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Posted By: to their website. Maybe try for inhouse?? nm on 2007-12-04
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I got whacked out of the ball park!
After applying for many jobs, and not getting one, I decided to go ahead and apply at Focus. I took their test and didn't pass. The recruiter said I passed the first 2 parts but did not pass the transcription portion. I was really surprised since I have been a medical Transcriptionist for almost 11 years, have specialized in hem/onc for the past 7-1/2 years. Needless to say, this has really made me depressed.
I got whacked out of the ball park!
After applying for many jobs, and not getting one, I decided to go ahead and apply at Focus. I took their test and didn't pass. The recruiter said I passed the first 2 parts but did not pass the transcription portion. I was really surprised since I have been a medical Transcriptionist for almost 11 years, have specialized in hem/onc for the past 7-1/2 years. Needless to say, this has really made me depressed.
Yeah, I park it on the extreme left corner. I like to see
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Don't work for them and don't drive them.
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Yes, it drive me nuts too
I think I work for the same company as you!
hard drive
If you just delete the icon or link to it, yes, it will still be on your hard drive. If you go into Control Panel and Remove Program it will be deleted from the hard drive.
But if you don't drive as part of your MT job,
then why would there be a reimbursement? Or do you pick up and deliver tapes? Or work in house?
How can 1 person drive someone away sm

from a job when everyone works at home?  At least I think everyone is working at home.  I have worked places where I didn't like the people I worked with, but as long as I don't have to look at them all day what do I care?


I am starting to believe there is a certain percentage of people in MT (at whatever level) who are unbelievably sensitive to the point where they cannot work with or for anybody, either because they get upset over some imagined insult or because they are trying to be the top dog and aren't.


They have to drive a whole 10 miles. I am so jealous.

WOW.  They have to drive a whole ten miles.  I am so jealous.   Since MANAGEMENT is based in Madison, Wisconsin and it takes 20 minutes to travel from one end of the city to the other, I do not think driving through the snow for a SPA weekend is all that much of a bonus.  Now Cancun.  That would be a bonus. 


won't it still be stored on the hard drive?
or do you not need to worry about that? 
Wow, are you blessed! I have 3 hospitals in a 25-min. drive &
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We want companies to advertise - not drive them away.
Please do not mock their offers.

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Residents and PAs drive me crazy
I have a resident who NEVER, EVER gives the patient's name.

I have a PA who can't pronounce meds let alone spell them ~ she says solatol, Spivira ~ and one time on a discharge summary, she listed 50 diagnoses. Took up a whole page. It was insane.
I'll take drive-bys any day over beheadings

STAY AWAY if you want to keep your sanity. They drive you crazy sm
with the constant changes. Every once in a while, the owner says she can't pay payroll and you have to wait but she does always pay eventually. It stays on track for several months and then happens again.

I thought I had it good there until I went to another service and found out that drama is not the daily norm for other companies.

The owner is a little nuts, but I probably would be in her shoes.

I also know that they are not as big as they lead people on to believe. Makes me wonder what else is not quite the truth.

Best move I made was to leave.
Would you please email me. I have a few questions before I drive myself nuts with this. nm
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You will have to completely format the hard drive first
delete any partitions and create a new partition, format the C drive and then install Windows XP. I have done this a ton of times and have had no problems.
Well, goodie for you, Flo! I'd be happy if I was Dairy Queen drive-through material
job for which I'm no way qualified to be in too.

