I don't bash, but I tell the truth and often it isn't

good.  I don't work for KS, never have and have absolutely no desire to ever work for them, but I have worked for one really bad company.   I have 18 years' experience and was the QA manager so I have skills and I'm very good at what I do, but the company was horrible and told all kind of lies to entice me to work for them.  I don't post on here to bash the company, but if someone asks about the company I will give my honest opinion.  What about companies like XXXX or whatever they call themselves now.  They are a scam and what if when someone comes here to ask about them all that is posted are good posts (of course there would never be any).  

I personally feel that all the MTSO and management posts from KS are enough to keep me from wanting to be a part of KS. 

• Why is it that when anyone has anything good to say about a company, there are always the posts sm - KS Lead MT
  • My turn - Keystrokes MT
  • Lee has been told before..it is VERY unprofessional and raises big red flags sm - no problems here
    • Anyone could post on here and say they are from - KS or an exKS or whatever.
    • I have nothing at all to do with Keystrokes, but I would say - Carrie sm
      • Amen! - anon
  • I usually only come here when - when I am depressed about work
  • Uh....before you stop visiting here - wondering
  • I think majority of negative comments start when work is low and - 3 cents
  • negative posts - nm
    • What does the" nm" mean in your post? (no message) - Just curious
      • No idea, I did not put it in there-ray, or if I did, it was not intentional. - 3 cents
        • It means there is no more. nm - radmom
          • It also means 'no message' - nm
            • But there was a message inside, so I was confused! nm - That's what I thought it meant
  • Keep in mind that not everyone - OP Queen
    • Agree 100% - think for yourself and go with your intuitions. nm - OP Princess
    • At the risk of being rude, PLEASE can you tell me - Lupie
      • Post on Main Board now about her company. nm - early bird
      • Lupie - LOL
  • You are wasting your words on this or any site letting it bother you. The bashers will continue - sm
    • KS - 2 cents
    • I don't bash, but I tell the truth and often it isn't - me
      • The only thing I don't agree with is that the posts from management - Agree with your post
  • No company is perfect. It is not just an MT - sm
    • Never said perfect. If it were perfect, there would never be room for sm - KS Lead MT

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happening now at almost all these big companies.  They are sending our work out of the country. 

If there is anyone out there who may have the right connections (you know what I mean), please, please do what you can to help. 

others do when faced with no work.  Do you ask management for more accounts?  Do you just ride it out and hope that indeed new accounts sign on and you can make a living before the wolf gets too close to the door?  Do you go and look for another job (or 2) to supplement your income and then work like crazy when things pick up?  In a perfect world, I suppose I would have a nice little nest egg built up and could just enjoy the lull times, but unfortunately that is not the case, and I was just curious as to how others handle it.  I do not have a husband to fall back on as a secondary source of income/support, so it can get kind of scary at times.  My instinct tells me to just work another job or two.  I may not have a life, but at least I will not be on the street. 

Thanks for your input.

are happy, they are either management or causing flames.

There are a lot of good companies out there, but this is like anything else:  If you have a good experience, you are happy.  If you have a bad experience, or perceive something as a bad experience, you yell and scream and ram it down the throats of everyone around you? 

We are all entitled to our opinions, good and bad, but people that come to this board for real answers are never going to be able to find them as both the nay say'ers and the yay say'ers get out of hand.

I work for Keystrokes.  I have for a few years.  I am happy there and hate to see the bad posts, knowing that there are very few that feel that way.  There are over 200 of us that are happy and have been there for a little while.  It is disheartening to see that one of the biggest companies that really tries to do well by their employees has such bad press at times, and that the ones who do the bad-mouthing either:

1) Have not been there in a long time.

2)  Were not hired.

3)  Were let go.

