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| Carol A 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| He originally told me I would be paid on the 1st and 15th of every month,
same as his office employees, but he is always in Chicago lecturing the
first week of every month, and, gee, this month he's going to be gone next
week, too. I'm beginning to wonder about the lack of "coincidence" this
seems to have....
Now, with the trouble surrounding the arrival of my last paycheck, his
office manager informed me that their office will have an accountant on
staff by next pay period, which will mean regular interval of paychecks from
now on, starting with the next one.
.....But, if Doc isn't there to sign the checks, how is this possible?
Thanks for any help/info/advice.
--
Carol A. Addison
Internet-ready Medical Transcriptionist
carolmedtx@gmail.com
Specialties:
Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Operative Reports, Urgent Care/Emergency
Room
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"Carol A" <carolsonline@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> He originally told me I would be paid on the 1st and 15th of every month,
> same as his office employees, but he is always in Chicago lecturing the
> first week of every month, and, gee, this month he's going to be gone next
> week, too. I'm beginning to wonder about the lack of "coincidence" this
> seems to have....
>
> Now, with the trouble surrounding the arrival of my last paycheck, his
> office manager informed me that their office will have an accountant on
> staff by next pay period, which will mean regular interval of paychecks
> from
> now on, starting with the next one.
>
> ....But, if Doc isn't there to sign the checks, how is this possible?
>
> Thanks for any help/info/advice.
>
>
> --
> Carol A. Addison
> Internet-ready Medical Transcriptionist
> carolmedtx@gmail.com
> Specialties:
> Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Operative Reports, Urgent Care/Emergency
> Room
>
Hmmmm.....does the office manager get paid on time? There's nothing to
prevent him writing/signing early, if he knows he's going to be out of town,
is there?
Sandi
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| DJGordon 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| If they're stating that they will have a full-time bookkeeper in response to
requests about pay from you, they may be doing it like the law office that I
handled the bookkeeping did. I was on the signature card to sign checks when
the lawyer was out of town just so no one was paid late. Maybe that's what
they're going to do too.
Dani
"Carol A" <carolsonline@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:byBAe.692$Ih7.639@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> He originally told me I would be paid on the 1st and 15th of every month,
> same as his office employees, but he is always in Chicago lecturing the
> first week of every month, and, gee, this month he's going to be gone next
> week, too. I'm beginning to wonder about the lack of "coincidence" this
> seems to have....
>
> Now, with the trouble surrounding the arrival of my last paycheck, his
> office manager informed me that their office will have an accountant on
> staff by next pay period, which will mean regular interval of paychecks
> from
> now on, starting with the next one.
>
> ....But, if Doc isn't there to sign the checks, how is this possible?
>
> Thanks for any help/info/advice.
>
>
> --
> Carol A. Addison
> Internet-ready Medical Transcriptionist
> carolmedtx@gmail.com
> Specialties:
> Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Operative Reports, Urgent Care/Emergency
> Room
>
>
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| Susan Mitchell 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| This was an ongoing problem with an office I was working with. They had a
set time when I turned in my line count but always jerked me around with my
check. They had a set time but never adhered to it. (The other
transcriptionist that works on the account is retired and uses this as
"extra" money, hence they think I should have the same attitude). Anyway, I
wrote a letter stating I needed to have a set time for turning in and
picking up and that when I came in to pick up my check being told "maybe
next Wednesday" was not sufficient. Apparently the doctor was not aware the
office manager was doing that and you know what hit the fan! I now get it
within five days of my turn in. (We'll see how well they adhere to that!)
They do pay 16 cents a line!!
--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
(to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
"DJGordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> If they're stating that they will have a full-time bookkeeper in response
to
> requests about pay from you, they may be doing it like the law office that
I
> handled the bookkeeping did. I was on the signature card to sign checks
when
> the lawyer was out of town just so no one was paid late. Maybe that's what
> they're going to do too.
>
> Dani
>
> "Carol A" <carolsonline@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:byBAe.692$Ih7.639@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
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| kathycarp 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| The accountant will probably have signature privileges.
--
Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"Carol A" <carolsonline@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:byBAe.692$Ih7.639@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> He originally told me I would be paid on the 1st and 15th of every month,
> same as his office employees, but he is always in Chicago lecturing the
> first week of every month, and, gee, this month he's going to be gone next
> week, too. I'm beginning to wonder about the lack of "coincidence" this
> seems to have....
