Yes, I have thrown in the towel already - sm
Posted By: mel on 2009-04-02
In Reply to: Is anyone else ready to throw in the towel on transcription? - sm
Been an MT for nearly 11 years. Though I love the work and am good at it, I cannot stomach the fact that I make a little less every year due to no pay increases and threats of even reduced line rates for the same amount of work. What other career do you know where the pay actually goes down every year due to no cost of living increases? Time for some change for me. 
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Newspaper showed picture of former resident waving it from the Space Needle. Most of my family lives in Seattle, as I used to, but also from area showing the terrible towel. If you want to see picture of it Steelers, it is at www.heraldstandard.com front page now.
terrible towel
The terrible towel has now been waved at the Space Needle.
I'm about to throw in the towel
I can't pay the bills this way and it's been like this for well over a month. I'm beginning to seriously wonder if they have lost some accounts.
It's a wonderful place to work, but if there's no work to be done my creditors aren't really going to give a flying flip how nice they are.
*sigh*
I'm also ready to throw in the towel
and am counting the days (a little over two years) until I can retire. I work for a splendid company, but the industry in general is headed for the sewer.
Being able to do anything thrown at you
has hurt me with 2 MTSOs in the past. What ends up happening is that because I *can* do anything and have the attitude to be willing to do anything, when someone else *won't* do what is needed, I get pulled off my regular work to do what no one else will do. This can do several things. It can decrease my line count because I get no samples and have to slow down to nail every word to create a normal for several MDs on reports I can do but haven't done in a while. This decreases my productivity and my income. After I do this good samaritan act, I find out they only wanted me to do that because they needed templates to send out to all the MTs so anyone else can do them....all at the request of the hospital because the hospital asked for me to do this as they felt my work was so much better than what they got from anyone else. Now I feel ripped out because if I had known I was making normals for the entire account, I would have not made them available to the MTSO without negogiating a fair price for my product.
That underhandedness makes me feel disillusioned and eventually causes me to leave.
JMHO
Which will probably be thrown out
Nothing that GP said was slanderous in any way. Of course, there is still the expense of retaining a lawyer, etc., but I highly doubt this case will stand. It is a scare tactic and they need to be met head on.
I'ts time to throw in the towel
Most of us have had good careers before choosing to work from home but the MTSO's don't bother to see us as individuals and instead dish out the same garbage to a 20-year veteran as they do to a 20-day newbie. I'm sick of the abuse and pay scale that is less than 20 years ago. Let them pay a newbie 7 cpl or send it to India. I don't care anymore. I'm going to start looking earnestly for a real job where I can be appreciated for who I am and will probably double my income overnight. If enough of us remember our own value maybe it will send a message to these greedy people on the other end of the obnoxious emails and instant messages.
Throw-in-the-Towel attitude! I am way past my
bedtime, but this was so worth it to read tonight. Just stumbled on this thread by accident. Again, I have made a huge leap of faith by leaving my company, and due to these very issues, and you have all made me feel so validated! I am so glad that you are all out here! And, yes, we all can make a difference. The tides are shifting. Right now I would compare it to a slack tide on the ocean - the time in between tides on the ocean, not high tide and not low tide - that time when the waters are totally still and just sort of waiting - waiting for the tide to shift again. Does that make sense? I really feel that our work leaving our country has been like an ebb tide, leaving us. Now, though, I can feel a change coming. I know that the clients are dissatisfied and restless. With this huge focus in our industry on this international/offshore issue, MT and client alike is becoming aware, and I know that clients are moving around, too. It is happening, and it will gain momentum. I know it. Truly, it is quality in the end, in that our international partners cannot compare with our quality document. I have seen enough personally for years to truly believe this. In India, for example, they have 3 or 4 levels of MTs, and each document does go thru all these levels. I think the women at home who transcribe make 1 or 2 cpl, then there is at least one other MT in the centre who has to then edit that document, and I think they make 2 cpl, and then it goes to either a 3rd editor, or straight to Indian QA in the centre. They make the most at 3 to 4 cpl. Often, the final document still has to come to the US QA, but even if it doesn't, you still have several MTs in the process, at 1 to 2 cpl each, and the final document is often useless. The cheap labor and profit margin is just not what everyone expected, me thinks. We just have to get the clients to READ the reports they are paying for. So, the accounts are slowly moving, the professional US MTs are moving, and we will all merge again. The swill can find its way and merge as well. But we can prevail. We will win over time, and I've got a lot of time left to try.
Is anyone else ready to throw in the towel on transcription?
After years of doing this work, and actually loving it; to now looking for another job with a US based company with a fair wage and hopefully not another sinking ship, is there anyone else that would JUMP at a good paying job outside transcription? A job that you know wouldn't be offshored somewhere else or pay less and less as time/experience goes by?
I have always believed if you worked hard, hard work would pay off. I need some hope here . . . 
You are the only one that has thrown that number out there, no one else
You my dear are lacking. I never said I did that much an hour. I said for a half hour it was 446 and then I got straight and stuck with that crap. I love VR, type fast but I don’t have to work now, unlike years past. This is just my chump change, as someone called it below.
Well, did you tell them you got thrown off and didn't even get to take the test?
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I got thrown out, lost my connection
called my team leader, who was very nice, and never got back in. 3 hours ago, still have not heard from IT. I am going to stick it out, though, hoping things will work out.
why the water bucket being thrown on the fire
?
I never got to finish. After it asked me how much I was making, I got thrown off. -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
Then when we MT's are **thrown on** an account because of lack of work on our account
What is so hard to understand about that?
Then we have that account info filed away in a folder in our Outlook Express by name of account and can look at past emails sent out regarding that account. Not fun to be tossed on an account that you have never seen NOR ever received an email on. Sounds like business to me.
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