C'mon on, we're hungry, give us more than a bone
Posted By: Please tell us more, thanx! (NM) on 2007-08-28
In Reply to: Bad - do not waste your time. - Former Opti-Script employee
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C'mon people, you get what you give!!
If you give half wages for full editing of very few clear dictators on a slow VR platform with no expander, bad sound quality, and technical problems, what kind of MTs do you think you'll get? Experienced, high producers?
C'mon, give us a clue. Where is this, how did you find it, IC or employee? nm
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power hungry
Couldn't agree more, they don't want any communication going on but through them,because they want to be in charge, probably the reason for the breakdown in communication. No input is ever asked and in fact you are just downright steamrolled over. Everything hush hush, goes on in every company I have ever worked for. Don't know how these folks manage to get themselves to the top, they are the most incompetent idiots I have ever seen in most cases. Must be doing a lot of dusting under the executive desk, way down under.teehee
I hear ya! A lot of us are going hungry like never before.
19 dollars in the bank, with payday Monday, but then again the bills are paid! This is the kind of diet we should put on as advertisements for e mail sites or even here:
Guaranteed way to lose weight: Check this out. They open link and then see a picture of an MT.
hardly. They cut the non MT positions to the bone today. I know I'm not the only one.
I've talked to 3 others who got let go.... trust me... there will be more.
Exactly! MTSOs need to get a back bone
You need to stand up to the hospitals and tell them that you will provide quality work at such and such a line. Do not settle for peanuts just to land the account. This is what has gotten us all (MTs and MTSOs) to the point we are today.
Stop selling out to the highest bidder. State that your work is worthy of 15 cents a line (or whatever you charge) and then PROVE it! Make sure the quality is there and that they are getting what they pay for.
If quality sucks and the Indians will do it for 5 cents a line, then they'll just keep going for the cheapest services, not the best.
The key is to bring American quality back to this business. Show them that yeah, the Indians will do it cheaper, but do you trust their quality? and if you have to have MTs or QA to clean up their work, how much money are you really making all the while spreading your bad quality products?
Demand quality work and demand to be paid a fair sum for it.
Agreed. Nothing worse than Power-Hungry QA - ugh - nm
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Give some specifics on how he's "loved by all" if you're going
to try to speak for everyone.
Well, c'mon!!!
D's off counting her newly-garnered greenbacks and all the extra bucks she'll make offshoring a bit quotient of that work (UNLESS I'm wrong about Transcend offshoring, but I believe they offshore a good-sized percentage of it).
Why shouldn't she want you guys to be happy?
SHE IS FLIPPING DELIRIOUS AND LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!
Putting this deal to bed as we struggled to get our lines and pay our bills.
Class act.
Great finale, MDI-MD.
THANKS.
The software may or may not be compatible once they're both on your puter. Give it a go! nm
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Sometimes you get spelling and abbrvns over the phone, typing later on. Bone up on your harder
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Oh c'mon! Admit it.........sm
it's the nasty, "go for the jugular" posts that keep these boards entertaining. If we all posted polite little messages, I'd be bored to death.
C'mon over to Webmedx, where you get sm
a cookbook that you can download and print with your own ink and paper. 
C'Mon ladies, NEED HELP!!1
Would like some information, PLEASE........ How about insurance cost at Axoltl or Transcend or Transtech? Any cheaper??? Oh yes, we have BC/BS
I'm glad you're going to give it a try. I think you'll like it. I can't imaging giving
only 3 days, especially since we did have the 4th slowdown. They will work with you to get you a secondary account if your primary is not enough. Good luck to you.
Oh, I'm not gonig out of business. I'm finding plenty of hungry MT's to fill my slots...
just a general comment on the trend in MT, which some people continue to be in denial about.
Thanks Maura -- I know you didn't plan it, but my funny bone was tickled by your typo anyway -- s
 looked like something I do a lot...hopefully I look at my screen before I do something rash like sending it to QA!!
Good luck to you and please report back after you're working with them to give us
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congrads? I know...no spelling police, but c'mon. nm
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"warned" by someone who won't give facts or sign her name. Give me a break! nm
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Nationals give at least a week to learn program. Give
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They used to give out $25 Amex cheques -- give them time. :-) nm
Hope you're enjoying those slave wages you're earning.
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So you guys feel you're getting paid what you're worth with VR?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've never done VR, so I'm trying to understand.
You're happy with your paycheck with VR? Do you find the files to be as bad as the original post implied?
I get what you are all saying about them not having to give give you work, but...
