Oops..excuse me..before I get caught..not "your" but you're.. NM
Posted By: Transcender 2 on 2007-10-16
In Reply to: It has been a little slower this week but depends on the account your on. - Transcender 2
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Sorry, that should be "your" statement - OOPS
I make silly typos when I'm riled up. My bad.
And "your" and "you're!"
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My take: They're using the recession as an excuse
justify sending more work out to India. Just one more reason to convince our legislators to pull the plug on offshoring without some kind of monetary consequence for those companies that do it.
oops - should be they're the same nm
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Oops, that should be there instead of they're!
Sorry about that grammar error. I'm really NOT stupid!
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oops sorry for the typo -- "were" instead of "we're",..It's bedtime over here..nm
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So what are you going to do when "your clients" (sm)
So what are you going to do when your clients decide that they want to pay you anymore and go with someone cheaper? It will happen to you, too!
I'd tell Suanne, "Your PC's out at the curb -
Oy. What really gets me is these people always find a way to 'justify' cheating MTs at every turn, and yet if one of us makes an honest mistake, (i.e., doesn't put a semicolon in the right place), or gets the flu and can't work for one day, they're ready to hang us up by our thumbs. I'd have sure had a GOOD TIME with anyone who tried to charge me money for setting up THEIR equipment to do THEIR work. Yup. Their PC would be sitting out on my curb right now, with a great big 'FREE' sign on it.
Or it could be that "your company" couldn't quite make the cut.
eyes wide open
Aren't you cheery? Happy said "your mileage may vary" sm
I don't think the OP was saying that the company was perfect for everyone. Geez, rain on everyone's parade 'cause you don't think AAMT is squat. It was one person's opinion and thus at least a place to start.
Something that caught my eye here is
you said an older woman. Good common sense should play into the part about the chem-7, just ordinary, every day sense, doctors, hmmmm, medicine, chemistry, sorta goes together. I would think a child should know that.
Just caught you in a lie.........sm
You said you typed 130 wpm yet you only make $17 an hour on VR. No way would you make that little with typing straight at 130 wpm. You must be thinking 130 lines per hour! 17 bucks an hour STINKS! I make $20 an hour typing and I made $25 an hour editing humans. !!!! so there smarmy pants!
DON'T GET CAUGHT IN YOUR OWN LIE. sm
 First of all, you're obviously mgmt. since you know so much about inside goings-on.
Second, and here is where the fib comes in: You expect us to believe that Leads don't type on their own lead shift (they're too busy, too much to do-LMAO) - and their lead shift is obviously a 40-hour shift, if the hours on the bottom all of their holier-than-thou e-mails are to be believed - when DO they do their transcription - during their SECOND shift or 41st hour ( I assume they finish their 40-hour lead shift and then get paid OT to do their typing). Are you another one who thinks all the rest of us peon MTs are so dumb. MTs regularly get the halfway decent work taken out of their queus and get h--l when they compain about it.
yes, I caught them first
but already sent e/m asking them to forgive them. I am so flipping tore up over all this. Thanks for the good suggestion though.
I caught that...
I wondered if perhaps the OP was attempting to alleviate her own guilt about staying for some reason.
As one of the MTs who DID leave as soon as they saw fit to quit routing their MTs work, I just kind of chuckled at her wondering which MTs actually left. I don't know about the OP, but there's no way I'm spending my valuable time sitting at a computer waiting for a few reports to trickle in. There are too many other 'fish in the sea'. We were not even employees; we were SE or IC status. They owed me nothing but a paycheck and I owed them nothing but my daily line commitment.
I'm not going to be loyal to ANY company that would, by choice, let MTs sit and starve while they ignore emails and deceive their staff. My loyalty is to myself and my family, for whom I provide. Other than that, I've never had a problem separating my 'professional' life from my 'personal' life.
I feel no guilt whatsoever. It was not my role in life to 'serve' MDI (or any other company). They contracted my services and my loyalty to them was in force during whatever hours I would transcribe for them; other than that, call me insensitive or selfish or greedy, but I don't feel guilty about anything regarding my actions.
They chose to sell, I chose to walk.
Plain and simple.
Thank goodness someone other than me caught that!
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uh uh.. I had 2 that were not; they caught me off guard.
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I think they caught a lot of slack....sm
from the clients when the trouble was going on in India and most of their clients demanded to be brought back onshore. That is why most of the accounts are so good....very good dictators. remember, the easy stuff always goes offshore.
They got caught lying about offshoring!
Love it when one of these companies gets called on the carpet! 
