from now on i'll go straight to the company website. sm
Posted By: radspherismt on 2006-02-28
In Reply to: Question for Keystrokes sm - radspherismt
i didn't realize a simple question would stir up some negative comments. i find the comment about the IQ very insulting and unnecessary.
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thank you! I'll consider that straight from the horses mouth..so to speak.
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I'll try to look and see if they put in on their website
But as an IC for them, I can tell you that we received a memo dated 1/13/06 outlining the exact details of how many jobs per day would be offshored and indicating that Transcend cannot ignore this dynamic in the market. I cannot post the contents of the memo, or I would. It's up to you, it's a small amount they're offshoring, but to me - the fact that they're looking at it at all, is not good. I'm looking elsewhere and will not work with anyone who does not have a 100% US based workforce.
I'll have to re=check their website
I could have sworn they said US owned/based with locations worldwide.
Read the content of the website and you'll see the Phillipine association. nm
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no need for sarcasm.....was just asking....just want some straight answers on this company
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Is Addendum the name of a company? Do they have a website?
Thanks can I google the company and get their website?
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Then you need to be professional, give a company website than can be checked out sm
and let people apply there. Why in the world would you expect people to get their personal info to you, if you are less than professional yourself. I certainly would not, especially after your post here.
I was told that the company is fined and they take the compalints off their website
after being paid. My husband was working for a plumbing company that had a lot of negative reports (he dosen't work for them anymore thank god) and all they had to do was pay $5,000 to get the complaints taken off. We checked the BBB site again and low and behold there is not one bad complaint against them. I didn't know you could buy the BBB. How does that protect the consumer?
okay, I'll ask - what company are we talking about?
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A great company You'll be lucky to get in though,
Work is slow right now like it always is near the holidays. They have extremely affordable benefits, and once you are established there, they seem like they are willing to work with you if you need to change your schedule.
I hope you'll share the NAME OF THE COMPANY
I know I certainly wouldn't want to make the mistake of ever applying for a job there!
My (different) company gave us that "you'll
2 years later, I'm less productive, not more, on that godawful, 'new-and-improved' platform.
Their website touts themselves as being an "AMERICAN" family-owned company. Kind of ironic! n
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It is an Indian run company. If you'll check the archives they
have been asked about several times the last month or so. There has been nothing good said about them.
You'll be hard pressed to find a company
that pays hourly and allows you to work at home, that just isn't the way the business works. I'm not saying that those type of positions don't exist, just that they are extremely rare. Now if you worked on-site that is a different story.
First rule, never work for a company who says "I'll pay you when I get paid." sm
This is unacceptable. Any company with a decent client base gets paid at least net 30 days. I previously operated a small service and paid my subcontractors twice monthly despite being paid net 30 days by my physician groups. Yes, it was a hardship for me, but I brought those who worked hard to help me maintain my service first. Any company who pays their workers when they get paid, does not deserve to employ others. Plain and simple there is no excuse for this. Please, please find a company who values your work instead of using you.
Worst company to work for. Read the archives and you'll
be hard pressed to find anything good about this company.
The Indians didn't get a raise, but I'll bet the CEO of the phone company did!! nm
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When a company tells you you'll tripple your line count
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Indian company. If you'll search the archives lots of info
on them.
Archives doesn't mean it is old info necessarily. If you'll go to the main company page, typ
JLG in the search box, make sure the MTStars circle is checked and click on search you'll find lots of current information. This is considered archived information but there are posts are recently as last week there.
You should check out the Nuance website and the Focus website
Nuance is Dictaphone and since a lot of use Dictaphone equipment, you can say we all have something to do with this. If you are surprised at the website above, look at the US website of nuance. Just IMHO and try to get both sides of the corporation.
If you'll read through past posts you'll find lots of
recent info. Why do you need menitoring if you already work as an MT. Unless you do clinic work most companies will require you to work at least one weekend day, at least initially.
