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as I asked to remove it many hours ago myself.

Posted By: they must be away (nm) on 2009-09-26
In Reply to: I just asked the moderator to remove Denise's post...sm - lara

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    I just asked the moderator to remove Denise's post...sm
    from the board. Since we all figured that she must be new on this board making such a faux pas, I thought that she does not know how to tell the moderator to remove her post.

    The OP asked what is FT, lines or hours. For RAD, you are on a sm
    schedule, thus it is hours. 40 hours is full-time. For HIM, you have to hit a certain number of lines. Once you hit it, you are done for the day even if it took you only 5 hours. With radiology, you have to work the entire shift you are scheduled for. The PAY is by the report, the SCHEDULE is by the hour.
    One AC has certainly asked for extra help w/o recording hours
    That is a little much for somebody to make up. Also have you never been called by ops to work extra? If so that would be rare or your work is not very good. My phone rings off the hook on my days off.
    BOS is BS when we remove the O, right?
    The BOS used to be a good tool. The new version is horrendous and all the English teachers and professors I had during my education would roll over in their graves if they saw the new rules. I use the old version along with all I learned from the wonderful teachers I had the good fortune to have and quite a few tried and true reference books. I could never take seriously and use advice from a book of style that does not even believe in the complete sentence concept. Sometimes, if there is a serious gray area, I research in current medical journals for the standards used by the PHYSICIANS themselves, not some panel or whatever of bumblers who want to create their own reality. They make a great deal of money from selling this schmuck, so my advice is to get the old book of style and take good care of it, get Stedmans Word Books, use proper grammar, spelling, and research at reliable sites who have nothing to gain from creating an artificial reality in the medical language arena. Now that AAMT is no longer an American organization I have my serious doubts about anything they put forward. As for standards at work so everyone will create a uniform document, I must comment that if those documents are uniformly wrong, then have any of us gained anything? If there are 20 transcriptionists all using the same wrong reference is that progress? Is that good patient care? That is why medical Transcriptionist jobs exist, remember? Another thought, if someone publishes and sells a book that changes the alphabet as we know it, grammar and usage as we know it, or say even the names of everything as we know them would we all run out and buy that and change our language accordingly? Would a wagon then be a Wagun because the new book stated that was the true and correct name? Give me a break. A wagon is a wagon. A complete sentence is a complete sentence. Graves' disease is that way because a guy named Graves discovered the disease. It could also be typed as Graves's disease (but that is funny-looking). He was not named Grave. That is where you go when they bury you, right? That is why it is not Grave's disease.

    Thank you for this platform on which to vent my anger and disgust with all of this. My physicians are professionals in the medical field. I produce their documents to reflect their professionalism and to enable them to provide excellent patient care, no matter what BOS says or does not say.
    but it does not remove anything....
    from the registry, so if the program was set to load anything automatically into ram when you start your computer or reboot it, it will continue to use your ram. You have to go to a technician thant KNOWS how to clean up your registry to get rid of all the remnants of a program. CCLEANER cleans up your hard drive.
    TO REMOVE YOUR OWN POST -- SM
    If you want your own thread removed, please e-mail me directly.

    I will not remove a post that does not violate posting guidelines just because someone claims to be the author of it and requests it through the report a message feature.

    Thank you,

    Goldbird

    How to remove post
    Click on your original post and look in the blue strip across the top (just below the advertisement).  Click on the button to report message with the smiley icon beside it.  Send it to the moderator and they will remove it.
    remove post
    Is it really thumbs up for thumbs down? Do 9 other people have to vote?
    No company is able to remove posts. (SM)
    Only the Administrator and moderators, such as myself, have the ability to do so.

    Please take up your questions with the Administrator.

    Goldbird

    Moderator please remove post sm
    naming account at Keystrokes!
    She could remove all MQ-related stuff, samples, etc.
    xx
    Can we remove our glossary from company computer?

    I am attempting to move a glossary which I created over 4 years via e-mail which is proving to be difficult as an attachment to use on my PC for a side job.


