So sorry to hear about that Michelle! I hope that you are okay now.

• Focus infomatics... Good company to work for? - momMT
  • Focus Infomatics - Clifton T.
  • WAIT! Another Focus Question - Hopeful
    • It if offshore work. You'd be better off working - me
  • RUN!! - Michelle
    • I did the same thing 3 years ago!!! They are AWFUL! - KC
    • So sorry to hear about that Michelle! I hope that you are okay now. - momMT
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I work for a decent company and am relatively happy, although it is IC work, and I do not really feel like I am treated like an IC.  I basically am anchored to my desk morning, noon, and night so I can be there ... but then again, it is not like George Clooney is banging on my door to whisk me away anywhere, so most days I am thankful just to have a job.  I did get a promising lead for a company that pays 2 cpl more than what I make now, but I will know more on Tuesday.  Still ... the selling cheap crap gig is very appealing.  I've never gone crabbing but that sounds good too.  

You were here on MTStars singing the songs of praise, insisting with a passion that the claims of newbie advantage were wrong.  Yet you went to the company forum asking, "what do these posts mean?"  If you were so positive that nothing said was true, why are you asking "what the posts mean" on the company forum? You would have already known!  And on the flip side, if you have to ask what the posts mean because you're not sure, how can you be insisting none of what I said was true??  That's my point.  If you don't know, why are you so certain you're right - and so willing to call me a liar?

You want specifics?  Look how a person below posted that a newbie can get a raise if they show improvement.  Now go to the company website and check for yourself.  Look and see how long it would take a longterm employee of 5 years or more to get a raise and then figure how many raises the newbie gets in that same time period. THEN tell me the company doesn't favor newbies.  Some of us have been here years with NO raise despite meeting all the "review requirements".  As for other details, I'm not going to be as foolish as the poster below who posted her base line rate publicly, and that's the only way I can prove what I was saying.  I make less than the person below and came in with the same test score, more experience, working on more and harder accounts.  But I'm not putting my base line rate on a public board to get fired, or at the very least a reprimand, just for your satisfaction.

But stop calling me a liar, because you don't look all that truthful yourself saying here that it's best job you've ever had and then crying on the company forum exacty how many lines you made per pay period.  Even if you make 10 dollars a line, how can what you stated you produced be the best job you ever had?? Furthermore, if you're so happy, why come here bashing me because my experience at this point isn't as good as yours, and then whine about yours on the company forum? Please don't even try to convince me that you're not stirring the pot.

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I worked for an offshore owned company where it was all about quantity.  Company even kept a HORRIBLE MT just because she cranked out the lines.  Didn't matter her quality was crap and was considered a joke by middle managment.  India did most typing but with US edit.  Typists changed regularly so it wasn't like they learned to do better.  Quality would improve slightly and then would notice, after couple of months, that quality was crap again so we knew we were dealing with a new batch of typists. Even so, the push was always on to get the jobs off US edit and send Indian work straight to client.  Of course, the clients never knew they were not getting US editing anymore, as they got no price reduction when they no longer had that level of work being done on their jobs.  The problem is the facilities accept the crap work so why should the companies change.  It took a while but I finally found a US owned company where quality matters.  Now one of the first questions I would ask a prospective employer is if they are US owned.

Ok, thanks to all of you who gave me information regarding decent online MT companies.  however, of all the recommendations, none of them appear to hire new grads.

be honest with me, am i pretty much doomed to working for a bad company for 2-5 years until I gain enough experience to be hired by a decent company?

..this does not seem promising :(

I turned them down for that position and a few months later asked what they had open and they offered me THE SAME one again.  Too weird for me, thanks.  And the people who hate Meditech far outweigh the ones who like it, I am afraid.

This will blow the minds of MTs who all along thought they were ICs when in fact they were really employees.  Nevermind TAT, it plays no role.  I work for a company that is truly IC.  No quotas, no set schedule.  I did, however, contract with them (MTSO = my client) that I would get the work done in 24 hours from the time of dictation.  They set nothing other than they would like the work back within 24 hours.  If I cannot work on any particular day of course if I can I give notice out of courtesy, but I do not have to report to work each day.  As far as I'm concerned each individual voice file is a job that I've agreed to transcribe. 

Any company demanding and/or requiring you transcribe a certain amount of lines each day is in fact employing you and not contracting with you.  If a company is having you hang on IM while they monitor you all day, that is employee not IC.  If a company assigns you work, that is an employee not an IC.  An IC chooses when they work and how much work they do.

P/S:  Most ICs have more than one client.  I have 3 and 1 of the 3 is an online MTSO.  They are my client not my employer.  I am self-employed and I make the rules, not the other way around.

same account as me as this is the 5th day with no work.  Yesterday they sent out an email saying that all accounts were low so it does not sound like it is one platform. I work on two different ones.  I don't think the platform is the issue.  There just is no work. 

I think you would get more information from the person who says she has OT.  Get that account and you might be okay.

Good luck.

I too am OOW  first time in a long time

I think I am on the same account. I love it and I just wish it did not run out on Saturday nights.   It would be  great  if TT gets more of their work.

It just took me so long to decide that I really do need to find a different job.  I did my research (tons of it!), got the backbone to do to apply, and wham, this email came in.  I was stunned...  Hopes dashed...  Glad to see it was sent to others, but more glad to see that people actually have received the job offers after it!  Thank you for your input!