I don't get why you won't say the name. You sound like a 6th grader with a secret club. nm
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In Reply to: Bingo. I cannot contact 130 people individually - Editors needed
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7th grader.
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Yes but as a grader.
Most MTs really do not recognize errors they produce sometimes. I was surprised when I started grading, thinking that the instructions given to the testers were wrong or incomplete or something. I asked to see the instructions given to them and listened to the dictations myself. Sure enough, the testers really did miss those items. When I would tell testers their scores, I was called all kinds of names, accused of lying and cheating them out of a job, etc. The truth was that they were making errors they didn't even realize they were making.
What are you, a first grader? Why don't you talk to your STM rather than sm
posting in an anonymous forum? You will get yours?? BWAHAHAHA. Lord, you guys crack me up.
Welcome to the club...
Sorry, I don't know too much about this company except that most people fail their test - don't know of anyone who passed it actually. I also failed their test. I know of only one MT who works for them who posts on this board - and she does well. I think you have to buy like $1100 work of equipment as well.
Welcome to the club....
We're all being screwed by VR.
Well welcome to the club. Not the first time this has
All you saying your time will come are barking up the wrong tree here. Our time HAS come and passed, and most of us are the ones on this board who've been MTs for over a decade or two and making 8 frickin' cents a line now BECAUSE the same thing has happened to US in the past - either the companies we were with had sold out like yours just did OR just taking a hit from VR and/or offshoring.
Were YOU ever sympathetic to the random posters who would come on here and whine and complain about all that happened to them separately as individuals? I hope so because all the MDI'ers as a WHOLE are mow going through the same thing (and taking over this Company Board) ---- You can't deny that you've been given a sympathetic ear and support from many of the members here for days and days now, but the board has been monopolized by this situation while there are STILL other MTs out of work or looking for more work who come to this COMPANY board to get info to FIND WORK for themselves.
A board especially for MDI/Transcend issue IS a good idea ... because it looks like a lot of you will be joining the others in looking for a new company or two yourselves.
For that reason, this board needs to resume business as usual and return to its main function - helping out of work/displaced/starving MTs get info on good companies to work for (and/or bad companies to avoid).
JMHO
American Kennel Club???
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Does OSI still have a weight loss club?
But MT is JOB, not home, not a social club. It is
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He-Man Woman Hater's Club?
ah, old joke.
Yeah, I would hate to see those people in a comedy club.
Some people have no sense of humor. It's alright, though, more jokes for us, ay? :)
Join the club, I quit a few weeks ago. Good luck...nm
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Top Secret hon.......nm
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Top secret
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What's the secret? Well...
As you can tell, I don't come to this website often. What a spaz some people seem to be having about those MTs who can manage to make a decent wage. (And by decent I mean over $25/hour.)
I'm not going to tell you who I work for for one very obvious reason. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY. Not everyone who works at my company makes what I do. Some make more. Some make less.
Are you assuming that if you work at my company you'd be bumped to the seventy-dollar-an-hour lane? Don't you think I worked my a@@ off to reach that level?
I spent 18 months in a college program (graduated early because as a single mother I don't have time to waste).
Then I spent another year and a half working IN HOUSE at a teaching hospital.
I found and paid attention to a fantastic MENTOR.
I studied. Every day. Every word I didn't know I wrote down on a sheet and kept it by my desk.
Every phrase I typed more than once got a macro. Every word I mistyped or misspelled went into auto-correct.
I spent 10 years learning, taking jobs nobody else wanted, working hours nobody else would work. Because I knew it would pay off some day. And guess what. That 'some day' has been 'this day' for the past six years.
It shocks me to see people working for 6 cents a line. It makes me think either they don't have enough training, enough innate skill, or enough 'sit down/shut up/and type' to make it in this business.
I've mentored MTs. Some picked it up right away. They had flying fingers. They had an ear for the indecipherable. They had fortitude. And they make as much or more than I do. And guess what, natural talent trumps training any day of the week. That's life. In every single profession on the face of the planet.
Some flat out don't have the right stuff. Even my own sister couldn't make a go of it, and we shared an office and all the same reference material.
Just wanting to be an MT doesn't mean it's the right career for someone. Hell, I'd love to be a jockey but I'm 5'9 and s.o.l.
Fortunately I have an ear for this work. I knock the hell out of the competition at MadGab. (And if you're not playing MadGab you're missing a great learning tool.) I worked as a court reporter for five years, where we were expected to transcribe at the speed of speech (140 wmp) so I made myself type 140 wmp ... accurately!
There's no 'secret.' Like all good things in life, it just takes the right combination of want to and can do, and once you have that you have to find the company, the account and the platform that jives with your work style.
I don't appreciate being called a liar. Some of the posts on this board are so bitter and snipey. Let me guess. Those are the women who found an 800 number in the back of Home and Garden Magazine that said you can make 80K from home in your jammies while your babies crawl around on the floor. Get real. This is a difficult, demanding career. It's not free daycare. It's not for someone who simply doesn't want to get dressed in the morning.
