Nope, suddenly no work at TT this morning
Posted By: Sandra McMillan on 2009-06-23
In Reply to: Hmm .. the TTers are not complaining anymore and Focus/Nuance are advertising again. nm - Maybe gourdpainter was right
What is up with this???
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Diwali 5-day celebration and suddenly there is more work
I couldn't afford to take a 5 day holiday!
Has anyone ever noticed from Amherst MQ there seems to be work in the account and then suddenly
it just strangely disappears. Any clue where it goes.
Why is work load at Webmedx suddenly low during peak flu/RSV season? sm
Accounts that were on OT for a couple of weeks now have single-digit jobs pending, not all, obviously, but most.
There was no work for me this morning and . . .
that was okay. I spent more time with my 2 babies. I held my 9 1/2 month old in my arms while he struggled to stay awake and finally gave in to his sleepiness. As I type this, I am listening to my "almost 2-year-old" laying on the living room floor "watching" TV talking to herself, curled up with her blanket, and almost sleeping. It makes me smile. Just about 15 minutes ago, I snuck outside and gave my horse a carrot and she nickered a nice hello. THAT is why I'm home.
I work for Transcend. Have been for about a 1-1/2 months. I have learned a lot and I hope to learn more. I checked my Ps and Qs before I left my in-house, cushy, very solid clinic position to work at home. I checked the money situation. (I was also lucky enough to land an IC job with a local clinic that pays .12cpl, but only comes out to $100 a week as they don't have much work for me.) I hemmed and hawed over it for 7 months before I made my decision to stay home. I will admit it, it is a little frustrating not to have work, but, there will be work later. I may never have benefits through them, I may have to marry my (not so darling...ha ha) boyfriend (the father of the two kids) in order to get health insurance....but I'll deal with it. I LOVE being at home. (BF is jealous and wants to be home to, my Dad, who is soon to be retiring, is jealous as well. Course, they're MEN and wouldn't be able to work and watch the kids, but I'll let them be jealous!)
When I first started with transcription over 7 years ago, I never even thought of working at home, never really crossed my mind. I feel very lucky to be in a career that allows me to do both, be at home and still have a career. I'm not afraid of hard work or minor setbacks. I've put up a 1/4 mile of horse fence in 90+ degree weather, this is easy. Sure, it may come with some "bull****, and slow times, and frustrating times, but then I have a morning like I did today...(see above)...and I sigh...and smile.  To each his/her own. If ya don't like the stew, get out of the pot.
No, just out of work this morning
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No work this morning. nm
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Anyone have work at MDI this morning? nm
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I love MT work... I get up in the morning
put on a blonde wig and a tight dress, look like Anna Nicole Smith and type all day long. And I'm not even a woman!
Another morning with no work ... sigh. nm
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Yippee I actually did run out of work this morning!
Just went on out to the garden and picked some strawberries and rhubarb and made a pie. Let's see what other fun I can have today. The weekend is coming up and I'm betting there'll be more than plenty and no long line of people waiting to do it.
Weird, I had work this morning and all day. sm
I will say that if you are going to hit no work, generally it is on a Monday a.m. after payroll ended Sunday night; everyone who was short on hours during the week ends up making up time on Sunday nights and it takes a few hours for Monday's work to stockpile.
There's a BUNCH on there now!
Any other TransTech people out of work this morning? sm
After the big hiring blitz, I am afraid that maybe my account is getting saturated. I guess that is the way with all good things ... it doesn't last.
Why is TransTech hiring when I have no work this morning? sm
Why do these companies do this? Hire, hire, hire while I am sitting here waiting for work for the past 3 hours.
my work loads anywhere from the morning to late afternoon...
but I have until sunday until midnight to get it done, so it is not like you are working the entire weekend...depends how fast and motivated you are--LOL
Amen! Yeah, work was low Tues morning,
but I said THANK GOODNESS so I could take a break. Came back later and there was plenty.
It's not like gasoline where a supply can be kept for the low times. No; any transcription company has to try to stay within TAT or they lose money. When they lose money, do they penalize the MTs? Nope; they eat it.
I firmly believe that the good companies want to hire good people and keep them, but also get good accounts and keep them, so they have to delicately manage things the best they can. They have to let people take vacations now and then, and they can't predict when people will be sick or have emergencies. If you've ever worked in a hospital medical records department, you know that some of the docs are notorious for waiting until they are threatened with loss of privileges before they catch up their backlogs. So then they go in and dictate 200 reports they shoud have been doing for the last 2 months. Get a few of those and then there's a real crisis. Everybody gets a notice to work - work - work. Finally 2 weeks later everybody has worked their tushes off and done all this extra work, and everything is caught up on Monday morning. Then the docs come straggling in to do their dictations on Monday, while MTs sit at their desks, fuming because their is no work. Well whose fault is that? Management's? Nope, that's just business. I doubt there is a business in this world that is the same day in and day out, 7 days a week, every week of the year.
Thanksgiving is weeks away, yet no work on TransTech this morning. sm
I have 2 accounts, with no work on either. I used to think they cared, but now I am not so sure. If there is no work now, I have to think the closer it gets to Thanksgiving, it will really be awful. 
That explains it, yesterday I had no work, this morning DS on today's date. NM
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Clinic or acute care? I am looking to work 5-6 hours a day during the morning and early SM
afternoon hours. Which type of work is more appropriate for this kind of schedule, clinic or acute care? I really do have some time constraints outside of these hours as well as on weekends, so I need to find something where I can concentrate on working during those daytime hours. I am a newer Transcriptionist (at this point looking for IC), and I am hoping to find a place to stay for a long time. Any advice appreciated. Thanks
Thanks, sure don't want to work there. Nope.
