Proceed with caution...
Posted By: Been there, done that on 2005-10-03
In Reply to: X-Press transcription - tbarum
Be CAREFUL! Very very careful! Some flaky stuff going on over there...
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Proceed with caution?
What do you know about this company that you are not saying? The name of the company is FASTPHALANGES. What did you not get about that?
proceed with caution
To be fair, when I worked there I really enjoyed my accounts and had a good relationship with my manager. They do have an awesome platform. Then my manager disappeared with no explanation, my good accounts got pulled, and communication really shut down. One day in June my user number was deactivated, and it took me all day to find out I was laid off. There is so much turmoil there now, and many US MTs have been poorly treated. I would be careful. Give them another year or so to stabilize and get their act together, then maybe things will be different (if they survive that long). Best of luck to you!
Proceed with caution...
I keep getting those emails, too, because I applied with them quite awhile back, passed the testing, but declined their offer. Once I started reading many of the posts on this wonderful forum, I was relieved I had passed on their offer.
Please read the archives before you make any decisions regarding Focus. I gather for some, it's a great fit, but the majority of posts I've read here paint a not-so-pretty picture of the company.
Best of luck to you making your decision!!!
Ditto what she said - Proceed with caution! nm
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I'm with you. Proceed with caution basically. Hope for the best and (m)
prepare to have to seek out other avenues. I was raised to be considerate of others at all times and not to screw anybody over, so it's really foreign to me that people would knowingly screw others for their own personal gain. It goes against my DNA to believe such people exist so I have to remind myself not to be a fool and that people like this DO exist. Unfortunately, they weren't all raised by MY parents, lol. But if they treat people like that, eventually they will be TREATED like that and their luck will run out. Then they'll see they shouldn't have been so uncaring about us regular folks.
If they proceed with this, the other SM
companies will start filing lawsuits against employees also. It's ridiculous that someone can say they don't care what happens in this case because tomorrow it could be them receiving papers.
agree about caution prevailing
--you have been offered sage advice by these posters. I am in a situation akin to yours. My fantasy had be quitting my other job straightaway upon the start of at-home work. Ha! So glad I did not. I will resume my hunt for a job suiting me and am relieved that I can expand my search beyond (at-home) transcription. Perhaps my foray into at-home land has coincided with beginning a position with a really mean-spirited company--dunno, but as another poster wrote, it is apparent even in these early and few hours with this company that I am to expect unresponsiveness, punitive policies, a lack of forthright disclosure of the meat and potatoes of what matters most (pay and how it is determined), and silly, incompetent tech support--all this moaning about a company where there are happy employees! I dunno, perhaps I am with an acct. and thus acct. managers who are not as good at their jobs as are other acct. mgs. of the same company; still, I know what I know and I know how ugly this situation feels and am very, very relieved that I did not resign my other position with another job. Have to say--if I am as legitimately put off by my cyber-and-phone encounters with the staff at the company for which I am in the waning hours of working, what on earth does that say about what I am to expect? I thus will resign my at-home position without a backwards glance, very happy to have the erstwhile security of my other job.
use caution before making the decision to jump to TH
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Sorry..put OSI in the Google box on this page, not in your browser bar, and then proceed. nm
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C and proceed with leaving as email stated
Read their contract VERY carefully if you proceed. nm
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Wow. One of my friends was thinking of applying there. I'll have to caution her!
I had no idea they were so bad! They offered me a position a year ago, but I turned it down and ended up going with Keystrokes, and I'm glad that I did! They kick you off the system when there is low work? That's screwed up!
Did anyone hear from AAmT aka Synthescribe and proceed on..Just curious
how it's going and if your set up to work with them etc. Considering going forward to check it out but wanted to check with others first. Thanks
So true. Massive overhiring. Shouldn't have left my other job for Webmedx. Use caution....nm
Good luck.
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