You get your deposit back? News to me.

• Does TransTech provide computers for their MTs? nm - T-Cee
  • They hardly have any work. Don't work if them if you don't like to flex and work every day mo - day and night. nm
  • Oh yes! sm - I work on a TT computer
  • There is a fee - Mary
    • No , only about 10.00 a pay period - FormerMQ
    • Is this legal, for employee to be. SM - Bayou MT
      • Yes -- it is legal. Many companies charge a fee or deposit. and many do not. NM - TTworkerbee
      • If it is reasonable rental fee and you get your deposit back, not - an issue. If it breaks, just send it back.
        • You get your deposit back? News to me. - anonMT
  • Yes they do - NM
    • Can someone tell me more about Trans Tech? - wonderin
      • A good friend of mine - Blackswan
        • Myself - gourdpainter
      • Very low on work..sm - TX MT
        • low work - T-Ceet
          • You can believe those on this board saying NO WORK at Transtech ! Absolutely true !! - Transtech NO WORK
            • Reply to your diatribe - treehugger
            • Turned out to be Worse than other MTSOs. - anonMT
          • No pay for downtime. You are asked to flex. NM - TTworkerbee
            • Thanks....is the work low for you as well? nm - T-Ceet
              • Why don't you apply and find out? - just one MT to another
                • Sorry your grouchy. I did apply but am having second thoughts thanks to helpful MTs! - T-Cee
                • Yes -- it's been low for me as well. I'm not making the line count - TTworkerbee
                  • Plus my company is out work and I haven't made my rent yet, so am grouchy! - just one MT to another
                  • It just seems redundant to keep asking about the low work and 15 people answer, that's all. - just one MT to another
                    • TT work - Voicefreak
                    • Before someone hops on and say "why are you living paycheck to paycheck (inside) - just one MT to another
                      • Personally, I live paycheck to paycheck because... - mt68

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The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.

Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 

There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 

I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 

Good luck to you!

happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.

I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.

Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 

There are no rental fees, only a deposit.  This deposit is returned upon receipt of a working computer.

I worked there.  The manager is extremely nice in the beginning and then is really mean and rude after you've been there awhile.  I would never consider working for her again even if she paid .15 a line.  It's just not worth it to me.

Feel free to do a search on this board.   I thought maybe things had gotten better, but there are others who had the same experience with them.

Good luck!

I would never bite the  hand that feeds me or bad-mouth a company I worked for.  Since I have been gone from TT now for a year, I feel  no obligation whatsoever.  I did a lot of research before I quit and my conclusion was/is that TT is just a drop off station for Dictaphone.  I did research on my 2 primaries (lost) and found that both dried up when they fully implemented Dictaphone VR.  I further concluded that the hospitals switch over to a very few in-house MT editors and poof, all TT gets is overflow.   I seriously doubt that they have many, if any, contracts of their own.  Obviously things have gotten worse since I quit so why would anyone expect it will improve?  I think not.

The TT management person I was so proud of, I am now not so proud of anymore.  I don't know what happened to her.  The person I have known so long didn't have it in her to be be less than straight forward.  She did, before I quit, even learn to  hit the ignore button on my emails.  This hurt me tremendously!   Didn't even reply to my letter of resignation.  Thus...I highly doubt that any of you who claim to be in the know know anything at all unless you are part of the management team or have done a lot of research and if you've done your research, you know it ain't good..

Don't worry, I don't have to sign my name, TT management, when they read this, will know exactly who I am.