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MTSO 1 needs MT but for some reason hasn't been able to fill the position(s) so subcontracts with MTSO 2 to use #2s employees for #1s work. MTSO 2 goes and hires MTs who will remain employees of MTSO 2 but do all their work through MTSO 1's server.

Anyone heard of something like this? They do not disclose the name of MTSO 1 when asked.

I am re-posting this because it got deleted with an earlier thread that was deleted. I had wrote it in response to a rather angry post. I am not re-posting this to be argumentative with anyone, just because I feel I need to get it off my chest so to speak. So here goes...

Maybe I am the only one, but do we really have to bash each other on spelling errors or typos when we post on this board? I get so tired of worrying about what I type in a message on here because inevitably someone will point out what is spelled wrong or some grammar issue or whatever. After typing for 8 hours a day and having to be perfect, this board should be a SAFE place to get support, encouragement, or help not some kind of place for some people to get their kicks on feeling superior to someone else. Yes spelling and grammar should be second nature to us and it is VERY important, but I don't get paid to proof my posts nor do I really care to. Just my 2 cents here.

I know that we are not paid what we are worth in this profession, but let's get real for a minute ---

Right now, how many people are crying because they are paying $3.50-$4.00 a gallon for gasoline to get to work everyday and it is taking 25% of their bring home pay to do that - on top of that, how many people are facing a layoff right now or a loss of a job completely - and we are all sitting here with job security and not losing our money to the big oil companies, and yet we continue to complain. I know a lot of people that do not make what they are worth, firemen, policeman, teachers, daycare workers, yet they go to their job everyday, because they chose that profession.

We still make a good living when everything is compared - I personally make $36.00 an hour as an employee on a regular basis. I am not paying out all that gas money, I am not having to buy 2 sets of clothes for work and home life, I am not having to pack bag lunches and eat at my desk or go out to eat every day and spend even more money... I don't have to spend hours on the road everyday sitting in traffic and then having to come home and do all that is required in my personal life.

Okay, so what is we change to voice recognition one day and have to do twice as many lines to make the same amout of money - it is easier to do twice the amount of lines in voice recognition because you are not typing, you are mostly just reading along with the doctor and making an occasional correction to the documents. I think that would be much easier on my hands than typing all day.

Let's find something to be happy about!!! If you think the job is awful, then by all means, find you something else that you think will make you happy; I for one still think that transcription is a worthwhile profession, I feel that I am providing a much needed service, and I choose to be happy and will continue to do this as long as there is work - which in my opinion, will be for my lifetime at least!

What did we ever do before style guidelines? How did we ever type? I guess we have been doing it wrong for all these years. Now we are being graded. What is that about. Am I in grade school. I have been there and done that. Went to college and being treated like an idiot.

I am copying this from the MQ board and feel it is so important that it belongs here! We may have some new muscle here. At least there is hope....

"I found out about this by reading an MT blog written by Jay Vance, CMT. This newly formed organization is addressing off-shoring of transcription work. Membership dues for the first 500 members is free. American Transcription Association. Check it out here:

http://www.ataus.org/

would like to purchase a DAC-125 unit for transcribing. Please let me know if you have one of these for sale.

Just wondering if any of you have experienced a lot of "knocks" starting out in transcription. I took an at-home course in 98 and finally got hired in 2000 and trained in office for 8 months. I worked at home for about 3 months then my husband divorced me. I continued to work in the medical field for the next 4 years, doing work in a hospital that included med term and typing with 98% accuracy or actual transcription. My problem is when I find a job my feedback is that I am leaving little words out, or not paying close enought attention to detail. What can I do to improve this? the only thing I can think of is just keep practicing but I can't keep an actual transcripton job long enough! What do I do?

Last year I paid $845 for 600 gal of oil with a 2 months to pay. Yesterday, I recieved our contract for this winter and it would cost $1517!!!!!

Guess who won't be taking the contract. That's ridiculous. The country is going to go broke at this rate. They want $759 for 300 gallons. That takes us 3 months into the winter, but......where do they think the seniors and others are going to get this money?

Guess old Mamma Bear is coming out of storage this year. Wood is no problem for us. We have a stockpile for the garage coal & wood stove and a friend that has 11 acres of woods he likes certain areas cleared every year.

This is a good example of what I am trying to say....In the search box I put "People's Support Transcription". When I got to my options, I saw a response from this web site; about the second one down. Did you know that our posts are not exclusive to MT Stars? They go out for the WORLD to see!!

Is it typical for a co. to deduct for errors? I have had some, but nothing that is overly noticable.

