Throw out your opinions on my new job...sm
Posted By: as on 2007-06-05
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Some of you may have read the post from yesterday about just being hired but a little nervous now. Was supposed to start Sun. evening but Acct. Mgrs. & I.T. people are unreliable and don't have it together. So far they are all Indian, even tho they are all working in MA (they wouldn't lie I assume?) meaning I have a hard time communicating to begin with. Several e-mails w/no response, several times been told I'll be getting my User ID. Now its Weds. and it should have been sent to me by noon AGAIN (right about now). Many other disorganized, confusing factors on their part as well but I'll withhold the boring details. Would you stick it out? I do understand from some of you that it can often be hairy getting set up and going but I would assume the professional thing to do on any company's part is keep you informed and have a consistent contact and keep you up to date on the plan. These people say this, send something different, no reply when I'm supposed to have it....is this usually an indication of the things I'll deal with during employment there as well? I think I'm subconsciously looking for someone to say Get the heck out and drop 'em because I just have bad vibes now. Let's hear what you've got....thx :)
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I'm about to throw in the towel
I can't pay the bills this way and it's been like this for well over a month. I'm beginning to seriously wonder if they have lost some accounts.
It's a wonderful place to work, but if there's no work to be done my creditors aren't really going to give a flying flip how nice they are.
*sigh*
throw Precyse in the list
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I didn't say they offshore. They say they don't, but they throw
it up to us all the time that if we fall out of TAT we may have to look at India. With the holidays coming up too many people are wanting off and they may have to look to India. I don't like threats.
Why would they throw her resume in the trash if
She says they promised to call. With this being basically a virtual profession (not local) that's as bad as the hiring party being absent for the interview...... It looks like Keystrokes likes mean people who say mean things to other people on message boards. If you are the type they hire, then you can have it!! I'm not the OP either, but I think you have a crabby attitude. The OP has the right attitude in that she is holding someone accountable for their promise. It is kind of funny how their dirty laundry is on this board and how posters have no problem broadcasting the fact that the HR person was overwhelmed. Hello? Red flag????? I'd say so for sure...... 
I can think of more volatile things to throw at them
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I'm also ready to throw in the towel
and am counting the days (a little over two years) until I can retire. I work for a splendid company, but the industry in general is headed for the sewer.
Throw a VR back into the pool?
My company has stated if this were the case, you could be terminated. I do not like to straight type anymore so definitely would not want to throw away a VR report.
Do their last names begin with P and M. I think they should throw them out before everyone quits.
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I'ts time to throw in the towel
Most of us have had good careers before choosing to work from home but the MTSO's don't bother to see us as individuals and instead dish out the same garbage to a 20-year veteran as they do to a 20-day newbie. I'm sick of the abuse and pay scale that is less than 20 years ago. Let them pay a newbie 7 cpl or send it to India. I don't care anymore. I'm going to start looking earnestly for a real job where I can be appreciated for who I am and will probably double my income overnight. If enough of us remember our own value maybe it will send a message to these greedy people on the other end of the obnoxious emails and instant messages.
Throw-in-the-Towel attitude! I am way past my
bedtime, but this was so worth it to read tonight. Just stumbled on this thread by accident. Again, I have made a huge leap of faith by leaving my company, and due to these very issues, and you have all made me feel so validated! I am so glad that you are all out here! And, yes, we all can make a difference. The tides are shifting. Right now I would compare it to a slack tide on the ocean - the time in between tides on the ocean, not high tide and not low tide - that time when the waters are totally still and just sort of waiting - waiting for the tide to shift again. Does that make sense? I really feel that our work leaving our country has been like an ebb tide, leaving us. Now, though, I can feel a change coming. I know that the clients are dissatisfied and restless. With this huge focus in our industry on this international/offshore issue, MT and client alike is becoming aware, and I know that clients are moving around, too. It is happening, and it will gain momentum. I know it. Truly, it is quality in the end, in that our international partners cannot compare with our quality document. I have seen enough personally for years to truly believe this. In India, for example, they have 3 or 4 levels of MTs, and each document does go thru all these levels. I think the women at home who transcribe make 1 or 2 cpl, then there is at least one other MT in the centre who has to then edit that document, and I think they make 2 cpl, and then it goes to either a 3rd editor, or straight to Indian QA in the centre. They make the most at 3 to 4 cpl. Often, the final document still has to come to the US QA, but even if it doesn't, you still have several MTs in the process, at 1 to 2 cpl each, and the final document is often useless. The cheap labor and profit margin is just not what everyone expected, me thinks. We just have to get the clients to READ the reports they are paying for. So, the accounts are slowly moving, the professional US MTs are moving, and we will all merge again. The swill can find its way and merge as well. But we can prevail. We will win over time, and I've got a lot of time left to try.
Is anyone else ready to throw in the towel on transcription?
After years of doing this work, and actually loving it; to now looking for another job with a US based company with a fair wage and hopefully not another sinking ship, is there anyone else that would JUMP at a good paying job outside transcription? A job that you know wouldn't be offshored somewhere else or pay less and less as time/experience goes by?
I have always believed if you worked hard, hard work would pay off. I need some hope here . . . 
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Well, here's my opinions, lol!
Worked for Spheris and MQ. Both were good. I made more money with MQ but things were easier and more in my control with Spheris.
I liked Spheris' incentive program better and I could control which account I logged into. With MQ, I had to take which ever account reports were in my queue.
Haven't worked the other 2 companies, though.
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Opti-Scribe out of State College, PA?
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The issue here is why question people's valid concerns about a company, but not the people who only are cheerleaders? Why not question why some people keep popping in to rah rah this company every chance they get?
I want to thank everyone for your opinions!!!
I have made my decision though and will be going with Transcend and my gut tells me I definitely made the right choice!!! I hope I can be with them for a long time, as I hate changing jobs, LOL!!!!
P.S. - Opinions welcome
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All opinions are welcome here. SM
Some have positive views of a company or situation, others have negative ones. All are welcome. Debate the topics, issues. Stop with the personal attacks. Do not stalk other posters' posts. Do not stoop to name-calling. Report inappropriate posts - don't join in the inappropriate behavior.
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Of course you are entitled to your opinions... sm
and entitled to your right to free speech, as well. The problem I had with your original post, going into minute detail about this conference, is that you presented it as FACT and while a lot of your info is, in fact, fact, you injected your personal opinion in with those facts and it makes it more difficult for those not invited to the meeting to sort through the ideas expressed. IOW, you were not an unbiased reporter merely presenting who, what, when, where, why and how.
Additionally, your original post left out what, to me anyway, was something of major interest: That the Acusis CEO has been a thorn in the side of some of the big-boy MTSOs to the point of being sued for calling them out on their less than honest billing practices, and that he intends to continue to push for transparency in that arena as well. That statement alone was enough to make me say Yee-Ha! right out loud... but you forgot to mention it.
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