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TJ would you mind e-mailing me I have a few questions I am confused about. I think you can from my f

Posted By: 2teens on 2006-02-02
In Reply to: For my own accounts I use MP count and - TJ

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Do you mind e-mailing me also?
I currently work at a hospital, but I have to come back home to work due to my husband's job. I really need a job that is real flexible, because my daughter has special needs.

TIA!
Anyone mind e-mailing or posting CPL? nm
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Would you mind e-mailing me with this info...
if you don't want to post it here? TIA.
Would you mind e-mailing me what the name of the company is?
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Chickadee - More questions - if you don't mind
Do you have to look up doctor's addresses for carbon copies? Are you obligated to a certain amount of work? How many lines per week are available to you? Does having to pay your own taxes eat up more of your profit?
A couple of questions, if you don't mind...

1.  Do they have a production incentive/bonus? 


2.  Where I am right now, if I work even a minute over my 8-hour shift, I have to e-mail my supervisor explaining why.  Is KS that strict, or do they allow you to go over a little?  I don't even care if they pay OT or not, just want to finish my job without worrying about the time.  (Sorry, threw in a little vent there.)


Thank you!


 


Would you mind answering a few more questions?

Did you switch from straight transcription to VR, or start with VR? 


How long had you done straight transcription and what was your lph speed then?


How long have you been doing VR?


How long did it take you to get up to the speed where you are now?


Thanks in advance!


A few questions on Axolotl if someone wouldn't mind...sm
Do they provide you with a computer?

What are their benefits (insurance/PTO) tied to? i.e., 40 hours a week, 12,000 lines a pay period, or both, etc. If things are slow and there is no work do you have to make it up in order to keep your insurance? If it remains slow and you can't get your lines in, do you lose your insurance?

Do they hire only acute care or multispecialty clinic, or do they have *specialty* accounts, i.e., ortho, op notes, cardio, psych, etc.

Do you get one primary and a backup(s), or several primaries in a grouping?

Thanks a lot for any info... I'd love to work for a good company again some day and Axolotl looks like a good place to start looking!
Do you mind if I email you some more specific questions?
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OSI--Would either of you OSI employees mind if I emailed you privately with a couple of questions?
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Why would there be a mailing
to all past MT's? What's that about?
no faxing/mailing
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If they are mailing overnight, then they are using
a service such as Fed-Ex, UPS, etc., or maybe even the postal service. Not cheap by any means.
E-Mailing from site
My apologies to you for responding by e-mail. It is late and I hit the first tab.

I totally understand. I had some disturbing e-mails once from someone who did not agree with post I made in the past.
Ignore it. If they are just basically e-mailing

do not feel compelled to answer an e-mail that has other MT names in it.  If it is directed right at you, then answer when you get the chance.  Don't feel nailed to the computer. 


Now if they are using IM, that is a different story.  Instant messenger is control in my honest opinion and as an IC should not be part of the deal. 


If you know your accounts in and out you may want to stay and just ignore some of the e-mails that get you hot and bothered.


I also am an IC for an online company that does mass e-mails when there is work to be done, but it is not directed right at me but to all MTs on that particular account.  I do not feel the need to answer each and every e-mail unless I am the only addressee.  Of course, you may not know if they are blind copying, but just my opinion.


I don't know what kind of mailing system

they are using but it has never gotten to me under 10 days and like I said that's after being mailed late the day of payday.  So now when others tell me they mail their paychecks, I either turn down the job or  don't even bother testing for the job.  I am not in a position to be paid like that.  I think that's the case for most people at the moment.


However, I am still looking.


 


Just like they save on postage by not mailing SM
paystubs anymore.  Every little penny they save fills their pockets, not ours.
Higher up PM told me packets mailing out on 9/30.
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you are correct :) It is more than typing, there is e-mailing and following up, but oh sooooo worth
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If you are an AAMT member, they have a mailing list that corporate sm
members can use two to three times a year.
I don't see ANY MT company names on this list!! Everybody PLEASE start e-mailing.
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Seems you're spending more UNPAID time/work e-mailing..sm

and xeroxing as if you were sitting there with no work.


Actually I posted looking for answers to my questions above, not looking to answer questions, but

to here goes...firstly, I don't know about the platform, only that it is Word based. Secondly, I have many years cardio, and thirdly, no the test was not hard. Still looking for any answers to my questions above. Thanks in advance.


You must have me confused!
I only have 1 job, full time.  Transcend.  I have never worked 2 jobs and have never posted such a thing.  Sorry.  Wrong girl!
Confused???

First of all, who needs feedback on every report?  If you are doing your job well, you do not need feedback on a constant basis, especially if you are experienced. 