>
> Now, with the trouble surrounding the arrival of my last paycheck, his
> office manager informed me that their office will have an accountant on
> staff by next pay period, which will mean regular interval of paychecks
> from
> now on, starting with the next one.
>
> ....But, if Doc isn't there to sign the checks, how is this possible?
>
> Thanks for any help/info/advice.
>
>
> --
> Carol A. Addison
> Internet-ready Medical Transcriptionist
> carolmedtx@gmail.com
> Specialties:
> Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Operative Reports, Urgent Care/Emergency
> Room
>
>
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| Gisele 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
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My big client does not sign his own checks, and I get 'em like
clockwork. I let go a client a couple of years ago because she was a
doc signing her own checks, would never stiff me on an invoice, but I
always had to send the invoice, wait X number of days, call/email to
inquire if the dang thing had been paid, and I just got sick of it, so
I gave her 30 days' notice. She was also dictating all over creation
on a cell phone, and I just got tired of listening to the static, so
those two problems combined made me happy to give her up. What I tell
them is, they don't have to ask where the transcription is (it's
delivered every day!), so I shouldn't have to ask where my pay is.
--
Gisele
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| Susan Mitchell 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| Exactly I used that in my letter.
--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
(to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
"Gisele" <Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> My big client does not sign his own checks, and I get 'em like
> clockwork. I let go a client a couple of years ago because she was a
> doc signing her own checks, would never stiff me on an invoice, but I
> always had to send the invoice, wait X number of days, call/email to
> inquire if the dang thing had been paid, and I just got sick of it, so
> I gave her 30 days' notice. She was also dictating all over creation
> on a cell phone, and I just got tired of listening to the static, so
> those two problems combined made me happy to give her up. What I tell
> them is, they don't have to ask where the transcription is (it's
> delivered every day!), so I shouldn't have to ask where my pay is.
>
>
> --
> Gisele
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| DJGordon 2005-07-11, 5:51 pm |
| Amen. My main client used to be wonderful. I turned my invoice in on the
1st, my check was cut within two days and sent out. Then they decided I had
to turn them in by the 23rd to get paid by the first. Well, check started
getting later and later, sometimes after the tenth. I would email and
complain and now they say that their other "vendors" have net 45 days. I
said, well, that's fine and dandy but I'm not other "vendors". Now the
promise is I turn in on the 23rd and it is cut sometime between the 6th and
the 10th, best deal I could get. I still have to get on them sometimes about
remembering me and there's always an excuse. The sad thing is that my client
is a multibillion dollar audiovisual production company and I happen to know
that they are always late paying bills such as their Earthlink internet
account. Truly poor accounting going on. But, oh boy, like right now, they
sure do want their files back on time if not before time. They send them to
me, then a day later say, oh yeah, those are rush, we need them yesterday.
And these aren't 5-10 recordings. These are 149 minute conferences on
pediatric epilepsy, clinical trial training, everything under the sun....oh
woe is me LOL I'm just feeling sorry for myself since the main subs I use
all decided to go on vacation at the same time and I'm working 18-hour days
to stay caught up. {sigh}
Dani
"Gisele" <Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> My big client does not sign his own checks, and I get 'em like
> clockwork. I let go a client a couple of years ago because she was a
> doc signing her own checks, would never stiff me on an invoice, but I
> always had to send the invoice, wait X number of days, call/email to
> inquire if the dang thing had been paid, and I just got sick of it, so
> I gave her 30 days' notice. She was also dictating all over creation
> on a cell phone, and I just got tired of listening to the static, so
> those two problems combined made me happy to give her up. What I tell
> them is, they don't have to ask where the transcription is (it's
> delivered every day!), so I shouldn't have to ask where my pay is.
>
>
> --
> Gisele
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| RaeMorrill 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| Wonder how they would feel if the check was late and you decided to hold
work? Just amazing that companies are like that especially when you know
they have the money.
DJGordon wrote:
> Amen. My main client used to be wonderful. I turned my invoice in on the
> 1st, my check was cut within two days and sent out. Then they decided I had
> to turn them in by the 23rd to get paid by the first. Well, check started
> getting later and later, sometimes after the tenth. I would email and
> complain and now they say that their other "vendors" have net 45 days. I
> said, well, that's fine and dandy but I'm not other "vendors". Now the
> promise is I turn in on the 23rd and it is cut sometime between the 6th and
> the 10th, best deal I could get. I still have to get on them sometimes about
> remembering me and there's always an excuse. The sad thing is that my client
> is a multibillion dollar audiovisual production company and I happen to know
> that they are always late paying bills such as their Earthlink internet
> account. Truly poor accounting going on. But, oh boy, like right now, they
> sure do want their files back on time if not before time. They send them to
> me, then a day later say, oh yeah, those are rush, we need them yesterday.
