Still going round and round with this

• Anyone else going from DQS to ExText and noticing lines are harder to get? (sm) - Just comparing
  • HATED ExText - Wendy
  • Why Extext line counts are usually less - Independent MT
    • PS, I was a supervisor in the home office - Independent MT
      • To be specific, how they deduct for headers - Independent MT
        • Does that company start with a - W?
          • No - Independent MT (NM)
            • Probably starts with O? - wimt
              • That's why I left the O company - Not cheated in new job NM
  • DQS to ExText - former MQ
  • All depends on the MTSO - MT
  • noticed - GF
  • I, too, went from MQ to TT, and line counts are much harder to get at TT with Dictaphone ExText. - Transtech using ExText versus DQS
    • Still going round and round with this - Exer
    • ExSpeech - TransTechMT
      • They don't seem the line counting program is too important. No updates on - its progress in months. nm
        • What line count issues? changes? nm - Just comparing
          • A counter this is quicker to access, but I've never seen anything - wrong with the counts themselves. nm
    • Thank you. Like I told someone else, I have (sm) - Just comparing
  • Definitely harder and I've given it a lot of time. I'm thinking about - going back to my old MTSO. nm
  • ExText is notorious for this. Will depend on exactly what the company - counts, too, footers, headers, spaces, etc. nm
    • MTSO and client responsible here. - Older-n-dirt
      • That is exactly why I have left the - Fran
      • Tell it sistah! - nm

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I was hired by Focus in QA, paid hourly.  I sat around for three weeks and no one contacted me about loading software, training, etc.  I emailed the person who was supposed to do my training and was told I haven't forgot about you.  I promise we will get together tomorrow.  Tomorrow would come and she wouldn't call.  Meanwhile, I'm not getting paid.  Finally, I emailed the head of HR and cc'd one of the VPs in the U.S. office.  I was told my supervisor was very sweet, but she didn't know what she was talking about when she said I would start immediately.  My supervisor then told me that she would sign off on any hours I put in the timeclock system.  For three months, I timed in and sat at my PC and waited for training that never came.  At the end of the third month, I took matters into my own hands and called the IT department directly, bugged them with email after email, and they installed the software on my PC.  I then emailed the tech department a list of accounts I wanted access to and it was given to me.  I started training myself only to be called up and fired.

Fired from a job I never actually started!  It was the most infuriating experience I have ever had with an MTSO.  I have never seen so much disorganization, outright lying, and complete disregard for their employees than I have seen with Focus.  I am not just talking about myself here.  I am also talking about a number of employees that had been with them much longer than I who had been unceremoniously fired after being hired to build a U.S. based QA dream team.

I won't go into all the empty promises that were made.  That's another bedtime story for another night.

My advice, if you have another job, hang on to it.  If you don't, starting looking.

Which offshore out of those?  I want to go with a big company for a few reasons, but I do not want MQ or Spheris.  I'm also just curious.  It seems like they are very big and the rest are much smaller.  Am I right or just assuming?  Which company or companies do you think are growing and will catch them or close?  Are there any out there that have that potential?  I would love to get in for chance for advancement but not ground level because I want stability.  Easy to know what I want, hard to articulate it clearly.  I have read previous posts, tried to research other sources and want to put together a good list for myself.

lines and a half, but usually there is no work.  They usually clear out the work before the holiday so there is no 1-1/2 line pay remaining.  Transtech names 6 holidays each year, but the MT takes those holidays off WITHOUT pay.    I am sure the office staff and all other non-MT staff take off WITHOUT pay, too, aren't you????   LOL

Which MT companies DO pay an MT for holidays.  I don't consider a day a HOLIDAY unless it is PAID.  They can call it 6 holdays, but have to take off without pay . . . . just another day, i.e, get sick -- NO PAY.