Dont they make you feel like a child with the threatening emails?
Posted By: NM on 2007-06-18
In Reply to: Threaten us to work our schedule, and if we do, then there is no work - TT'er working schedule
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What threatening emails?
Not to mention the threatening emails
QA routinely sends out threatening emails saying they will put everybody that is on an account on 100% because of mistakes. Nothing individual, it is for everybody. This is a joke because most of the MT's at OSi are newbies who get put on an account and if they make one mistake QA threatens to put everybody on the account on 100%. What a joke. Really funny because I will be out of there in a couple weeks. Also the QA department makes more errors than even the newbies. It has been a riot and I can't take anything they take seriously but I'm on my way out. TOO FUNNY. It is so pathetic that it's funny. LOL
Amanda is one that dont return emails
Was told she's new and still hot a lot to learn.
If I cant make QA, dont give me work. Dont dock
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I dont answer the mass emails she sends out. What bothers me is we are not anywhere
near out of TAT and she just then sends out these mass emails and everyone piles on and runs the account out. Then when you get a few more reports she does it again. It just keeps going on like that. I have no idea what the problem is. I dont acknowledge the emails at all I just cant get a grip on why someone would function like that. It is almost like she isnt happy until she runs the account out and then expect all the ICs which we are to sit around until it comes back in and then be at her beck and call. It seems to be getting worse and worse lately with this. She has taken the word control to extremes especially with ICs. She expects you to let her know if you are going to move your butt of your computer for a half hour. I just dont get it but it gets extremely old I must say.
Dont feel "safe" with any MTSO. Any co. can
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I am sitting here looking at an empty screen also so dont feel alone. What is going on with MQ out
of work like this. I have 4 backups and am still out. I guess they are hot and heavy on this turnaround time being nonexistent so they are over hiring now and we will look at more empty screens.
Hey dont feel bad. I "sold" out too. I was in the exact same position as you...only clinic wor
and I am grateful that they gave me my big break. Having any acute experience on your resume seems to motivate people to at least test you. I can tell you this.. there were a lot of tests I never passed either, even with 14 years of MT experience so I just wasnt up to speed so I did gain that. I also learned to appreciate when I did find a good company. I definitely had something to compare it to. In this world, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Somehow pride and taking a stand doesnt put food on my table either. We can hold out and not work there but it isnt going to change the world. It is what it is and I'm looking out for my family. Best of luck to you. Give your foot in the door and then happily walk out of it LOL
Make an auto-response for their emails.."I DON'T WORK HERE!" nm
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If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because
I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.
Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS. That seems so unfair when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!
If emails saying, "You guys make Transtech rock" pays your bills, let me know, because
I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words.
Management is rocking alright, because their paychecks are not affected at all with the NO WORK/LOW WORK situation that has been going on now for MONTHS and MONTHS. That seems so unfair that their high paychecks keep coming in to mgmt -- when without the MT's, the mgmt would have no paychecks!!!!!
I am still there. Why dont you try it and then you will know and make
up your own mind.
Its sad that we dont believe MTs can make good money at this job....
In the past 7 years that I have been an at-home IC (left my hospital job), I have made no less than $50k and this year, will hit my all-time high of $62K. There are still good accounts out there, with great dictators that pay .10 to .11 cpl and if you are fast, with great macros and expanders, you can still make $40-$50/hr. Experience and reliability are what get you top dollar and there are companies willing to pay. Its sad we doubt those that make the good money. Maybe there is a tad bit of jealousy there!
I dont think you will make more than that for clinic work.
I make 10 cpl at the Q, but have been there 12 years and was at that rate when my prior company was bought out.
There are people who make that, but not for clinic work and probably not for just starting at a company. I have been applying like crazy and the best I came up with was 8 cpl for Basic 4 and 9 cpl for straight OPs.
Thats 15 years experience.
Hopefully, this will make you feel better. SM
I have been an IC for years. Not making a bad line rate, but not great. Yes, I have a more flexible schedule than an employee, but still have 24 hour TAT. Here's what stinks - I can't even take a long weekend off during the summer (either Friday or Monday) without my paycheck taking a hit. So, in my case, having a holiday off without pay is the norm for me. Employee vs. IC - both have their pros and cons.
