Well thank you for sharing your positive experience!
Posted By: Thank you. on 2005-12-02
In Reply to: Whatever..as I said..I quit them...wish I were a recruiter..could use the referral..but as you see m - me2
I, for one, am happy to hear that you liked that company. Kudos to you for posting! There's not enough happiness and positivity in the world these days.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
I'm just so frustrated. I received more corrected reports. I still can't believe these are my errors. I'm not a newbie. This same particular person was the one who trained me on the platform. At that time I didn't even think she was an MT based on questions I asked (related to BOS). She just sort of glossed over the question and didn't commit to an answer so I figured maybe she's just not an MT person and only the trainer. This particular person has been there a long time from what I understand so I don't see her going anywhere anytime soon. Thanks for commisurating (?sp) with me though 
I'll see what next week brings and then decide what to do. I just wish I hadn't spent the money on the word 2003 for this.
Thank you for sharing your experience - and a question
Thanks so much for telling your story. It helps understand what the process is going to be like.
I have one question right now though (and maybe more tomorrow after I talk to a lawyer) - when you did this, did the company have to pay for the other employees it misclassified, or did the IRS only take you into consideration and look only at your situation?
Thanks!
MT LITTLE is just sharing an experience, you better listen to your fellow US MTs.
I dont know why even other countries can view this site. MT LITTLE is just giving a general warning to everybody concerned with the MT industry. Kasmir pls go home.
I had a positive experience
I agree totally with cjs. I had other reasons for quitting them recently.
I have positive experience's with OSi
I have been with OSi for probably 6-7 years. Lord, I am so busy I can't remember.I get paid very very well for my position. I to have rose from the ranks and it did not take long because my goal was to be a superviser. I have never been a manager before so I learn as go but I am enjoying everything about it - to feel that I I am being looked up to and that I can set an example and teach something. It is a goal I have come up with some good ideas that were not in place before. All companies have journies they must take so we may never have perfection so we will hope for the best. I do love working with the new girls who are the future but we still appreciate our older and middle aged women who are strong and perform excellent work. Just so you know that you are not forgotten. Promotions are for everyone , not just the newbies, but is gives them an extra step and helps them be strong for the future. It makes them thrilled that they have been promoted.
My experience very positive
Just started but first paycheck on time and correct, management very responsive in general, and at this point I have no real complaints.
BTW: If my emails for support were ignored - or not responded to - on a regular basis, I *would* call them and advise this was a problem. You are certain to get a better response calling and speaking to a staff member than just venting about it on a board that can't address the issue(s).
I had a positive experience with them but
it was probably four years ago. Everyone there seemed pretty helpful to me. The account I was on was heavy ESL, though, and lots of long operative reports.
At any rate, the people were nice to me, they paid on time via direct deposit, and I did not run out of work.
I have had nothing but a positive experience with LM
I started with Landmark about 2 months ago, in fact a week or so after 30+ MT started and my experience has been just the opposite of the negative that has been posted here. I already knew the platform so I have only had to learn account specifics. I may have talked to the QA person 30 minutes and read the account requirements. I do not email QA for questions. I put my questions on the reports themselves and review them before I start my next shift. Filled-in blanks are copied into my ShortHand program for future use. I've only had maybe 2 full checks and a small one when I started in the middle of a billing period. I have had absolutely no problems with payroll at all.
The only thing I noticed is that my account ran out a couple of times on a Saturday, but I had the opportunity to swap that day for a scheduled off day and had no problems meeting my commitment. Now that I know the flow of work, that shouldn't happen again. I did check with the QA person and we talked about cross training on a different account soon just in case that is needed.
Again just for the record, I have had no problems working for Landmark. I am an IC which is how they treat me (ICs are not supposed to need training and a lot of hand-holding), as did the MTSO that I worked for prior to LM where I was a statuatory employee. I am a single mom who does not get CS. I like the freedom of just doing my job w/o being hassled. If anyone has issues or questions about Landmark, I would be glad to answer by email.
Carol
My experience with them was very positive.
You do only have to test once, their service is free to the job seeker, and they found a perfect match for me. I am still at the same job 3 years later, and quite happy. Good luck.
I work there. Experience all positive.sm
Pay is excellent by the minute or gross line. Company is well run, everyone is nice, and professional. Pay is always correct and on time. They do not outsource.
Very positive experience first and second time around
Over all the companies, nationals I have been with, Keystrokes shines above all others, and believe me I am cynical of this profession anymore.
Has anyone had a positive experience with Focus Infomatics?
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Nothing but positive experience here too. Pay on time, no hassles. nm
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Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing...
It helps to know you guys are happy there and why. It's just hard to know what to do these days, but I think I'll give it a go with applying and see what happens. Thanks again!
Ok, not for me thanks for sharing. I will run away from OSI! nm
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Thank you all for sharing
I appreciate all your feedback. I think I'm going to give it a try and do both for a while.
