The reason Transcend is offshoring is because no one here wants to work for them! nm
Posted By: Reason on 2006-01-31
In Reply to: After 7 months with a new company...sm Former - Transcend emp. just finding out about offshoring
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Re: Transcend offshoring
They sent out a newsletter and e-mail to employees stating that they were doing the pilot thing, as mentioned earlier. They have been very up front about it, so I don't think they would have a problem with confirming what they've told their employees. Supposedly only 50 reports a day to start with in order to test the waters. They say it's for the sake of being competetive in the business. Just the facts as I know 'em, maam.
Transcend offshoring is true.
Transcend is offshoring to India. They called it just a test.
RE: Transcend offshoring is true.
Transcend is not outsourcing any work to anyone at this time. The individual who stated this ought to get their information correct before they state it as fact.
Transcend is expanding their offshoring
They bought TRS a few months ago and according to this article, they are very interested in the offshoring TRS does:
*Transcend is very interested in the work TRS is doing with overseas
transcription training in places like Barbados*
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS119468+27-Mar-2009+BW20090327
The MTSOs will hire cheap wherever they can now.
Barbados? Whoda thought?
Transcend Services Inc Confirmation of offshoring?
Has it been confirmed by the company on this board that they are offshoring work?
I am still not sure if I should go with them or not.
RE: Transcend Services Inc Confirmation of offshoring?
No.
Probably the same reason Transcend puts in the same ads over and over. Whatever that might be.
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I think one of the hospitals is onto them about offshoring their work
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What work are they offshoring? I get horrible
dictation and I get very good dictation. I work on multiple accounts and the dictators aren't disappearing. I get work types of all kinds, depending on the workload, and lately I've gotten a mix of stuff.
Transcend bought MDI, so if Transcend sends work offshore, so does MDI. nm
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TT works for me - plenty of work, no offshoring.
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Dictaphone is a company offshoring our work.
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Lack of work, offshoring, never answer e-mails....
Yes, I think you should work for that offshoring company, go for it!. Feeding your family ist the m
Nobody is going to pay your bills and put up a monument for you because you refused to work for an offshoring company!
TransTech has lost work somehow, somewhere . . . or outsourcing/offshoring it !
How could Transtech mgmt be so noncaring of their MT's who provide their paychecks for them??? Yet, they care NOT of the MT's get a paycheck or NOT.
Soon to be gone from TT. Not what it was cracked up to be from the beginning.
TransTech has lost work somehow, somewhere . . . or outsourcing/offshoring it !
How could Transtech mgmt be so noncaring of their MT's who provide their paychecks for them??? Yet, they care NOT of the MT's get a paycheck or NOT.
Soon to be gone from TT. Not what it was cracked up to be from the beginning.
Mgmt and those leads/sups who are STEALING our work should add money to the piecework MT's paychecks every pay period that we make less. Oh, boy, you are really good mgmt at TT !!!
The sweet talk from most of your mgmt-type people wore out VERY QUICKLY. What is left from TT for the MT's -- NOTHING but low and no work.
Mgmt, SHARE YOUR PAYCHECKS/GAINS/BONUSES with us lowly *per your opinion of us in reality* MT's who type our fingers off so that you can GET ALL THAT MONEY for YOURSELVES !
No, not enough work.... that is the reason why
I am looking to leave. We have been out of work for over a month now! Also, back in November. Also, back in August, etc. My sup is nice. No complaints about Quality. Equipment is okay (big-time old monitor). Platform leaves a lot to be desired - SUPER slow and locks frequently. Pay is decent WHEN THERE IS WORK!
That TT is getting all the work now for some reason or another ! n/m
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The reason there is little to no work
A practice of a few of my fellow MTSO owners, particularly the large MTSOs, as well as employers in general these days.
