wrong answer and any lawyer

the MTs who want to work set schedules and be ICs - go for it; just know that you are allowing these companies to take advantage. If you are a true IC, then you don't need them to give you a schedule. No one knows when the work is available. These companies place work into the system at any given time. It's not always the dictators dictating when the work is published to be transcribed.

Some of us don't want to be taken advantage of any longer; it's time these MTSOs pay us as employees if they want to dictate set schedules and have us use their equipment and especially count our lines for us. As an IC with my own accounts, I count the lines, and I bill the client my way, not their way!

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I am really tired of all the invasive no-wrong-answer tests out there. I plan to send this to every place I might apply.

I would like you to take a few minutes of your time to complete the following questionnaire. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers

MTs are just disposable resources to be used mercilessly by our company. True or False

MT's are undereducated and require the benefit of our vast knowledge. True or False

MTs never get tired because if they did they would be let go. True or False.

MTs really do not have lives of their own. They should live to work! True or False

MTs are lazy and not dependable. True or False

MTs are unemployable elsewhere, that is why they spent so much time learning the profession. True or False

Our company intends to financially reward those MTs who are punctual, dependable, hardworking, and are willing to struggle through some of the worst dictators on the planet. True or False

Our company is just in it for the money. Money is the name of the game, we don't care whose back we break to get it? True or False

Our company will undercut all the other MT companies by promising that our MTs are 100% accurate. True or False

Our company knows that the accuracy expectations are just a poly to keep the MTs down, and degraded so they don't dare ask for a raise. True or False

Our company knows that accuracy checks are really the luck of the draw but that's just how it is done. True or False

It's an employer's market, and we know it, and we intend to milk it for everything it is worth. True or False

We really do not have the accounts we claim to have, we are just trying to build up a workforce, so we can submit bids to potential clients. True or False

We really don't know that much about transcribing ourselves, that is why we want our MTs to walk on water, that way it makes us look good. True or False.

The principals in our company all have at least 20 years' experience transcribing and are all certified MTs with accredited degrees in the English Language, spoken and written. True or False

So just be honest with me. Your answers will be held in the strictest confidence.

Sincerely,

I certainly am not a lawyer but I cannot possibly imagine a company being required to pay OT they didn't ask to be worked. So far as emails I have personally received asking for help to meet TAT,they ALWAYS say something to the effect of....if you have not met your line or hour requirements...if they want over time they ask for it and they INSIST on paying for it!!!!

One thing I do agree with you on is the discipline you mentioned. Might be a good idea for someone to let management at TT know what is being said here and I would personally be delighted if they could identify the malcontents and FIRE them. All-in-all Transtech is a good company...not perfect by any means...but as an old goat with nearly half a century in this business I can tell you there are a WHOLE LOT worse companies out there and I hope some of you find them. You deserve it!

I know, work for a long time and tried asking questions, but they just beat around the bush and don't answer the true question that you presented to them.

is to leave well enough alone when these threads start. I have personally witnessed your responses on countless threads on more than just one board, and I am always amazed at how you just don't understand you hurt yourself more than any posting of =rumors= about your company. You say we don't know how you run your business. Well, we know a lot more about it now with your post than we did before, don't we? (psst, so do your competetors) Is that necessarily a good thing? I don't see the CEO of Medquist running around on here trying to imply legal ramifications or trying to help us understand that company's way of conducting business. In 1997 I quit a company where the owner sent out a memo telling employees not to discuss it on the internet. It amazes me that an owner believes s/he has the kind of control over anyone to regulate what the people who work for them think or do OR feel intimidated that your lawyer is going into the Big Brother Business.

For the record, I have never looked into working for your company, am not a former employee/contractor, have no interest in doing any sort of business with you whatsoever. The reason I mention this is because I have mentioned this to you in the past and it continues to fall on deaf ears. You do more harm by what you say than any of the MTs, editors, students, curious onlookers, do here. If you try to hold your head up high and let things be, the reputation of your company could possibly benefit, but then, I don't control what you say, think, feel or do, either.

When I recently contacted a lawyer who represents outsourcing employers about what I thought was a rather intrusive employee handbook with strict verbage about talking about that company in public and even in private email, her response to me was to sign it. She reminded me that it didn't change what I thought, but employers don't like employees/contractors bad mouthing them, and then asked me why I felt it was a big deal. So now I'm going to offer you to think about that from your side. Employees/contractors don't like employers bad mouthing them, and by the way, why is it a big deal for you? Tend to your business and let go of what you can't control.

Einstein: Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Ya know this has taken over the entire company board, and it's not fair. No one can even ask regular questions due to all this mess.

If you were transcribing a 70-character line with spaces at 9 cents/line, how many 1-page to 1 1/2-page reports would have to be transcribed to equal $100/day (about how many)?

If you already have a computer you will perhaps need to purchase some equipment, depending on the account(s) you work on. I only work on accounts that use DVI VoiceWave. If I were to work on an account that used a different system, I would have to purchase the new system. But to make my life simple, I stick to just the one I originally purchased. X-press did not gouge me for anything. I lost my long-time job due to voice recognition and I knew that I had to make some important financial decisions regarding setting myself up as a contractor.

One thing I will say regarding X-press not hiring too many people: You can be a good Transcriptionist and not make the cut. There's a difference between being a good transcriptionist (one who knows her English, grammar, punctuation and terminology), and then there's the great transcriptionist who is proficient in all the above PLUS knows all the nuances of transcription - knowing radiology inside and out and knowing when the doctor is in error, knowing a cut off word rather than leaving a blank because of experience. I work with a small handful of women. We all have extensive radiology experience.

You can't just fall into a job with X-press. But I think it's worth it to work hard to get in.

Because there are no benefits working with X-press, it might not be the best place for a single person or single mom. Because my husband has benefits with his job, X-press is a good fit.

I work two accounts. One account pays 9 cents a line and the other pays 16 cents a line. If I worked weekends on the 9 cent account, the pay would be a little higher. And if we end up working a holiday, you do get holiday pay.

Vacations are worked out amongst co-workers. I've never had to cancel vacation plans.

X-press is nice because you get your own accounts. Like I said in my original post, I have worked with X-press a little over two years. I have worked the same accounts the entire time, so I have had the same doctors the entire time - I really appreciate that.

Avoid this company like the plague!! Vindictive supervisor that keeps pets and tells lies/changes rules to suit herself. Management charges for tech support even.