Wow, thanks for sharing that and sm
good luck to you! I hope you find some good companies to choose from. Post back if you find a good company, not even who, but that you found one! Do they still exist?
thanks for sharing that :-) sm
But you know, I bet some of the meanies here do have good lives. They just don't, can't, or won't understand what it's like to have bad things happen through no fault or even through fault of the individual (human comes to mind here).
When one lives in a protected, happy shell, perfect in their mind, it's hard to think outside that shell.
That's not to say that unhappy people don't post insensitive things either...
My life is not peaches and cream and by no means am I what I would call 'happy,' but I have not desire to spew hurtful, hateful words.
It makes me happy to help and make others feel better. My favorite of your mom's words is the one about keeping yer mouth shut if you can't say anything nice (or constructive so to speak).
But my all time favorite is do unto others. It really covers it all.
Good luck to you and I wish you the best. Your words touched me. :-)
Thanks for sharing this ... sm
It's encouraging to hear. I'd love to try ASR but can't take advantage of the opportunity because I haven't been able to get my lines up to minimum production level for reasons I've stated in another post.
I'm trying to hang in here because aside from the money I think this is a pretty good company. Just keeping my fingers crossed that it will get better for everybody financially across the board.
A lot of sharing
We even set line count goals with each other and don't talk about how to get out of work and stay on a board instead of working. We share pictures and recipes and helpful links etc. This board has been a godsend to me when I was struggling with my line count. TT should be glad that we have it instead of telling everybody it is phony just because they didn't send it. That kind of dampens my spirit about TT but I will try to get past that. I know that we have some management on board because they have posted and there is more than one. All the questions we can't answer on the board we send an email to TT. TT you have no idea how many emails we have saved you! We have nothing to be ashamed of on our board and welcome anybody at TT to read all the messages.
Thanks for sharing your
experience. Do you recall how QA staff was with either of these two companies? Was workflow steady? I just really don't have a good feeling about any of the 3 yet. Usually I have some feeling but I'm at a loss here.
TY so much for sharing this with us!! :-->
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What about MTs sharing one job?
Can that work? I guess it would be subcontracting in a way. Just wondering.
Thanks.
thanks for sharing
Well, now that I have cooled down a bit I wanted to thank you and the other poster for sharing your stories. Sorry to hear about you health troubles. I hope that some day you will overcome those blocks that you have been having. It is such a frustrating disability. My son has come home from school on more than one occasion in tears after a rough day of being made fun of by kids he thought were his friends. I have woken up at night from panic attacks thinking about my son giving oral reports in front of the class. The other poster says that I am too sensitive and I should calm down, but if you discriminate against one stutterer then it is a slap in the face to all stutterers, and I am more than happy give anyone a good tongue lashing for discriminating against anyone who stutters whether it be a neurosurgeon or a janitor. I will say a prayer for your rehabilitation
Thanks for sharing. NM
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wow thanks for sharing. Seems to be come up more and more.
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Thank you so much for sharing this
I think most of us at MDI-MD see right through this facade of 'one big happy family' and are clawing our way out as quickly as possible, and your post just reinforces WHY we need to.
I'm sorry you had to go through it, too.
We MTs, despite our differences, really are a sisterhood or family of sorts, and we really need to stick together and reach out to help one another right now, and I for one am delighted to see the unification of all on this board, especially compared to the usual catfighting and hostility.
Thanks for sharing this............ sm
I appreciate knowing what it's like from someone who is using it as opposed to what management wants us to believe it will be like.
To those who don't mind sharing....
Are there any companies that pay base 10 cpl with opportunity for production and/or QA incentives, employee status, good benefits, and great transcription platform. If so, would you mind sharing the name of your company. I am feeling very unappreciated where I am, and need a change.
I do not mind sharing. SM
However, this is not a large company. This is a local company, and I have just been asked if I knew of anyone who needs the work. If you would like to leave your e-mail, I will be more than happy to share more info.
Appreciate the info sharing
I finally found a job with a good company thanks to this board. I quit putting in applications for job posts until I came here and checked out their reputation.. (finally learned to do this after dealing with one not so good)
I really appreciate MTStars job seekers board and company board.
That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing! nm
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Recruiters: Thank you for sharing sm
I am really embarrassed for those people, but I am also having a good laugh. I bet you all really need to vent. Do you have a network of recruiters where you can go? I am glad to have a glimpse of your world. Now I know why some of those ads are in caps - YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO DO THIS OR DO NOT APPLY! Honestly, they sound hostile, and I skip by them, but at least now I know why.
Thanks for sharing, I'll sure know to
steer clear of this witch's brew!
LOL Thanks for sharing your pain.
I've had a day or two of those recently as well. ;-)
mind sharing?
you can e-mail me
Thanks for sharing but I applied with them, was
who was telling me I need a 3rd phone line and then finally said that they were intending on phasing out dialup within a year. Why apply for a job just to turn around and find another one when they completely phase out dialup?
Would you mind sharing sm
what the line rates are like and whether or not there are production bonuses?
