Whey do you say to stay away from TransPortal?
Posted By: Neri on 2009-01-16
In Reply to: Beware - MrMT
Did you work for them or know something about them?
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I can't afford to stay with VR. If they paid more, I'd stay.
The situation sucks. I really liked this company when I started there. I know they read these forums, and they are aware that we are unhappy over VR line rates. They stroke us with cute emails and say we're the best, but I can't feed my family on praise. They're turning into another MedQuist, and so I'll be leaving.
transportal
Darn it. They want to give me an account. What is bad about them may I ask??
TransPortal ?
This company is located in North Carolina and I did check archives but could find nothing regarding them. Are they a new company? Anyone with info please fill me in on pros and cons, please. Thank you.
TransPortal
Anyone have any info on them or currently work there?
TransPortal
Did anyone apply and hear back from TransPortal? I was contacted for an interview and never heard back. I was just wondering if anyone else may have had luck with them.
Thanks,
Transportal
Got an email that they liked my resume, would call the next on the phone. Never got the phone call. I called the following day and left a message for the recruiter that I was still interested in talking to her. She called back the next day and told me they had nothing available but would keep my resume on file.
Another total waste of my time.
Transportal in NC
Does anyone actually work for or formerly worked for Transportal who would be willing to give me some information on how they are to work for. I have seen the posts, but nothing concrete, just a message to avoid them but no reasons given. I am looking for an IC job, and they sound promising. If you prefer not to post, just send info to my email.
Transportal
I am working for them now and I really like them.
Transportal
Are you referring to Transportal? I work for them. They ROCK. :)
Transportal
I agree with the last post - call and chat with the recruiter. She is very nice and has had this issue going on for awhile. I had a friend who tested (seasoned MT) and failed! She was so devastated, but called and talked to the gal and is now working there. I took the test - knowing the answer to the one question that was messed up, so I ended up passing and now I too work there!!! Guess they should get that little issue figured out!!! Good company though!
Transportal
I agree with the last post - call and chat with the recruiter. She is very nice and has had this issue going on for awhile. I had a friend who tested (seasoned MT) and failed! She was so devastated, but called and talked to the gal and is now working there. I took the test - knowing the answer to the one question that was messed up, so I ended up passing and now I too work there!!! Guess they should get that little issue figured out!!! Good company though!
TransPortal
You heard???? And you are passing on rumors??? Shame on you. TransPortal is a wonderful company to work for. Not all supervisors assign work late at night and they should not be hassling or sending rude emails. If one is it is an isolated incident and I am sure it has been taken care of. The platform works great if you have enough memory in your computer, people can easily do 1200+ lines per day once they get the hang of it, which does take 2-3 weeks. To work there for 1 week and then spread lies is shameful. You are missing a great work opportunity if you do not check them out.
transportal
Transportal has IC status with or without taxes. Excellent company (I think). Full time status is considered 1200 lines minimum.
TransPortal
Hello,
I have a phone interview coming up with TransPortal, and I was wondering if any TransPortal MTs out there could comment on the Scribe platform. Has it gotten any better to deal with? I have read some past posts both here and on the CS forum about it being a pain in the neck. All other info on the company seems to be great aside from the platform. I'm hoping to hear that they have the bugs worked out by now... (especially assuming I have Vista!)
Any info, pros, or cons will be appreciated!
Thanks! 
Any information about TransPortal
I have a phone interview with transportal today and I was wondering if anyone knows of that company or works for them. I would appreciate any information.
Thanks!
Transportal-Anyone work for them
I have just been offered a position with Transportal but I do not know anything about them. I am not finding much on this board about them either. If anyone can tell me about them I would really appreciate it.
Thanks so much
How long have you been w/Transportal
Thanks for responding. How long have you been with them? Do they pay by check, direct deposit, or do you have to get a prepaid VISA card?
Thanks again
Transportal info
To save you guys from hoping too much, I was contacted and I was offered 7 cpl with possible 7-1/2 for employee status. Such as slap in the face! 17 years experience and that was all I was offered! Hopefully, that will let you know what they are going to offer you. It is a huge account and sounded awesome but not awesome enough for slave wages.
Has anyone heard from TransPortal? nm
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I work for TransPortal...
I am currently working with this company. While I have only been employed with them for about a month, I am very happy so far...good accounts, the platform is Scribe, and QA is very helpful. Hope this helps!
Transportal hiring. sm
To those working for Transportal or with knowledge, can you email me the address to send my resume? I did look on their website but does not seem to be an address for resumes?
Transportal Question
Does anyone have any information on the benefits that Transportal (in NC) provides its employees? Insurance? Paid vacations? Etc.? Thanks!
Anybody ever tested recently with Transportal?
