IMHO, I would leave. (sm)
Posted By: mtmtmtmtmtmt on 2009-04-24
In Reply to: Can I please get opinions? - Irritated!!!!!!
Some people/companies are using the hard times right now to profit themselves, basically just reducing pay when there is really no need. Yes, I understand that there are legitimate companies who are in trouble and really need their employees to reduce their pay or lay them off.
BUT, ask the doctor if his income has changed in anyway. Has the patient load decreased? Are the insurance companies not paying? Its just like these executives who get a 250,000 bonus after they get bailed out, yet they are laying people off left and right. Just does not make sense to me and if they really think they can find another LPN to do their transcription and do their nursing, then they need to try and find one. I am sure you can get another job somewhere else where you will not get taken advantage of.
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IMHO...sm
QA gets the pits because the good ones aren't hard. I've never done QA, but I know the reports with blanks I do have are from really awful ESLs or Americans. I think I'm pretty good with ESLs, but some of it is just flat mush. And of course there are those folks who don't really care about what they're putting out, figuring QA will cover their butts. You're going to get the dregs just by nature of your job.
As far as going back to MT, if you love it, do it. Life is short, why hate your job? It's a big part of your life. I work for MQ and I'm doing fine, contrary to all the nay-sayers out there. I'd say research companies or look locally, because it's not all as bad as you might hear. I've worked in offices, as an IC, and now as an employee at a national. Good situations are out there, just do your research, and take all the complaining with a grain of salt. Complainers are usually the loudest people on the boards, it's human nature. Email me if you want to chat more. Best of luck! 
IMHO
I worked as an IC for a private practice for 4 years on an hourly rate. It worked out just fine. Of course you have to keep track. That sometimes can be difficult but it certainly can be done.
IMHO
Well, I'm a "newbie" also and am getting so discouraged with looking. If it were me, I'd take it and run. I haven't even been able to find a company that would offer that much of a chance! Anyway, like I said, I am a newbie also, so I don't have an experienced opinion, but its an opinion all the same.
IMHO...
Okay, with an hourly rate you can do some figuring. I believe that, even though one would typically have more experience doing QA, they do not necessarily make more money on a per hour basis because their line per hour rate is much lower than the MT rate to make up for the greater number of lines done when editing. I think QA is primarily a bonus in that you don't have to do all that physical typing. I think MT and QA makes about the same amount per hour in general. Assuming this, then you can figure out where you are pretty much.
If you type 160 lines per hour at 0.08 cpl, then you are making $12.80 per hour. I don't know for sure, but that sounds like a pretty average number of lines per hour and line rate for many MTs out there, so what you are making sounds pretty average, IMO.
If you want to challenge yourself, however, you can do better. I can do almost 200 lines per hour and make 0.09 cpl, so that's about $18 per hour. That's as an independent contractor working at home through an MTSO, not an employee, and not as an IC on my own accounts (make much more on those with no MTSO middleman). Even if you stayed with the 0.08 cpl and upped your lines by 20 an hour to 180, OR if you went to 0.09 cpl and stayed at 160 lines per hour, you get a raise to $14.40 per hour.
Hope this helps!
Well, IMHO we MTs
are worth MUCH, MUCH, MUCH MORE than that! 
IMHO your best bet is to find an
accredited community college near you that offers an MT course. They don't really help you find a job, but they don't make empty promises about that either. They will introduce you to other established MTs in the area, and you may find a mentor there. Also, the cost is reasonable and the instruction hands-on, usually by a CMT in your area.
Unethical, IMHO
I have this to say to that person
1. Its stealing from your fellow teammates. You are awarding yourself 4 hours of their shift and their work because you're too lazy or too incompetent to get your speed up. They have bills to pay just like you do, and are sitting there out of work because YOU stole it. Especially if THEY are honest and only work approved OT.
2. Its lying to your employer and yourself as to how efficient you are, when you are falsifying your time card. It is also putting them in jeopardy with the labor board, should you both get caught.
3. Its bragging to post this - bragging that you are lazy and incompetent, and like to steal work, so you think you're smart and slick to have found a way around hard work and better skills. Shame on you!
Thank GOD where I work the ONLY way you can type a job is if you are punched IN to the time clock. So I know you're not my coworker. I pity those that are.
IMHO, MTWS is better
MT Word Seeker is definitely better IMHO. The search results are more to the point, perhaps because it searches 1100 medical / MT websites.
can't think of one female who dictates well, IMHO.
the point in a nutshell, IMHO sm
the point I think everyone is trying to make here is, yes, most of us have done it and succeeded with small children, BUT it is by no means easy. You have to be flexible and hopefully have a flexible employer. It's not impossible, it can be done, but it won't be a piece of cake! If you're motivated, organized, and willing to compromise a portion of your sanity , then by all means, go for it. But the bottom line is this...you have to do what works for YOU, not anyone else! Think it through and make an educated decision, and not one just based on the opinions on this board. Good luck to ya! 
