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My group - fastMT
Posted: Jan 29, 2015
I guess I'm the only one working in my group. My volumes keep going up instead of down. I'm only 1 person! Get with it folks!
Up volumes - Disappointed
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The exact same thing happens to me. Aftr 4 p.m., I swear there is no one else on working and it's just me for about 4 hours. Of course, when the TAT starts getting close, an e-mail is sent out screaming for help. WHY can't they staff better ?
well they ask for people to change their schedules, they will not - then they implement mandatory schedule changes
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and they quit. So here we are. My POD has OT. I also work after 4 pm.
We never have late work in my POD, yet we're still - sm
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being forced to change to awful schedules. It really seems pointless. Unless the point is to get people to quit.
how do you know? - true stuff
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what the volumes are or how many people are working a shift? the only way i know is when they send out emails, which i honestly don't really look at that much because it doesn't matter to me, i just keep working one report at a time whether there is a lot of work or only a little, because, well, how would i know that?
I have grave concerns regarding our profession. Many of you do as well. I am not normally one who dwells on this sort of thing, but I have seen our profession go from being able to support myself to a profession of hardly making it. I have had to drop my health insurance in order to pay rent and utilities. At my age, this is not a good thing at all. I have scaled back on everything. The only luxury I have is I rent 1 movie a week and then only very inexpensive ...
Not that it'll make a difference, but I posted https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=443628018984857&id=337068492974144¬if_t=feed_comment ...
I would highly recommend the medical transcription community, as well as the physicians of the United States stay away from this company. I will not post any further info here. If you have a complaint against these people, PM me privately. ...
It is just getting worse and worse. I work Th - Fri, and there isn't even any work on Sat and Sun! I hate giving up my weekend for naught. Fri is the only day I have been getting work. My TSM never answers my emails or phone calls. I sent an email 2 weeks ago asking to be moved to a group with work. After all, MM is hiring. ...
I've got one coming up, and have no idea what type of things are going to be on it. The pay is good at this potential job, so I have a feeling the questions are going to be a bit beyond my scope. ...
Really???? Dictation by a particular doctor who drives my count into the toilet and always has really long reports came up at about the time I was going to take my dinner break. Of course it was long, so I decided it was too long to wait. I come back 45 minutes later, and I get the exact same job. Really??? I usually get many of his jobs because I work the night shift and so does he. But really???? ...
I received a W2 from a company called Venture Resources Group, LLC, and I have no clue who they are! I worked for a bunch of companies in 2010 and I'm not sure which this is as it's not the direct name of any of them. Tried to contact an obscure phone number to no avail. Anyone have a clue about this place? ...
My company just told me they were trying to bring on some projects where there would be multiple people speaking, like in a conference/meeting, about healthcare. They said they wanted me to transcribe it and to include time stamps every 5 minutes. How do you keep track of who is speaking? Sometimes trying to keep up with 1 mubbling doctor is hard enough, but now 5+ people? Is there some program or something I can get that will automatically put in timestamps, or am I going to have to keep lookin ...
At almost everyone of our weekly meetings there is a coworker who complains about everything. She is never happy and monopolizes each and every meeting. I know she doesn't speak for me, not sure about everyone else, but she speaks up as though she has conferenced with us all and that we are all in agreement. How do I politley tell her to stop whining unless she specifically speaks for herself? I am happy with my job, my pay rate, my hours.........everything that ...
Can anyone tell me what this company is like to work for? I don't find anything in the archives, and they have a position posted on the job board.
I'd like to know how they pay, if they have steady work, what platform they use, etc. Also, do they have straight transcription in addition to VR?
TIA ...
my line count, glug, glug down the crapper. Have gone over the tutorials about a dozen times, but there are sooo many changes, the main one being in the appearance of the screen. Also, some key commands stay the same, some now do something totally different, plus there are new ones.
I am sure not looking forward to tomorrow. ...
Let's face it, striking will do no good. Complaining about off-shoring has done no good, unless that will cease at a national level for all industries. Complaining about pay is doing no good, since there is always an MT that will take a job at any rate. What can we do?
What if instead of a strike, all MTs did only the minimum line requirement for a week?
I think many, many MTs should go the Labor Board and file a complaint:
If a company requires you to clock in an ...
Has anyone ever heard of Johnson Medical Group. They guarantee you have a job once you take tests and are up to par on their expectations. You have to pay $295.00 for their materials and training. It's an IC job, so I would have to invest in hardware for my computer too because the companies I worked for before furnished equipment. I tried to look up reviews of them on the Internet but could not find any. ...
Could anyone tell me how to type out the following sentence:
"The patient's blood type was O Rh negative." It's the blood type portion that I can't find any information on. I can find information on O negative and that you don't use the minus sign; and on Rh in that you don't type out Rhesus, but how do you type it when it's spoken together? ...
Per Stedman's Pathology & Lab book, it is group B Streptococcus, but is it group B strep and also is it group B streptococcal meningitis. When it is a variation of the word "Streptococcus," we don't cap, right? TIA!!!! ...
and you want more hours to work Friday night or Sat. You take that MT's hours, is it going to be DS and OP reports and you obviously cannot do the work because you are a tier 1? Does this also mean that you will constantly be in the cesspool because of doing other BOB's? Or will it just be your own BOB that you get to switch hours with, yet wouldn't the tier thing be confusing? What if you take the hours and there are NO JOBS AVAILABLE.
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I was wondering if there is group insurance anywhere for those of us who do this full time without benefits? It seems that with insurance companies and strength in numbers, something should be available. Anyone have any information on or experience with this? I am recently certified with a few years experience and am looking to quit my crappy full time job that I am working only for the insurance to do this full time, but am hitting a wall with the insurance dilemma. ...
Please beware of this company. They are literally preying on medical transcriptionists who are having a difficult time finding and keeping a good job (which I think is happening more and more to people who have been doing this for a long time). Anyway, I received an e-mail from them after 9:00 p.m. this evening, a phone call from them (which I didn't answer) and then an e-mail following the phone call. So we have blocked them. They want a fee from MTs, and they will ...