News flash!! Keystrokes is not perfect (sm)

And neither are you, nor any of us!  Some companies, not just MTSOs, keep their promised callback times and turn out to be horrible employers. 

To the original poster, give them a call and see if are being duped. 

• Keystrokes cracks me up!! - I was promised on Sunday that I would receive
  • Sounds like ATSI - sounds familiar....
    • OMIGod - me, too! nm - boomerMT
      • You too..... - sounds familiar....
  • extremely unorganized and this - smt
    • Unorganzed Keystrokes - HappyMT
  • Me too - same boat MT
  • Since this is Wednesday and they were supposed to call Monday (sm) - Another Ohio MT
  • I talked to them yesterday, and they did not have any more FT rad positions for day shift. sm - Patient Rad MT
  • They called me Monday and I started yesterday. sm - New at Keystrokes
    • Maybe you ought to read my post a little slower - so that you can understand it.
      • well Keystrokes isn't a fit for everyone so good luck wherever you go....:) - KeystrokesMT
        • Just to fill you in, I applied with Keystrokes over a month - ago and tested. I have since found
          • I make much more than $17 an hour, more in the $30 range. sm - KS MT
            • I also make in the $30 range at KS - KSMT2
              • I make around $30 too!! - fastMT
                • This post has cherrypicking all over it. - HAHA no message
                • Well, excuse me!!!! - So, if you had high ESL's, you would only
                  • It's called using my nogin. - frustratedMT
                    • I say to you, I have no room for .... - CHERRY PICKER'S nm
                      • definition of a cherry picker - fastMT
    • No, this just goes to show yet another MT - being dooped by Keystrokes....
      • News flash!! Keystrokes is not perfect (sm) - Keystrokes MT
        • Another News Flash! - see message
          • LOTs KS' MTs paychecks prove otherwise (sm) - Keystrokes MT
            • Oops! - Make that ominous sign (sm) - Keystrokes MTT
            • Should be LOTS of KS' MTs' paychecks...nm - Keystrokes MT
  • I'm not management - major staffing changes and - Keystrokes MT
    • so sick of hearing that excuse - blah blah
      • My guess - they'll grow until their #1 (sm) - Keystrokes MT
        • Until they're #1 :) [nm] - Keystrokes MT
      • You should check your facts. They have had constant growth, being on the sm - KSTranscriptionist
        • yada, yada - SM
          • Maybe they didn't call her/him for a reason. They called me on Monday and I start tomorrow! sm - New Hire
            • Why would they throw her resume in the trash if - they promised to call her?
            • Congratulations and welcome aboard! (nm) - Keystrokes MT

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in the same # of hours in a day than they do straight transcribing.  I know because I and others with the company I work for do.   When I was straight transcribing I averaged making $12 an hour.  Now that I'm editing about 90% of the time I'm averaging making $13.50 an hour.  Now THAT pays the bills faster, and I'm still working the same # of hours a week! 

Just because someone posts that VR is the wave of the future doesn't mean they're in management - they're just being realistic about what is happening in this industry (just as they referred to the copier and PCs).  

Of course if you think it's really going to hurt you to do VR then perhaps you should go back to an IBM typewriter and get your own accounts.  After all - using a PC and expanders is helping you get paid for work you're not actually transcribing (yup, think about those expanders - I bet you're not fussing over getting paid to have those kick in instead of having to type out those words, or consider the header information that blows in for you from an ADT feed that you're not having to manually type). 

I am looking into those 3 companies for part-time employment, and I wondered if anybody who works there could email me to provide any feedback on the company.  Is the work load steady, is their pay on time, is their platform productive, how flexible are they, how are they to work for, etc. 

Please email me -- all responses will be kept confidential.

With Lee Perfect, I'm looking at the VR platform, the Dictaphone EXText, and I'm not sure about the one at Keystrokes. 

Thanks in advance!

change or growth.  What I was talking about was the continuous posting by the same people, over and over again, that is vague and destructive.  This is not just about Keystrokes, this is about the posts for other companies as well.

I think that not every MT is a good fit for every company, and not every company is good fit for every MT.  If this were the case, there would be very little job searching or hiring going on, only if someone retired or left the field or entered the field.

It is the outright lying that is so horrible.  Keystrokes is a transcription company which means that we have the normal ups and downs that every company has in terms of slow and busy periods.  We have been very fortunate to have very little down time due to busy and also new accounts. 

If there are check problems, they are resolved.  We all wish there were no problems and this is the biggest topic at manager meetings, but human error comes into play here as well.  We have a new time recording system that should eliminate that, if the information is entered correctly from the MT. 

If there are tough dictators on the account, it is not the fault of the company.  It is the fault of the hospital that has them on staff, but you have to take the good with the bad.

If there are QA complaints, it is usually that the leads are too strict.  The owners have said that they would rather be known for being too picky than too lenient, thus having accounts say the work is not up to standard. 

If there is a reliability problem, it just might not be a good fit.

I know that if I were to take over recruiting and hiring (which I absolutely want NOTHING to do with), I would not take job hoppers.  However, I have been told that you have to look at the hopping and why it has happened.  A lot could be poor choices.  That's why I will never be in charge of hiring, but I can control the MT QA and reliability once they are on my account.

I worked there.  The manager is extremely nice in the beginning and then is really mean and rude after you've been there awhile.  I would never consider working for her again even if she paid .15 a line.  It's just not worth it to me.

Feel free to do a search on this board.   I thought maybe things had gotten better, but there are others who had the same experience with them.

Good luck!

I would never bite the  hand that feeds me or bad-mouth a company I worked for.  Since I have been gone from TT now for a year, I feel  no obligation whatsoever.  I did a lot of research before I quit and my conclusion was/is that TT is just a drop off station for Dictaphone.  I did research on my 2 primaries (lost) and found that both dried up when they fully implemented Dictaphone VR.  I further concluded that the hospitals switch over to a very few in-house MT editors and poof, all TT gets is overflow.   I seriously doubt that they have many, if any, contracts of their own.  Obviously things have gotten worse since I quit so why would anyone expect it will improve?  I think not.

The TT management person I was so proud of, I am now not so proud of anymore.  I don't know what happened to her.  The person I have known so long didn't have it in her to be be less than straight forward.  She did, before I quit, even learn to  hit the ignore button on my emails.  This hurt me tremendously!   Didn't even reply to my letter of resignation.  Thus...I highly doubt that any of you who claim to be in the know know anything at all unless you are part of the management team or have done a lot of research and if you've done your research, you know it ain't good..

Don't worry, I don't have to sign my name, TT management, when they read this, will know exactly who I am.

small companies but another service owner told me that she heard that Keystrokes sold to Transcend.  Is this true? 

I posted this down below but meant to post it as a new thread.  Before I apply with them, I would like to know as I left Transcend a few months ago and do NOT want to get back into that mess.

I posted a few months ago about Medware withholding salary for my 401(k) account but not depositing those funds.  I reported them to the Dept. of Labor and an investigation was started.  I'm wondering if any current Medware employees have any news about what is going on?  I have not heard back from Labor, they said it would be a long process.  Thanks for any news.