Looking at several different options. Metroscript, MyDocsOnline, and Files To Go seem to be at the top of my list so far. I would appreciate any feedback as to experience with this program. Thank you.

files. The lead MT at the clinic where I worked verified that it was not a technical problem and that the doctor most likely pushed the mute button. Now, I am told to go into each file and type "***" on the page. Over 30 files. It is quite laborious

Download the voice file, open up MS Word, transfer voice film from one file to another, close it, type document, exit voice file, exit Word, save document. Then, onto the next.

Well, ya know, I am paid by the line and three asterisks are going to give me about 2 cents. What do you think of this? The in-house lead is paid by the hour. I think she should go into each file and do this. If she comes upon one he miraculously managed to dictate on, she could send it to me. I am IC.

We just bought a house and moved out of a renal townhome that is owned by a huge property management company. I always always go the extra mile to make sure I leave a place clean, way more than a lot of people. I spent hours cleaning and we didn't leave a single speck of anything in that house. The carpets were immaculate because we had plastic runns in the high traffic areas, etc. I scrubbed baseboards, window sills, floors, painted over all the scratches and nail holes (same paint), everything. Got our refund yesterday on the deposit and they charged us for ELEVEN HOURS of cleaning. In the description they said that this that and the other thing was VERY dirty, counter tops being one thing. I swear I scoured the counters with cleanser not long before I finished the job. I find it very offensive to have all these things listed as VERY dirty. They're full of you know what. Do you think it's just a racket to ding you for more money? They also charged us 160 dollars to shampoo those perfectly clean carpets. It seems like cleaning that is not beyond the usual amount should be THEIR responsibility as part of the business of renting out their units. They just want to pass on everything including routine maintenence onto their tenants. Just had to vent.

The hospital I work for has called the at home Transcriptionist and told them if they do not meet a 1000 line a day line, with a 10,0000 line pay period they would suspend us for three days, the next time is termination. They also have out sourced alot of the work that has recently been dictated. My question where do I find legal advice for my line of work. I am a full time employee, I recieve insurance and retirement, they tell us when we have to work, adding onto our schedule, then tell us we have to work weekends and holidays to lower the count. We do not receive overtime, holiday pay, vacation time, or sick time. With us being a full time employee, we have also been by passed when across the board raises have been given to other full time employees. I just want to know what the in home transcriptionist legal rights are and don't know where to find them. Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

If you had to pick just one cake, what would it be? I love just about any kind of cake, but I have to say honeybun is my all-time favorite. I think I could eat the whole thing if I tried.

Any other absolute favorite desserts? Oatmeal candy has been at the top of my list since childhood. My mom always made it at Christmas and now I always like to do the same. Yummy!

I hate getting a dictator - 10 minutes of dictation equals one page because of the back and forth and "please change this to" when I can get 10 mintues form another dictator and have four pages because they actually know what they want to say.

We don't get paid for the characters or spaces that they change four or five times during their dictation. Just once I feel like sending them VERBATIM and let them see what they sound like to us. I am not sure I would want to go to a doctor that has to decide whether it was my left or right five times, or even if I am male or female and whether I had chest pain.

What cpl rate, 65 character, should I go for w/9 years experience typing acute care and Associate Degree in HIM? I'm at 8 cpl now and that is not paying the bills. Thanks

Not sure if this link will work tomorrow to get you to this same comic strip. It's about this guy's job being outsourced to India.

Could someone explain the difference between an office note and a SOAP note when doing transcribing for a specialty doctor. Thanks.

Okay I work from home for a small company, 4 yrs now. When I first started, I could really bust out the lines. It kind of reminds me of a sewing factory. They will �have me on pockets and then switch me to collars!� Meaning when you start making production they switch you. Great people to work for but now I find I can hardly stay awake to do the job. I do have insomnia so that does not help. Will work 10-6 and sometime have to take a break. In a typical day I will not to sleep until about 3 sometimes 4 in the morning but then sleep until 9:30 sometimes 9:55 and then get up and work. I know that is ridiculous. I am have serious OCD when it comes to my desk set up. If things are out of line I have to have them straight or I can�t get comfortable. Like if a book or a piece of paper is sitting sideways, I will feel like I am leaning or sitting cockeyed, to the point that it actually causes muscle strain. My office walls are a lime green or pistachio color. So much for that signifying Money! I am at the point now that I think it is the color and the lighting. It causes such a strain on my eyes. Plus I three different accounts use different accounts using different fonts. Mainly courier and then Arial. The courier will be so faint and then boom there is the bold huge Arial. I am working on changing jobs because I have absolutely no benefits with this company. I also work jobs on the side when local physicians of hospitals need someone to catch them up. Usually this is on my days off. I find myself struggling to 500 lines in an 8 hour day, yet I can work these extra jobs, no matter if I go in or work at home and I can bust out 1300+ in anywhere from 5-7 hours. I have been doing this 24 years so this absolutely makes no sense to me. Some days I will type 8 hrs at home and then go in and do 8 hours at hospital, clearing out over 2 hours of dictation at a time. I have decided that it is all in my mind. I love doing ESL doctors but the ones I type for, one yawns all of the time and I am the only one that does him and the others have something wrong with their recording system and there are always areas of static and you have to back up and do it again and finally it will come through. Am I just loosing it or what? All psychological? One week I took vacation which I did not get paid for, only to go to another facility and work! Big difference in a 8.5 cpl paycheck and a 15 cpl check! I�ve decided I�d rather be the �traveling transcripitionist�. Funny thing is I can sit at this same computer and type up until 3 a.m. on the second jobs and be wide awake, but let me sign on to my company and it�s sleeping beauty all over again! So am I loosing it. Maybe its because I know I have no benefits and I�m getting nowhere?

