I liked Transform as far as the dictators, supervisor

• Any current Transform employees willing to share testing process and cpl range? - ThankfulMT
  • I liked Transform as far as the dictators, supervisor - Ronda
  • on the testing, but - not sure
  • Transform is a WONDERFUL company!! - just me
    • welll. for the most part - pfftt
      • Thank you - Lillybelle
    • As long as you don't need health insurance through them - Lillybelle
      • bad insurance, expensive & lousy line count - past MT

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Awful dictators.  They cannot keep people on this ortho account.  The sound is so muffled, you cannot understand even an otherwise very clear dictator.  They do not have a website.

Just wondering what you all think about this:  Should a doctor who obviously has a terrible problem with ssssstuttering be dictating?  Seems like it might be an invitation for errors on the poor patient's medical record.  What do you think?

who dictate like this then YES it is fair to test you on those.  It does no good to give you a good dictator (whatever you deem to be good) and then most of the dictators of of the caliber you had on the test.  It is very fair and honest to the potential employee.  What happens if you test on a dictator that is good and then your account has the really bad ones?  Is that fair to you or the company?

It use to be that folks in the MT profession accepted this as part of the profession and none of this was ever a point.  Seems now MT has come down to lines, spaces, cpl and all the rest and forget the real reason behind this profession, THE PATIENTS!

So if you get one that isn't so clear, does that mean you *guess*?? 

The people at FutureNet are nice and for the most part easy to work with.  Their platform is easy to use.  The accounts are the bottom of the barrel as far as dictators with thick accents, fast talkers, slurred speech.  QA is nice but can't help you get used to these awful dictators.  The quality of dictation just stopped me in my tracks, it was so terrible.  Again, the staff are pleasant, but they aren't the ones who have to try to decipher the dictation to make a decent line count. 

If you have the experience, the pay is higher than most nationals, and if you have an extremely good ear for accents, you can do very well.  The dictation is internet based so you don't have to scratch around for your own unlimited long distance.  The pay comes on time in my experience, but there's no Direct Deposit.  The line counter is always accurate, I have checked against my own, and never any discrepancies. 

The editors always seem able to fill in the blanks, so it is proof that some people can understand these dictators, but even though the folks at FutureNet were some of the nicest I have worked with, I could never get a handle on the accents, so regretfully I had to move on.  Don't be fooled by the test reports, the actual dictation is much worse. 

they are sloppy dictators who talk at the speed of light and mumble but still expect an accurate report.

You're right that there is a lot of work.  I just wish we had a definite payday. It would be nice to know if I'm getting paid on the 4th, the 8th, the 10th or whenever.  That would be my only complaint with the place.  Otherwise, it is easy work with great people. 

platform has got to be the worst thing out there.  They are run by a bunch of people who don't know what they are doing.  They all tell you to do something different when it comes to the account specs.  Impossible to make any money there. 

I was part of a package that Transcend purchased. We were all assured there would be no changes, which was initially true for several months........then the massive offshoring became more and more noticable. One account would have hundreds of jobs in the evening; at 5 AM there was nothing left and if there were any jobs available they were  very difficult dictators. 

It got to a point where any audible dictator was offshored and there were no decent dictators left. You also had to be flexible waiting for work. Sometimes you would have to wait 4-5 hours for jobs to be available. Then your health insurance was revoked for not meeting your quota.

My advice is  that you have no choice, give them a try. Maybe your luck will be better. If you do have job currently, I would not consider changing.

Good luck!

I was part of a package that Transcend purchased. We were all assured there would be no changes, which was initially true for several months........then the massive offshoring became more and more noticable. One account would have hundreds of jobs in the evening; at 5 AM there was nothing left and if there were any jobs available they were  very difficult dictators. 

It got to a point where any audible dictator was offshored and there were no decent dictators left. You also had to be flexible waiting for work. Sometimes you would have to wait 4-5 hours for jobs to be available. Then your health insurance was revoked for not meeting your quota.

My advice is  that you have no choice, give them a try. Maybe your luck will be better. If you do have job currently, I would not consider changing.

Good luck!

Are they easy with a significant amount of repetitiveness?  If there isn't...and all they do is talk then as an IC, 7 cents is not gonna pay the rent.  If the doc repeats things over and over...then you have a chance. 

I had an ESL once who others wouldn't do.  However, once I figured him out I found that he repeated 90% of the reports so it was great.

It also depends on platform.  If it's in MS Word with an FTP site...great.  If they use something like Emdat but don't have the demos and base information correct then your line count goes even lower.  Shop wisely....