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You skirted the issue I brought up

Posted By: Your post on 2009-09-29
In Reply to: Anyone can type. My 13 year-old grandson...sm - oldtimer

that is, sure people can type BUT no matter how much information you have on MTing, if you type really slow makes no difference, you have no job in this fast, fast paced job. In order to make a decent salary I have to work as fast as the audio goes and stay up with it, otherwise you would be reading about my making less than minimum which some have complained about on here. Typing 50-60 wpm just does not hack it in this business, unless you perhaps are working for an individual rather than a company and the majority on here I think might work for companies. Some say if they cannot get in their lines per week, no benefits. So back to my basic statement, slow typist-no work- no benefits- no money really.


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I just brought this up below but...
If there are contracts in place, what are chances that they could be cancelled prematurely so long as the the terms of the contract are being met and the work is staying within the US?

(In other words, is it a certain amount of job security for US-based MTs as long as those clients stay on board?)
Interesting you brought this up...sm
I recently started helping with QA and have noticed so many blanks that could be avoided with the aid of a word book or dictationary.  For example, _______ regurgitation on an echo (look up regurg and see a list of possibilities).  And the word is fairly clearly pronounced.  Perhaps book research is yet another fading skill in this technology age.  Sigh.
Search the board. This has been brought up before, and
a list was devised.
No, they have just brought several new clients on and are hiring a
bunch of new transcriptionists for them.
I think that the account was not upront with QT. We were brought in sm
after QT had started because QT could not do it all. From the beginning, they told KS that it would be a KS account. We didn't lose 3 IDs last week either; we knew it was coming about the borrowed licenses and had prepared for it. I have been on the account since the beginning and really like it, but I am a big Expander user and pretty fast.

As a fellow radiology MT, my heart goes out to you. I went through that with another company and felt like someone had died. We had a double punch though; the company declared bankrupcy, and we did not get our last two checks. The owners didn't lose anything, they were incorporated. It was a nightmare for me as I was a newly divorced mom of 3 with no child support and had to go to my dad for a loan. It was a scary time.

I have been with KS about 3 years now and love it! They continue to grow, which is a good thing to see!
I was told that it was going to be brought up at their next meeting...
hopefully something like that will be set up because I think it would be beneficial...
You just brought back a lot of memories...
I remember that as well, Boxer, that is funny and yet also a little sad that it actually seems to be really happening. who would have thought it possible in this country...

I have seen that most of my years in Medical Transcription since beginning in the hospital how administration would play women against women and just sit back and laugh about it.

AAMT was responsible for taking us out of the 'typing pool' and it is sad and 'sickening' as you mention that we are so far even beneath typing pool it is not funny
Thanks but all it brought up was things from 4-5 years ago.
How do I find some current things? It'd be nice to think that over time, something, anything has changed to a positive way, but I'd be lying if what was going on even that long ago doesn't give me pause for thought.  I want to think that a few years ago people weren't getting paid on time but I could be wrong on which company I am remembering.
I am sooooo glad you brought this up
I posted below. I am very happy working independent whether I work their hours or mine makes absolutely no difference to me. Your post is the first I ever seen that states the fact of what could happen and that is more of a tax burden for the person who blows the whistle on these owners. If a person is that ticked off with the way they are asked/told to work, why not get another JOB?
Funny you brought this up, I just quit today.sm
Love the platform, loved the account, no work at all in over a week and hardly any work before that since Thanksgiving.  I e-mailedEDITED and her exact words were we will continue to hire additional MTS. when I told her I was leaving because there was a lack of communication about available work and the overstaffing issue.  She also stated that there were only 3 MTs that were complaining on this site about lack of work and that she knew who they were, which I find hard to believe.  So, my suggestion is move on especially since she stated the above about continuing to hire more people. 
They are constantly advertising because they are GROWING! They have brought on
two new accounts that I know just since Christmastime and more to come.
A search will show this has been brought up several times, but
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As far as I know, the only way you could cherry pick is to sign off after you have brought the job u
Seems like I remember in training being told, If you bring the job up you are expected to type it. and that these things were monitored.

I feel like some days I just have the luck of the damned and other days are great. I don't feel they are cherry picked like I used to get at MQ.

If you really feel this is happening, contact your immediate supervisor and ask.

By the way, welcome aboard.

