I also think there are disgruntled MTs who couldn't cut it,

• Does anyone remember the post about a month - MTSlave
  • See inside. - Pokey
    • 'and it certainly does not seem to be any of the companies who are mentioned frequently on these - Rene Scarborough SM
      • I think the FREQUENTLY mentioned ones - JMO
        • I also think there are disgruntled MTs who couldn't cut it, - Devils Advocate sm
      • These were not my words. I merely - Pokey
        • But they were my words. How many of the - oh
          • I hear you sister! Besides. sm - MT2
            • Amen to that! - nm - ILMT
  • "Golden Handcuffs" was the name NM - L

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After reading the post from MT, I just had to VENT too.  I understand how you feel completely.  I have been a dedicated Transcriptionist for over 20+ years.  I took the time for formal training and am certified, but find that now I am being pushed out in to the cold because the companies have become greedy and no longer wish to pay us an hourly wage for this highly skilled profession.  I have noticed the trend of hiring is focused on the stay-at-home mom or part-timers who are trying to supplement their incomes.  DO NOT GET ME WRONG, I UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED TO WORK TOO.  However, I as many other MT's, do not have that choice and have to have a substantial income to pay mortgage, the expense of working at-home, etc.  I am afraid that the days of the career transcriptionist are becoming numbered.  

 I still work in transcription because I have to.  I work 40+ hours for an insulting 0.8-0.9 cpl and due to  "system problems", companies conveniently "running out of work" near the end of pay periods, the increasing number of ESL dictators, I find that I am finding it difficult to afford to work as a transcriptionist.  When you work at-home, you have the expenses of providing for an office, computer, paper, phone lines, etc., etc.  Now the local hospitals are even joining in with paying production rates or outsourcing to India.   I spent several years as an Editor also and found myself having  to retranscribe the work sent overseas.  The company had to lose money paying twice for the same reports.

As you, I just felt the need to "vent".  I was offered a position a couple of hours ago by a company that wanted everything, but felt affronted because I had inquired as to downtime, training, etc.  I COULD JUST SCREAM!!!!!

Thank you all for listening.

Nope. Not at all. I'd put them on the level of with moveon.org.  Actually, it doesn't mean that much to me. My guy won so I'm really just having fun seeing a liberal getting all fired up.  

Back to work now.

I'm among the 200-odd people who visit every day but don't wanna post because, well, it just doesn't seem right.  But, seeing as I saw my name in black and white up on the screen, I just couldn't stop my fingers from typing. 

I wicked miss all the jibber jabber, work related and nonwork related.  I miss the usual faces, the usual arguments, the good times, the bad times, the times when I swore some people were on the rag...

I too got privately disciplined by the former MTStars staff for my potty mouth, got mean e-mails from people who called me a hick, and got awesome e-mails from some great people out there...and I miss it!  All of it!  The good, the bad, and the ugly. 

We had our little domain name "stolen" a few years ago when we didn't renew it in a timely manner, so I kinda know what it's like.  Except ours wasn't a business, just a place where friends and family that we left behind could see what we were up to.  The web host kept all our hard work and wouldn't relinquish it because they claimed it was technically theirs...I'm not 100% sure, as I'm not the technical person of the household, but I know that basically we had to start from scratch.  You kinda feel violated in a weird way. 

I'll keep checking for the "other" MTStars to see if it's back up and running, but for now I'll just hang out here and wait.  My personal stuff is all over cyberspace, so I'm not concerned about identity theft or anything like that.  Who in Sam Hain would want my life anyway?! 

I had a good deal too, free rent, worked at home, vacations to where ever and whenever I wanted, limos and NYC every weekend, could pack up and go back to work at my mom's for 1 or 2 months at a time for my "family" fix.  I just couldn't keep doing it.  I packed up, came home and last week my GD turned as she walked from my front door to look at me and say, "Bye, Nammy!  I Love You!"  I got a better deal after all

in all caps.....

Doxielady, you need to get a life!  Docs don't think they are kings - that would be GWB and GHB....*lol*

work just enough to cover what my husband's check doesn't.  I average 10,000 to 12,000 lines a pay period, but I would have taken a steep pay cut.