Other than the offshore, lied about it and got caught you mean.
maybe they caught on to your attitude and decided against it.
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I think a lot of us were caught off guard with no work
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I got caught in a new job awhile back
that went dry for months and it really hurt me financially. Loved the job, loved the people but was on the brink of bankruptcy. My advice would be to keep the sure thing in these economic times. Good luck to you whatever you do.
It caught me by surprise too -- I'm right there with you. Fortunately, I have a 2nd job sm
so that helps take the sting out a bit. I love the people and love the company, but I do not think maybe they realize what a big shock $30 can be sometimes. To me, the more fair thing to have done would have been to say something like effective next check, we will be taking out double premiums until we catch up or whatever. However, cannot unring a bell.
And I have always been a bit disappointed that they wait until the following Monday to pay us instead of that Friday, but for the most part it is a good company. Seems like all of the MTSOs hang on to their $$$ as long as they can -- guess the interest is better in their pockets than on our paychecks.  I was stupid and am now waiting a month to get paid for work I did for a woman in Virginia. Chalk it up to lesson learned.
Good luck to you (and me!). 
Hope you caught my drift....
I think you are precisely right in your perception that communication is discouraged, as I have heard this (but have no proof of it) in the past, not just about Transcend but a few other MTSOs too, that they prefer to keep their employees 'remote' in all senses of the word, including not communicatng with one another.
I don't think you're being kept out of the loop; I think the only 'loop' might be a chosen few higher-ups that communicate.
I could be wrong, but I felt the sting of your post and wanted to let you know it's probably not personal at all, but something shared with a privileged few.
Thanks for wishing everyone luck, and good luck to you as well!!!
Last week we were staying caught up with TAT so I guess
you could consider it a slow week, this week we are out of TAT again, so things are back to normal.
Caught your Cowsills reference. Cute! :) nm
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Actually, we have all resumes caught up to within 24 hours at this time. nm
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I caught that too - "self limiting" gawd
It is the lack of being paid a decent wage for the skill provided/expected, What would it be 40, 50, 60% paycut for the same skills and expectations from the MTs.
Management is paid big wages to manipulate the numbers, and convince the MTs - things are fine, DONT self-limit, you are being treated just fine, the wage is fine, we are fine, you will be fine and the suits march off to the bank.
My heavens have a conscious, don't treat the MTs like a backroom sweat shop, slave labor, like sewing machine workers paid by the piece (literally pennies a piece) and the product is designer labels bringing in thousands per product. Both sides have to be able to survive and not work like slave and still not be able to make it money wise, pay bills, etc
My primary is caught up, but other accounts have some work. NM
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When I worked there about 5 years ago, I caught them backdatng the date sm
on the postage meter as if they had mailed it on payday, like I wouldn't notice that it was POSTMARKED 5 days later! I have used a postage meter before ... you can set the date to anything you like .. duh. It was in my contract that the checks were to be mailed every other Friday from the Tampa airport. I pitched a big fit and finally Giselle Fed Ex'd my checks after that. I would hope by now they would have direct deposit. You shouldn't have to sit and wait for your check and be at the mercy of the mail, nor should you have to pay extra just to make sure you receive it in a timely fashion. They have been in business long enough that they should have established direct deposit. It was posted awhile back that they had it for awhile and then did away with it because of some issue with the bank. I would be very, very careful if you need your check in a timely manner. It seems that they just barely meet payroll, but that was just my impression.
Good luck.
I caught that line also "equals out to" thought ah oh!! means what?
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Nope, the board administrator checked with OSI and they lied to her and got caught.
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Caught that. Thx! Something about competition clauses at the time kept them from hiring in NY state.
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Wow .. I caught them doing that post-dating thing on the postage meter several sm
years ago, dating it on the postage meter for when it SHOULD have been mailed, then the actual postmark being 5-6 days later -- I thought they would have wised up by now. My experience there was not a happy one. At the time they paid by gross line, which was nice, but I was on a nasty account in FL and would run out of work a lot. When I'd call in and tell them that I had no work, the woman would blow it off and laugh and tell me to just take the day off. I had no other source of income, so oddly enough I didn't find it amusing.
You are most definitely upset that your Bush **s-kicking ways have rendered your eyes caught in the
Without MTs, companies would not exist. You and many others have no regard nor respect for hard-working MTS. You can't take it with you. I feel sorry for you. Do the right thing...and, you know what that is.
Excuse me.....what?
we need more details please.
Excuse me, but...
