I just started back with them...

• What is happening at - jj
  • Don't Worry... - Old & Tired MT'er
  • I just started back with them... - passing through
  • TransTech changes? - Jan
  • TransTech - mt_ears51
    • I've been there for a while and haven't noticed - celestialmls
    • Could you please elaborate? - nm

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The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.

Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 

There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 

I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 

Good luck to you!

happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.

I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.

Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 

a month ago and can't afford the $125 to quit.

Do they still charge you $125 to ship back the computer if you're there for more than 45 days?

but have you tried cut and pasting document into a Word document just to get a rough idea?  Or is that what you did already?

My first year as FT IC, when I had the accounts set up I did a guesstimate of my income and expenses, go ahold of the required Federal tax forms, and did a mock-up. This gave me a ball-park figure of what taxes would be due the Feds. After the first year when I paid it all in one lump sum in April (having stashed the money monthly in a savings account), then the Feds sent me a pack of quarterly payment slips.  From that point on I paid quarterly.

You can pay as much as you want to the Feds (they'll take it!), and I tried to hedge on the side of caution, so sometimes I got a refund. Most of the time I had paid my taxes fairly accurately.

The advice to talk to an accountant for your state is a very good one, especially if this is your first at-home business venture. Usually CPAs don't charge a horrid amount for a consultation and it can make things a lot easier for a newcomer to Schedule C.

You can e-mail me with more specific questions, will help if I can. Good luck to you! 

Lots of work.  Decent dictators for the most part (in my pool).  I like the management team.  They answer  your questions and are very nice and very  helpful, as are the QA people.

I opted for full time and work Sunday through Thursday on the day shift. They are very flexible too if something comes up during your shift. You can pick a schedule that fits your needs and don't necessarily have to do 8 hours 5 days in a row.  I like having my two days off together (Fri and Sat).  Haven't had that happen in a looooooooooong time.  :)

The platform takes a bit of getting used to, but my old platform (MQ) was cemented in my brain for the past 4 years.  The team and QA people have been very helpful with that as well.

It was only my first week, but it went very well.  I like it much better than my old job.

Good luck!! 

Okay, I graduated from a branch of CareerStep in 2000, but the company that did the training was only training for one physician group.  The training was very localized to acute care (so I have trouble with other specialities, but I am learning) and when I started working it was acute care.

Problem is that once I was given this job I found out they didn't offer benefits if you weren't full time...and they couldn't move me to full time.  I left to start working in high tech with medical benefits.  Since then I have worked per diem (The company would call and ask me to cover for MTs on vacation or for excessive workload) but I was paid cash or off the books; so I can't use these companies as references.

So many companies say no newbies...but I am not a newbie.  I also have trouble passing the tests that others give because of how limited my training was.  I score a 92 and they want 95 or I score 84 and they want 85.  It's so close!

Any ideas on what I can do?  My last few job positions were with small companies (really just one MT saying they own a company which is really just a group of MT's using this one person as a recruiter)  and the lack of support or even professionalisim is appalling.  I was actually accused of lying on my resume with the last one.

I took these per diem jobs hoping they would result in more permenant employment, but no such luck. 

Any suggestions would be helpful, it seems that I am somewhere between newbie and experienced even though I have 9 years of experience!

Thanks