to make sure the accounts are over-covered -- greed
Posted By: ex-FN-er on 2008-09-02
In Reply to: Then they should send the Emails to the MT - that is not helping - not to
FN is so very greedy. Keep 'em over-covered for TAT. Keep the gals scraping for bits. They would rather have way too many MTs than have just enough. I see things have certainly not changed...
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Yep. It's the greed of the suits and the greed of the
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Ugh! I'm on too many accounts to make any $!
Seems like there are a lot of bosses here, this is not the right situation for me, I'm getting out ASAP. The benefits are so-so, I've had better and much cheaper.
If you have your own accounts and clients you can make that much $$$$. nm
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Couple of posts above it was 4 new accounts, now it's 20? Make up your
mind!
I covered that
My contract ends each year. I reassess if that same contract is working for me, if I want to raise my rates, etc and renew the contract. Many contractural relationships are handled this way.
When I owned my own client-to-service based service, I had a lot of government contracts, and they are sticklers for making sure you really know what you're doing with being a contractor. Now that I provide my services to a middle man, it's just the same on a smaller scale.
If ICs actually behaved like ICs and held the middle men accountable, you might see a livable wage actually still existent. Instead, posters as above who just dont want their own boat rocked mean that the crappy situation most MTs are in will continue.
All family is covered - all 3 of us have used ours. nm
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Ok, I said the chocolate covered cherries but
I said, well almost. You just have to read all the post. Some ESLs on mine are better than the English so it can happen. I have 1 English speaking PA that it never gets and I have no idea why. Her reports are pure salad. I worked in a hospital before making both base and incentive and I only work part now so how to compare what I made then as to now? I have edited over 600 lines before BUT and read THIS, that is few and far between. The stars all have to be lined up for that to happen. I can and do do 400+ a line but am old and really have forgotten how much paid per line and per hour when working inhouse.
We are not hourly employees so we are not covered by that -
we are considered being paid by the piece and that is figured a separate way. That is why I had such trouble getting my unemployment because they said I was not an hourly employee and therefore was not entitled to unemployment.
Company Hack and Suckup...you covered it for us. n/m
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C-phone accounts aren't any better, not enough work to make line counts there either. Sigh
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We just covered this on the main board - probably a scam company -sm
In the past I have seen their ads (in every state) saying you can make mega $$$. However it is believed that they are XXXXX under a new name in order to get new victims. The company itself is actually in XXXXX, they say you have to buy the software they use $400 from another company (which they own too but have it hidden well). They then string you along with tests and practice dictation (which I suspect is real dictation) but you never get paid as you have passed the test, nor will you ever be quite good enough to pass. I know a few people that have done it, get strung along for 6 months or more then finally give up, eating the $400. So make a fuss and get their money back, reporting them to the BBB. As for no info, that is not good, if no phone number or address, or they make you buy stuff, steer clear.
Whether you apply on line or by written application, they have it covered
They have always had a disclaimer at the end of any paper Employment Application you fill out and sign, but now they also have them if you apply on line. They cover it nicely by saying I authorize investigation. That pretty much lets them do anything they want and without a written signature.
Applicant Disclaimer |
(Please read before submitting)
I hereby certify that the answers given herein are true and complete to the best of my knowledge. I authorize investigation of all statements contained in this application for employment as may be necessary in arriving at an employment decision. |
VR, $$ and Greed
You have put the situation into words better than I have seen before. I will definitely post my resume now in hopes of getting on with a smaller company. I worked for a large national and everything was about what was best for them, not the MTs. Regarding VR, I ultimatly lost my job because of it. Strange as it may seem, the system actually picked up foreign accents better than good English. Also, to keep from having to admit that the top exec goofed in paying a fortune for the system, they said it was working just fine. The end product was not from the VR system, it was from MTs deleting the VR dictation and transcribing from scratch. All this said, they were able to cut roughly 2/3 of the transcriptionists. This was a large clinic and they lost a number of doctors who refused to use the VR because of risks associated with it. Such a mess!
Exactly!! It is greed!
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Not management, don’t know about Transtech, fast typist, American, what have I not covered
Let's see, all the above have been said about me. I have been truthful trying to let others know about VR but the only thing most can do who are opposed accuse you of being too slow to make a decent salary, working as management, working for whatever company they are talking about and so on. I think I have reached my fill because others do not really care to understand. I went through why if VR threw in something wrong how a trained person would know and then someone came back asking if I were an American. If you cannot comprehend something seems like you just throw anything that might stick. I have tried because I have worked on VR now for about 7 years but no one wants to hear but what woes they face.
Remember, you are covered as long as you have documented Out of Work tickets - sm
You can still qualify for holiday pay if you try to get in your 32 hrs, and receive the NSA message. If there is no work, there is no work and they can't hold your holiday pay.