> And these aren't 5-10 recordings. These are 149 minute conferences on
> pediatric epilepsy, clinical trial training, everything under the sun....oh
> woe is me LOL I'm just feeling sorry for myself since the main subs I use
> all decided to go on vacation at the same time and I'm working 18-hour days
> to stay caught up. {sigh}
>
> Dani
>
> "Gisele" <Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com...
>
>
>
>
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| DJGordon 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I have seriously thought about it. If I wouldn't lose my house over losing
this job I would be so tempted. But this is my bread and butter account and
while I don't kowtow, I am a bit deferential to them. Of course, here lately
I've noticed they are (no other way to describe it) kissing my feet for some
reason. Heck, got this last check on the 2nd. They've been super nice about
me saying they aren't going to get some of the files when they say they want
theme. They got burned by the first two companies they used when they got
started and swore they would never have just one transcription company on
retainer again and have been using that Indian (now U.S.-based of course)
company that I have mentioned for things that don't need to be back within a
month and crappy QA.... but all of a sudden I notice they haven't been given
anything since March, so I'm wondering if they think the same way I do and
we're both just too "scared" to talk about it. I can't risk losing their
account, and maybe by some small chance they actually think they could risk
losing me. Nice to think of, they are always sending me thank you notes,
cards, goodies in the mail, etc. so maybe I just worry too much.
Dani
"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Wonder how they would feel if the check was late and you decided to hold
> work? Just amazing that companies are like that especially when you know
> they have the money.
>
> DJGordon wrote:
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| Jeannie Wilson 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| RaeMorrill <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote here for all to
seenews:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> Wonder how they would feel if the check was late and you decided to hold
> work? Just amazing that companies are like that especially when you know
> they have the money.
I've held work before. You'd be amazed how fast they can write a check
when you do that.
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| Susan Mitchell 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I worked for a gal that refused to leave the doctors office until he wrote
the check for us out of his personal account. They have never missed our
payday since.
--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
(to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
"Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@comcastspamkills.net> wrote in message
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> RaeMorrill <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote here for all to
> seenews:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
>
> I've held work before. You'd be amazed how fast they can write a check
> when you do that.
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| Jeannie Wilson 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| "Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans@comcast.net> wrote here for all to
seenews:V-GdnV3rBMQ0kE7fRVn-3w@comcast.com:
> I worked for a gal that refused to leave the doctors office until he
> wrote the check for us out of his personal account. They have never
> missed our payday since.
I have an account who I worked for and dropped when they were consistently
behind in paying me. They still owe me around 2 grand and I got so pissed
when I heard that the doc took his entire family on a cruise and closed the
offices for almost 2 weeks. He cannot pay me my money, but he can take his
whole family on a cruise? This is no small family, either. Children,
spouses, grandkids, etc.
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| Susan Mitchell 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| Isn't there some kind of debt notice you can list in the newspaper?
--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
(to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
"Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@comcastspamkills.net> wrote in message
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> "Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans@comcast.net> wrote here for all to
> seenews:V-GdnV3rBMQ0kE7fRVn-3w@comcast.com:
>
>
> I have an account who I worked for and dropped when they were consistently
> behind in paying me. They still owe me around 2 grand and I got so pissed
> when I heard that the doc took his entire family on a cruise and closed
the
> offices for almost 2 weeks. He cannot pay me my money, but he can take
his
> whole family on a cruise? This is no small family, either. Children,
> spouses, grandkids, etc.
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| Barbara Carlson 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I had a similar situation with one office manager--sometimes 4 to 6 weeks
overdue. Turns out the doctor was not aware of this. His office manager
got fired (for other reasons) and the new manager pays me like clockwork.
She is authorized to sign checks if he is away--though he signs them when he
is there.
Barb C.
"Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> This was an ongoing problem with an office I was working with. They had a
> set time when I turned in my line count but always jerked me around with
> my
> check. They had a set time but never adhered to it. (The other
> transcriptionist that works on the account is retired and uses this as
> "extra" money, hence they think I should have the same attitude). Anyway,
> I
> wrote a letter stating I needed to have a set time for turning in and
> picking up and that when I came in to pick up my check being told "maybe
> next Wednesday" was not sufficient. Apparently the doctor was not aware
> the
> office manager was doing that and you know what hit the fan! I now get it
> within five days of my turn in. (We'll see how well they adhere to that!)
