Probity Transcription - Had bad situation 2-1/2 years ago with them - jac

Posted: Mar 31, 2011

See they have new ad.  Had bad situation 2-1/2 years ago with them.  Accepted a job as a CMT with $50 CMT sign-on bonus and no training pay.  Told very few foreign accents on my job.  After training, got straight foreign accents for 2 days and boss said nothing was wrong.  Having been a QA editor for 5-1/2 years, I knew someone had picked out all the good plain-old American-type voices because the foreign accent guys don't all dictate at the same time with nothing in-between.  Their QA editors (my trainer) were able to assign jobs and my trainer said she was helping with transcription on those days and it looked like she assigned herself all the good dictators.  I don't do well with too many foreign dictators at one time and I will do my share, but I am not doing all of them by myself.  I have 31 years of acute care/clinic experience.  Then my paycheck was late and they sent it in the mail by accident.  I  opened the solid envelope and my eyes went down to read the pay stub and I reazlied it didn't look right.  Then I noted the $50 training pay.  What?  It was Saturday and I realized I had someone else's check that had been put in my envelope to my house.  Where was my check, as I had to pay rent?  I contacted several people by email, QA, supervisor, human resources, but only my editor was there.  So, I emailed the poor lady whose check I had and we talked.  She said she did not get my check.  My check showed up days later instead of auto-deposit that previous Friday.  She said she was new, but not a CMT and yes, she did get $50 training pay.  So, Probity was also commiting what seemed like a crime to me by misrepresenting the CMT bonus and telling me there was NO training pay.  I was mad.  I contacted the head honcho, the CEO, and he then tried to cover his butt by saying I violated confidentiality.  I kindly reminded him that he was the one who sent this lady's check to my house and thinking it was MY check, I opened it.  They had alleged fraudulent advertising that led me into the job and I specifically asked if they had training pay and was told NO.  They were simply substituting the CMT bonus for training pay and a CMT bonus is given for our effort to get that credential, i.e. the word bonus, not substitution.  He was being a cheapskate and didn't want to pay me for both and was surprised that he got caught.  Other companies would never dream of doing that.  While he was going to actually try to tell me to get lost for the breach of confidentiality, I again reminded him that THEY created the breach, not me and that I was the one to tell them to get lost in a very polite manner.  He commented that nobody else had been that nice and after my shock, I could only imagine what they had done to others.  They told me the word Probity stood for integrity.  Where was their integrity and what a disappointment?  I gave up 2 other job offers for this one and I had to start all over again.  Everything else about the company seemed very professional.  So, hope this helps.