Yes, sad reality we have here. Again, I saw broken promises and expectations. That's the name of
Posted By: Disappointed MT on 2007-04-17
In Reply to: Where are the companies with benefits? sm - NewBMT
this game. How I wish it were different. If someone is luckily enough to have a decent job, it is either good pay, expensive insurance or bad pay, cheap insurance. You just cant wish. The only way to get 12 cpl is to get your own accounts, which is sometimes a pain too.
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Precyse. Disorganized, low work, broken promises.
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Never talked to the owner? No wonder you have not had broken promises. Consider yourself lucky!
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Broken promises, messed up pay, endless drama. Good riddance!
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Keystrokes-disorganized accounts, broken promises, moody owner
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They started looking in 2007. No promises. Now it is a reality and yes, they are paying half. sm
They always come through. Why do you tell lies on here? They are the best out there and those of us that are there and have been a while know that.
Expectations
You are certainly entitled to your opinion and you do have one or two valid points. However, if you switched over to a QA position I think you’d soon realize it’s not quite the easy, money-making scenario you assume it is.
MTBucket wrote: we are forced to work like factory workers, with quotas and time constraints, all while maintaining perfect quality and never complaining or thinking ever or ourselves.
- True, however, if you went out there and contracted your own clients, chances are, you'd be experiencing the same types of demands and expectations from those clients. It's usually the client pressuring the services thus the services pressuring the MTs.
MTBucket wrote: ...we are constantly expected to just magically adapt to any and all changes made by the industry or employer, whether they have our best interest at heart or not, which is usually lets see, NEVER in our favor.
- True again, however, if you went out and contracted your own clients – they'd still make their demands, deadlines, quotas, changes, etc., and expect you to comply regardless. More times than not, the MT services are making changes due to their client's demands. It's usually the clients setting the bottom line thus forcing the service or employer to make accommodations.
MTBucket wrote: ...then to have someone go through our reports and pick apart grammar or style...
- Grammar and style are just as much a part of transcription as the terminology. It's part of being a quality, educated MT.
MTBucket wrote: Quality - HA! It is a tool used to keep MTs down mostly, even when it starts out as a tool to help MTs.
- Quite the opposite, in my opinion. There are many factors in this industry that keep the MTs down. However, MTs are not making it any better by producing poor quality. In my experience as an Editor and working with editors, editors want to see the MTs improve and definitely want to see LESS error-filled reports come through.
MTBucket wrote: In my opinion, the only reason QA has gotten so out of hand is to justify jobs.
- Sure, that's your opinion but if you saw what actually came through to QA, you would be quite shocked. QA has gotten out of hand because of more and more poor-quality or inexperienced MTs, not to mention overseas MTs when companies outsource.
MTBucket wrote: You are not fooling anybody. This is about money, it is about QA making more money than the MT who is doing all the actual work...
- I strongly disagree here. Many MTs I edit make quite a bit more than I do and I know this for a fact because I see their line count and know what they are making per line. In fact, I have a second job MT'ing and I make more money working as an MT than I do working as a full-time editor. Editor pay has definitely been on the decline for a few years now.
Expectations
I work for Synernet. One of the best gigs I've had in a long while. Having been on both sides of the MT fence (as owner and now as grunt), I appreciated their up-front manner- COMMUNICATION IS KEY. There are expectations on both sides, and yours are no less or more important than are theirs.
If you were fired for medical reasons, contact an attorney.
But just reading the list you ticked off, sounds like you have lots of issues that would preclude them being able to meet client TAT. And sorry kiddo, but that means you're not cutting it, even if your reasons sound valid.
There aren't a lot of businesses who will tell ya, go be sick, hospitalized, have earthquakes, and have an imperfect family and we'll just wait here patiently for your problems to compound ours.
Being an MT at home doesn't mean you don't have the rules that ALL employees for businesses have... and just saying, sounds like your situation is not a good fit.
Your expectations are low -
take a walk down the basement stairs to raise them.
expectations
The pay is variable and usually depends on your experience and what you can negotiate. You do set your schedule and tell them when you want to work and how many hours in the interview. This information is then sent back to you for you to sign in a new hire packet. If any of the information in that packet isn't what you wanted, then call them and have it redone.
