Larry doesn't know if he's coming or going! One day a mass email to employees begging them to
Posted By: EX-TS2 on 2005-07-14
In Reply to: You should send your note to Larry... - Transcender 2
even though no work, and the next day mass email begging people to hire anybody they can scrape up and now accounts out of TAT, etc. Different story every day of the week, and I don't wanna hear about the company perils! Just let me type! No thanks.
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Someone said Transtech sent out mass Email
saying which shifts and days they are hiring for. Care to share what they said so I will know whether to bug them. If it is not allowed here on this board no problem and I will apply anyway. Thank you.
This was a mass email, about docking $10 per report.
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No sweetie, you were coming to branching, thank your company by their email.
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Hmm...all the mail keeps coming back saying that their STMP or whatever is rejecting my email addy.
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there doesn't mean we are all disgruntled ex-employees ya know
Any Spheris employees having difficulty with their email? NM
copied from email sent to current Transcend employees.
It does, however, provide additional opportunities as
we become a larger and more meaningful company. MDI was attracted to Transcend
because Transcend is widely recognized as the best company in the industry. MDI
is also very excited about Transcend’s technology, speech recognition successes,
and broad capacity to deliver services on a large scale.
This is a company big on VR. Hope you like it.
In case this company doesn't see this post, email them and tell them
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Would any current or past employees of First Choice Medical please email me...sm
I have been offered a job there and am trying to make a decision. I am curious about the type of accounts they have, the platform they use, whether ShortHand works with it, how much work they actually have, and any other information you would care to share. I know it is always best to hear from current employees to get the real story and would SO much appreciate if someone could help me with my decision. Thank you.
Sure I got the email, I stand corrected. Three titled employees are listed & there is one more
that simply has not been announced yet. I will say again, could be nothing at all, could just be a change of guard. Didn't say whatever was going on was good or bad, but wondered what is going on. I will be the first to say change is often a very, very good thing and I am hoping for good!
Why would they? Larry isn't going to come here...
...to make company policy public, nor would anyone who cares about their future in management. This board is here for rumor, suggetion, help, support, and conjecture.
However, you might have some luck researching on the internet for an announcement, as they are a publically traded company (try TRCR, as that is their stock moniker). However, I was told quite a while ago what was happening pretty much from the horse's mouth, so it's true.
Another bell tolls for the demise of an all-American company.
Larry King? - LOL - let's think of more -
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Larry? Sue? Liz? Dorothy? Is that you? nm
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If the OP has said, "LM didn't pay me," rather than "LM doesn't pay it's employees
Blanket statements never have a positive result.
You should send your note to Larry...
I would copy it and send it for you. I have only been working for Transcend for 1-1/2 months. The management seems great as well as the non-VR platform, it's easy to use, works very well. Man, why change a good thing? I've been trained on the new platform but have not started on it yet. VERY scared. I hope it works out as I don't want to have to look for a new job right away. I'm also working for a local clinic as an IC, part-time and have another opportunity for the clinic I just left to be a back-up person, probably IC as well. BUT, that won't be enough to pay the bills either.
I think part of the problem with these national companies is that they do look at their MTs as machines. They don't see faces behind the names, just numbers, $$ signs and the like. It is a very strange thing, having this cyber job and not meeting anyone face to face. Maybe if we all emailed Larry with our picture, pictures of our families, he would get the clue to let well-enough alone.
ya, dat daer Larry is sumptin else..
 LOL!
Position with Larry and Eileen
Yes, I was having trouble. The directions are not clear as to which files to click to complete the test, etc. I called and had it explained to me. But the pay is $1.00 per page, which won't work for me. Good luck. Let me know how it turns out.
Larry just said that Transcend does offshore.
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Larry Gerdes CEO of Transcend is aging just like the rest of us!
LOL!!
Has anyone applied for the chiropractic position with Larry and Eileen?
It says listen to the instructions carefully, but I'm having a hard time finding those instructions? Anyone else having this problem?
