Bye Bye Birdie. Could you email me too. I've been watching the board and interested in your findi

• Looking for Lillybelle - bye-bye Birdie
  • Bye Bye Birdie. Could you email me too. I've been watching the board and interested in your findi - wanna know 2
    • I can and I will this weekend.... - bye-bye Birdie
      • Oh boy I will. It is nothing but depressing out there. I applied at our local hospital because I can - wanna know 2

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minutes slowly dwindle.  Last meeting we had, we voiced our concerns about losing our work and Transcend/MDI outsourcing overseas, only to be told that administration is happy that TAT is being met and so they are going to continue to send work to MDI on a daily basis and we don't believe they are sending OUR work overseas.

My hospital is a prime account to be sent overseas, a medium-sized community hospital, three (count 'em, three) ESL who aren't hard to do at all with the resting being very good, very American dictators, easy to understand.  No way would a service give this account to an American MT who could stand to make a good pay check doing this account.

I think the next step is to get rid of us all and send everything out.  If that happens, that's it for me, I'm getting out of transcription all together.  I know I definitely won't go to MDI for a job, like they would put me on this account where I could pull in 2000+ lines a day.

I've worked too hard all these years to be treated like my knowledge, skills, and education doesn't matter and to be paid peanuts for these skills I have worked hard to acquire, improve, and maintain.

I'm just really bummed today.  My job future isn't looking too good right now.  I hope I'm wrong. 

TO bye, bye, Birdie,

I wish/beg/hope/pray that you will write us a handbook, or at least share a report of your journey with us.  Seriously, I would very much like for you to write a book and sell me a copy.  I want to hear all about where you have been, what you have seen, and any insights you might have as to how we can individually and collectively make the necessary changes.  I'm truly not familiar with how things are going right now in other industries (except that nurses are getting better pay than when I was doing it), but I just know that I personally have been in a living nightmare ever since I graduated from the MT training and started trying to make a decent living at it.  The situation is worse now than it was just 2 short years ago. 

You have the experience and insight that would be most useful to relative newcomers such as myself.  So, please consider it, do it.

I've been a member for years here. I have a validated email address and have been using the same moniker for at least a year.

Something is not right.

because it will identify your email address when you return their email.  When they ask me to talk via email, I just don't respond to them.  NO RETURN EMAIL FROM ME.

Funny story - several companies watch this board and feel they can use the information posted as a slander suit against those doing the posting.  Funny thing is, all posting would have to be proven inaccurate and if they are not the companies spoken about, then why would they worry if it were them.  If it is them, then they would also have to prove it was not true.  Be careful posting, there are several who monitor and act as if they are one of you.  As you all know the signon information, including what some feel are initials are usually an acronym or petname. You could be mistaken for someone else.

Most should probably spend their time making sure they keep their nose clean and their people happy.  Not only do they drive us crazy in our professional lives, they have nothing better to do then to reach into our personal lives as well. 

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I've thought about going back to Transolutions, and this looks interesting. How are they coming up with the hourly rate offered to each person, do you know? What sort of accounts? I was wondering if this was a crew of people who went around getting the new accounts started or filling in when there is an overload on accounts. Is there any special or different training? Would I be working on the DOS or Windows platform?

Any info would be great.

Please post only if you have worked there in the last year. There are lots of negative posts from late 2004, but from what I understand, there have been major management changes since then, so I'd like to hear from those of you who have experiences from 2005.  Thanks!