To Cece regarding VR, $$, and greed.
Thanks for posting your experience. This is what I've been saying to people of Transcend regarding VR for a while now. Your statement about "strange as it may seem, VR picked up foreign accents better" was very interesting. When we think about it, it shouldn't really seem that strange because after all WE are teaching the VR system what the ESLs are saying. Every single time the system got it wrong, we had to replace it until the system actually "recognized" it on it's own and started typing it automatically. It wasn't the machine picking it up on it's own and doing well, it was the skill of the MTs constantly correcting the same thing over and over and over until the machine finally "got it". Once the MTs poured all their sweat and tears into correcting it, they were no longer needed as much on that account and were switched to others that needed the training. Slowly, but surely we became less valuable. Kind of like the production management team Transcend just let go.
I'm starting to see why so many new people are hired on at 10 cpl now, why the "policy" as far as raises had changed, and why the new direction for team leaders. If the plan had been to transition all accounts to VR all along, they wouldn't be able to get many people to accept new jobs by coming right out and telling them they were being hired for 5 or 6 cpl. They had to offer some sort of enticement. By making the new base rate higher and doing away with annual increases, they would save money realizing that the rates would be cut to 60% in the long run with editing. They must have realized that a lot of the people there for years who had started at 8 cpl or less would be upset with the changes and the problems - and would need to be replaced as they left. Just my opinion, but maybe this was also the reason for the cut-throat approach to promoting "get work while you can" when it's low and not taking an active role in remedying the situation. As long as they didn't have to come right out and say we need to cut back, the MLSs would do it on our own because we couldn't afford to wait for work to miraculously appear.
I'm quite confident, and actually know for a fact, that some who had been working there for a while were told of the team leader positions before they were even announced - otherwise how would I have gotten that inside information about the PMs that I had posted on the Forum before it was announced?. Also just my opinion, but what a convenient way to keep the "cheerleaders" who started at less than 10 cpl happy. Offer them an hourly position because the management knows for a fact they would never stick around for 5 or 6 cpl just editing if they are producing 400 lines per hour while typing. The rest of the MLSs would eventually get sick of scraping and clawing for work and would leave on their own. A whole new labor force with a whole fresh set of people not aware of the problems brewing just under the surface or even close to a clue of what will hit them in the future. A whole new work force that won't be eligible for raises for 3 years and most likely won't stay on anyway when they see what is going to happen.
Cece, you're living proof regarding what I had been saying about needing less people for VR in the long. Someone emailed me the other day and said that it was told to them by management that at this point 60% of the work will still need to be typed. I wonder what that percentage will be once the VR system is fully operational and running at peak performance, and the usual "slow times" roll around. If we thought it was cut-throat before, imagine it when only 10 people are needed to edit a huge account like the one BT started out with on ERs, which actually happened at Transcend. Now just imagine the quality of that work when people are scrambling to do as much as they can as fast as they can to supplement the 40% reduction in rate. Quality won't be as important as making their usual paycheck to pay their bills OR they will be hiring brand-spanking new MTs fresh out of school or new to at-home work that think they've won the lottery at 10 cpl. They won't be paying for quality, they'll be paying for quantity.
see? greed IS good. NM
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Whatever. You obviously support greed,
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With Transtech insurance, do you have to meet deductible before office visits are covered? nm
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It's that 'ol GREED factor, again! - no/msg.
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Mr. You-Lose-Ski is posterchild for GREED.
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Greed is good? That is EXACTLY what capitalism
is all about. Make no mistake I am NOT defending certain MTSO's - I am simply pointing out to you that THIS (greed and corruption) is EXACTLY what you get with a capitalistic society.
This DOES NOT mean we have to give up freedoms, only that we have to demand Congress level the playing field - After all THEY gave the corporations the power and the rights they have... starting in the late 1800s
WHY ARE SO MANY WILLING TO just scream bloody murder at a system THEY support?
If you want do change things, roll up your sleeves and get to work, otherwise, give this company willing to PAY you for work a try - before you wish you had.
It's called greed and most companies are starting to become
guilty of that. They are not the only one.
Corporate greed is driving it right out of existence
can afford to live in the United States and stay in MT. More & more of us are getting out. Some, like me, are trapped... been at it for too long (30+ years), and most of us are now what you would call the Working Poor. Back in my 20's when I came to that 'crossroads', I should've gone with my friend and learned court-reporting. So far their jobs haven't been teetering on the brink of extinction (yet), like ours are in MT.
That was a couple of years ago. Greed, India, not enough
QA, lies, lies, and more lies. They lost a couple of accounts and they lost a major account, what little was left wasn't much. I've heard L started another company and M is still her slave. Don't know any other details.