Does anyone use the DocQScribe platform and think the line count is correct? When I worked at MQ, after switching to DQS, my line count went down, down, down. They did later reimburse us for an inaccurate line count, but this makes me hesitate to work for any other company that uses DQS.

To anyone using this NOT working at MQ - it is set up so you can only get 2 jobs at a time and when you sign off your job it is automatically sent? (I hated this feature at MQ) Would appreciate any comments about this.

January 22, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- Malicious software that was sent out in millions of spam messages over the weekend has now infected about 300,000 computers, making it the worst malware outbreak since 2005, Symantec Corp. said Monday.

The so calledStorm Worm e-mail messages first started appearing last Wednesday, advertising attached news reports on topics like "230 Dead as storm batters Europe," or U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has kicked German Chancellor."

The attachments have names such as "Full Story.exe" or "Full Video.exe." Once they are launched, these files install malicious software that then waits to receive further instructions over the Internet.

The malware is not actually a worm, however, and infected PCs do not immediately start spreading the software to other computers. Instead, Storm has been spreading more rapidly over the past few days as its creators have pumped out more and more malicious e-mail messages.

"Over the weekend, it really kicked into high gear," said Patrick Martin, senior product manager with Symantec Security Response.

The last time malicious software spread this quickly was in May 2005, when the Sober.O mass-mailing worm affected a similar number of systems, Martin said.

The latest versions of the worm include similarly provocative news headlines and malicious attachments, but the criminals have added a twist over the past few days: the text of the e-mail messages now contains glowing reviews of penny stocks, apparently designed to fuel "pump and dump" stock scams.

Some of the e-mail messages have also been changed to prey on the romantic, security vendor F-Secure Corp. warned. Recent versions of these Trojan e-mails have contained subject lines such as "A Bouquet of Love," "A Day in Bed Coupon," or "A Monkey Rose for You."

Computer under warranty and the modem went bad. Called tech support and I told them the modem was bad (I am not a computer idiot), but went through everything with them anyway. Of course, they could not help and stated that I had to go through software support before I could be sent a new modem under the warranty. The first thing you get in software support is a salesperson. I told her this was NOT a software problem but I had been told I had to go through software support before I could get a new modem. It cost me $54.23 for a one-time software support problem. Before I did this, I asked her if I would receive a refund if this was determined not to be a software problem, which I already knew it wasn't. She said,'YES, just call this phone number back and give us your case number and we will issue a refund'. So like an idiot, and because I happen to trust people, I paid. I called them right back to advise that software support determined I needed a new modem and to please issue a refund."OKAY - we will issue a refund' the girl says. Now after 2 months I still have not received a refund and the 'refund supervisor' tells me they cannot issue one because I did receive software support. She says they will 'counsel' the girl that lied to me. I told her I never would have gone through software support if I had know that, and if I had not been LIED to, because the new modem only cost $14 if I had purchased it outright so why would I pay $54 to get a free $14 part???? DELL LIES! They just lost my business. I can afford the $54, but it is the principle of the thing. I hate the way big corporations can lie to you and get away with it. My grandfather owned a small grocery store. If someone called to ask the price of ground beef and an employee told them a price that was lower than the actual price, he would have sold it to that customer for that amount. He would not have said,'Sorry but you have to pay the correct price and I will COUNSEL the employee'. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO COMMON DECENCY AND CUSTOMER SERVICE????

I sent an e-mail regarding this post asking if it were legit as it seems to be posted quite frequently and the general feeling on this board is that this company 'tests' with current work needing typed. See company board under original response for her post.

She responded by sayng "My ad is very detailed because I am particular about whom I hire, as anyone who works for me carries my company name and work ethics. If you feel there are too many requirements and that the pay is "ridiculously low," then why would you want the job? I have worked in this business now since 1989, and I can assure you that the pay is more than reasonable."

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