I work like a mad woman for five, sometimes six hours a day. I'd rather do that than stretch the work out for an eight hour shift. When I first worked at a hospital, my supervisor asked me to please slow down as I was making the others look bad. You know what? Too effing bad. If straight out of school I was doing twice their volume, that was a reflection on THEM, not on ME.
That advice still stands. 50-70 is absolutely possible, not asbolutely amazing. I do it every day of the week. So if it makes you feel bad to see some of us doing well, too effing bad.
Peace out.
not a secret
It's not a secret company. if anyone is interested, i am more than happy to talk with them directly if they want to send an email request.
Your post is just one reason that justifies why I am not just posting any and all information on this board directly.
No secret, I think .....sm
it was just a talent given to me. I was typing 65 wpm in high school, the second week of class. Then, I went on to transcription while I was a Junior in high school, and just picked it up quickly. Typing has always been my thing. I absolutely love to type and having ear phones on and blocking out everyone else when I feel like it is even better!!!
It is my peace!!
One secret to VR here is
I have worked for the same hospital now for over 15 years. Sure we have a lot of ESLs like never before but I know so many that to edit is like sitting here running the pedal and eating chocolate covered cherries (well almost). I set my pedal at the fastest I can and read just as fast as my eyes will let me.
Just ask your STM - it's not a big secret, as far sm
as I can tell.
Why is everything such a secret at MDI-FL? Just heard
thru the grapevine that Jason, the new general manager was no longer there and Liz is in charge now. What a way to find things out. Can't the team leaders notify the MLS of major changes?
Ditto! MDI-MD! Best-kept secret. sm
Best pay, no hassles, paid on time, best WAV platform around, easy to get lines.
You are so right its their dirty little secret
They have always skirted the law. I know alot of MT's who worked 6 and sometimes 7 days a week and not a penny extra. One coordinator told me to add my weekend lines to my lines from during the week but not record my hours I work extra and team lead said it is all about the lines anyways. They call you on the weekends to work and it looks like they would pay more for weekends but they don't they just want you to work on your day off on the weekend but not even pay a shift differental much less overtime. Never looked back so glad I am gone. Never again. They do not appreciate their MT's at all. They don't care about anybody except their own pockets.
secret message
Those voices in your head? They are saying take your meds. . . .
Insider secret at OSI but everyone knows
The top QA people have horrible grammar and spelling skills and they have been promoted to management because they did so poorly in the MT pool and because they knew all the right people for a promotion. This is a well-known fact. The QA pay is very low but this kept them from losing their jobs.
Did you read The Secret?
According to The Secret, this is the key to success and happiness in life. What we think about gets stronger and comes back to us in like form. Something like that. The book's author is Byrne.
What is Diskriter's secret?
I see that they advertise nonstop. I know MTs are not leaving at that fast. Therefore, they are going leaps and bounds and out bidding the competition. Is this a great place to work?
Thanks
I really hope that THE SECRET
and any other new-age sew-age myths of its ilk will pay your mortage when you run out of work. We will see what we will see. I see too many people running out of work.
What's the big secret? Just change the tests more
often. There is plenty of dictation to change the tests frequently. You must work for Keystrokes. That's the company they are talking about. I just wanted to know what I did wrong so in the future I can be more careful. Even in school you get corrected papers.
Here's the secret to retiring early --
Not taking SSI and Spheris (of course) doesn't have retirement pay.
What I did was work my behind off for 20 years, invested wisely, and will be retiring at 46. In a custom-built home sitting on 78 acres in a ski community. So, heck yeah, with that carrot in front of me I can put up with a dog of a job for seven more months. I encourage everyone on this board to work towards a GOAL, and not just slave away paycheck to paycheck.
Of course, I started in the heydey when a good MT brought home 60K without breaking a sweat, and I've refused to work for less over the years. Wouldn't have been possible if I'd settled for the paltry sum the companies are pawning off of newbies now adays.
I wish you as much success and looming happiness!!
Spheris doesn't keep it a secret. Quite
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It's never been a secret that Transcend outsources.
They are very proud of their overseas partners as they call them. The only reason the work is more steady and not all going there is that a lot of their hospital contracts state that they cannot outsource their work. So I applaud those hospitals because without them taking a stand, we'd be having no work..again. I remember waking up in the morning and finding there is no work and this is because the Indians are opposite us. When it's night for them it is day for us. So technically while we slept, they worked and when we got up, there was nothing left. It still happens on occasions but we have gotten a few new accounts so that helps. Also, whenever they ran out of work, people would quit and that would leave more work for whoever was left. It's just the nature of the business I guess. I've gone elsewhere.