As for the management, it all depends on what area you get put in and how is the CCM. Basically, you are left alone to do your job. You have 3 months of training and they aren't too tough on you. After that, however, you are expected to meet the company standards. Anybody who doesn't work their schedule, doesn't get their lines in, or has too many QA submissions, will be performance managed. This is all explained during your new hire training session.
MQ is a 24/7 company and never closes. If a holiday fall on a normal workday, you are expected to work it and will get holiday for the major ones. You can ask for the time off but are not guaranteed to get it. The holidays are usually fairly slow, as well as the next few days after.
They do have PTO based upon your full-time/part-time classification and you start accumulating it as soon as you start working.
As for experience, MQ is a very large company and you will be exposed to a lot more working for them than at a smaller company. There will be more dictators, more ESL, more report types, etc. You can tier up levels and get even more variety added into your work pool.
If you don't want to leave your present company, you could always try MQ part-time and see how you like it.
expectations
The pay is variable and usually depends on your experience and what you can negotiate. You do set your schedule and tell them when you want to work and how many hours in the interview. This information is then sent back to you for you to sign in a new hire packet. If any of the information in that packet isn't what you wanted, then call them and have it redone.
As for the management, it all depends on what area you get put in and how is the CCM. Basically, you are left alone to do your job. You have 3 months of training and they aren't too tough on you. After that, however, you are expected to meet the company standards. Anybody who doesn't work their schedule, doesn't get their lines in, or has too many QA submissions, will be performance managed. This is all explained during your new hire training session.
MQ is a 24/7 company and never closes. If a holiday fall on a normal workday, you are expected to work it and will get holiday for the major ones. You can ask for the time off but are not guaranteed to get it. The holidays are usually fairly slow, as well as the next few days after.
They do have PTO based upon your full-time/part-time classification and you start accumulating it as soon as you start working.
As for experience, MQ is a very large company and you will be exposed to a lot more working for them than at a smaller company. There will be more dictators, more ESL, more report types, etc. You can tier up levels and get even more variety added into your work pool.
If you don't want to leave your present company, you could always try MQ part-time and see how you like it.
Monrovia meets all my needs and expectations.
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The powers that be at JLG had unrealistic expectations.
May of 2008 is when they went live with their SR program. They hired a bunch of the QA people that were fired from Focus in their shake up in early May. They hired everyone in at hourly pay because the SR supervisor told mangement that there would be a learning curve for the SR engine. In other words, the QA people hired at the beginning would be teaching the SR engine by making corrections to the reports typed by the SR software. We were basically transcribing entire reports in an effort to teach the engine.
Within two weeks of starting the program, JLG management was crying about losing money because they were paying us hourly and we weren't producing where they thought we should be. The supervisor again tried to explain to them that as the SR engine began to learn, our production would increase significantly because we would need to make fewer corrections. This shut them up briefly. Then they began to cry again and said all SR people need to be paid on production even though they had contracts with each and every one of us stating we were to be paid hourly. So the decision was made to put everyone but the team leads on production.
Still JLG management wasn't satisfied because they weren't lining their pockets well enough or quick enough. They kept pushing and the SR supervisor turned in her resignation. They in turn told her she was terminated as of that day instead of letting her work her final two weeks. They then cut her off completely and told her to not have contact with any of us. Within a week of her departure, the team leads were then contacted and told they had to go on production as well.
Still not satisfied, management began to scrutinize each SR editor, putting some on 100% QA and bombarding them with email, making them feel as though every move they made was being watched. It was a very stressful situation. Management played games such as cutting off work so there was no work in the SR queue for anyone or putting in some phantom editor who was doing SR at a rate three times faster then the rest of the SR team.
Some of us were producing upwards of 3000 lines a day on SR and still were made to feel it was not enough and if we were producing enough, then our quality was called into question.
Now this. Now they just pull the plug. We put our blood, sweat, and tears into making SR work for JLG and they have had no intentions of letting work --> well at least one person specifically had no intentions of letting it work.
So there is the sad saga of the JLG SR fiasco.
