relevant. I take that as a sign the copmany is frustrating to say the least. NM
Posted By: mt4now on 2009-09-30
In Reply to: Snotty or chrarming recruiter--irrelevan, right?. - MissIndigo
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The name is not relevant
Many companies enlist their name into the company name, and that is the case here. There are good companies with names in their business. I know she is a Transcriptionist and works for a company during the day while mentoring newbies on her other accounts she takes credit for(while they do the work).
Thanks for the relevant info.
nm
I love relevant, current references in posts.
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i wouldn't sign it, but cross that out and sign
the rest
System was down for a while. It is frustrating.
I know they are working on it. Overall, I like this system better than most.
Yeah, I'd say that would be frustrating.
Could you switch over to work on the Transcend side to work on those accounts?
Platform can be very frustrating sm
If you get stuck or have a question regarding any issue, dont hold your breath on them answering or helping. To me, they are very shady people.
I know it is frustrating and I sure don't enjoy it
either, but doesn't it make sense to give all applicants a difficult transcription test? What better way for a real cream of the crop MT prove that she is skilled? If the test is easy, the results will be the same, whether the MT is a newbie or highly experienced. True?
So true and so frustrating
(NM)
I have been running out of work with them also...frustrating! nm
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it's frustrating to have 14 years and get $14 an hour..
i won't work for line rate ever again... and i work almost 4 jobs now to get six figures. pathetic pay these days. made more working hospital back in the day
It is frustrating for me to see ads when I do not have enough work. However, they are great sm
people to work with, and I have been happy for the most part. They use Wordscript, which is a Word-based platform and very easy to use. Pay periods end the 15th and the last of the month, paid by direct deposit. There is no set pay day, but generally I am paid within a week to 10 days of the end of the pay period.
Good luck with whatever you decide. 
I know, it's so frustrating. I would at least like a yes or no, just no response is maddening.
nm
Ugg this is so frustrating! I am going to try to get more lines the first week
of the payperiod and maybe that will help. I have a child but he is away for the summer so I am able to sit and wait 24/7. I just have to juggle the bills this time around, either pay for the furniture or the rent, but not both. Will be lying low this week food-wise too, good thing I am alone and can cut back on going anywhere or buying anything. Perhaps the recession will end and the new accounts will help. Going elsewhere might end up being the same thing, so I am going to overlap TT with something else. Just thinking aloud here... thanks for your feedback. It is hard to talk to coworkers when you are home and don't know anyone in the area who does the same kind of work.
Is Dictaphone better for VR? Escription can be frustrating with that at times.
My account is mostly VR and I have to work an awful lot to make a little.
I hear you. It's really frustrating to have almost the perfect job within your grasp. nm.
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The company I work for does it, to keep all accounts in TAT, can be frustrating but most of the time
am just happy to have work. I am not sure, but I think I work for the same company as the previous poster, and I'm going to stick it out because it does seem to be getting better lately as I think the accounts are better covered now. If I were you, I would ask what the deal is, who knows, they might give you a straight answer or change your accounts if they find out you are unhappy, you don't know until you give it a try.
It definitely can be frustrating. I tested for Accupro a couple of weeks ago, sm
and there were several long reports to type, yet I never received the courtesy of a response. They were great guns at first, sending me info about the company, telling me how impressive my resume is, etc., and after the written test, I heard back immediately, but then, after investing several hours into their written test .. *poof* .. nada. I don't know that I aced it, but after 25+ years of being an MT, I didn't think I did so awful that it would not even merit a reply. Such is life ...
On the flip side, I do realize that companies receive 100s of applications when they run an ad, and so I try to be patient and realize that I can just be lost in the shuffle somtimes. I perhaps am not aggressive enough, because I do not email or call if they drop the ball. There are lots of other companies out there.
Yeah, it reduced me to tears. Talk about frustrating
You had to open up so many screens just to get where you were going. Thus, you got nowhere FAST..
Nice people, agreed; very frustrating to work for, though.
I have to agree that the people are very nice. That's about as far as goes, however. The platform is clunky (We're working on a new one has been the constant refrain for years, with no real sign of it's birth anytime soon).
To answer the original question, I'm able to average about 250 lph, even with the craptacular platform (mostly due to a few docs with regular patter lending themselves to a lot of canned text); that said, I would likely be getting 350 lph or more with similar effort elsewhere.
Back on the negative side, however, the communication there sucks. Maybe 1 in 10 e-mails to management is acknowledged, let alone answered.
Very frustrating.
Big time..They usually have the Indians work at night and weekends. It can be frustrating to log in
and have their not be a lot of work on the account your on. The only Escription account that has extra work is the one in which the hospital had them agreed NOT to send their transcription to India. Otherwise, we have to share our work with our partners as they call them.
Tons of work on Enterprise. Should be last frustrating. Good luck. nm
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Frustrating situation at TransTech makes me make typos here on this board . . .
I have figured out a way to pay my bills with such **old, wornout** words
HAVE NOT figured out a way to pay my bills with . . .
It's a sign
hmmm, the woman at this company was so nasty, I told her, Why don't you hop on your broom and fly off into the sunset before someone drops a house on you.
Would seem she either flew or was flattened doesn't it?
