I am disillusioned with TT...
Posted By: Kat on 2008-01-27
In Reply to: I've always vied "salaried" as equivalent to indentured servitude...sm - cat
and have been for some time now. I am too qualified for the jobs I have applied for or they don't pay enough, but will definitely keep looking. You can always do better somewhere. I know that a lot of people are leaving TT, especially over the insurance hike. I agree they are the best company I have found so far, but I still believe I can better my position elsewhere. I believe I have maxed out here, truthfully, and I don't agree with the way some things are done but I can't and don't say a word about it. Unfortunately, the top jobs at most places are given to the peers and friends of management. They basically disregard the qualifications of people they don't know - sad, but the way this business works. It does not work this way so much where you have face-to-face interaction so I may even consider doing that again.
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I am disillusioned too and every time
I read this board, I get more depressed. I often wonder why I come here. I think it is to be at the water cooler. I also got a few job leads which were really good. I never would have landed my job with TT if it were not for this board.
However, I come on here to see what is going on and I am somehow always getting into the negative mood of everything here. One day a company is great and the next it isn't. One day being an MT is great and the next it is the worst. My goodness, I can get mood swings on my own without coming here and being swayed toward that bent.
I guess what I am saying is it is my fault I come on here and absorb the negative. But being an MT is difficult at home because we are working pretty much alone without companionship. But being here every day I question my job, even when I have resolved not to do that. I know the insurance went up. It went up everywhere. Some how if I had not come here to see what is going on, I think I would have worried less, trusting the boss' e mail they are trying to do better. I would have left it at that and not thought of leaving. But no, I come on here and see that other people are not happy, so I start wondering.
I am pretty sure this is the last time I am posting for my own good. I will miss the companionship but not the negativism, and as I said, I blame no one but myself, because I am the one taking the nay saying to heart.
TT as far as you are concerned, I am going to stay until you prove to me personally you don't care about me or my paycheck. The management has not shown that to me yet, and so I have no plans on leaving. When TT does hurt me personally then I will consider leaving. Best of luck to everyone. But please, if you agree at all with me, don't think negative. Think objectively.
Many Disillusioned Individuals
Me included.
Part of your post is exactly what disillusioned mentioned.
Your post said : My question is this, however, what if high producers are treated differently than others? They are kind of like the employee who is always at work, on time, positive attitude versus the employee who calls off, is undependable, bad attitude. Which one do you think would get better treatment? That is pretty much a no brainer if you ask me! There are also those MTs who are great employees and do the basic line count required of them. They receive the basic pay that they were offered. What is so wrong with that? That is the effort they put into it. That is not always true. I can tell you countless times that I went above and beyond what was required of me, and I had always, repeat always, found Transcend a good place to work. Until recently when I started noticing little discrepancies with what I had been told and read from management and what had happened in actuality. That doesn't mean that I am just going to up and quit, but it certainly does put a little bit of distrust into the equation, making it hard to believe other things that I'm told. It doesn't mean I'm undependable, not at work, or have a bad attitude even after I had been told one thing by management and seen another. But you also must admit that it is a little hard to express dissatisfaction internally within the company when it had been noted that a lot of concerns expressed internally were labeled as "emotional outbursts". How can one not become dissatisfied when our concerns are just dismissed as emotionality? (Just a side piece of information, I was not one of the MLSs accused of the emotional outbursts, but I just found it intimidating from a standpoint of expressing concerns in the future.)
You said: I scored 100% on all my tests for hire with Transcend. I have 9 years' experience in clinic transcription. I was hired in full time, benefits, etc. I work on a clinic account and have a secondary that is hospital. No, I did not have hospital experience when starting at Transcend. Being the great company that they are, they were willing to train me and enhance my experience for both our benefits. I make 0.0850 cents per line. I have a schedule, however, do not always work my hours but different ones according to what is going on in my life. I dont ask if that is okay, I just do it. If I cannot work in the morning, I do it at night. No one has ever said anything to me about it because I do my lines. According to what I was told when I tested there years ago, I received the same test score, came in with 10 years experience in acute care and have more than 5 different accounts now ALL acute care, including some of the most difficult accounts. Yet after years of working with Transcend I still do not make what you do. As far as not working your regular schedule but just fitting it in according to what is going on in your life, how is that dependable? Our work group has been instructed not do to this not only by our A.M., but also by Larry because then you are stealing lines from people who are scheduled to work the ones you fit in around your lifestyle and it makes it harder for production to know how to schedule coverage. Yet, you say no one has ever said anything to you about it. This is exactly what was meant by preferential treatment.
This is why I don't totally agree with your post. I am not so unhappy that I am going to quit, but yet it really isn't fair to totally dismiss concerns of people like me just because you are having a different experience with the company than others.
Disillusioned....Sue's description sounds like the company you just left
except for the rental fee, which they JUST changed recently, and even then it was higher than the one Sue quoted. I still say you got a much better deal with Amphion.
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