Congratulations! Glad you're happy!
Not me. I hope there is a special place reserved for them in a very hot place.
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Same here. Too much fuzz and static on the lines. Redid the hard drive, new phones, new sound card,
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I got a travel mug! I work at HOME. I drive 10 miles a week. I don't drink coffee. Sheesh! lo
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No - one place is the same as the next.
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Don't use yours all in one place!!!!!
SPREAD the joy!!
Me neither. Bad place IMO
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I think so, from the second place.
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Bad Place!!
If you like to get paid for your work, then I would suggest not working for her!! She still owes me quite a bit of money, the pay is ALWAYS late and not always correct. She is also extremely moody and will take everything out on you if she's having a bad day. She says that her VR is really good, but I couldn't make much with it, and usually ended up typing the reports over for 6 cents/line.
Don't know why they ask in the first place if they
aren't going to take into the consideration what people have to say.  There have been a few others that did the same thing and came back here to post how sorry they were they didn't listen to the negative posts. 
This place is not for you then.
to have you and your strive for excellence attitude.  Try another company right now so that you don't lose your touch.  Best wishes...
If MQ MTs are looking to that place, .
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Run from this place!
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If you have what a place is looking for, it should take
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There is a place for everyone, though you are still
in the honeymoon phase.  If you're happy I'm happy for you. 
Is it possible to try a third place?
Third might be a charm. No matter what you choose, trust your heart. Good luck!
Why would someone place an ad SM
and use an address like that?  You have to wonder.  Same goes for people who use completely unprofessional emails to communicate with companies about jobs, mommy2joey, lovinmama, all that stuff.  It's ridiculous.
My place
I just had an email tonight asking about where I worked because of another posting here and like I told them, was chatting on here with a lady, told her where I worked and about a month later she applied there, got hired, received the foot pedal and then nothing. She asked me to talk to this person (we both knew her) and when I did, my company got in a twit, saying they could do their own hiring??? and all I did was to ask them about getting back in touch with MS X as she was waiting to go to work. That was probably about a year ago and I never did that again. I feel almost 100% your low count is exclusively because of Chartscript. I have always since the 80s done straight at least 2000 or better a day whatever system I was on UNTIL in 2000 and something started and dropped like a leaded balloon. I gave up a job that was not hard work at all, but was not going to work for less lines than I knew I could do. Immediately went back up in next job.
Re: Your place
I would not want you to get into trouble w/ telling me anything about where you work. However, you have given me encouragement that looking for a position at another place that does not use Chartscript is a good idea. I have been questioning whether learning a new platform would be worth it or would I still be in the same situation. However, now I'm excited to think my line count could double or more!! Thanks for the info and encouragement!
I think this is the right place, but I don't know if I can help you.
Maybe try testing on their sites. I only ever got an interview after testing for the companies, not just forwarding my resume.

Good luck and sorry not much help.
Still there but looking. This is not a place
to hang out if you want to be happy and productive. It is pretty political and either you are in tight with your boss or you get the worst of the worst. The favorites get the best dictators, work, accounts, and the rest of us are the swabbing crew. I cannot live on what I make here a day. And the Beyondtxt program really sucks.
where is this place at and who is the sm
supervisor. We use to have a Med Trans wehre I live and they moved. If it is the same company, forget it.
I think we were at the same place.
I think we may have been hired even for the same account, which vanished...at first fed 'hang in there', then excuses, and finally they just quit mentioning it entirely. The alternate I got (which of course wasn't what I really was looking for days-wise or hour-wise) is similarly dwindling so that I'm chasing reports and it's a rare day that I can actually make my line count, even flexing to the wee hours. Fortunately, I'm getting better at reading between the lines, so I'm not going down with the ship like I have in the past.
From what I see, VR will never take the place
of MTs. I work on Escription and really love it but really according to the report, some might not have very many, others could have more. However, having said that I have stated before and will state again, do not like to type straight anymore and, and- we have so many ESLs now that our platform is really good about getting theirs so my head does not ache so much in trying to figure out most. If no errors on VR, then where would we be? I am not complaining at all.
I could tell you more about that place
I know a woman who walked out when she got emails, 2 of the managers emailing back and forth and accidentally sent to this woman, and talking bad about her. Can we say oops!
Yeah, same place.
I'm sure it's legitimate but I just didn't like the tone of the documents they sent me - a little heavy handed, a little too much emphasis on being "flexible." And of course the business about not paying the transcriptionist until they get paid. Search the archives on wahm.com. I think some of those gals had worked there.
Would you shell out $25 to place that ad?
Not me! I'm halfway tempted to apply just to see if this Gilbert gil is serious!
It's a great place...sm

It really depends on what you are looking for in a company.  This is a very different company to work for.  For example, you don't work in pools, you are not constantly being bumped around, and there always has been plenty of work, even around holidays where everyone else is fighting for work because there is none.  I was so shocked that after Christmas there wasn't a major slow-down.  It's mostly clinic accounts, so you if your work is caught up, you don't have to work holidays.  There is no deciding which holiday you want off or which you have to work because if you just do your work, you get off.  Of course, if you want to work the holiday, there is always something to work on if you speak up.


