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Company bought out by Medquist-Question transition? - ??

Posted: Aug 24, 2011

I was just notifed by my company that I am working at that MedQuist has bought them out and will be taking over as of the middle of next month. We already use DocQscribe so am wondering if anyone else has gone through a similar process. Does it go smooth, is is awful, good, etc. Any information is helpful. Thanks.

.... - same story different day

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It will be ok for awhile, but then you'll be blended in to the rest of the sweat shop, unfortunately. I don't know anything more than that as a former Spheris employee, other than you would be better off as a door greeter at walmart after that period of time, and that's the sad truth. All your knowledge as an MT will be worthless. Work will all go to india in the end because they own most of the company. Sad day.

Very sorry -- especially if you liked your job very much. - no name

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nm

company bought out by MQ - beware

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Just be prepared for the worst and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse it will.

I know that's really pessimistic, but MQ doesn't care about the welfare of its MTs, only what they can make off of their backs for upper management. They don't want to share the wealth. They expect the MTs just to be grateful for a job, which I am grateful I do have a job, but how you're treated will not show up in your pay check as noted by many, many pay cuts. They cut our salaries so they can buy their multi-million companies. It's the world of business with the greedy at the top wanting more and more from those below who actually make their salaries.

You'd do well to update your resume and start looking and/or consider getting out of this business altogether and/or go back to school. If you want to take the chance and work for them just be looking all the while because there will come the day, probably sooner than you'd like, that you will see their agenda.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope it turns out okay for you. I will tell you this, though, the stress this company puts you under is not worth it.

Sorry to say that was the beginning of the end for me a few years back. sm - shortcake

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Was told everything would stay the same but of course it did not. I stuck it out with MQ for 2 years hoping it would get better but it got worse and worse and I made less and less. The day I gave my notice was a happy day and my only regret was that I did not leave the day MQ took over. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

Sorry also. - Mind made up

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I have been an employee for Medquist for 4 years now, and my pay has been cut 3 times. I can't take care of myself and 2 kids on my own with the horrible salary that I now make. The only reason I am still with the company is that I am going back to school (not in the transcription industry) for a few years, and need this job until I am finished. The others are right, it only gets worse and worse.

Gets worse and worse, and then when you think sm - shortcake

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it can't get any worse....it gets worse. Horrible, horrible company and do not deserve the sweat and tears of the talented USA MT's that still work for them! I wish the best to all the All Type MT's, you all deserve so much better than MQ....

Work for both MQ and All Type - SuperStarMT

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I work for both MQ and All Type. The line rate at MQ is actually much better than All Type. MQ pays for all the spaces, carriage returns and also pays for all the standards used in the reports. I hope I get to move to the MQ pay line for all my work as it will be much better for me.

I am not sure why everyone is always so negative on here. Try to look at the bright side of things for once!!!

No bright side. - radMT

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I was one of the original MQ "cheerleaders" from 1997 until last month, when they dumped me for no reason. There is absolutely no bright side to this company and if you think there is, as I once did, you are in for a huge surprise.

You are one of the lucky ones then, but for me (sm) - shortcake

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I could not find a bright side once MQ took over. What really got me was during my tele exit interview she actually had the nerve to offer me a raise after I had practically begged for one for 3 years and got every excuse in the book for not getting one, jumping from hoop to hoop and then another excuse not to get a raise. I am not a negative person, but boy when I think about my last 3 years with MQ I do feel negative, and I never found that bright side you speak of. I hope things stay good for you though but I would not get too cozy.

Reply to lazy and negative - Kitty

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I am far from lazy or negative, but enough is enough. We had so much work that I worked for weeks on end without a full day off. I finally took a couple days off for my son's wedding and came back to learn they had moved our team global. They left us hanging for weeks and then said we were getting a new account. Well the new account was HORRIBLE, bad files, dictators dictating in Spanish, just impossible. My QA was always at 99 or better and I was always above production until this mess. I finally gave notice and they asked me not to quit, they would give me another account and I said okay. I was told I would hear from this other CCM, after 2 weeks, I never heard from her though I emailed and called her myself. Oh, and that new account they put us all on, within 3 weeks, everyone was OOW all over again.
To be honest, I used to think this board was just too negative until most everythig I read on here happened to me and the team I was on. Like one poster said, you should not get too cozy, it is coming your way.