Drs comments were inappropriate, IMHO
Dont you think his comments are a little inappropriate? To be dictating and saying that? He can put the information in a research paper he is writing but to state it while dictating?
IMHO and experience, in most, if not all careers-SM
the better your memory and flexibility, the better your success. If your memory is so-so, then find tools that will increase your success, i.e., account post-its and sample reports, even reading something out loud. For me, if I handwrite what I am given in print regarding an account/doc, I am more likely to remember it. Making handwritten notes takes time, but helps things stick in my memory.
IMHO..too high. Ours was 11 min/hour. NM
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Picky is the name of the game IMHO. Either it's right or it's not.
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IMHO, you don't want silent...you want quiet. sm
Keyclicks do provide important feedback.
IMHO outsoursing is only one piece of this pie. (nm)
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IMHO outsourcing is only one piece of this pie. (nm)
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Meat cooking is harder, IMHO
Remebering my childhood as an animal eater, I think it is harder cooking for meat eaters and way more expensive than vegetarian foods.
IMHO Speedtype is a costly version of...
MS Word's AutoCorrect. I bought is and asked for help in transfering my AutoCorrect entries to it. The owner kindly answered she would do it FOR me . . . for an additional fee of $25!!!! Being as I had just paid $189 for it, I thought that was terrible! Her instructions for doing the transfer do not work. I honestly think it is just a ploy to make more money.
I finally did the transfer myself, after numerous tries. Now I don't even use it. Since it isn't anything "special," it isn't worth the trouble. I much prefer IT to SpeedType. In fact, ANYTHING other than SpeedType is better, in my opinion.
Nope.Not her. Not starting trouble. Just IMHO.
Honest observations. Wondering if this board is a good or bad part of my day, and thinking out loud. But, as usual, mixed feedback and as this post above which I am answering shows, a lot of paranoia out there too. Probably this is it for moi. Just not my style. See ya.
IMHO, outsourcing is only one ingredient to this stew. NM
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The absolute worst IMHO is the dictator
who loads up his mouth to capacity with marbles and then proceeds to talk.
TechSupport what do you think? IMHO this is all in preparation of EMR, compressing the
long, very narrative and repetitive version of straight transcription. You are building a new software, or at least a software template for EMR. Isn't this it?
Bayscribe kicks ExText's booty, imho. SM
I have worked on both. Bayscribe only has the 1 page on which you enter information. There are dropdown lists of providers (no additional lists or documents), you can easily change templates at any point in the report, and the only shortcoming to Bayscribe that I have found is the spellchecker, which works okay but could use some updating.
ExText, on the other hand, had multiple pages per report, no way to easily access provider information, changing a template required a bunch of steps, etc. etc. I never did make much progress with ExText, although I know that some of my friends love it.
It may be what you're used to, although I think it would have been a lot easier to start with ExText and move to Bayscribe than it was for me to start with Bayscribe and then move to ExText. Bayscribe is also fast to load and fast to work in-- no VPN.
Hope this helps.
I agree Nature Sounds better than music.. IMHO.. NM
NM
IMHO, helping humanity is along the lines of teaching, volunteering, nursing, working with
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Are you still there or did you have to leave?
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Why don't you leave?
I wonder why you don't leave? I know all companies have their problems but isn't this a deal breaker for you? It is getting to that point with me. It is very hard to go on faith that everything will be correct. I'm struggling with the same question. I know they pay a good line rate, but if you don't get paid for all your lines is it worth it?
Please, just leave them alone.
This person's posts aren't bothering me and I'd rather this just peter out and die.
best to leave this one alone
Have you ever heard of patient privacy? What kind of motivation did you have for Googling a patient name in the first place? There is no way you would know if you spelled it correctly from a Google unless you matched it with an SSN.
If I were your boss and you told me, I would fire you instantly just for being irrational enough to be Googling patient names. You have no business in this matter. Your physician knows something is up, so it is up to him what actions he takes from here.
We are not to judge which patients deserve privacy and which do not. You wouldn't be having this problem if you weren't doing something as questionable as Googling patient backgrounds using PHI you are only supposed to be using to transcribe the record.
Keep your mouth shut before you lose your job.
then LEAVE
if it's so bad here LEAVE. Bubbye "hon"
Leave it on...
I was told by a very savvy computer geek to ALWAYS leave it on because your computer is most vulnerable to attack by hackers/viruses etc... during the first few moments of "boot up" before your anti-virus and spyware stuff have a chance to start up. That is when they "get in" - during these first few seconds without protection.
Leave her alone! Why does everyone
here always want to pick everything apart! She made a simple mistake.
Leave MQ, duh.
Complaining is not the only way to know what it going on, just look at every other post and you will see what is going on. I agree you need support but that is why the group of you need your own blog, to have a place to go where you can get that support. Your beating the dead dog is having the opposite affect on most of us non-MQers. Instead of having sympathy, it is to the point where we are thinking," What is wrong with these people? Leave MQ!" You can only feel so much sympathy for people that aren't helping themselves and getting out of a bad situation.