> They do pay 16 cents a line!!
>
> --
> Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
> (to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
> "DJGordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:GGBAe.50458$qm.39001@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> to
> I
> when
> month,
> next
>
>
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| RaeMorrill 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I'm SURE they would have ahard time replacing someone of your caliber.
If quality matters to their clients, they are screwed if they can't find
a contractor who can deliver it.
DJGordon wrote:
> I have seriously thought about it. If I wouldn't lose my house over losing
> this job I would be so tempted. But this is my bread and butter account and
> while I don't kowtow, I am a bit deferential to them. Of course, here lately
> I've noticed they are (no other way to describe it) kissing my feet for some
> reason. Heck, got this last check on the 2nd. They've been super nice about
> me saying they aren't going to get some of the files when they say they want
> theme. They got burned by the first two companies they used when they got
> started and swore they would never have just one transcription company on
> retainer again and have been using that Indian (now U.S.-based of course)
> company that I have mentioned for things that don't need to be back within a
> month and crappy QA.... but all of a sudden I notice they haven't been given
> anything since March, so I'm wondering if they think the same way I do and
> we're both just too "scared" to talk about it. I can't risk losing their
> account, and maybe by some small chance they actually think they could risk
> losing me. Nice to think of, they are always sending me thank you notes,
> cards, goodies in the mail, etc. so maybe I just worry too much.
>
> Dani
>
> "RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>
>
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| RaeMorrill 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I'll bet. It's nice when you're in a position you can afford to lose an
account over it. When it's someone who has relatively few clients, they
may hesitate to call someone's bluff, which is too bad. They want their
work back in TAT. Someone I know has a client this way. It's a small
local practice that belongs to a much larger apparently national group.
She has a contract for 10 day pay. Over and over she goes round with
them. Thing is, someone signed that contract. If they were not
authorized to sign for that, they should not have
Jeannie Wilson wrote:
> RaeMorrill <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote here for all to
> seenews:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
>
>
>
> I've held work before. You'd be amazed how fast they can write a check
> when you do that.
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| Jeannie Wilson 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| RaeMorrill <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote here for all to
seenews:OjFAe.140827$g5.132202@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> I'll bet. It's nice when you're in a position you can afford to lose an
> account over it. When it's someone who has relatively few clients, they
> may hesitate to call someone's bluff, which is too bad.
Unfortunately, I wasn't in a position to lose the client over it. However,
I had to weigh the headaches of working my behind off and always wondering
where my check was or possibly dumping them and finding someone who would
pay on time. They told me to have work back in within TAT or they would
find someone who would. I told them to pay me for the work I did or I
would dump them and find someone who would.
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| RaeMorrill 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| And sometimes, even if you can't afford it moneywise, the stress of
worrying over it over and over takes a toll
Jeannie Wilson wrote:
> RaeMorrill <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote here for all to
> seenews:OjFAe.140827$g5.132202@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I wasn't in a position to lose the client over it. However,
> I had to weigh the headaches of working my behind off and always wondering
> where my check was or possibly dumping them and finding someone who would
> pay on time. They told me to have work back in within TAT or they would
> find someone who would. I told them to pay me for the work I did or I
> would dump them and find someone who would.
| |
| Gisele 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
|
RaeMorrill Wrote:
> I'll bet. It's nice when you're in a position you can afford to lose an
> account over it.
Well, it's not really nice. It is the result of hard work to build up
a service, and it's a business decision that has to be made, that's
all.
--
Gisele
| |
| DJGordon 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| Warning, this is long!!!
That's what they're always telling me, Rae. I'll be honest in our little
corner of the world here on how I came about this account. Normally, I'm a
moral, ethical person and still am, but I guess this would have to be judged
on the way this happened. And may name names if I screw up the courage.
I had just absolutely had it with my lazy deadline missing attorney of a
boss and Halloween of 2000 just didn't even go in to work and sent him a
letter of resignation by fax as I had just about cried the last week every
time I crossed the threshold. Plus Justin had just been diagnosed 9 months
earlier and nurses were watching him while Keith and I were at work, so I
just said to hell with it, I'm smart, I have an education, I know computers
inside out, I will find something at one of the online job sites.