If you'll read the archives you'll find out everything
you want to know, none of it good.
hateful owner, hateful managers, awful company. You'll hate it. period
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Probably figure you'll want Way more than they'll offer, whatever it might be. :) nm
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If you'll read more carefully you'll see
I was referring to AFTER she's missed out on a job, having a friend do sort of an audit to tell her what what was wrong with her test she submitted -- not cheating.
It's not at the IRS website. It is in my state website.
It is clearly written that any employer out of state is bound by the laws of my state as far as taxes. Look at your state website.
Let me get this straight
I would guess this relates to the post about changing jobs on people without notice. Interesting to me that Heartland had a pitiful reputation here and they at least gave people some notice. I don't think I will be calling Medware. I can't afford for a company to take my job away in less than a week.
Ha! S/B look them straight in the EYE when getting
lied to. I am a good judge of people face-to-face, but I really feel the lying recruiters or HR dept or whomever get away with it a lot easier cause we are not face-to-face. Might make it less painful for them to live with themselves as well. They don't have to see the hurt and horror they cause in our lives. Mind you - I can handle any and all ESLs, etc, and any work type, but its the misrepresentation that burns me. Tell me upfront the garbage I'll be transcribing, and then show me that garbage during my early days - don't lie and deceive me.
Let me see if I got this straight --
1. The recruiter hired you and knew that you hadn't done acute care in a while.
2. The recruiter told you that the account manager would be made aware of this and take the time to train you on acute care.
3. The account manager then rips you a new one and basically fires you.
4. Now, the same recruiter wants you to call this account manager and explain it to her.
Shouldn't the recruiter have done #4 herself and had the account manager call you to apologize? Sorry, but I gotta say forget this company. Take the 4-hour loss on the training as a lesson learned and move on.
I get 6.5 for SR and 10 for straight, but that is not what
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GETTING IT STRAIGHT
I finally got the straight scoop on this. My friend said that the recruiter interviewed her initially, followed a few days later, after testing, by a supervisor. She said that both of them were very formal and rather abrupt, not very personable. My friend asked the second caller/supervisor about the situation with the supervisor with the bad behavior causing MTs to quit, which was posted a week or so ago here at mtstars; apparently, this supervisor denied knowing anything about that. However, my friend said that it seemed to her that the supervisor on the phone call was likely the very one that had caused the trouble. My friend declined the position.
No, 4 for VR and 8 for straight but
the biggest part of my work now is VR. I love it myself, just do not want to work fulltime.
Get it straight.
Please be careful when you are in the interview.
Be prepared to lose your job if you are identified and your picture is taken. Those who work at the Q must remember Linda Perdue. Whistle blowers generally do not fare well and this is something you have to deal with before you do the interview. While this is information that the public needs and deserves to know you are placing yourself in harm's way job wise. Write the body of your piece yourself and tell the reporter that you want to see her final copy before it goes to print. Do not sign anything to hold them harmless. Be as generic as you can be .. national companies do not want negative publicity .. remember Brokovitch .. be smart and listen to every word they say to you carefully before you answer and ask them to repeat so that you know what is going on. Maybe you can tape the interview. Good luck to you.
Let me get this straight...
Because the OP randomly, out of the blue, posted for we 'TT cheerleaders' to LEAVE THIS BOARD AND GO WHERE WE BELONGED, that wasn't antagonistic and bullying, in your esteemed opinion? Taking it upon herself to instruct other posters to go elsewhere because we have a different opinion than that which SHE holds? OMG, lololololol!!!
Talk about hilarious...No wonder people like you are so resistive to learning anything new. You like to set your own rules as you go along and obviously do not play well with others.
As other posters below have said, if you're going to bully other posters around who disagree with you by calling them liars or accusing them of being management in disguise, and attempt to trash-talk TT for moving forward with VR, then good riddance to the lot of you.
But no other poster is going to tell ME to go somewhere else because I disagree with her. I don't believe anyone died and left her in charge. Those of you whining may outnumber those of us supporting TT, but that does NOT mean you are the ones in charge. That is the job of the MTStars Moderator, not some random siveling poster.
