Diskriter is getting pretty desperate -
Posted By: been there wouldn't do that again on 2005-10-13
In Reply to: Two job offers - very undecided - - KB0520
they are offshoring faster than your hands can type. They have lost a LOOOOAAADDD of transcribers and staff the past few months. Seems kind of odd that they are now willing to hire part timers.
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Yup. Wonder if they are getting desperate?
Silly...silly company
They have to be desperate, noone
if they have any smarts whatsoever. Their sign-on bonus is nothing more than a joke. Noone will ever work for them long enough to collect.
She must be getting desperate.
If it's who I'm thinking it is (same initials), people are probably starting to catch on that this company (which used to be somewhat good a few years ago) now stinks. 
Almost desperate to get out...
I hate transcription. It is mind-numbingly boring. Every day I have to work I get depressed. I have to force myself to do anything. I have been doing this for over 25 years. I worked six months as an editor. I loved that job, but unfortunately it was for a truly awful company - Interpro - and they crapped on us and I left. There is an ad on the job board for an Editor at - can you believe it - 8 dollars an hour. How insulting! I am going to try to hang in there for another four years until I can retire at age 62. I have one idea that I am going to try on a part-time basis and if that works out maybe I can cut my hours. From my lips (or fingers) to God's ears. I am glad I didn't know when I was 45 or 50 that I would still be doing this work at this age.
Because they are desperate for MTs
Good Luck and the door closes on its own.
They probably know how desperate and
..
They probably know how desperate and
... but I would NEVER be desperate enough to move to a country that treats its women as *property*.
Transcend seems desperate
They have been advertizing like crazy, but why are they so picky? You must work this......can't work that.....on and on, their ads drive me crazy! Do they nit-pick their MTs too?
They're desperate. nm
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Cause some people are so desperate sm
for work that the companies can bully them into working whatever hours they want. Sorry that happened to you!
Define desperate
I think it depends on how desperate you are for the experience. I worked for a company out of North Carolina at an extraordinarily low line rate, but they were the only company who would hire me with no practical experience whatsoever. I knew I had to suck it up and deal with less than minimum wage for a while and just put my time in. Fortunately I had backup money so my mortgage did not go unpaid during this time frame. If you are just trying to get anyone to hire you, then you might want to take it at least for a while. Horrible is better than nothing, sometimes.
How about if I am desperate for experience?
I am only in the application and testing process, and I have been thinking that I should just take any job I can get. Are you saying that you advise against SS under all circumstances?
Call me Desperate! What would you do.
I have 30 years experience as an MT specializing in Ops, very unhappy with the National I just started wtih this month. The pay is 9 cpl but there have been so many variables, I have not been able to make any money. I've been working part-time for this small MTSO as an IC at 9 cpl where I can easily achieve 300 lph. I have been offered a position as an employee at 8.25 cpl, only benefits health and life insurance. I initially declined saying I could take no less than 9 cpl, but now having second thoughts because of not making any money with the National who has excellent benefits. What would you do. Input pleeeeez.
DESPERATE DILEMMA
I would like to get some feedback on whether or not I should give my current employer two weeks notice or just quit, effective immediately. Ordinarily I would always give two weeks but this situation is, I think, a bit different, so let me explain.
I've worked for this company for a number of years. For some time now I feel that the company has been trying to get me to quit (rather than firing me where they would have to pay unemployment). I know this sounds crazy, but I believe this is because I am too high a producer and they do not like paying me so much in terms of my benefits that are predicated on my daily production average. So, after a number of years of trying to slow me down by various means they tried the following: Rather than letting me type in the pool they began assigning me all the crappy, difficult jobs. When I asked about this they lied to me and told me they were not assigning my work but I know they are. Then when I still produced a lot, the person who runs the company started personally reviewing my work and picking it apart. I have always had 98+% on QA so my quality has always been there. Now I am getting nasty e-mails about some truly inconsequential mistake I made or telling me that I'm doing something the wrong way when, in fact, I had been instructed to do it this way, by this same person, for many years. I have been told that now, after so many years, all my work is being reviewed on a daily basis so that I do not continue to do these things. This has become a truly personal attack on me.
If I work for the two weeks after I give my notice, I doubt that I will see any of the money I make during this time. Over the summer I took, with their permission, some vacation in advance of accruing the time (they let people do that), so if I quit I would owe that money back. I have no problem with that, as that is only fair to them, but I have already worked enough this pay period so that they could just take this money I've already earned and we would be about even. If I work beyond this time I doubt I'd ever see the rest of the money.
I can't bear the thought of continuing to be subjected to this insulting person but want to do the right thing as an employee. I would never be able to go back to work there if I needed to, but I also cannot imaging ever wanting to with the way I have been treated. If I just quit, and did not work for the two weeks (assuming they would even want me to), I know I would be burning a bridge (probably already burned), but I would like to hear what others would do in my situation. It helps to get a fresh perspective, and I'm tired of agonizing over this.
I have two job offers and was thinking about trying one or both of them out, if possible, while I continued to work here, just doing the minimum I needed to do, until I decided what company to go with, since I realize it's not a good idea to leave a job until you have another one lined up. But even if these two other jobs were not right for me, they're making me so miserable that I don't think I could stay anyway. That being the case, I've thought about just quitting and then trying out the two other companies which would be a lot easier for me.
The options: 1) Give two weeks notice, but try out one or both of the other companies, and hope they pay me for the money I make in this period (minus what I owe them of course).
2) Quit effective immediately and try out one or both of the other companies.
What's the right thing to do????? Any thoughts appreciated.
