Be careful, Fatcat...

• How To Apply With MDI - MT
  • I think sending your resume is the only application - ab
  • Might be a waste of effort.... - MDIer
    • ditto-sm - mdialso
      • Actually.... - MDIer
        • MDIer - fatcat
          • Left 3 months ago for lack of work - ex-MDI
            • Same here.. 4 accounts.. No work. - Starvin Marvin
              • Marvin - fatcat
                • I found more work! - fatcat
                  • Be careful, Fatcat... - MDIer
                    • MDIer - fatcat

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Not sure where you live, but my local YMCA offers kickboxing classes, free with membership.  Also, i just recently bought a Kathy Smith Kickboxing DVD for $2.99 from eBay.  I haven't tried it yet because I'm afraid I might destroy the apartment -- coordination is not my strong suit!  (ha)  The class at the Y is fun ... I'm sure you'd enjoy it!  Plus, if you're like me, after sitting all day, it is nice to get up and move the legs and get some circulation going.

I need part-time, 24 to 32 hours per week.  No one wants to hire part-time.

I have applied at 15 or more places.  Pass every test, get offered a job for 7 cpl  or when I give my schedule, they say NOPE.

The stress is killing me.  I think I have an ulcer.  The migraines are back and I spend the better part of my shift crying.

I awoke with basically the same feeling.  I work for a wonderful company, have a wonderful husband, kids and grand babies so I have a lot to be thankful for.  I know that there are many of our fellow MTs who are struggling out there right now, I wish with everything in me that I could change that for them but since I cannot, I was hoping that a positive post would help to uplift everyone at least someone.  Like you and probably most on this board, I have had some pretty horrible experiences but seem to be on the right path, which I hope continues.  Hopefully I have kissed the right frog this time, lolol.

For those of you out there who are struggling I wish you the very best and lots of luck! 

I'm not sure if this explains anything, but I remember a few weeks ago getting an email telling us they had a new account coming on and had hired about 30 MTs to cover it.  Unfortunately, the account didn't start when expected and those MTs were training on the other accounts.  I thought the account started last week, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

There was also a lot of talk in the last few months about adjusting our schedules to accommodate the evening/late night and early morning work flow.  They may have ended up hiring more MTs to cover if the work wasn't getting done.  Unfortunately, I think that SE/IC companies are forced to hire more MTs than needed sometimes because they can't enforce a work schedule like the employee status companies ('cept for MQ; they overhire and then send all the work overseas.  I think the Indians just like to watch the Americans scramble).

I think the work flow also ebbs and flows more in the summer months due to holidays, vacations, etc.  My accounts have been low also, but I don't really mind.  I like an unexpected day off.  I expect things to pick up again soon. 

After being brainwashed for so many years by the Q, MDI has been a breath of fresh air!  I wouldn't think of changing companies, either, and since I'm not the breadwinner in our house and I have a second income myself, I won't fight for the lines.  If the work is there when I'm available, so be it, but if not, then I don't worry about it.  I check back throughout the day, but I won't sit and wait for the work.  I know there are others not as fortunate and I'd really rather see them get the work. 

I wonder if the rest of MDI mgmt supports this merge.  I know when everything went down at MQ, it seemed mgmt supported the changes at first, but then one by one, they began dropping like flies.  They just quietly left, not to be heard from again.  I wonder if this is how it will go with this merge. 

Another thing that cracks me up -- everything that was stated in the conference call was followed by the statement until January.  I don't think I'm going to stick around to find out what all that entails.

My husband and I have been discussing me returning to the real world for a full-time job for the last several months (since April or May when we got the first State of the Union address) and up until now, I've been very reticent to do so.  This seems to be a sign that maybe that would be the best option for us.  I have a few opportunities to pursue, outside of the world of MT.  It might be kind of nice to work a straight 8-4, M-F, holidays off, kind of job again. 

Wherever I end up, I wish you well.  This just feels all too similar to the way things went at the Q.  But this time, I'm not going to hang on as long.  I'm looking at this until January thing as my window to search other avenues of employment. 

I really do appreciate everything you have told me.  There are so many people on this board so quick to judge and then every now and again you come across a genuine, quality person such as yourself. 

I know my schedule is difficult to work with, but these companies never seem to give anyone a chance to explain them, not that it would really matter.  They expect 1200 lines a day for full-time, but I have always done that in part-time hours (5 to 6). 

To me, that is all that should matter.  They want 1200, I will give them that, but I cannot be put on a schedule for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. 

I have only had 2 transcription jobs in 13 years, the most current one with the Q for over 11.  I have always done well on testing, from what I am told my last test I took for a company was 99%. 

