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Caught your Cowsills reference. Cute! :) nm

Posted By: Gimme a head with hair..!! nm on 2007-03-12
In Reply to: Might check with Deventure -- - flaxenwaxen

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Cute! Sarcastic, but cute. nm
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Cowsills redid this hit from the musical "Hair!"
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cute!!
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LOL! That is too cute.
I lived in Michigan very briefly years ago, and everyone looked at me as if I had three heads every time I said anything. My drawl is very pronounced. :)
very cute
it's nice to laugh and be open minded!  I wonder why these people come here at all - it must be the reason to !
LOL! Cute ... nm
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cute comment....nm
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Very cute! I'm sure we all want free money.:)
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Yeah, and she's probably young and cute too! LOL (nm)
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Oh really?!! Harassing people is part of their job? How cute!
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Cute. Now, give me a toke :) Just kidding! nm
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Cute :-) Yep, we got paid today. Now I can buy that popsicle I was dreaming about ... LOL nm

over-zealous recruiters - aren't they cute? (no message)
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professionable -- thats cute- did you make this mistake on purpose or really think that is a word?

I have never heard professionable before.  lol


 


 


Something that caught my eye here is
you said an older woman. Good common sense should play into the part about the chem-7, just ordinary, every day sense, doctors, hmmmm, medicine, chemistry, sorta goes together. I would think a child should know that.
Just caught you in a lie.........sm
You said you typed 130 wpm yet you only make $17 an hour on VR. No way would you make that little with typing straight at 130 wpm. You must be thinking 130 lines per hour! 17 bucks an hour STINKS! I make $20 an hour typing and I made $25 an hour editing humans. !!!! so there smarmy pants!
DON'T GET CAUGHT IN YOUR OWN LIE. sm

 First of all, you're obviously mgmt. since you know so much about inside goings-on.


Second, and here is where the fib comes in:  You expect us to believe that Leads don't  type on their own lead shift  (they're too busy, too much to do-LMAO) - and their lead shift is obviously a 40-hour shift, if the hours on the bottom all of their holier-than-thou e-mails are to be believed - when DO they do their transcription - during their SECOND shift or 41st hour ( I assume they finish their 40-hour lead shift and then get paid OT to do their typing).  Are you another one who thinks all the rest of us peon MTs are so dumb.  MTs regularly get the halfway decent work taken out of their queus and get h--l when they compain about it.


yes, I caught them first
but already sent e/m asking them to forgive them. I am so flipping tore up over all this. Thanks for the good suggestion though.
I caught that...
I wondered if perhaps the OP was attempting to alleviate her own guilt about staying for some reason.

As one of the MTs who DID leave as soon as they saw fit to quit routing their MTs work, I just kind of chuckled at her wondering which MTs actually left. I don't know about the OP, but there's no way I'm spending my valuable time sitting at a computer waiting for a few reports to trickle in. There are too many other 'fish in the sea'. We were not even employees; we were SE or IC status. They owed me nothing but a paycheck and I owed them nothing but my daily line commitment.

I'm not going to be loyal to ANY company that would, by choice, let MTs sit and starve while they ignore emails and deceive their staff. My loyalty is to myself and my family, for whom I provide. Other than that, I've never had a problem separating my 'professional' life from my 'personal' life.

I feel no guilt whatsoever. It was not my role in life to 'serve' MDI (or any other company). They contracted my services and my loyalty to them was in force during whatever hours I would transcribe for them; other than that, call me insensitive or selfish or greedy, but I don't feel guilty about anything regarding my actions.

They chose to sell, I chose to walk.

Plain and simple.
Thank goodness someone other than me caught that!
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uh uh.. I had 2 that were not; they caught me off guard.
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I think they caught a lot of slack....sm
from the clients when the trouble was going on in India and most of their clients demanded to be brought back onshore.  That is why most of the accounts are so good....very good dictators.  remember, the easy stuff always goes offshore.
Reference regarding

business practices -- I was not referring to one company specifically.  From reading the board, there are messages regarding existing insurance coverage suddenly being unavailable.  Others have posted regarding to unpaid training time, which I believe under employee status is unlawful.  If the shoe fits.  One cannot sign away one's legal rights, no matter what kind of wording they put in a contract.  I would say dropping existing insurance coverage and then stringing people along regardig that amounts to fraud.


