Agree LTMT.......I saw your post as just helpful

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Are you talking in terms of the minutes of dictation (i.e. five hours (300 minutes) of the doctor's dictation every other day) or the time you worked?  Also, would you receive work at various times times during the day where you would have to keep checking around the clock to see if there was more work or not and essentially feel like you were working all the time.   I had a job where I would never know when I would get the work and would wait around all day long and then get it when I had the least time to work and then get more work again later that same day.   That did not work out, and I would like to avoid that situation again.  I would really like to find something where I know when to expect the work and that I could get it done during the time when I was most available (of course there would be some exceptions...).  Thank you again for all your help!    

They should promote you more to QA/public relations - field manager -- something. Should be a way to monitor the level of work or no work routinely seems to me. And, tooo many emails, from everybody in the company to everybody in the company gad, a regular flurry

I worked for Transcend 2 weeks and quit, was off QA in about a week. 

I was not told I was being hired for VR.  Since I had already jumped all the hoops, I thought, well, since I am here, I will try it.  Beyond TX is ridiculous. 

HUGE amount of changes to make, so much so, I felt obliged to rewind each report to make sure it hung right.  I decided there was no way I could make a living.  A 40-60% cut is expecting too much and I was just worn out, tired with the extra Keystrokes Alt N Alt NN, Shift enter.  Took too much time on the many numbered lists.

I do believe that some are having a hard time of it, but I know there are others who still like the company and are happy.  Do I have problems with Beyond TXT?  Sure.  Who doesnt.  It is a new platform.  I'm quite sure that every platform has its issues in the beginning phase of usage, but those issues can and will be resolved.  The platform is really quite good.  Once the trouble spots are ironed out, it will be quite a great tool for us.  As far as the editing goes, I believe that too will improve with time.  I also believe that once it is in full swing and becomes the norm, our pay will be restructured again - to our benefit.  Change takes time.  There are always hardships along the way.  Each MLS has to decide whether to stick it out or not.  But you shouldn't be misleading to outsiders who cannot form a realistic opinion on their own.  I am sure there are some MLS's that cannot make what they used to.  However, there are some that can.  Why this is I don't know.  It may be due to experience, the account, how well they work on the platform.  Who knows.  The company is still going strong, however, and if there were not some content MTs, I would think Transcend would not have a staff. 

One more thing, the post about MTs losing reports, well yes that is happening.  But the poster didn't tell the rest of the story.  If you lose a report it is due to an issue with BTXT.  The company has said time and again to send in an incident report stating which job was lost and you will be paid for it.  What more do you want? 

I do agree with some of what you typed - the small mindedness and all that, but you definitely do have 6 typographical  errors just in that little post and yes, it's just a bulletin board.....but if one is a master MT, well that reflects usually in everything that passes through their hands...including some internet posting on forums/boards.

just my nickel's worth....

we can only lead a horse to water, we cannot make them drink it....if they choose to be intolerant, it's their choice as sick as it seems.  I choose to go through the life as a loving, compassionate person.  Others choose not to go this route.

Yes, racism and neonazism is, unfortunately, alive and well, in the USA and all over the world.  So, if we raise our children with our awareness and our love and compassion, hopefully the future generation (our kids) will Do The Right Thing!! 

I started in a clinic but quickly moved to a large teaching hospital, and the mentorship and listening parties was very valuable.  Another thing that works that I particularly like is to walk away, go have a cookie, then come back.  Sometimes then you can hear what the doc is saying!  At least as bad as ESL are the docs who have a 15-minute report but by the time they're done uhh-ing and ahh-ing and emm-ing through the report you have about 40 lines. 

you are told upfront what the benefits are and what the requirements are, so if they are not to your liking, why take the position?   I am quite happy here at TT, and am thrilled at the news about the 401k.  Of course, I've been doing transcription for over 30 years now, so I guess that puts me in the age bracket where thinking about retirement is a little bit higher on my list than maybe someone 20-something, although I wish I had been smart when I was 20 and started putting away.  Oh well .......

Again, great post ... thanks for sharing. 

and especially with getting the media involved. Nothing is going to happen until people realize what is happening to their personal information. It is just now coming to the forefront, thanks to the media, the reality and effect of what happens to our personal information when all of these companies have access to it and the result thereof. It's on television every time we turn around; our personal information being *out there* and in the hands of who knows who, stolen and disseminated in whatever way someone or some company chooses. As well, physicians truly need to understand that companies are outsourcing (I don't believe for a moment that most of them understand this fact). That aside, the effect on the lives and work of the American MT is something that needs to be known, and the media is the only way the information is going to be released to the general public. Using American MTs is the only way this information is *safe*, to so speak.

Additionally, as you state, using us to correct all of the mistakes made by the client in ADT and not paying us for it is so absurd, I am sick to death of it myself. I run across it every day (and MQ (for whom I work doesn't pay us, either). On one account I have, in particular, virtually nothing matches in ADT and if we don't get it correctly, it IS the fault of the MT, no matter what (??). We get email after email about it from out PS on up. Also, everything is done to lessen the line count, no matter how awful it looks. ASR keeps lessening our pay. Everything is beginning to look as if it were done by Indians or Pakistanis, etc., and it's not as if I have anything against those people, in case anyone wants to jump on me for that statement, other than they are being given our jobs. However, the work is substandard.

As an aside, can you think of any better way for a terrorist organization to infiltrate?

So, it's not like there are no offers, just terrible offers.  This business doesn't pay what it used to especially with the MTSOs that are online lookig for ICs or employees.  I haven't seen a job ad yet that is paying more than 9 cpl unless it's a teaching hospital loaded with ESL, which I can do, but why rack my brain when I can make more lines per hour doing clinic with no ESL.  It's a shame, but we must be choosy at this point in the game.  I agree that there are companies out there paying the same wage, hire employees, and give benefits, which is great, but not all of us can work a set schedule for whatever reason, truth be told.  No one should knock that.  If you are in a situation where you can physically sit for 8 hours, good for you, but me I'm only 38 and I just can't do it anymore after working on-site for 17 years, pounding the keys, I just don't have the stamina.  So, I prefer IC work that is truly IC and I work my own hours even if that means getting up to stretch every 15 minutes.  I still make a great living and fortunate in that I don't need the health benefits right now; not to say that couldn't change in the future. 

In all fairness, this profession should allow more stretch time and less pound the keys for 8-10 hours and they may find more MTs wanting to be an employee.  An IC means you make your own schedule, nothing wrong with that.