Tons of stuff in the archives. Use the MT Stars
Posted By: me on 2007-12-31
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Tons and tons of stuff in the archives. nm
TONS of stuff in the archives.
Love it there.
TONS of stuff in the archives. nm
Tons of stuff in the archives. nm
Tons of stuff in the archives or scroll down a
bit. They have been discussed extensively here recently. For the most part it is all good.
There is tons of stuff in the archives and if you'll
scroll down the current page you'll see lots os posts about them too. For the most part everyone seems to be very happy with TT.
Tons of stuff in archives, nothing good. If you
open your post near the bottom in blue is something about related posts. Click on it and you'll find lots of stuff to start.
Tons of stuff in the archives. If you will open
your original post and near the bottom click on the blue related posts (or something like that) you'll get the most recent posts.
I worked for them for a few months. It wasn't a good fit for me, but there are many happy MTs there and I think there have been positives than negatives posted about them.
Been discussed almost daily lately. Tons of stuff in
the archives. They overhire, running out of work common.
Scroll down a week or so. Tons of good stuff. Great company
nm
Tons of info about them in the archives.
They ran an ad a few weeks ago and supposedly got 500 resumes. It seems they are constantly hiring, don't know if new accounts or turnover. Some people seem very loyal and love it, lots of others have had problems.
Check archives. Tons there.
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There is a lot of stuff in the archives but
nothing good. They are an Indian company with just a store front in the US.
Lots of stuff in the archives. nm
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Lots of stuff about them in the archives, none of it
good. I don't have your answers, but they offshore big time.
I would like to know too, found some stuff in archives (sm)
something about outsourcing to India, but I didn't see anything that was particularly current.
By the way, I'm looking at DTS America out of Brentwood, TN, I think?
Lots of stuff in the archives, but it is a horrible
company. Some of the worst ESLs, sound quality horrible at least on some accounts, frequent turnover. I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone.
Read the archives. Lots of stuff recently. Not good.
Lots and lots of recent stuff in archives.
Thank you to MT stars
I started with OSi last year then my account coordinator got fired along with a man in technical support. The account has done nothing but flounder since then without a leader. I was fortunately able to find another job thanks to this board. Thank you.
What do the stars mean?
Thank you for posting this list.
Before I go to bed I check MT Stars
Wow. I can really appreciate all of your questions, as I am a transcriptionist.
I am the general manager of MDI and former co-owner of the company.
I am so glad you work for us and honestly, just give me a call tomorrow and I will answer all of your questions.
We are very stable, have been in business since 1972.
Some of our platforms are harder than others, but we do give 40 hours training pay @ $12.00 an hour.
Line counts are usually great. Some are tougher than others, but we try to compensate by paying more.
Dictators - some good, some bad. This is the way it always goes.
WE PAY EVERY TWO WEEKS. We have not missed a payroll since I opened the doors to MDI.
I think our changes are for the better.
We are definitely HERE TO STAY.
Pleae give me a call at the office tomorrow or e-mail me at Liz@medicaldictation.com. I really try not to let my employees down.
Thanks a lot for working for us.
Liz
800-205-7047
Try searching MT Stars itself
Instead of Google, try the search for this site. Type in the name of the company and it should bring up information about them. I hope this is what you mean.
MT Stars search...
I haven't looked for it the last few days, but about that same time I posted something and got a response stating MTSOs talked to each other and I shouldn't be talking about the company you are leaving No one but the company I was resigning from knew I was leaving my current employee and I had not pubically discussed the name of my current or prospective employer. I had not disclosed my employment status pubically anywhere on any forum, so how did someone know to say that to me?
re: MT Stars post
Thank you for responding to my post. I would love to which account so I can be on guard (or happy) from the beginning. I am a bit of a workaholic, but I don't want anyone to take advantage of that.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Beth
MT Stars is a board
The only thing about a private board is we don't have to hog a public board.
We can't discuss it on MT Stars
NM
Saw an old post of yours on MT Stars
and it reminded me of how you always seemed to have some great thoughts on the state of the MT business these days. Are you no longer posting there? If not, it's too bad.
Anyway, I wanted to get your permission to quote one of your posts verbatim for an article I'm writing. If you're interested, I'll let you know the details.
To help with the anonymity barrier, I can tell you that I'm a regular old MT grunt currently working for Keystrokes, but that has nothing to do with my writing.
Thanks,
Nancy
Search this board and MT Stars
some posts about them not long ago. Don't remember it being good, but then don't remember much any more.
Do I have this right? MT Stars now supports offshoring?
In reading the revised front page, it appears that, even though staunchly against offshoring, MT Stars now promotes advertising of offshoring companies? I just want to be clear on this.
If you Google MT Stars.com on this pg with Axolotl in there
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So why not change the policy for the All Stars?
