I hear SPI docks for 3 hours if you miss a date of service.
Posted By: No way on 2007-06-06
In Reply to: Would you work for a company that docked for errors? - memt
glad I got out when I did.
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Don't you miss the correspondance though. I rarely hear
from them either, but it would be nice to have some contact from them even if just a how are things going. It isn't just them, I have found most companies are like that. After the first week or so and there are no issues with your work you just don't hear from them.
Ever hear of Donnas Transcription Service
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It JUST might take more than 24 hours to hear..
They are a decent company and just because someone has not heard back immediately doesn't mean anything. When was the last time you interviewed for a different type of work? It could take a while but I guess we like things fast when we work online at the speed of light.
I say give them a chance to review the tests.
SPI docks for that? Wow...glad I quit
I had no idea that they docked for missing days. I quit that place about 4 months ago, and I'm glad of it! They dontevenpayforspaces.
Anyone that applied with Kathy Kirby hear anything yet? I am wondering how long it takes to hear a
response back
Sorry, I work 15 hours a day 5 days a week and 5 hours the other 2, when I come here I dont proof.
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Why would they give you a choice of 16 or 24 hours. Usually part time is anything under 37 hours.
That is extremely odd. Well they must have something up their sleeves. Well I will be working elsewhere part time as well as with MQ as I have no intention of sitting 40 hours with no work from Amherst and be expected to have 150 lph with no work. What is all this window of work time they said they would be giving everyone. I figured all along they would do away with SE. I have already been looking around and ordered a new computer to send theirs back.
Any companies that allow line count rather than hours or less than 20 hours per week? (sm)
Wouldn't mind having something extra especially with Christmas and general winter expenses coming up but working a FT job and really don't want to do another 20 hours on top of that.
the day has 24 hours, I work only 6-8 hours, so, lots of time to post...nm
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Must we choose either 8, 16 or 24 hours. Why would they want someone only working 8 hours a week.
That is less than SE are required now.
MDI-FL. Approximately 7 hours a month x12 months =84 hours
And your PTO acrues from day 1. You are just unable to utilize it until after 90 days. They have excellent benefits.
You can have insurance at 30 hours with Encompass, 32 hours with eTransPlus. nm
Ah, ya big lug. Ya know ya miss us...
miss yog
I was with them for 10 years. Ah, the good old days...LOL...
what and miss all this fun!!
What i think is happening here is another company is assaulting KS. I don't think these posters, most of them anyway, ever worked for KS. I think its the same company who did a lot of recruiting on this board saying they were MTs and what a great company they were. Quite a few of us fell into that sandtrap and if we all hadn't been threatened I am sure there would be more telling their story here, (come on ladies you know who Im talking about). Well turns out they weren't a great company. It comes down to about 3 posters and maybe a couple of crazies out there who have nothing else to do. So my advice ignore all of it and see if this company doesn't show back up here trying to recruit, Ive already seen mention of them a couple of times in all of this, look carefully.
I so miss YOG
Those were truly the glory days. I could so easily make $1000 a week working for Carole. She was a little nuts, but so am I, so we got along great. It wasn't that hard to stay on her good side. She really appreciated good transcriptionists -- then she hung us out to dry and sold out to MQ. So sad, those were my best days.
did I miss something?
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well here's one for you miss know it all
YOU STATE: And, as far as I know, poster's here cannot request to have their thread closed. Again, another ASSUMPTION on your part.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THE GOURDPAINTER ASKED THE THREAD BE CLOSED BECAUSE THE MODERATOR E-MAILED ME ABOUT A POST I MADE IN THAT THREAD STATING THE OP REQUESTED THE THREAD BE CLOSED.
So, you don't know it all, now do you, miss copy and paste... so next time state the facts!
not much work anyway - they probably would not miss
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Is this Miss Preachy?????
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Boy do I miss Philly.
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miss you if you were absent.
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I miss my coordinator...
