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At my company, as soon as they start showing improvement, they are gone and we get a new batch.

Posted By: nm on 2006-05-03
In Reply to: I, too, edit Indian files ; they are getting better! sm - QA

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That might explain why I just received a batch of emails from yesterday.
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Start your own company
See if you can get doctors to pay you more than 10 cpl (when they can send it to India for 4 CPL) and see how much you can pay your MTs.

6-8 CPL is the current industry standard. If you don't like it, it's not the MTSOs fault. Start your own business and get your own clients and you can make those couple of extra cents for yourself and deal with all the rest of the headache that goes along with it. :)
Does company start with a W
I also got the shotty wrong on a test. I have always been told it was shotty, but was corrected on a test by the recruiter who said it was shoddy and marked me wrong.
Does the name of this company start with a B?
You really have me curious now.  If so, e-mail me!  Would love to chat.  I get e-mail addresses, but am afraid to e-mail by coworkers for fear of them getting the wrong idea.  Does the person start with O?
I can start with the company I work for.
I won't name names, of course, but I do know that almost half of their MTs are foreign - I know this because I used to QA their work. This company is a small, family-owned company - maybe 150 MTs, so if even half of the larger companies offshore that much, that's a pretty significant number.

As far as how to make a reporter find out the actual number, I think the main idea behind the letter should be to get the information out there that offshoring exsists with companies other than computer technology and call centers. If more people knew that their medical records were being sent out of the country, they might pressure their mayors or governors or congressmen to find out exactly how much of this is going on.

It could work like the ripple on a pond from throwing in a stone - all we have to do is throw the stone and see what happens.
What company is this for? I am supposed to start
training on Meditech for the company I work for. You got me freaked out.
It isn't about showing MTs the money, it's about showing
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Average pay to start with a company after being an MT for 5+ years FT?
I am new to the job marked (have worked on my own for 5 years) and am looking at some of the MT positions.  Can anyone tell me (I realize all places pay differently) on an average your best guess at what a decent 65 character line rate would be to start?  I had been offered 7.5 cents at one place and I thought that was pretty low.  Would appreciate any opinions.  Thank you!
self improvement
Did you read Amanda's last comment? Here it is:

' I am going to college to get into another profession and be done with all of this.'

My answer:

I applaud this sentence in your last comment.
And for THIS I say 'Thank you, Amanda!'. For being so courageous and honest.

Working like a 'horse', eating lunch at the computer, not having time to go to the bathroom, taking only a total of 40 minute break in an 8-hour workday, is NOT a good suggestion to improve work conditions and an incentive for self improvement. This is slavery.

Therefore Amanda decided to go to college and give it ALL up.
Good for her!


When the company asked me to start making long distance phone calls,
they offered to pay my long distance for the charges. I then got a cheap long distance plan to make the charges for them more reasonable.

You need to JUST SAY NO to making long distance calls for them. If they will pay for it then do it, otherwise no way.
Always room for improvement

I do agree that they have areas where they need to improve but I promise you that they are working hard at making changes for the better for the good of the MTs out there.  I'm sure I'm going to get slammed for coming to their defense (I can take it), but I just find it a bit hypocritical that so many people are so quick to bash them but yet don't hesitate to send folks to the organization when they need something such as the QA Document.


I probably shouldn't have jumped to conclusions (yes, I'm guilty), as I don't have any idea if those who posted above referring this person to AAMT are pro-AAMT or not.  But, still want to say hooray for seing SOMETHING positive being posted on this board about AAMT.  No, they are not perfect but they have achieved great things and greater things to come, I feel confident.


I was wonering if there has been improvement

I see they have a bad rep in the archives, but I heard they were better now.


Thanks for your response--8 cpl starting is what I have seen a lot of on here for other companies. Does anyone know about editing starting out pay with SoftScript?


 


A trailer would be an improvement over my house.
I would love to be able to afford a nice trailer.  At least most of them have two bathrooms.  Right now they are out of my league.  I live in an older house on a farm (170 acres that we have paid for).   I am not sure I would enjoy living in a "park", but more because of the lack of privacy than for pride.  Now there are really nice upscale communities of manufactured homes.  Of course there are still a lot of snobs around who look down at their noses at anyone who does not live up to perceived standards.  My brother works for a dealership.  I have visited and looked at those homes.  Some of them are out of this world.  Some are made up to the quality of a regular house and cost accordingly.  With some of the shoddy construction I have seen in new homes lately, no one really can honestly say that these houses are any better than a "trailer".
Production improvement plan?
A friend of mine who is a fellow scribe has a supervisor who is asking her to come up with a "production improvement plan."  Assuming that her Expanders are already highly functional (she ony adds to them from time to time after 15 months of working on the same account), any other ideas of what a production improvement plan would consist of? 
Work 2 jobs here to pay off home improvement. sm
I am currently working a second job to pay for some home improvements.  I figured it would take about 3 years to pay off the debt but now it is looking like it will be more like 2 - 2 1/2 years.  My kids are older so they understand but I am TIRED!.  I have worked this second job for about 1 1/2 years now and while I am glad I had it available, I am about ready to quit the second job.  What good is a nice house if I am to exhausted to enjoy it and my family?
Taco Salad and the really hot Aussie home improvement guy ...
CAN'T remember his name. He'd be able to fix up a nice little hut! Ooooolala!
Unfortunately showing my age here, but
Yul Brynner was always the greatest to me!!  Just wish he was still alive!!!  What a sexy man!!!!!
showing my age
I was only 7 when it came out (just checked), so it's just now becoming a classic for me (he, he, he).
And I'm really glad it wasn't meant to be mean.
you are showing your IGNORANCE
Apparently that is all you have gained from 'getting out, living and learning'.

Knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.

I hope you truly 'get smart' by the time you have to give an account for all you have done and not done to the One that made you.
What? How in the world can you say that? I AM showing
compassion. Yes, I'm a mother. I can't pat her on the back and try to settle her. She seemed upset. I was trying to soothe her irritation, literally.

I think you have taken me wrong. I'm very tender with my babies and I thought I was coming across that way to the post above as well.

Gee, I'm sorry if she took that wrong.
I think I did not speak clearly about the just showing up MTs

If a company hires only ICs, then they cannot expect them to work except for the times they want. 


Typing less than 100 lines a day is not pocketchange because of the pay. 


I don't want to worry about the IRS showing

up on my doorstep, so I have my taxes done by H&R Block.  No guarantee that you still won't have problems with IRS, but it makes me feel better.  I don't claim my house/utilities.  I don't claim nickel and dime stuff either. 


When my mother died exactly a week later I get a letter from the IRS stating she owed $25,000.00 - no explanation.  I was freaking, not only was I grieving but having to worry about this.  I wrote a very nice letter, sent them a copy of her death certificate, and said I thought the issue was a roll-over of an IRA.   My mom didn't have much money and I knew that she had rolled over one so I was just guessing.   They sent me a letter a couple of weeks later saying the situation had been resolved and no monies due.  I  don't know what the problem was, but 5 years later I still have that letter.


 


Absolutely! They are showing this whole
last season all summer long. Every Tuesday night...two episodes back to back.
Your young age is showing!
I remember the dictabelt, we had to mark it with chalk to know where to start it up. Talk about archaic! The times they are a'changin! (and for this part - the better!)
Minnie, you are showing your
ignorance. You must get off on bashing people? Are you that miserable of a person? I think it is safe to assume that you don't have much of a life, probably because no one can stand being around someone so negative. Grow up!!
Sorry, then, was showing my ignorance! :) nm
nm
The memory showing says up to on
all of them, which means that is the maximum you can have, but you customize.  You can pick the cheapest one, but by the time you customize it, it can be $200 to $300 more.    I looked at them all and the processor speed is not that fast.  Depending on what programs you use it may be too slow.    I would get one with a faster processor speed.    You may also want to get a laptop with XP instead of Vista since there are still so many bugs with it. 
showing my ignorance
I did not know there were services like that, how do you contact them, what are they called?
and ridiculing someone instead of showing--sm
compassion towards any given person or situation is NOT making them a victim?
LOL..showing your age honey
I absolutely loved your post and agreed a gazillion percent; however, you ARE showing your age here....LOL... with Dr. Marcus Welby and Dr. Kildare... you forgo ZORBA too!!!  LOL.  Oh......the good ol days of good programs to watch......
They have been showing a great documentary on it on HBO lately--
really is good, depressing and upsetting of course, but gives a lot of insight I think.
Go RadGuy, your testosterone is showing NM
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and your lack of expectations for yourself is showing.
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LOVE that response about showing
up naked because you can't afford clothes!  ROTFL. Seriously, though, you should not have to put up with that, but then office politics are undeniably tough and all the troublemakers stick together so it can be difficult if you are the only one with 'the problem."  Bose headphones are the best but very pricey but maybe you can find some on EBay...Good luck!
Poor thing, your negativity is showing
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yeah, I keep firing myself but I keep showing up for work the next day.
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I agree. Unless you are showing a possessive form for
There are different situations to consider.

Plural forms:
Call all of your MTs and have them respond.

Possessive forms:
Make sure the MT's phone number is correct.

We have these 2 choices because there are 2 characters in this acronym.

When there is only 1 character (alpha or numeric), there is always an apostrophe, regardless.

Single characters:
The patient counted using serial 8's.

Please dot all I's and cross all T's appropriately.

Multiple characters:
In the 1980s, the bill was enacted.

Blood sugar was in the 300s on return of labs.

Mine are showing up after viewing the blank
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getting paid is showing appreciation for my work. that's all i care about.
who cares if some supervisor "appreciates" me?  i'm in it for the money not for someone to "appreciate" me. 
WHAT race card did she pull? Ever? And are you just being delusional and showing who and how YOU r
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I knew what she meant, thanks. I was just showing a funny, or at least I thought it was. Sorry to
  It was the "rumatyca" that got me laughing. 
Pardon me, but your ignorance and obvious lack of class are showing.
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No reason to feel good about it. Just showing that kids are going to get into trouble
So let them learn how to function in society rather than hide them from it.
She had an ectopic pregnancy. They were showing everything that happened in the past. Next week it

My Norton antivirus is showing a red X on my email and I have no idea what happened. How do I fix
that.
Some people like to keep a Time Clock thing showing on their monitors, too. But
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Monster search of diff. jobs showing range
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Well then, don't start at the beginning, start in
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3. CT scan showing an odontoid fracture at the base and also fracture of the posterior ALMA at C1-C2

You have your W2 showing very clearly those taxes were paid. MQ is responsible for those taxes
because you were a statutory employee. That is the responsibility of the employer to pay those just as though you were an employee.
What Company is This? I have been hired by a company that is sending a foot pedal.. Don't want t
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