Broken hearted
Well, hence my ID name, Happy MQer, I am becoming an unhappy MQer with all this info I read about what others are making. It really is frustrating to me. Makes me feel like crap. I know I am a low producer, usually only getting between 4000 to 5000 lines per pay, but still, I find it very unfair. The sad thing is that I really LOVE working for them.
sorry for my broken message.. sm
I meant that is where a lot of work is going at the place I work now. If they are run by Indians, why not send the work that way instead of constantly running ads here? Dumb question huh? 
So much for promises! Must not
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They outsource to India. Broken down
a lot of times. Management stinks. Its better now with team leaders, but the top dogs are really low class nasty and payroll person is worst there is. Support from office and from the computer end of it is horrible. And don't count on 9 cpl. My friend and I got stuck at 8.5 and now they will not give raises. Accounts are horrible.
You sound like a broken record!
In every single one of posts you say the same things over and over. You sound like a cynical know-it-all.
I agree..promises not kept..sm
they promise hourly pay during training and then give you a few hours over the phone and you're on your own for production rate. Didn't like the bulky platform either.
No promises of work
whatsoever, when asked, what are you expectations for work, answer was I have no expectations. How does that sound?
How about promises for work?
I was promised an account with loads of work that I was suited for. It never came about. Their book is fine, if you work in the office. My best move was getting out.
Cindy, you sound like a broken record, over and over and over
again. If I were management, would I not be throwing a name out there to get people on? Have you even done VR or are you 1 that is spewing out things you know nothing about? If you call my making around 20,000 little over a year big money, then you need to return to school and take math again. The problem with most on here is that they will sit around and wait for the work to trickle in to them rather than go out to get a job.I know the work situation is not the best in the world now but even before now I read where I have children and therefore cannot leave my house. The MTSOs probably know this, anyone can read this board. I had an old boss to read my postings before when I wrote against her company so I know they do. The money will continue on a downward spiral and basically the MTs here are just sitting back and waiting for it to happen. I would love to make what I did in the 80s/90s but those are times in the past for me. Thank goodness I do not have to make the big amounts as before but then I have worked so long now have social security coming in. Laughing when you say management, yeh with short term memory problems here!
Platform great...promises not met
I disagree..The platform EXText is great and I do it for another company now. However, promises were not met as I referred 2 MTs to Medware and did not receive referral money promised by the recruiter. Also, too many accounts to have to switch from one to another because there is never enough work, as I stated in my last post. I would not recommend MedWare. Good luck to you in your search. :)
I wouldn't do it if I were you. Promises that never come true! nm
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Most companies fall short on their promises
either in the interview or in the first few weeks of employment. Just like any small business, things are more likely to go sour in the beginning and not the end (usually). I have been through bait and switch with work and expectations in regards to scheduled time worked because I am an IC. This is my biggest pet peeve.
I've been doing this for 19+ years.
My first SE job: Dangled a job at a time and IM'd me literally to death. I had to give it up. My nerves were frazzled.
My first employee job: Was wonderful, but I had a death in the family and had to give it up during the training phase - couldn't commit. I was executor and decision maker. When I went back a few weeks later to begin training, the company had changed my days to work - so I couldn't commit. So whose fault is that?
My online job I've had for over a year now and is wonderful. They know the true meaning of IC.
I have my own accounts that I've had for 10+ years and one new account that was a physician from an on-site job that I had and liked my work. He's an ESL and begged me even when I really didn't want to have to pick-up tapes.
Another company I have been in contact with through a friend's recommendation is now on the job board needing help, but told me they were only looking for acute care, so.......... Do I go there yet once more? This would be an IC job.
Your post is long, but I can tell you this: You will have a hard time finding companies that pay, are willing to give you a steady stream of work, and come through on what is promised.
As far as the company providing HR and equipment, they should. I test for free, I train for free, and I study and learn new accounts for free until I've built up production. No one is that productive on a new dictator from day one especially mixing that with learning a new platform.
So, yes job-hoppers are there, but what can we call MTSOs that advertise and then not come through in the end for us MTs? I guess there are no names for that......... What do we call an MTSO that treats us like employees, but pay us low wages as an IC?
I love my job! 
But the reality is that
there are good people (with better formal English skills than are being produced on average in schools here) producing good work overseas, with more being trained to speed as we type. And we're informed that all work is QA'd before it gets here, anyway. To believe the competition isn't very real is like burying one's head in the sand. In the same time, companies, including MDI/Transcend, are offering sign-on bonuses to U.S. workers... A crystal ball would be helpful, but in the meantime, instead of pretending they can't do the job, let's hope continued development in overseas countries creates more jobs there and leads the competition to demand better wages for themselves as well.
