Here's the deal - if you find one that fits, even remotely. STAY!! stop searching for "perfect

• Can an MT make a decent living earning 7 cents per line - playing devil's advocate
  • It pays to take a "pay cut" sometimes - My story
    • My experience has been different - sm - Typing-Slave
      • You are correct - inhouse pays much more - sm
    • I think that is very good advice but how do you know if a company is going to treat you well? - Charlene
      • Research & ask people who work there - for honest answers
        • Plus time-wasting instant message harassment - by managers etc.(NM)
          • Oh I hate that! - ER MT
            • I'd tell 'em, 'From now on, send me ONE email/day - - as all others will be deleted w/out opening."
          • Here's the deal - if you find one that fits, even remotely. STAY!! stop searching for "perfect - thanks
            • And if find one that treats you like crap, LEAVE - There are good MTSO's (nm)
  • Outstanding advice!!! - GAMT
  • OY VEY - scribbles
    • depends; can make more $ on easy platform/7 than hard platofrm/8-9 cents - I've been there - n/m
      • Yes, that's a good point, but that is - scribbles
  • Good info. In late 1980's I typed for 4 cents a line (sm) - SM
    • Here it is 2007, and I WISH I could make $35,000! (sm) - Typing-Slave
    • I was making 6.5 cpl in 1975 ............ (nm) - Typing-Slave
    • The norm in the 80s was 4 cents per Gross Line, not 65 char with spaces. nm - whorn
    • That's right , it was the going rate - scribbles
      • This is the thing that concerns me about this field. Pay is staying the same not increasing! - Charlene
        • The problem is the 'middleman' - (sm) - the 'Invisible' MT
      • Exactly!!!! - ER MT
        • Good for you - scribbles
      • Correction - scribbles
    • thank you sm - debbb

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with their company when they keep over-hiring and make people go out and have to get another job.  I just don't understand it.  But MDI has been doing this for years.  It is not a new practice for them. 

The the MTSOs sit there and complain because they cannot keep good, reliable transcriptionists and we end up getting the bad reputation for it.  They are creating this cycle and it is all backfiring on us.  Either we cannot pay our bills, or we become job jumpers. 

I love it!

7 cpl to start (IC with no bennies) if you have three years' veterinary ophthalmology experience and never ever make a mistake blah blah blah blah.  Whatevah. 

It is hard for a person who comes from a position that allows you flex time to come to a company to where you have to work your shift.  That at one time was me. I cannot say that I have never been talked to about taking too long of a break while on the system, as I have.  But I have been with some companies who actually know when the keyboard keys are moving, who IM you all the time to see if you are there and Axolotl management has NEVER done that to me. 

Have I been in a report a long time for one reason or another and asked if I was there, yes, but for good reason because the report had been in my queue a while.  It was just taking me a while to type it or I had to go to the bathroom.  You won't get fired for going to the bathroom or getting up to stretch if you need to for 5 minutes or so. 

They do run it like a business and that is why they are successful.  But, they do not micro-manage every move someone makes.

If you have a job already, if possible, do not quit until you work at the other job long enough to know that you are in a better situation.  I have read glowing reports about a company and then signed on to work and thought it stunk to high heaven, and vice versa ... have seen companies trashed that I thought were wonderful.  Each person's experience is unique.

Of course, if you read several people saying they were paid late or not at all, THAT kind of thing, I would certainly avoid that like the plague.  Although I do enjoy what I do, I cannot afford to work for free.

I work for Keystrokes and SmartMed and would be happy to recommend either one if the TTS thing does not work out for you.  Of course, the same thing goes for them -- some love them, some hate them.

Good luck! 

I'm not saying that Transcend's policies may not fit some MTs.  I'm saying that I have experiencing with the way they operate.  They'll tell you one thing to pacify you in a conference call and 2 weeks later the facts show the exact opposite of what was said.  For instance, Tara Goehring (Transcend recruiter) posted here in this thread that Transcend does not offshore, yet Larry said in the conference call that they do. 

When asked about MDI accounts going to voice recognition, it was said that the accounts would stay the same UNLESS the client themselves wanted VR.  You can bet your bottom dollar Transcend is going to market their own propietary speech software (BeyondTXT) to the client in a way that the clients will be begging for VR.  Their press release announcing the sale was referring to the MDI accounts and said 'including the conversion of some of MDI's business to Transcend's speech recognition-enabled BeyondTXT platform.'

So it's not a matter of what fits for one may not fit for the other.  It's the fact that what is cheered in a pep rally doesn't actually match the facts when everything comes into play.  When we chose MDI as the place to work, we based that decision on certain factors that made our jobs enjoyable.  They are long gone.