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TTS: IC questions. I've read the thread below. Nothing to do with that. - Bumpkin
Posted: Feb 08, 2010
If you're an IC there, what is the schedule like? Can you choose it? Sam, no need to reply. Thanks.
I used to work for them as IC - rigid schedule
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I was given a very strict sched of 7 am to 4 pm Tues thru Saturday. I had something important one saturday and they said I could finish my shift later but "to make sure" I came back and made it up. I do not appreciate that attitude when I'm an IC and an adult. If i have work, I will do it... they sucked!
Well I'm an IC with them and never any problems like that... - sm
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You are given schedules you choose from, the ones that they are in need of. I'm sure they would work with someone, but I have a feeling once you pick that schedule, you should adhere to it. Honestly, I have never had a job where I was an IC and I had to pick a schedule and sign up for it. It does not bother me though because I intended on working full-time anyway and can work on a schedule.
There's a thread on the Coding board where someone got her first coding job and got a higher salary because of her MT experience. Finally someone recognizes that we have value. It's a shame that it has to be a coding employer instead of an MT employer, but that's the way it is. MTSOs don't appreciate their employers; coding employers do. They demonstrate that by PAYING for services done, not continuous abusive e-mail, IM, and paycuts. ...
I am moving this up to the top because I think it is an important issue. I am referring to my post below about looking at old reports and seeing the work of another MT at my company. It was a VR report that was obviously not edited or just skimmed over. I will look at other reports from this MT, and if I see more than 2 or 3 more with the same problems, I will report it. As was said below, it is above all an issue of patient safety. I am concerned about my ...
When a company decides to make an account VR, are all the reports a mess to begin with for weeks or months until the voice engine (sorry if that's the wrong term) learns from the "straight" transcription that is done? Why do different platforms matter (i.e., E-scription versus M-Modal, etc). Is it possible for a company to get an account and make it VR from day 1, or do they have MTs do regular transcription on it for awhile?
I guess I'm just trying to figure outwhat I sho ...
what happened to the thread where Poorhouse gets to go back to school through the TAA petition? That was valuable information. Can't imagine why it got deleted. ...
I am the OP of the long thread below. In it someone says that MM has high standards and if you can't meet them, it's your problem. Well, this company does not have high standards. What it has done is create artificially high and unrealistic standards for the MT only so that they can find as many ways possible to reduce their salaries or terminate them if they so desire. If they had high standards they would periodically review the dictionary and take out all the ...
I want to repeat this for those who may have missed it and I am not looking for pity. Was moved to a new account after 4 years on 2 very difficult accounts with only 1 or 2 failed audits (and was always given a second chance). After 24 hours on the new account and telling them there was one particulary dictator I could not hear because he kept moving away from the phone, they audited me, included reports from that dictator, and immediately put me on 100% QA at which point I finally ...
There were some postings on V.A. Hospitals here just yesterday. Why are they gone? There were comments about companies that had contracts with the V.A. Why are they missing? Does anyone know what is going on? Are our comments being censored? Need to know. ...
asked, "I am trying to get a grasp on the IC vs employee thing but I don't understand why a company would want to hire an IC then?"
No one has answered this as of yet.
Why would a company hire an IC then? Because they don't have to take out taxes, (including their share of Social Security), and they do not have to provide benefits. All they have to do is cut the IC a check, and then the IC is responsible for all the taxes, including all of the Social Sec ...
I saw another thread yesterday discussing VA transcription and someone had posted a couple of links regarding companies who were bidding on upcoming contracts....can't find it now. Did someone save this or can the OP post again? Much appreciated.. ...
regarding line counts, pay, etc. I have been a medical transcriptionist for over 23 years, have experience in multiple specialties although orthopedics, neurology and cardiology are my favorite, and I barely bring home $600.00 every 2 weeks. That is with me working 10-12 hours a day, 5 and 6 days a week. I have been searching high and low for a new company, hating to jump ship, but desperately needing to earn more. My statement to those earning more than 600-800 a WEEK .. ...