Are you sure the sound quality was the platform and not your sound card? Also, I don't know of ma
services that pay "down time" if the platform is inoperational. ALL software has its share of problems. It's the nature of the business. When you were hired, did you sign a contract accepting the terms regarding PTO? If so, what could you possibly complain about since you did, afterall, sign the agreement? Did you have a good relationship with your QA Editor/Team Leader that you could ask questions about account specifics?
My understanding of the VR is that it has been in development for a number of years not to be released until the fine tuning was complete. It would seem to me, and I am in no way affiliated with Transcend, that provided that VR is good then earning a line rate as an Editor would be beneficial, if that's how Transcend is planning to compensate.
All in all, I would say that if anyone is interested in working for Transcend or any service for that matter, make sure to ask the services Recruiter specific questions. If what you're hearing sounds good and makes sense, go for it. If what your'e hearing is not all that you thought it would be, move on. However, you MUST take what you read on forums boards with a grain of salt. While some posts regarding various services may be legitimate, others may not be.
Good Luck!
MT Manners 
If I do that, the secret cameras will know I've searched for it! nm
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Can you elaborate or is that top secret too. Do people really get incentives and bonuses there??
VSM....hum...I like the sound of that. mm
Reminds me of the zoom zoom zoom commercial.....VSM.......when I am feeling cranky I will put VSM on my messages and confuse everyone! Can't help it. I have been feeling like a stinker lately and need some goofy fun!
Maybe I will write a book with all the possibilities such as the ones you created and make it a 'must have' for everyone using these boards if they want the codes to it all! I could be rich!!! Hah! A writer/creator/inventor of gibber gabber! Can I have the rights to yours?
You sound like
the perfect whack job they're looking for!
You sound
just like the owner herself. Just maybe this owner is everything everyone has made her out to be.
You sound like you are right...
Have you found another job? I am in the same boat...thinking about switching. I have MANY years experience and QA has been on to me like you would not believe! I leave an occasional blank but our QA team is rude and I think they get a thrill out of turning things over to our supervisor. Kinda childish the way they act!
I would love to find a place that takes years and years of experience into consideration with the pay. And would love to find a place that offers some types of benefits...But most of all I would love to find a place that is respectful to their employees and know that the Transcriptionist is REALLY a VITAL part of their success....Is that too much to ask?
Wow...they sound like they are the best
They sound like a dream company! Now I REALLY can't wait to start. I am so fed up with my current company (SPI), so I decided to go with Keystrokes as everything I have read on here has been so great. They even let me choose my own shift and hours! The big selling point for me was that they do not offshore at all!
That does not really sound so bad
Some days, I get nothing but VR with zero standard transcription. So long as the MT world is going in the VR direction, you might as well jump in and get your feet wet and give it a shot. Once you get used to it, it is really not that bad. Of course, this is just my opinion. Good luck to you in whatever you decide.
You sound just like...
Redpen.
How is the sound on DQS? sm.
A former employer used DQS and I did not stay with them long. The sound was really bad and it just wasn't worth it to keep the job. I thought it was the company as I've heard complaints about the company and their sound quality before. Now, doing a search on DocQScribe I am seeing other complaints about sound quality, but no other companies mentioned. Now I am wondering if it is the DQS platform or the account I was on. So, for those of you who work on DQS, is the whole platform horrible with audio or is it on an account basis?
It does sound like you are better off
staying with your current company. I just really feel for those who are very experienced and depend upon MT full-time to pay the bills. I've done MT for 22+ years and like you and other seasoned MTs, have progressively watched my pay go down to the point where I had no choice but to get out of the industry.
With the economy the way it is, I could use the extra income from a PT MT job and also want to keep my skills up (though I really don't know why at 6-7 cpl - lol).
does not sound right either hmm
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You sound just like me :(
I cried all last week because I was just so frustrated. You feel helpless. I don't even know what to do about it. I don't want to find another job because I like my co-workers, and I like the company as a whole, but their expectations are making it a real tough place to work otherwise. I wish I could give you some suggestions, but I don't know what to do either.
I hope things get better for you.
You sound
You sound like someone jealous of this person's transcription capabilities. Who are you to judge if she was worth her pay or not. AT certainly felt she was or else they would not have given her hourly so long as she states. With judgemental, mean people like you working for that company, I know I certainly never would even consider applying there! Good luck Leary and hope you find a pleasant workplace.
And you sound like...
The most selfish, heartless, hateful person I have witnessed in a long time. Shame on you! 
THAT MQ office does sound bad!
Keep in mind, they are not all the same. In 7 years of working for them, I've never had an experience remotely like that. My immediate supervisor will respond to my emails within the hour and my regional manager will respond at least the same day, usually within a couple of hours. I have never not received a pay check on time. I don't doubt she is telling the truth, but she got a bad apple. Doesn't mean they're all that way!
OMG. Did you really sound that out loud? nm
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This may sound stupid but..
when a company asks for basic 4 knowledge, what do they mean?
You sound wonderful
Or at least give me a chance to test with you?
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