LOL, I am not the one begging for help (sm)
to delete posts because "he's afraid his mama's gonna find out"!!!!!!! ROFLMAO...... uh,, maybe its time you backed away from the keyboard........very slowly....... ...
TT begging for help
I've gotten 3 emails since last Friday begging for extra help on several accounts (not my regular ones). There's work somewhere. Don't know how the accounts are set up or MTs distributed among them, though.
Begging for help
I just don't believe that's true. What makes you the expert. They've always told me there is something on one of the accounts they have if I want to switch over from my regular account. I do too. Some would rather complain than work on a new account. Not me.
Why are they begging for MTs for VR?
I am seeing so many job ads for Escription VR MTs and editors which sound really desperate. They don't want newbies but they are only paying 3 cpl for experienced MTs to edit. Even though they say they will pay 8 cpl for straight transcription, that is a small percentage of the reports. Maybe 10%. I have worked on several Escription accounts and they take so much time to check demographics and cc's and then you must conform your style to theirs and clean up the formatting that it just isn't worth the brain drain. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?
Still sounds like begging to me. Why not just
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6 cpl job ad still begging for a nephrology IC - sm
Looks like they still haven't found someone who wants to work for peanuts while training the EMR and then will be out of a job after that. Too bad.
Has anyone noticed all these companies BEGGING for MTs....
only to see what the line rates are, 7 cpl for the night shift, are you KIDDING ME? I wouldn't do night shift for 10 cpl! and all the evening shifts, same thing? it seems they're getting more and more desperate for experience but wanna pay newbie wages. no thank you! we've worked our butts off too long and too hard only to have the industry decide (in bidding low rates) that we're not worthy.
I urge all of us to let our voices be heard by doing this...simply, before you even consider testing, email to ask what the line rates are. if it is 7 or below for experienced MTs, JUST SAY NO! it's the only way we're going to let them know we're mad as hell and we aren't gonna take it anymore!
OT with Transcend?? I'm begging for work!
Same old story. We're told if you need work we have plenty. Well, just WHERE THE HECK IS IT? I've begged for work, to no avail. Barely getting by. What platform are you on and which account. I want in on some of that OT!!!!
My C-phone accounts are begging for extra
I have 2 and every day this week they have been extremely full and begging for the MTs to work extra. It's too bad the accounts are uneven like this.
How do you tactifully quit when you have been begging for work?
I was hired in at a big national. I was warned on this board about this company overhiring and running out of work,but I felt I had to give it a chance. Well, after the first week of training was over, I have literally ran out of work everyday and requested a back up account, which I only received 4 hours pay of training to do. Now, the primary and secondary account is out of work, and in order to make any money I have to stay up until midnight to make up hours if the work is available. If the work is not available, I have to fill out a nonpaid PTO request. I have only been with the company a little over 4 weeks and I cannot believe this is happening. I barely made 42 hours last week and will have a small check yet again this pay. I have had it, I have finally learned to not put all my eggs in one basket and have obtained an IC position with another company and a full-time editing job with another company to keep a pay check coming in. My question is, how do I quit this job with no work? What do I tell them? I do not want to be rude or leave in a bad standing. How do I quit after less than 6 weeks on the job. I have to quit because my bills are backing up. Any suggestions on what to say to quit with tact would be appreciated.
Thank you all.
Begging to stay on a job, you gotta be kidding....
I am way past the age of begging for a job. I worked on this particular job since 1990, outsourced appx 4 years ago, new company that had the contract called me and I worked there 4 years and yes I quit because of the nasty IM note the QA person was sending to another boss about me and she sent instead to me. The only difference in my quitting and the other MTs there, no one stated their reason for leaving, afraid of being blackballed and so stayed quiet, just put in their 2 week's notice and left. I on the other hand am retirement age. I left and took early vacation to Alaska, took off 3 months when I returned and get this, that company lost the account and I am now with another company that got it back and everything is wonderful here!! Not the constant breathing down the neck from the QA staff, never. I quit that very day because of the picky, picky IMs, got excellent letter of recommendation from the owner of the other company with it stating that particular company would not put up with such unprofessional doings from their QA and taking steps to ensure this did not happen again. You really don't know what you are talking about. Back years ago maybe I would have just sucked it up because I had to work, not now. Have rental homes plus my own, all bills paid, just hubby and myself. Just have your facts straight before you write these little nasty notes.
