Transcend - kill us with kindness while we starve to death.
Posted By: same old routine on 2009-09-12
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Suddenly getting chatty e-mails and calls from my supervisor who never had the time of day for me before. Of course the work has disappeared before I can get off the phone or get through the ridiculous e-mail updates about the weather, the kids, the in-laws, but nothing of substance and no helpful information is ever sent. Guess they want us to say kind things about how nice they were after we are forced to quit and get different jobs. This is one strange company.
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OMG, if simple kindness was a job requirement, I swear some of you would starve to death!
Members here should be required to have one sign on name only. At least then people would have the opportunity to ignore the trolls. It boils my blood when a person comes here for help just to receive hateful replies. Spelling isn't the issue and if it was, you wouldn't be considerate enough to care. You just look for any opportunity to be pissy. Get a life.
hostilitly/kindness
I am relatively new to at home transcription having previously worked in an office for an hourly salary.I too, have noticed many negative general post on this board.In office (at least where is was) and at home are 2 different worlds. I was never before on production. I never had to worry aboutline counts, expanders, characters per line etc.
I have been embarrassed to ask some of the questions I have asked because they seemed to scream stupidity. That being said, every time I have posted something dumb about productivity etc I have been OVERWHELMED with the kindness of strangers. Many have posted on the board, emailed with responses, discussed Expanders and a few even allowed me to call them for production tips. People have offered many kind words and have been very encouraging you will get there etc. I have also noticed some of these same people helping others on the board.
My personal experience on this board has been that I have never met kinder, more knowdledgable people who went out of their way to help others. It is a shame some of the negative posts seem to dominate.
Maybe it is as Shakespeare said I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. ... Do not let the bad live and forget the good.
Thanks to everyone who has helped me (or anyone) and Happy New Year!!
Thanks for your kindness. I did check, and it just says we are paid on sm
the 15th and the last of the month, and that if they fall on a Saturday or Sunday, we are paid on the following Monday. However, the 31st was on a Sunday, and we were paid on the Friday before, plus with the following Monday being a holiday, I was just hoping … hopes and dreams, one of the few things that are still free 
No IC the taxes kill you
I don't need bennies though have them through another source..Full time
Errors kill people
Most companies don't dock for simple errors, they dock for repeated major errors. You said you were a nurse, what would have happened if you gave a medication the patient was allergic to? It's the same with this job. ONE simple error can cause serious harm and to have a flippant attitude about it is extremely sad. What if that were your parent, grandparent, or child in that bad and the attitude of the person causing harm was oops.
Pig pay - I'd rather starve
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Focus likes to get these little holes in the wall and then kill them.
look at STP and oh heck, what is that other one that wanted me - Lartech - that's just 2 of them.
Well guess what. I would starve first
and I mean that. Because people like you decide to take pay that is subpar, others suffer and will continue to do so because people like you take the jobs and when they lower the pay, no doubt you will go along with them. I stand up for what I believe in even if it means I starve and if more people did that, maybe we could accomplish something in this field of standing up for what is right!
Ah, a random work load can really kill production. Can they be routed
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If this is your company, I'd rather starve than apply there
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You will starve! Consistently no work!!
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Another one of the pets talking here. The rest of us starve.
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Death and they still want u to work
Maybe it is the same with any job, but I remember when my mother died, the MTSO called me and said you sound back to normal. I really needed more time off but I don't get paid time off.
At another big national, I was deathly sick with bronchitis and they were still cracking the whip. I was lying down every half hour or so, but still got my lines done. I remember telling the supervisor how sick I was and she didn't say a word, not a word.
They email you to death, and
I found out they Want you to IM, but will not Force you to.
How about Death Valley?
That'd be symbolic and maybe big enough to hold everybody who'd lose their jobs! Anybody know a good photographer who'd work for free?
Death of Spryance
He is right!
The Spryance has started losing its so-called No. 1 position since 2003 when incompetent people were recruited and promoted as QA's and they had begun to outsource their work to home-based crackpots who had a few days of MT-like training!
YOU KNOW WHAT? I am sick to death of your s/m
comments after every little post or question that anyone DARES to put on this board!
Yes, please go ahead and repsond in the most childish way possible (and I know you will, as that is all you know how to do, apparently). Obviously, after your continuous verbal abuse to almost every poster on here who dared to disagree with you (yesterday), you get your jollies off of belittling anyone you can get a hold of.
