Seems a bit harsh. Obviously, since others have tested with no sm

• Testing with New England Medical Transcription - Just Passing Through
  • Testing with New England Medical Transcription - follow up to original post - Just Passing Through
  • NEMT - Just Passing Through
    • Hmmm.....a couple things - sm
    • Seems a bit harsh. Obviously, since others have tested with no sm - ltmt
  • That's strange because I tested and was contacted right away - CAMT
    • I know - it is definitely strange but true & I can't figure it out! - Sigh!
  • NO, but have tested 3 times with them and have NEVER heard back from them once...sm - Sigh!

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Lots of career moms go to work everyday and place their children in reputable childcare.  There are also moms out there who are home all the time with their kids and they'd get better care elsewhere.  Perhaps the OP has a supportive family nearby that would be willing to help out. 

I think your comments were very judgmental and not helpful at all. 

I would never sit around and so ho-hum and it's the fault of the company.  What should I have said? 

Please.  No one needs to sit around in this industry if there are plenty of jobs posted.  One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, why not find a better job?  We're not worth it? 

I'm not one to sugar coat.  We can't be lazy.  We have to look for a better job if there's no work. 

I am a Synernet employee and found the post to be harsh. I don't see an inner circle, I saw friends and co-workers who supported another in a time of need. I also do not feel like a robot and of step child. I have never been denied time off. I may have had to make up time if it was a busy time of year, but never been denied.  Instead of complaining, let's be grateful that (a) you have a job and (b) you are not the person in charge of 90+ transcriptionist, their time off schedules, the system and the one answering emails and phone calls and dealing with MTs issues and customer issues.  Discussing MT issues is one thing but attacking a person who lost a loved one is going to far.

The husband could be a partner.  I had my husband do my deliveries when I wasn't allowed to drive after surgery and no one questioned this as a violation.  They were glad he did it.  And my husband could care less whose names are on those papers; really in all honesty.

Furthermore, who really knows who is sending the work at any given time.  There was another poster here that said her nephew delivered tapes to a subcontractor and left in the screen door.  I mean come on?  Was that a violation?  NOT!  

saw the posts from below, not happy, but not enough for me to say hey or nay. Where I am coming from I know it can't be worse but I really want a good fit. Thanks for all who can inform me.

and I am sorry for being harsh.  I still have my opinion and will stand behind Transcend.  But my apology is to JMO.  He/she was the only civil one, debating more than fighting.  I cannot bring myself to apologize to the other attackers, however, who were just as unruly as myself while hiding their names from the public. 

I do agree with the above poster who said we should just let it go.  We all seem to feel strongly in our opinions but we've hashed it out as much as it should/could be. 

Sorry again.

The test tape was definitely horrible, and actually isn't a fair way to test new MTs for any account.  I had 2-3 blanks left in the end.  All they told me about my results was that they were below their levels for employment. 

I asked to see what mistakes I made and asked what my actual score on the test was, and they never got back to me with any results after I emailed them several times about it. 

The test itself consisted of 20 questions and 10 reports to type.  Who would think 2-3 blanks out of all of that would result in a no hire.  I guess you have to be able to do that tape without any blanks or questions at all in order to pass and get a job with them.

I have not worked for them, but I tested for them.  The test job I did was about 50 65-character lines long and at the per page rate they were offering it came out to  4 cents per line.  Don't know if all the jobs would have been that long, but I got the feeling they would all be pretty long.  For long reports you're better off getting paid by the line.  So you've got to be careful in comparing your current pay to what they're offering. 

A C-phone is a phone that you dial into a digital dictation system with.  It has a footpedal and you can plug a headset in, and you just transcribe while listening to the dictation right over the phone line.  It works real well.

Hope this helps somewhat.

have changed files, but I didn't have any problem hearing them.  Typically companies will put some of their worst dictation as tests, especially if they have a high percentage of ESLs.  In the past there was a problem with scoring of the tests and it would mark things wrong that weren't, but I think that is fixed now. 

we scheduled a phone conference to discuss the opening they had no less than five times and kept having to reschedule it at the last minute - very irritating.

When I tested for the company I've been with for nearly 2 years, the transcribing section was absolutely horrid. To this day I still don't have a clue how I passed their testing. Four reports of the worst possible dictation I have ever heard in my career.

Then I test for a few places this week (just in case things don't turn around at my company) and I had 2 reports that were an absolute breeze. One was very, very long, but both were as good as you can possibly get.

I'm just wondering. Is this now part of the recruiting process to make it look as if their accounts were that easy, or did I just get plain lucky?

Anybody who didn't know any better would know that this is definitely not the norm.

Just a thought.