitely not the time to sign on with Transcend, and TRUST ME, if you do, you will SOON regret it.  TRANSCEND SUCKS!!


I work there. It sucks. nm
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Future Net sucks....SM
No direct deposit, no benefits, minimal weekend incentive and now NO WORK.  I can't put up with it anymore and I'm out of there......If you are looking for a good job, this is not the one. 
That sucks...all I can say is hang in there...
Things should pick back up this week, especially with Spring Break being over with..
I quit - VR sucks!
I quit Transcend. The people are nice but the work is ridiculous. Its very little pay for sometimes having to rework the whole report. I had about 60/40 when I started and when I left several months later I was 95/5. I tried to ask for accounts that were type only and I also mentioned about several doctors that shouldn't be on VR who gave me good lines and had good normals they used as well. They had accents and VR would mess them all up. It was easier to type the whole 10 minute or more report myself and faster too... but the pay was half because they sent those doctors to VR. The people who work there laugh about the funny things VR puts but to me its not funny... its insulting that they give us that kind of work and not pay us anything. I left there for a company I am in love with who only does straight transcription and not VR at all and I am making more than I did at Transcend and not having to hate my job.
Medscribe sucks
don't sweat it, they've done you guys a favor. Bad sound quality, tons of ESL, really rude, unprofessional people.
when you try to help, don't just saysomething sucks
Now you're on YOUR own :)
Emdat Sucks!
No matter how you look at it and no matter how you try to improvise, it sucks. I worked for one company and grossed 300 lines per hour. I went over to the Emdat platform and I'm lucky if I get in 125 lines in an hour. It takes me 10 hours a day to get in 700 lines. Worst platform ever invented! Should be abolished!
Hurley sucks too...
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It honestly sucks... but

you are going to have to learn it.  At some point, the companies that do not do it will be forced to because these other companies can offer a lower rate.


I hate it too.  But there are things you can do to build speed and earn close to what you were.  Give it time, first of all, but ask for help... get a mentor, learn that program inside and out.  It has become part of our job description.