You miss the point and the irony of your post!
Posted By: NICE??!! on 2006-07-07
In Reply to: How about giving me a break? - Yes, I prefer nice!
They are mass hiring still and have NO work. The future is the future, and now is now. I certainly think it is unethical at the very least to continue to hire MTs when the ones who are there are scrambling for a job or 2. No matter now nicey-nice they may be, that is NOT nice, no matter how you slice it. They have no right to be hiring with work shortages, unless they state that up front, which, of course, they do not!
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You still miss the point...
the poster said it would be one SMALL report for 2-3 months...it did not say 4-40 page report, but ONE SMALL report per day. My point is who wants to do one SMALL report per day for months before finally getting the big stuff, if at all!!!!!???
You miss the point
SOME doctors really have come to realize what a valuable asset their medical transcriptionists really were. A compliment, I feel, is always nice whether or not it does any good. I, for one, generally appreciate someone saying something nice.
As for change, why my grandmother would be turning in her grave probably about now at the changes in the world. She was born in 1880 and passed in 1961. She moved from Tennessee to Arkansas in a covered wagon. Can you imagine? As for me, I've seen plenty of change. I did my first MTing on a manual typewriter. That is where you had to use a lever to return the carriage at the end of every sentence. I have transitioned pretty well through the years but I will be da**ed if I will do this highly stressful job for $10 or less average per hour and that was where it had dropped with straight typing in the last few months I worked at it. I have no doubt that in time MTs will be totally obsolete. All the female members of my family worked or are still working in MT, I trained them myself. I advised all of them to start looking for a new occupation several years ago. Did they listen? No. Two are single, of them one gave up completely and is checking in a grocery store and taking courses in photography; one is working part-time doing MT (when there is work, which she says is rare) and is working as a management trainee for a restaurant chain. Two are still doing MT but both have husbands who earn a very good income and have benefits such as medical insurance. I wouldn't recommend even to my worst enemy that they get into MT now.
Maybe I got way off topic here but I still feel passionately for those of you still doing MT and suffering for lack of work, decreasing pay and no affordable medical insurance let alone a vacation or any time off. So....if I strayed from the topic, please forgive me.
kind of curious - did I miss a post to this or something
Was this a follow up to a question? Do you work there?
Oh, the irony!
I googled 'cassie long' medical and found this post in the #2 slot, which seems appropriate given the character of this person:
Subject: I've had enough of
Cassie (long rant.), I've never really liked the character ...
lol!
Call it irony
Ironic, but the only place I heard about MQ being sold was on MTstars.com - does that tell you anything? HMMMMMM
That's the point of my post --
We have no information. We've only been given a few quick answers in a phone call.
The pay cuts everyone is referring to are to the existing Transcend employees, not the MTs from the MDI merger. Nothing will change with us until January 1st. The answers you received in that phone call only apply until January 1st. After that, we're fair game for pay cuts.
I'm looking today, too! I've had enough of sitting around hoping and praying for something good to come out of this. If I jump the gun and lose 1 or 2 cents per line, at least I'll still have my sanity. I have a feeling though, if I stay, I'll lose much more than 1 or 2 cents a line with Transcend.
This was a very stupid move on Transcend's part. If they were going to do pay cuts, it would have been smarter for them to wait until after January 1st. They've just given us a sneak preview of how they treat their employees.
With respect, the real irony sadly is
that if you've followed these boards for at least 2 years, you already had an idea of what was going to happen. Several MTs made an effort here to warn as many as possible about the future loss of jobs. Many of the posts were ultimately deleted. I agree there is nothing gained from rehashing the past other than we must learn from it.
QT made a business decision. They built a company, made a profit, saw more/better/different profit elsewhere, designed a plan to get from point A to point B and moved on - happens every day in the business world. From all appearances, they did everything right for a while - had they not, there would not be this group of really great MTs struggling to deal with the loss of a job and the stress of starting anew. QT had an option - they could let their dedicated MTs know what was going to happen and ask them to ride things out as long as possible or they could just squeeze every last drop from each MT and each account. Too bad for the MTs but, after all, it's only business. If there were lies, deception, half-truths, etc., this too is a part of the profit/loss bottom line.
The real irony - and this is public knowledge - is that former QT owners have started new businesses and are bragging far and wide (see internet blogging) about their new employees.
Of course, finding a new scrapbooking job will probably be a little easier than finding and securing a new MT account.
