MDI conference call
Posted By: sadMT on 2009-08-26
In Reply to: Link of announcement inside. - posted article I found
Interesting quote from that press release:
...including the conversion of some of MDI's business to Transcend's speech recognition-enabled BeyondTXT platform,...
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What was the OSi conference call about?
a week or so ago - the one that was nasty
Conference Call...
Don't you remember the part where he said they want everyone to strive to achieve 40% above straight typing rate on ISR? It was when he was talking about this year's goals. Don't you know what that means? It sounded to me like we can expect a 10% cut in the ISR rate soon, as it is now a 30% cut from straight typing.
MDI Conference Call
We’re so glad that you joined in this afternoon’s conference call announcing the merger between MDI and Transcend Services. This is an exciting time for all of us, but I know that even good changes can bring about anxiety and I want to assure everyone that we are here to answer your questions to the best of our ability.
All MDI team members are encouraged to send any questions or concerns you may have that are not addressed in the FAQ sheet you’ve received to TeamMDI@mditrans.com so that we can address these in team conference calls which have been scheduled for Thursday morning (your team lead will provide you with the details).
Dorothy, Don, and myself, will continue to be available via email to everyone and will respond as quickly as possible to your questions and concerns. We urge you to utilize the TeamMDI@mditrans.com email address for all your questions so that you can be assured of receiving the most accurate information as soon as possible.
We look forward to continuing to work with each one of you as we move to the future.
Thanks,
Carlotta M. Buckley
MDI – Director of Transcription Services
conference call
They can see you? or just your name?
Fired via conference call? A new low, to be sure.
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TT 401K conference call
Someone went yesterday and it lasted approximately 50 minutes. I'll probably go today.
Was it Aflac? We have a conference call
about it 2/29. You should have received an e-mail about it last week.
They said this on a DSG2 conference call
...that it was overflow from MQ. This was news to me too.
I just wish they'd find another conference call
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Fired by conference call
along with about 30 others when SPi sent accounts to India and Philippines. Two hours' notice of the mandatory conference call. Two hours' notice to sign off before being locked out, and get time sheets in. That was special!
Second conference call this morning
Did anyone learn anything new in the second conference call this morning? To me it was mostly more of the same. It seems like most people (me included) are mostly concerned with becoming an employee and having a set schedule and there didn't seem to be a clear answer on that.
MDI - Second conference call this morning
Did anyone learn anything new in the second conference call this morning? To me it was mostly more of the same. It seems like most people (me included) are mostly concerned with becoming an employee and having a set schedule and there didn't seem to be a clear answer on that.
This morning's conference call
My antennas went up right away this morning when the call began. It was acknowledged that this news must have come as a surprise to us, but when our moderator said it had also come as a surprise to her only a few days prior, my hopes for some honest and forthright information went down the tubes. It seems to me someone who was moving up in the chain of command would have known what was going on much longer than a couple of days.
I took advantage of emailing one of the team leaders from Transcend last night with some questions about the flexibility of the schedules and shift work, etc., and here is the answer she gave to me:
We do have shifts instead of line count commitments, but we also never discourage anyone from working extra, and in fact we are always asking for extra help, so that isn’t a problem. Everyone here logs lines and hours for payroll. The hours are because if you work overtime we do have to pay that. We do usually ask that you see if overtime is allowed first, but it’s not that big of a deal because most of the time we are so busy we approve it anyway, so yes if you want to work more you certainly can. We consider $900.00 gross a pay period fulltime. We used to count it in lines, but now we have come up with a money amount. That’s easy to achieve actually, but you don’t have to stop at 900 by any means, it is just minimum to remain fulltime.
You will see, more often than not, we are begging people to work extra. We cross train on platforms and most people have primary, secondary, tertiary accounts. If one isn’t busy another one is. You will not be constrained on the amount of money you want to make ...
So, if that takes any mud out of the water for you that's good, but it still seems that our flexibility and earning capacity will depend on someone else. I certainly agree with everyone about the pay scale. You can't convince me that they have gone through all of these negotiations and pay has never entered into the picture. I believe it will be just exactly as one caller said this morning, they will attempt to equate the benefits with the pay, so I guess when my power company comes to shut off my electricity I can send them over to Blue Cross/Blue Shield or whoever to get the balance of my money.
I was on the conference call and was told
that MDI would be a subsidiary of Transcend but would be called MDI/Transcend. Sounded like a crock to me.
Missed conference call...(sm)
I'm hoping for a recap email regarding the conference call. In the meantime, anything interesting or noteworthy? I'm definitely torn on this one, and hoping for some good news.
They posted the conference call
We all got e-mail that had had the link to open for the conference call if you missed it. Didn't you get it in your e-mail?
I have received no email about such conference call.
Where did you get that from, and who sent it out. Give initials, pls. I got missed somehow.
Anyone know how long conference call lasts for new 401-K?
Thanks
Thank u, but I am confused. On our conference call, we were told
that we would maintain our flexiblity and be able to meet our commitments in a 24-hour window. Are you saying there are set shifts? That is huge for me, as I cannot work a set shift around my kids' ever-changing schedules. Right now we are required to work 2 weekends days per month and we commit to X number of lines per day on the days we schedule ourselves to work. We were told this flexibility would NOT change. We also do not request holidays off, but schedule ourselves to work one holiday per year. We write our own schedules and submit them every 2 months. The flexibility is the biggest reason I have worked for MDI for years and the only place I wanted to work again after taking a year off to be with a newborn.
I like my current accounts, but am willing to also learn a new platform/account to make sure I have enough work. But the flexible scheduling is imperative.
I COMPLETELY MISSED THE MDI CONFERENCE CALL, WHAT'S UP?