I had been playing around for a while looking at some of the stuff and had
gone to www.workaholics4hire.com which at the time was a great site to look
for careers. There was a job listed with (oh I can't do it after all) a
small company in Tennessee, owned by a preacher and his wife and I thought,
oh, I can do this and it must be legit. Well, it was a transcription job,
just general transcription but it was typing conferences, medicolegal, you
name it...oh, yeah, it is the same thing I do now 5 years later. Anyway,
tested for them, they said wow, you're hired. I had to take it, even though
she would/could, who knows, only pay me I think it was $1.50 a page....and a
lot of you on here know that my pages are 1 inch margins, full text every
line, single spaced, no hitting enter...just one big paragraph. Well, I had
to have money (Keith was working temp jobs at the time and here was
Christmas coming up) so I took it thinking $1.50 wasn't so bad. HA! I'm
smarter now.
Anyway, this is November 1st mind you, yep I was only without a job one day.
Well, I worked and worked and worked (one of the first lectures I did was 6
hours, 70 pages long for the Canadian Psychiatric Assocation) thank goodness
they dropped them as a client--whew, can those people talk. Well, December
1st came, no pay. I'm told that they are having trouble with the client
paying them. I say, so? And that affects me how? Remember, how naive I was.
January 1st, nothing. February 1st, nothing. All the while stupid XXX me is
still typing away. LMAO Anyway, at this point I do start threatening
lawsuits and finally around mid-February I get paid and they say they no
longer have the account. Imagine that. Well, I knew who the client was and I
contacted them saying I've been doing this for a while, I really enjoy it,
can you put me in contact with the company you are hiring to replace this
one? They do, she's thrilled, I'm hired on the spot. Another MT company out
of Tennessee -- Boy would I love to reveal this one's name, but I still
better not because of what comes next.
Well, they have a whole bunch of people working on the account and so my
workload is not near enough, but for someone who'd only been doing this for
a few months, they started me out at I think 8 per gross line. I don't think
that's too bad. Pay is still once a month, and very, very rarely did I have
to ask where my check was. Well, anyway, I guess it was about the end of
2002 and work was getting few and far between. I start asking questions.
They finally tell us that the client is looking at bringing in another
company to "compete" for the contract renewal. Well, it was a 30-day
contest. Of course, remember, I'm telling this from what they told me.
Thirty days came and went and they told everyone they would have to take a
pay cut if they wanted to stay for some reason or another. Well, I had no
other options, I stayed. I was the only one. And it took me the next six
months to beg, plead, threaten, and kiss XXX my way back up to 7.5 cents,
from the down to 6 cents they cut us to. Well, also during this six months,
instead of getting any support I need from the company I was subbing for,
they keep saying, contact the client, they can help you, quit sending me the
assignments and expected me to go to the website and get them myself even
though they were notified by email about them. Well, the production manager
at the client's office started talking to me about just how much they loved
my work, but hated the company I worked for and were thinking about getting
rid of them. I mean, this company was making me do the whole account by
myself, and for those of you who have helped me out, can just imagine how
much fun I was having.
Anyway, Justin got put in the hospital one of his last times and it was for
a empyema (sp), oh hell pleural effusion, and had to have a chest tube drain
placed in June of 2003. I have my laptop with me so I can work from the ICU
room which I always did, but the client and I are having negotiations on how
to keep me, get rid of the contractor, and nobody get sued. Well, finally, I
contacted a lawyer, told him what had gone on, found out that their contract
wasn't worth the paper it was written on because it stipulated that any
breach of contract voided it and after all they had pulled on me, it was
definitely a breach. And so conference calls down in the lobby of Kosair
Hospital, many contract negotiations later, here I am the owner of that
account and loving it. They are always telling me how much they love me, but
dangit I still just don't feel I have the job security. I mean, I look at it
this way. I am a small little TSO (probably not even that) and they are a
multibillion dollary company and sometimes I have to tell them too bad, that
deadline won't fly. What happens if they decide to find a company who can
make it fly? It scares me to death because I would honestly go bankrupt if I
lost this account, no doubt about it. So there's my story, and while not 100
percent proud of it, it gave Justin an easier life, me a less stressful one,
and while I'm not rich, I don't need any state aid anymore, we don't hurt,
and we even have a little nest egg building a little at a time.
Dani
"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:ShFAe.140822$g5.23212@twister.nyroc.rr.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> I'm SURE they would have ahard time replacing someone of your caliber. If
> quality matters to their clients, they are screwed if they can't find a
> contractor who can deliver it.