They do behind-the-scenes deals with businesses related to MT, such as MT schools and MT equipment/software dealers, to benefit financially, if not save themselves, including sending work from US-based employees directly to overseas divisions and operations, without informing the US employees. Can’t blame them for looking out for their financial interests! CAN blame them for 1) sending work overseas when there are well qualified MTs right here in the States, and 2) not communicating with their employees. You MT employees who are out of work for longer than a day and do not have another gig need to file for unemployment, period. I know it can be complicated for MTs to get unemployment, but if you signed up for FT work and don’t get to work FT, you get unemployment. I guarantee that filing for unemployment is something us MTSO owners, or any employer for that matter, does not want to deal with. But get ready - you may find that your work will increase, but most likely you will be given the bad dictators (they send the good ones to the overseas folks who won't work for X amount of money to transcribe the bad dictators).
No I don't know - but that is the big reason why I don't take work from them anymore -
They would just send a check in the mail and nothing else - I wanted a breakdown, I got nothing. What the heck???
Little to no work was the main reason.
I kept asking for backup accounts and for weeks couldn't get any, despite there being several accounts with OT on them. Talked with upper management and finally got 2 backup accounts, neither of which had any work on them. I was getting tops 20 hours a week and that was having to sit in front of the computer for 12 hour stints and check every 5 minutes to see if a report came in. I was working 7 days a week and trying all shifts to get in lines, so it wasn't a matter of me not making an effort.
Enterprise has lots of bugs in it and despite promises that the most current update would take care of the problem it never did. I would lose jobs, the system would freeze up and I had to reboot. All the while you are clocked in so your line count goes to heck. The system was so slow most days that I would sit a minute in between reports, which affects your line count because you're on the clock and not being productive. They have nice incentives but because of the above there was no way to reach them.
They denied overhiring, but they did way overhire and they lost several good MTs about the same time I left because there wasn't enough work. Lots of people were frustrated and posted on the boards here and then we were reprimanded for doing so. The internal boards were so heavily monitored that anything the least bit negative was deleted. Talking to my STM was like banging my head against a brick wall, so basically there was nowhere to go. We also got several e-mails with the threat of having to go to India and I wasn't going to have that dangled in front of me all the time. I was doing my part.
I cried every single day I was there I hated it so much.
yeah - they haven't told a couple of hospitals that they are offshoring their work - but I think
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The reason there is low work/no work during the week is because so many of YOU at TT want
TO WORK BANKER's HOURS and DAYS and NOTHING ELSE !! Poor baby . . .
There is a good reason why we work on production . . .
and that reason is production is the only way we will make money. You don't get raises with wage pay and you're basically locked in with no chance to increase your earnings.
YEP...Just want I suspected as the reason we have very little work OVERHIRING
They repeatedly hire yet we have hardly any work. Course, I suppose it could be the revolving door as the cause.
I quit twice. Both times for the same reason...low/no work. nm
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At least she gave you a real reason and not just "seasonal" low work. n.m
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Right, I'm Enterprise. On our side, vacations aren't the reason for 0 work.
Good luck to us all.
I have heard they will have three main offices. Is there a reason Amherst is so short of work. What
is it they are trying to accomplish. They must be losing MTs if there is no work. No the new ASR rate is not out yet. If it goes low you will see an exodus off ASR I guess so that will mean more MTs on the regular work. It will be a big shock for some of them to see what that is like now.
I have heard other people comment on lack of work and have left for that reason. How much of an
issue can this be. Also, is the sound on these accounts poor. That is the other problems I have heard people comment on. I was really looking for uptodate comments. How bad are these issues at present. I dont want to leave one company with no work problems and go to another one with the same problem. I cant be available 24/7 to get work with having a family.
I have heard other people comment on lack of work and have left for that reason. How much of an
issue can this be. Also, is the sound on these accounts poor. That is the other problems I have heard people comment on. I was really looking for uptodate comments. How bad are these issues at present. I dont want to leave one company with no work problems and go to another one with the same problem. I cant be available 24/7 to get work with having a family.
I guess this explains part of the reason we keep running out of work. My office lost a lot of huge
accounts in the past year.
You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.
No one HAS to employ you. No one MUST keep you in employment.
As an IC, your unemployment isn't coming from the account of your contracts! It comes from YOUR tax payments!