pay is still pathetic - North MT

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You think 4 cpl is "actually much better?" Than what pray tell? The pay is pathetic in every company and MQ and ADHI are the big instigators of lowering our pay. All the companies fall in line behind MQ. When MQ cut ASR compensation from 80% to 70%, so did everybody else. When they cut it again from 70% to 60% so did everybody else. When MQ eliminated bonuses and incentives the other companies- you get the point. Why? Because they can. Because they know no other competitor can compete with MQ rock bottom prices earned off the backs of their slave MTs and by selling out to India. Instead of being a leader in the industry and saying, no we will pay our MTs a wage that is above minimum wage and maybe encouraging the other companies to raise the wages they go to the lowest common denominator.

Do you want to know why everyone is so negative? We got sold a loser scheme called ASR that was supposed to increase production and help make more money- oh it made more money, we just don't see it, the company keeps it. We also were told by ADHI that India would not take our jobs and they are. Then we get cheerleaders on this board who tell us to quit whining or be positive or that we are just lazy. The reality is my paychecks were double/triple 5 years ago what I made today and I work harder now than I did then. Obviously you are happy making minimum wage, I know I am worth more than that.

DQS Is Great at MQ - MQMT65

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I have no problems at MQ. DQS is great, ASR is paid at a lower rate ... but it is paid at a lower rate everywhere, not a MQ thing. My supervisor is awesome and I always have work. You are definitely going to get alot of negative feedback about MQ, as there are a lot of lazy and negative people out here ... but take it from one of the good MTs, it is great!

LOL - sm

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Who gives you the right to assume that everybody is lazy and perhaps there is a reason people are negative. Perhaps your reports are some of the ones that we other good MTs see in the samples people just fly through and don't really edit much and that is maybe why you are making so much doing ASR.

Wow, stick a pin in your head and deflate that ego a bit.

Not lazy but very negative - old and burned out

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Tell me how you stay positive when you're making less money than you made 20 years ago. True for a lot of us. And by the way, it's probably going to get worse.

My supervisor - Food Stamps

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is not awesome and I am frequently out of work. Guess that makes me lazy and negative and not a good MT. My bad.

No problems - not in north apparently

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Its great for you because you have work! There are a lot of people who have not had a lot a work in a while! What the heck is your problem saying that those MTs are lazy! Some of us dont have the amazing supervisor you have and the gravy accounts you have. Just because some of us are negative does not make us lazy. Obviously this company made us this way!

Medquist - Lindyt

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Oh you poor little thing. They will cut your pay and they will look to get rid of as many of you as possible. it is their ultimate goal to send most if not all work overseas. Do not stray from your assigned work time, move up as many tiers as you can, get your line count up, make sure your accuracy is up to or over 99.2%, and watch your coworkers leave in droves. Other than that you should be fine.

company bought out by MQ - Former MT

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I think I have experienced just about everything all of you here are talking about. The only reason I hung on was I DID have an awesome supervisor. I stuck it out through the stress of the buyout, 2 pay cuts, but the last straw was the day my account went overseas. Fortunately, that was just the day before I had to give a yes/no answer to my now full time employer, and it pretty much mad the decision easier. I had been that account for 10 years, and that was the only reason I made any money at all. SR is a joke, or at least the pay part of it is. MQ waited a few months before the nasty crap began... then just as I had breathed a sigh of relief, and finally bought the new-to-me vehicle I needed, thus taking on a car payment.. WHAM-the first pay cut hit. My biggest regret-not going to the job I have now when the company offered me a position nearly 5 years ago!!! Thinking how much I would be making by now! I am not lazy, and not negative. I worked OT whenever it was needed, hardly ever took time off, NEVER called in sick or with family issues. So if some folks out there are happy at the Q I wish for your continued happiness. However, I won't be too surprised to see you on here in a few months saying something completely different. I too used to think some of the people on here were whiners or lazy, but then the BAD stuff started happening to me and others I knew. So assuming those so-called happy employees are not Q management in cognito, good luck!

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