TTS is owned by Linda Kelley
Posted By: ks on 2007-10-01
In Reply to: Winnie - does Medware own TTS? - SM
She works for Medware. How their business arrangement works - do not know.
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Has anyone worked with Linda Kelley of TTS/Medware & can you tell me about your experience, please?
Has anyone worked with Linda Kelley of TTS/Medware, and can you please tell me about your experience?? THANKS SO VERY MUCH, your time is greatly appreciated!!!
Actually, it's Kelley, not Kelly
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Her first name is not even Linda...
Her first name is NOT Linda, so could it be possible that the rest of your post is not credible either? You should, at the very least, get the facts correct before you post things, especially if they can ruin a person's reputation. I found the owner to be very accommodating and easy to work with, and as I said in my first post, I was paid in full. I left on very good terms and would not hesitate to work with her again in the future.
Hi Linda
Thank you for replying to my post. I would love to get some additional information regarding this company, if you would be willing to email me? I am curious as to benefits (I noticed that they are available to FT IC's), pay scale, etc. Thank you again for your help!
Is that you, Linda C?
How's it going?
Thanks, Linda s/m
Yep, the gourd is still around. No plans to change my moniker. I've been around a long time going back to the days when clerk/typists were the medical transcriptionists using the old manual typewriters, you know, the ones where you had to fling the carriage return at the end of every line? How great it was when the electric typewriters came into being. LOL
Linda, don't worry about the VR.
 Linda, don't worry about how long it takes you to learn the shortcut keys in VR. You are doing great at just a few weeks into it. It will take time for the speed to build up. I have been doing MT work for 5 years, VR for 4 of those years and I love it. I kow there are some negative posts on this forum about VR, but it has allowed me to keep working as an MT even though I had so much pain with carpal tunnel syndrome. I routinely do 350-400 lph on DP ExText Turbo Speech and some MTs at my company do much higher than that. I see only positives in doing VR for someone like me, since I am no spring chicken.
Hang in there and give it more time; it will get MUCH easier and you will get fast very quickly.
ATTN: LINDA WITH ORACLE
Linda, I posted a response to you on the previous message regarding oracle but it has now been moved to the second page. I sent you an email through MTStars but you can also click on my name and send me an email. I would to get some additional information from you regarding Oracle.
TIA
Who does Linda Greer work for....
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The owner of TTS is Linda Kelly
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Comments on Lee Perfect and Linda? nm
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Linda got the "coffee" notion from me.
I was responding on a thread about 3 cents a line pay, suggesting that that rate might do quite well on an account with a good proportion of fairly clean reports coming through. I used to work on a couple of those, and the best reports were scary good--virtually no changes made. Some required few, most required some, and some required more than some. If you know what I mean. :)
I should, however, have gone on with the perspective that my company currently pays me over 7 cents a line because even the relatively good reports on these accounts require a great deal of cleanup. To put it mildly, what is an appropriate line rate for this work depends on the amount of editing needed.
Linda, you'll get still better, of course, but you seem to be on the right track in evaluating whether VR system + accounts +line rate equal a satisfactory bottom line.
BTW, sipping coffee (or eating dinner as someone else does) at 3 cents a line means you're scanning those reports intensely, full attention, as fast as you can manage. I definitely like it better than typing docs, but even on the best accounts it IS real work, with brain hard at the shoveling while fingers stand around holding the wheelbarrow.
Linda, you are soooo right, when I was younger and dumber....sm
I was sooo afraid of using shortcuts, I watched the screen like a hawk and typed everything verbatim and screwed myself out of so much money! I wondered what the secret was to all those MTs who would chat up a storm, and till make a higher line count than me, and they had less experience....They used their shortcuts/expanders for everything, and once I learned this and worked on mine, my line count zoomed and I consistently made high incentive pay and bonus....don't underestimate this tool. Thanks for bringing this up, Linda! 
many owned
they own many...they acquired 24 companies ...
they own dictaphone, escription, dragon, scan soft...
they are huge...
You do know what you just owned up to, right?
You said you went over someone's else's medical records. I could have no contact doing business with my husband's medical office until he put it in writing. When my elderly aunt needed assistance, unable to talk 1:1 with her medical office. I went to her doctor's office, asked them just to listen to me, make notes of what I was saying and they could take it from there to coordinate care for her and that was what was done. I did not have her permission in writing so I as her niece could not do, neither can I take care of my next of kin, that being my husband, without written permission.
