Maybe you need to improve your (proof)reading skills.
Posted By: Ad states pay is weekly!! on 2009-06-03
In Reply to: i believe they are - busymt
The ad clearly states that she pays weekly. What is so wrong about being upfront about how much she is paying? If that is too low for some people, they do not need to apply and do not need to waste anybody's time. What is so wrong about being honest and asking for honesty? With this type of ad, you know from the start how much is paid and do not have to go through hours of testing just to hear how much they offer.
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Again with the crappy reading skills
With each post, you clarify how you are able to make your grandiose claims about VR. Reading, as they say, is fundamental, and once you ignore that whole pesky reading for context thing, I'm sure VR does get a lot easier. Try it again, slowly this time, and you'll see that I qualified the 1000 lines number by following it with an 'or'. I know...it requires actually a little more effort than looking for squiggly red lines under the word, but you may find you actually can follow a discussion better. But don't try it in your work. It might actually slow you down.
VR will continue to improve just like
everything else in the technology age.
Bubbye, MT world.
But it's a blessing in disguise. Maybe now we can find jobs where we're treated with respect and get paid better than the average janitor.
Do you think things will ever improve if
people like you keep happily taking ANYTHING they throw at you? Why should they pay more or give us better working conditions when there are too many who will accept whatever they dish out with no questions asked???
It's decent. They are always working to improve it.
You have to click to different pages to run searches and add copies, but the platforms runs pretty quickly. They do listen to the MTs in working towards perfecting it. It all takes time though. I've been with them for several months now and they have upgraded twice. I don't think you'll have a problem with it.
That should improve the high and mighty..sm
condescending attitude of US QA's. Some of them, you can't do anything right...one way today, contradicting themselves tomorrow. But then we have to remember the QAs are PAID TO FIND FAULT.
Overall they are pretty good but they could improve
the payroll department. Seems to be a lot of errors, you get your lost money eventually but they seem to take their sweet time about it.
There's a very simple solution to MTs that don't improve
You put them on warning after so many same mistakes and then if they continue to make the same mistakes, you follow through and LET THEM GO. End of sob story. As QA, part of the job is weeding out the inept. Why any MTSO would keep an MT that continually made the same mistakes and compromised quality to that degree is beyond me. Highly nonproductive and bad business practices, IMO.
Amen to that. If things don't improve, I'll be forced out, too (nm0
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Tee hee, love it, especiall "anything I can do to improve my dictation....Ha, Ha
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Even if VR quality does improve, if we refuse to edit overseas dictation, they will still... SM
have no choice but to keep the work here. Once again, we hold the key. Our destiny resides with us on this issue as well.
So you know - there are companies who appreciate your MT skills more
doing op reports. So many MTs don't have experience or don't want to do them. You can negotiate with other companies. Not sure you will get 12 cpl but maybe 11 cpl.
Good luck.
The only skills you need at Amphion
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you might want to explain what 10-key skills are because(sm)
it sounds like, from reading the posts below, the only ones who know what these skills are are the Amphion MTs. It also sounds like some sort of skill that anyone wanting to apply to Amphion might need to possess. So, please, enlighten the rest of us who have been MTs for 10, 20, 30+ years and have never heard of this. Not being snide, just curious as to this new term. TIA
Definition of 10-key skills
Accounting courses teach 10-key skills by touch the same way typing courses teach keyboarding by touch. When you are entering numbers, it is much, much, much easier and faster to use the keypad to the right instead of the numbers on the top row of the keyboard. This is by touch, not by hunting and pecking the numbers to the right of the keyboard.
Well, with your writing skills.....
They're probably happy to be rid of you  .
Get out and keep your skills fresh.
A good MT will have ESL skills
When starting in 1973, there were a lot of ESLs; work on getting better at transcribing them..IT'S OUR JOB.
Life is not fantasy world where everything goes the way we want and/or there are no challenges. It's called reality. I get compensated more for my ability to transcribe ESLs well. The new economy calls for being indespensible and helps protect your job.
I am so impressed with your skills
not- you sound like you are the only 1 who does well on VR, making you faster and better than most so you say. Did you break your arm patting yourself on your back?