As for they "steel" lines, i.e. steal, I'm not sure what you are talking about either.    Why would they pay for headers and footers when all the demographics come up for you?  I seldom have to spend any time looking patient names up.  I worked for a company who had you sorting through pages of patient info to get information and felt I should be paid for headers and footers.  In this case, I don't do anything, I verify what is already there and transcribe.  I do not know why your line count is so low, maybe it is the account you are on.  I've never had trouble achieving the bonus at the end of the pay period.


Like I stated before, I speak for myself and each MT has to find the company that fits them best.  Good luck in your search. 


 


 


Confused
Clarify your statement please, because I don't understand what you are trying to say AT ALL?!?!?!
MQ Confused MT

If you asked for a transfer, some MQ offices have put a freeze on that, if you office is closed, which many have already closed and many more will be closed by the end of the year, you have no choice where you are being transferred


don't get me wrong, there are good offices out there,(Ohio being one but supposedly that is closing also, why i don't know--it is a great office, keep it open) unfortunately all the MQ offices are not run the same so when you are hired it is the luck of the draw on where you are heading


 


here is a thought, when new MT's are hired, are they being sent to the offices that MQ knows that they are not closing'--why be sent to an office that will close in 3 months


 


are they still advertising for new hires??


Confused MT-MQ
Some of the MT's at MQ have asked for a transfer and were allowed---some offices no longer allow transfers--I would assume that when you are hired you are sent to an office that needs help and I would hope to one that is not closing at the end of the year. There are good offices out there--if you are being sent to Amherst, please ask to go to another office, try Ohio, but I hear that they are closing too. Stay away from Amherst
I'm confused
do you mean that you didn't find out the pay until after you went through all that testing? I'm confused about how you would know what they pay if you failed the test or the mini-test. why would they not call you to discuss pay if they didn't want to hire you? was it just the pay that made you mad about the tests?
I'm confused
Okay, I am confused and this is hard to follow. Who is who and what happened to what? signed... sooooo confused!!! I recently had the pleasure of speaking with the owner of this company and I thought she was direct, pleasant and really knew her stuff!!!
confused
Yeah, they did. I am an employee of Diskriter.
to confused--sm
you are right, there is a company called Sten-Tel and I worked for them a while back for a short period of time. There may be more than one Sten-Tel company though in different locations. I was able to download work from their website, meaning their platform, I guess, complete it and then send it back to their website. They did the line counting though, which I never cared for. I had a really strang coordinator, though. He liked to keep me on the messenger all day long...even when I was not supposed to be working...and talk about his personal life. It was very annoying and he always gave me work from specialties I had never done, and for which I had not been hired. They always paid on time though. My company was from Massechusetts. I don't think that same person is still there. good luck.
Got the 2 confused. sm
Actually MDI-MD is the one I never heard from again.  MDI-FL actually is the one I got the job with and I think I made a great choice to accept it cause they seem really on the ball and actually care about how their business is run.   
confused
Can anyone tell me if I am crazy?  I went to sign on to my transcription platform this morning and my antivirus program detected a trojan in one of the files that it uses.  I was told by company that I would have to deactivate my antivirus program while I worked so they could run their software which I was assured contained no virus and then anytime I needed to look something up on the internet, I would have to log off and reactivate my antivirus.  I have never had this problem until this morning and am I crazy for not wanting to deactivate my antivirus?
What are you confused about? nm
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Ok, maybe I am confused are you all sm
saying that Acusis bought out DRC or the other way around or what?  I find your posts extremely interesting.  Inquiring minds want to know.  Perhaps I am not involved in these boards enough to know what is going on???  Call me uninformed. 
Okay I'm Confused
one of my therapists just told me that the Transcription Connection, Inc. we are using is out of Pennsylvania, not Ohio.  What?  I know for a fact that it is the company out of Ohio, due to the owners name being mentioned, etc.  What is my place of employment trying to pull now?  My therapists are just livid over the work produced, and how that it now takes 8 to 9 steps to process a report, instead of the regular dictate, transcribe, sign.  What a mess.  There is a folder at work that has nothing in it but reports sent back to us from the service with no client name, no medical record #, and no therapist name to indicate who the client is.  How in the world are we ever going to find out who these reports belong to.  I told them I want nothing to do with the downloading, etc.  This is going to be fun to watch.  My superiors are so prideful that they would never admit that they have made a mistake and continue down this path of DESTRUCTION!
I get confused sometimes when they
abbreviate, because there is TT and TTS (which is a different company).
Yes, I think that's where I'm getting confused too! nm

Confused here. Do you mean you get MT pay for
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Now Im thoroughly confused.
Isn't your line rate the same no matter how many hours you work or how many lines your produce? Being paid (X) cpl doesn't ever change unless you get a raise or something.
I'm confused...

