It was late and I made a typo. When you

• Was thinking about applying at Transcend. - need info
  • I was under the impression that we good - Transcender
    • You do have the option to type or edit. - sm
    • Having trouble understanding - RME
      • It was late and I made a typo. When you - Excuse me!
        • Just hold on a second! You're the one who is on here acting superior and talking about weeding o - RME
  • Transcend will go the way of Edix - think again
  • More "letter" info - Read this
    • They did not say pay "cut", they said "blended rate" - now lets word it right
    • You'd think they'd find a new line - sm
      • What goes around comes around.. - Unhappy Transcender
        • And MQ is still trying to figure out ways to keep accounts and MTs since they played hardball with - MQMT
          • The only people that are going to make it with VR or ASR are MTs that are nearing retirement and - MQMT
  • TRANSCEND SUCKS!!!!...sm - Unhappy Transcender
    • Here's the facts that you're not sharing...sm - Happy Transcender
      • Could you answer a few questions please -sm - Nervous Transcender
      • I can get at leAST 5 cpl editing at - and
    • I saw this coming 2 months ago and Quit! - Ex-Tranny
    • Sad, but true. Definitely disappointed in Transcend. n/m - Vanessa Satterwhite
    • just reread the email about pay - transcender
      • That's not always true - sm
        • EXACTLY!!! - Unhappy Transcender
      • You are kidding right!! - Unhappy Transcender
        • same transcend - transcender
          • I just looked at Transcend's forum, - Unhappy Transcender
            • they are on the FORUM, as I said - transcender
              • Gee, I tried real hard to find those good posts, - RME
                • Correction. Just visited the forum and the "food stamps" - RME
              • Oh-one more thing... - Unhappy Transcender
                • I manage to get almost 20,000 lines per pay period typing. - transcender
                  • No agenda here. Still reeling from the shock - and trying to understand.
              • I dont have time today.. - Unhappy Transcender
                • of course! - transcender
          • Like I said--how many lines do you do? - Unhappy Transcender
            • Not editing. - transcender
              • It's "well." You're paid "well," not "good." - RME
                • oh pleaseeeeeee - transcender
                  • Really? I'm working, too. - RME
                    • ended up almost 2400 - pretty happy with that
                      • That's great! - RME
              • Can't worry about the future right now... - Unhappy Transcender
    • pay cut? - transcender
      • You still get the same line rate if typing - sm
        • I saw this coming!!! - Unhappy Transcender
          • sorry for you - transcender
            • Already did that!! - Unhappy Transcender
              • sm - transcender
                • Well, I guess I misunderstood. - Unhappy Transcender
        • just me - transcender
          • Have they told you that you are going to - OMG!
            • You dont have to tell me.. - Unhappy Transcender
              • There was recently a big campaign on - Curious
              • I hear you. - OMG!
          • How long have you been doing the editing? - nm
            • Has never done it--so doesnt know anything.nm - Unhappy Transcender
            • about a month - transcender
              • A month is not long enough to get the big picture - sm
                • Spoken for someone who knows.. - Unhappy Transcender
                  • The reason they are doing this - Transcender
                    • Please tell me what company isnt??????? - transcender
                      • There are a lot of smaller companies out there - sm
                        • VR, $$ and Greed - Cece
      • Right...nm - Unhappy Transcender
        • I did - transcender
          • I never thought 40% though. - Unhappy Transcender
            • I've never been a doormat - transcender
              • And how many new MTs will be stupid to start at 4 cpl? - yup
              • How many lines do you do an hour? - Unhappy Transcender
        • See message--I put nm, but there was one - Unhappy Transcender
    • Nothing new - from an ex - You are so right

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THEM THEM. 

No reason to talk to them.  They talk to us via email about NO WORK.  Flex, flex, flex . . . overnight, into EVERY weekend, and then absolutely impossible to get line counts required.

Hate it when these companies OVERHIRE for a supposed account coming onboard and another company picks up the account from them! ! ! ! !   And we MT's continue with overhired MT's and NO WORK.

THEM THEM. 

No reason to talk to them.  They talk to us via email about NO WORK.  Flex, flex, flex . . . overnight, into EVERY weekend, and then absolutely impossible to get line counts required.  Something like the saying, TT is counting their chickens before they hatch NOT even thinking one thing about the MT's who have been sticking by them and continuing to pay their SALARIES while we cannot even get paid our OWN salaries, because we are PER LINE/PIECE WORK employees. 

Those TT employees who work in the office and those mgmt-type people who work from home HAVE NEVER MISSED A PENNY from THEIR paychecks, when we are constantly getting LOWER AND LOWER paychecks due to their OVERHIRE.

Hate it when these companies OVERHIRE for a supposed account coming onboard and another company picks up the account from them! ! ! ! !   And we MT's continue with overhired MT's and NO WORK.

Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

I better correct my statement before I raked over the coals for a typo by the grammar police.  The platform is great and exceed the line count every pay period. 

It should read The platform is great and I exceed the line count every pay period.

I guess I better get this first cup of coffee down quick!!!

xx