Here's my reality....
The first time I asked about the insurance deductible, I was told it might be $1000. I asked her if she could please find out the exact amount. In the meantime, I located a current employee of the company on this forum who told me that the deductible amount was $2500. When I asked the recruiter a second time, she told me $2000. Something fishy about that.
I was supposed to begin training on a 30% to 50% ESL account for 8.5 CPL, but would later be switched to a new account in mid September that would not pay the same since it was not heavy ESL. When asked how much it would pay, I was told I'm not sure, but probably on the company pay tier, the details about which she was rather vague. She thought it would be around 7.5 CPL.
I have done 65% to 70% ESL in the past and feel that 8.5 cpl is not adequate. I also felt that 7.5 CPL was a bit insulting after 27 years of experience.
With an ever diminishing bank account balance, I decided to hold out rather than sell out. What I accomplished was ending up with 10 CPL, $500 deductible, M-F, 8-5...everything I was looking for. That's my reality.
And by the way, for all those plenty of MTs who would be happy to take that job, they are welcome to it.
The reality
Is that we have transcriptionists of this ilk to thank for salaries being downgraded. When clients realize that so many people are willing to GIVE error-filled reports (often because someone failed to open a book or look up something) they began to ask why am I paying a premium for this? And we saw salaries begin to follow the influx of poorly-trained, poorly-performing MT population.
There are GREAT MTs out there. Unfortunately they are more often than not the exception rather than the rule.
That's reality. nm
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This is the reality unfortunately.
Everyone is for themselves out here. Those lucky enough to still be seated in their position and maintaining a pay that meets their bills and gives them some extra to actually enjoy life, or those who do not rely on MT income solely to pay their bills have put up a brick wall to the voices of distress. And it is mostly everywhere in the business world, especially creditors.
Sad state of affairs in America but unlikely to change. Angry people should take their voices to places where they are heard. To state your disappointment here and then have an MT respond by saying that your dilemma is not worthy of discussion is just salt in the wound.
Reality check
They aren't in control of when MDs start dictating. What are they supposed to do, show up at the hospitals and stand over the MDs and tell them to get hopping so their people will have enough work this Monday morning? Maybe something went down at the hospital and they couldn't dictate for 45 minutes (happens all the time), and that's all it took to get behind the MTs. I've worked in house doing radiology, where we attempted to transcribe each note as soon as it was dictated, so you better believe there were times we'd show up and there was nothing to do. That's why we staggered our morning arrival times since morning was the least reliable time for things to be working. I wouldn't show up until 9:30, and then I'd stay until 6:30 or 8:00 or whatever it took.
Reality check!
Companies are not so much in the training business today. There are too many well-trained MTs out there who know their stuff. The competition is fierce. You need to take responsibility for getting the best education you can. No one can/do it for you.
Thanks for the reality checks.
Now, I don't know whether to be glad or cry over the situation. Guess I will just hang onto whatever job I do have and try not to have to deal with recruiters or being new again. Uggggg. But thanks again. I know this is odd about people going through bad situations too, but you responses cheered me lots!
Reality Check
I heartily disagree. Her very articulate letter gave the MTSO something to think about. Too many of MTs are shrinking violets who take any kind of treatment handed to them. They are partly to blame for the mess the industry is in. Good for the writer of the letter. I wish other people and such initiative.
DUH..WELCOME TO REALITY KIDDO
Where do these people come from who think they can find a job where the boss takes orders from the employees and where the boss works for the employee????? Welcome to the real world, kiddo! If you don't like the company, find another one..it's that simple! javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',' ');
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Reality Check
There will be a lot of layoffs in the future. With VR, one Transcriptionist is expected to do twice as much work, which logically means the companies will need fewer transcriptionists. I recently found a job with only straight typing because I refuse to work for third-world wages doing VR. I am afraid the day will come when companies will feel quite justified in offering 1 or 2 cents a line for VR work, and the sad thing is that some of you might be willing to accept it. All I can say is -- hold on to your hats, because you ain't seen nothin' yet.
sd re: reality check
I am so glad I will retire in three years. Of course, the State of California is supposed to go bankrupt in two months so who knows what will happen to the state hospital system?
sd re: reality check
I am so glad I will retire in three years. Of course, the State of California is supposed to go bankrupt in two months so who knows what will happen to the state hospital system?