Dear Little Miss Red Pen
You responded to my post saying I would think you weren't very bright at all…That's quite some judgment to make - that someone is not very bright - based on maybe 15 or 20 words they have written - this board is full of people who engage in that kind of judgmental baseness..and it says a whole lot about who they are…
Maybe I can explain myself a little more clearly so even someone like you can understand..
I used 2 forms of the word life one with a small L and the second with a capital L - I can see you didn't notice the nuance but it is the kind of literary gradation many of the intelligent posters on this board often employ..
When I spoke of going through life - with a small L - I was as obvious talking about people who breathe - take up space - in this case - are mediocre - controlling - anal retentive - who don't have the capacity to engage in ideas so resort to red penciling everyone in life they disagree with - it's a particular ugliness people with unhappy lives and small minds are prone to..
I then urged you to get a life with a capital L - meaning disabuse yourself of the notion that other humans are here for you to correct and put down and make judgments about - in your case misjudgments. The life little L big L
or hope little H big H or any number of variations is a simple basic literary device introduced to most college freshmen in writing 101 class, maybe you were absent that day..
I too find it hard to believe there is an MT with 100% consistently for 5 years, but still I can at least envision how that could be - same account easy account good dictators thorough familiarity with the account…and maybe even a QA staff that had a good sense of priority as to what was important and not - after 11 years it could definitely be possible - but there was no such possibility in your mind - just slam and hammer and get out the trusty old red pencil…why didn't you ask her a few questions before you hammered her? I am not making a judgment but something tells me you might not be a very nice person…I have edited and managed in this profession and know how to get outstanding performances from MTs and others that they never thought they could achieve, maybe she was lucky enough to get one of those editors, ever think about that?
But as for my post, you don't know me or my QA scores or years of experience or education or anything and based on a 20 word post you judged me to be not too bright…or - judged me to be another one - a perfect MT I think you termed it. I don't in any way consider myself a perfect MT, have gotten quite a few 100% QAs, and probably will again, and have gotten lots that weren't 100% - but there was nothing in my post about any of that…you just made your holier than thou judgments about me because I factually pointed out how you had red penned someone's post rather than engage them…Maybe if you were a little more refined, educated sophisticated you would have picked up the nuance of my post, understood the subtlety I had put there - and considered it - instead of taking your red pen to it…
Again I urge you..
GET A LIFE!!!
PS You made a few grammatical errors in your post…better get out the red pen.
Ah, but you miss my meaning.
If she does not know that a lot is two separate words, I can only imagine the other kinds of errors that she makes. That is so very basic. I am not jealous of someone who does not know that a lot is two separate words. I am not QA and I don't work for TT and I am not policing anything. I am just really, really tired of the seeing ALOT and other inexcusable errors from people as they are bragging about their awesome quality-oriented companies that hired them. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is tired of it.
You still miss the point...
the poster said it would be one SMALL report for 2-3 months...it did not say 4-40 page report, but ONE SMALL report per day. My point is who wants to do one SMALL report per day for months before finally getting the big stuff, if at all!!!!!???
Miss Webster
Fast should not be your focus if you want to inrease productivity. How much anatomy do you know? Pharmacology? How much real scientific background do you have? Speed is only incidental. Yes, I keyboard very rapidly, but what helps me is education, not speed. Focus on building a proper knowledge base and the rest will come, it really will.
Miss Piggy
I look at ESLs as my job security. I am on a high (90%) ESL account that apparently nobody else seems to like. Goody for me. There is work any time of the day or night I want to sign on. ESLs are not so bad--once you get the hang of it, they are not any worse (and sometimes better) than the good old US of A mushmouths who are too lazy to move their lips.
I miss the days of
Word and FTP - simple and fast. All they've managed to throughout the years is slow us down, complicate our job, and cut our pay.
I think the weird platforms started so the suits and supervisors could track things easier, and they just don't care how much slower/more difficult it is for MTs.
