I don't blame you. We have personal information on those resumes, addresses, phone, etc. (sm)
Posted By: Other Sherry on 2009-08-05
In Reply to: e-mail - Sherry
and any fool can access those.
Hopefully they learned their lesson on this and will not post anymore resumes like that.
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Just this month alone, I have turned in the addresses & phone numbers (sm)
of two different British scammers to Yahoo, who were trying to get me to send them money.
And in December it was the South Africans. Got a bunch more from India and Singapore last fall.
Well, I never heard back from them, even after I sent tons of e-mail and personal phone calls
 And, I am sure I nearly aced the test. Very simple.
DO NOT POST PERSONAL INFORMATION. (SM)
If you cannot follow the policy of no e-mail addresses, names, or phone numbers, you will be banned.
A Reply By E-Mail service is available when you want to provide an avenue of contact.
Posting personal information
invites identity theft. It also shows the poster to be extremely naive. I would want to hire someone with a bit more business savvy.
Names and personal information not allowed (SM)
Everyone appreciates finding information on this board about companies. Whether it's good or bad, it is always appreciated. However, it is policy that people's names and personal contact information is not allowed, and those will be deleted. Feel free to name the company and gripe/praise as you see fit, but please do not post specific names from these companies. Thank you.
Are you serious? Would you like my personal information to check to see if I am lying???
Give me a break...I happen to like working at Keystrokes and if someone asks a question about them I will answer as best as I can...
are you serious? This board is for MTs to get information about companies from personal experience.
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Does anyone have any personal information about Silent Type, Inc out of New Jersey, or
Van Belkum out of Michigan? I posted on w/e, when not many on the board. Will try again. Thank you.
Sounds like a scam...I hope no one is giving personal information...nm
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I would be worried about identiy theft, getting all your personal information, then that weird stuff
then all that wierd stuff.
addresses
I also have to search rosters for docs and addresses and do not get paid for it. I have a list. I have thought about it many times. I guess it is part of the job but it would be nice if we could just type. I do get paid for all templates.
addresses
I forgot to say I do not work for MDI
About email addresses...
I like to see if someone has a personality and I enjoy the cutesy email addy's to brighten my day and try to figure out what some stand for. I, too, am a recruiter and yes QUITE A BIT MORE LAID BACK! I hire based on qualifications on the resume not whether the email address is cutesy or not. I should hope all recruiters do. Sometimes you need a little chuckle during the day and not all business!! I feel those recruiters who are like that are sooo boring. I have had a lot of luck with the people have hired and they enjoy speaking to me because I am not UPTIGHT!!
True. Another way is to log IP addresses.
These companies know your IP address when you are working and they can log those addresses when you log into webinars, online courses, meetings, etc.
I cannot say that I blame them, though. There are ways you want to verify who is really in attendance in this virtual world.
It is foolish for anyone to think that you can completely hide from your employer.
Yes, but they don't know posters email addresses. The only way
they would know is if the poster replied back to them.
I say have the administrator check the IP addresses
That's the only way to know for sure!! Can you do that, administrator??
are you adding your names/addresses into
your abbreviation file so you don't have to look up the same name/address twice? That is what I do. With an MD with multiple locations, I will name it something like SmithDown for Dr. Smith, Downtown or JonesLake for Dr. Jones at Lake Forest. You would still have to cut and paste some in the cc field or you might ask operations if there is a way to build a spreadsheet document and add to it as you come across new names/addresses.
Help! I lost all my TT email addresses (sm)
because I had to get a new computer.
Can anybody send me a list BY EMAIL PLEASE for all the group 3 emails? 
Is this doc lists and addresses or MT-specific stuff? nm
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They definitely had a F BBB rating within this year but I see now that they changed addresses.
I cant imagine why they would want to change addresses, maybe hoping that they would look like a new and different company to the BBB and others. Same stuff different day.
And how many addresses & names you look at, your kids, lawnmower noise, etc. nm
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Worked on C-phone for 10 years with 1 phone line
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Wonderful company, but you type letters and look up addresses and you do not get paid for spaces nm
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C-phone - I purchased a c-phone from someone in Oklahoma but never got it. *sm*
First she told me her grandmother died. Then she told me she mailed it. Then she told me her daughter was having chemotherapy. Call me naive, but I thought she was sincere and cannot imagine anyone using their daughter as an excuse. If this is the same person from Oklahoma, I sure would like to know about it because now I want my money back.
Don't blame you.
This career is nothing special. I have been treated as badly as in any career I've had. Doesn't matter how hard you work or how much smoochin ya do, you get burned every way you turn.
