Ditto what she said - Proceed with caution! nm
Posted By: TT-er on 2007-06-27
In Reply to: AVOID THEM! - KSMT
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Proceed with caution...
Be CAREFUL! Very very careful! Some flaky stuff going on over there...
If you proceed - do so with caution.
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Proceed with caution?
What do you know about this company that you are not saying? The name of the company is FASTPHALANGES. What did you not get about that?
proceed with caution
To be fair, when I worked there I really enjoyed my accounts and had a good relationship with my manager. They do have an awesome platform. Then my manager disappeared with no explanation, my good accounts got pulled, and communication really shut down. One day in June my user number was deactivated, and it took me all day to find out I was laid off. There is so much turmoil there now, and many US MTs have been poorly treated. I would be careful. Give them another year or so to stabilize and get their act together, then maybe things will be different (if they survive that long). Best of luck to you!
Proceed with caution...
I keep getting those emails, too, because I applied with them quite awhile back, passed the testing, but declined their offer. Once I started reading many of the posts on this wonderful forum, I was relieved I had passed on their offer.
Please read the archives before you make any decisions regarding Focus. I gather for some, it's a great fit, but the majority of posts I've read here paint a not-so-pretty picture of the company.
Best of luck to you making your decision!!!
I'm with you. Proceed with caution basically. Hope for the best and (m)
prepare to have to seek out other avenues. I was raised to be considerate of others at all times and not to screw anybody over, so it's really foreign to me that people would knowingly screw others for their own personal gain. It goes against my DNA to believe such people exist so I have to remind myself not to be a fool and that people like this DO exist. Unfortunately, they weren't all raised by MY parents, lol. But if they treat people like that, eventually they will be TREATED like that and their luck will run out. Then they'll see they shouldn't have been so uncaring about us regular folks.
If they proceed with this, the other SM
companies will start filing lawsuits against employees also. It's ridiculous that someone can say they don't care what happens in this case because tomorrow it could be them receiving papers.
agree about caution prevailing
--you have been offered sage advice by these posters. I am in a situation akin to yours. My fantasy had be quitting my other job straightaway upon the start of at-home work. Ha! So glad I did not. I will resume my hunt for a job suiting me and am relieved that I can expand my search beyond (at-home) transcription. Perhaps my foray into at-home land has coincided with beginning a position with a really mean-spirited company--dunno, but as another poster wrote, it is apparent even in these early and few hours with this company that I am to expect unresponsiveness, punitive policies, a lack of forthright disclosure of the meat and potatoes of what matters most (pay and how it is determined), and silly, incompetent tech support--all this moaning about a company where there are happy employees! I dunno, perhaps I am with an acct. and thus acct. managers who are not as good at their jobs as are other acct. mgs. of the same company; still, I know what I know and I know how ugly this situation feels and am very, very relieved that I did not resign my other position with another job. Have to say--if I am as legitimately put off by my cyber-and-phone encounters with the staff at the company for which I am in the waning hours of working, what on earth does that say about what I am to expect? I thus will resign my at-home position without a backwards glance, very happy to have the erstwhile security of my other job.
use caution before making the decision to jump to TH
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Sorry..put OSI in the Google box on this page, not in your browser bar, and then proceed. nm
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C and proceed with leaving as email stated
Read their contract VERY carefully if you proceed. nm
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Wow. One of my friends was thinking of applying there. I'll have to caution her!
I had no idea they were so bad! They offered me a position a year ago, but I turned it down and ended up going with Keystrokes, and I'm glad that I did! They kick you off the system when there is low work? That's screwed up!
Did anyone hear from AAmT aka Synthescribe and proceed on..Just curious
how it's going and if your set up to work with them etc. Considering going forward to check it out but wanted to check with others first. Thanks
So true. Massive overhiring. Shouldn't have left my other job for Webmedx. Use caution....nm
Good luck.
Ditto that ditto..ESLs drove me out too...nm
nm
Ditto, ditto, ditto. My experience exactly.
I have never typed so fast and made so little in my life except for at Amphion. Good for supplemental income but not if you really need some money.
ditto
Excuse me for speaking my opinion. If those in the management team weren't so worried about shooting off RUDE emails maybe they could reply to a question I had last week that is now 120 hours old and still have no answer to my question. People just blow me away especially at SS.
Ditto.
