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I went full through full QA and was released with above 99%. Additionally, I asked my QA for help regularly for help on some difficult dictators (for the future) and she always commented how throrough I was.

That was before the company changed hands, however, and all QA personnel changed.

and you should stop adding the fuel, I think you are enjoying yourself

the offshoring began.   I don't understand why they wouldn't QA 100% of the work knowing there were quality issues.

I know we're not the only MTs to go through this, but many of us have a long history with QT and unless you've been on the inside you don't truly understand all the emotions we're going through.    I feel like my best friend has just stabbed me in the back. 

10 cpl is more than I make, but I'm pretty fast.  My base rate is 7.5 to 8 cpl depending on which of my 2 accounts I'm on, but since I do enough lines daily to qualify for bonus, I acutally make  9 to 9.5 cpl per line.  I average about 1500 lines per day.  Production is what drives pay, so that's why I'm making what I do.    I think it's unfortunate that years of experience isn't really compensated in this business, but years of experience doesn't always equal what the employer wants, which is speed and low error rate.  Everyone brings a different set of skills to the job.   In the end it's what you produce and not how many years you have behind you that the employer cares about.   Fair or not, that's the nature of this business.   

my company will make things not so nice for an MT hoping they'll quit rather than firing them.  If quality continues to be poor, not meeting TAT, etc., then there may not be enough work, only the horrible dictators, etc.   If things are slow and you are a new hire maybe the old-timers are getting the work.   If a new account went VR that might also explain the work load too.   If you are otherwise happy at KS I'd call and be firm in that you need more work. 

I feel like companies should offer some explanation if work is low.  I know they can't give you what they don't have, but if you are a FT MT, there is a reason you are and you have obligations to meet and it isn't fair that they can't provide the work you need and not give you some feedback.    

I think companies that say stuff like this are, well, I can't say the word but it's a banned one for sure.  HELLO out there...We are paid on PRODUCTION.  No one knows more than us that if we don't make lines, we don't get paid well...of course we all know that they will remind us if for some reason we fall below their predetermined robotic production requirement.

This whole 1/2 hour unpaid for lunch is absolutely infurating to me for some reason which I have yet to figure out.  I can feel my neck veins throbbing even now just thinking about it because the joint where I work pulls the same crapola, and yes it is crapola. 

Man, I so do feel a career change looming.

Some accounts must be affected differently than others, because its as slow or a little worse for me lately.  I guess as long as someone is willing to say the problem is fixed they'll never really fix it.

Issue resolved here, too as of 2:30 p.m.  I really never had any doubts to begin with as pay has never been late. 

They are the most professional group of people I have ever worked with in 20+ years. 

It really irritates me that people have to come to a public forum and tell ALL to people who really have nothing to do with the issue.  If you have issues, go to management.  Maybe it's the people who have to run their mouths (fingers) to every MT in the country that haven't gotten their checks yet. 

Boy, things sure do come back to bite sometimes, don't they?

I know your problem. I just moved from the Oregon Coast and had Hughesnet. The only company that I know of is Oracle Transcription, Inc.  I am not sure if they are hiring though; work has been slow.  Good luck!

Here is my opinion.  I feel that we will all have to become employees in Jan. From what I remember in meeting, Jan 1 date was mentioned, and it seemed to me evasive when asked if we could stay IC.  I do remember them saying if you wanted to be employee now you could do that now. Well, I wonder then if we are going to have a choice, and if we could do it now, why then would there be a Jan 1 date at all? Do you see what I mean? Jan 1 for what? Wouldn't you think that if one wanted to be employee, they'd do it now. So, that's why I think we will not be offered IC. 

Many of us have no work NOW, and can't pay our bills NOW.  What will it be like when we're all even faster and getting paid even less?  We've been losing accounts as fast as we can recruit new ones.

There is one account that the voice is uploaded from another system and it's only the voice files dictated on 2 specific ports there, not all of their dictation.  The company is working to get the problem resolved with the client presently.  I'm holding out because overall I don't think the company is bad. 

Transcendite MT

Maybe I'm just in a grouchy mood but I'm finding it hard to work for a company that cannot keep the line count program up and running.  It has been down for the last 2 days (Thursday and Friday) and I'm just so frustrated with this.  It's not like it only happens once in a great while, oh no, this is a weekly problem.  Maybe I'm just miffed because the entire line count program seems shifty to me in the first place.

Would you have issues with this or should I just keep plugging along in the dark?

Davis Transcription including bounced checks (notice I did not say check).  I gave up.  My work is worth some respect and that is measured by when the company pays.  She has excuse after excuse and the office staff just floats along with her.  Soooo glad I left! 

Good luck

Actually, it's more like $165+ but who's counting when it ain't gonna be paid!  This isn't bashing.  It's trying to call them out--some of these outfits deserve a bad rap if they do this to an MT trying to make a living.  My work was never criticized, QA was good.  It's MTs treating sister (term loosely used) MTs badly.  That's all I will ever say about them again.  They cheated me out pay for work  I performed for the, without the slightest apology or explaination.  I quit working for them, not the other way around.  Why should I continue working in good faith when one pay period went by, then another...  I'm done.  Thanks for the forum.  Good luck to all current happy folks there.   

Look, you can say I am bashing them as much as you want, but that doesn't make it so.  I'm glad you are happily employed there.  I'm glad for anyone who is happily employed there or anywhere, whether it is a good company by reputation or not.  We all work hard and we all deserve to be treated well.  I just wanted to make sure that whoever she is - and I don't know her and she doesn't know me and I don't know you and you don't know me - actually worked for the company she was plugging as the best.  Now we all know that she does work there, even though she cannot spell it, which you must admit is odd. 

If there is anybody who thinks it is quite normal for a person not to be able to spell the name of the company she works for, please raise your hand.