Not sure that 3 out of 100 or more is a good sign. I stick to my post above. LOL nm
Posted By: hmmm again on 2008-09-22
In Reply to: Thanks Jennifer and Krissy! - Shannon
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Why do ppl have to stick OSI on every post
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Let's stick to facts rather than innuendo. If you can't do that, then don't post.
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ooops. I mean that individual plans suck..not stick as I stated in previous post...NM
When you post something like that and sign it that you're not happy, sm
the bashers have a field day. I wrote a post a few months back that was taken wrong and by the end of the thread, it appeared that KS is the worst company in the world. To me, it is the opposite. I have been around the block too many times, and they are far and above the others out there including all the bigger ones and most of the smaller ones!
Things written on a public board can be taken wrong and can damage the reputation of a company or person. My daughter is going through a bad time right now because of a post that was supposed to be a joke. She's 14 and they are no different than adults when they see something to jump on.
Not a good sign...
Awful lot of people that looked and no one is happy...God I hate this line of work, I really do. But for now I am stuck it pays the extra bills and single mom and two in college. I am at their mercy...
That's usually a good sign..
I work for 2 companies now that I could not find any information on. Though they run low on work occasionally, it is never for long. They both are good to me and pay weekly.
Actually, it's a good sign that a company SM
is about to go down the tubes. Within 2 years of winning that supposed honor, it'll be a sweatshop if it's still operating (and operating using US transcriptionists).
"new name" is never a good sign -nm
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There seems to be new ads on this site everyday, which is a good sign, but
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Nope. No sign-on bonus. Just a good company.
It's hard to find a good company.
Hmmm! Not a good sign! Thanks for your input. Will probably pass it up! no msg
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YIKES... I guess I knew it sounded to good to be true. I wonder if anyone ever gets sign-on bonuses
at any company. Maybe we should take a survey on who actually gets a sign-on bonus. How depressing is that. Now I'm bummed.
i wouldn't sign it, but cross that out and sign
the rest
Good post
These are all things many MTs apparently don't look at. Low rates offered because you can work at home. The only thing you save is commuting cost. They save tons and tons. You should be getting pd more for at-home work, not less.
From what I see in the MT world, these folks are so busy trying to undercut each other's prices rather than acknowledging the amount of education needed to do a good job and getting higher rates.
Did you know that the AAMT was trying to get legislation passed that will prohibit anyone not certified by them from working in the field? You think about that next time you think those little initials at $350 mean something.
Good post. (nm)
(no really - no message). :oD
Good post!
Totally agree with you, Sally!!
Good post...
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Good post.!
''language barrier''--LOL.
Good post. One has to have...
a cushion in this business. If you have done this work for any length of time you should know that there are times of feast or famine. BTW, love Dave Ramsey, hubby and I are going to see him in a couple of weeks. He has good, sound advice regarding money management and not living beyond your means.
Good post. (nm)
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Good Post
You've got some valid points. I am definitely one of the wounded from MQ, but to be honest, I have not been with TT long enough to encounter any major issues...and for that matter, I never really checked my lines at MQ either. I could have been totally ripped off and never knew it. To me, it is of great comfort to work where I feel appreciated, and yes....part of that is a result of the wounding. I guess maybe my head is somewhere else....I am second income, I don't want to dig that deep to make sure I am getting every single penny and line. I come from the Good Ol Days, when a line was a line and boy....did we get paid well, from the days of Pica and Elite, and everyone got Pica, because that was only 10 characters to an inch. Any of you newbies out there won't understand what the heck I'm talking about....but those were the days. I feel sorry for all of Veteran MTer's, who knew the day of $1000.00 a week paychecks...but those days are gone. We were so busy making money then, that the technology just went behind our backs and kicked our butts. So, well....what do we do about it? We could be a nurse, or we could go out and start looking for another career at our ages. Me? NO THANKS! I'm happy and content, and feel blessed with TT that I can still sit in the comfort of my home (making half the money I used to mind you), but TT still has that MA and PA type feel. I love it. Go back to work and put up with peers? NO THANKS! Sometimes when I read these boards...I reinforce my feelings as to WHY I still work at home and make half the money. Okay....enough running on. Gotta go. Gotta work later. Gonna go pay some much-deserved attention to my family that they never got when I worked for the Q. Bye-bye everybody. Have a blessed day.