You think?
I have a prediction (purely for entertainment purposes, of course) - Profits will not sustain the new venture/old lifestyle for very long and that within, oh 24 months or so, there will be a foot dipped into a new MT venture, since the old one was soooo profitable, and old habits are hard to break.
Re-read my post - that was my point! nm
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You missed the whole point of my post. NM
You missed the point of the post
The writer was asking you why you don't simply get another job (or a second one)... Unless you are new to this biz, you have to know to diversify and have more than one job at all times.
Doesn't mean I don't sympathize - and I speak from experience. Rad is all I do and I wouldn't dream of being without a back up at all times.
I agree with your post, but I still want to point out
that it is me (and the ones who stood with me) who came out as the winners in this argument.
I corrected definitely wrong grammar (10 times the same mistake in 1 post) and I was NOT nit-picking, whereas I was consequently singled out and nit-picked on by questioning my style, whereas BOTH versions are acceptable.
I can with certainty say that posters who are 100% against me and even started bad-mouthing me, although I corrected righfully wrong grammar, are the MTs with the bad grammar and spelling, refusing to admit their mistakes and should therefore NOT be MTs, because they have generally bad morals.
Irony - MQ is closing offices and Keystrokes just built a new one. sm
I was part time with MQ and full time with KS and now will be KS only. I am radiology, make great money and have a great lead. I would recommend them to all MQ MTs that are thinking of leaving.
The email is KeystrokesNow@aol.com. The fax is (630) 729-3177.
We do not have a referral bonus, I am just trying to help everyone that is feeling displaced.
You totally missed the point of my post.
You just restated my point. The above poster is lucky that she started at 0.095 cpl. That has not been my experience. But I am thrilled to be working at 7 cpl. As I stated before, even at 7 cpl, I make more money than I ever did at any other job. I currently making over $17 an hour at 7 cpl and my pay keeps increasing each month as I get better on my account, so I am not complaining. No need to get down on me when you clearly misunderstood my post.
Your post makes my point. If IC, company is NOT
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Well, yes. But my point is the OP said wanted people to post
positive experiences with Focus. I've seen other posts like this where a person will ask about a specific MTSO and say something like just good things or no negative posts please.
It just strikes me as looking at the world through rose colored glasses. How can you make an informed decision if you only consider one side of an argument? It's just silly. Why bother to ask any questions at all? Just take the job and be done with it. People take time to answer questions honestly here and try to help out fellow MTs so they don't make the same mistakes we've made and what thanks do we get?
Pollyannas like the OP who just wants to hear the good.
I think the point was to POST names of good companies for all MTs to see,
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The above post proves my point! You are out of line and that was uncalled for..sm
not to mention utterly ridiculous to even read. Why are you reaching so high to make this MT look bad because she doesn't want to work a weekend? Get over it already. The OP obviously has a life, some of us do! Maybe it's time you get one!
You missed my point in jobs knockin post and the
you want. If you like MTSO you are with now, get more work from there. If not go after what you want with different MTSO, different job, whatever. Whats the big deal with askin for more work with MTSO you are with, if you like them. No different that asking to work for (by applying to) any other MTSO. A real pro knows to get proactive and steer you life in the direction you want it to go.
EXCELLENT post. Thank you for a balanced point of view. nm
Jesus doesnt post on this board. No point in asking Him any questions here.
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Try re-reading the original post...you're missing the point
Ah, ya big lug. Ya know ya miss us...
miss yog
I was with them for 10 years. Ah, the good old days...LOL...
what and miss all this fun!!
What i think is happening here is another company is assaulting KS. I don't think these posters, most of them anyway, ever worked for KS. I think its the same company who did a lot of recruiting on this board saying they were MTs and what a great company they were. Quite a few of us fell into that sandtrap and if we all hadn't been threatened I am sure there would be more telling their story here, (come on ladies you know who Im talking about). Well turns out they weren't a great company. It comes down to about 3 posters and maybe a couple of crazies out there who have nothing else to do. So my advice ignore all of it and see if this company doesn't show back up here trying to recruit, Ive already seen mention of them a couple of times in all of this, look carefully.
I so miss YOG
Those were truly the glory days. I could so easily make $1000 a week working for Carole. She was a little nuts, but so am I, so we got along great. It wasn't that hard to stay on her good side. She really appreciated good transcriptionists -- then she hung us out to dry and sold out to MQ. So sad, those were my best days.
did I miss something?