My opinion of this industry has changed drastically in the last year. It sux.
I used to come to this board and wonder why people were angry and bitter and negative. It didn't take me long to figure it out.
Companies think we are so desperate to sit at home in our little prison cells we call offices that we will put up with anything.
There's a few good places out there, but they continue to dwindle. I'm glad I happened into this line of work when I did. With just around five years, I'm not too stuck to get out. I got a nice job outside the house that's easy and fun and pays well, and this is just a hobby anymore. If I hadn't paid so much for my education, I'd find a new hobby.
I would be more apt to blame
your employer for this and not UPS .. all things are traceable through their system and when they tell you overnight .. they mean it .. unless this week you live in Denver. I would talk to the FutureNet people. UPS cares about their reputation.
Can't say that I blame you! nm
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they need to look at mgt & not blame the MTs
It is mgt/team leads that is telling MTs not to record extra hours for OT if they work extra. That is not the MTs fault!!! Don't be nasty to the MTs who are the bread and butter of your company or everybody will quit!
I don't blame you one bit but....
There is an unrest afoot that is probably going to impact the people who pay us peanuts for our valuable talent. I am an MTSO and still have lots of work but I am not fooling myself that it will get worse before it gets better. In the 1970s we all got fed up with the low pay and walked off the job. Then the powers that be realized that they must pay us more. It got better for a long time but now we are up against India, VR and EMR. All those things are proving to not be what they are cracked up to be and it is just a matter of time before they realize again they they must pay us for our valuable expertise. So if you still want to get out, may I suggest real estate? If you rae smart enough to to MT, then you are smart enough to do RE. Anyway, just my $.02 worth.
I cannot blame the ones who have
had bad experiences with MQ, everyone is different with different needs, but this is exactly why I came back to MQ. I tried others over the years and have had the same experience you mention here. I need to work full time to support my family and so far MQ has been the only company that can provide me with consistent work, unfamiliar or familiar accounts - it is all money to me. 
I don't blame you at all...sm
Let me know how it goes and if you get your own accounts.
Everybody else to blame
You chose where to put your money. Yes,it's easier to blame everybody else. Go ahead a be a victim if you want, but it doesn't have to be that way. If you keep blaming everyone else for your problems,don't expect your situation to get any better.
Half the problem with our economy now is the victim mentality and everybody wanting someone else to take care of them and tell them what to do, and then when things go wrong, throwing blame at everyone and refusing to take any responsibility for their own actions.
I don't blame you one bit...
for getting out if they cut your pay for editing yet they get the paid the same as text. I think it's awful, and more MTs should not be putting up with that. I'm just saying for myself, where I am right now, I enjoy my job, make good money, great boss, and flexible hours.
Hey I don't blame you
not in the least little bit.
It's rough out there and to be frank, after 10 yrs of this work it seems it's gotten to be kind've the same all over. Just a small recommendation though, keep looking for other jobs as well. I don't mean quit Oracle, just another part-time job in addition. It's good to have a safety net.
Good Luck and I hope it works out for ya !
I don't blame her one bit. She will sm
find another job probably better than the one she had. Family still comes first and these companies an scr## themselves!
But really, can we blame her? If any of us
do the same thing. I worked for MDI. I loved MDI. I have always known D to be someone of yes, integrity. I don't believe her integrity flew out the window. There is surely a lot we don't know. And of course, D would not have been at liberty to discuss the coming merger before it happened.
D is a businesswoman. The purpose of a business is to generate income. She ran her company with honesty and integrity. I can't say I wasn't suprised, shocked even, at what has happened. But I have known D since the early 90s and I know she is a good person and truly cares about people. I don't know how to reconcile that with what has happened other than to think there is more to the story than we know and that it is the decision that D needed to make at this time for whatever reason, whether it be to ensure a secure retirement, whether it was because she was no longer able to compete with offshoring and VR - and I think this may be part of it because she had told me at one time that facilities were wanting to pay for transcription in light of VR and offshoring and their ability to get it for less elsewhere, or whether she was just tired and ready to not be the one at the helm any longer.
Whatever the reasons, I choose to believe that D is still the person of integrity I have always known her to be. I just accept that there must be more to the story than I know.
I wish the best to D and to all MDIers. I feel like an era has come to a close and it will never be the same again. But I feel lucky to have been a part of Signal and MDI and to have known D.
blame on the advertisements
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Hee, Hee - see all the stingy MTs - don't blame you either. nm
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Please, do not blame Dictaphone,
they are only doing what company says to do, they state that. The problem is, you don't know what the company tells them to put it at, unless Dictaphone does not know how to do this. I have found the most honest accounting is when you can go into sessions and it shows you the number of reports you have done and the line count. it is hard to manipulate line counts when you can double check them. You cannot do this when you have to go to the Dictaphone web site to get a conglomeration of line counts with nothing broken down. No single numbers, just the total line counts. Thus, if you lose 2-3 dictations in a day, no wonder you line count is down - your company gets the lines but YOU don't, not if the reports are dropped.