Transcend and no work...sm
I left Transcend over 1 year ago, and from what I have read here, nothing has changed except the forced VR, that I saw coming and one of the reasons I left. The other was NO WORK, especially on the last week of the pay period. On the weekend day that I HAD to work, I sat there and babysat my PC with NO WORK!!!. It was so frustrating, and I was NOT one who got on and worked when I wanted. I worked my scheduled shift everyday, all day long, and it was a struggle to get a decent line count...sometimes it was impossible because the accounts were over staffed. I know there are slow times, but this was for the WHOLE year that I stuck it out there. They had the most horrible accounts, sound quality was spotty and scratchy, and the dictators were awful. The worst accounts were the ones you had to have a "faxed" copy of the patients in order to even start typing the report; had to search through tons of awful faxed sheets....ugh!! I'm sick to my stomach just remembering it all. Apparently nothing has changed, and only gotten worse, as evidenced by the constant help wanted ads and complaints posted here. Sure glad I got out when I did. Flame away with "things are different", but I don't see any evidence of it in the posts I've read.
How is Transcend to work for?
I worked for MQ for 6 years and it sucked. Management was terrible. Raises were unheard of and you worked your butt off. They appreciate no one!
So do you work for Transcend?
Are you making 10 cpl with Transcend? If you are is that what you started at and how long have you been with them?
RE: So do you work for Transcend?
Yes I do, and I have been with them one year as of July.
Transcend...anybody able to work?
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Does anyone work for Transcend doing...sm
editing for voice recognition? I am thinking of making the transition as my hands are tired! But don't want to make a bad move and get paid nothing for hard work.
Currently work PT for Transcend
and so far doing okay. It was a challenge to learn Beyond TXT, but so was DQS, I have a problem learning new programs. The people are great and they have their own forum and web site to ask questions. No shift or weekend differentials. You have to E mail tech, but sometimes I just call them. They usually get right back to you. I heard a lot of negative posts about them on this site, I guess disgruntled ex-employees need to vent, but I have not found what they said to be true. It has been a positve experience for me. They leave me alone to do my work and I am picking up speed. 4 weeks now. I do get some hard dictators, but also some easy ones. I don't listen to a lot of the negative posts because in my experience, they are exaggerated. I have another job and that company gets a lot of negative posts also and the job has worked out fine for me. MT stars in general gets a lot of doom and gloom posts. The sky is definitely not falling.
I work for Transcend and it is no
company out there. The posts below are not true in my experience about as the person hiring was very nice to me and not rude at all. Please do understand, though, that every account they have they hope to get on VR and pay the MTs half per line what they are making doing MT, because it is expected your production will double on VR. So if you like doing VR and can do double what you transcribe, this would be a good company for that person. In the meantime, they still have plenty of regular work. Hope this helps.
I work for Transcend. Beyond TXT
to others I have been on. Also, all accounts will be going to VR in the near future, so if you like VR at half your line rate, go for it. Otherwise I would seriously think about this one.
All Transcend work going to ME
If you want to do MT, be prepared to being switched to ME in the very near future. This company wants all accounts on VR.
What is Transcend like to work for? How about MDI-FL? They both sm
talk a good game, but it sounds like a sales pitch and I want to get some honest opinions before leaving MQ.
I used to work for Transcend.
I also thought their platform was terrible and the training was a joke. That is why I left. They have the worst platform I have ever worked on. The training was the worst also. And the technical department, if you have a problem, you have to email them and wait and wait and wait for an answer, sometimes not until the next day. And they were crashing on a daily basis. Reports did not show up on my line count. I had to constantly email tech to see why a report did not show up. The worst company I have worked for.
I work for Transcend
They are a very good company to work for. I've been with them over a year now and have been treated very fairly and kindly. I highly recommend them. They're looking for MTs, so definitely consider them as your home. Hope this helps.
Transcend work
Where is it? I guess they have none. Anyone else having this?
Transcend work
My accounts are pretty busy this morning.
Transcend must have sent all their work
over to India this weekend too. Nothing available on my accounts. What else is new. This is getting to be routine.
Anybody work for Transcend
who is a team lead and would like to share some info on how they like it? Feel free to e-mail me.
I don't work at Transcend. nm
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