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Offer for job with Medquist - tammysue

Posted: Jun 06, 2011

Hi all,

I was just offered a postiion and was wondering how the company is? Any advice good or bad would be helpful.

Thanks

Well........since you asked..... - Kiki1

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If you don't mind not getting production bonuses anymore, no shift diff for weekends and negligible one for eves (and you will most likely be required to work one or both)....if you don't need health insurance (MQ offers ONE only, an HRA and it isn't much).....if you don't mind possibly having many, many accounts all in the same day sometimes....if you don't mind being required to have 99% accuracy and sending no more than 5% to QA (or your pay gets docked 3 cents a line).....then you might be happy here.

On the other hand, they pay on time and are probably no worse than a lot of other MT companies these days.

You also won't know if you are either one of the lucky MTs that have consistent work or one of the not so lucky ones who either get 100s of different accounts a day (we call this the cesspool) or NJA, no jobs available. It's a crap shoot.

I'm sorry I can't say anything better. Maybe someone else can.

By the way, once everyone wakes up tomorrow morning, I'm sure you will - Kiki1

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get many more replies and opinions; this is just mine. I work graveyard. Good luck with your decision.

If you would read further threads, this has been - answered a thousand times.

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Thanks for replies...I kind of figured that but a lot of the posts I read were from earlier years an - tammysue

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Thanks for replies...I kind of figured that but a lot of the posts I read were from earlier years and I wanted to make sure things haven't changed. I don't want to get into anything that I will be sorry for, you know. Also, I got an offer from Acusis as well. Any thoughts on them?

It is summer, people should be on vacation, - I sit here with No Jobs

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Available and hear that recruiters are calling people??????????

I know - Had only 60 jobs in backlog this morning

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in the south. Sixty jobs!!! I remember 6 years ago there would be 12,000 to 15,000 at any given time!! Sad! But we all know where they are going and why. Its just a matter of time until the 60 measley jobs turn into 0 for us.

Medquist newly hired - MsMello

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I have been with MQ for a few years part-time and I do not have many bad things to say and I really think we need to see more positives on this message board anyway. Do quality work, work your hours and it will pay off for you. IF you have an issue, talk to your supervisor, don't let it build up to the point where you get really frustrated, it is not worth it. Good luck! ;o)

I don't think there are any - positives really to speak about

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I'm not a flamer, but I've been here 11 years, 6 CCMs, too numerous to count facilities, NJA more days than not, Tier 3, last audit score 99.8 (never lower than that), never deviate from my schedule by more than 5 minutes, have never taken unscheduled time off, am a CMT, and the only positive things I can say about this demoralizing company is that they pay on time every 2 weeks and yes, I have a job. That's about it. But I have periods of time where I feel much more grateful than I do right now to have this job, ya know? I guess it is kind of a roller coaster here for me. I've been lied to, taken a $20K pay cut, had all benefits and bonuses stripped from me, so I can't rave on and on about the company. But, I'm glad its working for you. And don't get me wrong, it is definitely working for me right now (I just don't like it) as I'm in the process of completing my degree so that I can make a good living again.

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