>
>
>
> DJGordon wrote:
| |
| RaeMorrill 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| As you said, they breached the contract first! I sure couldn't deal with
the deadlines you do, I know that for sure. I can't imagine how a
conference could really be needed that stat, at least not for the same
money!
DJGordon wrote:
> Warning, this is long!!!
>
> That's what they're always telling me, Rae. I'll be honest in our little
> corner of the world here on how I came about this account. Normally, I'm a
> moral, ethical person and still am, but I guess this would have to be judged
> on the way this happened. And may name names if I screw up the courage.
>
> I had just absolutely had it with my lazy deadline missing attorney of a
> boss and Halloween of 2000 just didn't even go in to work and sent him a
> letter of resignation by fax as I had just about cried the last week every
> time I crossed the threshold. Plus Justin had just been diagnosed 9 months
> earlier and nurses were watching him while Keith and I were at work, so I
> just said to hell with it, I'm smart, I have an education, I know computers
> inside out, I will find something at one of the online job sites.
>
> I had been playing around for a while looking at some of the stuff and had
> gone to www.workaholics4hire.com which at the time was a great site to look
> for careers. There was a job listed with (oh I can't do it after all) a
> small company in Tennessee, owned by a preacher and his wife and I thought,
> oh, I can do this and it must be legit. Well, it was a transcription job,
> just general transcription but it was typing conferences, medicolegal, you
> name it...oh, yeah, it is the same thing I do now 5 years later. Anyway,
> tested for them, they said wow, you're hired. I had to take it, even though
> she would/could, who knows, only pay me I think it was $1.50 a page....and a
> lot of you on here know that my pages are 1 inch margins, full text every
> line, single spaced, no hitting enter...just one big paragraph. Well, I had
> to have money (Keith was working temp jobs at the time and here was
> Christmas coming up) so I took it thinking $1.50 wasn't so bad. HA! I'm
> smarter now.
>
> Anyway, this is November 1st mind you, yep I was only without a job one day.
> Well, I worked and worked and worked (one of the first lectures I did was 6
> hours, 70 pages long for the Canadian Psychiatric Assocation) thank goodness
> they dropped them as a client--whew, can those people talk. Well, December
> 1st came, no pay. I'm told that they are having trouble with the client
> paying them. I say, so? And that affects me how? Remember, how naive I was.
> January 1st, nothing. February 1st, nothing. All the while stupid XXX me is
> still typing away. LMAO Anyway, at this point I do start threatening
> lawsuits and finally around mid-February I get paid and they say they no
> longer have the account. Imagine that. Well, I knew who the client was and I
> contacted them saying I've been doing this for a while, I really enjoy it,
> can you put me in contact with the company you are hiring to replace this
> one? They do, she's thrilled, I'm hired on the spot. Another MT company out
> of Tennessee -- Boy would I love to reveal this one's name, but I still
> better not because of what comes next.
>
> Well, they have a whole bunch of people working on the account and so my
> workload is not near enough, but for someone who'd only been doing this for
> a few months, they started me out at I think 8 per gross line. I don't think
> that's too bad. Pay is still once a month, and very, very rarely did I have
> to ask where my check was. Well, anyway, I guess it was about the end of
> 2002 and work was getting few and far between. I start asking questions.
> They finally tell us that the client is looking at bringing in another
> company to "compete" for the contract renewal. Well, it was a 30-day
> contest. Of course, remember, I'm telling this from what they told me.
> Thirty days came and went and they told everyone they would have to take a
> pay cut if they wanted to stay for some reason or another. Well, I had no
> other options, I stayed. I was the only one. And it took me the next six
> months to beg, plead, threaten, and kiss XXX my way back up to 7.5 cents,
> from the down to 6 cents they cut us to. Well, also during this six months,
> instead of getting any support I need from the company I was subbing for,
> they keep saying, contact the client, they can help you, quit sending me the
> assignments and expected me to go to the website and get them myself even
> though they were notified by email about them. Well, the production manager
> at the client's office started talking to me about just how much they loved
> my work, but hated the company I worked for and were thinking about getting
> rid of them. I mean, this company was making me do the whole account by
> myself, and for those of you who have helped me out, can just imagine how
> much fun I was having.
