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tested and got an eye opener - carjjen

Posted: Dec 04, 2012

I tested last week and got such bad dictation I could not believe it. I tried to transcribe it as if I was getting paid the usual 8 CPL and realized it would take more time to complete it and I would be making zero money. Sloppy H&P with a heavy accent, whispering AND loud background noise; a coronary catheterization dictation that I commend an MT on even completing that I was supposed to edit.

I sent the test back anyway and got an email saying I didn't pass the minimum, whatever that is. And get this, the email said, "I know it's disappointing." Really? Really? It just affirmed how difficult this job has become, with heavy accents, lightning speed dictation and I know the ASR version I was given to look over was already heavily edited. No way VR ever can replace the MT!

Really had to hold myself back and not reply to the email, with "whatever"

Consider it a blessing. The audio is all like that and - you will get those (sm)

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ESLs 99.9% of the time. Then you'll get a list of 20 dictators who want it this way or that way for the 10 different accounts that want the report formated this way or that way. As soon as your first report scores below the quality score you will not see the hiring bonus either which is a scam.

It is so not worth it. Consider it saving yourself a lot of trouble. Trust me!

Consider yourself lucky - old and burned out

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Frankly, I don't understand how so many American MTs continue to work under these conditions. I work only 16 hours a week, mostly to add a little structure to my life. There is no way, even with over 40 years experience, that I could support myself if I had to work full-time. ALL the work I get is as you described. Some days there is not even one good dictator and there is loud background noise in almost every report.

How are you only working 16 hours - when minimum is 24?

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I asked to be lowered and they wont, even though most days I dont have any work.

Another poster who just posts whatever thought they have, true - or not? nm

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Just start working 16 hours. Why are you asking them? - sm

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Just start "telling" them what you are going to do and do it. Why bother asking? They don't care to provide work when you're scheduled, so why are you giving them the courtesy of asking?

As a matter of fact, the way things are right now, I would just work whenever or whatever you want. No one cares or is watching. If they were, they'd have work available.

Thats funny :) I agree, just work 16 hours and see how long - it takes for someone to ever notice it...and

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when they do, see what happens (if anything).

I changed my schedule a little while back and it was only suppose to be temporary, turns out, Im still working it and its been going on year. They have not said anything, so neither have I, in fact, I have even mentioned my hours to CCM on more than one occasion and she has never, not once said anything to me about my old schedule.

My schedule is 20 hours per week---I just asked for it about 1 yr ago. - Lee

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Can't remember the details - but

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One of the FUNNIEST posts I've ever read in my life was on this message board about 6 months ago. The poster said that she turned in her notice, which was never acknowledged, and stopped working for the company. After about 3 weeks or so, she was bored and turned on her computer one day. She signed on to her company's site and put in her password, which still worked, and began working. LOL I still laugh when I think about this.

I also resigned in November. - sm

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I keep receiving the 15 messages a day for changes in account specs for all the different accounts. I keep getting Boost messages.

I called today to see about the 401K and they said I hadn't been released yet. Whaaat? LOL - I have access to everything. No one has written to tell me goodbye or anything. I just keep accruing vacation and I just keep requesting it in TW and they just keep paying me and I haven't worked a full shift since the middle of October.

Just work whatever you want to work. No one cares there. You are just a number to them, a portal, a whatever..... LOL- do what makes you happy! :D

I remember that post. That person had actually left to start - another job, when the job did not work out, she

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just decided to try logging back into work at MedQuist to see what would happen, when she logged in, everything was the same as usual and she continued right on back working for MedQuist as if she had never been gone.

I think she said she was gone like 6 weeks or something and nobody ever asked her where she was or why she had not been working. I found that post hillarious too, but I can see how people might get over-looked in this company.

Other than the generic emails, and emails about account spec changes, there really is no communication and literally we are working in a virtual world.

Did it before they changed their policy - NM - old and burned out

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No message.

Just how long have you been working here? Hours required have - not changed in forever. nm

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Well her screen name is "old and burned out" she has probably been here - for goodness knows how long and you

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gotta figure, different people have different circumstances. Just because its policy now that you must work 24 hours to be part-time, does not necessarily mean all the part-timers who were working less than that had to increase up to 24 when that policy came into place.

It could be that she has special circumstances and was approved that schedule or it could be that she was working 16 hours already before the policy of having to work 24 hours was instituted. Ya never know.

Yeah, and my name is Thin & Beautiful. Do ya think I am? - Thin & Beautiful. nm

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real shocker - GC

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I've often wondered about VR. Years ago when I started doing MT, it was a well repected job. MTs worked mostly in hospitals, some in clinics. Quality was more important than quantity. Of course, you had to get the job done. It was also salaried and not production.

I worked in a small hospital, 12 docs on staff, and they were all busy. I was the only transcriptionist. I worked a lot of overtime, but was paid well enough that I was compensated for what I did.

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