Pardon my ignorance
Posted By: but on 2007-01-19
In Reply to: Count me in too for lovin' it! - Hayseed
what is a hayseed and why are you proud to be one?
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pardon the
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I beg your pardon.
But I have no idea what you are talking about. My interpretation was entirely different. There is no need to be nasty.
I BEG YOUR PARDON
I think any company where you cannot verify how many reports you have done in a shift with the line count on the Dictaphone web site is a crock and I told them that. What if you have dropped reports or 2 or 3 of your reports aren't there? You cannot verify that.
There is a part on the beginning that says sessions and it is blocked. This is where the number of reports and line count can be shown for a day.
Pardon me...
I was referring to the person who we reported to directly. You can bet whatever you want. I can only speak truthfully about MY experience. Please feel free to share your experiences, but please don't try to discount someone else's experience with Axolotl because your experience is different. I have no reason to lie. I followed all rules and met all requirements while I was there, even though it was a struggle to do so.
I was well aware of the procedures in bringing QA inconsistencies to the attention of management. However, because of the nasty attitude of the manager, I just dealt with as long as I was there. I did not want to deal with her unless I absolutely had to.
Instead of trying to berate my post and call me a liar, why don't you try to post more constructively and answer the OPs questions. You will not stop me from sharing my experience with Axolotl TRUTHFULLY. As far as I am concerned, your post is pointless as I have no interest in working for Axolotl and have a great job where I am doing well - with kind and professional supes/managers to boot.
Any time I see someone inquiring about Axolotl, if the mood strikes me, I will post my experience again. If you don't like it, too bad. All you are doing is showing that not only does Axolotl have a nasty supe...they also have nasty MTs/QA whichever you may be.
To NOT A SHEEP - I beg your pardon!
First of all, I am don't consider myself one of the "favorites" that you mentioned on your post. I don't get gravy jobs. Au contraire! I'm certain that some people sign out when they see bad dictators because I often get only really bad dictators, but aside from joking about them, I still do them. I don't suck up to anyone. I have not had a raise. The only bonuses I have received were for working extra. I am aware that I am not the only person to experience a disaster (a month after having cancer surgery, mind you), but I received no money from OSi simply for that reason. I can type over 100 words a minute, but I stay on a job until I know that I have given it my best, and QA very, very seldom receives a job from me. I appreciate the people who have shown empathy and tolerance, especially when I'm sure that I was a real handful, and they have been as accommodating as they could reasonably be. I have just lived through a year from hell that is ongoing, and OSi has treated me better than I could ever have expected. I am not trying to be a "favorite." I am simply trying to do the best job that I can. When I take a person's money, I accept no less from myself than to actually work to earn it. I have years and years of experience, probably more years than you have been on this earth, as I cannot believe that a person with maturity and wisdom could write such bunk. I have probably forgotten more than you will ever learn, but I still know my place. I frankly don't care what you say about me. You don't write my paycheck. My loyalty lies to my employer, who has put up with me when they probably would rather have strangled me!
Hoo-boy - ignorance is bliss.
Spheris is deep into switching to voice recognition. MTs are being turned into MTEs - medical text editors.
Of course, if you like the commeradere' of international trade with India, you'll be a happy camper, as they are swiftly overtaking many of the accounts.
It won't take but a minute or two two browse some of the posts on the topic on this very forum.
Here are the highlights -
A few years ago, they took PTO away from part-timers. Then they fiddled with the pay structure and gave people a pay cut. Then they regraded accounts so you had to stretch harder and farther to move up to the next tier to increase your pay. (Oh, yeah, no pay raises. Not never. Not nohow. If you want more money, you have to type faster.)
Where was I? Oh, yeah, last year they took away our HMO. Of course, the corporate employees got to keep it. We were told the MTs were too sickly as a group and were utilizing the insurance too much so they threw us to the wolves and kept the good insurance for themselves. Now they offer what is known in the industry as catastrophic disease insurance. Meaning, if you need any medical attention, drugs, tests, whatever, you get to foot the bill for the first, like four thousand dollars, and then they'll pitch in 60% after that. Pray to God you are either healthy or dying, as those are the only two ways to get any financial benefit from catastropic insurance.
Yesterday we were told we would be excited to know they restructured the holiday pay just in time for Christmas. It was cut by 50%-plus. Merry Christmas.
There is work a-plenty. If your name is Sanjeeb. Otherwise, you'll have to take on ten accounts and scrape around for jobs like the rest of us poor old American working slobs.