Please give me the details. :)
It was referred to as stealing in a conference call by mgrs. sm
Your equation doesn't always prove true if there is little work, if a person's primary account is an overflow account, or if it is the last few days of the pay period. If people are scrambling to get jobs on their shifts and someone else comes along who doesn't normally work that shift, but is just doing so out of convenience for themselves, they are taking lines from what little jobs there are from the people who abide by the rules and what they had been asked by management. This is most definitely stealing lines from fellow MLSs. Perhaps you have been fortunate enough to have a primary account that always has heavy volume, and that may account for why you had never been told this by management. But, a good share of accounts aren't like this, and this has repeatedly been addressed by management as a problem issue. If it wasn't a problem, upper management (Larry) would never have brought it up in conference calls and in email.
I was on the conference call but didn't hear rates..Thank You! (nm)
CBay fired more people via conference call.
...including one that they tried to get rid of in December but felt compelled to keep.
Town hall conference call was very impressive. sm
I'm glad to be working for Webmedx.
the conference call cannot address the original question,
which is trying to discern whether other peoples emails are seemingly being ignored or if it is just the poster's problem?
Cbay systems layed off 32 employees via conference call on 12/21/2007
Anyone here affected by this? I am so sick over this.
Can anyone comment on your Acusis conference call today? Hoping you're all still gainfully
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Yes, call waiting works. I also have call forwarding from my home line
NM
conference calls
I hate them, hate them, hate them.
I have worked a few places where conference calls were utilized and INVARIABLY they covered things that could easily have been covered in a memo, in a couple of paragraphs even, only the call would last half an hour to an hour. They were always a COMPLETE waste of time. Paid or not, they were just unbearable.
Conference calls
This just goes to show that not all things suit all people. As for me just give me the work and LEAVE ME ALONE! If there is something I'm doing wrong by all means tell me. One of my new accounts I WAS doing something wrong because I didn't understand how to attach a deficiency. I received a very nice e-mail telling me how it was done and I sent back one saying to let me know if I was still doing it wrong. Got back a very nice e-mail (from Q.A.) telling me to do #1, #2, #3. I got it. Nothing more needed. As for conference calls, I MIGHT tolerate one once a year, IMHO a total waste of my valuable time. I'm happy for you that you went back to your former employer, by all means BE HAPPY, whatever it takes.
Yes we got paid for conference calls
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I always get paid for conference calls.
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Well, we seem to get nothing but pladitudes on the conference calls, sm
so honestly, I was hoping to get some sort of info on here. There are a lot of DSGers who are upset and frustrated and could very well jump ship. Then they will have no one but newbies and what will that do to the TATs. I seems to me that a little honesty about what is going on and what is being done about it would go a long ways towards fostering loyalty. Of course, that is just my opinion.
I loved the news conference!
Although I did not vote for President Obama (we're conservatives) I have to give him great marks for the way he handled this! Good for him! If I had access to him, I would thank him!
There was a press release and phone conference. nm
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Sounds a lot like the Webmedx conference calls.
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Conference dictations are generally extremely sm
tedious as the voice quality is awful. Consider that when I was in college back in 1970 I made $1.50 a page straight typing from text. You'll be transcribing, not straight typing, a conference or interview.
She's at the conference this week, so she'll be late
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I work for MQ, and even they don't mute the conference calls.
If you aren't going to allow anyone to talk anyway, why not just send out an email....
MQ and mute-control on conference calls
MQ allows peons to talk on conference calls, but there is also a setting that you (the peon) can use to mute your phone purposefully when the dog barks, the dishwasher whines, the doorbell rings, the kids scream, and the husband starts moaning loudly. That setting is *2. We were reminded of it at the beginning of every conference call, and if the CCM or conference call leader should have happened to forget, invariably somebody would ask within 5 minutes of the beginning of the call. That puts the obligation on the peon to mute themself when they are wandering around their property listening to cows moo and husbands moan, and then to UN-mute themself when they want to ask if they really heard that right??? LOL!
Seriously speaking, it seems crazy to hold a conference call and then not allow the peons to talk. They may as well send out a mass email!
There were 3 conference calls, with each asking various questions (see message)
Perhaps you were not on the same conference call as some of us.
Email said conference calls would happen in August. nm
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My account has been slow this week due to an orthopedic conference...
but not completely out of work...ask your supervisor if you can have a backup account...there is plenty of work to be done..
What team conference calls? Been here going on a year and never heard of them. nm
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You can call it greed, I call it feeling like
I am back in the 80s with the money I am pulling in. SS, retirement check and my paycheck, cha-ching. Not planning on taking it with me, never. Love to travel and have 4 places planned for this year. High maintenance lady here. Ta-Ta.
Call them......
Since the Warminster office is being absorbed into the Northeast Region, the only ones who can answer that question for you is the Warminster office itself. I've worked for them for years and have plenty of work - my accounts haven't gone anywhere.
Yes. I get what they call
a tiered incentive on my checks and then get quarterly bonuses to boot. I was quite impressed actually. I started at 8.75 cpl and can earn up to 2 cpl incentive plus the bonuses.
We got Labor day incentives too...$40 for the first 800 lines and $20 for every 400 lines after that.
It may all fall apart but right now I'm happy.
If you truly cannot call, perhaps
it is time to find work with another MTSO/company? That way when one is slow, you will have another as a backup? This is, of course, assuming you are an IC. If you are an employee having communications issues where you cannot even call your employer, I would start looking elsewhere.
I could call and say
I could call and say I I couldn't work that day if I was sick or if my daughter was sick, things like that, but I've never done that with the exception of a few weeks ago when my husband had open heart surgery and I ended up not working for 3 days.
I could call and say
But the point is I would never do that. I have to have a very good reason why I wouldn't work.
Why not just CALL them?
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