Same thing happened at TT the year before in October, too.

For those of us left with TT for 2 year, there is hardly ever sufficient work to work your negotiated shift.  Always asked to flex and move right into the weekends to get enough lines, if possible to even on weekends for everyone trying.

• 20 acute care MTs wanted now - What the?
  • What about current MTs who..sm - sm
  • I have not run out of work, except for about 2 or 3 hours late in the summer. sm - A TT traditional MT here
  • Same thing happened at TT the year before in October, too. - You better pass on TransTech if you don't like
    • Work load - terri
  • Oh Brother - terri
    • The grass is always greener over the septic tank. Go find another job if you are unhappy. - Leaves more of those who want to work
      • That septic line was funny - blackswan
    • very rude Terri - non
    • TAKING IT PERSONALLY??...SM - sm
  • What a joke! This is the last straw for me..sm - sick of TT
    • etransplus is hiring and uses same system - & shortcuts, etc.... NM
      • etrans - ASRnut
        • eTransPlus sm - HappyFlaMT
          • I went to etransplus from Transtech - Love it here
            • line count - ASRnut
              • 6000 a week for FT - nm - Amanda
  • So they DON'T have enough work?? - kann
    • Not even close. They only have temporary work right now. nm - prf
    • DO apply. I have not had a lack of work problem that I couldn't deal with in nearly 3 years. nm - MSMT
      • What's up with people on here? - cartwheel

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causing low work situations at times.  They push those jobs through VR and Exspeech rapidly and I found Exspeech to be one of the worst editing platforms I had ever used.

Hopefully, TT will pick up accounts in order to keep all those 25+ MT's they are advertising for busy -- because the jobs on these new accounts go through VR at a rapid rate, and regular transcribing disappears in a hurry.  If these 25+ MT's don't like Exspeech method of editing, then you will most likely end up with lack of work very soon.  It happened with the *big hiring spree* back in October last year !  The mass hiring of MT's are used to *train* dictators for Exspeech.   The pay reduction is at the rate of 50% less for editing.

I suppose most companies in this business are going in that direction now to make larger profits. 

You have every right to feel paranoid and betrayed.  That is exactly how I felt.  My employer, knew well in advance that they were going to outsource the entire department and yet our supervisor told us in a meeting that they were looking at outside services for overflow work only and that we should not be worried, our jobs were safe.

I was worried and said as much to the other MTs at the Christmas party.  Some agreed with me, but others said there was no way this hospital would even consider outsourcing transcription.  The doctors would hate it and complain. 

Next thing you know, we get an email saying in lieu of our quarterly department meeting, we were going to be scheduled for one on one meetings with the boss.  The first person went in and came back home, emailed us and said guess what, we're fired.  It was horrible, horrible, horrible!  I know that management knew months before that this was in the works.  They knew at our last meeting when they looked us in the eyes and told us not to worry. 

They acted like we should be grateful that the service that had decided to go with was offering us all jobs.  We went from hourly with incentive and excellent benefits to per line, crappy benefits, and facing the possibility of working on other accounts because ours kept running out which meant low production which meant a pay cut.

I refused to go with the service.  Maybe I'm too prideful or too bitter, but I couldn't do it, especially since the service they went with offshores.  So I channeled my bitterness into making it known to the community that their beloved community hospital was now offshoring medical info to India.  I wrote letters to all the local papers, had an interview with a local reporter, and put the hospital administrator on the hot seat for a while because he kept having to talk to the papers telling them he requested his hospital's work not be offshored.

They will not soon forget me and that helped me get over it.  Now, I'm working as an Editor and love it.  I've moved on, but as you can see, I still have bad memories. 

You have every right to feel the way you do and you should be very cautious whatever you decide.  I will never be lured into a false sense of security ever again.  I have come to realize there is no job security in transcription anymore. 

Hope everything works out for you!

I worked for them a few years ago and had a terrible time understanding what the techs were saying.  About two months after I quit I got a phone call early one Saturday morning and it was a tech from India asking me if I was having problems connecting to their system (as others were also having this problem).  I said (as nice as possible) that I was not having problems, that I had deleted their software from my computer and did not work there any longer. He still did not get it...

So you're not typing?

No.  I have not worked for your company for two months....I quit.

So your internet connection is okay?

Yes.

So you're not ever going to get on the system again?

I mean....OMG....working with foreign techs is SO frustrating!

This has happened to me with another company.  I think sometimes they are overhiring or they lose the account.  That is what happened in my case, but they never called to tell me that.  I had to call them.  Pretty ironic that I just got an email from DeVenture, that someone has recommended my name to them.  Their benefits look better than what I have, since I do not have a 401K, but I love the company I am with and have great accounts already.  I think I better stay where I am right now.