Anyway, I have worked for just about all of the nationals.  I have been with Wordzxpressed for over a year now and plan on staying.


The best place I have worked
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Then Transcend is the place for you
They have plans to switch all their accounts over the VR.  There will be some typing, but no guarantees as to what kind of dictators or how much you will be getting.
A new company would not be the place to be then. nm
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WebbScribe - Is this the same place that
supposedly ripped people off by not paying them.  They have an ad floating around and I was wondering if there was anyone around who knew about them.  I couldn't find anything on my searches.  Thanks all.
Not a good place

I had a 30-second interview and was told my team leader would be contacting me.  He never did.  It took me DAYS to get somebody to send me the account specifics, samples, etc., and it was never management who did it, it was a lady I met on here who faxed me what she had.   They throw you in there head first without the information you need.  They promise bonuses if you don't take a day off and make production...well I never ever saw it EVER.  Right before I left they sent out an email saying there would be none for that particular period because they didn't make enough profit.  The account managers get paid based on how many lines we do and if the account stays current, so expect constant emails from them saying how they didn't make anything this pay period and there are bills to pay, etc. 


Insurance:  The one person doing insurance is something else.   You get a big packet in the mail and you have to figure out yourself which you are eligible for, what percentage for life insurance, etc.   If you email him and ask him about anything, he doesn't answer.   I had been there 5 months and still did not have insurance cards for insurance I had been paying for all along.  I had to go to the top person in the company to get him to email me back.  He just doesn't do anything.


QA:  There were 2 on the accounts I worked on.  One was pretty nice and helpful but extremely overworked.  It was actually her who told me what I needed to know regarding account specifics because the first two months I was there, I never so much as got an email from my account manager.  The other one once sent me an email telling me I needed to go back to school and how STUPID the mistakes were and turns out it wasn't even MY report!!!  I called her on it and told her that is NOT the way to talk to people, especially new hires who have no information to start with.  She was just on a huge power trip and talked to people like dogs.  Had I been the actual person she meant to email and talked to like that, I would have been gone right then and there.


PLATFORM:  It's okay when it works.  When tech support, and I use that term loosely, installed it on my computer, he wiped out my Stedman's that was associated with my MSWord.  Years of adding gone!!  You don't get paid for what you have to fill in on the header page.  It froze up a lot and sometimes would get stuck on all caps.  It was very very slow.  I had to highlight and copy every single report because 2 out of 3 times, it would freeze and I would lose it and the backup retrieval feature didn't work. 


The accounts were very good, best I've had, but a combination of the management, system, etc., just wasn't worth the trouble.   They would tell us the profit margin was low and then send out an email with pictures of them partying somewhere, patting themselves on the back for the work their MTs do.  You never got a thank you for anything.  A bunch of the management members are married and/or related to each other which would be fine if anybody had experience.  Our account was assigned a 21-year-old manager who had never done this type of work before.  I don't think you should manage people if you can't do the work yourself.  I would send her mistakes in the automatic templates, doctors list, etc., and she had no clue what to do with it. 


Getting the required lines was difficult for some reason.  At other jobs I would do a minimum of 1500-1800 per day and with this system, I was lucky to get 900.  I know the system freezing up was part of it, but on the rare occasion when it worked, it was still very difficult.  


They constantly call you to help with this account or that account, which is okay if it's within your time frame to work.  I would get calls an hour before shift start from the secondary account person saying are you working today?   I never missed a single day while I was there and always worked OT, so there was no reason for this and I found it quite annoying.


 


 


No place I could recommend!!!!!!
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