I agree - the company I work for is doing the same

• Voice Recognition - I hate it - EmmaMT
  • The companies are making a huge - Anon For Now
    • Wrong! - sm
      • That is an outright untruth! We are paid 3 cents less than our normal quote, at least I am. - VR MTSO
  • The company I work for only pays - 4 CPL for VR, no bonuses, incentives
    • would that company start with a "T" and - EmmaMT
    • 4 cpl - texan
      • I say you need to do away with everything in your sentence after - sm
      • 3.5 cpl at Sten Tel - for VR.
        • same as one that i worked for; 3.5 also - aa
  • at least you didn't lose your job offshore - nm
    • You can get a government grant to pay for - No, better to lose to offshore
    • VR is a much bigger threat to MTs than offshore - will ever be
    • With a pay cut like that...they might as well offshore. - no can do
  • VR - JunJul
    • Have to agree with you on that! Love ES. Makes lots of $$$$$. nm - VReDitor
  • I agree - the company I work for is doing the same - and after I did the training,
    • vr - texan

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I just have to add my 2 cents.  I have often thought of Amphion as strange also.  It is very strange to me that a transcription company thinks it is perfectly acceptable to keep their entire crew on mandatory OT for 5 months, really without much explanation at all.  They act like this is normal behavior.  The final straw for me is that they have made the choice to keep all the MTs on mandatory OT (an hour a day extra almost every day FT and PT employees) and take on NEW accounts.  On the team I work on, they took on a new account last week and kept us all on mandatory OT.  They are hiring and training people like crazy, but why would a company choose to keep their loyal staff on OT for 5 months and take on new clients instead of giving the new hires a chance to get in, get trained, help us get caught up first?  They are a very organized company though and send out a job status report every morning.  It shows the new accounts and all.  Do they think we won't notice they are choosing taking on new clients over giving their MTs a much needed break?

They are all about money and will never say no to a client it seems.  They do this without explanation to the MTs, an apology, a bonus or anything.  They do say thank you for your dedictation and hard work a lot, but quite honestly, that only goes so far.  Yes, they do pay us time and a half for OT, but gosh what about living a life.  I have a family!

And by the way ... they expect their work to be perfect as well, even while we are overworked.  Their QA is very tight!

Yes indeed, strange company!  Amphion does have some good qualities, but in my mind the cons outweigh the pros greatly at this point. 

Add me to the list of those from Amphion looking for other employment!

need to know!  As much as some of us may love doing what we do, I doubt any of us want to do it for free.  One of the purposes of this board is to network and share such information.  I know if someone did not pay me, of course I would go through the legal channels, but I would be screaming my head off here, warning everyone too.

To the OP, sorry this happened to you -- hope you get your money soon.

5 year olds learning to play soccer?  The ball is in play and no matter what the coahes say ALL the kids go running for the ball.  Maybe we are like that, masses of us going from company to company in search of work.  This company has a new account BOOM here we go.  Now it is out.  Let's go here. 

Yep, I think it is a big game someone is playing with us.  Not a particularly funny one either. 

I will share this about the MTSO I work for.  I called her late last Wednesday night after Church and told her I was compelled to help out with Hurricaine Katrina in some way and an opportunity arose for a small group from my Church to go to Louisianna this coming week.  Would she be able to cover my work.  She told me no problem without any hesitation and even donated money for the trip. 

And I am sure there are plenty of good companies out there to work for.  To compare us to migrant workers is just not right.

I haven't had enough work to meet my quota for the past 3 weeks and going on 4 weeks now.  Oh but you must meet your quota!  Ya right!  They hired new MTs about a month ago and as usual they overhired.  I am looking elsewhere now.  Tired of them starving their hardworking MTs.

I can count on one hand how many hours I've been out of work and even when it is slow, it doesn't bother me much because I know it's going to be a backlog a day or two after that. I just keep my email open at all times and check it often to make sure things are okay for me to do other things.

Since I started at TT, I haven't had much time off at all so I look forward to those few-and-far between times to see what I've been missing even though it may hurt my pocketbook. I've always been willing to work extra, even on my days off, to help keep the account in TAT, but some people refuse to work extra hours or days because it cuts into their social life. I don't get it. You either want to work and make some $$ or you don't.

I plan my days around my work hours. No appointments made during work hours, no time off unless I'm scheduled, no going anywhere during those hours unless it's an emergency.

It's not TT's fault. It's some of the people working there that is causing all this upheaval, and if I were TT management, a few might be out the door. Too bad they don't sign their real name.

actually fairly good dictators, a couple of toughies, but no more than one would expect.  When I do the late afternoon/early evening shift it is like night and day.  I get some really crummy dictators and tons of problem/miscoded reports.  

They have said that there is no cherry picking able to be done with this program so I just have to wonder if the crappy dictators can't get to the dictate stations until after 4 p.m. or what?

Nuff said, back to work.  Thanks for letting me air it out.