While I'm sure MDI-MD appreciates your loyalty
Posted By: I would bet money they don't on 2008-08-27
In Reply to: I'm stumped! - Happy at MDI
appreciate your posting here, adding pokers to the fire of the already hurt/unhappy MTs. Give it a break, really. And you not only have to share that your experience is absolutely Mary Poppins material, perfect in every way, but you are compelled to discredit everyone else's negative experience. I'm not even involved, but it gets my dander up. Get over yourself. You're doing your beloved company more harm than good by inflaming an already inferno situation. I'm sure Carlotta agrees. In fact, I know she would agree with me.
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No company appreciates your ability to
makes lots of money by high production. What they do appreciate is knowing they have a high producer and moving that MT wherever they have the need. I thought I was the cat's meow being able to transcribe an average of 2000 quality lines per shift. Yeah, right. Three companies later and it is painfully clear that the only concern the companies have is what I can do for them. If I lose sleep, suffer financial loss, etc., it's my problem. And before you wonder, 2 of these including the current are highly-rated companies on this site. This is what the last 23 years of dedication to this profession has earned me. It is possible to be too good and too fast. The only lesson learned is use them as they use you.
You are stating $15 - I assume you are arriving at this figure because they quoted a reduction in line rate or something else specific? Do you have an IC contract? I can't advise what you should do, but I'll tell you what I'm about to do. I am so sick, broke and distressed over this treatment that I'm going to simply stop the loyalty and divide and conquer. I am going to use my speed to juggle multiple jobs (I have before). If the company goal is to get more for less, they will find they get less for less from me. I read a recent post where an MTSO was discussing how distressed he/she was because the quality of MTs was so poor overall. To that I say there are awesome MTs out here who really need consistent work and fair treatment and who will bend over backwards to do a great job for your company. Say what you mean, keep your promises, and stop treating us like pieces of meat to be graded on a production scale.
As for that wine, I'd like to toast you even though it's 10 a.m. EST - you are not alone!
Looking for company that appreciates and rewards CMT credential
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All large co's are off-shoring and no one appreciates people with
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Loyalty?
How can you be loyal to a company that took your work and sent it offshore and then turns around and blames you for the poor quality! The fact of the matter is, they took a good company, got greedy and offshored for cheaper MTs and LIED about it, to everyone!!!! Now, they are paying the price! She didn't show any of us MTs any loyalty when she decided to offshore; heck, she lied continuously about it for months, so how can you have any loyalty for her? For those of you who have been having low work volumes, why do you think that is? It's because the offshore company is promised a set amount of work, so they get the work first, then the loyal MTs get what's left! Think about how far things have gone down hill in the past years. Dust off those resumes girls
I go by loyalty s/m
The company that overall treats me the best takes first priority for me.
Loyalty
Loyalty should go 2 ways. If they value you as an MT and cannot keep you busy enough so that you need 2 jobs, they should not object to your saying you would love to help them out on that particular day, but you have a prior commitment. They do not need to know you are working 2 jobs.
Co. out for $, no loyalty to anyone. We should also
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Loyalty to MDI
I have been in this business 17 years, half of that time running my own service until people kept undercutting to the point it was not profitable. Before that worked for a major Fortune 500 company that has laid people off for the last 20 years all while increasing the salaries and bonuses of the top executives (I was laid off 3 separate times, dh is still there but after 35 years now has to work a terrible shift to keep his job and who knows for how much longer.) No offense but I always thought you girls who were so loyal to MDI were living in a bubble that was going to burst. This was not your family or your best friend. This was your JOB, working for a company just like any other company in this country and I learned long ago the employees don't matter. I have a few more years until retirement hopefully and was hoping to stick it out but I am seriously thinking I need to get out of this industry and go back to school. Reading the SEC filing about Transcend has me a little shocked and disappointed. As I said before everyone needs to do what they need to do for themselves. Good luck to all.
why speak of loyalty when as MTs
Hasn't anyone noticed? This business is a sweat shop.... these MTSO have it made. They get cheap offshore workers and housewives and moms dying to work at home, busting their butts, turning their homes into sweatshops. Be loyal to WHOM? The company that treats you like crap and CUTS YOUR PAY and talks to you like you are an idiot? Oh yeah, RIGHT hahahaha you are nutso babes!
loyalty won't pay your bills
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when it comes to your own wellbeing, the only loyalty you need is to yourself.