Now, if anyone else on here who is over the age of 12 would like to respond to this post in a helpful manner, please feel free. If you don't know the answer to my question, then just don't reply. Not that difficult, is it?
You, SIR, are immature and should move on from this board because you have nothing constructive to say whatsoever.
In all honesty, I feel sad for anyone (like you) who lives their life as you do on a daily basis. You must feel good about yourself each night when you lay your head on your pillow, after a day of insulting and berating. What an accomplishment. Get a life.
If you choose to respond in your usual scathing manner, please do. It will only solidify the opinion that many of us here likely hold about you. Here's your chance to really show all of us worthless and incapable human beings how tough you really are. The stage is yours.
For the record, I currently earn over 10 cents per line as an employee. Not a wimp, not weak, not ignorant. Sorry to burst your bubble.
If you want to be nit-picked to death
Then by all means, hire on with Keystrokes. I had just started with them but after I saw my review, I told them I did not want to work for them. They nit-pick every comma, etc., to death and there was no way I was going to put up with that. These services get so carried away by all the insignificant crap that they just drive away anyone who is a good MT but doesn't want to put up with the nit-picking. Good luck.
You are so full of sh**. Sick to death of you and
You have to be getting bummed out trying to do damage control on here knowing that OSi is doomed!
I betcha they'd be tickled to death to get you.
Experience counts for a lot these days.
Are there any companies who do not micromanage you to death?
I am a good MT, produce high line counts, am reliable, yet the company I work for insists on micrmanaging us all to death. I just want to produce excellent work and be left alone to do so. Is that too much to ask these days? 
glad I'm not working myself to death..
money is not worth the time or stress. My income is supplemental to the home and for fun and/or savings, not necessary for bills, etc. And please don't bother bashing me or say I'm snooty and married money, not really the truth but fortunate enough to let my DH be the income earner, not me.
I'm just sick to death of people
downing TT all the time on this board, that's who I am. I stated facts in my post. Just because someone (or we as stated) went to Vegas, this poster was furious. Well, it stated in the email it was a BUSINESS trip, and like I said, is management supposed to sit on their duff and hope work comes their way, or should they actively pursue it? I don't call it talking down to the poster.
The "Kiss of Death?" [snort!]
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They nitpick the commas to death but it depends on who you get
to QA you. Other than that, they are a good company
They got the dreaded "blue screen of death.
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Then somebody in India types our death note
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Yeah, my wardrobe would probably get me stoned to death, lol!
Subservience and modesty are two qualities at which I do not excel :-)
Starving to death without health insurance and looking for another job! nm
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Personally, I'd rather be left in the dark than to be bugged to death every
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go work for them and you will see - managers, supervisors all from India and IM you to death! nm
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Puhahaha! I'd probably end up starving to death or gathering enough vegetables being thrown to op
my own produce stand. Thanks for the chuckle. XDDDD
Why do supervisors who insist they are not paid to transcribe cherry pick accounts to death?
They could really show some leadership ability if they took the bad dictators and left a few easy reports for those of us who would appreciate an easy report once in a while.
Transcend bought MDI, so if Transcend sends work offshore, so does MDI. nm
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We heard Transcend is buying Keystrokes next. I'm not working for Transcend. No Way !
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If MDI-FL is owned by Transcend and Transcend admittingly offshores, sm
then doesn't that make MDI a company that offshores? That's like saying that one branch of a company offshores but another does not, so they are excluded from the offshore label. If MDI-FL is part of Transcend and Transcend offshores, that means that they do.
RE: If MDI-FL is owned by Transcend and Transcend admittingly offshores, sm
Your hypothesis is incorrect. MDI is a wholly independent subsidary of Transcend, therefore, they were not a part of the experiment to offshore to evaluate cost/benefit ratio that Transcend only tried for 90 days (I believe the evaluation process is not still ongoing).
It is not Transcend. Transcend has not had control of
the accounts long enough to make any changes to anything. Maybe your account just slowed down like a lot of others did over the last few weeks. Everything will run status quo for a few months before any major changes are implemented. And give Transcend a chance. It is a good place to work and you will finally have some benefits that you will enjoy.
Transcend
I just got an email from an MT who loves Transcend. She told me she gets 15,000 lines per pay period as she gets a lot of VR (voice recognition)reports.
She gets around 8 cents a line for a report she has to transcribe "from scratch," but if she gets a VR report, she only gets 5.5 cents a line.