It did make me feel better, thank you.
better, and would help our industry - and I use that word lightly, is if some MTs would chin up, step to the plate, and stop applying over and over and over to deplorable companies and keeping these MTSOs rich and able to continue their less than stellar business ethics. You gotta be kidding me! Its the posters on here, who will post right at the end of an page-long thread full of nothing but valid negative issues with the same MTSOs over and over and over - no work, nasty management, nasty QA, no communication, no paychecks, no work, no work, schedule demands when IC status, no work, no work, lying recruiters, no pay, no pay, NO PAY? No work. Then some MT pops in the thread, or pulls it to the top, and says, well other than the few negatives mentioned of late, what do ya think??? Should I? I just don't know what to think, yada, yada. That's the stupidity that drives me crazy. It wastes this whole board, when it could be a valid source of info for MTs on the job hunt. And why should any of us bother a second of our time giving objective reviews of a company, providing full details of our experience, good or bad, only to so obviously be ignored by these types of posts? That's why so many MTs don't even waste their time anymore giving reviews. Oh, yeah, other than the fact that obviously currently you can't get a timely paycheck, such-and-such company must be GREAT. Sure, go for it. Its stuff like this that make this whole forum lack credibility or professionalism, and lets these stupid MTSOs continue to play their tricks and lie to all of us MTs. You don't even see how this hurts us. If a company didn't pay MTs on time, shame on them. NO excuse. And there were a boat load of other JLG issues that were shared, so not a single thing here, and then its OK for MTs to now APPLY to fill the slots of those who probably just left because of poor conditions? This is what is perpetuating this cycle of third-world treatment of MTs. But, yeah, you're right, its me.
no one can make you feel sm
worthless if you don't allow them to. As far as isolation, did you not choose to work at home?
MQ screwed their employees by manipulating the lines SEVERAL years ago. Same people working several years ago are still complaining today. Get out and find another job.
I am an MT just like you and the rest and have been for years. Again the whining and complaining does not change a doggone thing. It is what it is.
The profession has gone to he!! in a handbasket literally but it didnt happen overnight.
Sorry but I don't get the victim mentality. Maybe we are victims in the sense that our work has gone over to India or wherever but so have a lot of other jobs in this country not only MTs. It is a crime that it has happened this way. But whining and complaining about hours and dictators, weekends and holidays is going to do no good. That is part of the job and always has been. If you are fortunate enough to find a decent MT job you better be prepared to work weekends and holidays etc or you will be passed over for someone else.
Plain and simple, call it what you want, say I am screaming and have a bad attitude. I don't care. You cannot change the profession from what it is. My opinion is that all the whining done by MTs about the hours, the days, etc. etc has helped outsource our jobs to India.
I know many many experienced MTs who still have good jobs with companies and are not going through all this . They are also not whining and complaining either.
Mortgage? On an MT's wages? Dont make me laff!
nm
Dont agree. It is never to late to try to make life
wasted. With your attitude, it probably is too late for you, you dont seem to have the initiative to try to make it better. If you want to be a victim, go ahead. Maybe you should find a Victims-R-Us board.
Just trying to make you feel a little more loved. LOL
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Geez...how did that make you feel?
I haven't had a company not let me work out my two weeks yet. I think I'd be irritated if I got a response like that!
Your posts make absolutely no sense. Glad I dont
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It is only right that a higher level MT should make more but I feel I can tell anyone I want
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I hope that's true, might make me feel a little better...
Even if they are being charged less, the rates companies are paying MTs to do VR is grossly unfair. There is no way it takes half the time to do VR as compared to regular. You still have to listen to the whole dictation. Maybe 65-70% would be fair, not 50%.
now I know you ARE definitely crazy..no further responses will be made to make you feel good about y
NM
Well, I fall above the average I guess. Would rather not post as not to make others feel bad or thin
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Well..thank you so much for y our non-threatening, nonpatronizing reply! I will take a look into th
company. Although not thrilled with the outsourcing overseas, I might still check into it.
Thanks again!!!
I've never gotten a threatening email. nm
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If you is threatening you and refusing to pay you..IT IS FAIR!!!
Unless you are in that situation, you wouldnt know, but you do know that you work hard for your money and to have threats rather than a paycheck, is RIDICULOUS!! So do not say we are being UNfair when he is bringing it on himself and when you have this experience, you will understand more.
I've got 2 e-mails from my STM threatening
that.
Thanks for the info! Do you *feel* like you make more with a gross line v. character line? (nm)
I dont cherry pick, never did. I dont do that to my coworkers on my account.