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well here's one for you miss know it all
YOU STATE: And, as far as I know, poster's here cannot request to have their thread closed. Again, another ASSUMPTION on your part.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THE GOURDPAINTER ASKED THE THREAD BE CLOSED BECAUSE THE MODERATOR E-MAILED ME ABOUT A POST I MADE IN THAT THREAD STATING THE OP REQUESTED THE THREAD BE CLOSED.
So, you don't know it all, now do you, miss copy and paste... so next time state the facts!
not much work anyway - they probably would not miss
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Is this Miss Preachy?????
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Boy do I miss Philly.
:(
miss you if you were absent.
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I miss my coordinator...
Dear Little Miss Red Pen
You responded to my post saying I would think you weren't very bright at all…That's quite some judgment to make - that someone is not very bright - based on maybe 15 or 20 words they have written - this board is full of people who engage in that kind of judgmental baseness..and it says a whole lot about who they are…
Maybe I can explain myself a little more clearly so even someone like you can understand..
I used 2 forms of the word life one with a small L and the second with a capital L - I can see you didn't notice the nuance but it is the kind of literary gradation many of the intelligent posters on this board often employ..
When I spoke of going through life - with a small L - I was as obvious talking about people who breathe - take up space - in this case - are mediocre - controlling - anal retentive - who don't have the capacity to engage in ideas so resort to red penciling everyone in life they disagree with - it's a particular ugliness people with unhappy lives and small minds are prone to..
I then urged you to get a life with a capital L - meaning disabuse yourself of the notion that other humans are here for you to correct and put down and make judgments about - in your case misjudgments. The life little L big L
or hope little H big H or any number of variations is a simple basic literary device introduced to most college freshmen in writing 101 class, maybe you were absent that day..
I too find it hard to believe there is an MT with 100% consistently for 5 years, but still I can at least envision how that could be - same account easy account good dictators thorough familiarity with the account…and maybe even a QA staff that had a good sense of priority as to what was important and not - after 11 years it could definitely be possible - but there was no such possibility in your mind - just slam and hammer and get out the trusty old red pencil…why didn't you ask her a few questions before you hammered her? I am not making a judgment but something tells me you might not be a very nice person…I have edited and managed in this profession and know how to get outstanding performances from MTs and others that they never thought they could achieve, maybe she was lucky enough to get one of those editors, ever think about that?
But as for my post, you don't know me or my QA scores or years of experience or education or anything and based on a 20 word post you judged me to be not too bright…or - judged me to be another one - a perfect MT I think you termed it. I don't in any way consider myself a perfect MT, have gotten quite a few 100% QAs, and probably will again, and have gotten lots that weren't 100% - but there was nothing in my post about any of that…you just made your holier than thou judgments about me because I factually pointed out how you had red penned someone's post rather than engage them…Maybe if you were a little more refined, educated sophisticated you would have picked up the nuance of my post, understood the subtlety I had put there - and considered it - instead of taking your red pen to it…
Again I urge you..
GET A LIFE!!!
PS You made a few grammatical errors in your post…better get out the red pen.
Ah, but you miss my meaning.
If she does not know that a lot is two separate words, I can only imagine the other kinds of errors that she makes. That is so very basic. I am not jealous of someone who does not know that a lot is two separate words. I am not QA and I don't work for TT and I am not policing anything. I am just really, really tired of the seeing ALOT and other inexcusable errors from people as they are bragging about their awesome quality-oriented companies that hired them. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is tired of it.
Miss Webster
Fast should not be your focus if you want to inrease productivity. How much anatomy do you know? Pharmacology? How much real scientific background do you have? Speed is only incidental. Yes, I keyboard very rapidly, but what helps me is education, not speed. Focus on building a proper knowledge base and the rest will come, it really will.
Miss Piggy
I look at ESLs as my job security. I am on a high (90%) ESL account that apparently nobody else seems to like. Goody for me. There is work any time of the day or night I want to sign on. ESLs are not so bad--once you get the hang of it, they are not any worse (and sometimes better) than the good old US of A mushmouths who are too lazy to move their lips.
I miss the days of
Word and FTP - simple and fast. All they've managed to throughout the years is slow us down, complicate our job, and cut our pay.
I think the weird platforms started so the suits and supervisors could track things easier, and they just don't care how much slower/more difficult it is for MTs.
ANd you may well miss out. As evidenced by others
it most certainly can afford one a decent living. You just gotta know how to work it.