    Is there a company policy that says we cannot do this?  (Spheris).


    Yes, they'll have to remove superlatives from the web site
    No longer can they put the best, proudest, most dedicated and conscienscious MTs. New PR/advertising will in the future say:

    Acusis...our American employees are just average and only moderately concerned with quality, but by Vishnu, our management eats the best samosas and curry a rupee can buy!!
    Correction: One is told to remove or change the nasty expressio
    from your post before it can posted.
    When they called me and I asked them if they offshored, they asked me why that was my business!
    xx
    Sorry, I work 15 hours a day 5 days a week and 5 hours the other 2, when I come here I dont proof.
    nm
    Why would they give you a choice of 16 or 24 hours. Usually part time is anything under 37 hours.

    That is extremely odd. Well they must have something up their sleeves. Well I will be working elsewhere part time as well as with MQ as I have no intention of sitting 40 hours with no work from Amherst and be expected to have 150 lph with no work. What is all this window of work time they said they would be giving everyone. I figured all along they would do away with SE. I have already been looking around and ordered a new computer  to send theirs back.


     


    Any companies that allow line count rather than hours or less than 20 hours per week? (sm)

    Wouldn't mind having something extra especially with Christmas and general winter expenses coming up but working a FT job and really don't want to do another 20 hours on top of that. 


     


    the day has 24 hours, I work only 6-8 hours, so, lots of time to post...nm
    nm
    Must we choose either 8, 16 or 24 hours. Why would they want someone only working 8 hours a week.
    That is less than SE are required now.
    MDI-FL. Approximately 7 hours a month x12 months =84 hours
    And your PTO acrues from day 1. You are just unable to utilize it until after 90 days. They have excellent benefits.
    You can have insurance at 30 hours with Encompass, 32 hours with eTransPlus. nm

    Sad but true. You're asked to work NOW, then asked to stop NOW, then go again and then stop
    If you dont get off the minute the hospital asks, even if you have no idea that they have requested that your to be off, then the hospital MTs steal your work right out of your queue and I mean reports you have already done. I dont understand the concept of having a contract with a hospital and then having to fight for work with the hospital MTs. We should have guaranteed work during our shift and enough of the the hospital wants you to help right now and then a few hours later they want us to stop working as the work is too low. It is crazy and I couldnt work like that so I had to quit.
    10-15 an hour for 8 hours is better than nothing for 8 hours when there is no work.
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    You do not get PTO for 16 hours a week. 24 hours or more for the PTO. nm
    :
    That's exactly what I was going to say. Yes, I work at least 12 hours a day, sometimes 15 hours
    to get all of my line count in because I have so many interruptions in my day.  There is no way I would tell my company this nor expect them to pay me OT that they never asked you to do. Unless, I was called by my supervisor and asked to work extra for OT, I would never just take it upon myself to work and expect to be paid.  If you were not authorized to work OT, then your not getting paid. Point blank. I do not work at TT, but I have worked at enough jobs, at home as an MT and otherwise outside of home, that all have the same policy, your paid OT when your asked to work it. It's it is just a case of not being able to get your required line count in 8 hours, then maybe your in the wrong profession or possibly just the wrong company/account for you. This just seems bizarre to me. Just tell yourself, your not getting paid for OT because they aren't approving it so don't work it. Again, if you were asked to work OT, told it would be OT, and then they ask you not to record it, I'd pitch a fit, but from what I see, you've done this on your own.
    ? 13.33 for 3 hours ($4.44 hours) am I doing it right. Geez!!!!!i
    .
    Why would anyone work 8 hours a week. The poster above said 16 or 24 hours a week.
    :
    ok-you asked for it.........sm
    Good points: Pay always on time and always correct.

    Bad points: Work flow is not consistent (some days plenty of work, some days no work at all on the system).

    Their QA for eScription Accounts are very inconsistent and do not follow account specifics. Change correct things and terms to incorrect terms (very very frustrating).

    Indian based and Indian run company.

    They subcontract out most of their eScription work to other MTSO companies.