Sorry, but it's not me to go say "hey, remember me..I'm sitting with my hand out begging
for acknowledgment. Truly, not bashing the company. Overall, they have been good to me and that is why I stay. Maybe, they aren't the most organized but I am sure they try. I've worked extra to get bonuses and had to beg for that too (same thing..passing the buck..this person forgot to send it out, that person should have already done it, took about 2 months.............so..I'm done with that. I have a job and that's good enough for me. If there were any better companies out there, I'd be there but they have most beat on that. What I have found that overall the best place to work is not for nationals but local doctors. They are the most appreciative and obviously do not have a lot of employees so you don't get lost in the shuffle. Merry Christmas to All. I have my wonderful family who is my life, not my job and that is what matters most to me.
I am SOOO sick and tired of BEGGING for work!
Anyone know of a company that is hiring ICs, flexible scheduling, multispecialty clinic, at least 8 cents a line (shows my desperation...!), steady, dependable work flow for the most part, a company where you can stay and work for at least a few years straight. Any out there? Do not want MDI-MD. Do not want to be an employee - want to be an IC. Do not want any complicated platforms. Any smaller companies out there? I can't find jack lately, even with over 10 years experience. I need consistent work!
The "lead" probably quit if she had to spend her time begging for workers...sm
Doubt she was demoted - leads are too hard to come by. She probably quit management so she could get lines herself, or quit completely because she got tired of having to constantly recruit for accounts that were understaffed.
Mass exit sm
Sorry, but I don't think this is the answer. Back in the 70s? 80? (sorry, I forget which) our man in the White House swore he would break labor unions (though he, himself, was a card-carrying member of the actor's union) and he DID. The American workers bought into the "unions have outlived their usefulness" propoganda and now union membership is at an all time low. Without bargining power, workers have nothing...united we stand, divided we fall. And EVERY American worker is falling FAST. Wake up America.
Springfield, Mass. nm
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Has anyone who received the mass
emailing from Keystrokes received the promised phone call yet? I have not and am just wondering
Breitner in Mass. NM
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StenTel in Mass.
Sorry, I meant to add that I would like info on StenTel in Springfield, Mass. Thanks in advance.
mass firings
They had a conference call recently for which US editors were asked to call in. When they were all on the line, they were ALL fired! Talk about unprofessional!
Also, when people quit or are let go, they are not being replaced; often, when they ARE replaced, it's not by other US employees.
They are taking the easier, longer-winded docs and giving them to offshore workers to do, leaving the US employees with the more difficult, hard-to-understand dictation to do while at the same time are pushing for more and more production/lines AND stepping up the auditing AND requiring feedback to be done on worse and worse work from overseas - basically resulting in people not being physically able to make quotas nor keep quality at a premium. They then are firing people who fall below what they say are the minimums, not taking into account the conditions which THEY are imposing on us and which make the job more difficult and much more time consuming, and the massive also-time-consuming amount of feedback on crappy transcription (and HA! editing) overseas. It's discriminatory no matter how you look at it, too: There is no way that the work of the overseas 'editors' can hold a candle to that I've seen from US editors, yet the US people are being fired & forced out left and right while the overseas folks are being allowed to keep their jobs and even being promoted.
SPi has been 'testing out' voice recognition on a major account for quite sometime; when they started it, they fired most of the US MTs and promoted offshore MTs to Editor positions.
They are losing accounts like crazy; some they lose on purpose, but others are lost because the clients are upset and/or dissatisfied with the lack of quality, service, etc.