I would say 200 million in DEBT is pretty much going down the tubes. HS was a great place to work, but Spheris leaves much to be desired. I won't even dignify your last comment with a response. lol I was with HS since the very early days, so I am sure I was with the same company longer than you were, as I just recently left myself. Oh wait, every company I ever left? Let's see, 8 years at one and 7 years at the other one. I would say that was a pretty good track record, dear. Sorry you had to make it personal.
Excuse me? But where, exactly did
I simply expressed that radiology and pathology will always be around and need to be transcribed and that the school sounds like the cost is too much. Where am I missing the bullying/harass?
excuse me? you don't know me...sm
ooh - someone woke up nasty or stayed nasty all day, huh?
IF you are presuming to know me, you're coming out of left field...and you have a choice - you did not have to respond.......
Go enjoy your weekend - hope it doesn't rain anymore on your parade.......
      
Excuse me! Wow.
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Excuse me? If I say they did, they did. I ought
to know. My start date was the 1st of the month. Actually my first payday was supposed to be in the bank the 15th of the next month. So do not tell me NEVER when it happened to me. I also know others it happened to also. I do not post things that are not true. I have all of that information and the emails that went with it saved so if you want to post an untruth and say it never happened, you don't know what you are talking about or your memory has lapsed...depending on which KS MT or mgmt person you are. You won't intimidate me dearie, not when my bank account is the best proof along with the documents that support it.
another excuse
I worked for a company that said they maile dchecks Tuesday but it was postmarked friday, and the best excuse was that their bank had an error and they had to wait to send checks, and when they went out - they bounced, so another week or two before the money actually came - anybody ever have dealings with a bank that in themiddle of having the account they began holding your checks for mor etime - usually that is beacuse you bounced to many outgoing, so they hold your deposits - but as MT we are stupid and must believe the hype. I say if a check bounces, press charges, show them we mean business, and if oay is late - tack on surcharges, after all you are contracted for work and pay date is part of the contract. there should be no ecuses, we are not allowed any room for our TAT, we work very hard for the money
There is no excuse for this
The company I work for I don't have to rely on the dictaphone website for my line count where I work now, I look under the sessions stats which are DISABLED on your system. Even if there is a lag there is no excuse for the awful line count, the line count lag has nothing to do with your production. You can put all the shortcuts you want in but your're still gonna work your fingers to the bone. I do about 270 lines/hr now, where I used to do about 150 there if that and that was really struggling. When there is that much descrepancy then I have to wonder what the difference is. Headers and footers are not counted on the account I work on either. Hope things have changed for your sake, if so, thats just great and i wish you luck!
Excuse me but...
I am not the one calling someone small minded. I do fit in at DSG. It is a great place to work if you are a dedicated hardworking MT, so thanks for the compliment and good luck with your job hopping. Hope company #26 will be able to please you.
Well, excuse me!!!!
make roughly $15 an hour? But you REFUSE to do high ESL's. I am glad to know that you can find a job and be able to REFUSE work and make your coworkers pull the load. HEY, KSMT2, how does that make you feel? LMAO. You two are a joke!!!!!!
That's always the excuse
You must not have met their standards. No, they are just a lousy, disorganized company. They did not meet my standards, and I am not the only one. There are many MTs who have had the same exact experience. This is not new information.
To Excuse me?
Well stated!
Excuse me????
Who do you think you are to say this has never happened to me? I have been an MT for 20 years!! Aren't you doing the same thing as the cherry pickers by whining about the crappy report you got? You guys actually look up the job to see if someone dumped it? Are you that pathetic as well that you can't handle transcribing the thing either? It boils down to this - If you are good, not a single report will slow you down. If you are a terrible MT who only can do easy reports, well, I could care less what you throw back in the pile. If my child happened to see a doc who was ESL and an MT started whining about getting the crappy report and spent even a second trying to see if someone was cherry picking - well, I would fire their lazy butt!! All I'm saying is do the darn reports and quit worrying about people who cheat, they aren't any good anyway! You guys call yourself MTs? Please! More like a bunch of babies! This is why being an MT is no longer considered a profession. There was a day when we cared about doing our part for the physicians and the patients. Now we have a bunch of typists complaining and whining. We actually used to get paid very well! I can see why rates have gone down - there aren't any real MTs out there anymore.
Excuse me?
You guys are such a joke!
Excuse me?
When did I defend anyone? No wonder you get so upset about having to do the lousy reports, you can't even read! This is a waste of time. Have fun being paranoid....wah...wah...everyone else is getting the good reports....poor us! Sheesh!
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