you are very naive (but in a nice way)
Posted By: mtgrrl on 2008-05-31
In Reply to: Companies offshoring to India - AmericanMT
The Indians who are poor WILL REMAIN SO and will not get a job as an MT. There is no concept of Welfare in India either. They will starve on the side of the road while the Indians with offshored jobs buy more clothes, cellphones, cars, etc.
The reason is that it is very difficult to get a PRIMARY EDUCATION in India. Most Indians are TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY ILLITERATE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, LET ALONE ENGLISH. To send your kid to primary schools that will actually teach them something, costs money and the poor in India don't have it. It is the opposite of our country, which has a free education up to high school for all. Then we have to pay for college ourselves. In India, the colleges are free or very cheap, but the primary education is hard to get.
The person who is taking a job as an MT in India is NOT a poor soul crying thanks to the heavens that s/he can now feed their children. Much to the contrary. The people getting the MT jobs over there are of the upper middle class. They are overeducated and underemployed and end up doing MT because they can't live off their parents forever OR they are older and want to slow down. In India, MTs get paid either 1/2 or 1/3 of what call center workers get. It is considered lowly to be an MT (strictly a typist one step above the office peon and yes there is a job category in India called a peon) and the call center workers are called executives. MTs in India are failures in their chosen fields and/or could not hack it at a call center.
How do I know all this? EASY. I have family in INDIA. I have seen the classified ads for jobs there. They are so desperate for MTs that they will train anyone for free. Notice in the USA they only want EXPERIENCED MTs and then the companies cry about how THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MTs. Crying with a loaf under each arm.
In short, sending MT jobs in India does nothing for the poor except possibly make a household servant job (pay is usually equivalent to $US 25 a MONTH) available.
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Very nice owner, nice work, nice place - sm
the leave you alone. I left because they do not budge from their pay which was kind of mediocre. I would go back if I had to because they were extremely nice.
How naive you are
Unethical practices effect all of us MTs!!! The higher management wages for not a decent days work, the lower wages for us lowly MTs. Anyone who does not work on production can get away with anything working remotely. Does that not make sense to you??? Companies do not care? Oh I think they very much do care. You are obviously defending your own poor work ethic.
You are very naive.
nm
Don't be so naive...
at least look around for another job in case what people think is going to happen happens.
How naive.
Ask the people living in Gaza if they would agree with you. As the 4 million Iraqis in exile. Ask some Holocaust survivors.
You've got an awful lot of growing up to do.
Wow. Naive. nm
Please don't call me naive...you don't know me
I was just making an addition to what I've been reading. That's why I put I just read... jeesh
Please: you're either very new or very naive
nm
OK say she was naive like her team
Please tell us exactly what emails you are referring to that TOLD us our jobs are GONE!?! I've been RIGHT HERE trying to get work and answers - you must have been part of the golden inner circle that GOT answers - not me!
So you are embarrassed. You are also extremely naive.
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with all due respect, your response is somewhat naive..sm
how easy do you think it is for a company to say our MTs are all U.S. based? Sweetness, it's called the internet. I can't believe some buy into this. If I were a doctor and assured that my dictation was being typed by all U.S. MT's, do you think I would buy that - no. Especially when they can hire overseas MTs and pay them half the wages. Pleae get with reality here. Have a great evening! Also, DRC has no say so now; remember, they were bought out.
No, Amphion takes what they can get, the naive MTs.
nm
Wow, you are a naive little thing, aren't you?
Yes, I am sure TT will get it all straightened out. It has all been just a bad dream. We will all wake up and this silly VR CRAP will have been just a nightmare. They won't be trying to RIP US OFF while trying to sweet talk us at the same time (sounds like some guys I've dated!).
About that gift... Not to sound 2 years old but, really, what else do we get in this biz? MT Week is about the only thing left and TT just ignored it. Nice. Very nice... TT Management, you can take that sweetie crap and... well, you get the picture.
Now, you go back to watching the Disney network. They have nice stories too that always have happy endings. Seems like something you can handle.
a little naive to think the 'suits' don't come here wouldn't you say? nm
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"NN" means 'NOT NAIVE'
NM
Can you spell naive? See if you can answer this question..
What do you suppose happens once these people are trained to do YOUR job at less than HALF of what YOU ARE making?
get it yet?
and no, most of the time there are not plenty of jobs to go around.
I cannot believe anyone is this naive - you have an agenda perhaps?
In the dark, naive, have blinders on. ER is going down fast. nm
no msg.
You are correct: A naive person. Better jobs out there.
nm
If you think I'M a bully you're incredibly naive
There's nothing remotely bullying about my post. I stated my opinion. You post on here asking for opinions and I gave you one. It just wasn't the self-serving opinion you were seeking assuring you that you did the right thing.
Yes, perhaps you did the right thing for you by turning that job down; but if you're so happy where you're at, why are you wasting the time of MTSOs and perhaps pushing other MTs out of the running so they can spin their wheels with you? Also, about 98% of these posts on the job seekers board indicate when a weekend day will be required; you should have known going in when you applied apparently just out of curiosity that a weekend day would be required.
Sorry, but I'll leave you to your God and your family and your ability to pick and choose 'wonderful' job offers.
I'm just glad another MT will get a shot at this job who realizes people do indeed need reports transcribed on the weekend, and I certainly hope your God is on standby if a loved one ever needs a critical care transport and all reports transcribed and ready to go, because if the staff is a bunch of MTs refusing to work weekends, it could be a real inconvenience to have to wait until Monday for the official transcribed documents to be completed and faxed.
I'm done here...
Save a penny post is not slanderous. Not only are you naive,
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New, naive, desperate, carpal tunnel, slow transcriptionists... I don't know.
