BRAVO!!! I send you my very best wishes for success! (nm)
Posted By: RADical MT on 2009-01-05
In Reply to: MT Smith Goes to Washington - mt
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Very few have had success through TM. Believe she's just consolidated all
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I've had success with VR
I fought against it because of the lower pay rate, but when I broke down and tried it I was fascinated and pleased. I'm now making more than I was typing full time. My arms love it too. I'm far above the minimum requirement.
True, VR could be a success for the MTs if VR salespeople
had not made the promise and assurance that VR would double or even triple the output by MTs, and therefore the cpl rate could be halved or even less.
They cut our pay before the salespeoples' statements and promises were proved.
But without the promise of doubling or tripling the output by the MTs, nobody would probably buy their VR software.
This is the whole problem.
I think that were the pay for VR and straight the same, VR would be embraced by the MTs, in the long run, especially if the VR systems get improved.
It needs the same knowledge and is easier on the hands.
Why cannot once in a lifetime something be done in the MTing field that is in favor of the MTs:
Equal pay for VR and transcription.
LOL!!! Of course they did. OSi wishes they could hire 2 MTs
Too funny!
Thanks for your good wishes and....sm
All the best of luck to you in your future....you'll do GREAT.....the dynamics of your posting(s) tells me that....*grin*  
Sincere best wishes to you ...
Hi SC. First of all, let me say good luck to you in your quest for a raise at your present job. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you.
My personal experience is that in the 20 or so years that I've been in this industry I've never received a raise from the MT service at which I was employed at the time that I asked for the raise. Either they hemmed and hawed or just ignored my request altogether. (Let me specifically state that my work experience has been comprised of both MTSO's and nationals.) My solution, unfortunately, has always been that when I got to the point that I felt my increased skill and experience along with the cost-of-living merited it, I moved on to the next service. The new service/national would always offer me a significantly higher line rate. Ironically, I've been with my present employer for about 2-1/2 years of so. I emailed my supe about the possibility of a raise about a year ago ... and never received a response ... 
Hopefully others will be able to present a more positive experience in this area.
My sincere well wishes
for all of you. May all of you have the best of fortune and not lose your jobs to some foreign country, have abundant work and may there be a chicken in every pot. After all, this IS America. United we stand, divided we fall.
The kind that wishes they could do unto others
Deal with it.
My prayers and best wishes to Heartland's sm
US MTs who have been laid off. If it were me, I'd be tempted to drop a line to Gov. Howard Dean who is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Howard Dean is also a physician, an internist, who I'm sure would be very interested in hearing from some MTs about this situation. I'd also contact one of the nighttime news magazine shows, Dateline, etc.
I wish you all the very best.
Thanks! We all appreciate the warm wishes from most of our fellow MTs. sm
I'm not sure, but I think Mary may have emailed Dateline. I hope so! I will definitely be contacting them for an inside investigation. It would be interesting to see how things are going over in India.
they say be careful for what one wishes for or jokes
that states that China will be taking over the USA in 2039....hopefully, by that time, I'll be dead! *LOL* but not really laughing.
And this might not mean much, but I note that the fortune cookies given out by Chinese restaurants in the SE USA now are educating us all to their alphabet and numbers; in other words, their language! 
Wow .. it's great to hear from you! Thanks for the good wishes. sm
The thing with eTransPlus was not a good fit for me either. I think it is probably a good company, it just didn't work for me as my start date kept getting pushed back, I was running out of work, there were program glitches, etc. Sometimes some things are just not meant to be. I hope you get on with Keystrokes again. I know it sounds kind of gushy, but I have found them to be truly wonderful people. I don't need someone to constantly sing my praises or anything -- decent pay and plenty of work is enough -- but it is kind of nice to hear thank you every now and then, and know that if you have a problem arise, someone will listen and try to help you.
Again, thanks for posting -- great to hear from you! Good luck! 
Ditto! Also add that they ignore e-mails you send and send endless IMs!
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Sten-Tel is bringing all of their offshore work back in to USA. Per the client's wishes! nm
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BRAVO!!! If I did not have to pay QA and could get everyone to
type 200-250 lines an hour, I could pay more. QA and part-timers kill our rates.
BRAVO!
The last thing I want to do is interfere between an MT getting a job, OR an MTSO finding help.
That said, the whole purpose of the board is to save fellow MTs from bad experience, and (are you listening MTSOs?) put some pressure on MTSOs are are 'not' doing the right thing to make corrections.
How hard is it anyway to admit when you've made a mistake and correct it?!
Good luck in your search. I learned a difficult, 'expensive' lesson with this company: Specifically ASK if 'your' payment is tied to their payment.
Bravo for this! ... nm
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BRAVO FOR THIS!!!!! ...nm
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Here! Here! Bravo
Very well stated. AHDI did sell us out and I, too, refuse to give them another of my hard-earned nickels.
BRAVO!!!!!!!
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!....nm
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BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!
Best thing I've read all day! Let her try and respond to that.
to this I can only say: Bravo!....nm
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Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself
Never had a problem with MQ until DQS. I am chained to this desk from sun up to sun down just trying to make the line count. It was NOT like that before DQS - I actually made very good, but now I can barely get by. What is really disturbing to me is that it is obvious a very big problem to a large number of MTs, yet MQ turns a blind eye. I guess as long as the big dogs are getting their fair share, then they are not worried about who is actually keeping them in business - the MTs. Without us, where would they be??