OSI All Stars is a joke if there ever was one. Why not demand the same qualifications in order for them to receive this honor?
I wish I had paid attention to MT Stars
I read all the complaints about OSi on here and accepted a job with them anyway which was the biggest mistake of my life. Then after I was hired they came up with the weird holiday policy. I will be eligible for the holiday pay because I am past 6 months but since none of those days are on my days off I have to work every single one of them and if we run out of work I won't get paid extra - - - - - but I definitely have my applications in elsewhere so I hope I will be gone in a few weeks. I truly truly hate this company and never look forward to starting my shift. And the posts on MT Stars were right about the Q dept. Everybody says something different and their emails are full of errors including the manager's emails. I don't know how they hire some of those people. This is a big mistake. Don't even think about applying for this company. All the bad things you read on MT Stars are true and I really wish I had paid attention to them. Also I keep getting put off about my hire bonus so that is a bait and switch tactic too. They don't intend to pay it. I can see clearly now and I am P***** that I did not pay attention because I consider myself warned a long time ago.
I applied with them before checking with MT Stars...
but their offer was so low-ball I declined, after taking their rather rigorous and pain-in-the-neck test. Then I remembered this board and started reading... and thought phew, I dodged THAT bullet!
I have one. I am professional Stars poster.
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I think MT Stars is an excellent way to check out - sm
a prospective employer. In most cases, it's the only communication we at-home MTs have with each other. With the ability to read and assess for ourselves the pros and cons of MTSOs discussed honestly and openly here, we have a better chance of finding the right company.
Never heard of stars and apples
I believe there is a threat to lower pay, although I've never had low scores to find out. I have never heard of stars and apples. I've been around over 7 years and QA has always been about numbers.
pg 4, company board, here on stars
At least one person got fired, supposedly.
But I thought MT Stars does not give that info out- how could they get it?
nm
Use the Google search bar towards the top of the MT Stars site
Make sure that -mt stars- has a dot beside it. Type in the company name and do a search.
I'm grateful for MT Stars but wonder if staff or mgmnt
nm
rudeness... it's really what I expect to see on Stars these days.. n/m
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Well since MT stars is global you will see Spheris, Medquist, Diskriter, etc. posts sm
so if your going to be unemployed because of offshoring that is to bad. The majority always think of India when it comes to offshore but the Philippines, Australia, Europe, etc. also transcribes.
Why Google web? Compile a Stars company-specific list.
Immediately above the first post about 'Dictation 9 cents' whatever, and next to the 'Post New Message' button is a Search box. Use that one and get what you are looking at - only company specific. Why go outside the source? this is much easier.
Why don't you just go to MQ? They seem to be having TONS OF FUN 24/7!-nm
nm
I have used it tons
It is a pretty easy system to get used to. A lot of nationals use it. It is the same testing system that Career Step uses for their final. I like it better than some of the other tests that I have taken. Just don't close out of your objective portion or when you log back in you will have a whole new test. That happened to me before. 
Tons of work
I don't know what account other poster is on but she should probably check with her supervisor about the no work issue--that doesn't sound like Amphion.
The account I'm on is never out of work and it is always available to work on, overtime included. I love Amphion and have been at several different companies.
Amphion gives me the freedom to do my work and keeps me in work but they don't bug me to death about work. They go above and beyond to create macros, request software changes that get approved for MTs to use to make our jobs easier. I get employee benefits including retirement and PTO and I couldn't be happier. I'm also not bombarded with emails all day like I was at TRS a few years ago. The supervisors and QA are great! I was not sure when I started because I was skeptical from past jobs, so I started part-time and kept my other full-time MT job, then made the switch to full-time with Amphion after a few months and I am so glad I did.
If anyone remembers Omnimed from a few years back, they are now back as Amphion. You really have to just give it a shot to see if they're a good fit. 
There are tons of comments
All you have to do is start going back on the company board. On each page of posts go to edit on your menu bar and then select 'find on this page' and type OSI. Or you can search the archives. Most of the posts are not good at all.
If you don't have tons of experience, why not?
I have a decent amount of experience (6 years), but if you want to compete against people with 20+ years' experience, it certainly can't hurt to get your CMT and get everything you can possibly put on your resume. The test and studying for it did teach me a lot.
So...while it's correct that a lot of places don't care if you have a CMT, some places do. Seek them out.
While we're on the subject, I still haven't done anything to earn my continuing ed credits... I bought this book on amazon with a bunch of articles in it that supposedly you can summarize for continuing ed credit. Bo-ring...that's the last thing I wanna do with my free time. But it's something, anyway.
Flo, there are tons of info
as recent as yesterday. All you have to do is go to page 2 or 3 or 4. There is probably someting on each of the pages about this company.
Not tons, but there are a number of them who SM
are totally unintelligible.
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