I agree. Hate Transcend but love Robert..nm
Posted By: Current Transcender on 2005-09-01
In Reply to: Robert's a sweetie. - nm
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Do you love, like, hate your job?
I was an MT for years and have been out of it for a year because I was offered a position in my husband's company, but I am considering working as an MT again. I loved the freedom and the pay was pretty good. I was just wondering how many people actually ENJOY their jobs currently. Thanks.
love/hate my job
Love my job but hate having no life because of it. Work on 3 feast or famine accounts, so i basically HAVE to work 7 days a week to make ends meet. No paid time off. Very frustrated right now.
Some love it and some hate it. I guess it all
depends on what platform you are using. Most VR will eventually learn, and you will be teaching it by correct the errors, although it seems to take a while. If you are on an account that is new to VR it can be quite frustrating, it seems like you are stopping every sentence to fix errors. However eventually it will learn and become less burdensome. Once it does you can speed up the voice and get through the reports fairly quickly correcting less errors. The down side is you are paid less, so you have to make those lines up in your production. On the positive side, a lot of people think it really helps with the wrists. Again, it all depends on the platform and account you are working on.
Isn't any job a love/hate relationship
We have to work to provide for ourselves and our family, yet there will always be days when you'd rather not and this applies to on-site or off. In any event, when you work at home, it gives you some flexibility. I take advantage of the flexibility as I see fit. I am an IC. If I do not work, I do not make any money. I am also not someone's go-to person. I do my work and then find time for fun. No one should assume that all work-at-home people are not productive or have excuses not to work. That is just not a fair statement. 
I have a love/hate relationship with IM.
We have to run the MSN instant messenger for work and with that, yes you can save messages. You can find that under the tool menu (how appropriate!) and then under options and just check off the right box.
I'm really bad about forgetting to mark myself as be right back whever I run to the potty or take a break and then come back to find a message or two looking for me to type up a stat, because then I wind up looking like a tard who is just ignoring my bosses. Of course, they know me, and they know I'm a tard, so I guess it all works out.
Works both ways though...they can find me just as easily as I can find them, and sometimes that comes in awfully handy. Sometimes not. Okay, mostly not, but I digress...
Don't hate it/love it, it's no worse sm
than anything else I've worked on. The new version is better because of the keyboard controls, but I'm not in love with that either.
Is it MedQuist? Love DQS -- Hate MQ!
I had good line counts with it. It was very easy to use and had a ton of shortcuts. I really don't have any complaints. I used the Expander that comes with it, so I didn't have to worry about compatibility issues. I've never worked on Escription, so I can't comment on how it compares.
I really hope this isn't with MQ, though. Read their latest posts -- no work.
Love my platform...hate the company
I currently work for DSG and love DocQscribe.
Emdat is said to inspire love/hate, too. nm
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Looks like a love/hate relationship if you Google them using the box on this page. nm
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Love VR and hate to do straight typing anymore
My work is a combination of both VR and straight, VR about 85% of daily work. I never retype any sentence much less a paragraph when it is VR. I think a person only has to do that with a particular bad platform. Escription is excellent VR.
love/hate MT, mostly love it :)
i've long been dismayed with the direction in which this profession has gone, and i agree with the person who posted that women have accepted substandard wages and/or unfair IC or employment situations. It's very sad to see how, when outsourcing became the norm, women did not adequately negotiate to, you know, pay their bills!!! It seems this has resulted in lots of undercutting and lower line rates for everyone. I see some companies slowly improving and not requiring crazy line counts and hours in exchange for paying into health insurance. i entered this profession as a single female. i married an engineer and was living mighty comfy and cushy and happily doing 4 hours at 11 cpl in the late 90s. didn't have to worry about not having bennies at all. now as a single mom with a young child, i truly struggle. but i do love my work and hold out for my specialty to keep the line count up. still, i see the glaring problems and it's just a shame. if there were an MT union, i'd join in a heartbeat. no time/energy to start one and be some kind of norma rae, though!
Ah, yes, a love/hate thing indeed!
Best to all of you wonderful mts, male and female :)
That's good news. I love Keystrokes, and I hate to think of them selling. sm
The people are great, and I truly feel that I have finally found a home. Still, business is business. I have a friend who has been with Transcend for years and is very happy there, but I want no part of it. I plan on working until I'm 70, so I'm crossing my fingers that the bottom does fall out for me before then.
GOOD GRIEF -Love my company/account, Hate MedRite! Any help?
I love the company I work for, pay, schedule, account. It has it all. But they use MedRite. This is awful! Was this actually designed for an MT? This is complicated, SO much mouse-clicking, and so SLOOOW - I am boring myself to sleep. Typing is easy and quick but moving from report to report - Good Grief! Is there anyone who has used this? Are there any tips you could give me?
I agree. Hate to do that, but if it were to come to
I would contact the client and let them know. 
I hate to say it, but I agree with this. nm
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Robert's a sweetie.
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If you'll call Robert in payroll....sm
he'll explain it to you. He's at extension 231.
LOVE Bayscribe, HATE MedRite! MedRite when I used it was slow sm
and cumbersome -- would type and wait for it to catch up! Plus it had some annoying thing where if you were gone too long, a pop up window came up and you had to explain why you were gone. Bayscribe is fast, smooth, user friendly, and at the end of each report you can see how many lines you did and how much money you made, for that report and for the total day.