I am 100% on board with this, but the reality is - sm
There are people who will continue to accept less. I am sure you have seen them on the student boards literally begging for a chance to work and even offering to work for free! Yes, their knowledge base might be small and their quality not even good, but they are contributing to lowering of the wages for us all. Just not sure how to solve this problem.
The reality check is
it does not matter how fast you can type, it does not matter how good a Transcriptionist you are, if you're on an account where most of the dictators are horrible, you cannot make a decent living. You can be working for as much as 10-11 cpl, it will not make a difference. It all depends on the account you are given to work on.
Most jobs require you to work 8hrs/40 hour-work weeks, transcription is the only profession where you have to sometimes work for 10-12 hours a day and claim you work 8. I want a decent wage for a decent day’s work, which happens to be 8 hours. It is the only profession where you sign a contract agreeing to work on specified hours and days and you end up working far longer hours and different days.
You are expected to love the fact that you work from home and not the reality that you pay for your own internet, your own research materials, your electrical bill, and any other cost that may arise from performing your assigned duties. If there is no work, then you are expected to make it up on your days off. That is the reality of transcription.
Now, I understand this reality and I accept it for now. My hope would be that I could get paid for my 8 hours (sometimes 10) even if sitting and wait for work to arrive; although my supervisor does seem to get so excited when it does and sends out what I call “happy e-mails” after I have been waiting for almost 3 hours for work.
Lol, I’m always a good natured person and quite frankly, I have often wondered why there aren't more cases of “postal syndrome” where transcription is concerned, but then I remember…….I work in an office of one.
To Reality Check
First of all, let me say, I'm very sorry if your daughter is going through a bad time right now. That's far more important than whether I was surprised about a deduction from my paycheck. I hope things are better for her soon.
As I say, I don't post here much at all. As a matter of fact, I think the last time I did, it was to tell someone how much I like Keystrokes. I can't help it if I was confused about when the insurance was starting. It was an honest misinterpretation on my part. I can't help it if I was surprised about doubling up on the premiums. But please note, my posting used the word surprised, not unhappy. I'm not a Keystrokes malcontent and I'm not bashing the company just because I was surprised. I don't think Keystrokes is trying to be dishonest or pull a fast one and I'm sure that I didn't imply that. And quite frankly, that's about all I have to say on the subject.
Again, best wishes to you and your daughter.
I don't think it's horrible, it's reality sm
If you refuse to work for a company, any company, that offshores work, someone else will be hired instead of you. If you need a job, that's the bottom line in today's economy.
In a perfect world, jobs would stay in America. This isn't a perfect world. We buy things every day not made in America, and I'm sure you do too.
Truth to what you say, but reality check. . .
It is wonderful to inject a bit of positivity into the perceptions of our profession, but what you don't address is just how the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of MTs are going to pay the bills and keep the family going while all of these hospitals, clinics, and doctors figure out that VR and outsourcing overseas are not what they are cracked up to be? During that time period, when jobs are scarce (and believe me, I know they are, because I have watched our two largest accounts leave recently to hospital bureaucracy and voice recognition, with nothing to take their place) what are we supposed to do? I'm an IC, so unemployment benefits are not an option. I have 15 years' experience on top of a college degree and I find myself, at 50 years old, contemplating what to do next. Change is inevitable and I am not afraid of change. What I am afraid of is having to sell my house, not being able to pay my two daughters' college tuition, and not having any savings left because the scarcity of good jobs in my profession that aren't being offered by sweat shops has left me high and dry. It is not for lack of trying, either. Our agency has been soliciting for accounts high and low and the demand is just not there for home-based MTs. At 50 years old, I prefer to be home-based for the flexibility, for a variety of family and volunteer reasons. I have been working too hard and too long to go back to the days where I get one or two weeks of vacation a year and have to ask permission to go pee. Our profession is changing and that is inevitable. And I do see hope that doctors will one day see the err of their ways and bring the work back to US, the smart, capable, professional human beings on the other end of the headset. I still believe the MT profession is a great one. But we can't hide our heads in the sand and tell ourselves that this day is going to come anytime soon. The changes we are seeing now took years to develop (while we mistakenly thought that SURELY they would see the futility in replacing us with offshore newbies or a computer) and it will take years to swing back to our side, when our intelligence and knowledge is valued more than the bottom line. So once again, my point----what do we do in the meantime? Sadly for our profession, we are going to lose a lot of capable MTs to other professions to keep the bills paid.