    Don't know about the other side of it using their NetCare system. I work on their eScription side of things, which is all run by the India based company.

    Since they are eating up all of the eScription accounts, I thought I'd try them - needless to say it is not very profitable.

    Don't count on making good money there. Many days without work.

    To each their own. It may be a good fit for some.
    I asked for more

    and that's what I was told the line rate I could get. 


    And to top it all, I have a friend who has TWO YEARS experience and was offered 8 c/line for a PT position.  PART TIME!!!  And I'm getting 8.5/line for FT with all that experience in acute care?  Something stinks here. 


    Wouldn't you be upset????


     


    Sorry...I asked this before
    but can't find the post!  Does anyone know a good website that lists most MT companies (besides MT Daily).  Thank you.
    Know what FTP is. That's why I asked who uses it. nm
    nm
    I asked that down below...
    and no one seemed to know about the platform except to watch your line count? Not sure what that means.
    since you asked, yes, 1 do nm

    nm


     


    Not what I asked about but thanks anyway. SM
    The drug testing doesn't bother me.   I would just like to know the answers to my questions before I apply. 
    Same here. Have never been asked if CMT or not. I'm not. nm
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    yes they do...have you asked for one?
    nm
    Yes I asked -
    x
    I asked that below...
    but didn't get any reply.  Not sure that's a bad thing or a good thing!
    Well, have you ever asked?
    to be able to fluctuate your working hours?  Guess that would make a difference.
    Have you ever asked
    Unfair, yes and no. I do know they have called others who were not working when they were scheduled to be. It probably depends on what account you are on, and so may not actually change anything except that you will have to clock in and out each time you quit and start during the day.
    I tried to tell you below when you asked, but
    you don't seem to want to heed the advice given, not only by me but the numerous others who posted.  In this day and age no company can guarantee you work. 
    Not what I asked.
    Then, how many MTs does TT have? Big company? Little company? I would like a number cause I'm curious.
    I know that this has been asked before BUT (sm)

    Can anyone give me information on TTD, Inc?  It is also known as TTD and The Transcription Doctors.  I have searched the archives with all 3 names and cannot find anything.  However, when I googled them I found 2 older posts on MTstars for them but was hoping for more current information.  TIA


    Since you asked...I believe it's
    We've gone from typewriters and using White-out to desktops and using Word shortcuts. That changed the way we transcribe. Because of the internet and home computers, a lot more of us are able to work from home.

    Now, the same is happening with EMRs. How it all plays out is anybody's guess. My guess is there will be *growing pains* but, in the end, transcriptionists will never be without some sort of job. Someone mentioned data mining below, and there's also data tagging, which will probably become an *official* title here pretty soon.

    There's also the opinion in
    http://www.medical-transcription-and-you.com/healthcare-emr.html (you'll have to copy and paste) that there are still hundreds of millions of records being dictated the old-fashioned way, which will need transcriptionists to type them.
    I believe that someone asked about this same

    company a few days ago and someone else posted on the company but it would be wayyyyyyyyyyy on down the page by now or a couple of pages over.  People are answering posts on various companies, it is just with so many posts by MDIers and Transcenders they are getting shifted down very fast. 


    Hope you are able to find the post!! 


    Have you asked them about it yet?
    That may just mean that if you drop your signal or something you're on your own. I would think that it would severely limit their employee pool if they only hired people who had one and only one person hard-wired into the modem at any given time.
    Have you asked them about it yet?
    After reading the 2nd agreement that says I can't have a wireless router, but I can have a regular router with Ethernet cord, I called help desk on the chance that someone would answer at 3 AM. A guy did and said that lots of people have routers, but you can't use the wireless kind and to call back when the office is open.
    Yes, they asked for volunteers to help out.

    nm


     


    I'm not kicking anything. Someone asked
    shared my experience. I really don't think a $110 loss on my taxes is going to make or break me. I'm just giving people the heads-up on this company and how nasty they can be.
    I asked this same question the
    other day and got no responses.  I saw an ad for them on another site and was curious.  I also called directory assistance - no listing.