 


 


 


Reference
Has anybody ever requested a copy of a work reference?  I would just like to know if I can get a copy of mine.  Thanks.   
reference this.
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They got caught lying about offshoring!
Love it when one of these companies gets called on the carpet! 
Other than the offshore, lied about it and got caught you mean.
 
maybe they caught on to your attitude and decided against it.
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I think a lot of us were caught off guard with no work
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I got caught in a new job awhile back
that went dry for months and it really hurt me financially. Loved the job, loved the people but was on the brink of bankruptcy. My advice would be to keep the sure thing in these economic times. Good luck to you whatever you do.
It caught me by surprise too -- I'm right there with you. Fortunately, I have a 2nd job sm

so that helps take the sting out a bit.  I love the people and love the company, but I do not think maybe they realize what a big shock $30 can be sometimes.  To me, the more fair thing to have done would have been to say something like effective next check, we will be taking out double premiums until we catch up or whatever.  However, cannot unring a bell.


And I have always been a bit disappointed that they wait until the following Monday to pay us instead of that Friday, but for the most part it is a good company.  Seems like all of the MTSOs hang on to their $$$ as long as they can -- guess the interest is better in their pockets than on our paychecks.    I was stupid and am now waiting a month to get paid for work I did for a woman in Virginia.  Chalk it up to lesson learned.


Good luck to you (and me!). 


Hope you caught my drift....
I think you are precisely right in your perception that communication is discouraged, as I have heard this (but have no proof of it) in the past, not just about Transcend but a few other MTSOs too, that they prefer to keep their employees 'remote' in all senses of the word, including not communicatng with one another.

I don't think you're being kept out of the loop; I think the only 'loop' might be a chosen few higher-ups that communicate.

I could be wrong, but I felt the sting of your post and wanted to let you know it's probably not personal at all, but something shared with a privileged few.

Thanks for wishing everyone luck, and good luck to you as well!!!
Reference Books?
How much are you asking and what do you have? I need a cardiology ref book for sure! Also in need of ophthalmology ref book. Please let me know. Thanks!
Good reference here
You're absolutely right, this board is a good place not only to vent, but to get the scoop on the companies out there. Sure some people are just going to be venting on here cause they got fired or couldn't make it but if you weed through those you can pretty much get the idea on others. This is a great resource.
Reference Books
I am starting with Trans Tech the first part of September.  I used to do transcription in a hospital, but have been out of it for a few years.  I have never worked at home before.  What kind of reference materials do most of you have at your desk?  Do you have mostly books, or online references?
For future reference...
I have found in my years that most places are far less concerned with format than content, in the belief that format could be individual based on client needs and any formatting errors could be quickly corrected in your first few days under the watchful eye of QC. That said, as a QC myself, I see many more errors related to content than I do of format once an MT has hit about a month on any account.

Good luck with your job search.
Probably just a reference to a generic
red-dot-head. Could be Shavinder, Rajah, Bopinder, Rajinder, they all seem to be 'inders'.
Well for future reference....
I would have the line counting program in place BEFORE I even gave my start date or whatever.  Of course, if you were having so many personal or family issues that you couldn't even send an invoice, then you can't be outraged that you got cheated out of lines.  Companies have certain deadlines as well and they aren't able to wait around and figure out how to get your programs up and running.  I'm not sure what kind of company you worked for, but if it were ME, and of course it isn't, but I would have INITIALLY in the BEGINNING told them I was having an issue with a line counting software and ask what they SUGGEST I use that may be in comparison to what their other MTs use.  IF they were rude, as you suggested, then I would have just not started working for them.  But, to work, not able to count lines, not able to send an invoice in, the whole mess seems very disorganized, so you shouldn't be shocked that you didn't get paid.  LESSON LEARNED.
Last week we were staying caught up with TAT so I guess
you could consider it a slow week, this week we are out of TAT again, so things are back to normal. 
Actually, we have all resumes caught up to within 24 hours at this time. nm
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I caught that too - "self limiting" gawd
It is the lack of being paid a decent wage for the skill provided/expected, What would it be 40, 50, 60% paycut for the same skills and expectations from the MTs.