Yes, they hire often, but they need to advertise, recruit and hire to staff new accounts or they would not be able to get and keep the account.  Yes, people leave companies and move to others.  This industry in general seems to see a lot of job movement, in house and with services.  Yes, they had a recent change in management of ONE PERSON ONLY, the one who did the hiring, but companies go through changes all the time, in and out of healthcare.  WHO CARES?  They tried to make it better by sending out an email to all resumes in that person's office.  I saw the email as someone from another company received it, knew I work for KS, and wanted to know if I am happy there.  I thought the email was good.  They had a lot of calls to make, and those calls do not last for 30 seconds.  I talked to the owner when I was hired and we talked for 45 minutes as I had a lot of questions.  Yes, they said that they would make the calls in a few days but obviously it took longer than they expected.  Again, WHO CARES?  If they were say they were going  to call you and did not, maybe they ran out of time or maybe they JUST WERE NOT THAT INTO YOU.  Just because you put in a resume, it does not mean that they are going to hire you.  Maybe a lot of applicants were excited and called them or kept emailing asking for a call, but there are only so many hours in a day.  There are a lot of maybe's and a lot of things that you have no control over, and a lot of things that they have no control over.

It could be that you are the best Transcriptionist in the world, and they lost out.

It could be that the positions were filled by the time that they got to you in the pile.  It happens.  So many people want 1st shift, Mon through Fri, no ESL, no equipment, no this, no that, specific this, specific that.  There is not an endless supply of every type of account, every shift. 

The big question here is:  Why do you care so much that felt it necessary to come to a public board and bash a company that you know nothing about?  How about we stick to bashing those with no work, that send the work to India, who do not pay their employees, who offer 3cpl, who have ugly QA, who cheat on line counts?  THOSE are the companies that DESERVE to be bashed. 

You might ask why I am taking the time to write this.  It's simple.  I feel that the hateful people bring out the worst in all of us, and that poison spreads.  Yes, I feel passionately about this, but it is only because I do not think it is fair to bash a company that you do not work for.  They should thank their Lucky Stars that they did NOT get to some of the calls for the truly spiteful people out there, because a few months down the line, they would be here screaming about something else.  Now he or she can move on to the next company that they want to try to bash.  You don't hurt the companies when you do this, as they are not here, but you do insult those of us that like working for Keystrokes or whatever company is the flavor-of-the-month to be bashed.

Many good and bad things can be said about this company.  I am currently with them, going on my 5th year. 

First the downside.  They do outsource offshore, no secret, says so on their website.  Hospitals can choose either U.S. or if unwilling to pay that higher rate can opt for the offshore services at a reduced rate.  The reason they do this is at the request of the HOSPITAL, and to stay competitive with other vendors.

They have had some dishonest supervisors in the past that allowed cherrypicking to occur, now if you get caught doing so, you can be written up and terminated, it is NOT tolerated anymore and those who get caught do get reprimanded (I am on a team who has had several cherrypickers and the whole group got the nasty emails so everyone would know it was going on and that they better not do it because it hurt the whole group).

They do have clients that are soley re-record and overflow.  But, they also have full service accounts that are not re-record.  The sound quality on both is superb, only a slight difference on re-record, but not enough to complain about. 

Their pay is fair and if you are as good as an MT as everyone claims to be, you can make really good money with them.  The faster you type and more accurate you are the more you make, plain and simple.  If you know your terminology and don't have to waste time looking up things, no reason to not meet and exceed your required line counts and get that incentive.  Also, have heard that they are now paying extra incentive for 2nd and 3rd shift to get people to work those shifts - not something that used to happen.

Overall, I would suggest this company to anyone that is a quality MT, if you don't want to work hard, don't waste your time because that is how you make money in this field.  I'm not a cheerleader for the company and there may be other companies out there that are better, but to each his/her own.  No company is a perfect fit for every MT, this just happens to be mine for the time being.  You have nothing at all to lose by applying and trying them out for awhile other than a learning experience for yourself.  Who knows, they might be a perfect match for your needs.

I really don't care whether MQ finds out I am posting comments or not.  What are they going to do?  Fire me before I can quit?  Blackball me so I can't get another MT job anywhere? 

Also, I sincerely doubt that with the reduced staff MQ has, they have enough people to sit around and monitor/read our postings here. 

Awhile ago they were having some big brujaja and taking up huge amounts of space on this forum, pushing everything else out. We asked the mod to give them their own board, and she did. Thanks...

Spheris is an okay company. I have nothing bad to say about them. I left for personal reasons. Never tried the #1 squid, but I had worked for a number of companies they ate up.