I just don't understand how all of you girls can comit to working every Saturday or every Sunday. 

Ok, I am done complaining.  I am hitting the job search full force again.  Thanks so much again for your kind words and thoughts.  You are in my prayers.

PS... I am probably way older than your daughter, I am going to be 39 in May.  :)

fatcat could be the person I hire to mediate a problem I have with someone else - not someone who puts someone else down.  There is a good question on the table:  Why not just drop it?

You're generally pretty vocal (in a good way) about MDI and I'm just curious as to your thoughts on this situation.

Thank you both for having compassion for the MTs at the Q, and I feel very sorry for what you are going through now and will be faced with in the future.  The Q has certainly set the stage for disaster in this industry.

I would not be surprised if CBay buys out Transcend in the next 2 years to ensure that Indians own all of the transcription in our country.

Thank you both also for standing up for the Americans, especially us MTs willing to work, sitting at our chairs 12 to 18 hours a day trying to get our work in. 

The MTSOs do use the excuse that there are no MTs but we all know that is not true.  People here in America want to work, we want to provide for our families.  We want to pay our taxes to benefit our country. 

You both have just inspired a change in me as well! 

I just wanted you to know that the Q guys and girls feel your pain and will be praying for you all.

her company, and if she had been honest and up front and just TOLD us, hey, I need to go in a different direction, I want less stress/work, whatever, so I'm looking to sell the company, I'd have been fine with that.  If she'd been honest and said I'm in negotiations and some of your work is being funneled into the new company so they can test the accounts or whatever, I'd have been most unhappy, but at least informed and looking for a new job.  It's the fact that they've boasted for years we're the cream of the crop and then gave us the mushroom treatment, and treated us all like we're stupid sheep that will just trot along with Transcend and take whatever they decide to offer us.  I can't believe for one minute that they had any of the MTs in mind if they didn't even bother to ask what the pay scale would be, the scheduling requirements, or even the LINE DEFINITION.  Carlotta flat out said in my call yesterdya that she hadn't even THOUGHT TO ASK what kind of a line they pay on.  For all they know we'll be getting huge pay cuts along with say losing all our spaces or whatever.  The fact that she said they never thought to ask and they knew absolutely zero answers to EVERYTHING that directly affects the MTs told me that they either knew and were NOT about to tell us and make us madder, or they never bothered to ask because they absoultely had no interest in it.  If they'd been honest and told us what was going on, I could handle this much better.  It's the sneaky underhanded way they did it, after years of touting their open communication, etc., that really bothers me.  And the offshoring is just the icing on the cake of the giant slap in the face.  Talk about stepping on the backs of the people who put her at the top. 

her company, and if she had been honest and up front and just TOLD us, hey, I need to go in a different direction, I want less stress/work, whatever, so I'm looking to sell the company, I'd have been fine with that.  If she'd been honest and said I'm in negotiations and some of your work is being funneled into the new company so they can test the accounts or whatever, I'd have been most unhappy, but at least informed and looking for a new job.  It's the fact that they've boasted for years we're the cream of the crop and then gave us the mushroom treatment, and treated us all like we're stupid sheep that will just trot along with Transcend and take whatever they decide to offer us.  I can't believe for one minute that they had any of the MTs in mind if they didn't even bother to ask what the pay scale would be, the scheduling requirements, or even the LINE DEFINITION.  Carlotta flat out said in my call yesterdya that she hadn't even THOUGHT TO ASK what kind of a line they pay on.  For all they know we'll be getting huge pay cuts along with say losing all our spaces or whatever.  The fact that she said they never thought to ask and they knew absolutely zero answers to EVERYTHING that directly affects the MTs told me that they either knew and were NOT about to tell us and make us madder, or they never bothered to ask because they absoultely had no interest in it.  If they'd been honest and told us what was going on, I could handle this much better.  It's the sneaky underhanded way they did it, after years of touting their open communication, etc., that really bothers me.  And the offshoring is just the icing on the cake of the giant slap in the face.  Talk about stepping on the backs of the people who put her at the top.  I keep wondering what Ondrea would think of all this.

You see in another thread you called me a bully.  Now that you are doing the bullying, you are calling yourself helping.  Well isn't that like talking out of both sides of your mouth.

Oh, I guess you never thought your previous comments would come back to haunt you, but you were wrong, so wrong.

You need to stop acting so perfect and understand that this is a message board.  Sure, professionals read it, but even in the above post by a so-called MTSO teacher, there are errors. 

  Have a great day!