Wahhh... I miss it too.
Not one day has gone by that I don't say ''I miss the old MQ''
I loved my old account, could do 2000 lines a day, made mega money, and that abruptly stopped in 2006.
Now, (still at Q), I can barely get in 1200 lines and at the reduced ASR rate, all you long-timers know how much money I am out.
Boo-hoo. Big hugs to all my fellow TL's!!!!!
Hope I didn't miss anyone, but if I did.....sm
they have a post on the job board.
Good luck !!
As for Miss "Misery wants company"
Maybe one day she'll choke on those sour grapes (or he, whichever the case may be). Her (or his) posts have gotten way past tiresome.
I did miss the threads on this, I'm going there now to read.
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I worked for them for year and miss them...
I know precyse pretty good, as I worked for them for years. I just decided after being there so long and was not completely satisfied that I would go elsewhere and see if I could find something better. The supervisor did manipulate, in that she would tell you it was okay to work Mon-Fri shift, but then there would not be any work during the week and tons on the weekend. Another word, you'd end up practically working every day of the week trying to get your line count in for the week. If you can work the weekends, its a wonderful place to work. PTO money goes into an account and you can withdrawal it whenever you want. It accumulates so much for every hour you work. Good affordable benefits (Aetna), life insurance, everything. Easy platform. Just that schedule thing ruined it for me. If you like weekends, I'd say do it, it's one of the best ones out there.
The voting booth? What does that mean? did I miss something?
I'm really going to miss the posters that have left! nm
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miss pitypat is right-could work...sm
The only thing I had was schooling and it was not even all transcription. I hired on as a transcription clerk first, hoping to get my foot in. After 9 months and, being the transcription department was unionized, my boss pretty much had to hire from within first so there was my chance. I was overwhelmed, of course, but I am now into my 6th year. Good luck with the situation.
Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!!
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My guess is you would miss the word sm
companys if it came out of SR, right?
Yeah, I'm going to miss J. Very down-to-earth
Philly might just as well be in another galaxy.
You didn't miss much not going with Deventure.
Whether you have 2 days or 20 years of experience, pay is the same - go wrap your head around that. No raises EVER. Never got the yearly bonus myself and never got a signon bonus. There is some minimal shift differential for second and third but then those shifts include weekends. Got too many accounts too fast and nobody - but nobody - is or was on top of this. Promoting some and leaving vital positions unfilled while hiring to replace them is taking forever. If you have 3 accounts (which is typical and all with different specifics), and in my case with an agreement between myself and HR that I could work outside of your schedule on one that I could build up my line count, they blocked me from my higher producing account while working off my shift, so I would work on their most difficult and less line producing account that was about to TAT and after 2 years of service with them. Did I mention, situation agreed upon with HR and once again, on my own time, outside of my shift? GRRR. Doubt it will take long to replace Deventure job with a more organized and fair company with better pay. But then again, there is always Walmart, and I'm not kidding.
I miss Medware! *cries*
After 2-1/2 years, I left in June. My computer got a crazy virus on it in late April. I had it fixed within 3 days, and when I contacted their IT department, I was told Email me in a week. I'm busy.
Okay. Ugh. So, I emailed the IT guy a week later as requested and I got the same response. Email me in another week. I finally contacted HR and asked them about compensation. It says in their manual that anytime you cannot work due to an issue at the company, you will be compensated. They had *ALWAYS* been so good at that! Well, not this time. I was told that it wasn't a company issue. Umm... yeah, it is. If their company can't re-install my software, which is IT's JOB to do, then it's a company issue as far as I see it. I told HR about how this was making it difficult for me to pay my bills and keep my internet on, but I got a response back saying, sorry you are in a little financial trouble, but this is not our problem.
I resigned the next day.
When I first started working for them, I just adored that company. The VR pay was good back then (it sucks now!) and I just loved my account. I loved how easy communication was and I just adored the people. I loved my team leader so much so, in fact, that I organized a fundraiser and our team raised $250 and bought her a nice gift and some Godiva's. LOL The HR was fantastic (still was pretty decent when I left, minus that mishap :)) and the President had an open-email policy and ALWAYS got back to you. The co-workers were the best I have ever worked with. It was heaven.
Oh, I miss it so much. Will I ever find that again? :) It's just a shame that Medware is going down the drain in so many respects. It's sad to see such a good company go downhill like that.
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