Very good post
You bring up some very good points.
The big picture is quite scary. I experienced Katrina on the coast, and I kept feeling like I was in a war zone, the devastated environment, the (temporary) martial law in effect, confusion and chaos, reporters obessing on certain story angles and completely ignoring other more vital ones, and all the bureaucratic bunging before during and after....and I realized America is not equipped to handle big disasters, yet we remain in denial and have learned very little from that experience.
Yes, we pay lip service to privacy with HIPAA regulations for ourselves, then send our medical records overseas where the laws don't apply. Every time I am made to comply with another restriction to satisfy HIPAA, I wonder why we bother - so we can delude ourselves that everything is safe and secure? We KNOW it isn't. God forbid I should copy a medical record (without patient identifiers) in order to do a better job tomorrow - it might be a privacy violation! - but its perfectly fine to send it overseas where some disgruntled person can email it all over the world with no legal repurcussions! Or use it for dark political motives, should the record belong to someone famous, or get rich tattling the details to a tabloid.
Its insane that we voluntarily give up more and more freedoms in this country to artificially bump up our sense of security, while undermining that security in a big way by deliberately giving other countries the opportunity to take our jobs, take our private information, and take our way of life, piece by piece. Why are we doing this, and why don't we stop? Are we so short-sighted that we blame the economy for our economic woes without realizing that we are undermining that economy by giving our jobs away and buying cheap imported products?
Why doesn't anybody see the cause and effect? They outsource a job, someone here loses theirs, has financial woes, has to get by cheap, purchases cheap imports, which causes a local factory to go belly up or outsource, and the spiral continues downward. Who will be the consumers of American products - the foreigners who took our jobs? Or will there simply no longer be American products, and no American jobs as a result?
good post
You hit the head on the nail.
Good post!!
I'm always amused at the posts wanting info on the same companies over and over again. Most of us who have been in this business a long time have a fellow MT working for just about every MT company so it is easy to get the poopy-scoopy first hand. Just look at the views on the jobs board. I wager most of these views are not from 30 year veterans! The companies do not care who does the work or whether it is fair or not.
I would never tolerate being out of work either. My contract (or employment) was between myself and the company I worked for, NOT with my fellow MTs. Has nothing to do with being selfish or considerate. If you don't take the work when it's there someone else will do it and keep right on doing it so likely you will never have any work.
There were a number of factors that made me make the decision to retire. Probably would have gone to work for another company, even considered it, then I got the poopy-scoopy from an insider that said that heretofore good company was on a downhill slide. So I'm done with it. MT is no longer a desirable career IMHO.
Very good and thorough post, and you are
can you help me with my problem above? LOL. All kidding aside, I truly believe in books of labor practices, somewhere, there must be something that prohibits employers or management from posing as lower level employees and misrepresenting the aspects of their job. I just have to find it and I will. Liar, liar, pants on fire! 
Now YOURS is a good post! sm
The companies don't *owe you* a living because you can't make ends meet. You either get better at what you do (work smarter, not harder) or pick up extra work with another company. You can't expect them to pay you for NOT WORKING because you can't make money.
The handwriting is on the wall in this industry and if we don't all change and adapt, we should get into another profession.
good post.
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Good post.
I know someone who was just hired though. I also remember the threads on the newcomers only able to transcribe 5 reports a day until they were off QA. Oh yeah, I totally see that as looking out for your contractors... NOT! I'd go broke! If I'm not mistaken, Transcend pays their employees during their training period an hourly rate. Now that's what I call looking out for the newcomer!  I don't work for them either.