Differences between reality and fantasy
I completely agree with your analysis except to say that what your post proposes as perhaps an ideal standard is not what is in place in today's real world business protocols. When I worked for a local company who paid by the hour, the lph were the same regardless of trained VR versus untrained VR. They did not pay for spaces and expected 1600 lpd. That is 3 cpl whether you did simple editing from what Dragon entered or had to clip out the entire report and build it from scratch. They would kick in an extra $2/hr if you made above 1600 lpd (no spaces) IF your daily average was above 1600 lpd for the 2-week pay period. No one ever made the bonus while I was there, and eventually they dropped the bonus program all together.
I ended up leaving and on the first day of my absence, they announced they had contracted to send the easy dictators to India for the necessary training of Dragon to fit the voice file. The hard dictation was left for the in-office staff. Fair? Hardly. Reality? You bectcha bottom dollar. They lost 10 employess within 60 days out of a staff of 16. I averaged over 1400 lpd, occasionally hitting that 1600 lpd, and got the same pay per hour as those who did 800 lpd.
So, what is my incentive for entering 104,000 Keystrokes a day for 3 cpl? NONE! I came back home to do MT for US only MTSOs who treated their staff with respect and with adequate compensation for the knowledge shown in the daily work. They are out there and I will be loyal to them. Those who choose to offshore lose my respect. We all have choices in life. I know my value.
No one believes a recruiter. They all lie, and the reality of the job is very different. sm
Can you say used care salesman. Can you say bait and switch? Just post your company website, so we can see what the actuality is, please. Do not waste your time dissing the applicants. You really do not have a huge field of qualified applicants to choose from, as we all know.
I WISH they were a joke. They're a sad reality.
They're raping the American MT.
I need a reality check on Amphion...
Okay, after 3 months straight of mandatory OT at Amphion, it is time to rethink my choice of employers.
Let me just start out by saying, I had no real problem with Amphion before the OT started. I don't mind a little OT here and there, but when I first started working, I gave a schedule that listed the times and number of hours that I could work. Months and months of mandatory OT just cuts deeply into time which is not really available for work and messes up my day on a daily basis.
Mandatory OT, however, would be great if I were actually making significantly more money, which I am not.
This brings me to my real vent. I seem to be the daily recipient of what I have dubbed "reverse cherry picking" (among other less socially acceptable terms).
Here's a little background info. I am in an account where we were urged to tell the people who route our jobs to us our preferred dictators and usually that is who we get. (After all, this account has over 100 dictators.) Anyway, this also means that there are certain shall we say less than perfect dictators out there whom nobody chooses. (Okay, I've been thru mushmouths and ESL doctors usually without a problem, but these guys at the bottom of the pile truly are the worst of the bunch in my opinion. They are the "distracted and disorganized rapid whisperers". When I went to school, we were taught to enunciate. I guess that is a dying art. We were also taught proper grammar, but I won't get into that pet peeve right now.)
So what is "reverse cherry picking"? That is when your employer purposefully interrupts your queue and sends you the backlog of the worst dictators on the account.
I will work for an hour or 2 and then before my eyes, my queue will clear out and fill up with nothing but those at the bottom of the pile. (Remember, nobody wants them, so they do pile up.) Productivity, needless to say, comes to a screeching halt or at least a slow crawl which often lasts until the end of my shift. I think because I work late night hours, very few other people are transcribing which leaves us with the bulk of these reports. However, now I am beginning to think I am being singled out. The last time I got an email from my lead notifying me about this, it only came to about 5 of us and did not go to all the people on the account. There are so many of us on this account, if they spead it out equally, none of us should be getting 10-15 reports in a row of these dictators, but I don't think that is happening.