MDI in FL is owned by Transcend
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Employee Owned
Yes, it is absolutely true that they are employee owned, I have worked for them and their office is about 5 miles from me. Truth be told, this is a small company that continues to struggle with a huge turnover and lack of management. Those who have been there for years (people not in the transcription department) have paid dearly for the decline in their stock value over the past several years; it's quite sad.
And you expect us to believe you know anything about TT? First off, it is not owned by a man,
but rather it is owned by two people. Secondly, they have never, not once, cheated me. I know because I checked extensively every single day when I started and *still* check randomly because I have had such bad experienced elsewhere.
The people are nice, they treat me well, the workload is steady, the work is pretty good. Is it perfect? Of course not. It is, though, the best job I have had in 14 years of doing MT'ing at home.
You clearly have some sort of personal problem with Transtech. Go away and wallow in your own misery.
They are Indian owned
Do a search on the Company Board. Many negatives and they are based on India. Can they even post job ads on this board?
Once foreign owned, always foreign owned.
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They are Indian owned and run.
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Indian owned and run....
It is being overtaken by Indians....used to be a great company - not anymore. Many have left there lately.
They'll just use you to make the Indians' work smell good to the US based clients then kick you to the curb. I wouldn't go there if my life depended on it now!
And so did Carole C. who owned YOG in Monrovia...
until she made the sudden announcement that she had sold!
Wholly owned and run by India. nm
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Is Keystrokes owned by a big national? How many MTs do they have? sm
The information I can find seems to be from just a few nay-sayers and cheerleaders and realy offset each other. Anything new? Who are they owned by?
Definitely not related. MW is owned by 1 family. nm
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Is this company off-shore owned? sm
I will bet this company is off-shore owned. My experience has been these companies expect US workers to work like off-shore workers. They think we are so grateful to have a job, any job, that they can walk all over us and we will take it, just like they do to their countrymen. US workers who go along with this kind of illegal abuse, deserve what they are getting. Make MT the job you want it to be, don't accept just anything. Pick and choose the companies you work for, find out if they are off-shore owned with the token US front men. Find the kind of accts you want to do and at a price that is agreeable to you. Testing gets easier every time you do it. Get proactive. This will take time, don't rush yourself and don't quit one job until you have another up and in place.
Is Diskriter really employee owned?
My perceptions were that they are one of the most coercive and oppressive companies I have ever interviewed with -- things like..... drug testing as a ROUTINE part of the application, very adamant about working your assigned shift and contacting you if you're not typing, not allowing you to have anything on your machine (including your own word expander). Is the employee owned thing a gimmick or business angle? I would think an employee owned company would be more pro-employee.
American owned companies
I have a question hopefully will get some good answers. Are there any strictly American-owned transcription companies still left out there that do not outsource and are not partnered with oversea's companies? I would love to be able to find one. Hopefully they still exist.
Thanks for any help!
Still a French owned company .
I don't shop at Target for the same reason.
The company is owned by the person who
I don't know much about the company itself, but that would be enough for me not to look at it. I also don't think the pay is too great, 7-8 cpl.
I also worked for MQ and went to a privately owned
company and hate it. I am assigned my own accounts but can't make any money unless I work 12+ hours a day including weekends. They have a 24 hr TAT which I can understand but if a doctor doesn't dictate for 2 days (or more) and then slams you with 2 days worth of dictation I don't think it's fair to expect MTs to turn around all that dictation. I have more than one doctor and don't have a problem with TAT until one or more decides not to dictate for days and then OUCH.
Anyway I've decided to look elsewhere. This company also has alot of physical therapy and there is no money to be made in this field (at least not the way they do business), so I do not do physical therapy.
Webmedx's platform is owned by them sm
exclusively. No other company has the exact same one.
It is a family owned company and
Yes, every report is put on hold until it is released from QA. I guess they go over it,or just release it, I do not know, but every report that is transcribed must be put on QA hold/sent to QA even if no blanks are in it.
That was the rule when the site was owned
by Sheri..guess it doesn't apply anymore.
This is an Indian-owned and run company and they do
outsource. From what I've heard pay is also on the low side.
100% indian owned and run...you can find better..NM
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DTS NO WORK - INDIAN OWNED
I am in the same boat with DTS, no work for at least 3 hours of my shift, and I REFUSE to chase work when I am not scheduled and have to work 24/7 to get work, that's what these companies want us to do so they don't have to pay us overtime. If you are scheduled to work a shift, and are an employee not an IC, and you are at your desk during those hours legally they are requiredf to pay you because you are ready, and available to work as scheduled. And if you have to work outside of your shifts, they have to pay you overtime if you work over 40 hours, which DTS does.