Truth in Sharing
To: MTHeaded, Stick Figure and Gourd Painter, all of whom claim to make such good money (over $25 per hour for Stick Figure, being one of the highest paid MTs for Gourd Painter, or making $50 to $70 per hour for MTHeaded): Why don't you all share the names of the companies you work for??? Obviously if you're all that good you have nothing to fear as your places are secured in your company, and Gourd Painter is leaving anyway. If you care about your fellow MTs enough to write, why don't you share this information, since you all say it is true???
Thanks for sharing. You are my idol.
I'm everything you talked about not wanting to be. I'm stuck on this computer 15 hours a day 7 days a week just to keep our heads above water and it'd just not worth it. The stress is overwhelming. You eat, sleep, and live the debt. It never goes away and I just want that weight to be gone. I want one job and a life. I want to see my last child grow up, but I'm missing it all. I no longer have friends but they don't even bother asking me to do anything but I have to work. Let this be a lesson to everyone. Money truly is the root of all evil. As a society, we have lost the ability to know what is most important in life. Relationships make you happy not materialistic things and there truly are things that money can never buy and that is peace of mind. AMEN.
Would you mind sharing which job
you make better money at? I am looking into coding full time. I don't like the idea of the stress, but I need to make a living where the pay does not continue to go down or nowhere. Do you think there are coding jobs out there that are less stressful than where you are or do you think they are pretty much the same everywhere? Saying you have benefits and work from home, two wonderful things in a job, and you still would leave due to the stress is quite telling about the profession, I must say. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, very important!!!
Though I did not apply at MDIT, I can relate. United Transcription out of North Carolina used ExpressScribe and MPWord (not MTWord) plus a FTP. The lady VP was not a transcriber so had not ideaaaaaa.
With this setup most of the demographics are entered by the MT (remember her/him making production, not paid unless something on the page).
There were plus 15 different popup screens to click, unclick, delete, type in name, plus flipping back and forth between window screens. Really ridiculous. These things should be put in the system by programmers not the MT EACH REPORT. Image with very small reports, making nothing and those Keystrokes are not paid.
There was no hard copy of doctor roster, so had to scroll through entire list trying to figure out the name referenced. Equally hard to even figure out first letter sometimes. I was told, why didn't you look it up I said I could not even figure out the first letter.
It was a ridiculous way to work. She was probably a good person but she just had not IDEA what MTs need, are about, about platforms. Just got the impression she had not idea how to process pertinence of something as she had bad-mouthed previous MT or MTs during the interview, has general bad thoughts, I told her she was wrong, MTs work their guts out, they are not lazy and on and on, I said they make nothing and go to great efforts to get the answer (I volunteer on 2 Word Help Boards.) Pissed me off her idea what an MT is about.Like sneering (sp?
thanks for sharing. Interesting and sm
sad to see the crumbling of the industry. They keep saying shortness of MLS - do they not see why, cannot make a living providing the same skills and company excpectation on such a wage cut 40-60%. One paragraph says to the effect, can make more or the same. Bull. I worked on Beyond TXT, terrible platform.
Interesting how everything is all boxed up, (shark-like) very little mentioned about the MT (MLS). They will continue to buy up the competition just like MQ did and thus become a monopoly. It is important to get out the calculator and figure out how much you are getting an hour when all is said and done and how many hours you put in for that 2.5 to 4 cents a line.
Just how many lines can listen through, edit during an 8 hour shift.
2500 lines/day at 3 cents is $83 day= $10.37 hr. for all this skill and must keep up with the constant changing medical community. Can you even listen to that much dictation (minutes) and correct.? See why shortage of MT MLS
Here's the facts that you're not sharing...sm
1. There were many MLS involved in the testing phase for productivity on the SR accounts, and each MLS demonstrated a significant improved productivity. I know because I was part of this testing group and on the conference calls with my coworkers who were also testing it. Sure we all initially doubted this could be done but when we started using the program we saw that we could do it.
2. The CEO admitted in a letter to everyone that he realizes that the high producers will more than likely not double their productivity and those people, as well as anyone who doesn't like editing, will not be forced to move to the editing format as there will always be some dictation that can't be edited, i.e. new accounts, new dictators, etc.
3. You're forgetting that when you're editing a report that you move faster through it because you're given a draft to edit. This means less wear and tear on the hands/arms and you actually have the program do a hunk of work for you. I've seen many drafts come through that needed very minimal editing - so basically I got paid to just read the report, make a few adjustments and send it on through. This is especially great for the bad dictators that the system does a great job interpretering their mess and not making me have to fight so much to get through their mumble jumble crud.
4. You may decide to leave and try to avoid this technology, but it's moving through the industry whether or not you like it and it'll find you eventually where-ever you go. I remember back when computers came out and everyone thought the sky was falling.... and we're all still working!
I encourage you to not fight it until you try it - you may find that you love this technology after all! 
Would you mind sharing which company this is?
Thanks :-)
Would you mind sharing where you work? nm
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Do you mind sharing where you work? TIA
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Would you mind sharing where it is you work now? NM
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what was the account if you don't mind sharing? nm
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good to know, thnx for sharing that :)
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