Management is paid big wages to manipulate the numbers, and convince the MTs - things are fine, DONT self-limit, you are being treated just fine, the wage is fine, we are fine, you will be fine and the suits march off to the bank.

My heavens have a conscious, don't treat the MTs like a backroom sweat shop, slave labor, like sewing machine workers paid by the piece (literally pennies a piece) and the product is designer labels bringing in thousands per product. Both sides have to be able to survive and not work like slave and still not be able to make it money wise, pay bills, etc
My primary is caught up, but other accounts have some work. NM
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My post was in reference to Transcend....sm
Know nothing about Cymed, so I'll take your word for it, but am *quite* happy at Transcend. You should try it!
Not complaining, just asking for reference. Only out a few minutes (sm)
and it was early early Sunday morning, not during her normal work hours.

BTW, can you call solution center for help with this during weekends/off hours?
Reference check question?

I accepted a position about 2 weeks ago at a company that apparently hire people before checking their references.  My references that I listed are calling me stating that they are just receiving reference calls today.  Is this the standard practice of getting hired.  I was hired two weeks ago.  How come they did not check my reference then!   I just think this is backwards, but I have good references anyway.


This makes me worried about this company because so many MTs on this board have negative things to say about this company.  I hope this is not the beginning of bad things to come with this company.


Oops. I mean to reference the low pay to TTD specifically... NM

Google vs Reference Books

I admit the Internet is faster and easier, but if you put in the wrong spelling when looking up a word on the Internet, a lot of times you can find it spelled that way.  I've had it happen.  I agree with this poster.  There's too much room for error when you just Google a word and don't know the meaning or how to spell it.  I do use it frequently for drugs, especially new ones.  I just make sure to find the drug company's website or the official website for the policy.  I've seen surgical equipment come up spelled totally wrong, like it sounds, nothing close to the correct spelling.


Another thing, I worked in an office last summer doing editing with a couple newbie MTs.  One girl thought she was the computer/Internet whiz.  She was working on clinic note tapes.  One day the Internet went down. OMG!! You would have thought the end of the world had arrived.  She was lost, frustrated, and on the verge of tears.  Now there was a complete set of Stedman Word Books, as well as Dorlands and 2008 drug books in the office, but she didn't even know what books to look in.  So another good argument for reference books.  Get the knowledge, don't just depend on the Internet.


 


In reference to gross line pay...sm
Let's put it this way. I used to be paid by the gross line until my company was bought out by a national. My pay at that time was 3.25 per gross line. Working on the very same client account on a gross line, I earned $20,000 more then anually than I do now after having been switched to 0.09 65 cpl w/spaces. However, a gross line also depends on the size of the font used and the length of the margins. But you get paid 3.5 cpl whether there is 82 characters in a *line* or just one character. do you realize how many short lines there are in a dictation as opposed to full 65 character lines? and how many of those short lines it takes to add up to a 65 character line? Believe me, it adds up, and I would go back to a gross line in a heart beat, given the opportunity. Maybe I will give this place a shot!
Oops..excuse me..before I get caught..not "your" but you're.. NM

When I worked there about 5 years ago, I caught them backdatng the date sm

on the postage meter as if they had mailed it on payday, like I wouldn't notice that it was POSTMARKED 5 days later!  I have used a postage meter before ... you can set the date to anything you like .. duh.  It was in my contract that the checks were to be mailed every other Friday from the Tampa airport.  I pitched a big fit and finally Giselle Fed Ex'd my checks after that.  I would hope by now they would have direct deposit.  You shouldn't have to sit and wait for your check and be at the mercy of the mail, nor should you have to pay extra just to make sure you receive it in a timely fashion.  They have been in business long enough that they should have established direct deposit.  It was posted awhile back that they had it for awhile and then did away with it because of some issue with the bank.  I would be very, very careful if you need your check in a timely manner.  It seems that they just barely meet payroll, but that was just my impression. 


Good luck.


I caught that line also "equals out to" thought ah oh!! means what?
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