Questions about payroll, et cetera should be brought up to your leads...
not to the board...If this was strictly a Keystrokes board, then I would understand but it isn't. I have been there for over 2 years...Please don't feel like I am bashing you or anything. I just think it is inappropriate to bring up payroll questions on a public board.
Their new pay plan brought me back to newbie wages since I don't do high volume. And the work loa
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That is so odd to me. I have never had an issue
making the line count and there has always been an overabundance of work since I've been there and they even ask regularly for us to work more if possible because there's so much work, and I don't work on C-phone accounts at all.
she had an issue with ...sm
anyone who had a brain because she was intimidated by truth and intelligence.  She is driving that company into the ground.  I feel bad for the blind eyes of the owner.  That was a great company in its day, now all I see is a company that is going to sell or go belly up. 
Do you have some issue?
Or do you just like to jab at anybody who has something positive to say?

I don't get it.
If I may, what is the issue
with the pay?  Are they not standard paydays?
I think the issue is
that what started as a simple inquiry as to whether or not other people were also out of work quickly turned to bashing the company and personal bashing of management personnel. From what I gathered, half of the people doing the bashing were never employees. I honestly feel for the OP as I went 4 months making $25 a week if I was lucky at the end of my time with MQ (that was the longest holiday slow down in history). However, I have not had the same experience at MDI and actually am lucky enough to have an abundance of work at the moment. I don't know how Carlotta found out about the comments on here, nor do I care. I would imagine that since it is a public forum she may have run across it herself without an MT blabbing. I believe Carlotta's response was generally saying the issues/slamming in the subsequent posts were things that should be discussed with her, the liasons, and/or Dorothy.
QA issue

I went full through full QA and was released with above 99%. Additionally, I asked my QA for help regularly for help on some difficult dictators (for the future) and she always commented how throrough I was.


That was before the company changed hands, however, and all QA personnel changed.



 


pay issue
My pay has actually went up, not because of the VR necessarily, but because of DH getting laid off, and the need to work harder, not just meet line requirements (which was my goal prior to lay off).  That is the reason I worked so hard at learning VR. I didn't want to starve (starvation is great motivator)
Since you've brought it up, I've stopped SM

giving the negative info because every time I have in the past I am called a disgruntled ex-employee or told that my experience has no relation to what the company is like today.


I won't repeat the information I've given in the past, anyone can find it on searches.  I've decided to just let the people have their experience with the company and that experience will validate everything I've ever said about those people.


The same people own and run that company--they may have new names doing the management, but it still runs the same way.


Well, I'm sure you'll get over your issue with me

and you should stop adding the fuel, I think you are enjoying yourself


don't fret over the OT issue yet
You may find that OT is offered (and sometimes begged for) more often than you think. If you keep a good line of open communication going with your PS, then I really don't think you'll be as bad off as you are projecting.

Something else, too, is that it's always good if you need >40 hours to have a part time company to supplement.
This is not an EXText issue (SM)
It is a company issue. Not all companies that use EXText deduct 30% of your line count. There are several companies that use EXText. Don't get in a panic! Find out what the company's policy is on headers and footers, what they pay for, what they don't etc.
Yes, I contacted HR, this is not an issue
with my paperwork. It is that they have not sent my contributions to MetLife - not one cent all year, and I am having 10% withheld. That is a lot of money the company has been using. Almost seems like stealing, doesn't it?
I don't think the comma is the issue.
Looking at other people's work is a violation and perhaps, just perhaps, the attitude is more the problem that was being brought up.  I QA all day as well and I am appalled at the lack of care taken with records and have to agree with the MTSO above.  To do this dance properly, you have to understand the steps.  I live in fear of becoming ill and ever having the opportunity to see my chart and read what it contains.  I will take 1,000 lines of good clean work over 2,00 lines per day of typing for dollars transcription any day.  I do not think that you should be made to feel like you do not know anything .. but I do think that there is a responsibility to point out errors and expect compliance.
The quality only became an issue when

the offshoring began.   I don't understand why they wouldn't QA 100% of the work knowing there were quality issues.


I know we're not the only MTs to go through this, but many of us have a long history with QT and unless you've been on the inside you don't truly understand all the emotions we're going through.    I feel like my best friend has just stabbed me in the back. 


