You make us laff here, girl! Love your point of view! :) nm

• companies that do not post line rate... - enlighten me.
  • I post a pay range, DOE; however, most don't post.. - b/c our competitors & clients may look, too-MTSO
  • YOU COULD ME MISSING OUT!!! - me
    • Please see my post below regarding this. nm - Jill
  • It is mostly because they see what the lowest is they can get away with or hire someone at.... - sm
  • Hardly any jobs out there post the salary. - Hayseed
    • more on puds. - sore pud
      • LOL!!! Poor pud! ....nm - Crazy :)
    • You make us laff here, girl! Love your point of view! :) nm - Monday, Monday....
  • This is one of my big pet peeves - sm - Jill
  • In my limited jobseeking experience I'm finding I only get to learn line rate after I spend hours - testing, doesn't seem right! -- RSG
    • Totally agree! - Wendy
  • It would be nice if when looking for a new job that the line rate be included - MTinMI

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that it is very unprofessional for a recruiter to email me and schedule an interview and then not call.  This person acknowledged my resume and test, said they were very interested in discussing a position with me and then failed to follow through.  That makes the company look very bad.  I realize there are recruiters who are great at what they do.  I have dealt with other companies and their recruiters have always been very prompt and efficient.  I have never been turned down after testing with any company and I am not inexperienced.  I am not complaining because I did not get a response from a company after apply for a position, I am complaining about the recruiter not following through with his/her scheduled interview.  I already have a job, was just applying for this on the side.  I have other things to do with my time than just sit around and wait for the phone to ring. 

To make my point please see the message decent pay at the time of this board...the poster doesn't want much, but everything I said in my earlier post...now tell me I'm wrong. I will say it again, this job is 24/7, 365...so she thinks she is going to go to a new place, and start from day one working days, no weekends, and have no ESLs plus make great money...these are things you work TOWARD when you have been some place for awhile, not what you get when you are just starting some place.  Does she expect the people who have been there awhile to work nights, weekends and do all the ESLs?  The poster and others like her are part of the reason the work is going overseas...no one here wants to make any sacrifices.

so why not do it making 8-9 cpl (or more) and make $24-27 per hour?  I don't think $15/hour is much nowadays, but that is just my opinion.  I made that 10 years ago in an office setting -- hate to think of going backwards, although I do reailze that is the trend in transcription nowadays, sad to say.

I just hope he/she (and everyone) finds something that pays more than that, especially for IC work. 

Being remote, it makes it easy for someone to mess with your life if you get them angry, especially if they can manipulate line counts and the type of work you get. 

Perhaps that is why most of us don't speak up more, although that is precisely why we should. 

Who's going to be the overseer for this industry, to make sure that all is conducted fairly and within the law?  I don't think anybody outside the industry cares that much.  There are much bigger things to worry about right now, I guess. 

Peace.

anything else.  If you haven't done it in a while may be slow going until you're familiar with equipment/procedure terminology. 

I do believe it has to do with the accounts though.  I've used it for 4 hospitals and have made great money, both VR and straight typing.  VR gives me more than double the lines of typing but I do think it is an acquired skill.  Learn the shortcuts and use them.  It is also only as good as the team training the VR. 

On the other hand I've used it on a clinic account and the lines were just not coming in like they do in AC.  A very heavy, 90%, ESL verbatim account and I lasted all of 2 weeks on that account. 

I'd say I do about 90% VR and 10% straight typing and all in all I'm impressed with the accuracy of the VR. 

On the other side of the coin, yes, being a newbie there was difficult because they threw so much at me at once, so many specialties, over 100 physicians all at once on a verbatim account.  Yes, I did get e-mails where I had to go back and point out to QA where they were contradicting the account specifics.  They had too much to handle.

BUT -- and this is a HUGE BUT -- I left there knowing so many specialties precisely because I got it all dumped on me at once and it had better be right.  It was not a job, it was more like a school and I was being paid a little bit for doing the work. 

Where I am now, no matter what they give me I can do it.  I've had experience in almost every specialty, close to 30 or more.  I've learned to push and push and not give up and take advantage of the overload to better myself.  My Stedman's books are loose from the covers at this point.  I don't think any school could be harder than OSi because of the pressure, the exposure to so much all at once, and you HAVE to do it as fast as you can because for me at least it was my only income.  Sometimes the worst experiences pay off the best in the end.  But as of the time that I left which was not that long ago, I would not advise a newbie to go there unless they had another source of income and could afford to get fired.  They are VERY strict.  I won't even go into the line counting debate.