In this day and time it is really hard to find a job that pays

• TTS any info on this company or - Jeeter
  • TTS - mting
    • no weekends - Jeeter
      • I guess we should tell people they can't get sick on weekends. nm - Welcome to the medical field
        • let the people who want to work weekends do it - normalone
          • Seems a pretty selfish attitude ... I suppose you also choose sm - Welcome
            • why so hostile weekend warrior? - SissyP
              • The ones here who want to make their own schedules - Angie
                • ugh? Angie, you make no sense here - Mae
            • Well said! - Jo
              • good for you, but why are u so proud of that - SissyP
            • I agree - mg
      • weekends - nm
      • weekends - mting
      • In this day and time it is really hard to find a job that pays - lee
        • If you are very good, the company accommodates you so you don't work weekends - you don't have to work weekends

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IC jobs leave a lot to be desired especially with these MTSOs.  They can save money by hiring ICs, but then want to control you.  So, of course, if you mention that you want to set your own hours they back off. 

I had one tell me (I have 20 years of experience) that they don't set hours, but I would be required to transcribe 3 days a week and the line count had to meet I think it was 3,000 lines.  I had to tell them which 3 days I would be working.  So, I figure that's talking out of both sides of your mouth.  In other words, the me setting my own schedule bit is within that 24-hour timeframe or whatever. 

Then I decided to transcribe from a pool, which works well other than the fact that most of the work is gone in a jiffy, so I have to be on my toes.  If something comes up that day, then I'm fried and have to work into the evening.

Good luck to you finding a part-time IC job that you only work nights and isn't ESL and very low pay.  A lot of these companies don't even want part-time workers.  Also, some MTSOs want you to take an assigned physician (but you can type whenever you want).  What a joke!   

Thank you so much for your help!

but all I could find, in addition to the other complaints already listed, were complaints about being in the "middle of an 11-minute job when it was pulled and given to someone else," "There has to be a better way NOT to make a living," "I know I am going to end up on food stamps," complaints of no compensation for down time and BTXT being down and MTs not being notified.

If there were one or two positive comments about it on there somewhere, they are certainly overshadowed by all the justified negativity, outrage and frustration that's there.

I wouldn't wish this company on my worst enemy, and you should be ashamed of yourself if you recommend that anyone apply there for employment these days.  It used to be a good company, and like the song says, "Used-to-be's don't count any more."  Although I don't expect them to "bring me flowers" I do expect to be able to earn a living wage, and those days are quickly disappearing.

And the recruiter told me that they did not mind you not working a strict daily shift as long as you got your line count in -do you find this to be true?  Thanks for your information!

it will be there; try some patience and don't count your chicks before they are hatched. Hopefully, you didn't spend money that wasn't there, which never fails to amaze me. Why do people do that?

I wondered if maybe the OP was just too upset to be posting - or did I have a brain fart - to be able to post cohesively, but it seems someone else was able to follow the logics of it through.  I can't be mad at anyone for _jipping_ me out of lines if I am responsible for sending in the invoice.  As someone else said, it was a lesson learned.  3000 lines at say, 8 cpl, would just about have paid for a reputable line counting program, especially if you add in losing 3-some hours of valuable time from reinstalling programs that went haywire after downloading freebies which seemed to have caused more problems than they solved.  Some people learn more easily than others.  kaysarasara (not defending the misspelling at this time of night)

Curious

the required line count per day?  I have been plenty long enough to be making the line count all the time, but for some reason, I have never quite gotten there - at least consistently.  Now, I am not the fastest MT anymore, but I have always been able to do more than a minimum such as 1200 lpd.  I like the company (not the accounts so much, though), but this has made me seriously doubt my ability to produce.  Just wondering if anyone else has been in this situation and then left and did better line-wise,,,,if so, where?  TIA. 

was all that smooth.  From the looks of it, there were lots of problems and people from MDI-FL felt the same way the current MDIers do.

http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/32857.html

http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/23136.html

http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/23058.html

http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/35759.html

If this is what