Don't stretch what I said. I said it was rude to say get a life to someone who is trying as hard as they can already. That's what my post was about, so don't twist my words either. There is a shortage of work and you know it. You said it's common this time of year and I'm not arguing that. I'm agreeing with you. About time you recognized that there is a work shortage and stopped candy coating it. Because this shortage has been going on for a while now, not just the summer months. My post wasn't so much about the shortage as it was about the rude comment. It WAS rude to those people who are already giving up a lot of their life to Transcend.
ditto for me
Same here. (actually twice)
Ditto
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Ditto everything you are saying. MQ is definitely up to something and I think a lot of MTs are and
will continue to walk as they continue to come up with new ways it seems to get rid of MTs and QA people. I still think they are getting ready for a merger or sell out.
ditto
leave email address
Ditto
I found nothing to like about it either. I'm actually taking a pay cut, to have more restrictions and expectations put on me, and benefits I don't need or want.
The $50 I'm losing every month on my internet pay was enough to make me want to quit, the rest was just icing on the cake.
Ditto - NM
Ditto - sm
I agree - and when you have no idea what to get anyone, let alone the money to buy it, plus all the other preparations that go with the season, it's just not worth it. The real reason for the season is totally disregarded. I truly hate this time of year.
Ditto...
Didn't pass the test either - though I thought I did pretty well. Said I could retest in six months or if I was willing to purchase the required textbooks I could retest immediately. I emailed them back asking what the required textbooks were, but never got an answer. Oh, well!!
Ditto.
I'm always amazed at this. Yes, they most certainly do beg for the jobs and then when they get it...cry, cry, cry.
If you want work that is somewhat easy, go do clinic work. There is no such thing as easy acute care work. There are lots of dictators on most acute care accounts. Hospitals are pretty big...ya know? Big hospital=lots of docs.
You may want to go get a job in a different field. Your poor skills as an MT has nothing to do with Spheris. You'll always have poor skills if you don't try.
ditto the above about ETP
Totally disorganized, unprofessional, plays favorites, lies about work amount, low work most of the time and just generally treats their employees like cattle, worked there 4 years much to my dismay!!
Ditto that.
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Ditto what DRC-MT just said! :-) nm
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ditto
double ditto
Ditto
I couldn't have said it better myself. Having done the rounds with other nationals and working in house, I am thrilled to be with this company after my 25+ as an MT professional.
Ditto that.....nm
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Ditto on SS.
Ditto
I have been an intern with Deb for a month now and she more than goes out of her way for those of us determied to be an MT. She is always nice and helpful and I feel very lucky to be learning from her.
Ditto!!
What an organized piece of sorry xcuse of a company!! I don't like having to ask and ask and ask and ask about my check. And, you see this woman on IM but yet she never answers you unless you send a threatening IM about reporting her to the company she subcontracts for. Gone from there for good!
Ditto!
Beautifully said!
Ditto and then some
None of SoftScript's managers know proper grammar or spelling, just pathetic, but must be an embarrassment when they contact their clients. With managers that dense you can do much better.
OSI managers know proper sentence construction with the exception of QA manager who is in a class by herself but they send work offshore so you don't need that.
Oracle and TTS are awful overall and MDI in FL outsources as well.
Hope this helps. Slim pickins.
ditto that
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Ditto.
They also give an anniversary bonus of $100 for each year you've worked for them. I'm a year away from my 5th anniversary when I will bump up to 3 weeks vacation. Great place.
ditto for me
Ditto
I also would like to thank DRC/Acusis for the very nice MT week gift. I am so proud for work for such a wonderful company.
Ditto for me...
Trained 1 day, worked 1 day, then no work...... quit.
Ditto. :-) nm
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I ditto that. nm
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Ditto here
Had huge issues with their line counting method. However, if everything sounds ok to you try it out and let us know if its gotten better.
Ditto! - nm
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Ditto
Believe me I feel your pain. When I started at MQ I used dial up (i'm in the country too) but then was able to get satellite 'net. I don't know if they woulda hired me if I had been using satellite before but they know now and although they made it clear they don't prefer it, they know it's what I need for my job. Because of other problems I'm looking elsewhere for a job but the current trend is No Satellite internet, so I dunno. I may be stuck there afterall.
ditto what you say...
and I'm a GaGirl too...
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