I work for DTS and have a great account manager, and I am on 4 accounts, but what DTS does is if they see work on the system, regardless of whether it's out of TAT or not their policy is to call in the troops to clear off the system no matter if you are working on YOUR shift tying to get you lines or not, they FRANKLY DO NOT CARE!
It's also a MYSTERY who owns this company, and with mysteries like this, that smells like an Indian company owns this company and they just do not want to own up to it because they know how most of us feel about the Indians and other offshores. I can't pay my mortgage or my internet this month, and I am tried of calling my creditors and telling them that I work for a company that has DTS AMERICA in back of their name but is most likely Indian owned. They have an Indian IT Department that you cannot understand (what's new) that can hardly speak English and when you call them, all they do is just repeat what you told them! I finally told my AM to tell them NOT TO CALL ME because (1) you can't understand them. (2) they are beyond rude.
I WILL not work for a company that offshores, and so far I have found 2 that do not, one that has been in business a while and is looking for good MTs for a new account Southern Transcription and another one that is looking for clinic MTs for a new account neither are voice or have any presence offshore. The second is eTransportal, and that owner was EXTREMELY nice, test very easy. The test for Southern is a PITA by Horizon, but they are a GREAT company according to all posts. I have been offered a position with both companies and will probably work for both and decide which one is for me. We all should be compensated for changing companies and learning all these new accounts and software platforms! That's another thing about these companies imagine how much money they make not having to house us inhouse. They require all this equipment, internet, more and more state of the art computers, but yet out pay is still in the dark ages... I know of NO PROFESSION where the pay has gone down and not up! I am making less than what I made working in the broom closet in a hospital transcribing radiology reports 15 years ago than I am now! That's just too sad..........if I could I'd leave this profession but I am not in a position to do so. Why anyone would pay thousands of dollars for training and those schools that are just a scam, I have not idea, what to make below min. wage? Hopefully, working for a company that does not offshore might make a difference.
DTS could care less about their MTS, they have an add, and I would encourage people not to apply because they overhire, and most of us are out of work every single day, why they don't train all of us on other accounts instead of hiring more people makes no sense to me, but then again nothing does anymore in this industry.
No, Diskriter is owned by an individual - they have never been linked to MQ - never will -
never ever ever ever never - if they ever did join with MQ, I would quit in a heartbeat and never go back to the field of transcription.
Why would you think that just because they use a software owned by an Indian co that means they
outsource? They do not outsource. Arrendale used to be owned by a company in NC before they were purchased. This CO hires all American MTs.
Carole owned both YOG and FutureNet at one time.
They both worked under the Futurenet program which is a wonderful program, by the way. She sold YOG to MQ and sold FutureNet to one of her employees. There is no connection between them now other than the Monrovia office for MQ still uses the Futurenet program - and why not? It works better than 90% of the transcription platforms out there and is much easier to use. The rest of these companies spin their wheels to reinvent the wheel and create a mess for us to work in.
CBAY is Indian owned out of Annapolis - sm
There was an article written about the owner in the Baltimore Business Journal earlier this year. The work goes to India but gets "edited" here. A few months ago, the owner was bouncing paychecks, however, I am not sure if that is still happening now.
CBAY is OWNED AND OPERATED by an Indian - sm
There was a HUUUUGGGEEE article about the owner in the Baltimore Business Journal earlier this year (July). He makes no bones about the work going to India. He is Indian. I know of two people that worked for him and their checks started to bounce. One of them had even gone to India to teach transcription.
Indian owned - lots of ESLs -
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not a major company - woman owned
around 100 employees but not positive
Just because main office is in NY does not mean they are not owned by offshore. I don't know if
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they are NOT Indian owned - I worked for them in the office
I said they offshore. But THEY ARE NOT Indian owners. They are American owners deep into scientology and the whole L Ron Hubbard thing - not that that makes a difference, but just thought I would throw that in there.
Webmedx is NOT offshore, nor foreign owned. 100% US. nm
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Correction: They owned the other one and built this which one which is much larger. sm
I just read this in one of the magazines and asked my lead if they were moving far. She said it is literally across the parking lot from a small office to a huge building, taking on the whole building. I am thrilled to be part of a growing company instead of the sinking ship I was on!!!
That they are 100% Filipino owned and based in the Phillipines maybe?
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Nope, they are still Indian owned and operated
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