I tested with Transportal and on the VERY beginning of the test (you know, the REALLY easy questions) it said I failed and suggested that I go to their partner company Career Step to better my transcription skills and try again. I went back and reviewed and looked up my answers and every single one was right. So, I went and took another test for them and AGAIN it did the same thing. Anybody else every experience this?
transportal is a great company
I have worked for them for about five months now and have had nothing but a GREAT experience with them. I am a seasoned Transcriptionist and have been on many platforms. Scribe is great, not perfect by any means, but it is great. It is fast. It is based in MSWord. No, you may not get paid for demographics, but how hard is it to enter the name and MR# and DOS??? Come on? Some accounts you check the schedule, find the name, and it automatically loads. How tough is that?
If you have any experience in working in Word you can work in Scribe w/o any problem whatsoever. I can EASILY Make my line counts in short order.
Also, regarding line counts, they are there, always have been. Unless you have a job that goes to QA then you have to wait a bit to see that line count come in, but I have never been cheated out of any lines that I can assure you.
The one and ONLY thing I had to complain about was being on QA for a long period of time unnecessarily.
Of all the companies that I have worked for, and trust me I have tried a lot of them, this one by far beats them all. The management staff are awesome, the dictators are awesome, the platform is great. What more can I say.
United, Archivus, Transportal. sm
I did look up prior posts on these companies but did not find the answer to this question. Do any of these companies hire IC? Do these companies base full time on line count or hours if they have employee status?
Thanks for your help. I am trying to narrow down my search. I appreciate it.
Reposting about TransPortal - Please reply
I'm reposting this in hopes that someone will see this and give me updated info on TransPortal. I have tested with them and should hear back from them this week. I've read everything in the archives, but I was hoping for some updated info about their platform. My other post got buried under the MDI and T posts. (Not knocking their posts, by the way, as I feel sorry for what they are dealing with...) 
Anyways, here is what I originally posted a while back...
Hello,
I have a phone interview coming up with TransPortal, and I was wondering if any TransPortal MTs out there could comment on the Scribe platform. Has it gotten any better to deal with? I have read some past posts both here **** about it being a pain in the neck. All other info on the company seems to be great aside from the platform. I'm hoping to hear that they have the bugs worked out by now... (especially assuming I have Vista!)
Any info, pros, or cons will be appreciated!
Thanks!
phone interview with transportal tomorrow.... sm
If anyone has any info before I interview tomorrow, please let me know. My biggest concer is the platform. I can type 1200 lpd with no problems, but every platform I've tried in the past seems to produce nothing but dinking around all day instead of $$$. Hopefully this one will be different. The test doctors sounded great.
Thanks much,
Debbie
Has anyone heard of TransPortal Transcription in North Carolina? (sm)
Any info about steady accounts, benefits, flexible scheduling from anyone who may work there would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
Any recent info on TransPortal? I have searched archives
And I haven't really found much. Any recent experience, good or bad, would be great. Thanks!
Stay low and stay very, very quiet. Do not
ask questions, do not talk to the supervisors unless forced to. The answer will always be the same, that you are the only one who has an issue, everything else is perfect. Never mention anyone's name. This place has the mentality of the Borg, everyone has been assimilated, which means if your supervisor does not like you, or does not like your friend, you have no chance. You associate with so and so, so you are exactly like them. That quickly goes through the Borg network and every team lead, ROM, and person in management, including HR, is aware of it. You'll be labeled a trouble maker and your life will not be worth living. Any trial to clear your name will be done in the fashion of the trial of witches. You are in a dunking chair - if you drown you are innocent but it is too late by then.
Remember, a ROM never makes a mistake and never tells something that isn't true. They are perfect (and nastier than a pack of hiennas.)
If you run out of work, it is your fault. You are just lazy. Can't make enough to take care of your family? Too bad, you need to work harder.
And forget getting an answer from management. It doesn't
happen. So, as before, stay low and very quiet.
And do a good job? You can be assured that if you do a good job, do what you are supposed to do, and stay quiet, no one will even recognize your name. They have no idea where you work, what your schedule is, or that you even belong to Transcend.
Stay away from
Stay away from OSI then...
Will promise you the world, but then it crumbles beneath you!
Stay away . . . stay far away! (sm)
Not only do they offshore (& offer you the opportunity to earn pennies editing the accounts you worked so hard to develop normals for, etc), but they're one of the companies that docks your lines for the ENTIRE report if you make an error that the client complains about. TRS does that, too.
Make certain about the pay dates -- the employee handbook said they pay the Friday following the end of the pay period on Saturday (i.e., 6 days), but the pay schedule I received showed they make you wait 13-15 days after the end of the pay period.
Were you offered transcription or SR? I've heard good things about the Dictaphone platform they use, but the general opinion seems to be the SR part doesn't work. They offered me 8.5 to transcribe (to start) but 3.5 for SR.