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Very nice people, nice place to work. nm
nm
Yes, nice QA (and nice people in general), but very little work right now. nm
nm
Yes! Nice lady, nice company. nm
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I second that. Amphion is nice, nice, nice
that's nice. have a nice weekend.
x
Nice post, thank you and have a nice day. nm
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Yep! And it's a NICE one, too, for each
full-time referral! The trick there is the new employee has to be meeting their minimum line requirement by 90 days. Good luck!
If you can't say something nice about ... sm
someone/something, don't say anything at all. Then again, I also learned that a "cranky (sic) sailor is a happy sailor" - there is no need for all these people to gripe for no reason except to have their "voice" be heard. Sheesh
Wow, that is so nice of you to say.
I think I know who you are, but please email me tomorrow.
You are such a sweetheart. People like you make my job so much easier. You know, we really try to keep our MT's happy cause Sue and I are MT's and we know what the deal is.
Candy, give me a call or an email tomorrow. That is so nice. MDI has gotten such bad press from this board and you know, I didn't even know how to post and Sue explained it. Duh???
Thanks again,
Liz
they are nice
decent people
She is very nice
I have talked to Jean M. a few times already. I just accepted their offer Friday and wanted to be sure I understood what they had told me. What they told me sounded very good. I am looking forward to starting. They are going to let me work a split shift. I am on evenings now with 2 little boys and it makes it hard.
They were very nice. sm
The two things I did not care for was the unlimited long distance, and their software Bayscribe. Even though it was easy to use, the spellcecker is way too outdated. I did not care for that at all.
Yes..of course..say something nice about OSi
I agree. Based on the writing, wording used, and the same old themes used over and over, it really does seem like the same couple of bitter people complaining about OSi. I don't know what has brought them out of the woodwork all of a sudden. Doesn't really matter to me. I'm happy there. I'm not a newbie, wasn't when I started, and have been there 3 years now. I hope to be there for a long time to come.
WOW, must be nice!!
I have a little over 9 years. 30+ years, way to go!!!
That's nice. They still are not MTs.
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It would be nice to know what the
for most of the ER MTs and for most of their acute care MTs so we could get a general feel for what can truly be achieved. I have also heard they have several platforms and wonder which ones are the most MT friendly.
Nice try - someone from QA?
LOLOLOLOL
Oh that is so much BS. QA has always been very nice to me. Everybody's nice.
nm
Nice-
It is nice to be appreciated now and then.
Have a nice day to you all! nm
Thanks, that's nice of you (sm)
I figured the KS people would be happy to get the lost IDs back after a fashion. Maybe the 3 people who had to stop last week can start on it again. It's news to me that KS was getting it all, though. But that hospital wasn't up front with us about many things. I hope you all are making good money on it, I couldn't make much money on that platform even with my IT.
I doubt that there will be severance, though. I'm just a little in shock that it was so fast; I figured we'd have another week or so at least. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
Hey, that's not nice. I'm sure they let her off QA
because, after looking at her reports, they see that she knows what she is doing!
Again - not nice!
You have no idea what dictators she got. I was off QA after the first day at my current job. One of the reports I transcribed on my first day I received back with a note about how exceptionally difficult the dictator was, and what a great job I had done. QA had to leave a number of blanks in that one. It was awful. I still got released from QA, because that horrible, terrible dictator gave me a chance to show what I was made of. If I could handle that guy, I could handle anybody, and I do. Maybe you haven't reached the level of experience and competence to be released from QA in very short order, but there are those of us who certainly have. Maybe some day you'll get there. In the meantime you shouldn't insult those of us who have worked so hard to excel in this field.
That's nice to know. Thanks. nm
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Must be nice (sm)
I do work 7 days a week. I transcribe until 11 at night most of the time. I work 3 transcription jobs. I have absolutely no life, no quality time.
I make 8.25 cpl for one company
7.25 cpl for another
9 cpl for a third
The 8.25 cpl job is basically straight typing, no headers, no footers, no demographics to fill in. I can crank out 500 lines an hour but I'm only given 500 lines-700 lines per day to transcribe.
7.25 cpl is VBL, ESL and small amount of work
9 cpl is lots of demographics to fill in, small little notes and not a lot of work but it takes double the time the 8.25 cpl job does.
I would give my eye teeth to make 12 cpl and be able to do 500 lines per hour at the same time. Stopping and starting, filling in demographic blanks and forms takes up so much time that I'm lucky if I make $2200 a month but again, 7 days a week and no life away from the computer.
Nice!
Well I emailed them and asked what that was all about with no response. I guess that is what they are going to give. I will be staying away from them in the future and would suggest people to do the same. This is highly highly unprofessional in my opinion.
must be nice............
gosh, what does it feel like to actually make $25.00 an hour? I do remember long long ago when I made this much while on overtime and working inhouse, but I am lucky to get anywhere close to $10 an hour these days, most of the time even less. I guess I am just not fast enough to even be in this business.
nice one--very nice
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that was really nice of you...
to take the time to write all that! I'm sure many will benefit from what you had to say.
Nice of you, but now everyone on here
I would think unique is what you should care about. I don't care for the fact that you are stating we don't care if you worked at Burger King because that is what a resume should consist of, truthful work history, education, experience.
I would just like to add that you didn't mention that it's best if you do have private accounts to keep the names private because there are MTSOs out there that will try to steal your clients. Therefore, I list specialty only.
I must be okay since I've gotten plenty of responses. Maybe your resumes were from new MTs or non-MTs that were make believe, but usually an MT has a good grasp for a resume. JMO. Thanks for sharing!
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