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• Honesty is not the best policy? - Nanny
  • NANNY GOAT? - Nanny
  • I'm going to lie but about something else. Have 18 yrs exp - but going to lie & say I have 3 yrs
    • I would politely beg to differ - fatcat
      • Have you been job seeking lately? Whole different world now. - Experience gets paid same as noobies across the bo
        • You betcha I have job-seeking lately - fatcat
          • Well I'm happy for you then. At least someone's getting a job. - Nearly homeless after lil to no work past 6 months
      • they used to pay for experience. not now. agree with sm below - going to try lying about having less exp to see wh
        • (cont'd from above) ...to see what happens. - The lying-to-be-a-newb poster above. nm
    • Those of us that have been at it long enough - sm
  • Perhaps they recognized your rants on these boards - About your previous employer, Nanny Goat?
  • Not always - Happy MT Robin
  • Why did you leave the former company? - (If it's OK to ask)
  • Let me guess, company started with a K? - me
    • Bingo! - Nanny
  • I guess it depends on what your error was. - NM
  • WHICH COMPANY - lizzie
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If you have a job already, if possible, do not quit until you work at the other job long enough to know that you are in a better situation.  I have read glowing reports about a company and then signed on to work and thought it stunk to high heaven, and vice versa ... have seen companies trashed that I thought were wonderful.  Each person's experience is unique.

Of course, if you read several people saying they were paid late or not at all, THAT kind of thing, I would certainly avoid that like the plague.  Although I do enjoy what I do, I cannot afford to work for free.

I work for Keystrokes and SmartMed and would be happy to recommend either one if the TTS thing does not work out for you.  Of course, the same thing goes for them -- some love them, some hate them.

Good luck! 

I'm not saying that Transcend's policies may not fit some MTs.  I'm saying that I have experiencing with the way they operate.  They'll tell you one thing to pacify you in a conference call and 2 weeks later the facts show the exact opposite of what was said.  For instance, Tara Goehring (Transcend recruiter) posted here in this thread that Transcend does not offshore, yet Larry said in the conference call that they do. 

When asked about MDI accounts going to voice recognition, it was said that the accounts would stay the same UNLESS the client themselves wanted VR.  You can bet your bottom dollar Transcend is going to market their own propietary speech software (BeyondTXT) to the client in a way that the clients will be begging for VR.  Their press release announcing the sale was referring to the MDI accounts and said 'including the conversion of some of MDI's business to Transcend's speech recognition-enabled BeyondTXT platform.'

So it's not a matter of what fits for one may not fit for the other.  It's the fact that what is cheered in a pep rally doesn't actually match the facts when everything comes into play.  When we chose MDI as the place to work, we based that decision on certain factors that made our jobs enjoyable.  They are long gone. 

Nothing is 100% sure of course.  But some transcription companies are already doing this, charging more and offering quality and doing very well, especially in specialty fields.  They don't advertise as much because they have lower turn over but we know who they are.

I will bet that because of increasing lawsuits and liability, hospitals are going to be a lot more careful about what becomes part of a patient's medical record.  And who has access to it.  As the economy gets worse, the big companies are going to cut corners more and more trying to squeeze more money out the business.  They probably won't even want to be bothered when their profits go down and cut into their big CEO paychecks.  First there was a glut of nurses because the hospitals didn't want to pay them.  Now there is a shortage and they are going nuts trying to recruit them.  There are cycles in business.

I don't want to become a mllionaire.  Just make a decent living for myself and some other transcriptionist.  As I said, some companies are already doing this. 

Am I missing something??