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Again, I am pulling for you. Please dont let me

Posted By: down. (As if you care about that, lol) nm on 2008-02-18
In Reply to: Anyone know? - lynn

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    Why dont you stop coming in and agitating everyone under all your different names. Dont you work.
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    Dont you think MQ will just keep hiring new people who dont know they lost lines because they are

    new. I betcha.


    If you dont try to fill in blank or research, dont
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    The way I understand it if you dont keep below 10 to 15% QA you dont get the bonus even if your QA
    score remains above 98% so you see as the other poster said you are between a rock and a hard place and I expect this is MQ way of getting out of paying a bonus to people. I see it this way anyhow. I plan to continue to send unclear things to QA and that is the way it is. I expect depending on the new pay scale on top of this they will be losing a lot of MTs anyhow as they continue to miser everyone out of money.
    Do you honestly think they do. I dont. I dont think some of them can even understand some of the

     reports they listen to quite frankly.


    If you dont want to read a thread, then dont.
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    I think she's pulling your leg sm
    what she is claiming is next to impossible! Sorry, I don't believe you!
    lol, not pulling your leg (sm)
    I really did try the avatar months ago with no luck.  However, this time I did go into edit my information so maybe it "reset" something.  Glad you can see my butterfly wings............
    Hair pulling day
    Same doc on two notes.  Left 26 blanks total. 
    RE: Pulling my hair out
    I have had 2 people working for me for almost 5 years and have to repeatedly check over their work. Should I get rid of them or is this is the norm.
    RE: Pulling my hair out

    I have to read over each report that they send me because of careless errors like putting the month of June on the notes instead of July.  Of course, blanks are always going to happen from time to time, I realize that.  I am referring to the careless things that happen with the incorrect spelling of medications, etc. Why I still pay keep them I guess is because I am too nice, but it is wearing off very, very quickly.


    Pulling my hair out
    Yes I do give them very good feedback and every time these errors appear I am in contact with them all the time. This is an easy account with clear dictators and it is the same account they have worked on for some years so it is just time to do something. I have tried being patient, correcting, but I will do the next best thing and alert them that they are on probation; if they don't straighten out then I will either start deducting for these careless errors or lay them off.
    i think the little guy is pulling out his hair!!
    Interesting post. I thought it was just me, after MTing so many years. First of all, i was told 30+ years ago to try and sit off-center from the keyboard and see if it helped my accuracy -- it worked wonders!! I tend to sit a tad to the right of it and angle the right upper corner of the keyboard up a bit too. I find i have less arm fatigue and less strain on my carpal-tunnel-feeling nerves to be closer to the board. Sometimes i even put the keyboard in my lap -- and it really does seem to help the comfort alot, just a bit of a bother to situate my keyboard when i get up and down from the desk tho. I also find, contrary to smart-people thoughts, that i do better with my keyboard low enough that my arms are not at right angles to it. we MTs are a bit finicky eh?
    Are you pulling in templates? If so,
    you will have to check and make sure they are set on 100%.
    I think you must tell your mother why you're pulling away from her. sm

    It can't be fair to her that she does not know why you're treating HER like this.  She's done nothing wrong.  You need to tell her how you feel but point it to the fact that for your emotional health and safety you can't be in situations with your stepfather.  Talk to her about keeping close to her without him  and if she's doesn't want that, then you'll not be seeing her for awhile.  I don't believe your mother is not strong enough to know the truth and it could possibly kick you in the pants in the end.  It certainly may feel like a "darned if you don't, darned if you do" situation, but why make your mother feel that she's done something wrong, point that finger where it needs to be pointed, you're uncomfortable with him. 


    I say that about her being strong enough, but in an entirely different situation where my dad kept secrets about my brother, after my dad died my mom found out about these secrets which my dad felt she was not strong enough to handle, and it caused great harm to the relationship between my mom and myself.  I can only hope that one day she can get over the deception that she feels we all pulled on her, even though it was at my dad's request because of her health.  I truly wish I had told her a long time ago to save myself the mess that I deal with now by myself because my dad's not here to take the blame for us keeping secrets from my mom.  


    Why distance yourself from your mom without it being for the truth?  Is it really not that important?  You'll have to decide.  My best to you and yours.


    OMG! Pulling my hair out here! Venting...


    I have an ESL who speaks very fast, but when I slow him down, he sounds like a very drunk ESL.  He tends to speak rather softly until the last 3 or 4 words of his dicatation, when he actually speaks into whatever he dictates into and I can hear those few words very well.  This guy has been a pebble in my shoe for far too long!


    Ok, venting over.  Ignore the crazy lady.  


    Your mail carrier was pulling yer leg
    jokes on you!
    If US MD's were pulling stuff back into US pay would be going up. It's going down.
    because of offshoring and because of other replacements for MT (VR and EMR), pay is going down. Face it. There are cheaper alternatives for US MTs. The quality is not as good, but it is good enough. Yea, yea, yea "lawsuits, bla, bla, bla." Nice theory but ain't happening.
    My MTSO recommends not pulling up more SM
    than 3 documents. For reports in storage, I found that's about half a minute or less total to pull up 3 of them individually, scan, and move on. Google searches somewhat more but not more than a couple minutes at most to find an answer or realize it's hidden and move on. The point in this case being that they want a conscientious effort made to produce high-quality documents with few blanks but haven't found it cost effective for us to spend more than a minute or two on filling a blank.