>
> Anyway, Justin got put in the hospital one of his last times and it was for
> a empyema (sp), oh hell pleural effusion, and had to have a chest tube drain
> placed in June of 2003. I have my laptop with me so I can work from the ICU
> room which I always did, but the client and I are having negotiations on how
> to keep me, get rid of the contractor, and nobody get sued. Well, finally, I
> contacted a lawyer, told him what had gone on, found out that their contract
> wasn't worth the paper it was written on because it stipulated that any
> breach of contract voided it and after all they had pulled on me, it was
> definitely a breach. And so conference calls down in the lobby of Kosair
> Hospital, many contract negotiations later, here I am the owner of that
> account and loving it. They are always telling me how much they love me, but
> dangit I still just don't feel I have the job security. I mean, I look at it
> this way. I am a small little TSO (probably not even that) and they are a
> multibillion dollary company and sometimes I have to tell them too bad, that
> deadline won't fly. What happens if they decide to find a company who can
> make it fly? It scares me to death because I would honestly go bankrupt if I
> lost this account, no doubt about it. So there's my story, and while not 100
> percent proud of it, it gave Justin an easier life, me a less stressful one,
> and while I'm not rich, I don't need any state aid anymore, we don't hurt,
> and we even have a little nest egg building a little at a time.
>
> Dani
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:ShFAe.140822$g5.23212@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>
>
>
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| Carol A 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| I think, in that case, I would write up a pay schedule contract that says
something along the lines of,
"As long as transcription contractor continues to supply product within 48
hours of receipt of work order, contract holder is expected to honor
invoices within 48 hours of receipt and/or within 48 hours of next regular
company pay cycle, whichever comes last."
How about them apples?
Carol-A
"DJGordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:5FCAe.50502$qm.742@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> Amen. My main client used to be wonderful. I turned my invoice in on the
> 1st, my check was cut within two days and sent out. Then they decided I
had
> to turn them in by the 23rd to get paid by the first. Well, check started
> getting later and later, sometimes after the tenth. I would email and
> complain and now they say that their other "vendors" have net 45 days. I
> said, well, that's fine and dandy but I'm not other "vendors". Now the
> promise is I turn in on the 23rd and it is cut sometime between the 6th
and
> the 10th, best deal I could get. I still have to get on them sometimes
about
> remembering me and there's always an excuse. The sad thing is that my
client
> is a multibillion dollar audiovisual production company and I happen to
know
> that they are always late paying bills such as their Earthlink internet
> account. Truly poor accounting going on. But, oh boy, like right now, they
> sure do want their files back on time if not before time. They send them
to
> me, then a day later say, oh yeah, those are rush, we need them yesterday.
> And these aren't 5-10 recordings. These are 149 minute conferences on
> pediatric epilepsy, clinical trial training, everything under the
sun....oh
> woe is me LOL I'm just feeling sorry for myself since the main subs I use
> all decided to go on vacation at the same time and I'm working 18-hour
days
> to stay caught up. {sigh}
>
> Dani
>
> "Gisele" <Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:Gisele.1s10wh@nospam.com...
>
>
| |
| Carol A 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
|
"RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Wonder how they would feel if the check was late and you decided to hold
> work? Just amazing that companies are like that especially when you know
> they have the money.
I've actually done that. I just didn't tell them I was doing it. But, my
work sped up remarkably as soon as the check arrived. :-)
| |
| Carol A 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| They obviously value you! Way to go!
"DJGordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:%TCAe.50511$qm.31441@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> I have seriously thought about it. If I wouldn't lose my house over losing
> this job I would be so tempted. But this is my bread and butter account
and
> while I don't kowtow, I am a bit deferential to them. Of course, here
lately
> I've noticed they are (no other way to describe it) kissing my feet for
some
> reason. Heck, got this last check on the 2nd. They've been super nice
about
> me saying they aren't going to get some of the files when they say they
want
> theme. They got burned by the first two companies they used when they got
> started and swore they would never have just one transcription company on
> retainer again and have been using that Indian (now U.S.-based of course)
> company that I have mentioned for things that don't need to be back within
a
> month and crappy QA.... but all of a sudden I notice they haven't been
given
> anything since March, so I'm wondering if they think the same way I do and
> we're both just too "scared" to talk about it. I can't risk losing their
> account, and maybe by some small chance they actually think they could
risk
> losing me. Nice to think of, they are always sending me thank you notes,
> cards, goodies in the mail, etc. so maybe I just worry too much.
>
> Dani
>
> "RaeMorrill" <RaeMorrill@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:jNCAe.33842$0i3.12487@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
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| Carol A 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| Oh, yeah. This doc has 6 kids. He's a real baby producer. LOL.