That was a couple of years ago. Greed, India, not enough
QA, lies, lies, and more lies. They lost a couple of accounts and then they lost a major account, what little was left wasn't much. Owners divorced. I've heard L started another company and M is still her slave. Don't know any other details.
Until about the last year it was a great place to work and it took a lot of adjusting going from gross lines to 65 lines.
hmm..be careful of your confidence among such greed... who will the team leader be?
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Yep, greed. The love of money is the root of all evil. NM
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Thanks. Can you make any decent pay with them and are the accounts decent. What is your feeling
that. Thank you.
You can call it greed, I call it feeling like
I am back in the 80s with the money I am pulling in. SS, retirement check and my paycheck, cha-ching. Not planning on taking it with me, never. Love to travel and have 4 places planned for this year. High maintenance lady here. Ta-Ta.
Are they losing accounts. Do most of their accounts stay for long period of time. I have
heard pros and cons about the quality of their work. I guess it is much cheaper than other companies can offer.
Because the girls that monitor the accounts in the office were told the accounts either go on DQS or
move on. All accounts to be with MQ must be on DQS and no more different platforms. ONE ONLY DQS. They can send more work overseas then.
MDI-FL but not all accounts. Only the internet-based ones. C-phone accounts are fine.
So, yes, let me clarify before everyone gets in an uproar.. There is work IF you want to use a C-phone. IF you signed up for an account that is internet-based, you will be disappointed. Not enough work to go around. Just my personal preference.. I have no desire to do a dial-up C-phone account using my long distance.
Some do and have good accounts and fully loaded ESL accounts
Take a look at what is happening in India. For the first time, workers there have money to get themselves into debt by buying high priced items (cars for example). They now protest lower castes being allowed into universities at almost double the previous allowance. Wait until they are highly in debt, begin to feel entitled to a wage equal to that paid inthe US and then, try to form unions, get tossed out into the street and sit back with some Ben and Jerry ice cream and watch the economy collapse and all that dictation come back across the ocean. Timing is everything.
Find out which accounts they are hiring for. They have some ESL accounts that are extremely
difficult to do. I dont know how many accounts they have altogether but as I say, a few are very difficult and I actually dont have a problem with ESLs but these accounts are almost totally ESL. I dont do them anymore.
Well it sounds like no work happens a lot at DSG. How are the accounts as far as decent accounts
and their QA.
I doubt you will make enough money in 5 hours a week to make
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I make 4 cents a line, work part and make
over $500 a week on part.
Great post! I make 0.085 at Keystrokes and make more than at any sm
other company in the last 5 years. Why? Because there is always work for me. I love starting work each day, knowing that the company I work for appreciates me and has plenty of work. Transtech and Keystrokes sound very similar; those of us that work for either can count our blessings that we are not part of the cesspool or huge corporate mess that makes up the biggest few companies. We do not have to worry about our jobs getting sent overseas and we see a future in this business!!!
Different accounts have different platforms. Most accounts require sm
high speed but I am not sure if satellite is OK.
I don't think that they're hiring right now. I spoke with my lead on Thursday, who said they are focusing on making sure everyone has enough work and moving PTers to FT, eventually moving towards FT only with only weekends as PT. Not 100% sure when that is though.
Hmm..well it goes to show how different it can be between accounts. My "high" ESL accounts s
at WMX are pretty easy in my opinion as well. I wish I had a better answer for you. Hang in there if you can. You have to do what is right for you.
Yeah, but we don't make what docs make. nm
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Six accounts?!?! That is nuts! I am on 3 accounts. nm
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But we don't even make what in-house make.
It would be different if we made the same as the in-house MTs. In a lot of cases, most of the people working in-house make much more including benefits than we do at home as full-time employees. That's where I think the unfairness comes in. The in-house employees don't all work every single weekend. Most of them rotate at a much higher salary and much better benefits. The MTs at home are expected to fill in for the in-house for less money, less benefits and give more and more back in the form of weekends and holidays. Most remote MTs only receive benefits contingent on production, and even then they're not nearly as good as in-house benefits. How is that equal in the healthcare team perspective?
you might want to make sure you don't make yourself look like an IDOT before you go any further.
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I make $1.10 per report and make much more sm
than by the line. Day by day it varies and goes back and forth, but over a long period, it is better by the report. Make sure they pay links though; this is key.
Do Shapin MTs really only make 6 cpl and QAs make 1.5 cpl?
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Why can't you make money with all OPs? I do all OPs and make
good money. I'm not with WebMedX though.
I'm happy with what I make. I still make more than if I went anywhere else and hardly noone in th
biz gives raises so I feel blessed that I make a lot more than most, raise or no raise.
And always make sure you don't make line
counts that amount to anything. They always place you with impossible ESLs as soon as you start making decent money.
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