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Pray that you never have a pipe burst in the middle of the night. sm

Posted By: not black and white on 2007-11-04
In Reply to: If plumber wants worok graveyard, you don't hire him. - If cant type #lines withint TAT, they dont hire yo

There is still a demand for graveyard shift plumbers, just as there is a demand for MTs with 'odd' hours, etc. Both just have to find the complementary company.


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If pipe burstin in middle of night,turn off water to pipe
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It's the middle of the night in India.
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I think they wait til the middle of the night...
when they think nobody is watching and hope to get replies before the moderators take notice.
sorry, meant to say "say", its the middle of the night here
nm
So go stick that in your pipe and smoke it, gourdpainter, And before you ask, I am NOT mgmt.
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Penny Pray
Penny Pray's company is a small Maine transcription company. They are a good company, and good to work for. The only problem is if you do their psych work, it's very difficult to make decent pay because many dictators are slow speaking, different formats and it just takes too long to get decent pay. If you get their ops, you might do ok.
Then pray tell, with over 30 years, just
how much should I make? Right now I make 8 cents for regular typing and 4 cents for VR and I usually have 3000 lines a day. Go figure! I have found that a lot of places, irregardless of how long you have done this, are now unwilling to pay for your experience. I do acute care, by the way.....
H-m-m - pray tell, what holidays would these be?
nm
Pray tell, which companies pay H&F?

I seriously don't know of any. A few that did pay, now stopped paying for headers and footers. Maybe you should recheck into most companies that you stated and see if they are still paying for them


or let me in on your little secret and maybe I WILL go job hunting.


job posting (Penny Pray)??
Anyone know who this company is?  Their job posting seems to be incomplete.
I am sorry to hear of your situation and I will pray for the
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You better pray your honeymoon doesn't end soon.
Most of us have been put on crappy accounts and even those are out of work most of the time.  One minute I see so many jobs I could not get to the bottom of the list and then they are all gone within 5 minutes.  Of course this is on swing/grave so probably the time the injuns attack.  I tried mornings too, but there was nothing until almost noon when the work built up again, so I guess we have to work noon to 8 until they find more of of the foreign devils to take over completely
And just what question, pray tell, are you ever so desperate to ask?
That million dollar question that the MDI-MD posters are preventing you from asking?

You have our attention now.

You're in the limelight.

Fire away!!!

Honestly, sometimes the posters on this board are worse than toddlers tugging at their mothers' skirts for attention, lol!!!
Transcription @ Its Best - Penny Pray, owner.
Great woman to work for. Pay is always on time, plenty of work. She runs an honest company with integrity.


Sorry to burst your bubble, but (sm)
and by the way, I'm trying my best to stay on topic - LOL, but you are replying to my post about not discussing pay.  I am, however, NOT the poster who said cents per line rate means nothing, it's up to you, or some fluff like that.  Sorry, you're getting mixed up with who posted what. Besides, poster who said cents per line means nothing, I do see what she means by that.  You wouldn't get it, though, so I'm not going to explain.
No way...sorry to burst your bubble
Hate to tell you this, but I also tried and tried at TT to get anything even close to 1500 lines, and on my last job I had done 2000 very easily in 6 hours. The account you are doing is an important part of how many lines you are able to get, and the account I had at TT was a very difficult one than my previous job...also using ExText has a lot to do with it too.

Hope you haven't quit your job yet...I don't recommend going to TT...it seems to me a lot of TTers are living in a fantasy land.

I left after trying for almost a year to get a good line count.

Good luck to you!
Burst Bubble

I took the advice of everybody here and went to work for a company that everybody was rooting for.  Nobody had anything bad to say about them.  It has been a couple of months now and I have been out of work more often than not.  I have been given 5 or 6 accounts total for backup, although no training because they expect you to train yourself by reading the account specifics.  And talk about pressuring you to move to the speech platform!!!! 


It turns out this place is not all that and a a bag of chips.  I wish I had not paid attention to all the accolades now.  They apparently were in a hiring frenzy for the new account and hired anybody who applied and now everybody is out of work.  They say they require 5 years of recent experience which is not true because 2 of my friends who have been doing this less than 3 years were hired too.  All of us are out of work!