Thanks for telling us. There are so many not so good companies out there especially the no pay, late pay, no email response to this and that, staying online all day trying to get lines, clicking, clicking. Not a good thing going on. They probably have QA running scared thus they create problems to show the boss, hey, I have value here, see me, see me. They reword (unnecessary I might ad) call it an error. UGH. When the personal preference thing is going on -- now how the heck can anybody be a mind reader how each particular QA will reword. Ugh. No respect, just run on fear tactics which never really works in the end, it just does not.
Nope! If you would happen to go to work there (sm)
don't let them put you on a VA account, the account coordinator is vicious! Their QA manager and staff are also unqualified. I have given notice and will be out of there soon. Honestly, you can do better. Keep looking!
Nope. Have plenty of work. nm
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nope, not me, NOPE Worked to hard and long to sm
know what I know, my expertise is worth more and constant updating . Keep looking on the job boards. Email and ask if VR, pay for space and lowest to highest line rate for the POSITION (generic question) not I have 20 years exp. etc
Don't you just LOVE the way job suddenly - sm
just go poof! out of your queue whenever it looks like a halfway doable one - and replaced STAT (think we won't notice) with a piece of s---. So tired of getting one piece of crap after another, while they get to pick & choose the best ON TOP OF THEIR HOURLY/WEEKLY SALARY! And we're stuck with 99% ESLs or other garbage. You KNOW mgmt. won't do anything. I confronted ONE lead & was rudely told, What difference does it make? You haven't even started on it! It makes a LOT of ------g difference when they're literally taking food off of our tables. And they have the power to do this -- even at the Q, we got routed 1 job at a time automatically -- if an MT was free, he/she got the next job that popped up, and if that job were to be rejected, we had to add a note as to reason. That's the only fair way to do it -- work should flow naturally - not a few selected holier-than-thou beeches selecting work THEY want to do and leave the manure for us to figure out. This would NOT be tolerated in an in-house/hospital job, not matter who did it. But we all know it's going to continue w/o support from mgmt. 
BECAUSE EVERYONE QUIT WHEN THEY SUDDENLY TOOK AWAY SPACES
 That is why there is an incentive. The manual for pay STATES by the 5th and by the 20th. LAST 3 TIMES NOT. Obviously, you got paid on time. Do not know who you know but no one else was paid on time. Try and get an answer why not TOO. Good luck seeing the incentive. You are dreaming.
Yeah, you guys sure got quite suddenly. nm
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Whoops. I meant quiet suddenly. nm
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Foreclosure doesnt pop up suddenly overnight.Why
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Yes, but if you called off suddenly a couple times a month because you just didn't feel like
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Your post was on this morning because
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Very funny. Thanks for the morning
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My, my, having a bad morning? Sheesh.
I can't see what was so offensive about the first post.
I had one similar this morning
Only it was from Meditech. Never applied there. Letter sounded pretty similar to yours though.
Electric off this morning?
I think they had thunderstorms this morning and maybe a tornado. Their electric may be off.
Sorry, Monday morning
I could not find any posts on this company.
Thanks, I actually have an interview in the morning. nm
I applied this morning
I took the test by playing and pausing. Then I went back through the dictation and filled in and corrected. I had to play each section about 4 times to finally get it all.
My deposit was in this morning
When did you send your line count to invoices?
I'm not a cheerleader, I just think the good things should be mentioned as well as the bad.
2 cpl isn't worth getting out of bed for in the morning.
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Not a single job this morning. nm
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We get disrespected each and every morning
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I guess it is possible but not at the rate it went out this morning. I think if it gets a little
LATE in terms of their LATE which is not late but well within TAT but not 1 hour it seems to disappear. My account flew out the window this morning in about 30 minutes from yesterday so I doubt it got done that fast.
Thanks for the morning lesson on ethics.
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Guess someone got up with an attitude this morning.
You know, I rarely do visit this site, but when I do and I have something worthwhile to say to clarify for someone that really does have a question to answer. I like to answer it. One would wonder if you would be so bold if you were not afraid to use your real name and stand behind your bold statements. There are many great MTs who really would have pertinent questions. One person's experience with a company may not be the same experience that another MT might have. As for my snobby nose, I think you can ask anyone that really knows me and you would find that I am probably the most caring, professional and strong advocate for the MTs that you are ever going to run across. Thanks for your time and you have a wonderful day.
Morning! Can any of you computer-savvy MTs tell me how to
From another program in Word based on 65-character. I know I saw it on here somewhere. TIA!
I was curious about that post this morning
too and did a little checking. I got curious because of the middle eastern sounding name for an email address. They also had an address listed in Viena VA plus a phone number. I did a check on the area code of the provided number and it was out of North Dakota. I would not think this was a reputable place to work, if even existent. Maybe that is why post was removed.
I don't care if it is 3 am Sunday morning, get up and
I had mine this morning but let me ask about wrong
This is my first time hearing about your pay being wrong. Give some background. Has it happened to you or someone you know? Thanks
The Intranet is down but being reset. Try again in the morning if you do not get in.
I just called my lead in a panic, but she said not to worry as long as they are in by the 31st at midnight we are OK and if it were down then, they would take them manually. Has not happened to me in the 2 years I have been with them!
The intranet will be down until Monday morning. sm
The upgrade pulled the system down but it will be back up by Monday morning.
Oh yes...I pulled 25 echos in a row this morning
even though the work is always routed evenly to all MTs at my company. Right.
Wondered where my better dictators were when I got on at 3 a.m. this morning.
It is really irritating when pets are put the good/best dictators in their pool and I am put the worst. Glad you GOT your lines, because I took the beating doing what we should have been sharing, report-wise, rather than leads filling pools of their pets with the good stuff!
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