Your attitude is exactly what I have an issue with...
Healthcare should be about humanity, in my opinion. It should not be a business.

The only thing QA is for, is a place to go in between management for MTs to make more money.

You are making the salaries MTs used to make.

If I am burned out, it is from your kind of attitude that it is happening everywhere and we just have to deal with it.

I know better, I know I am a worthwhile human being and not just a grunt for some corporation who makes millions off my hard work, and then expects me (as you echo) to just shut up and type, and be ever so thankful I have a job.

You sound burned out to me. You sound like you do not care a bit about humanity or people. You are only interested in yourself, and you found a way to make more money rather than just do MT.

Some day the trend will change, and people will matter again. Your little digs to me do not bother me. It only shows your character.
Speed is a big issue

10 cpl is more than I make, but I'm pretty fast.  My base rate is 7.5 to 8 cpl depending on which of my 2 accounts I'm on, but since I do enough lines daily to qualify for bonus, I acutally make  9 to 9.5 cpl per line.  I average about 1500 lines per day.  Production is what drives pay, so that's why I'm making what I do.    I think it's unfortunate that years of experience isn't really compensated in this business, but years of experience doesn't always equal what the employer wants, which is speed and low error rate.  Everyone brings a different set of skills to the job.   In the end it's what you produce and not how many years you have behind you that the employer cares about.   Fair or not, that's the nature of this business.   


What do you mean by a spacing issue? (sm)
Why would you use the ShortHand for your normals?  It is so very slow playing out, wouldn't you be better off to use the built-in ESP?  I have Shorthand in my computer, but am gradually changing everything over to ESP and it has helped my count greatly.  You can put your normals in the ESP (at least on my account you can) and it is so much faster than the SH. 
and I'm not saying this is your issue, but I know personally

my company will make things not so nice for an MT hoping they'll quit rather than firing them.  If quality continues to be poor, not meeting TAT, etc., then there may not be enough work, only the horrible dictators, etc.   If things are slow and you are a new hire maybe the old-timers are getting the work.   If a new account went VR that might also explain the work load too.   If you are otherwise happy at KS I'd call and be firm in that you need more work. 


I feel like companies should offer some explanation if work is low.  I know they can't give you what they don't have, but if you are a FT MT, there is a reason you are and you have obligations to meet and it isn't fair that they can't provide the work you need and not give you some feedback.    


lol It's a punctuation issue!
MTs ... plural ...more than one

MT's ... possessive ... something belonging to one MT

MTs' ... plural possessive ... something belonging to more than one MT

You're too funny with your holier than thou crap! LOL

They really need to address this issue because
they will find all the good MTs bailing out. This has gone on long enough, they enabled ctrl I, but that is not the real issue. If they want to keep us, they better come straight. I think many are on the verge of leaving, I know that goes for me and I've been with them well before they signed on all these new accounts.
About this demographics issue...
I don't understand...there's one number we must fill in on the DI, unless the MRN doesn't pull up the patient name, which is rare. It takes all of 2 seconds to put in the visit number, so to complain about that is just ridiculous. AND, we are VERY lucky to have so much work,while other companies can't even provide enough to keep their MTs making the minimum required lines...I, for one, Love Amphion...going on 2 years with them and am very happy. But hey, if there is a mass exodus, just means more work for me...and I only work 7 hours a day, make well above the minimum requirements...maybe you all just can't handle the perfection that it takes to be an Amphion employee...
I just put in my 0.002 cents in on this issue myself.

I think companies that say stuff like this are, well, I can't say the word but it's a banned one for sure.  HELLO out there...We are paid on PRODUCTION.  No one knows more than us that if we don't make lines, we don't get paid well...of course we all know that they will remind us if for some reason we fall below their predetermined robotic production requirement.


This whole 1/2 hour unpaid for lunch is absolutely infurating to me for some reason which I have yet to figure out.  I can feel my neck veins throbbing even now just thinking about it because the joint where I work pulls the same crapola, and yes it is crapola. 


Man, I so do feel a career change looming.