This is a major letdown for me so here I go again looking for another job.  All I want to know is not how wonderful a company is but whether they have work to do.  At this point I don't care how sweet they are.  I just want to work.



Sorry to burst your bubble, but...
They don't care! There are plenty of MTs who would be happy to take the job you just turned down. The only thing you accomplished was getting it off your chest.
OMG, I burst out loud on that one! NM
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Don't want to burst a bubble
But I have done the same thing more than once. Their interest seems to be computer-generated. In other words they may be interested without an opening.

My timing may just have been off - hope you have better luck.
Sorry to burst your bubble
But I heard the EXACT same thing (MTs can be sued) from the AHDI Conference this year in Nashville. It is possible and I, for one, don't want to be the one to find out the hard way because I kept my head in the sand.
Good luck to you MT-- you are surely a sad woman and I will pray for you dear s/m
If you really think about it, you are not allowed to use contractions in MT so my aprostrophes are not needed. There is no QA patrol on here so your little nitpicking about aprostrophes just goes to show that you have some sort of mental disorder and you really need help.

GOD BLESS YOU DEAR! And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Get some help before you do harm to yourself or someone, please.
Hate to burst bubbles....but..

You will regret it if you go there.    Sorry.


Um, hate to burst your bubble, but...
I make 200-240 lines an hour now that I have left Amphion and work with a better platform. That's what I am trying to say. Their platform is not fair for MTs.
Didn't mean to burst your bubble, but
what I meant was with a company not hospital, with benefits, the most you can look for is 10 cpl and that is with shift differential.
hate to burst your bubble but
american-held territories such as the Mariana Islands (Saipan), Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, etc. will allow companies to be offshore but still american. They did it with the garment industry and slapped a Made in the USA label on it.
Hate to burst a bubble...

I work for the Q and when the CBay buy out happened, many, many people sent letters to Oprah, Dr. Phil, Obama, everyone!!!!


No one cares (Yes, I care, but I am not important).


No one will touch this subject.  Too many people are afraid to start something here.  Like, if Oprah says something, don't you think all the Indians here in the states will cause a huge uproar? 


There were so many girls from the Q that wrote local papers, had stories published and everything.  It goes nowhere!


hate to burst your bubble but my guess is that
they will not even tell the clients - or they will tell them that they still have US MTs - even if they are not using them.  Had it happen on a smaller scale and they made all those promises - took a while for the clients to figure it out - most bolted. 
Hate to burst your bubble but psychs do NOT make that!
What a joke!
I had to burst your bubble, but they are offshoring to NyDocs or Zydocs or something like that.
It is an indian company. They are offshoring your work and have been for quite some time now.
Middle of the pack - per se! sm
Not the worst, but certainly not one of the better companies. Good luck.
60K middle income?
Heck, I work for a small community hosp as employee making $35K, which is middle income in rural WI. 
Its odd, but they are basically a middle man, which
I personally didn't like. It was frustrating at times. Also, in my experience, we got the bottom of the barrel work from the hospital, even more than usual for a national. The pay was low at 8 cpl, which I understand is still the current pay, so I'm sure DiskR gets a big hunk of what the hospital is really paying. Obviously, I know, its business, but it seemed odder than the usual set up of working for a national. I found it would have been more pleasant just working for the hospital, because you are 100% an employee of the hospital and not Diskriter. I just did not care for the whole atmosphere, lots of cherry picking and more than usual politics, but nobody really to turn to, as the hospital didn't want to know from beans, and DR had its own issues. Very  much a stuck in the middle feeling...but not a good one.
Why should I take a Xanax in the middle
of the DAY when I am working?
Xanax is to be taken before 'crawling' into bed, it makes you fall asleep. Do you still not get it?

OMG, are you taking Xanax in the middle of the day when you are supposed to MTing? I bet you fall asleep in the middle of the day and then you cannot sleep during the night. Then you take another one, oh me oh my, you do not even follow doctors' instructions.

And one should definitely NOT DRIVE after having taken XANAX, it makes you drowsy and abstain from alcohol.

All things you do not know!
Scary!

READ THE LABEL ON THE BOTTLE!