Also do make certain to factor in the several hours you'll spend in uncompensated time printing out all their documents and downloading all the stuff from their FTP site. They don't supply equipment because the recruiter said that 25-50% of the units arrived damaged. Strange -- other companies don't seem to have that problem. I spent 9 years with ddi --> MQ, had probably 5 computers sent out in all that time with nary a problem.
In conclusion, make absolutely certain what you're agreeing to. Personally I find the huge corporations unpleasant to work for -- why should I transcribe to pay layer upon layer of executives, vice presidents of this and that, etc.?
stay away
they have had problems with pay and work load. I had to find a new job.
I will stay and see if I can do it
depending on the requirements of part-time and as long as I can have flexibility to make my schedule when I want it!
I'd stay away...
I was recently offered a job with them, it was for a QA position, allegedly, but then it turned out to be editing on a voice recognition account. I accepted and started getting set up with downloading software, I'd email with a problem and not get a response for days, if I got a response at all, then I'd discover that the guy was responding to me via Yahoo Messenger, not email, even though I haven't been logged on to Yahoo for a week and he didn't bother to tell me that I could expect any communication from him to come via Yahoo. I'm not particularly impressed with the level of professionalism displayed by these people.
Pay is pretty low, I think they start out their entry level transcriptionists at some ridiculously low rate, it was 2 or 3 cents/line, but I heard it's gone up to like 5. I was offered 7 cents/line for transcription and 3 cents/line for editing with five years' experience.
They claim to have a bonus/incentive program, but I asked for specifics and was completely ignored.
They require you to work three days doing five jobs a day at no pay as an "evaluation period."
They were going to sell me a foot pedal at a discount, I sent them a check, and the guy claimed that he'd send it as soon as their shipment arrived and I'd receive it in two business days, but a week and two days after this shipment allegedly was arriving, I still hadn't received it. No email informing me of why, when it would come, etc.
Apparently there were some issues in the past with paychecks bouncing, which I hear has been fixed, but I don't know. I had an oogy feeling about them from the start, and I only accepted the offer as a "just in case" type thing, in case none of the other companies I'd applied to offered me a job.
Stay?
It's been slow but due to them overhiring. I'm still new at this so when the work slowed down I freaked. Do you have any idea what months are the slowest?
I would stay put- sm
If I were you, I would stay put. I was doing 250-300 lph at MQ, they have now adjusted my lines and am now doing 130-160 lph. No benies. You are actually doing pretty good and I make 10.25 cpl. I had one day I made $12.40 for one hour. I would stay put if I were you, at least you know the system and the doctors.
I'm still there, but trying to stay
Which isn't easy. QA program isn't exactly fair from a money standpoint as they don't give you any context from which to learn from the presumed errors in order to get to 100 percent. They only tell you the word you got wrong, no context, no copy of the report. There's no way to challenge or clarfy what QA says (I've tried). If there is an error that's in a macro or normal, you'd never know in order to change it. QA needs revamping, and QA rules your income potential. As they say on M-TV NEXT!
I would stay with MQ
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definitely stay where you are at.
You have the best position right now. Working for nationals or otherwise at home is just bad nowadays. I would really like to be in-house and paid hourly, and I am keeping my ears and eyes open for a position. Take care.
Stay away
I worked full time for them and never had enough work. The pay is horrible and the VR is the WORST!!!!!!!!!! SO glad that I left!
almost all ESL and going to VR stay put nm
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stay away!!!
They are a horrbile company to be associated with in any way! They lie, they have horrible ethics and...I could go on and on!
Stay away!!!!
I worked for them a while back and they care more about the almighty dollar (quantity) rather than quality. They give you a primary account and then will take it away from you with no notice. They say they want everyone to be cross-trained, but how in the world are you supposed to make any money by switching accounts all the time?! Also, they have been known to cut your pay without notice too.
stay away.
They are moving to hourly.
Stay away from MQ
Seriously! I've worked for them in the past and they're the devil. Think about it, they have their OWN board on this site. I've worked for both.
So they need to stay w/ your co. x3 yrs.
Smart lady, wish I worked for you.
Stay away!!!
Please do not even consider working for this company. I noticed there are new names under the job placement ads. I have no clue if Mary Beth is still working there or not. I had a horrible experience with this company. It's not worth your time. You never get paid on time. They start you off at 4 cents per line while you are on QA. It took me almost 2 months to get my first pay check. Not worth your time. Heavy turnover. Look elsewhere quickly!!!!!!!
Stay away from TTS
Went from TTS to Trans Tech due to many issues. Couldn't be happier. These are great folks, good pay, and best of all open lines of communication.
Stay away!!!
Please do not even consider working for this company. You will be sorry.........
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