I guess I just figure that as an IC, I am basically my own business and it is my responsibility to make sure that the work is done when it should be. I just think that if the standard of the company is 24 hour TAT then that is what I am agreeing to do when they hire me. There are advantages for both of us to the IC senerio, they do not have to pay benefits, or take care of collecting and reporting the taxes, and I have to adhear to the 24 hour TAT (or what every thier standards are) but can do that during hours that are convenient to me. Of course it is better for the company if they know exactly when I am going to be sitting at my desk and typing that is why they have the option of hiring employees. Just my opinion and wanting things to be like they used to be.. I guess I have to get out of my time warp or look a little harder for a company who really knows what IC status means.
So you're telling me, basically, they're bad news?
They offered me 0.095/line and you know - it sounded too good to be true, but I SWEAR the recruiter told me they do not outsource. Oh brother... I just wish they'd be honest. I really don't know what to do.
Not the OP, but they're supposed to take out all the other taxes as you're an employee with th
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No, they're not losing money....they're gaining!
If a company charges their clients by the line, I'm sure that line rate does not go down even though the MTs pay does.
ASR pays about 2/3 normal line rate to its MTs. Their ultimate goal is to have the MTs do twice as much work. Therefore, the client is getting their work faster, but paying their normal rate, while corporate gets that money and the MTs get the lower line rate.
Whether the newbies want to realize it or not, MTSOs have not increased MTs' salaries in the past 10 years. They still start out at the same pay as the last century!
This used to be a very lucrative profession. Nowadays, most MTs are considered to be paid at the poverty level. You don't believe me, look it up!
Hey, you're in luck then. They're hiring! (nm)
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If they're in Nebraska, they're www.medigrafix.com nm
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If you're an IC, you pay all your taxes. Otherwise you're an SE or employee. nm
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If you're PT you're required to work
8 of your hours in one weekend day. There's no extra pay for it though.
The face we're wising up is exactly why they're
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We're not 'so scared' of it. We're trying to help
you to not make a huge mistake, but I guess you're determined to learn the hard way, so good luck with that.
If you're in the 37% tax bracket, you're making over
100K per year. Quit complaining.
Give it time, sweetie, give it time.
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You're right on it! They're just trying to cause panic.
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How can you KNOW what you're doing without THINKING you know what you're doing?
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If you're not doing your job, then you're not earning anything, therefore
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they're desperate because they're sm
driving away all their employees with the horrible new changes they're implementing. It's a mass exodus, and they couldn't keep up with their work load before all the departures.
We're glad you're gone too.
The more people that quit, the more work left for me. I love it when people say they can't take doing MT anymore.
Well, i hate to tell ya, but if you're an IC, you're
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Don't give up what you now have. (nm)
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We Cannot Give Up..
I have been doing this for 10 years now and I believe that none of us should give up. It is my understanding that part of the reason why they are going offshore anyway, besides low cost, is because they cannot find anyone who wants to do the work here. Partly, I disagree with nobody wanting to find work because it took me many, many attempts to find a job and I was so desperate at the time that I worked for one of those Indian companies. I found that team leaders there are not qualified enough to lead and really have no leadership abilities. Also, the MTs are not great either. If we all team up together, I believe with my whole heart that we can truly win our jobs back. Besides...how many people do you know wants their medical reports and social security numbers floating over there anyway? I know I don't.
give it to you
on a handout in the packet. I didn't gain, didn't lose.
I would give it a try
about how MTs were dropping out of the sky like flies. I don't believe it. Good ones are very hard to find. Ones that will work and not take a half day to go to Wal-Mart. It is not a straight typing job. Most people think it is. I have people calling me all the time saying My sister is interested in that. She can type. and on and on.
i give you the
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Why give up one?
It sounds like you have a good thing going working amongst both? But if I HAD to give up one, I'd probably give up the national and stay with the smaller MTSO with plenty of work and good communication.
Seems a bit low? It IS A LOT LOW! Don't give
them the benefit of your time for the interview. Line pay is not worth it at all! Taking a job with a co that pays line pay says you are not into quality because apparently they aren't! All of the QA I know will not work for line pay. There are companies out there that pay decent for QA. Don't settle for it or you will be selling your fellow QA folks down the river. Hang tight and find these hourly jobs. I have one that is a pretty good rate. Tell the 2-cent-per-line companies what they can do with their QA jobs
ugh.. i give up.. that should say.. SM not NM ..
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I give up
You know, most MTs who post on this board seem very negative. I have 2 years experience, but you don't even know what I have been doing in those 2 years, or my educational background, so how could you even say I am not qualified? I was just responding to a post directed at me. Good grief.
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