I was able to help someone I know with the Meditech issue because
their manager did not answer the question. I knew how because I worked with KS briefly. I really loved the idea of the work I was assigned, the docs were good and I was about to learn another hospital, even my schedule was really awesome. But, nobody would get back to me on questions, even how to get line counts, etc. and I felt left out. I did not come on here, but I figured stuff out myself, which by the way cost my line count, but once I learned I could do the work. In the end I gave up and left because I did not feel valued. I thought of trying again when they are not so busy, and I have seen other people have wanted to or tried to go back; but in the end I guess I learned my lesson. If proper training up front is not given and e mails are neglected it is not the kind of place I personally feel comfortable working. How hard is it to set up check points in a training system and giving the basic information before someone goes on line. All it takes is some organization and TLC and the MT is on their way happy for the duration. And that is the job of management, to make sure these things take place. Oh well just MHO.
Slowness issue still there for me

Some accounts must be affected differently than others, because its as slow or a little worse for me lately.  I guess as long as someone is willing to say the problem is fixed they'll never really fix it.


Issue resolved here, too!!

Issue resolved here, too as of 2:30 p.m.  I really never had any doubts to begin with as pay has never been late. 


They are the most professional group of people I have ever worked with in 20+ years. 


It really irritates me that people have to come to a public forum and tell ALL to people who really have nothing to do with the issue.  If you have issues, go to management.  Maybe it's the people who have to run their mouths (fingers) to every MT in the country that haven't gotten their checks yet. 


Boy, things sure do come back to bite sometimes, don't they?


Does anyone else have the same issue as my friend?
I have a friend, also an MT, who is a supervisor. There is one MT who, every time you turn around, is playing the kids card to get out of working her share. My kids are sick, I have to take my kids to soccer practice, I'm taking off a day to be with my kids, I'm going Christmas shopping with my kids, etc. The list goes on and on, at least 20 days this past year. She keeps on asking me Should I terminate this MT? I would have done that long ago, but she's too nice for her own good. What do you all think? Have any of you had a co-worker who played the Kids Card all the time?
Platform or other issue
Wondering, too, if it would really be the platform or maybe RAM or connection issue. It's hard to believe a software company would test and not fix a software that was so slow. Plus you would think the MTSO would test it out and not buy something that would be such a problem.
Get used to it. Communication has always been an issue. Also....
be forewarned that one of the bigwig frequents this board. Not that you care, but they will figure out who is saying what. Overall, when I worked there, I liked it but hated the communication issue.
I always force the issue and ask what their pay is....
although I don't apply to IC-only companies - I never like their offer, and know the IRS rules to the nth degree. However, I do think one should have an idea of the range of pay before proceeding with any further testing - saves me and the recruiter time, IMO!
hughesnet issue

I know your problem. I just moved from the Oregon Coast and had Hughesnet. The only company that I know of is Oracle Transcription, Inc.  I am not sure if they are hiring though; work has been slow.  Good luck!


That is NOT the issue at Webmedx. NOT AT ALL.
You must not work there.
Here's how I see IC issue with Transcend

Here is my opinion.  I feel that we will all have to become employees in Jan. From what I remember in meeting, Jan 1 date was mentioned, and it seemed to me evasive when asked if we could stay IC.  I do remember them saying if you wanted to be employee now you could do that now. Well, I wonder then if we are going to have a choice, and if we could do it now, why then would there be a Jan 1 date at all? Do you see what I mean? Jan 1 for what? Wouldn't you think that if one wanted to be employee, they'd do it now. So, that's why I think we will not be offered IC. 


MDI merge issue
Has anyone from MDI quit without giving any notice, since the merge announcement?  I'm not sure if I should give notice or just quit right away and start new job.  Thanks
Overhiring is the other issue

Many of us have no work NOW, and can't pay our bills NOW.  What will it be like when we're all even faster and getting paid even less?  We've been losing accounts as fast as we can recruit new ones.


The sound quality issue...

There is one account that the voice is uploaded from another system and it's only the voice files dictated on 2 specific ports there, not all of their dictation.  The company is working to get the problem resolved with the client presently.  I'm holding out because overall I don't think the company is bad. 


Transcendite MT


Not so, and really don't feel the need to debate the issue with
I was referring to you being wrong about the software bundle, and what Medware furnishes. I could care less about your opinion of Medware. We all have opinions and you are most welcome to voice yours.

I think you are the one who started this with the wrong information about the software and references, and then you got upset because I am happy with my employer.

Maybe you are the one who doesn't like to be called out. Once again, sorry bout ya!