Don't fail to meet your line count or you'll get a nasty little note saying shape up or ship out. Doesn't matter if you were on vacation or on a ventilator. Any excuses - valid or otherwise - for not meeting production (like complete lack of work availablel) will fall on deaf ears.
Then there are the TOWN HALL MEETINGS wherein all the MTs are invited to LISTEN to the CEO spiel out his corporate speak. Oh, did I mention that all the MTs are put on MUTE so no one is able to ask questions? Of course, you are invited to submit questions by e-mail ahead of time. I think 90% of the peolpe last time asked about the pay decreases, the lack of work, and the jobs we were losing to India. Guess which of those questions were answered during the meeting. Not a single one. Instead, the CEO answered the question If you could have three wishes, what would they be? Apparently that was the most pressing question. Well, thank God we now know his heart's desire.
I suspect that's the reason they MUTED us on our own TOWN HALL meeting.
Any other questions?
Any other qustions?
Typical Ignorance
You have to excuse people like that. The region of the country has nothing to do with crappy MT companies. Wonder why they apply for companies in the south, when it's easy to look up the company and see where they are located before applying? Perhaps they can't read, or maybe they lost their religion.
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance
But I don't know why it wouldn't. When we use these platforms, at least in theory they are not supposed to do anything to our copy of Word. They just sort of overlay it with their platform. Over the last couple of years, I've accumulated several different platforms on my desktop without problem. Maybe if you tried running both at the same time you would run into issues, but using them separately should present no problem.
ur ignorance is showing now..
You stated VR demands constant checking and correcting throughout the whole document.
Those are the MTs who are so terribly outraged about the change to VR because they cannot make usage of their so helpful, comfortable and practical Expanders anymore.
How dang dumb is that statement. Those helpful, comfortable and practical expanders are what made us more lines and thus made us more valuable to the MTSO by making them more money! Sheesh....
I beg ur pardon, young lady!
I was NOT being sarcastic! Medquist truly IS my best company - my previous company paid $9/hr. and at the Q I make $25 - U may open mouth and insert foot now, missy!
Pardon the typo should be "they are" all bad
NM
I'm afraid ignorance was bliss...
OSI - post away! :(
Wow. You are really displaying your ignorance with that post. (sm)
post. If you really used to work there, as you say, and are not a disgruntled former employee who just couldn't hack it, you would know that they are constantly advertising because they are growing faster than you can imagine. They have three new accounts, which require over 100 transcriptionists, starting between now and the end of the year.
I have been with Transtech for almost three years now and I can tell you they are the best MTSO to work for. You, on the other hand, are obviously some bitter old hag with nothing better to do with his or her time than spew your vitriolic crap in this anonymous forum to try and make some sense of your pathetic existence.
Not faux pas-sheer ignorance. sm
Or possibly you have been living in a cave for the past 20 years.
Just reinforcing my point about ignorance, lol!
Yeah, this is typical...They have no valid points based on FACT, so they resort to this type of retort.
Pretty funny, actually. My husband and I are laughing at some of the falsehoods about VR running rampant through this thread!
My goodness, your ignorance and paranoia
are showing. Maybe you should just sit in your chair and do your job and not speculate about things you know nothing about honey.
Beg your pardon. Not the minority. Hospitals are getting clued in.
important.
If we give them the proof by way of solid proof in educating them on how it is done - they will bring transcription back in-house to gain control of the cost.
Medical records are legal documents. Right now they are carelessly done and at great expense. Hospitals are paying through the nose for this "convenience". Times are getting tough and cost saving measures are on the horizon.
Control control control.
pardon the typos on "Advice needed"
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Their assumptions/accusations are based on ignorance
Much like any other type of prejudice, their assumptions and accusations are based on fear (translated into ignorance). They think that because of their shortcomings and inability to be successful at it, then it's impossible anyone else can be successful at it.
I've stopped wasting my time and energy trying to reason with or explain VR to any of them. Their minds are made up, so let them go work for Jane Doe's little MTSO around the corner that has very little work because they don't do VR. The industry will force them to find other careers in a couple of years anyway.
Their loss, our gain.
Oh, pardon me. It's just that when I'm wondering how I'm gonna make my house pmt
making half what I did last month at this time tends to make me a little testy.
My apologies.
Things AREN'T so rosy, I meant and pardon the typos - nm
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You're right -- ignorance means a person didn't know, and I didnt. Sorry. nm
Ignorance is bliss and bliss equals happy nm
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