You sound like an ex-friend I used to have that was on a high horse all the time. BOY am I glad I

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I used to have excellent credit too until my husband lost his job and I had surgeries 9 months apart. There are circumstances that do cause people to lose their credit.

Maybe some bad luck should hit you and then you would understand how some of us feel!!!!

It sounds like you have spent too much time at the beach listening to the waves and in the sun as your brain is fried.  Who do you think you are talking to anyone this way??? 

I have a good job, make good money and I always have work but your attitude is just right down horrible.   

Since you don't spend much time here, I think you should just probably stay totally away if this is the kind of attitude you bring when you do decide to be here.

I have researched anything and everything I have ever delved into thoroughly before jumping on it.  If a newbie jumps right in without researching first, it is their own dang fault.  Geez. 

first of this year.  Had it for years.  Then, one day, it was gone.  Offshored.   Gone was my 50K year job.  It can happen to you, too, sister.  Since the first of the year, I have diligently searched for a job.  However, I have been lied to again and again about what I was committing to, carrott dangling that if I would just do acute care until a RAD account came on board that never materialized, a Monday-Friday schedule that turned out to be 7 DAYS A WEEK, an MTSO wanting me to pay them to work for them by charging me their software license fee, horrible Indian dictators, etc., and on and on.  Yes, something has definitely changed in this business.  For me, the hardest part has been working for a really great company, being respected, pay always and everyt ime on time, setting my own schedule, only to be thrown into the real world of MT as it exists today with unscrupulous MTSOs (LARGE AND SMALL) thinking they can take advantage or worse that you are so desperate for work you will commit to anything. 

The things of concern written by the OP are real.  Just because you have a good job now does not mean you will have it tomorrow.  With your attitude, I would suggest you not come here to get support in your time of need since you obviously have no empathy for your fellow MTs and what they are experiencing today. 

I, too, second 200% the original poster's comments. 

Sound like your skills are constantly on trial.  Who needs that. 

on the date they would mail the checks out.  In my contract, it stated that they would be mailed from Oldsmar or Tampa (I cannot remember), and they would adjust the postage meter to read the date it was supposed to be sent out, but then the postmark from the post office would be several days later. 

My experience was much like the other posters.  They hired me at 10 cents per gross line and gave me a crappy account.  I was switched to a clinic account, and I was making lines hand over fist, but then they switched me back to the crappy account.  And when work would dry up, I'd call and Crystal would just laugh and tell me to take the day off.

I'm glad if they had improved.

dictators!  Be glad you got off now.  I wondered where my better dictators went the last week or so !!!!!  Lucky you !!!!!

I can always tell when the TT favorite MT's are off, because I get their dictators -- making it easier for me to get my line count. Yea !

TT is constantly hiring, so the above scenario is a norm. 

depends on account, mine has been fine most of the time.

services that pay "down time" if the platform is inoperational.  ALL software has its share of problems.  It's the nature of the business.  When you were hired, did you sign a contract accepting the terms regarding PTO?  If so, what could you possibly complain about since you did, afterall, sign the agreement?  Did you have a good relationship with your QA Editor/Team Leader that you could ask questions about account specifics?

My understanding of the VR is that it has been in development for a number of years not to be released until the fine tuning was complete.  It would seem to me, and I am in no way affiliated with Transcend, that provided that VR is good then earning a line rate as an Editor would be beneficial, if that's how Transcend is planning to compensate.

All in all, I would say that if anyone is interested in working for Transcend or any service for that matter, make sure to ask the services Recruiter specific questions.  If what you're hearing sounds good and makes sense, go for it.  If what your'e hearing is not all that you thought it would be, move on.  However, you MUST take what you read on forums boards with a grain of salt.  While some posts regarding various services may be legitimate, others may not be.

Good Luck!

MT Manners

You have a right to your opinion and I respect you for it.  You said what others want to say, but do not want to be criticized for saying.

I can understand you're still working for D&L because I too have never been one to jump on the bandwagon.  It is my own mistake not to have abandoned ship on D&L back when all the signs were saying GET OUT NOW!!!  I remained loyal to this company and worked my butt off for them.

In the end, what did it get me and everyone who stuck around doing what they could?  Nothing except a string of financial crises, ignored calls & emails, empty promises as they dumped their financial dilemma on me and the rest of us.

D&L still owes me for work done from June-July.  They haven't yet paid their original set of MTs that worked the hospital account.  They lied to us for weeks and suddenly owned up to the situation with the Oh Well email filled with promises of making good on pay.

....We are told that the payment will be honored when represented our bank has delayed availability of those funds until Thursday 07/19/07. Once those funds are made available we will immediately issue checks to anyone effected by this situation. We apologize for this unfortunate event and will expedite payments once funds are made available......

Here it is September 9th already, still no check.

Sorry to say, but what makes you think they have any intention of making good on YOUR check(s)?

Seriously, it's in your own best interest to find other employment quickly and not waste another minute working for free or you too shall suffer a financial crisis that will take months to recover from.

Good luck in your job hunt.

To quote Donna directly......It is what it is

If these companies came on here and started naming employees that were bad news, you all would be in a hurry to find a way to make it someone else's fault.

There must be grounds for the poster to be sued by TT or else a lawyer wouldn't have taken the case.  Who wins?  No one. 

The poster allegedly being sued came on here to gather up a herd of followers and then closed her thread.  I don't see her posting any longer, do YOU?  But, you are here to defend her?  For what reason?  It makes no sense to me.

Whoever this person being sued in my OPINION has screwed up this board for the last few days.  It is nothing but fighting and bashing!  That poster is gone with the wind now, probably never to return again and we're all at each other's throats.

Can we please quit beating this horse; it's dead; deader than a doornail!