I am NOT judging anyone skills sm
by the number of years on the job. You have taken this way out of context and I am not even going to address the diatribe. Well, except for one thing.....your comment about folks making the same wage no matter how many years they have been in the business.
If you were in another profession and you were there 20, 25, 30 years and someone came in to the office making the same as you or maybe even more, wouldn't you be just a tad irritated? My goodness why have pay scales?
I am so glad you have never had to ask for help or ask a question on the word board etc, arent' you just special? I don't know an MT alive that hasn't had to ask a question now and then no matter how many years they have been doing this. Sometimes you just can't find what you are looking for. Granted, probably 99% of the time folks can find things on their own but no one is 100% perfect that they never have to ask a question.
What you don't realize is the opinions you have really DO come from being a newbie. When you have been in this for years and years you will know that not all things are so perfect. You really do have the know it all attitude of a newbie. You may be an exceptional newbie and one who is a very quick learner, reserches to find what you want, but you still have the attitude!
Actually with that attitude, you really do need to ALWAYS be working at home alone because you would never last in an office full of MTs. There are folks who do need mentoring, know they need mentoring and are not afraid to ask for help. So glad you never make a mistake, can ALWAYS find what you are looking for and never need to ask questions. You are just to perfect for words!
Do you have proof of this buy out?
Very interesting stuff here
That is no proof.
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There is proof - as there was proof for OSI
There is validity to the MTs on this board. They provided the proof for the administrator to oust OSi from here, and if need be, they will be able to provide proof regarding Transcend. You just have to weigh what is important to you. I personally will not give my time or talents to any company not willing to go with 100% US based help. That's my preference, yours is up to you.
100% proof
Actually, you are to proof 100% but you are not requird to proof to voice 100%. However, I always did that anyway because if my name is going on it, it is going to be correct.
You have proof?
I'd love to see the proof. I heard they use US MTs only.
Proof
Do you really have any proof of this? I think if not, you are getting a lot of people upset, especially with the holiday season coming up. On the other hand, if you do, please provide what you know so others can make decisions about what to do.
I think you need some proof that it is bad -
you are probably going to have to deposit it at your bank and wait for it to come back to you. Be forewarned though, your bank will charge you a fee when it is returned (usually between $5-10). Then you can take it to the magistrate court and take out a warrant for a bad check.
Good Luck!
our kids will have to learns skills such as
even lawyers are offshored now
we will never change... the big guys like congress and bush are messing up our lives... combine offshoring with the influx of illegals doing the hands on jobs and middle america is history, as we knew it, never to be the same. It could have been prevented...other countries doe it, but we are at the mercy of the big guys. I have a feeling if we were at the mercy of the big GIRLS such as hillary and other women, we would be in better shape. Men are motivated by small heads and testosterone.
My skills are gone. I am a Diskriter employee
I have worked for Diskriter right out of school for awhile now. In the past 3 months, I have failed over 25 employment tests. At first, I thought how could this be I work for a national company, Diskriter, so how come I cannot pass an employment test. How can I get the skills to pass an employment test? When hired at Diskriter, I only took a written test. Q and A at Diskriter barely exists. I thought this was a dream job, but now I am limited because I cannot pass an employment test. Am I the only one in this situation? At Diskriter the important thing is making 1200 lines per day. If you make your line count, you can send everything to the site, which I have done to make my line count. Now it is coming back to haunt me. Please do not judge me. All I want to do now is get a better job. Diskriter is not the company for me, even though QA is nonexistent. Thanks
There are a lot who also do not know basic English skills. Example: (sm)
the difference between their, there, and they're. Affect, effect. Basic skills of sentence structure. Just knowing some medical words does not make you a good MT.
Maybe nothing available that fits your skills and what they are looking for. That doesn't mean
You might have come across as difficult to work with if you turned down what they were going to put you on. Maybe there was nothing available for YOU. I did recruiting for another national in the past and would never do that again because this is the most miserable group of people in the world. Jeesh. Get over yourself.
maybe he/she has excellent skills without mistakes
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key skills have nothing to do with demos on different accounts
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It isn't "typing" skills they are interested in, it is
transcription skills - big difference. An oral interview will yield the information as well, if not better than doing transcription. If transcribing you have references available and can take time to look things up, if an oral interview you have to know your stuff or else.
