I agree - These things can take on a life of their own.

• TT Line counts - Luvonc
  • TransTech not a bad company - anon
    • To tlt - TT
    • Anon...thanks for your opinion... I am - mteagle
    • Reply - Luvonc
      • Counting lines - TT2
  • I've been checking mine today - TTechMT
  • TT line count - same here
  • Is TT TransTech? - sm
    • Yep, TransTech. nm - wanderer
  • Haven't noticed - do you keep track of individual report counts? - noname
    • reply - Luvonc
      • Are you maybe getting different (sm) - Nonny mouse
        • HEY TT MTS - WendyL
          • I BEG YOUR PARDON - Starshine
            • Starshine - lenna
              • Regarding dictaphone web site verus sessions - Starshine
            • Agree - anon
              • Transtech line counts - same here
              • How do you do that? - anon2
          • What TT should have done... - TTer
            • Perhaps the note from Dictaphone was (sm) - Food for thought
              • No way! - TT
        • HEY TTMTS - WendyL
          • Maybe that is why they are hiring. - They cutting line count on their current
            • That's absolutely ridiculous. NM - TTechMT
          • I agree - These things can take on a life of their own. - Nonny mouse
  • Line count down - TT'r
    • Just had not said anything to date, but getting concerned. n/m - Noticed the same thing for a week or so
      • The only thing I noticed was counts slower to post - but accurate,I think - Amy Lase
        • THINK DOES NOT GET IT FOR ME - Starshine
          • Are you aware that all CAPS is shouting? nm - MT in MT
            • YES! - Starshine
              • Must be a cloud overhead because the STAR is not SHINING! - LOL
                • Look, a guestimate of my line counts is not good enough - Starshine
                  • Then get a new job and quit complaining - MT in MT
                    • Hear hear! (sm) - ttmt2
                  • glad I didn't stick - just me
                    • Bad organization how? nm - celestialmls
                    • They're probably glad you didn't too - (sm) - ttmt1006
                      • you have no clue - just me
                        • Well why don't you 'clue' us all in - TTMT
                  • ASK - TT

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Also SE here.  I know, I used to hate when I was scheduled to work and there were very few reports, especially at the end of the payperiod.  I work overnights, so to adjust my sleep, get up and voila, no work or someone else is doing it ripped (on the old Dictaphone system.

It used to be, many moons and managers ago, that MT's were told in no uncertain terms that they were not to just jump on and steal others income. They were told to call the CSC before working any extra.  If they persisted in doing so, they would either be disconnected, or to really nip the chronic hoggers, they would just not pay them for the lines they made when they were not supposed to be on the system and had not called in for approval.

Now, with DQS, MQ just does not care who does the work as long as it just gets done.  The bottom line is TAT and $$$, it comes from management all the way up and when they call you, an SE to help out, why should we not do so?

Maybe I'm going to get flamed here, but I still do call in to see if they need any help (or they're calling me) and if I get the go ahead, then I will work. 

I agree, it's not fair to blame all SE's for the lack of work... I'm sure their are plenty of employees that work extra.  Correct me if I'm wrong on that but again, blame management. 

I know the feast or famine on whose working when.  I do the majority of my work on weekends, and I know just how bad TAT gets the first weekend of each payperiod and I feel pressured to work harder.

Again, don't mean any flames here, just stating my thoughts. 

ha ha ha ha. That's original!!  Spelling police??  You have such an original way with words!!!!  Things that make you go hmm?  What year was that? I am so laughing and laughing.

I spend most of my day doing this work.  They say come back later in the day when there is work.  You get a few hours off, but you can't plan anything. 

Not sure if you saw the post below or not, but I'm looking for extra pointers on how to make the 20K lines per pay period when the work load is low.  I'm a fast typist, have lots of entries in my expander and even have a lot of files already formatted with jumps in them to save time. I work during my regular schedule leave the downloads on automatic so that I can type when the work comes in. I've been working different shifts at different times, but still can't do it.  How do you do it?  Do you have to work more than your 8-hour shift to get the 20K when the work load is low?

Got tough so-called ESL (some Americans are worse) dictators?  Get some samples or leave blanks.  End of story.

Want to make some real money?  Go out and get your own accounts and stop relying on the companies online to get the work for you, and then expect them to pay what they are getting from their client.  That is unrealistic.

Got lots of experience over 20+ years?  On what, a typewriter when stethoscope was considered an obscure term?  There are so many new modalities that the scientific industry is moving faster than the doctors' can learn their tricks of the trade, when in turn can make our jobs much more challenging.  You think because you have 20-30 years of experience that makes you worth so much?  Most 30+ year transcriptionists barely can operate a computer.  No wonder your line count is down.  You've got to get with the times.

Offshoring is your concern?  Well I fear more the newbies being hired from these online schools that half-train, and then the companies hire them at a very reduced rate almost equal to what they would pay an offshore person.  What prejudices we have for foreign offshoring, when we have it right here in the U.S.

Now, I am all for helping someone who is new in the business, but if you are new and you think for one stinkin' minute you are going to make a lot of money, you are dead wrong.  These newbies make it worse for ones who have a lot of experience because they will actually do an intership where they are paying to go to work and learn?  Think about it.  All of these statements are my opinion, and I am so tired of people moaning and groining about this profession and not trying to be proactive about it.  Every profession has taken a cut in pay no matter what you do.  It is not just transcription.  It is everywhere.  Hello?  Can anyone hear me? 

Left there after having all my pay checks ,messed up- and we are not talking $5-10 -- mucho dollars messed up, paid late - sometimes a week late..  Losing accounts so MTs are being swtiched around.  Promised one thing and given another.  They change pay scales and do not let you know until you get your paycheck and start asking questions.  Very high turnover of MTs and supervisory staff.  Had 4 different supervisors in 6 months. Some MT's get shift diff, others do not -- depending on if they raised a fuss over it or not.  Pending class action suit over pay practices.  If you decide to work for them -- get everything in writing what you are promised and hold onto your hat --will be a very bumpy ride.