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If the line count in a particular platform, for example ExText, is compared to MS Word count where the total word count is divided by 65, shouldn't the count be about the same? 

I work for TT and we had a problem with the ichart which counts our lines but I would just wait a couple of hours or until the next morning to get my count and then mark it.  It was always available in time for the end of the pay period.  Transtech is a great company to work for and yes management is great.  They also let us know whenever there were issues with the system and we knew that we would need to wait.  I've been there long enough now to kind of get a feel for the number of lines I have for what I've typed.  I'm typing on the TransNet platform now.  I was on PowerScribe when I started but like this system much better.  So far, there's been no real problem with availability of work.  Can't complain!    

You know, sometimes I find these posts comical and sometimes they just really tick me off.  Maybe because I have been doing this nearly a half century, I don't need a line counter to tell me if I'm being paid accurately.  I don't go wasting my time looking to see how many lines I've typed during the day or running my work through another line count program.  I KNOW approximately how many lines I have typed at any given time...I just KNOW and I am seldom off more than a few lines just with my head count.  There is no way I'm going to waste my valuable time worrying if I'm being cheated out of a line here or a line there.  Checking line counts takes time..........so does posting on these MT forums.

Let me say that if my in head count was off, I would know it and I would not work for a company where I  had to constantly worry if I was being cheated.  Maybe there is something to the old saying, it takes a thief to catch a thief. 

As for line counts varying, mine is varying at the moment also.  My primary account often runs out of work and I know exactly WHY it runs out of work although no one has actually told me.  Okay, I have a backup account (or several) and I can either jump on those and make the line count I want or I can sit around whining about not getting my primary account, which by now is a piece of cake for me.  The backup accounts have 50,000 physicians on their list, maybe not quite that many actually, but bunches.  It takes awhile to get familiar with all of them as it does to build my normals and expanders. 

Sometimes I have to laugh when I read these petty comments.  I think to myself, if they would get off this forum and actually WORK, they probably wouldn't have so much whining to do.

As I've said before, those who have nothing better to do than bash TT should just move along and leave the rest of us in our blissful ignorance.  I'm chuckling to myself right now because there are posts on this forum at this moment about 2 companies for whom I have worked.  I don't feel it necessary to post derogatory comments but sometimes I do hope that some of the people who love to beat up on Transtech actually go to work for them and learn what it's like to work for a bad (at least in my opinion) company.  Some people deserve it.

Now I'm off my soap box and going to type where I will actually make some money....yes, for TransTech.  They treat me fairly.  If they didn't, well, I was looking for a job when I found this one.

OSI question?

Have recently talked to an MT who just started at OSi within the past 3 months.  Line counting does not seem to jive with Word.  A great difference.  Word counting lists 100 lines, OSI counting of the same report lists 40 lines.  They claim they do not count spaces, which I find rather surprising, because the last time I checked, a space is a keystroke.

Any input?  Thanks.

If their version of Word is provided by Dictaphone, who also provides the line counting website, why aren't the two compatible?  We had some discrepancy between the two and instead of fixing it we got locked out of the lines typed this session feature of MS Word (which was helpful and is not available on the website.  Rather than fix it they disable it.  They're a little heavy handed.  Love it or leave it.   

Does anybody know of a free line counting program I could download?  Also, is anybody familiar with wtd. lines vs. lines in a line counting program?  I assume wtd. means weighted, and what does it mean?  Thanks.

Has anyone noticed changes in line counting.  I work in EXText.  As I recall, it used to be if I typed/edited 1600 lines (as counted by EXText), it would then show up as approximately 1400 lines in Ichart, losing about 200 lines.  Now I am showing approximately a loss of 225 in the above-listed scenario.  Maybe I am remembering incorrectly?? 

Anyone else notice any recent changes?

TIA

awful experiences, depending on which company you work for. My past experience was with Heartland and the mentoring program there was obnoxious with a capital O. I had to leave because of family issues, and I learned nothing while in the mentoring program. My general knowledge of the MT field, what I learned through general life experience or through MT training, certainly NOT from the mentoring program, is what kept me at the job. Had I had to rely soley on the mentoring program at Heartland, I would have been one of the many in my group that I just recently learned were hastily fired now that the company is changing hands. In your own situation, don't feel too bad if the company you applied to doesn't get in touch with you as soon as you had hoped or at all. The universe is sending you a message. Try, try again and NEVER give up.

you need to be connected to upload them to your computer and connected to transmit them back.  I do not think you need to be connected while you are working.  You can download in batches of 5 or whatever number they authorize you for, disconnect from the net, transcribe, then re-connect and transmit.

is this the info you needed?

Hi,

Can someone tell me if or what they know about MT mentoring programs? I'm being considered for a couple through well-known companies that were actually referred to me. Then I heard from someone else that you have to be cautious because someone they knew wasn’t paid. I've been looking for a job a long time now and I was almost hired. It fell through because they couldn't hire after all. Like I said, I'm waiting on some feedback from a couple of mentoring programs but it will be in January. The last few weeks I've had to put MT employment searching on hold because of the upcoming holidays; Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. I would appreciate any feedback on this thanks.

Brenda R.

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