This is a gambit that won't work over the long term

• Landmark - Daniel Lazaro
  • Landmark already had several accounts that were VR - Landmark
  • Missed yesterday's conversation here. Could someone email the jist of it? Tx. nm - landmarker
    • no need to email when all info is here. - n/m
      • No, it's not. A thread was removed. - ??
        • The thread that was removed had nothing to do with - Just sayin ....
  • Is this Landmark in PA? Do you know how many..sm - less hopeful
    • don't bother. I did a few months ago sm - MT30+
      • MT30+, can you say where you are now - Thx!
        • MT30+.... - ?
          • you are very correct! There is NO sm - MT30+
        • I could and I would but thinking about sm - long time MT
          • I think we were at the same place. - CurmudgeonMT
          • Okay - Thx
  • This is the trend for all companies now. sm - Oldie But A Goodie
    • This is a gambit that won't work over the long term - mtme
      • Lets all work for free - T
  • I am glad you posted this information sm - MT30+
  • I knew they were heading that - direction
  • ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LANDMARK TRANSCRIPTION? - Marilyn
    • I would like to know too..have applied for a job there! nm - ex-MDIr
  • I hope every company that does this to their - employees goes down in FLAMES.
  • When does the pay cut go into effect? - What?!?!
    • Landmark - apple
      • what is the required line count? - mt2

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Do you want no QA department at all? Do you want to not have to have your work checked all the time? I'm not sure what you mean.

and we all (MTs, QAs, recruiters and other staff) move around so much that I know and have run into a bunch of the same people at different times/different companies.  There are many MTs I have never met but I know their work and I know who they are from board postings on other sites...there are more than a few bad ones and more than a few high-maintenance ones.  I know who they are and I assume that other people who have been doing this for a long time know who they are also.  When presented with one of these people, would you knowingly hire someone whose work you have seen previously (BAD) or who was a difficult/troublesome/undependable employee?  No.  So there is not an official list, but there are a few people out there in the world I recognize by email addy or name and won't deal with them because of previous experience.  I'm also sure they would never recognize themselves as difficult, troublesome or undependable.

In short, if you need to make a decent living, to use the words of other posters about some other MT services, run, run very far and fast in the opposite direction. 

Other employees may present another work experience, but I've found that despite the fact that they have great managers, good team spirit, and treat the MT's with courtesy and respect that for the most part the dictators are terrible, sound quality is poor, and I've yet to receive a stable primary.  I get bounced around all over the place due to low work volumes or accounts being transferred over to the offshoring side of the company for Indian MT's to work on. 

ASR takes up a significant portion of our transcription now.  Between ASR and the offshoring it's my perception (and it may just be a matter of perception) that most of the 'easier' dictators have been routed in this direction while those of us still doing straight transcription get a more concentrated pool of challenged dictators.  Because there's not a mix of the good and the bad it's very difficult to pull lines.  I haven't made my company minimum production in I don't know when and know of many other MT's who are in the same boat. 

The platform, though, is very user friendly and only rarely has glitches that prevent you from working (although glitches do occur). 

I hope this helps. 

P.S.  For some reason it's difficult to find recent info in the archives on Precyse.  I remember a week or two ago another poster saying that she too had done a search and couldn't come up with anything more recent than 2006, although I know that there have been more recent postings. 

QTer so I have seen lots of changes.  Not that I expect anything, but we've always gotten something for MT week and this year not even a card and the whole stink over Christmas.  The IRA thing doesn't have me really concerned.  From what I understand they only hire ICs now.  I know they've had some long-term people leave who might have been employees, so it might not be cost efficient to continue the program.   I haven't had a raise in several years and these days I'm just glad to have a paycheck.  I don't know how much of the work is being offshored, but you would think that would free up some $$, unless they have had to hire extra QA people.  I like not having lots of e-mails/phone calls, but I also would like to know what is going on.  I denied for months they were offshoring, but when I got proof it was a slap in the face and I felt like we should have been told about it.  There seems to be plenty of work on my account so the offshoring hasn't  affected me directly.  So far the checks are always on time and have never bounced. 

Things have definitely changed and I don't think for the better, though I've interviewed with several companies lately and haven't found one yet that is better than QT.  I just try to do my lines and be thankful for a paycheck and just accept the fact that the company will never be what it was. 

I have read so many wonderful things about this company, but no one seems to talk about cpl.  I know what they offered me is about average for nationals, but I also was told they do not give raises.  Is this really true.  Does that mean if you are an excellent transcriptionist, and more reliable than normal, they would never give you a raise?  That doesn't sound good to me.  Would anyone care to say if they have gotten a raise while working there.

Your help is much appreciated.

How do you like it? Are you productive on the platform? How is the pooling? Can ShortHand work on the system? any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

You are not the only one who has worked hard for the company, but it doesn't matter if I like the people or not -- I have to make a living.  Your callous disregard for that fact (along with theirs), calling it something like an oversight or human error is a slap in the face to those of us who struggle alone to support a family on a measly 30-40 minutes of dictation a day, coupled with the fact that we were out and out lied to about the shortage of work.  How can there be mutual respect in a situation like that?

I am glad you support and care for them, and I hope they never leave you high and dry like they have done the rest of us.  I, for one, am done.  I don't need the lovey-dovey family talk when it is all a pack of lies.  That kind of family I do not need.

there? Is it recently or in the distant past?

Thanks

We all know that with this industry the work is feast or famine.  Have you had times of feast, too, with Transcend?  Has it just been the summer months that have been bad for you with your accounts?  Or, has work just been dwindling down now for many months in a row on every single one of your accounts?

Do you do a variety of work types?  Do you do VR and straight transcription. 

Please understand that I am not trying to be a jerk.  I am an MDI-er and I really, really want to know what to expect.  I remember last summer at MDI I nearly had no work and I was infuriated.  Then, along around September or so, it started to pick up again.  Go figure.  Thanks in advance to your reply

no one really has a right to tell you that you cannot work for as many people as you want.  However, as someone pointed out, most companies nowadays have you sign a contract with a no-solicitation clause, stating that you cannot solicit work from any of the accounts you have worked on for them for 1-2 years.

Still, I do not broadcast to either company that I am working for someone else.  I simply let each company know the days I am available to work for them.  

Hope this helps.  Try not to let the nasty/negative posts get to you.  There are always those in every group who take more joy from tearing someone down than listening and possibly lending a helping hand.  Fortunately, they are NOT in the majority.

Good luck!

Let me get this right...if you had typed the report, but it went to QA with a blank, then you didn't get paid for the entire report that you typed?  Is this the norm at most companies?  Doesn't seem fair to me.

Maybe I should have said horrible dictators, because some of the ESL guys are not that bad honestly.  It just happens that they used a horrible dictator with bad audio for the transcribing portion of the test.  You do have to think $$ these days, no matter who you transcribe for.  If you are on let's say an Ortho account, and there are horrible dictators there (ESLs and all) that it interferes with your income.  You are making $30,000/year - while on a previous Ortho account you know you were making over $40,000/year.  Honestly, aren't you going to look for a more profitable account??  You can be the best MT in the world, but it is still the dictator's responsibility for what prints out, isn't it.  Accurate garbage is still accurate garbage.  Is it profitable?  We really do work for the paychecks - not the doctor, the company, or even the patient for that matter.  If not, then you should be volunteering.

"Palpation over the muscular tissues reveals mild tenderness in the bilateral paraspinals (s/l: clavatus or quivatus, and spiro-glineal) region."  I can't figure it out and am hoping someone out there will give it a shot!  The words in parentheses aren't words I know, they just sound like what he's saying.  TIA.