Wow .. it's great to hear from you! Thanks for the good wishes. sm

The thing with eTransPlus was not a good fit for me either.  I think it is probably a good company, it just didn't work for me as my start date kept getting pushed back, I was running out of work, there were program glitches, etc.  Sometimes some things are just not meant to be.  I hope you get on with Keystrokes again.  I know it sounds kind of gushy, but I have found them to be truly wonderful people.  I don't need someone to constantly sing my praises or anything -- decent pay and plenty of work is enough -- but it is kind of nice to hear thank you every now and then, and know that if you have a problem arise, someone will listen and try to help you. 

Again, thanks for posting -- great to hear from you!  Good luck! 

• How is your work flow going? sm - One Unhappy MT
  • Not slow in Texas. - SO
    • KS just TODAY (Saturday) lost an sm - KSMT
      • Before you post something like this, you should make sure you know the facts. sm - KSMT2
        • Just wondering - why would an MTSO drop - accounts - like throwing money away?
          • Some clients (in ALL types of business) are so bad that - keeping them is throwing money away. N/M
          • Not knowing the specifics - AcusisMT
            • Thanks for the reply -- Didn't really think of things in - that way. But it does make sense (NM)
        • Poor company communication I would say. - .
          • I disagree. An employee does not need to know every detail about sm - MTSO
        • you are correct. They said in the sm - another KSMT
          • YOU may think so....sm - nn
            • AGREE!!! - annon
              • If you're a hard worker and a valuable MT, then yes it is - KSMT4
              • Yet you and the other poster fail to cite how in your opinion they did not keep sm - LTMT
            • I agree with the other poster. Keystrokes has kept their word with me sm - LTMT
              • Glad you are happy there LTMT!!! You and I were hired - together at E-trans plus a while back and
                • Wow .. it's great to hear from you! Thanks for the good wishes. sm - LTMT
                • It is interesting that some of us here are actually in touch - even though we are anon.
                  • Thank you -- that is a nice thing to say. I realize my experience will not always sm - LTMT
              • I agree. Keystrokes is a good company that sm - KSMT
                • I agree - KS Lead
                • Yep, I wish they'd rehire me. About 2 weeks ago I e mailed the owner - and she e mailed me back immediately.
                • Kudos to Keystrokes - mting
                  • I agree, it shows a company has discretion rather than - greed and stability in making
                • Meant every company for every MT, not every company for every company. nm - KSMT
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I'm glad to here that.  I am starting on 07/10/2006.  Everyone has been super nice and very accomodating. 

it can come back.  Posters like the rectum person need to be banned.

But the way things are going in transcription now, people need a place to vent.  There are some negative people who are negative by nature, but when everything is going to crap it's hard to be positive, and we need to be honest with each other.

If there actually was a place to send all of our legitimate complaints -- and there are many -- and someone would take us seriously and help -- maybe the situation could eventually be turned around.

And, one more thing, really bad things are actually happening to many transcriptionists today - they are NOT just WHINING.  We need a voice.

So, if you have a job that you are happy with, keep it as long as you can.  But, really, try to have some empathy for your peers who are facing REAL hardships.

Hi SC.  First of all, let me say good luck to you in your quest for a raise at your present job.  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you. 

My personal experience is that in the 20 or so years that I've been in this industry I've never received a raise from the MT service at which I was employed at the time that I asked for the raise.  Either they hemmed and hawed or just ignored my request altogether.  (Let me specifically state that my work experience has been comprised of both MTSO's and nationals.)  My solution, unfortunately, has always been that when I got to the point that I felt my increased skill and experience along with the cost-of-living merited it, I moved on to the next service.  The new service/national would always offer me a significantly higher line rate.  Ironically, I've been with my present employer for about 2-1/2 years of so.  I emailed my supe about the possibility of a raise about a year ago ... and never received a response ...

Hopefully others will be able to present a more positive experience in this area.

for all of you.  May all of you have the best of fortune and not lose your jobs to some foreign country, have abundant work and may there be a chicken in every pot.   After all, this IS America.  United we stand, divided we fall.

place to work.  I wasn't working there full-time, but from what I saw, they have a nice benefit package, and the staff is very helpful and professional.  The only kinda scary part is that they require 99.5% accuracy (or maybe 99, cannot remember).  Fortunately, on my first QA thing before being released from QA, I did manage to achieve that (a little more actually), so I was relieved.  I guess I just do not have enough confidence in myself.  Unfortunately, they lost the account I was hired for, but they were looking for another one.  In the meantime, though, my personal life kind of took a different turn, and I ended up moving from Kansas to Colorado, so I decided one job was enough for now.

As for eTransPlus, they are also very friendly, although much more disorganized than some companies.  I was put off for a week and a half past the date I was hired to start, then when I did start, there were tech problems, then I did 4 jobs or so and ran out of work ... that kind of thing.  Again, when I decided to move, I just decided it was not worth the extra aggravation.  Still, I would recommend either company.

There are still some good companies out there, although I hesitate to comment since my experience is not recent.  I used to work for MDI-MD, and they paid VERY well at the time because you had to supply your own LD, and that was before the days of unlimited LD.  I had 5 accounts, so managed to keep myself busy, but now I read posts about people running out of work, so I do not really know.

I have heard good things about Axolotl, and I applied, but the only opening is 3rd shift with 80% ESLs, so I decided not to do it.  Their benefits are great, though - no deductible for BC/BS!  And there is a $500 sign-on bonus too.  Oh well ...

I talked to Acusis, and if you can overlook their heavy overseas connection, they have a nice benefit package as well.  The pay is so-so.  I guess no one ever pays me what I know I am worth. 

If you run into a company you are interested in, feel free to ask me.  I have been an MT for about 100 years now, so I might have worked for them! 

Good luck -- hope you find something wonderful. 

that states that China will be taking over the USA in 2039....hopefully, by that time, I'll be dead!  *LOL* but not really laughing.

And this might not mean much, but I note that the fortune cookies given out by Chinese restaurants in the SE USA now are educating us all to their alphabet and numbers; in other words, their language! 

I can understand the employees who want everything and give very little back.  Very frustrating.

But then you have the situation described for the employee where there is no job satisfaction, no family/personal life allowed or frowned upon by management and no chance for promotion.   And then being compared to an Indian who has a completely different social environment. 

I know mothers who are IC and while they do take time off during the day for their kids (how dare they make dinner for those kids and hubby) but then they work long into the night after kids and hubby have gone to bed.  There are no weekends with their family either.  And the work reward is the pay will be lowered because the client wants to pay a lower rate.  It is not exactly incentive to work hard without any breaks and ignore the family in favor of what the company needs.

I remember years ago working for a start up company and the manager did not want the single girls to date at night and instead work late.  She thought they should be devoting their time to their career in transcription.  Well a Transcriptionist could do that but whether she worked harder or not the pay would be the same and she would always be a transcriptionist.  The manager on the other hand if the company did well would receive promotions and raises I am sure.  So that is the difference....management perks vs worker bee perks.  It was easy for her to give up a social and personal life because the rewards but the transcriptionist typing straight for hours and hours would see the same pay day in day out, no advancement or recognition for working harder other than not having a manager angry. 

However after reading that post I will be aware  and really give it my all. I do understand the need for a better work ethic.   I see what the management wants and needs.  Especially when managers are spending Thanksgiving with their families and the transcriptionist is working for 7 cpl with no break.  It is the American way of doing business.