I am assuming that the Bait and Switch tactic

• Any happy Transcenders out there? I know a couple people have left, not sure why. nm - just wondering
  • I am assuming that the Bait and Switch tactic - does not go over well and so
    • u made 300 a week? That's more than I made there. - ex-MQer
      • ex-Mqer is right. - beth
    • Happy at Transcend - Kate
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Has anyone else noticed that MTs are being hired and promised, say 100% radiology, then suddenly radiology isn't ready yet so they need you to do acute care (which you *can* do but not so well).  And then you never really ever do get moved to the promised specialty?

Or been hired for a new account coming on that never seems to materialize and then you are one among 30 new MTs sharing the work that the prior MTs were covering just fine, so NO ONE is getting a livable wage?

I think bait and switch has become the new incentive for recruiters.  Promise them anything, give them nothing like it.  And they wonder why people want OUT of MT!

Here's the scenario:  A company posts here at mtstars that help is needed immediately for a daytime account with no set hours, paying higher than most.  I submit my resume.  About 2 weeks later, I receive testing materials via email, which I complete and return within 24 hours.  Two weeks after that, I email with a query as to the status of my application.  Yet another 2 weeks later, the company responds to my email with we're working on it.  Yet another 2 weeks later, I am offered a phone interview.  I'm wondering what might have happened to that account that needed immediate help?  To prepare for the interview, I go over questions and answers in my mind, and wonder what to say when I am told that the previous position is filled or whatever.  Am I totally out of line to ask what took them so long to get back to me?  Or, might I ask if someone else started that position and already resigned and, if so, why?

Am I a fool to continue to communicate any further with this company?

TIA.

in addition to all negative reports from other posters.  I would say don't, unless you can afford to gamble that all the posters were indeed crackpots as the recruiter will tell you. Good luck whatever choice you make.

Lets be reasonable here.

I see complaints because we get put on a difficult account when you know there are easier ones out there.  I see complaints because when you start working for a new company you are put on an easy account and then switched to a more difficult account. 

Face it.  Every company has hard accounts along with the easier accounts.  What should these companies do?  Start you out on the worst accounts so you cannot possibly get your line counts when you are starting and as nervous as a shaky leaf?  Start you on an easy account until you lose your fear and have passed QA to ensure you know the basics of transcription?  (That is what you are calling bait and switch.)

I just do not think these companies can win.  They certainly cannot meet your demands of easy accounts, especially those who are just starting for them and think you should get the cream of the crop.   Are they supposed to penalize their long term MLS and give them all the hard work just to accommodate your every wish?  Is this how you would want to be treated if you had worked for a company for 5+ years?   I don't think so.

Will these people stop at nothing to scam people. I am so sick of the daily emails about Mr. Buckingham this or not has inherited millions but cannot get the money himself and will pay you millions to collect the money on his behalf. What is wrong with this country. I assume these people are so desperate that they not yet figured out we are not as dumb as they are. We do have televisions here and we're onto them.

I would if somehow this person was going to get a job using your identity because otherwise he could not make money being outside of the US. If he were an US MT, aka YOU..then he could work, and have his employers wire him the money via Paypal or some other means. I would be very leary having had someone scam my identity. I'd watch your credit report too. You don't know what he may have done with this information. Scammer!!!!

First off, I agree with you about what type of company is the best bet for good pay, steady work flow, etc.  Small American-MT-only company that doesn't overhire. That's where I am now.

Secondly, the post previous to yours contains the incorrect assumption that those of us who are happy are only happy because we didn't experience the good old days.  I made between 30 and 35,000 for quite a number of years working about 5-hour days.  Thankfully I was able to have my babies and get them out of diapers during that time.  I was with that very, very small local company for about 13 years, then we lost the account.  (Ironically, the account was lost to the company that I'm so happy with now.)  The next 2 years I had an awesome account at MQ, M-F 8-5.  My bring-home was 1600-1800 every 2 weeks.  Then they started with their downhill decline and overhired for the account, which had been perfectly staffed, and I began running out of work all the time.  I floundered for a couple of years, trying new companies right and left and at times working 3 different jobs to be certain I would not run out of work.  The stress was ridiculous and no, I was not happy.

Now I am working for my original local company about 4-5 hours a day (they just asked me to go to full-time, but I can't) and about 5 hours a day for the small national that has been such a great fit for me.  I don't like working 50 hours a week, but I'll make over $60,000 this year.  My oldest starts college in the fall, so I can't slack off now.  My only scheduled time off is Friday morning (I work 2nd shift for the local company) and all day Saturday.  

I am actually making less per hour than I did 10 years ago, down from about $30 to $25 and hour, but after all I have been through the past 3-4 years, I'll take what I have right now and call myself blessed.  I'll be the first to say it is not easy finding a good company because it sure took me a while.  But it is not impossible. 

If you are unhappy, keep looking!  Don't give up!  If my situation changes and I lose my account or my QA starts getting nutty or I have to take a pay cut, I'll start looking all over again, too.  I sure hope I can stay put for awhile, but nothing is certain in this profession. 

Blessings upon us all.   

about only that I probably did read it at some point.  But I feel the same as you as far as caring about the drama.  There's drama all over this board everywhere you look.

My point is that we don't need to take sides.  It's not something we need to be involved with and yes people may decide they don't want to work for that company but they can also decide they don't want to work for a company because they don't pay for spaces.  It's one in the same in my eyes.  Not every situation suits each person.

Trust me when I say that posters will think twice when responding to company info requests.  They will think long and hard before posting.  So, in essence, TT got exactly what they wanted if in fact they really did sue this poster.  They got us awake here on this board and to watch our P's and Q's...  Have a great day!

Of course we want to support our fellow MT but not at the expense of our own jobs.  We try to help one another and then the bashing begins but who is to say that someone working for one company thinks they are spectacular and someone else didn't truly have that bad experience?  I've seen where people beg others to state the company name where it is so great so they can apply, too.  Then all of a sudden a company is accused of overhiring.  TT had a great reputation here, and now all of this has sent things spiraling on the basis of one poster's experience, just one poster has caused all of these threads to be neverending and we don't even know that poster or if anything she says is true or false now do we? 

You are assuming that I am taking a side, and that's your assumption just from reading my post.  There's a lot to be desired in assuming. 

Companies have the right to look at posts and post here all they want as several have done.  This is a public forum. 

As a matter of fact, I could be gourdpainter for all you know...  see what I mean?  It's one of those things where we take what we read with a grain of salt. 

the reports that aren't edited are the "garbage" dictations.  I currently edit on an account that has switched to editing and we have dictators that are new to the hospital that aren't on editing yet - and they talk just fine.... and we have 1 dictator who dictates very well but isn't on editing but has been at the hospital for a long time because this dictator has a PA that oftentimes dictates on their ID# and the voice profiles get confused about who is talking when this happens. 

I also know people that edit at other companies that say that not all of the reports are on editing for these types of reasons - so to presume that if a dictation isn't being presented in a draft is because it's a lousy dictator is untrue.  I've also seen some real bad dictators go through the drafts with excellent draft quality - and fot those types of reports you NEVER hear a Transcriptionist complain "but I didn't have to listen to Dr. XYZ yap at 75 miles per hour - the system did it for me and I got paid anyway!"

With a good dictator that knows what he/she wants to say and says it, without all the ...uh....ah....mmmm.....ah.....ugh, ad nauseum... rudely shuffles papers while you're waiting for the next sound ... without the courtesy of shutting the machine off while they steal even more of your time....yes, without all this inconsiderate behavior on the part of dictators...the above equation would probably be correct.