Wow! This is toooooo much!
Middle ground
I know how you feel.  Many of us are taking antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.  I'll bet our collective plight has done wonders for the pharmaceutical industry's profit margin.  I can't tell you what to do, but it won't hurt you to look around and you likely can find a better employee situation with better benefits.  Taking action is a good antidepressant as well.  Try not to be in a slump.  Stay active and proactive.  I know it's easier said than done. 
There is a not enough of a middle class to keep
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Paranoia is my middle name...
I don't work for the company you're talking about, but in addition to Tech Support Guy's very valuable advice down below, I would add this thought:

If you are working as an independent contractor on equipment that you provide yourself, I would strongly encourage you to perform your WORK ONLY on a separate computer from your personal activities - emailing, websurfing, gaming, Netflix, whatever.

This will actually serve 2 very useful purposes:

1) You won't have to worry about accidentally wiping out your work computer (and means to earn your living) with a random virus caught via email.

2) You won't have to worry about your general contractor snooping around on your personal computer - they won't have access to it in any way, shape or form to start with!

Wal-Mart, Target, and other places are selling small netbook computers that still run Windows XP on them for under $400, and in some cases under $250. You can hook one of those up to a full size keyboard, and even a full size monitor if you can't work with an 8.9' screen.

Isn't peace of mind worth less than $400?
I was in the middle of training...

I was paid during training and on-time which is another plus for me.  You can read through my post and pick it apart all you want, but the endorsement is there from me personally experiencing the hiring process.  It was quick, easy, and I was offered a good line rate.  You can believe what you want.  I didn't enjoy anything about the death in my family for your smart alecky information; it was my mother who died.


What's the point of your post anyway?  to tell me I am a liar???? 


Transcend offered me my specialty and yes I was training on BeyondText and I was able to get my specialty as well and I was doing great until my Mom died and I had to tend to her affairs.  I didn't think it was fair to Transcend for me to go at as a half-wit at that point. 


Transcend - good, bad, middle?
Anyone care to comment? They have oncology work and it's my thang...
disappearance of the middle class...
actually, we have always been 'poor' so to speak, so all this stuff is not affecting us so much...

I feel sorry for those who are now living like we are, only used to be considered well off; needing to cut back on spending, etc., noticing the pinch as the middle class gets squeezed more and more.

the funny part will be when we have some type of revolution in THIS country, which will happen. history only repeats. you keep people down and they will revolt. america is only going to take so much of this loss of liberties and rights, and jobs, total abuse of power and money against the little guy, etc.
You mean WebMdx in the middle there, don't ya? And biggest co. does not mean best,
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Not the worst, but toward the lower end of the middle.
I was paid late/wrong often. I always tell people if you can afford to be paid late, then it's an okay place to work. If you rely on them being on time and accurate, go elsewhere.

Several of the shift leads are very nice. However, one never answers you because she's busy looking like the production queen. One had more drama than Jerry Springer. The owner answers you when she feels like it or not at all. My training on my account consisted of me doing 3 notes and then I was on my own. I was told I couldn't pend to verify information if it didn't cause more than one blank. I like being left alone to type, but I like to be comfortable with the account as well.

So it isn't the worst company out there but it certainly is not the best.
I'm in the middle of taking the test myself
and I am so relieved to hear that I'm not the only one experiencing significant trouble! I have 10 years' experience, but that is useless when dealing with this quality (or lack thereof) of dictation!
Giggling at middle finger LOL

Not all the middle managers have everyone's email
I personally thought it was nice of the person to answer the questions people were having.

Don't know why it would bother you; the messages are clearly marked, if it doesn't interest you you can pass it by.
Last year, received in middle of Feb.
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(Middle-management Suit.)

That wasn't me. I just dove into the middle of the melee for fun.

Lots of middle eastern and asians in BC....
it's interesting to visit there. Very cosmopolitan. However, where a company is located doesn't mean much. I almost went to work for a company that was located here in the States, but was clearly Indian owned and run and had other Indian holdings involved when I did some deep searching. Not my cup of tea.
Oops! That's "its" middle finger - nm
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that is either the mtso rate or no middle man at all, betcha-nm
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