Everyone knows you get more bees with honey!
No, they are not the only company out there that hires great MTs, are nice - which is important to so many on this board, and give you flexibility..... You just have to look for them; that's all....
Good post.
I know someone who was just hired though. I also remember the threads on the newcomers only able to transcribe 5 reports a day until they were off QA. Oh yeah, I totally see that as looking out for your contractors... NOT! I'd go broke! If I'm not mistaken, Transcend pays their employees during their training period an hourly rate. Now that's what I call looking out for the newcomer! I don't work for them either.
Everyone knows you get more bees with honey!
No, they are not the only company out there that hires great MTs, are nice - which is important to so many on this board, and give you flexibility..... You just have to look for them; that's all....
Good post....just an FYI
For those considering applying for unemployment, be prepared that it may take months, not weeks, especially considering how many people are on and applying for unemployment these days. I have a friend who applied in September 2008 and, after appeal, did not receive a final decision until Februrary 2009, which was a denial. If you can afford to do it, then go for it, but do not plan on receiving the money and do not borrow money to cover your expenses during that time, as there is a good possibility that you will not ever receive compensation.
This is a really good post. sm
I agree with a lot of what you said. The field is changing and we have to adapt, but then again, isn't EVERY field changing, even globally? We started out with G6 summits, then went to G8, now it's G20. One comment I wanted to share though is that even though the fields are changing, the economic climate is changing for the worst. Capitalism has now become a dirty word because it isn't what it used to be. In the 60s, capitalism stood for the American Dream. Michael Moore (and PLEASE don't think I'm a fan b/c I'm not!) had it right when he said in this day and age capitalism is nothing more than legalized greed. You touched on that when you said that corporations are MANDATED to bring in the most money for their shareholders. Now unfortunately, the gap between the 'average' middle-income American and those at the top is widening at a frightening rate, with us middle-income people racing towards the poverty level.
Diversifying means of income isn't really going to change that. It might put a Band-Aid on a lacerated jugular vein. Real change is only going to happen when the laws governing capitalism are changed. Sadly, I don't see that happening too soon since most of the legislators are those same 'shareholders' and those at the top. These are really scary times that we live in. So, at the very least, coming on this board and screaming at the top of our lungs about MTSOs is really the only release we have...the last little bit of control we have. And, to be honest, a lot of times we do it, not because of capitalism and the fact that these huge conglomerates and CEOs get away with what they do, but because of the way we are treated by the management that represents them. Some management is good...some isn't. We scream at the top of our lungs because we know THEY read it. Unfortunately for them, the good ones are caught in the crossfire. It's really no different than the excellent MTs being caught in the crossfire of the angry managers who send out scathing emails regarding accounts being out of TAT. It just happens.
I say if we want to use this board to scream away, HAVE AT IT. We know we can't really change a whole lot here, but boy it feels good to let off that steam. Off my soapbox now. lol
but this is why it's better to post the good things
Take cpl to email. You can post great things about a company, but once you post how much you make (no matter what company), you are going to upset a lot of people who are inevitably making less than you do. If you must, post a pay range because you can't say they pay 10 cpl period, because obviously they don't.
Nothing good. Recent post says you get
paid when they get paid.
Good post. But hopefully they will just fade
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Very good post. Unfortunately I think its too late for them
to wake up and smell the coffee. They have already lost many of their very good MTs and editors. If they keep on going the way they are now, they will lose accounts.
I just want to comment about the AAMT selection of employer of the year. I did not know how the winner of the award was chosen, and I'm not saying management would send in those forms for themselves, BUT I highly doubt that anyone who works at Medware would send in a nomination on their behalf these days.
Good job...Excellent Post!!!
You could not have said it better or more straight forward.
Agree. Good post.
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recent post are very good but
if you go back aways, yikes. I am always concerned when this happens. Raises the question of concerted effort to rehab a company's rep. Proceed with eyes open, I would say.