You miss the point
SOME doctors really have come to realize what a valuable asset their medical transcriptionists really were. A compliment, I feel, is always nice whether or not it does any good. I, for one, generally appreciate someone saying something nice.
As for change, why my grandmother would be turning in her grave probably about now at the changes in the world. She was born in 1880 and passed in 1961. She moved from Tennessee to Arkansas in a covered wagon. Can you imagine? As for me, I've seen plenty of change. I did my first MTing on a manual typewriter. That is where you had to use a lever to return the carriage at the end of every sentence. I have transitioned pretty well through the years but I will be da**ed if I will do this highly stressful job for $10 or less average per hour and that was where it had dropped with straight typing in the last few months I worked at it. I have no doubt that in time MTs will be totally obsolete. All the female members of my family worked or are still working in MT, I trained them myself. I advised all of them to start looking for a new occupation several years ago. Did they listen? No. Two are single, of them one gave up completely and is checking in a grocery store and taking courses in photography; one is working part-time doing MT (when there is work, which she says is rare) and is working as a management trainee for a restaurant chain. Two are still doing MT but both have husbands who earn a very good income and have benefits such as medical insurance. I wouldn't recommend even to my worst enemy that they get into MT now.
Maybe I got way off topic here but I still feel passionately for those of you still doing MT and suffering for lack of work, decreasing pay and no affordable medical insurance let alone a vacation or any time off. So....if I strayed from the topic, please forgive me.
ANd you may well miss out. As evidenced by others
it most certainly can afford one a decent living. You just gotta know how to work it.
Wahhh... I miss it too.
Not one day has gone by that I don't say ''I miss the old MQ''
I loved my old account, could do 2000 lines a day, made mega money, and that abruptly stopped in 2006.
Now, (still at Q), I can barely get in 1200 lines and at the reduced ASR rate, all you long-timers know how much money I am out.
Boo-hoo. Big hugs to all my fellow TL's!!!!!
The date
Did you notice that the date on the postings shows 03/04? That's strange, too. Where I live, in the USA, it is still 03/03.
I said MAY NOT hear, didn't say you wouldn't hear. There is
a difference, and many people have said they knew they didn't do well on the tests, but still feel like they should have heard from companies and haven't.
Hope I didn't miss anyone, but if I did.....sm
they have a post on the job board.
Good luck !!
As for Miss "Misery wants company"
Maybe one day she'll choke on those sour grapes (or he, whichever the case may be). Her (or his) posts have gotten way past tiresome.
I did miss the threads on this, I'm going there now to read.
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I worked for them for year and miss them...
I know precyse pretty good, as I worked for them for years. I just decided after being there so long and was not completely satisfied that I would go elsewhere and see if I could find something better. The supervisor did manipulate, in that she would tell you it was okay to work Mon-Fri shift, but then there would not be any work during the week and tons on the weekend. Another word, you'd end up practically working every day of the week trying to get your line count in for the week. If you can work the weekends, its a wonderful place to work. PTO money goes into an account and you can withdrawal it whenever you want. It accumulates so much for every hour you work. Good affordable benefits (Aetna), life insurance, everything. Easy platform. Just that schedule thing ruined it for me. If you like weekends, I'd say do it, it's one of the best ones out there.
The voting booth? What does that mean? did I miss something?
I'm really going to miss the posters that have left! nm
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miss pitypat is right-could work...sm
The only thing I had was schooling and it was not even all transcription. I hired on as a transcription clerk first, hoping to get my foot in. After 9 months and, being the transcription department was unionized, my boss pretty much had to hire from within first so there was my chance. I was overwhelmed, of course, but I am now into my 6th year. Good luck with the situation.
Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!!
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My guess is you would miss the word sm
companys if it came out of SR, right?
Yeah, I'm going to miss J. Very down-to-earth
Philly might just as well be in another galaxy.
You didn't miss much not going with Deventure.