I don't want to seem too pushy or to desperate (even though I am, lol) also another ? sm
I have an interview with another company tomorrow, I would like to wait on WebMedx, but how long can I ask the recruiter to wait on an answer 24-48 hours?
More Desperate Individuals
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spell: desperate ... desperado ...
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Well, they must have mistaken me for a person who was desperate
I told them no thanks. You would think that once they found an experienced MT, they would try to keep them instead of handing them crap. Apparently, they cannot find anyone else because they have been calling me for weeks, but I was not available. I decided to give them a try and look what they try to stiff me with. Good grief. Glad to be rid of this headache. On to my next 4 job offers.
I am desperate for work, but I won't even touch that. nm
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Unfortunately there are new grads out there desperate for a break and some may take it. :( nm
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And just what question, pray tell, are you ever so desperate to ask?
That million dollar question that the MDI-MD posters are preventing you from asking?
You have our attention now.
You're in the limelight.
Fire away!!!
Honestly, sometimes the posters on this board are worse than toddlers tugging at their mothers' skirts for attention, lol!!!
Desperate seeking Rapidtext employee(s)
Please, if anyone out there is currently working for Rapidtext out of Newport Beach, CA, please, please contact me at mtmaven@yahoo.com.
Wow, they sound like a bunch of desperate stalkers!
Glad I don't work for them!
Do they really think we're desperate, apparently so. I have 13 years experience, they ask for tha
and they come back to you with an offer to start of 6 cpl and you can get incentives where you COULD reach as high as 8 cpl. I just want to laugh. I mean, they are kidding, right?? We are still in America where the cost of living has become sky high, housing, food, and especially gas has gone up, yet we are getting less. I dont get it.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Just another get-rich scheme, preying on desperate
MTs who want a light at their tunnel. Most likely just a train in this case and another way to fill someone else's pockets off your vulnerability, but that is just my negative opinion. Been there done that... 
New, naive, desperate, carpal tunnel, slow transcriptionists... I don't know.
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Must be pretty far SM
I've worked for them for 2 years and never a problem.
Pretty Bad
I have no interest in working for Keystrokes, but had to check out their new and improved benefit package. It is pretty bad unless you are unlucky enough to have a couple of deaths in the family.
You could say that about pretty much every co.
You know what they say about opinions...I have seen just about every major national company being asked about on these boards at one time or another and there are always people who will have negative things to say about them. On the other hand, there are always people who will say positive things as well. The only thing you can do is educate yourself about each company by going to their website and contacting the company directly to get answers. Otherwise, it's all a lot of hearsay. JMO
I appreciate that!! I am pretty used to getting
flamed for not-so-positive comments so you are a breath of fresh air!! I hope they work out for you, I really do. I was one who loved Spheris until, well, I guess I should not say, but I hated MQ, so I guess we have both BTDT. Good luck to you, too:) I really think I have found mine with this company that just hired me. Sure hope so:)
That's pretty bad...
most editors I know make way more than that.
Most of them do, I am pretty sure.
nm
They pretty much
change things to suit themselves.... not the mt
Pretty sure they do, I have seen their
banner across a board....
Pretty much par for this course, it seems. nm
nm
Pretty much
It is very difficult to go after foreign entities due to cost and resources. I won't work for one ever. This is why many con artists in different countries get away with it. There is not much we can do.
Pretty sure
for some reasons with all the new accounts for administrative reasons they felt easier to catagorize that way. It is all one company and everything is the same. Only the accounts are designated 1 and 2.
Thanks, that's pretty much what
I am getting from everyone I ask. I just thought with them being as big as they are maybe they would have better benefits and a better rep. Thanks!
I'm pretty new
at TT myself. I've only been there a few months, but I'm very happy working for them. Have any of you asked to be taken off an account and given a different one? There are times when I really struggle with my account, and I wonder what would happen if I asked for a different one? I'm a little nervous though...what if the newer account is more of a struggle? I would be anxious about learning a new account too. Sigh. Any thoughts? Thanks!
i think that is pretty low
look elsewhere. did you try looking for jobs on mtdaily.com they have many legitimate firms looking for workers.
Pretty please.
nm
I am pretty sure you do
need a USB.
I think I pretty much said it all, but if you have
specific questions you can e-mail me.
Im pretty sure this is it. SM
http://www.transmdi.com/home/index.html
Seems pretty low to me. NM
SE and IC are pretty much the same - sm
The only difference is with SE you get part of the tax paid, whereas IC you pay it all. You have no benefits with an SE status except being able to set when you want to work, that's it. You do get to have the same tax deductions with the SE as an IC would have too.
It has been pretty low for at least the last 3
months at my company. Some accounts will dump a bunch of work on Saturday and then we have OT for 2 days, and then not enough work during the week. We do get paid for downtime though, so it isn't as bad as most have it.
I think I have everything pretty
well summed up. I did basically what just my opinion has done, summed up all the points that everyone had given me. I found a couple of more stats on how many more MT's are going to be added in India at a couple of different companies in the next 18 months.
I do have to mention when I first started talking to this reporter he knew already about the lawsuit with the Q infact he brought it up.
So stand-by I think we have it summed up. I will post a link to the story so everyone can read it.
Thanks for all your help, I couldn't have done it without the group effort.
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.
All companies are pretty much the same, unfortunately. sm
Some are better in different areas and worse in others and vice versa! Just gotta go with the company you can make money with and forget about the rest of the nonsense!
has been pretty much on time for me
I've been with SoftScript for over a year and have only had my check deposited late a couple of times. It was deposited early an equal amount of times. Apparently if all timesheets would have been done on time, checks would have been sent out and deposited today.
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