I also have all the normal problems with Amphion that seems to be repeated, ad infinitum, on this board including the the demographics screen being unpaid and sometimes taking longer to fill in than the actual transcription. (Yes, I am aware that some accounts don't have this issue, but mine does.) I won't get into that here, but it is annoying as well.
Anyway, just wanted to know if anyone else gets slammed on a regular basis with the worst of the worst?
Unsure, need reality check
I don't know how I feel, I guess numb. So, looking for feedback on how this job is going for me. In the biz a long time:
1. Got cleared from training quickly. 2. Immediately got all the most difficult jobs, did not complain. 3. Decided to stick it out day after day. Though never ran out of work. No feedback. No nothing. Figured no news is good news. 4. Still got the worst work. Noticed reports out of order during early shift. Obvious cherry picking going on by other team-members. 5. Decided I must be wrong, my bad... later in day came on early, got good reports, did a few. 6. Came back for shift was actually flagged to type all the worst dictators, as they are marked with red that they were assigned. Started to get a bit paranoid. 7. Came on today cherry picker gone, all bad work out of TAT, this MT the only one on, typed many reports. Lots without dr. giving demos, etc. Did the best I could. Flagged for QA the ones without demos (although taking a chance as a newbie, because QA blanks are counted against our progress). Decided to still hang in there.Finally got feedback after several weeks from big boss stating this goes to the whole team: bad demos, bad quality, etc. We need to do better (written in stronger words).
Have strong feeling I want to quit after this bad e mail, and after all the bad reports and cherry picking going on. Still have other job. Stomach is in a knot. Is all this worth it? Feedback happily appreciated. 
Thanks for the reality check, Happy MT
I have an IC job I never left which I could just go right back to, but I kept running out of work.
I have to say with this newer one, my mind screams RUN, while my heart is in my throat. And I haven't even done anything wrong... it is strange as a grown woman to feel this way. Sometimes I think I need to be put in time-out or in the corner for these feelings.
Anyway, aside from that, my instinct does say RUN! Sometimes we ourselves are standing in the way of our own happiness. I guess that is why I am on here asking for outside objective feedback, and I truly appreciate yours! :)
Response to reality check.......
I have a reality check for you....a trained monkey can answer a phone. The off-shored customer service can be done by any idiot, and that is what you get when you try to deal with them. Tech support, don't call Microsoft, they can't even understand american names (common names) to be able to send you a shipping label in the mail. First name...WRONG.....last name WRONG....even though we spelled it for them 4 times.
So let's not talk about quality, even with spelling it for them 4 times they can't get it right.
And yes I have seen the quality of reports and some of them I just shake my head and say where do they get these people from? Some are undoubtedly newbies (but everyone has to learn somewhere) and the rest are what you get when you want to pay 3rd world wages for your work, you get what you pay for and the majority of good MT's won't work for what they want to pay. If you want quality work you hve to pay for it. BUT don't ever try to compare a trained monkey in Customer Service and a Medical Transcriptionist, they are no where close to being in the same category.
No the loss of pay isn't fun and the reality is that I should be scared.
Only one responsible for the bills, no time to sit on my hands so to speak! Wrists resting or not... I am sorry I absolutely cannot take a dip in pay. Just got off the phone with my car loan and they will defer the payment but I had to give a reason why and then they will call my employer and verify I work there... isn't that something... Also wondering how I am going to pay the rent on the first... Just had to put 400 bucks to repair my car just in the last 2 days. Nope. Reality is I personally don't have the time to wait it out and see how it goes. I have to make as much money as possible, yesterday, so to speak. This was where the fear is. Not in the training. So, I count my days until I am safe and secure in a job where I know my paycheck will pay the bills and that is what I am working on while I look for a school to retrain for something else, while I work doubletime here at my job now to keep up. So, that's the story folks. Trust your instincts like the poster down below said. Everybody's situation is different. But with no second income, the time to move is now, not later. As the car loan lady said... Don't let your next payment be late... and guess what I will heed her advice!
I'm sure you'll be singing reality in a different key
when it's YOUR job that goes bye-bye. Tried to buy ANYTHING made in America these days??? I have. Heck fire, we, as Americans, can't even clothe ourselves. If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything and that's what most people are doing these days....falling for reality, at least until it comes back and bites THEM in the rear end.
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