I'm getting really confused now.  All I have to do is sign in when I start my shift, but I do not have to clock in and out every time I get up from my desk.  I guess maybe signing in is considered clocking in?  I would assume you have to sign in at any company though.  Not really sure I guess, I'm pretty new home transcription.  


OSi confused me
Just a week ago I passed all the tests, carefully filled out the apps and was told by the contact by email that they would be in touch right away.  Then a thanks for your app we'll be in touch  I emailed the contact and asked her what went wrong, I would like to know , please.  She emiled me back and said they had no work but that nothing was wrong with my app.  I saw that they had no work on here - but this confuses me.  I have 8 yrs experince in -hospital acute, I did everything right and they put me off!  I was literally heartbroken.  I cried even.  I can't imagine what I did wrong.  Any clues?  I really wantd to work for them.
Very Confused
I have just signed on with MDI-MD. I am new to this and was never a statutory employee (told that is what I would be) or an IC and I have three questions:

1. I know a lot of people say that MDI-MD is very flexible, but I'm a bit confused. If we must work on a weekend day, how is this flexible if we want to go away for a weekend with our family, or have a weekend event or want to take a vacation? This probably sounds like a stupid question, but I feel that I am stuck now having to work on the weekends and won't be able to do much.

2. Also, if you want to work a lot on weekdays and work less on the weekend I understand you can't do that - the amount you work has to be about the same everyday (including the weekend day), and you have to commit two months ahead to how much you will do each day (including weekends) so they can manage their workflow. Again, where is the flexibility?

3. I have seen postings where people say they can work anytime they want from home. But if you want to get up and work in the middle of the night, and you've already filled your commitment, sounds like you can't do something like that, yet, there is no specific stop and start time since there are no set schedules, only a 24-hour TAT. This makes me even more confused.

Although I didn't feel this way initially, I am starting to feel like I don't know the rules for what I'm getting into and would appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance.
IC? I'm confused...
It states: full time transcription...flexible work schedule...

Am I right to assume it's ok to work whenever you want as long as you produce a certain amount of lines per pay period?
Okay, I'm still confused about something...
I understand exactly what you're saying about how easy it would be for absolutely anyone to make up a similar Yahoo addy to yours, but didn't the supe just hit Reply to the fake resignation e-mail, which means you shouldn't have got the response? Was the fake Yahoo addy maybe disabled right afterward, and so she got a bounce-back and then used your real addy from her address book?

I don't doubt your story, which I think could possibly have been a hideous ''prank,'' if you will, by a disgruntled co-worker. I just don't understand how you actually received the ''good luck'' reply to the fake resignation?
Confused already
If a posting says that the job requires Dictaphone or equivalent, is it a safe assumption that this is a C-phone? Dictaphone has its fingers in so many pies, I can't keep track of what all counts as dictaphone anymore. I have the C-phone, but gave up my land line a year ago, so I don't want to waste a brilliant cover letter for a position I can't get anyway.
MQ has no IC status. No one is an IC. Perhaps confused??
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JLG is in Oldsmar. Maybe someone is confused above. nm
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Confused, not sure if you were addressing me, sm
but if you are, I've been in this biz for so long that I can see where one person can get a snippet of (mis)information which gets blown up to such proportions that people get crazy, really imaginative ideas. Pretty soon it all sounds like something from the National Enquirer--Our boss just gave birth to a goat!!

Seriously, though, until I know first hand, I'm not going to panic. I just can't believe that the account that I'm on would allow offshoring of its work to happen. If any of this is true and the account eventually pulls out, I'll check into where it goes and perhaps follow it. I followed an account from a company that got eaten by the squid to another one, which, alas, eventually got swallowed by the squid, too, and then moved on from there. I'm IC for 2 companies which I find eases my mind so much that it is worth my shucking out for my health insurance on my own. Peace of mind is everything. I'm not going to worry about this. I'd like to avoid this board, but it's like driving by an accident--I just have to look! :)

In the meantime, job security is individually keeping up with quality and production and waiting out the storm. Good transcriptionists can always find good jobs. We're not that plentiful, so we always have that card to play.

If I didn't come to this board and read all this stuff, I'd have no concerns at all. I have lots of work, my pay is always on time or early, and it is always the correct amount. I'm treated warmly with courtesy and respect. What more can I ask for? Oh yes, and the dictation voice quality is the best I've EVER experienced with QT. I'll ride this wave as long as I can. If I have to move on, I will, but with a heavy heart.


Pay Rate - I'm confused - help!- sm

XX cents per typed character as per AAMT guidelines ??  Does this mean no spaces?? I was told I would be paid for spaces, but now I'm confused.  Help is greatly appreciated.


I'm so tired of being ripped off, I thought this would be a great fit for me, but not if no spaces.   Ugh!