Good luck to you whatever you decide! 
I LOVE Transcend!!!!!!!!!
Love Transcend
I have been with Transcend for two years and I plan to retire here. The benefits are great, just started a 401-K match, the people are supportive.
Thank you! I will take the work. I love Transcend!
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I love transcend. They have a great rep with MLS...
Any company with over 600 MLS will have some happy, some not so happy - but to say "shady" I take offense to. I really love the company and many people agree with me
I love Transcend, I would not speak for everyone...
It's amazing the things people will say on these boards. There are a lot of happy transcriptionists at Transcend, and I get treated great. I love my job, get paid well per line and also get great benefits, including a 401-K match
I love Transcend, have been there for years...
started with MDI. The offshore component is mostly on Escription, and has never affected my workload.
Transcend is a good company; they treat me well and I make great money - I could care less if they offshore. Then again, I also have a Samsung TV, a German car and many things made in China!
Used to love Transcend, now no work.
Iused to make good money, did not even mind editing, but now I have to work 18 hours a day to try to get 1200 lines because all the work is taken. I have to ask permission to work outside my regular hours - absolutely no work on my regular hours now, have to beg for work all the time and my supervisors do not care. I used to make good money, now I qualify for food stamps. I've worked for my accounts for a long time and if this is a sign of what's going to happen to everyone else at the company, good luck.
I love Transcend. Lots of work, sm
great communication, flexibility.
I love Transcend. I've worked for MANY
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I totally disagree, I love Transcend... there are a lot of companies out there..
instead of complaining, why don't you find another. Life is way too short, as someone said.
I work for Transcend, love them, but right now a few accounts are slow..so depending on which you
were hired for, do not get your expectations too high. The work can flucuate the key is flexibiltiy. If you have to have a set schedule, I would double check on the work flow for your shift on your account. I would hope that they could be honest, and if I know them, they will be.
I agree, i love those things too :)
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I agree...I have been with them for 2 years and love them...
They are the best, for me at least!!!
Have to agree, love Transtech except ....
for tech people now. They are condescending and rude and half the time don't know what the problem is. I miss you-know-who!!!!!!!!
PS, still the best place to work.
Have to agree with you on that! Love ES. Makes lots of $$$$$. nm
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Totally agree,I love ExText
I have been working in ExText for months and love it. All of my lines are very accurate and I make an awesome line count every day working in it. I wouldn't want to work on any other platform!
Agree. I would love to make $20 an hour
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I agree. I liked Transcend.
away during training. I liked them, but when I had the opportunity to go back, the schedule had changed, which was fine, but I thought they were great to work for from the recruiter on down. My stay with Transcend was short, but very, very sweet. They paid on time and did not think twice when I said that I would have to leave due to the death of my Mom. I would give them my vote to anyone who is interested in full-time work and wants a fair company. They also paid above the rest as far as what I have been offered as an IC at this point. Good luck to all with Transcend as they are a good fair company. 
Haha yen, love your post and agree completely with what you say!
I agree with the Transcend stuff -
Has me totally disgusted. I only work with them as an IC, but now this weekend, then had a BIG incentive on for my account, and today - there is no work, can you believe? They said everyone must ONLY work their scheduled hours from now on so there is enough work for everyone. Ridiculous. That was a great incentive over the weekend - if you have no life and didn't want to enjoy your family. I happen to like mine, and no job is worth the sacrifice of not spending holidays with my little children.
Tech support with Transcend is a BIG joke - you want for days and then you have to make sure and check your e-mail for a response, although it may even just be another question! I have BEGGED them to call me instead of e-mailing, but no one would. BUT, if you are sitting there and it is a weekend or off shift and no one is answering you and you can't work - there IS a way to page the supervisor - check in the MTs website somewhere (I'll look too and if I find it I'll post back to you). My trainer told me NEVER sit there without getting answers - if you can't work, it's off hours and no one is getting back to you, you have every right to page the supervisor - so DO IT. I did, and that was the only way I got my computer straightened out a couple of weekends ago. And the supervisor was REALLY nice. Told me if I had any further problems, he'd be home all night - he didn't care if I called him at 3:00 a.m. (it was around midnight when I paged him).
I agree with you 100%. Transcend/MDI taking over
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Agree, very happy there. Love my flexibility. Like the old Signal! Awesome. nm
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I agree with Denise...I have also only been at Keystrokes for a shor time but I love it...it already
beats the company I was with before, and I was with them for a year-and-a-half...I can see if someone wanted an opinion about a company and you had a bad experience to share, but not just to get on here and say how horrible a company is...move on and good luck....
LOL I totally agree! I love your cat versus hairball analogy! :-) nm
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I agree. I am only part time so far, but I love it. The platform is easy, and sm
the people are great. I feel very fortunate to have stumbled onto them.
It is also Graves disease, named after Robert J. Graves.
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agree, IMEs are great $$, easy reports, miss them, would love to find them
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Love, love, love TransTech! Not overhiring, just growing like crazy!
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I agree. Version 8 is a nightmare. Love version 6. nm
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I too love path & can't find it at home & would love to cross-train into rad in the meantime I do
Love this company, love my boss, very informative QA.nm.
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Transcend bought MDI, so if Transcend sends work offshore, so does MDI. nm
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