Well said, Wendy - Bravo
Bravo!!! Hey Maggie......
Can I come work for you??
BRAVO! Absolutely right.
2 types of trouble makers #1 the person who likes to start trouble just for fun and sits back and watch other people suffer as they fall for it. #2 The green eyed monster who cannot see something good happen, so needs to try to ruin things which obviously are good. Then, there is every one else, those who worry not and rely on truth not rumors, and the other who pays attention to the trouble makers. These type of people need to take a walk and calm down. Count to 10 before writing or reacting. Learn how to treat a reactive mentality by proactivity or meditation. IMHO. Rumors are just plain wrong. Word from the horse's mouth just plain right!
Well, BRAVO and KUDOS!!!
Well-put.
In fact, SO well put I can't even add anything to it.
I'll just say DITTO. :-)
Bravo - you hit the nail on the head!
I want one of those hourly paid positions they're offering now. I was on a good account, then they switched me to another hospital in that system - and it's AWFUL. And cherry picking GALORE!!! You can watch it happening right before your eyes! Totally absurd. I went from 250-300 lines an hour in training and right after, to 100-150 lines an hour now, if I'm lucky. Pitiful ... totally pitiful.
BRAVO. TY for the courage to post this. nm
Bravo! You are a smooth cookie!
You have what it takes. You are a fighter! I think you'll survive and this is coming from an MT with 20 years in this business. I am not an MTSO owner. I service my own accounts and do my own work.
Everything you have said is so true. I think that many forget how they got started in this business. I also think that work-at-home Moms should be respected and not bullied. I know where my place is in this business. I know because I have the income to prove it. However, I am also a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, etc.
I have seen job ads that look as if my 8-year-old typed them up. The normal course of action is an interview, a phone call if interested in hiring you, and then you take the job or you decline. Then, comes the personal information.
I went to one site just to check it out, clicked on apply online, and the first question was social security # and this is the largest MT employer ever. How can they ask for that to simply apply with all of this fraud that goes on today.
If that's the case, bravo for her for standing up
for her beliefs. I took a stand on mine when I quit a former job. All the best to her if that's the case.
I couldn't agree more!! Bravo!
Bravo! You stated that perfectly! $50K for me, too!
Then AHDI can call me and maybe we'll talk.
Bravo - see there are true IC companies out there.
Please realize fellow MTs that usually an IC works multiple accounts and that can mean multiple MTSOs. You don't need to put all of your eggs in one basket. If you are asked to work a set schedule which does not allow you to transcribe for other clients, then that's employee and you should be treated as such. The IRS expects you to contract with more than one client or vendor; it just plain looks better since we are considered self-employed.
A plumber doesn't always work for the Jones family, they do work for the Smith family and the restaurant down the street, etc., etc.
Bravo! Your message should be typed and placed on
But most importantly, of course, on the desk of every MT company CEO across America.
Greed is NOT good. It's why our entire economy is in the mess it's in today.
oops, long night should be BRAVO
and who am I to post when my fingers feel dyslexic by now :)
BRAVO, well spoken. (clapping and cheering) nm
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Bravo for you! Keep up the good work! You should be so proud! nm
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Great post!! Amen!! Bravo!!!!
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BRAVO!! I'm sure you're making lots of $$$s..sm
But if you were like the rest of us peons who had to run back every few seconds of footage because you can't understand most of what the dictating clown is saying, whether ESL or native train-catcher or sleepwalker or can't-make-up-my-mind-what-I-want-to-say, Ah...Hmmmm...Scratch that!...Let's see, ..uh...where were we.. uh... zzzz (yawn) zzzz. And then they race through the labs & medications 78 RPM. But they're God's chosen people while we can't miss a comma...QA gets p..... off if we send too many blanks, well, I hope you see my point. My hat goes off to you!
Bravo!!!!! Excellent post. 30 years here.
I just wanted to be left alone so I could do my work. I came in on most calls to help out. Quality meant everything as did TAT. Did that matter to management? That I was not talkative on the telephone (Small talk eludes me for some reason) during chats with these people has cost me a fortune. And pretending to be someone I am not is just not something I am capable of though I must say I wish I could be a talkative person just so my personality would be more obvious in this so often unfair telecommunation job, where after all I have given, I am treated no better than a newbie, even with disrepect, biting e-mails by moody unprofessional management.
Bravo! Applause! Yes! I agree completely!
BRAVO, Single Mom!!! You are 100% correct: Daycare is not s/m
raising your kids any more than a SCHOOL is. I am so insanely sick and tired of the people on here who have NO idea how it feels to be without food and money to take care of their children. I would suspect that a great deal but NOT all) of the people telling the OP to stay home and not try to better herself with a nursing education and a nursing job have someone else who helps them pay the bills... do ya think?
Bravo! Well, said Anna. TT is the BEST company in my 17 years of MTing.
Thank you for standing up for them!
Bravo! Great post. I left TT but I will always speak very highly of them.
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Well if you don't want it, send it to me! Better than nothing. nm
I would send a
certified letter, the kind that they have to sign for from the post office. Just to cyb ;-)
I can't say how much they send
to India, but they did state they are sending some there, they never said how much and that it was a pilot program. They do use a lot of VR now. I did not like their program and left recently.
Can you send me one too? I am considering going with them. nm
thank you
When did you send it? nm
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