Run, DON'T WALK, away from this unethical company while the choice is still in YOUR hands...before they fire you or sweep you up in one of their recent mass 'layoffs'
and when you DO leave, make absolutely certain that they pay you any unused vacation (AND unused/owed PTO for those prior Cymed employees). They don't do it automatically. They told one person who quit recently that they had just decided not to pay the PTO out - even though they put it in writing in the benefits package cover letter in January! Someone else who left tried to collect unemployment but couldn't because SPi had her listed in another state completely than where she'd lived for all the years she worked for them - she got hired after months but never did collect any of the benefits she was entitled to.
This company represents all the worst of human nature.
Mass Firings
What can one do to protect themselves from these evil doings? How can they get away with not paying out PTO? I am beginning to think that their transcription branch is just not important to them and they don't care what happens to it (at least in the US). It is obviously clear they don't care about the US MT.
Is this the Sten-Tel in Mass?
If it is, then I worked for them for about a year over a year ago. I do not remember that statement in the IC contract. That must be something new. I left that company because their QA would mark something wrong one day and then mark the same thing right the next day. You never knew what you should do and then they would send you nasty emails saying you need to get off of QA or else. I wouldn't recommend working there.
With all of the mass hysteria can we please
I have to be honest... I love my job at TT and when I got the e mail it did not bother me at all. I simply did not sign up to be one of the first to try the VR (I have done it elsewhere and did not care for it personally, nor did my bank account). Anyway, my strategy was to work as hard as possible now, and keep an eye open toward other companies that do straight transcription. If I am forced to do VR, then I would still stay at TT and train as best as possible with a second job picking up the slack of the bills. It would be more hours, but it would have to happen b/c I cannot afford a paycut as I have only me to depend on (no other incomes to help). Then, I came on today and unfortunately, I read all of the posts of panic and hysteria and felt like giving up, going to bed and pulling the covers over my head and or getting an Rx for Xanax....
I understand we all need to vent, but is it possible to try to work together to find solutions or boost each other up while this is going on instead of fighting or getting into a panic? One poster here, I see, is looking for suggestions for companies with straight typing options. That is a good idea... What other positive options can we come up with together so that we all don't go down in negative doldrums. Panic will not help my line count today, but the bill collectors don't understand, nor do my children who depend on me...
Anyway, my approach will be if my check takes a hit, to continue as I am, and if I am asked to train VR without a complaint while I take on another job to fill in the gaps. Does anyone else have any positive ideas to add? If we can come up with a list of options instead of griping, maybe we can all have a good and profitable day with a plan for the future.
Thanks in advance for reading this... Even if no one has an answer to this, at least I got it off my chest...Have a profitable and enjoyable day/weekend.
This law only applies to mass
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Maybe they think a lot of MTs are going to leave en mass with the new pay plan so they are getting
ready. Have you noticed how they have been dragging their feet to let us know probably until Summer is over so they have plenty of staff. You KNOW they already know what it is so it is just a matter of timing is all. Yep.
I had a feeling there was a mass exodus
earlier this year. I hung in there with them for six months, but they kept running out of work. I asked to be trained on a second account, but it didn't happen. My supervisor was very nice, but it just didn't work out. I also have 17 years of experience, and had 99+% QA scores. I agree with some of the comments above about looking things up, etc. Oh well...
Sten-Tel in Mass. pays this way. nm
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Also, don't mass mail your resume.
If I receive a resume and I can see that it has gone to a dozen other companies, too, I'm not feeling the love.
Sten-Tel, Springfield, Mass.
Anyone familiar with this company? Could not find any current info in archives. Pros and cons, please. Also, what platform do they use or does it depend on the account? Thank you.
Am I the only one who works for Sten-Tel in Mass?
I am having probs with their QA and wonder if I am the only one dealing with this?
Hoffman Transcription (Mass.)
Anyone work or have worked for the above company, would you please state how you liked working for them, pros and cons, please. Thanks.
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