Let me get this straight. You are an MT SM
experienced with this account and you are on probation for 3 months? You help train the other MTs, give samples, etc., and you are on probation? Should be the other way around.
It seems even with straight
you are having your problems with the brain fog.
So let me get this straight...sm
It is my understanding that we get to keep...free and clear...our current computer that Amphion provided us in the beginning. Do we have to return the foot pedal? Are they going to remove the virus protection we currently have on our computers and we must provide our own? The email was kinda confusing...Thanks!
This is straight MT sm
and yes, she is on a power trip. She is new and didn't read any of the instructions given to her.
let me see if I have got this straight..s/m
So anyone who has anything positive to say is going to be management, or a company hack, as you called it?
I really don't think that is fair at all.
I personally have had a very positive experience with Transcend since the merger with my prior employer from earlier this year. Yes I was a little concerned about the outsourcing thing, but I have resigned myself to that it is a fact of life in this field anymore, and as long as companies think that they can get away with it cheaper, than that is just the way things are going to be.
So am I a company hack then, because I am not going to bash the company? No. I am an MT just like the rest of you, and have been in this field for quite a few years.
I am a bit younger than the median age for the industry, but I came into MT when I couldn't do anything else due to physical limitations and a desire to work in the medical field.
I make enough money (even with some VR work) to support two children and 2 adults on just my MT income.
I understand that not everyone will have the same experience with a company, but I do not think it is fair to bash someone or insist they must be lying because their experience was different then yours, or you don't agree with what they are saying.
And as to outsourcing to India being cheaper, I used to work for a local MTSO that was on the small side, maybe 10 MTs. They used to send some work to India when they would get more in a day than we could get finished, and I can tell you without a doubt that it cost them more to send the work overseas than it did for it to be done domestic. For the domestic MTs, there was no QA per se, but if we had a problem, we could have one of the other MTs listen, or the owner of the company would listen and see if she could fill in the blank.
The work sent overseas had to be listened to verbatim, and they had to pay someone to do that. It would on average, cost them almost 4 cents a line more to have work done overseas.
Okay coming down off of my soapbox now,
Let me get this straight...
If you were making 7.5-8, you will now be making 5.6 cpl or less for straight typing? Is this correct? If so, I am very sorry. I just can't imagine them making that drastic of a cut. Terrible.
Get your facts straight.
Do you know how many times I went to my company and sent letters, and emails? I mean I went all the way to the TOP.. you know how many responses i got...or offers to call and discuss with the supervisors.. ZIP--NADA...and by the way, these companies should value their MTs... who do you think is doing the bulk of the work... QA and MTs while the others travel around, buy new cars, boast how they have a 6-million dollar business. YES MA'AM. An owner told he has a 6-million dollar business. Hows does that grab ya?
Get your facts straight. sm
The pay cuts were a business decision not financial problems. I make more here than I ever made anywhere else. Checks bounce? I was one of the 8 and received the letter from the bank, my fees paid, etc. Then they changed banks and there have been no problems. Lack of work? Never. Lack of pay? Never. Maybe you weren't good enough.
so let me get this straight because I am truly - see note
confused on this - REALLY I AM!! Companies that offshore can now post jobs on the job seeker board?? I looked around for the posting that said that companies can do this, but I cannot find it.
Please do not delete my post. I am serious about my question and I am not being sarcastic.
Straight typing
You could try MDI-FL, they have alot of straight typing. I think they are hiring now too. I personally love VR, I seem to make alot more money with it and cannot seem find enough companies who offer it.
You need to get your story straight then. You said
you talked with her for two weeks and she wasted your time because no one was hired for that position. Get your story straight. I am not her daughter but would be proud to be her daughter though I believe I am old enough to be her mother.
Agree...someone needs to come out and be straight up about it
or ust stop talking about it altogether. It's getting to where you can't read half of the page anyway because the thread is pushed over so much on the page.
Straight Transcription vs VR
If anyone has gone from straight transcription to voice recognition, what was the expected increase in LPH, 50%, 75%, 100%? And how realistic was expectation?
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