He has also been known to make poor financial decisions, however. He used to
work locally before moving to where he is, now. He actually had to fire lots
of office staff--even one of his PA's!--because of some bad financial
decisions when he was practicing locally a few years back. That's what has
me a little nervous.
See, my dad was a dentist, and he would dip into his personal investments to
make payroll before he'd miss paying his employees. He's ethical that way.
This doc, though, was not like that, from what I here. He even took health
insurance away from his employees, one of whom had a husband who had just
had a devastating accident on the job and desperately needed that insurance.
She was forced to quit.
Carol-A
"Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@comcastspamkills.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9690CDEFF66B1jwilson421comcastnet@216.196.97.136...
> "Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans@comcast.net> wrote here for all to
> seenews:V-GdnV3rBMQ0kE7fRVn-3w@comcast.com:
>
>
> I have an account who I worked for and dropped when they were consistently
> behind in paying me. They still owe me around 2 grand and I got so pissed
> when I heard that the doc took his entire family on a cruise and closed
the
> offices for almost 2 weeks. He cannot pay me my money, but he can take
his
> whole family on a cruise? This is no small family, either. Children,
> spouses, grandkids, etc.
| |
| Barbara Carlson 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| Just curious? A devastating on-job accident should have been covered by
Workers Compensation? Nothing to do with regular health insurance. A lot
of places are cutting out, or requiring higher co-pays for health insurance
because they can't afford it either! It's a vicious cycle that is being
ignored by the powers that be!
Barb C.
Barb C.
"Carol A" <carolsonline@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:jDUAe.579$dX5.250@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> Oh, yeah. This doc has 6 kids. He's a real baby producer. LOL.
>
> He has also been known to make poor financial decisions, however. He used
> to
> work locally before moving to where he is, now. He actually had to fire
> lots
> of office staff--even one of his PA's!--because of some bad financial
> decisions when he was practicing locally a few years back. That's what has
> me a little nervous.
>
> See, my dad was a dentist, and he would dip into his personal investments
> to
> make payroll before he'd miss paying his employees. He's ethical that way.
> This doc, though, was not like that, from what I here. He even took health
> insurance away from his employees, one of whom had a husband who had just
> had a devastating accident on the job and desperately needed that
> insurance.
> She was forced to quit.
>
> Carol-A
>
> "Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@comcastspamkills.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9690CDEFF66B1jwilson421comcastnet@216.196.97.136...
> the
> his
>
>
>
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| Sandi 2005-07-12, 11:00 pm |
| "Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@snappydsl.net> wrote in message
news:ZIOdncA98cNluEnfRVn-hw@snappydsl.net...
> Just curious? A devastating on-job accident should have been covered by
> Workers Compensation? Nothing to do with regular health insurance. A
> lot of places are cutting out, or requiring higher co-pays for health
> insurance because they can't afford it either! It's a vicious cycle that
> is being ignored by the powers that be!
>
> Barb C.
>
Worker's comp might have covered a particular accident, but the husband may
then have lost his general medical coverage due to inability to work and
needed hers.
| |
| Eliyahu Rooff 2005-07-13, 10:59 pm |
|
"Gisele" <Gisele.1s1fw5@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Gisele.1s1fw5@nospam.com...
|
| RaeMorrill Wrote:
| > I'll bet. It's nice when you're in a position you can afford to
lose an
| > account over it.
|
| Well, it's not really nice. It is the result of hard work to
build up
| a service, and it's a business decision that has to be made,
that's
| all.
|
Yes, it's certainly the result of hard work, but it's still nice to
have reached a position where the loss of an account isn't a
disaster. After all, there are many folks who work just as hard
and, due to circumstances that may be outside their control, can't
afford to lose a single client or take a day away from work.
Eliyahu
| |
| Gisele 2005-07-14, 8:52 am |
|
> Yes, it's certainly the result of hard work, but it's still nice to
> have reached a position where the loss of an account isn't a
> disaster. After all, there are many folks who work just as hard
> and, due to circumstances that may be outside their control, can't
> afford to lose a single client or take a day away from work.
>
> Eliyahu
I have certainly had times in my life when I had to work for people I
did not like at rates that did not support me. I got out of those
situations as quickly as I could by networking with other MTs in order
to find work I liked better. Sometimes that meant working 2 jobs with
crummy hours before I could transition to the next thing. If I had
just sat there and kept accepting the original bad deal, whatever it
was, then I really would have been stuck. I reached the position of
being able to turn down bad deals by working my tail off! I guess you
can call that nice if you want to.
Gisele
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Gisele
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