Didn't they partner up with an Indian company? Expect downhill from Dictaphone.

• Dictaphone Transnet extremely slow. - LMO
  • Dictaphone - Shelly
  • Transnet - radgirl
    • I haven't found it slow at all, it is the same as always for me - not slow
  • Didn't they partner up with an Indian company? Expect downhill from Dictaphone. - nm
    • Yes, I think you're right about expecting downhill with them. - LMO
    • They purchased Focus Informatics. - FLcmt
      • Isn't it Nuance they teamed up with? - Don't really know, but
        • Nuance/Dicta/Focus - FLcmt

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that explains why the downhill slide.

Regardless, they do provide training.  They do have Beyond Text I think which I have heard mixed reviews on. Someone said you cannot make money and another says she does so it is really hard to get objective information. I guess it depends on the person too.

What drives me nuts is a company that doesn't even have a list of what they expect and with 8 different QA people going over the report, it's just the luck of the draw.  I have had two  of the same operative reports by the same dictator who uses basically the same language.  Easy to type, right.  Change a word here or there and send it.  Had two different QA people.  One report was 100%, the other 89%.  One changed all the punctuation, the other didn't change a thing.  One didn't like where I set up paragraphs.  One gave errors because what I thought was um QA took as a and gave me an error for omitting “a” from the sentence when the dictator never dictates a complete sentence in the first place.  We are told to type verbatim.  So what is the difference between “Patient received bolus of” and “Patient received “a” bolus of”  Of course management sides with QA so no way to complain.  If they were consistent, there would be less people dreading QA and it would truly be a teaching tool, not a power play by QA to show us lowly MTs that they are better than we are and justify their own jobs. 

$$ not bad if you live in India, but they only hire US editors to clean up the junk tha comes back from India and that is no where near enough money.   Because of them my company went out of business. 

He may have sold out to Nuance in March of 2007, but he still runs the show!  Second of all they are absolutely NOT bringing any accounts whatsoever back to the U.S.  That's just plain fabrication, deceit, lies, BS -- whatever you prefer to call it.  It just ain't true!  They just recently laid off the majority of the American QA staff and have forced the skeleton American crew they have left to go to production.

The lie that they are bringing work back to the U.S. was started and perpetuated in January of this year as a negotiating tactic to get the Indians to continue to work for peanuts instead of giving them more money.  When the Indians called their bluff, they hired a bunch of American QA people only to fire them at the end of April, beginning of May when the Indians caved.

And finally, they are an Indian run company and their QA and MT staff is 80% Indian.  I have the actual figures given to me by the Director of US Operations at Focus.  Focus employs 3800 Indians!  Does that sound like a U.S. company to you?

Oh, and the Director of Recruitment posted that 90% of their operation is in the U.S.!!!!!  He flat out lies.  He also says everyone laid off got a nice severance package.  Total BS!  Half of those laid off had to call the company and scream bloody murder when their checks were deposited as promised.  The other half will be calling tomorrow!

MT Work Needed - Happy Singh

I don't know how else to contact admins about this, so can someone look into this?

Thanks,

A happy AMERICAN MT

nm