Don't blame you for wanting out. All
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temporarily down and no one to blame
crap happens
ExText is not to blame .. the
clients determine the lines and how they are counted. ExText merely follows the commands of the person inputting the data as it is hardware that needs to be set by a person! Your company or hospital should, however, disclose how they are paying you and you certainly should ask for that information and get an answer or then I would certainly be wary.
Don't blame you for leaving
I worked for Focus for almost 5 yrs but with new management - aka Nuance - no thanks - income dropped, accounts lost, no job security and I was losing $500 a month compared to when Focus ran the show!! You did great for leaving!!!
I blame the schools also.
Work at home, big money, easy job. Yeah, right. Just like stuffing envelopes.
Blame it on the Indians! LOL ! Like everything else! LOL..nm
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VR companies to blame
I had the same experience. My MTSO did not initiate the VR. They claimed they would not be making any profit. The hospital bought the VR platform on the promises of how great it was, how much money it would save them. In a conference call about it, my MTSO said they were making no profit. I am not sure I buy that. But then they said something interesting, and I am not sure if I understood it correctly. They said the VR company gets a percentage of the line rate for the hospital using the platform. That shocked me. So, the hospital is saving money, the VR company is making money, the MTSO is making money, and not much left for the MT. I could have understood this wrong, but that was my take on it.
Sure, blame the reader for your
You do realize it is neither your responsibility nor within your power to 'make' any other MT behave as you desire?
I understand why so many posters do this, though: It deflects the frightening possibility that low wages, downsizing, lost benefits, etc., could ever happen to them onto those to whom it has already happened. It's a denial/distancing/coping mechanism. Totally get that.
But it's still obnoxious and unhelpful for others to read. No one asked for the nagging, ma.
Further, I would gently suggest you look up 'victim' in the dictionary. You may note that victimization requires two parties. Insisting only one of them bear any responsibility for the circumstances is like insisting your kid make the seesaw go up and down when he's the only one on it.
Hope that helps! If I've inspired only one MT to surf on before posting another sanctimonious lecture, my work here is done! I will prove that my work here is done by returning to the thread continually to insist that I am right and everyone else is just wallowing in victimhood/poor reading comprehension! Then I will ice the cake by blaming the whole contretemps on their bad childhoods.
Sorry, but I've got nothing but eyeroll for your input at this point.
Yep, blame the MT for no work!
Same situation at both companies - I came, I worked, I made money, the work disappeared, I went broke, I moved on.
Sure, its MY fault that work dries up after a year or so at each job I get. I spread the curse of no work everywhere, and soon I may be getting a job at your company - so beware! Your work will disappear in the next year or so!
I don't have a second phone line ... cable modem for the internet, regular line for my C-phone.
If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.
And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert. Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling. :-)
Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)
Do not blame the MTs for company mistakes
I just received an email from my MT supervisor stating that she wanted to let us know that we just lost 3 worktypes on a major account because we were not transcribing, editing and delivering to the client within our contracted turn around time. She said she was sharing this information in hopes that we will realize how important it is for us to work our shifts,etc.
All of us working on this specific account are ICs. What has been happening is they want to treat us like employees. We get demanding emails to work and tons of how to do lists. No one at this company are employees,yet they want us to work like employees. When are companies going to realize that if you want someone to work a set shift and answer and read daily emails, then they should make us employees. This particular company send out daily long emails and only pay 5 cpl to edit acute care accounts with no benefits on escription. As an IC I never put all my eggs in one basket and especially not for 5 cpl. I do not feel the MTs should be blamed for losing these work types. I feel the company should take responsibility for this.
If the MTs are not meeting TAT or their said upon line count, then management should have let them go. However, I personally am required to meet 2,500 per pay and that is exactly what I do and no more at these rates and especially not for this company who make demands on us like we are partners in the company. I feel companies try to get off cheap by hiring ICs, but then try to hold you down to a schedule and treat you like an employee when you are not. This loss of work is the companies fault. Any opinions. Thanks
MTSOs have only themselves to blame for their plight.
They were so quick to jump on the bandwagon and train the indians, etc., to do work cheaply and now that they are trained, they are taking their work away. They will not wake up until they find that their nice little management jobs are just as easy to outsource as are the MT jobs.
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