They are poison. Run while you can.
How do I sign on?!!
How do I find this fantastic Deb?! I went to school for MT, found work which only lasted one year and then the company folded. I am having no luck finding anyone who'll take me on with just one year's experience. Deb sounds like just the perfect kind of person to work for. Is she hiring? Thanks for all the help, everyone!
sign
exactly what I thought - the person cannot be a MT. Management must not have enough work to keep them busy.
Is this a BAD sign?
For the past couple weeks we haven't been able to use our health insurance and my company says they will reimburse. And then got email we had coverage until May 26 and then will get reviewed and be put back in the Blue Shield pool...this makes no sense. Does this happen very often? Should I be looking?
most def a BAD sign
Gurl, that is the sound of one duck quacking. Vamamos, now. Do not pass gonad. Proceed directly to the lighted exit sign over the door. Insurance first, payroll next. Unhuh. Go.
Is this a bad sign?
Now I am getting nervous...maybe I should just stick with my current company? I really couldn't seem to find much info on them, and what I did find was over a year old. I just want to know if they are good to work for!
DO NOT SIGN
They have no right to ask you to give up your livelihood unless they are offering a severance to cover that time. My BF was offered a package from ATT and had him sign but gave him payroll for that time in one lump sum. Consult more attorneys. This is your livelihood - how are you to survive.
You think that is bad, I tried to sign on to my
account this morning and got invalid #. I tried again and got invalid # again. At this point I'm starting to freak, thinking they locked me out of the system. I tried one more time and entered my number more slowly and got in. I guess I'm as fast on the number pad as I am on the keyboard and it wasn't recognizing each number - LOL.
I would say don't sign with them
I am waiting for work right now.
So, do you think this is a sign
that JLG is going out of business or just getting rid of the SR side of it? Hopefully for the MTs there, it just means more straight transcription for them. If that is the case, I don't understand why some SR editors wouldn't be offered an MT position.
Any other JLG SR editors out there get the axe or an offer to switch to MT?
Even if you sign up for M-F 8am-4am
...shift or something like that, you will always get suckered in to working extra hours. just the life of an MT. however from experience, being helpful and wanting to please everyone by volunteering to work extra in the beginning often leads to them EXPECTING you to work extra and taking advantage of you. Stand your ground from the start if you don't want to work 24/7. I did at first and before you know it I'm expected to bend to a cardiologists' whim 24/7. Only after I threatened to quit did they take me seriously.
ME too! But sign us up where?nm
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sign
Has your worked picked up any? Has anyone else's?
If you worked there a while, you'd know that a certain PM used to sign
If y'all don't know that, then y'all haven't been here that long
I loved #4 and #8. Where do I sign up?
I think that's because you don't have to pay the Indians to sign on - sm
and yes, I am being sarcastic!! :)
Was going to sign with them, but am leery
That makes me nervous, having to wait for a paper check. Don't like that scenario. Other than that, contract didn't look too bad. Low pay for IC, but not intolerable.
SIGN-ON BONUSES
Not all companies that offer a sign-on bonus are bad news. Typically a company will offer a sign-on bonus if they are looking to fill positions quickly. A lot of times, this is interlinked with a new client/account go-live. The company wants to make sure they have enough MTs for the go-live. A sign-on bonus also draws more MTs to apply.
there are too many who don't make you sign.
I have 3 jobs and need them to feed my family. That's life. Don't do it.
sign-on bonus
I received my sign-on bonus for Precyse and also for Diskriter. No problemo. BTW, Diskriter seems to get a lot of flack around here, but I really love it. Very nice people, good platform, fair line counting, QA helpful and not stifling. OT frequently if you want it, but not all the time. I'm made to feel like a valued team member. :)
No employment unless you sign
The agreement states that the employee understands that he/she will no longer be employed unless he/she signs. (I found out that such coercion in order to save your job can be illegal.)
Sign it, take the money and get a new
They are putting you out of a job. It's not like you quit, so they have no right to request you to not get another MT job for 12 months. That is totally ridiculous! And really, are they going to follow you around and see what you do for the next 12 months? It's none of their business. I would just sign it, take the money and go about your business.
This is just incentive to get you to sign with this co.
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Be that as it may, it IS incentive to sign on.
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I would take it as a sign and move on. NM
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You don't need to a sign a release for them
Just because you sign a contract
doesn't mean you have no recourse. I worked for a company as an IC and my contract said that I had 24 TAT, was responsible for my own equipment and taxes taxes, had to abide by HIPAA regulations or get terminated, etc. The company I worked for (very small less than 80 employees) DID NOT comply with HIPAA regulations and I have plenty of proof. I'm gathering all the information I can before I see an attorney and possibly the IRS. One gets tired of hearing look at your contract. What makes them think THEY can break rules outlined in a contract and get away with it?
I've also been looking into IC versus employee status (on the IRS website) and it is interesting reading. Makes me wonder if this contract was ever legal by IRS standards (something else I will be looking into). It's time the tables turned on these bullies. They need to realize that WE are the ones that make them money not the other way around!
Do not sign contract
Having experienced this personally, it can be anything from an inconvenience to a devastating financial blow and, by signing the contract, no leg to stand on when it comes to getting your money.
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