I never clock out for breaks. Am I supposed to? I am scheduled for 4 hours at a time with a 1-hour break in the middle. If I clock out for a break, don't I have to make up the time at the end of my shift? I don't wanna do that. I take a break whenever I feel like it. I can't type 4 hours straight. How does it work for everybody else? ...
It was on here yesterday. She got a typical suit response. Did the Q have it deleted? Wouldn't be surprised. I've noticed a lot of negative posts about different companies vanish from this site. ...
I have been a participant of this board for many years. When an enire thread disappears, I realize other boards are more MT friendly. I will not be back. ...
On the main board there is a message titled "Gotta Vent" and the following replies regarding coding have made me sick to my stomach, especially because a couple people stated seeing their coding departments wiped out by the EMR systems.
Could someone shed some light on this? I am in a coding class now and I am not feeling so hot....but be honest.
Thank you! ...
Just wanted to find out how many of us out there are loving our jobs?
Personally, I'm currently in a position to have to choose between the day job that I love as a receptionist in a Fortune 500 company where I live in Colorado, and my night job where I spend about 5 hours an evening transcribing for a great ortho group out in New Jersey through a fantastic transcription company in the same state called DocuMed, and I can't decide which to keep! I've been with both for abou ...
There's an interesting thread on the New MT board about accredited schools, school loans, and oppressive debt students are facing. I did a search today and there are dozens of articles talking about how students are thousands of dollars in debt for student loans when the education they got was so poor that they can't find a job at all. Others can find a job, but it will take 20-30 years for them to pay back the student loans. They went to those schools because they got pressured ...
Quote from your post: " MT's are among some of the most nasty, miserable... People I've ever come across."
I'm a little late to the party, but here's my 2 cents for the OP:
You appear to be the kind of person who pulls 1 green M&M out of a bag and then assumes all M&Ms in that bag must be green.
There are nearly 100,000 MTs in the US, but only about 400 visit this board.
Do you see where I'm going with this, or do I have to ...
OK. I would like to comment on the posts below about "soccer moms" pretty much causing the demise of the MT field.
I am an instructor at a community college that teaches medical transcription. Let me tell you, it is NOT the "soccer moms, jonny's mom, mary's mom, etc" that are bringing down the MT field as what was implied below. What is bringing down the profession is dense people who walk into this field, literally walk into it, and instantly want to work from ...
Henry David Thoreau: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
And I will hasten to add the word "women" to the above quote. I am one of those 'quiet desperation' people, as most of us are, until I personally faced an extreme economic situation with a utility company earlier this year. I had a personal $25,000, yes, $25,000 dollar, situation on my hands regarding a water company that "stacks the decks" by placing former long-term employees of said water company into the ...
Found this in the Letters to Editor in AdvanceWeb.com. :
I feel compelled to voice my thoughts on the topic of credentialed MTs; the reason being I work with a fantastic group of MTs under my management.
We work at a community hospital in a centralized setting; all departments dictate their patient records and we transcribe them. They are highly skilled, productive and accurate and simply the best staff to manage.
Here are my thoughts.
* Are Credentialed MTs better? If t ...
Good Morning MQ-ville.
I was reading a posting below, started yesterday "Whadayaknow" and there were a couple of responses to the posting that I think are worth you reading.
We should all be much more PROACTIVE in the auditing process and ask questions or if we disagree, tell them we do! We should also not take BS sitting down! I agree that too many of us have just accepted being fed crap because we've begun to feel "beaten down".
I also am 'MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO ...
Check out this link.
http://www.medindia.net/health-press-release/Webmedx-Receives-Best-in-KLAS-Award-for-Outsourced-Transcription-for-2009-56883-1.htm ...
Oh my gosh! Open this article and read what is down below at the VERY BOTTOM LEFT OF THIS ARTICLE! Somebody by the name of Kumar is asking a question about night shifts and the associated illegal activities that comes out of it. Some of us are called the Y generation!
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/84978/indian-bpos-facing-huge-churn.html
CBaySystems VP - HR Sanjay Shanmugaum believes that, “the average attrition rate in the BPO sector is higher th ...