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Any TTS people, which version of Office works best? - New Hire

Posted: Mar 20, 2014

Having to purchase Microsoft Office 2010, need to know if Home and Business 2010 works or if Office Professional 2010 is better?

Thanks in advance!

I use MS Pro 2003 bought off of Ebay. Works great. - no message

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TTS - a word of caution - brief TTS-er

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It is not what works best, it is what works at all. You have to have something that contains Outlook and Word. I am assuming you are using eScription, a system that requires both Word and Outlook. It uses Outlook as some sort of transfer shuttle between your computer and the ES server. This is why you can't use the Home and Student version, because it has everything you need but Outlook. I have 2010 and it worked fine for the brief period I was there. I hope you have a better go of it than I did there. If they told you there would be little ESL and a great account, it is not likely to happen. When there was work, it was all bad, 80-90% ESL and the other 10-20% that weren't ESL also spoke English as a second language. They want 250 lines an hour for the most horrible accounts that I have worked in 20 years. I ended up making less than minimum wage, and always ended up getting less than I calculated I should have. As if that were not bad enough, I repeatedly ran out of work, and the QA is to put it nicely above and beyond. I had over 99%, but it just was not worth it. I do, however, understand needing a job so badly that you'll try anything.

I have decided that as soon as I can find something else, I'm leaving the MT field. If you sit and figure the time you spend going over all the account specs, using your own office equipment and software, utilities, etc. it is a losing proposition. The compensation for most places any more is either at or too close to minimum wage, or in your case less than, unless you are lucky enough to work as an employee of an actual hospital or doctors group. If you find a good MTSO with good benefits and incentive, they end up selling out to one of the monsters, and then it's just a matter of time before all the good pay, benefits and incentives are gone. It may take a few months, but it's foolish to expect anything more these days.

The work we do as MTs is skilled, requiring attention to detail, precision and accuracy. There is absolutely no respect for what we do and what this work actually requires. We are hands down the most poorly compensated healthcare industry workers. However, the prevailing attitude is that they could get a trained monkey to do transcription and editing. Well, they can go get a trained monkey. If I work at some fast food joint, I won't have to worry about 98-100% QA, HIPAA, account specs, the wrong account, encounter, MRN, patient name, WT, and all the glory that goes with MT work these days. I won't be miserable because I know that I'm being cheated and exploited every time I sit down at the keyboard and give my skill away for a fraction of what it is really worth. I won't be expected to sing the praises of an MTSO that was started by someone who was an MT and has made a fortune exploiting those of us who chose to actually work to make our living. If I am going to be compensated as if I have no skill, then by all means let me work in a job that requires no special skill, where I won't be the one that taking all the dings for not getting the right encounter, account, etc. because the doctor who is so busy walking on water they refuse to waste their time getting any of the correct information for their own patient. Let me work where I will be more fairly compensated for the work done and the worst thing that could happen would be there was not enough ice in the cup, I didn't say hello loud enough, or my smile was not big enough. You'd better believe that they will have work for you to do when you take the time to show up to work and there will be no confusion over how much you will actually be paid for every hour of your time.

Wow, all she asked is what version of Word to use. - xxx

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Angry much?

I don't want to make French fries or smile at people. nm - nmmmmmm

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nm--sarcastic or a sup/owner checking - the board

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You can't handle the truth.

I can handle the truth. I rather work from home than work in a - grease pit flipping burgers. nmmmmm

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What? - sm

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Have you gone off your rocker? We all agree with what you're writing, but that has nothing to do with which version of Office for her to buy. She just asked a simple question, and she got a chapter of a novel.

sm---so don't read and type your 250 lines! - 2 cents

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Nobody is making you read unless you are an MTSO checking your reputation.

I totally agree with poster brief TTS-er! - nm

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Also agree with above poster - passed over

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My experience with the recent hiring was quite chaotic, with several miscommunications on the part of TTS HR. The only thing I can imagine is somehow they've confused my resume with another as the questions and reason for no hire were totally inconsistent with my resume relating to experience with SR (said no experience - 3+ years experience), ESLs (no ESL exp - 12 years on 85% ESL account), shift (looking for 2nd - which is what I was looking for)... absolutely every reason given for no hire was the opposite of my resume and application. Very strange.

Same experience - Long Time MT

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I had the same exact experience with them and so I called and left a voicemail saying you've confused me with someone else. Then they left me another email about my "verifible" experience, which I gave them but I have heard nothing since. Very weird.

Does anyone wonder why TTS has - ex-TTSer

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a daily ad for MTs, read brief TTS-er post-it's true, plus some.

Because they only pay 6 and 3 cents - n/m

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n/m

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