What is the new status. I dont understand what it means. I dont need their benefits nor do I want
them.
I dont know what that means. I am an SE. I dont sit and wait for work I come back in when it is
there so I never had to deal with Amherst when there was no work because I just stopped working and did other things. My feeling is if this doesnt work there are other jobs out there.
I just dont want to hit that extra space if I dont get paid for it, ya know. No message.
nmnmnm
I didnt get the packet, do we have to take their insurance if we dont need it. I dont want it. Wish
I would have gotten the stupid thing to read.
Would I tell my child
I would tell my child that determination is a necessary start. I would also tell them that a PROPER education is key and to beware of shoddy or inferior schools, especially in the field of MT. The field is just too competitive and there are too many good schools. I do not care what sacrifice I had to make (second mortgage, second job, borrow from family), I would see that my child went to any 1 of the big 3. I have done recruiting and I know how some of these lesser schools are viewed .
You must have seen the ad that has the woman with the child on her lap - sm
That's a joke. All the pictures show the moms with the kids on their laps transcribing away. DOES THIS SEEM REALISTIC TO YOU?? But yet, people fall for it! I have been doing this for 15 years and make $62,000, but I PAID MY DUES AND WORKED MY BUTT OFF to get there. I worked in a hospital with others around me to help me out, when I was confident I left and worked at home, now I'm doing my own thing.
Nothing wrong with a 70's child!
Who are you to say that her apology shouldn't be accepted? Wow, yourself.
My taxes pay for your child
Here again our taxes are paying for you having children -- tired of it. People that get money back or even more than they pain all due to having kids -- we pay for their children. No wonder we have such a deficit and such a work ethic, -- they want everyone to take care of them -- so tired of that.
Hot Child In The City
But just think how much easier it'll be to look at that electric bill! I keep ours over 80, but I'm the opposite...65 and lower and the heat is ON!
I'm an uneducated child who..:
Makes $5000 consistently! LOL. BTW, it helps to learn teenage slang so you know what's going on with your kid. Did I finally shut you up or what? Cheers!
or a selfish child...
that's what my kids used to say until I taught them that they need to care about other people, too. We need to work together, folks.
I have 1 child at home
I used to try to work very early, but my accounts have no work early any more, so now I work through the day around nap times or whenever I can squeeze a minute in. It is not easy at all, but the alternative is paying for daycare, so I keep struggling through. I keep hoping it will get easier.
I feel the same way...I love working for Keystrokes and feel blessed that I have such a wonderful jo
nm
I love my children but having a child does not mean
everything is honey and sunshine. I really think nothing anymore about people who say they do not want. I think they are being realistic about a job you give yourself to for 18+ years, sometimes with not the most pleasant of outcomes in a relationship when a person who wants other things strives to have what they want and what they need. I used to think people who said no children were selfish- I understand their statements now. Motherhood is very much played up as far as I am concerned. Most of these posts are speaking from having young babies, toddlers before teen years and grown- those are the really good years. No pity needed nor wanted. My children had a very priviledged upbringing.
Yes -- we are all so very aware that you are their Golden Child. NM
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golden child! LOL! good one. nm
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Was your child so sick you have to permanently
stay home or could you have returned to your job with just a small amount of time off? A good inhouse job would be hard to give up unless totally necessary but by now that inhouse might have outsourced anyway. I had 2 that did. I do not read the board but what is the going price now? I work parttime now and make over $20 an hour as independent for a national.
FMLA for the birth of a child
I work for Spheris and am questioning their FMLA policy. They are telling me that while I'm eligible for UP TO 12 weeks of FMLA, they are only approving 6 weeks after the birth of my child. According to what I read and understand about FMLA, for the birth of a child you are entitled to the full 12 weeks but HR is telling me that it's up to them to decide what I am able to take off and right now they feel I only need 6 weeks unless they have a doctor's note to extend it (which my doctor will not provide as there is no medical reason at this time). Everyone else I know gets the full 12 weeks and has never had a problem with their employers so I'm wondering who is right.
Well, I know that MTs from my office have quite MQ and they dont post on here but I dont know how
many. I think MTs with MQ may be getting second jobs and just working for 2 different places at the same time which is probably the smart thing to do anymore because MQ will continue with this short TAT and as it spreads throughout other offices people will continually be running out of work especially after going on DQS.
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