There isn't any good, but if you will open you post and down
near the bottom in blue is related posts or comments. Click on that and you can read the most recent posts about them.
Such a good post!! Sums it up quite well!
I absolutely love this business and my job - Right now. Of course this is subject to change without a minutes notice. I have learned that. I have been right there with the rest of you though. This business is not what it used to be and I have considered getting out too. I have compared it to other professions. If you were, say an insurance salesman, etc., etc. You have to be educated and experienced in your field, certified and pay all kinds of state fees, get CE credits, and will still lose clients all the time. That is the business you are in. That is what the MT business has become. Even if you love your company, clients are going to move all the time. When I was finally let go after 10 years due to lack of work and offshoring, I checked into working outside the home in a local office M-F, 9-5, no weekends, or holidays with secure work. At this point there are not many of those either, so I kept looking in the MT business and found that PERFECT job!!! Specialty I love - 9-5 M-F, no nights, weekends, or holidays. I am blessed for now but I do realize that if I stay in this business this too ABSOLUTELY WILL COME TO AN END. They all do. Then I will be on the job hunt again. I just hope I can keep this up until I retire which is not too far off. It is easier than walking into an office applying for a job at my age with all the younger competition. If you hate your job - at least look for something else. I have said it before and I believe this - Serious and dedicated MTs would be much happier in a smaller U.S. Company. They post on here and other sites all the time. They state U.S. only on their job posts and on their web sites. Their pay is better and there is steady work, except around holidays. They do not over-hire. They do not offshore. Even though they lose clients too, I think I will stick with them.
good post, but sad state of affairs nm
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Are you being sarcastic or serious? I thought it was a good post. nm
nm
good guesses, but none of what you stated in your post
I don't believe anything that was said was directed to YOU personally - it is SoftScript that is the JOKE, not you.
I, for one, am glad that you are happy where you're at not all companies are a good fit for all MTs and we all know that.
I speak for myself, with over 35 yrs experience. Personally my time at SoftScript was anything but pleasant and, again, from my point of view if you are willing to put up with J and H more power to you!!
Have a Great Day ALL, and a safe 4th of July!!
Dear Emperor - good post - NM
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You followed the "rules of the post"!! Good job! (I am kidding :-)
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And a great opinion! Good post. nm
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I stick to it
While others simply disappear during the day. Its very easy to work a management job and take on another typing job at the same time, or even another management job for another company all within the same hours!!! Dang double dippers, guess they'll be having a wonderful Christmas while I sit here having to put everything on charge cards. I have absolutely no respect for these people and I do know quite a few. I don't talk to them unless I absolutely have to.
Don't quite know where to stick this, but
does anyone know if there are different legalities on this sort of thing depending on who owns the computer that was used; such as, personally owned PC or one owned by the company that has a problem with what was said on it?
Good post, Amber. And true, too. All professions
restructuring. But anyone with eyes can see that even though the MT profession has changed, there's still a TON of work out there. You know, it behooves the employers out there to have doom and gloom run rampant and the MTs thinking that they can't do any better than 6-8 cpl. Sometimes I wonder if they're the ones spreading most of the doom and gloom, and then some naive MTs are picking it up and shouting it too!
good post, but in response to 'why apply if you don't want the job'....
This is only my opinion. If I am considering taking on a new account, I will send my resume' out to a few companies, and see what offers come in. If it takes one company a day or two to make an offer and another company a week, I may not be available in a week.
Not sure if you think it is proper to send out a resume to just one company, and cross fingers hoping they will call with a decent offer. I, for one, prefer to interview the company, not have the company interview me.
Hope this sheds some insight on why you may not receive a call back from those who submit their resume'. You may be taking too long to get back to them.
Umm, MDI doesn't know who she is by her post so she isn't obligated to give a good exp.
I'm sure MDI doesn't appreciate the lies and people posting like they know something when they don't but I doubt they mind someone posting in their defense re: pure crap posts.
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