Leave us alone
This has been our point all along. We have NO WORK, thus we have too much time on our hands so we can be on this board.
We are not perfect and we have great attitudes. At least we can laugh at ourselves when we want to cry.
She just needs to leave
Actually, I think she just needs to stop harrassing people.
Leave the board Tammy, you are just trying to start trouble.
Leave MQ?
Why would a reduction in pay make anyone leave this lovely company? I decided a long time ago to stay to the bitter end, but the bitter end came for me in June and I said adios amigo and KMA MQ. A lot of nice people in work flow, tech support, really great people, but there was no work to begin with and nice people don't pay my bills. I'm not sorry I went with them but sorry I had to leave because they are such a sorry company now. I had been there for seven years on the same accounts, first with YOG and then with these meatballs.
the only way i'd leave
Is if I were offered a position I couldn't refuse. I'm looking, believe you me, but for the most part, its the runaround fast talk I can see right through over the phone with these job offers i'm getting. They tell you what you want to hear, etc., to get you in the door, and once they have you, who knows what they will do to you. I do not trust these MT companies any longer. At least MQ, I can see when i'm getting screwed, I know the reputation. They have messed with me a couple of times, but I try and keep in close contact with them, keep my lines up, work my shift, just to get treated fairly, until they slack off and I have to give them a phone call. I'm on the same account now for three years, get over 9 cents a line...so I haven't had it so bad.
The only way i'd leave is for an Editor position that pays 18+ an hour with guaranteed cost of living raises, full benefit package, including PTO days. Until I find that, i'm staying put. I feel I'd be stepping from a hot bowl of soup right onto the oven burner if I leave. Its scary being so remote, you cannot trust these people running the show anymore.
I would leave it alone
As long as she remains a good student, etc. etc. as you stated in your post, I would just leave it alone for now - unless something changes drastically. Pick your battles wisely.
Should I leave?
I sympathize with your situation, as I went through similar times. I worked 2-3 transcription jobs at one time (one was 40 hours a week + 2 P/T times), but I had the freedom to raise my children in a better atmosphere. When you are living in fear you won't have the freedom to be yourself and to raise your children in a loving, unafraid way. You will have the strength once you make the decision this is what you want to do.
Please, please leave him
My identical twin sister was killed by her abusive boyfriend. She always thought that he would change too. He promised he would. He didnt. Now my sister is dead and her 3 children do not have their mother anymore. Please leave him before it is too late. There are domestic violence shelters who can help you and your children out of this terrible situation. I know the devistation that domestic violence causes... you deserve better, and so do your precious children.
I would definitely leave it up to her. She might have
been more bothered with the other grandmother's service than she let on.
Why do you have to leave him for another man? Why not leave for yourself?
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I'd leave it alone...
I work in QA and find huge mistakes when I look up reports that have BEEN QA'D! So there ya go ;)
Leave both of them...LOL!
Mama's boys and their domineering mothers make for a miserable life. I have a great mother-in-law now who does not wear rose colored glasses! Most of the time she sides with me. Great lady! Good luck to you.
Maybe you should leave that alone
even though you are "curious"
Why did I leave?
All of the transcriptionists that came when I did also left, probably 15 or more trained MTs. Overbearing, constant emails in letters so big you could hardly read them on the page without enlarging the page, constant instant messaging to where you could not work, had to answer them and they flew fast and furious for a person, always promised raise, never got 1- they were always working on it, changed rules day in and day out, 1 day 1 way, the next day another. If you like being micromanaged, under the microscope, this is the job for you. I left and I and the others much happier.
Leave it alone
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why did you leave?
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Trying to leave MT....
Thanks for answering my question. I do use Auto Correct, as we have MS Word as the software we use for documents and I am building my list up. Itis good for some words, terms or phrases..I'm not sure how much it has helped boost my line count.
I just honestly wanted to know what is fair for a newbie MT doing this for one year.
I am lucky that we do not have hardly any ESL docs.
You are right about my employer being harsh--my asst manager assigned me orthopedics last month and she said to me a few days ago that I should have had Ortho down by now!! I tell you, these people have never heard of a learning curve!
After taxes, I make about 16,000/year and that's based on a full-time 40 hour work week.
They don't pay me enough for the stress, so I'm looking for something else now. the job market in this area is pretty lousy, but I keeping hope!
Most MTs don't want to leave their
homes and families to go to a training session. Other companies can handle training online or over the phone, and it certainly doesn't take three days. Did you post in your job ad that training was on site and mandatory?
You're dealing with experienced MTs, not newbies, so why can't you be more accommodating? There's no way in heck I'd leave my family to travel for training. I simply can't do it. There's nobody here to watch my kids, drop them off, pick them up and everything else I do while my spouse is working. At my last job, they emailed me work samples and that was the extent of training. I figured everything else out on my own and even taught them a thing or two about their platform and templates. As much as MTSOs think MTs are a dime a dozen, the same can be said for MTSOs. The overly demanding ones get blown off.
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