Do you mean in addition to your reg Friday work? When do they give it to you?

• Keystrokes, need info. Good? Bad? - Regina
  • Have been with the rest and now with the best, Keystrokes! Without a doubt! - Movin' on
  • Do you have to work weekends? - nonnie
    • Was asked when hired, told them I wanted M-F... - anotherMT
    • It depends on the account. I do not work weekends. nm - KS MT
    • yes, you have a certain amount to turn in by Sunday night at midnight, but you can try and type it - nm
      • Do you mean in addition to your reg Friday work? When do they give it to you? - nonnie
        • my work loads anywhere from the morning to late afternoon... - MtMom29
        • I have all weekend to stretch it out and work as I please. No big deal really. - nm
  • How is their tech support ? - txmt
    • Their tech support has always been almost instant, very, very good!!! - Movin' on
    • No one answered this. Does it mean what I think it means? - Red flag
      • I have never had problems. They respond fast. But then again, I have only had sm - KS MT
  • I have been with Keystrokes since October.... - MtMom29
  • I have been there since last September and like it very much..(sm) - Another OhioMT
  • No complaints here. nm - RadMTtoo
  • keystrokes - kitty
  • Keystrokes Feedback - Denise Thompson
    • Thank you, Denise. Couple of questions . . . - Regina
      • Keystrokes Info - Denise Thompson
        • How about pay/time off benefits? Thanks - nm
        • Thank you for your help! - Regina

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Hi Mari,

Well said!  I'm going to include your first paragraph on mine and see what they think!

I'm thinking about purchasing Stedman's spellchecker.  Does anyone else use their personal spellchecker with Bayscribe.  If so, does it work well with it and which one do you use?

I'm also thinking about purchasing my own personal Expander at the same time.  I'm looking at InstaText.  Any comments on it?

To the OP:  All transitions are uncomfortable at first, but don't give up.  I've only been with them a couple of months, but I like it.  As for getting my line counts, I'm up to 1000 lines a day.  It takes me a little longer than it did at my other job - but my other job used voice recognition, which helped a lot but paid less.  I'm also doublechecking my reports before I send them in because I was told the account I'm on is scrutinized very closely.  As I said above, I'm looking into my own expander and spellcheck software.  I've had a few spelling errors that the spellcheck didn't catch.  But at least you can add those in the expander to spell correctly.  The people at the company are great and QA staff is wonderful.  They treat like humans, not machines or numbers.  Good luck.  Feel free to email me if you want.

Exploitation is nothing new in the home MT business, but I think that since our economy has taken such a nosedive recently, a lot of companies are using this to their advantage and pushing it to the limit.  Their attitude is, LUCKY YOU HAVE A JOB, SO LIKE IT OR LUMP IT.  My response to them would be, AND YOU'RE JUST AS LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB (TO THE MTSOs) AS WE ARE.  Would the companies have been able to push this VR fiasco on us before, before the market took a nosedive?  I doubt it, but they thrive on the desperation of many MTs who have no other options at this point. 

Any relationship, busines or personal, thrives on old-fashioned give-and-take.  MTSOs need to realize they can't just TAKE and TAKE and TAKE and TAKE indefinitely.

by them (i.e., sexual; suicide, etc) before any sort of investigation, autopsy, or in short, before they know the facts. 

Hats off to his brother, Keith, for demanding an FBI investigation.

I interviewed with them several months ago.  For level 3 acute care, I was offered 10 cpl for IC, 11 cpl over a certain number of lines per week.  For IC, line requirement was 1000 lines per week and seemed that they would be very flexible.  Use your own computer if IC.

I was also offered 8.5 cpl for employee status (with incentives depending on lines per hour worked).  I think they required 20 hours per week and have to keep an average of at least 150 lines per hour (it sounded like they had a time clock system).  They provide the computer if employee status. 

Everyone I spoke to was very nice, especially the recruiter.  I turned the offer down due to reasons not relating to the company in particular.  They did tell me that they had a lot of ESL (the test consisted of all ESL), but I don't know if this would apply to ER.  Hope this helps.     

Depending upon where you work, how long you have been there, size of the company, etc., that might be a consideration.  Also, maybe other temporary work, like Kelly Girls (if they even have that anymore).  I know we used to have temps in our office that were paid every week. 

The pawn shop idea might be a good one.  I think if you don't have the money in 30 days, you can just pay the interest or whatever.  You wouldn't lose the instruments.  If you are willing to part with someone, ebay and Craigslist can provide some quick cash.  Good luck to you.  I am my sole support, and I have been in tight situations before and know how scary that can be.  My heart goes out to you. 

I have been with Transcend for almost 6 years and while they are not a perfect company they are better than most.  There have been mergers in the past-I actually came from the other MDI (which was a much more laid back company).  As far as I've seen with past mergers you get to keep your work.  They don't take you off it and give it to someone else.  That makes no sense to have to train new MTs for your accts and you on something else.  I know you are unhappy that you have to make a change but give Transcend a chance.  They are a good company. Is it a good fit for everyone?  No, but you won't know until you give it a chance with an open mind.  And before the bashers get on and say I am management, I am not, just another in the trenches MT who has worked for other services in the past. As far as outsourcing, I know it is done but as far as I can tell it is not a lot.  I work on 2 different platforms and both have plenty of work and have had for quite a while now. 

   LMAO!

nm