    Timing an actual minute while you to a search is revealing; it's actually a pretty long time that you could be using to churn out...what? 160+ lines with the help of your expander?
    30 years and I'm still pulling my hair out sometimes
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    no but these remote companies have a habit of pulling the
    Tell you one thing and do another once youre under lock and key.  I don't trust them anymore, so I'd rather stay right where I am.
    i'm not an editor pulling my hair out or hollering at anyone. You are.
    what a joke. you think you are superior but when i make $25-30 an hour with no sweat, no problem, no hollering, no pulling my hair out, and you are left hollering with BP in the too high digits, who is dumb? bwwwaaaaaahaaaaaaaa
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    I agree... I'm pulling my hair out some days with my own kids..
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    I dont know. I didnt care then and I dont care now.
    Just me

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    Hello....YOU dont get it!
    She is 18.  She is an adult.  Her parents didn't "send" her there.  She went with her friends.  Her parents, I am sure, instilled values in her.  But she, like most peoples young teenage children, probably was acting like all the other young teenagers there and having fun.  No one said she had no values.  She made a bad decision.  Your children could do the same, no matter how you have raised them.  Should you be persecuted because of it?  I think you don't have a clue. 
    I dont know
    I do not carry it now with the company I am an IC for, but I am new in the field so I rely on asking you guys
    I dont believe you
    I really doubt you transcribe that many lines in an 8 hour day five days a week. You must do a single ESL dictator. You must be one of the lucky ones who gets to use all of those "normal" reports. Since I moved to DQS all I get is ESL dictators and NO use of normals or canned reports.
    Still dont believe ya
    If you are doing straight typing and not using normals, let us in on your secret. I concentrate! I have a positive attitude! I can also type 120 words a minute! You must type 300+ words a minute. Well, just stay happy because soon you will not be getting the same type of work and you will be in ESL h-e-double toothpicks! Enjoy it while you can.
    No I dont. I am from the NE.
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    DONT go to SPI.
    nm
    you dont' know.

    This is why I think the old "page" and "half page" method of pay was better for everyone.  I think it forced everyone to be honest. 


    Do you think they'll ever bring back 'per page' method of billing ?


    usually dont pay anything in
    and last year managed to get 1800.00 back.  Love the write-offs!
    I dont know but sm
    A couple of them work in the office and I dont know if they put two and two together when I went to the office a couple of times or what. Or maybe he was just lying. I think it has to be the most rotten thing to do to anyone. What if something would have happened to me on the Interstate on the way home all because he couldnt just save me the trouble and do it over the phone? I have a husband who was highly upset that I drove all the way there for that.
    dont know about

    your Word problem - would seem that if you change it once in your transcription platform, that should hold from day to day.


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    I dont think there's much else I can add
    to all the great posts below, but you MUST know that you DO indeed have a job(s) and are working very hard. Sometimes parents can be so harsh and thoughtless.  Give yourself a big pat on the back and affirm to yourself that you are doing a GREAT job with everything in your life!  You are home for your kids and husband after all, and what's more important than that?!
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    Just joking!!!  I have been following your posts and noticed you have been told where to go all weekend.  Poor guy.  But you seem to be taking it well!  Good for you.


    and good luck to you!


    You dont have to have a CMT to be an MT - (nm)
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    just dont know
    I have been doing this for almost six years. I know that to some of you, this isnt long, but considering I am 25, to me it is a good chunk of my life. I have loved every minute of my career as a transcriptionist.

    My first job out the gate, with no experience, I made about 18,000 the first year. I stayed with that company for almost five years. Contractor status, no benefits, yada yada yada. the income fluctuated a bit in either direction, but overall it was okay.

    Now I am a single mom of two. I work for a different company now that does actually offer the option of employee status with benefits, PTO, et cetera..i turned that down..i know i am crazy.

    just to give you an idea of the potential and possibilities, i made almost 250 in two days. 1600 lines one day, 1200 the other.

    There is a but..I often work twelve or more hour days...That is my choice, and no one elses...my line committment to my company is between 500 and a 1000 a day, but i think i am on paper as 500...i worked for 5 months without a footpedal and without a medical spellcheck/expander..so i did EVERYTHING manually

    But ya know what, I still love every minute of it.
    I'm an IC so I dont know if it is the same...
    I made the mistake of "asking" for a raise just last week. I have been with this same office (a three doctor practice) for seven years. Not only was their response not to give me a raise, they want to make it so I'm actually making LESS. So I'm not sure how it works with a big company, but I know in my situation, I'm disheartened and upset. I figured with a big company they would say no, or they dont care about you, but in a small practice that I have felt part of the "family" so to speak... it was a shock. So much for loyalty in this industry! The problem comes in that I don't make enough money anymore to cover the expenses of inflation over the past seven years. I understand the need to cut costs in times like these, but how bad could it really be by not giving me a minimal raise? It's quite a slap in the face. I laid out the points of why I should be receiving the raise...(like 7 years alone without one isn't enough) but that's what you would normally do when asking for a raise, show your dedicated work, your accuracy, etc. If you do ask, I'd really love to hear back from you how it went so I know in the future what to expect. Good luck!
    i dont really want to know!!!
    haha