Skills only a small part..
It doesnt make a blankity blank bit of difference how skillful you are if you have a munged up system in your way. Certainly gaining skills is a good thing. But, I'd expect the mangement teams in these companies to be evauating that and leading in that area. They don't know how to evaluate squat, not skills, not how to improve, not their system, not their satisfaction, not their own skills, not, nada, zippo, nothing. These companies need to be bashed. The way they compare to other industries is ghastly. It's hard to get better through osmosis. And no, don't work for Spheris. Their attitude is far and above one of the worsts. You want people to get better? Teach them, instead of managing them. This industry needs an overhaul. I'm working hard at exiting. Almost there.
Use some of your research skills and search the
archives. SS is a terrible company and I would not recommend them to my worst enema. You won't find much good about them in the archives either.
How about they added an ad. I proof all day, can't seem to
do it when I don't have to.
Where is that published? Need PROOF!
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Do you have proof that they offshore?
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what kind of proof do you want:?
and still have proof of it ALL after 2 years! There will always be those who have a good experience at a company and assume that it is the same for everyone at that company. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that is not the case.
Yes and it was not a claim..have proof. Thanks
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I have no proof but believe they do. I used to work in QA and the
work was so bad I had to almost completely redo the reports. That was 3 to 4 years ago, and an owner of another MT board asked if they offshored. I don't know what she knew that made her question it. I wouldn't be surprised if they offshored because they can't keep U.S. MTs.
There ya go, proof positive!
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Recession proof job
In these uncertain times, just curious how everyone sees the outlook of an MT? With voice recognition, how do you see the job market in 10 years? I am an instructor at a local small community college that teaches basic transcription and this is a topic of discussion. Any help would be appreciated!
Recession proof .. ??
I think that you need to tell your students we are in a situation now that eludes all reason as tight money makes us all possible victims of this recession. If hospitals or businesses cannot borrow money in a fluid way then payrolls become a problem. Otherwise, MT is not going away, but it is changing and to stay relevant you have to change with the time and the technology, which drives the train. A dose of realism is often the best way to make a point.
As for recession proof sm
I feel pretty recession proof.
I have 2 jobs and will make more as an MT this year than I have ever have. I don't work as much or as hard as you might think. I am break taker and if I actually spent 8 hours a day physically typing I would be surprised, but I will still come up over $45K this year. It is my speed and accuracy that allows me to be the break taker I am. When I am at the keyboard, I AM ALL IN and when I break, I break.
I am also aware that MT is changing, but not going away. I don't feel taken advantage of and I don't feel I am underpaid. I don't think that corporations are squeezing me or that I have overseas competition. I feel that as MTs go, I am sitting right up there at the top of the heap. If either of my companies start reducing staffing levels, I will not be one of the ones they let go. In the one case, I know I would be the first on the list to be retained. I don't actually worry about having a job or finding a new one when needed. My problem is usually fielding offers and deciding which one to pick.
This is not most of us though and I understand that. I worry for those of you who are not at the top of this profession and will have to worry about where it is going a lot sooner than I shall.
Proof that WMX reads here.
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If they're lacking in skills as you say, maybe they should apply for
They're already qualified for that, especially if they have 7 kids and no experience at MT any further back than 2003.
or maybe some offices still have poor mgmt & skills
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Honestly, think it is PD (recruiter). No grammar skills. BUT it could be Flo
hee...hee...hee
Please work on your typing skills - your post has so
flexible, not flexable Spheris, not Spheirs MedQuist, cap the Q appreciated, not appriciated Also, it would be, ... with flexible hours (for those sleepless nights). ... I think if you will have difficulty finding and holding a job with those kinds of mistakes.
How arrogant. I have been doing this for 20+ years and have no idea what your 10-key skills sm
is a reference to. Throwing little code phrases out that mean nothing to the vast majority of MTs as a measurement of MT skills does not help your point of view at all.
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