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Read ad and sad, really sad. This is about transcription company posting but could be on the comedy - Now have read it all


Posted: Oct 27, 2009

I noticed here a person asking how to get a job in this occupation and they listed where they had finished school. It was online so thought I would take a look. The ad said most finished in 4-6 months and you might have to go even less time if you are a CNP or the like. Get this, said transcription unusual in that many companies provide FULL benefits including paid vacations, sick leave, health insurance, retirement fundus and sign on bonuses for-  dahdah  INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.  How sick is that and how pathetic for them to advertise something that most companies do not know the first thing about.

It then goes on to say that usually 6 hours are considered a full day for most of us (transcriptionists that is) and many work less - does not say anything about the huge numbers that are working 2 jobs or more just trying to make a living. Oh, don’t fall out of your chair but the capper is the ad says earnings are high enough that you can make a good living working a 30 hour week. The ad also goes on to say that places who need transcriptionists are usually posting them only with training places such as theirs, knowing they will get the trained people they need, not using the internet or newspapers for listing jobs anymore.

I was so ticked by reading this that I tried personally to call this so called Christian school, twice in fact and both times was told they were too busy and to leave my number. Talk about really false advertising. Someone should turn them into better business for this malarky.

they dont tell you that it may take up to 25 years - when/if you get a job to even

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be in a position where you could make it having one job and working only 40 hours a week... and sometimes not even then! I have a m.i.l. who works at the same comp. I work and she makes 3 times more then me... me doing this for 4 years @ 17,000 or less a year and her doing this for 15 years making $40,000 and she has about 4 promotions ahead of me! Even then that is a huge jump in pay... not that she doesn't deserve it... but frustrating!!! I think I entered into MT at the wrong time! I can't even get insurance because I can't afford it and the production I have to make is ridiculous given that they mostly switched my accounts to ASR/VR and these doctors really should not be on there!!!! It is a never ending cycle!!! Maybe we should fly to the head office of this "school" or whatever and talk to the person in charge.... however you want to intepret that!!!

it's a scam mostly. - n/m

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n/m

False advertising - old MT

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Is that the same one that says you can earn up to $96,000 a year- LOL at that one. Been doing this forever and never came close to that. I think they should all be shot for false advertising. The one you were noting is a supposed "Christian" school - good lord (no pun intended)!

There isn't a single word in the ad that was true. - Totally DISHONEST ADVERTISING!

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And here's something else I don't get. With all their sunshine and roses about what great money MTs make, working so few hours, why do we keep seeing posts by newbie MTs who've accepted a job that pays like 4-7 cpl for transcription? Is it because they've been falsely led to believe what kind of production they're going to have? That the MTSOs actually have software that WORKS? That 80% of their dictators will NOT be completely unintelligible?

The schools are just as guilty about the state of affairs in this profession as the MTSOs and the fat cats in the top-floor corner offices at the hospitals and HMOs.

They're all Bernie Madoffs, who like to think that just because they work in the healthcare industry, they are somehow helping humanity. We all know the truth - they're helping no one but THEMSELVES - to as much cash as they can possibly rake in. May their mansions burn down, their Hummers and Lexuses crash, their bank accounts dry up, and their yachts sink.

it's really no different - Snow Bunny

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Than a company advertising a weight-reduction product which advertises "You can lose up to 10 pounds in a week." So, when somebody only loses a pound they are very upset about the "false advertising. However, it wasn't false advertising. The ad clearly said "UP TO," and losing a single pound is still "up to 10 pounds." --- Advertisers count on people putting their own twist on things.

The truth is ... it doesn't matter WHAT the advertisers wrote. The full responsibility lies with the individual who reads the ad. They should do their research and make sure what's written is, in fact, 100% on the "up and up."

Really no different than a doctor putting an item at the bottom of a document: "Signed without reading." That doesn't negate their responsibility.

And as far as them being a "so-called Christian school," what does that have to do with it. Just because someone claims to be "Christian" don't make it so. If anyone who thinks just as guilty of making an incorrect assumption, like in the above example.

No different than a place in my neck of the woods (Tennessee) serving "New York style pizza." I ain't biting that hook.

Not surprised - DM

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Incredible. Yes, I too would like to talk with a representative of that company, educate them a bit. I, too, work 15 hour days, 7 days a week to make a living in transcription any more. I believe we need a Norma Rae to rally us and have just one day, just one, where every single MT, CMT in the US does not type. Now, would not that freak some companies out. How about two days, or even a week? There are not enough "typists" in India that could cover that kind of load. Maybe someone would start listening to us.


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