Whether you have 2 days or 20 years of experience, pay is the same - go wrap your head around that. No raises EVER. Never got the yearly bonus myself and never got a signon bonus. There is some minimal shift differential for second and third but then those shifts include weekends. Got too many accounts too fast and nobody - but nobody - is or was on top of this. Promoting some and leaving vital positions unfilled while hiring to replace them is taking forever. If you have 3 accounts (which is typical and all with different specifics), and in my case with an agreement between myself and HR that I could work outside of your schedule on one that I could build up my line count, they blocked me from my higher producing account while working off my shift, so I would work on their most difficult and less line producing account that was about to TAT and after 2 years of service with them. Did I mention, situation agreed upon with HR and once again, on my own time, outside of my shift? GRRR. Doubt it will take long to replace Deventure job with a more organized and fair company with better pay. But then again, there is always Walmart, and I'm not kidding.
I miss Medware! *cries*
After 2-1/2 years, I left in June. My computer got a crazy virus on it in late April. I had it fixed within 3 days, and when I contacted their IT department, I was told Email me in a week. I'm busy.
Okay. Ugh. So, I emailed the IT guy a week later as requested and I got the same response. Email me in another week. I finally contacted HR and asked them about compensation. It says in their manual that anytime you cannot work due to an issue at the company, you will be compensated. They had *ALWAYS* been so good at that! Well, not this time. I was told that it wasn't a company issue. Umm... yeah, it is. If their company can't re-install my software, which is IT's JOB to do, then it's a company issue as far as I see it. I told HR about how this was making it difficult for me to pay my bills and keep my internet on, but I got a response back saying, sorry you are in a little financial trouble, but this is not our problem.
I resigned the next day.
When I first started working for them, I just adored that company. The VR pay was good back then (it sucks now!) and I just loved my account. I loved how easy communication was and I just adored the people. I loved my team leader so much so, in fact, that I organized a fundraiser and our team raised $250 and bought her a nice gift and some Godiva's. LOL The HR was fantastic (still was pretty decent when I left, minus that mishap :)) and the President had an open-email policy and ALWAYS got back to you. The co-workers were the best I have ever worked with. It was heaven.
Oh, I miss it so much. Will I ever find that again? :) It's just a shame that Medware is going down the drain in so many respects. It's sad to see such a good company go downhill like that.
I worship God everyday. Here's what I miss out on...sm
I miss out on participation in Bible study, which is an awesome learning experience led by a very knowledgeable teacher. I miss out on enjoying fellowship with other believers. I also miss out on the fulfilling my obligation as a Christian parent to make sure that my child hears the Word and has the opportunity to walk the aisle and make her public profession of faith. Thankfully she has already done that because I had her in church EVERY Sunday. I would also miss out on having my daughter involved in the youth ministry. She just turned 13 and I want her to have fun with other Christians in her age group. I could go on and on. I LOVE my church! Like I said, I worship God everyday, but there's something special that comes with physically leaving my house and being with my church family. Hope that helps!
Gonna miss your posts GP sm
I have to agree with you, there are way too many hateful people on this board. I've never seen a bigger bunch of spiteful souls in my life. Sorry to see you go.
10-15 an hour for 8 hours is better than nothing for 8 hours when there is no work.
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You do not have to put your date of birth on
an application. It is illegal for them to ask age so date of birth falls in line. If you want to just provide the month and day, that's okay. The only time you would have to give date of birth or anything age related would be after you get the job and I can't really think of a reason they would need that. They would probably find it out on your driver's license for identity purposes but other than that, I see no reason to let them have it prior. Social security number again is a sensitive issue for application purposes only. When you get the job of course you do HAVE to give it whether you are employee or IC. I just would not randomly provide them with this information until you are hired and if they don't like it, they do not have to.
Did you check the date (m)
on the ad? The one I found for them on MT stars is from 2003. May not be around anymore.
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