However, she says even with the 5.5/line, she makes 15,000 lines a pay period as the VR reports are very quick and easy to do. She did not mention anything overall about Transcend; just that she really likes her job and the lines she's able to get each day. I am looking for an MT job, but it's really hard as you have no idea what you will end up with even if you do get hired.
You might get terrible dictation, no VR reports, templates, etc. Or some of them require you to have your own equipment which I would prefer to use their equipment.
Does anyone know who is hiring?
Enough about Transcend.
I know, let's pick on another company for S&G's!
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Webmedx and Amphion.
transcend
The forum at transcend is full of people angry and complaining bitterly about the new platform and the horrible sound quality. Someone said she had worked on an account for 10 years and now cannot understand the people she has always transcribed. And as for getting ahead, there are a select group of people who are taken care of at Transcend and newbies are part of that, they get raises because they get the easiest work picked out for them. You wont see them with foreign doctors or short reports or the same crappy work day after long day. If it is so wonderful why did a person that left another large company to be a supervisor only stay about 4 weeks and she is already gone??? Probably because once she was in her position, she had morals and could not believe the unfairness with which work is "doled out" and saved and while others never get a break. there is not one thing fair about assigning work and there never will be!!! This is a voice recognition company that has no regard for people as human beings.
transcend
how can anyone think that a company that is going to voice recognition and cutting pay in half, from 8 cents to 5.5 to edit, how can that be good for transcriptionists anywhere. this is all about them making a profit off of your back. For years transcriptionists have been underpaid, 6 cents, 7 cents, while owners of services make 25 cents or more a line and never share it. voice recognition just puts more in their pockets!!! It is just a new way to rip us off. Transcriptionists are the modern day factory workers, sweat shop laborers with no voice, no union, and we just keep taking it and they take our jobs away from us with voice recognition or cut our pay in half to have a job. If you call that fair, they you are in the right position. Nothing in our society goes backwards in price - except the pay of the transcriptionist!!!
transcend/mdi
I was just hired by them, starting training today. However, I'm only doing radiology-hope that is better. Anyone else out there with an opinion???
Transcend
Hi,
I hope you enjoy your training. It is kinda rough the first day. I don't know much about the radiology accounts at Transcend, but I do know that the people are very nice. I had 2 weeks of a slow period, which was frustrating. However, this happens at all companies from time to time. Especially in the summer. I know this because I have worked at other companies and have had the same slow time. At Transcend, I never had to ask for another account, a secondary, one was offerred to me and I started right away on it. I have a very good line count and make good money.
I may have to take on other accounts in the future, I don't know. If I do, then I will. Transcend is not the only company that this happens at. It is all in how you look at it also. The more you can do, the more valuable you are to your company. This will only benefit you. Of course it is not ideal, but sometimes unavoidable. Yes, it does slow you down but this is just at first. You eventually become accustomed to your secondary, or whatever number account that it is for you, just like you did on your primary when first starting at Transcend. I have found in my experience that the less flexible I am, the more limited I am. In this line of work, that is not good.
You will also hear about Transcend using VR. I am getting ready to train on that. I hear horror stories about the whole thing and I am sure that it is everything that everyone says it is. But the thing is, a lot of companies are going to be using it. Maybe not all of them, but a lot. It is a step towards the future and we have to learn to accept that. I am not worried about doing it. If I have to work longer hours for a while to get used to it and get my $$ back where it was, then so be it. I believe that this too will be something that an MT can get used to and become good at, just like having multiple accounts.
All I know is, at Transcend, I have always been paid on time, paid well, never had a check bounce, and I have not ever been lied to or mislead. This is my experience and my opinion. Good luck to you!
transcend/mdi
I was hired for Fri-Mon. Was told they have little coverage at that time. Not true???
MDI/Transcend
Wre they the same company or 2 different companies? They are being lumped together a lot in posts.
MDI/Transcend
MDI was bought out by Transcend, but they work as a separate entity. It's like Time Warner and AOL.
Transcend/MDI
All the posts are too far down. I can't keep up with all the drama way down there, so I thought we could bring it up here where it's easier to find!
Which one MDI or Transcend?
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MDI/TRANSCEND
And if MDI/Transcend do become one company, I'm out the door....Transcend was a horrible place to work, and I would hate to see that happen to MDI. While it's not the perfect place, it beats Transcend all to he@@...
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