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Honesty, Loyalty, and Integrity! sm
A company that will be honest, no matter what the cost. Integrity to keep our records and work in the USA. Loyalty to your entire staff, let them know how important they are to the company, as well as loyalty to your clients. Keep your TATs and promises to your clients. Keep your promises to your MTs.
A decent line rate such as 10 cpl or above and flexibility!
Hope that helps!
Companies have to earn loyalty (sm)
Besides, all prospective employees go through a background check. It's not like these MTSOs are completely in the dark. I cannot believe (or can I?) that some companies ask for people's screen names to monitor stuff they say on a message board. If they're that petty and paranoid, there's good reason for it, and I betcha dollars to donuts it has *absolutely* nothing to do with MT attitudes. If anyone is spilling inappropriate information here, there's a moderator to take care of that.
BTW, now that I'm happy with my company, I am loyal. In fact, I'm so positive that when *I* post on here about my job, people often give me this oh, stuff it, Polyanna attitude. 
The only thing that could possibly get me to leave is the promise of all that money getting my own accounts would bring. I don't think I'd like to deal with all the hassle involved, though...but if someone had a Powerpoint presentation to convince me it was easy as fallin' off a log, I'd be very interested!
No work versus loyalty
My pay period ended last week and I made $42. My supervisor is telling us to be patient and actually is getting angry when any MT starts to question what is going on. We have been told to be patient and the patient's are trying to meet their deductibles and that is why there is no work. I work for a huge hospital system with over 1,000 doctors with at least 30 outside facilities. Now, yesterday, we have been told not to log on again because the hospital has contacted them and said do not log in. I cannot go another pay making $42. What should I do? Be loyal or move on.
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No work versus loyalty
What company is this that you work for as the company I work for is the same way lately?
What happened to loyalty and ethics?
You sold out! You are a coward and you are weak. You are also a thief.
The last line just shows my loyalty and dedication (sm)
to my current employer, but desire to stay in the field of MT via a national company should my previous position not be offered when I return.
The people with the loyalty to the almighty dollar...
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I do believe your loyalty is displaced. No MTSO or national are loyal to MTs
even though they claim to be. Loyalty is earned just like respect. This is a business just like any other business. If one company cuts pay, takes away health insurance, etc, why should any person or MT be loyal to that company? If promises are made and then broken or lies are told, why should any MT be loyal to that MTSO or company?
On the other hand, yes, if the MTSO or national and their people take care of the MT and provide her/him continuous work flow, as promised, pay on time, and work together with an honest and respectful relationship, then, yes loyalty should be mutual and reciprocating.
For you to just come on here and claim MTs should be loyal to company is very improper of you!
Ok, those are my cents worth! Have a good night!
Loyalty to Companies Who Have No Work and Expect a Schedule from YOU
There have been many discussions about MT's sitting around waiting for work to file into their queues.. many being told to get more than a few accounts and work on their backups (which, we all know, is someone's primary account) when their primary is out of work.. so we go 'round in circles.
Then we have discussions about companies putting us in work pools as opposed to assigning us work daily...
I have been sitting here thinking, if I were a painter, wanted to paint fences, and I showed up with my brush and paint bright and early in the morning, and was told to come back tomorrow, the fence has already been painted, but there will be another fence ready to paint tomorrow, please come back, we want you to paint our fences.. I say, OK, I understand, and so I come back tomorrow and when I get there I see that half of the fence has been painted already, someone came before me and painted it, even though I was promised the work of painting the fence. They say, try again tomorrow. How many days would you show up to paint a fence? Every day? Don't you (eventually) feel like an idiot standing there with your brush and paint with nothing to do??
Does the company owe you any loyalty at all?? If they don't want your services, why don't they just say so instead of keeping you coming back ready to paint every day? Then when it DOES get busy, they call and say WHERE IS EVERYBODY??? DONT YOU CARE ABOUT PAINTING THE FENCE? Like we havent been standing there with our brushes all week waiting to paint.
What I don't understand is the lack of shame from the people who behave this way. Once in a while things happen..NOT AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
I really don't understand the logic of the people who have no problem with this. You do understand that by doing this, you are simply helping these companies to continue in this fashion, not feeling that they owe you ANYTHING.
Overhiring is really the finaly insult. If you don't see that.. you are closing your eyes.
I completely concur. Find a good one, or move on, quickly. No loyalty involved. The don't sm
have any to the MTS. NONE of them.
Loyalty has nothing to do with it until you find the company for you. Be loyal to THAT company.
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