Are you serious? Have you read this board?

• Is transcription still a hot job? - curious georgette
  • Why yes! It's very hot in India. (nm) - Well
  • If you are really feeling like this is hard work...sm - work smart not hard
    • Smart MT. Tapes or internet? SM - Lynn
    • PLEASE HELP!! - Camry
      • After 18 yrs of doing MT, here's my take. - SM
        • Sounds like you have the ideal situation. - Lynn
        • hospital work at home - curious
          • Not that many hospitals....... - SM
    • Yes, yes, yes. Go IC and sell yourself. Get out of the house sm - work smart not hard
      • You can't leave out the part where you are TIED DOWN to the work and can't take off. - That's the problem with your own accts. nm
        • Oh, for Pete's sake, just hire another MT...sm - Old MT
          • You're rude. That being said... Some people just work alone for a couple doctors and don't - "hire" anybody. Now get some manners. nm
        • Hey, there we go! Good stuff, Maynard. - Happy to see you, Honesty!!
          • Yep, it IS just one little detail, the fact that you are slave to them, but when they - take off, you're out of work. nm
            • If you can't afford to work for a company and eat, it's IC all the way. (nm) - Well
          • AMEN !! Company all the way!! nm - Sunday morning
      • To get own clients or not.... - Should I or shouldn't I?
    • work smart - - - In AWE
    • How many jobs are out there (without a college degree) that actually pay this well? NM - enuf said
      • I worked in a library for 14 years-- - Happy
      • Are you serious? Have you read this board? - sm
        • If there are MTs losing their homes and can't get presents for their kids, they aren't living - Working Hard
          • (continued) within their means! - Working Hard
        • Those people obviously do not work full time or want to - Reality Check
          • I couldn't agree with you more!!! (sm) - Yes sireee Bob
  • Subcontracting versus IC - Weighing options
    • - sandyGIRL
    • How well can I do working for a co. as sub-c? nm - Just getting back to being a Subcontractor
      • It depends on how smart and how hard you want to work. - What you make depends on you.
  • Depends what you consider to be a hot job - sm
    • 50K is the US average salary...nm - just average
  • Yes. You have to type til your fingers are smokin' to be able to make any money. nm - Fire fingers
  • What else could you do and make this kind of money? sm - ask yourself
    • Nobody makes that in this biz - nm
      • I've made in the $50s and $60s for nationals. - Busy MT'ing
        • Who are the top 2 nat'ls?? nm - Don't know much
          • MedQuist & Speris! nm - RadGuy
            • top 2 nat'ls - wary
              • Not true for me. I worked for Spheris for - Busy MT'ing
            • I guess your answer means "biggest", not necessarily best - Not buying
              • Who are the BEST and BRIGHTEST companies? nm - Gotta wear shades !!
                • Let's be happy, come on who's happy with me !!!??? (sm) - Smiling !
            • Spheris?? Curious again.. - Don't know much
              • I work for Spheris, and I'm very happy there. sm - editor
                • Thank you. I'm checking them out. (sm) - Don't know much
      • My earnings - Albert
        • get outta town! congrats! - nosynelly
        • Get OUT! Good for you Albert! Fire Fingers, eh? nm - She's a Dandy
      • big $ - texan
        • I made a whole $12K this year, granted when my daughter got cancer in March - sm - Laura E.
        • Where???? - annamt
          • I want to make that much $$$ - how????!!!!
            • She said it was LOW at 12K. I think you misunderstood her. - reader
              • making the big $$$ - see about post
                • oops - making big $$
              • We all wanna know with who !! - Curious about big$ Texan

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Not only were they liars and cheats but they are incredibly Dumb.  The VP of Human Resources has to be one of the most incompetent people on the face of the earth.  No, don't quit your good job for THIS MESS.  Run away!  Run away!

I'd be interested in joining that lawsuit... 

certain posts some months ago essentially about the same subject content as now.  If Jay truly owes previous employees and current employees clearly it would behoove him to do so as it certainly doesn't look very good when his indiscretions are plastered all over MT sites.

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I don't think this was a good place to look for a laugh at a student's expense, even though I suspect you weren't intending to be mean or condescending. We were all there once.

After 30 years in this business, much of it in QA and QA management, I've gone back to transcription and I am still learning things from my QA people. Humiliating at times, yes! But its all a learning process.

it's really not fair to tell people to get into this business when it's obvious there's big trouble and the S--- is just starting to hit the fan...

you've forgotten your own words! Your post above is 100% different "flavor" to it, now all positive and cheery! Your first post was 100% doom and gloom every which way, including "raining on your parade", and "if you want to go forward"...God, sounds like she's talking about jumping into oncoming traffic! Here is your quote:

My first boss (the one who hired me as a new grad) gave me some words of wisdom that I haven't forgotten. She said that transcribing at home with small children NEVER works under any circumstance. Either the work will suffer or the parenting will suffer.

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How can the word "NEVER" in caps be interpreted in any positive way? You took about 8 paragraphs to cover every aspect and completely dash this poor woman's dream.  I'm not blind, I'm not talking about day care at all, I'm talking about the total negativity of your original post! You know exactly what I'm talking about, cause you added some sugar to your second version! And that's much nicer than the first!

I need opinions please...I work on a very small account with just a handful of ladies.  Because of the nature of the software (trying not to get too specific here) we can see who is working online and what reports they are working on in real-time...

We have one cherrypicker on the account.  Instead of using FIFO method, she retrieves the reports by author ID - usually picking the better dictators of course.  She knows I busted her and she did admit to it in on our work e-mail (not too bright) which I am saving just in case she gets out of hand - so far I'm still able to make money since really most of the dictators aren't bad. 

But every night it's starting to wear on me since she's screwing up turnaround time.  I don't really want to cause a big uproar being that it is such a small account and I need to work with her almost every night usually one on one.

What would you all do?  I want to handle this as delicate and professional as possible because we can't really afford to lose anyone on this account.  In other words, I refuse to stoop to her level by cherrypicking right back.

My boss has asked me several times why so-and-so does so much more than I do...I just bite my lip at that point but one of these days I think I might explode and just open up a can of worms....

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