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Ditto for Keystrokes. The two companies seem very similar. Congratulations on finding a good place

Posted By: KS MT Too on 2008-08-28
In Reply to: Reply to Hmmm - treehugger

It is nice to know that there are growing companies who treat their employees well. Keystrokes is the closest I have come to YOG and that says a lot!


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Is anyone finding companies they are happy with and are you finding it
harder to get a job with all the people looking right now. 
Ditto...It's a great place to work (nm)

There are 2 companies with similar
SGS out of Texas pays: 9 cents a line including spaces, headers, & footers for transcription, and 4-1/4 for editing. I just completed my training with them, they seem VERY nice and professional. They do not do direct deposit, but are working on getting it, so that may be a different company the other poster is talking about as there are 2 with similar/same names when you Google it. All I needed was to buy a foot pedal and they downloaded their software onto my computer for me.
Finding legitimate companies

The best thing you can do is ask around on message boards about a company that peaks your interest.  There is usually somebody who has heard something before or has worked for them.  Search the message board for old messages about that company.  Just make sure you do lots of research before you accept any offers.  You may want to check out transcription matchmaker on the internet.


Ditto, Keystrokes is a wonderful company with wonderful people! I love working for Keystrokes!
I am just not making enough money.  They are a great company though, just ask for a back up account.
You are very welcome - Congratulations and Good Luck! nm
nm
Congratulations! Good luck with you new position...

It is so nice to wake up and hear someone so positive about a job opportunity! 


The companies are driving me crazy with their similar names!

What is the difference between Transtech solutions, Trans solutions and TTS?  Pl and thx for info.  One is out of New Hampshire, TTS I think but I cannot find it when I google.    


Good luck finding this. This is almost
impossible unless you work as an IC and set your own hours.
Unless you already do it, good luck finding

All the ads out there are hiring for Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs schedule.  Have seen some M-F ads, but they want 3rd shift. 


Ditto.....Keystrokes has been nothing but wonderful to me...(sm)
I have TOO much work sometimes.  My account is very high volume and I have a backup in case my main account runs out of work..which it NEVER has.  They have always been fair and are flexible with scheduling.
Good luck finding anything for 12 c per line - I have never seen
anything like that yet! One person a while back mentioned making 14 cents per line, which I find extremely hard to believe. I've never seen jobs that pay that much in MT.
oh wow...good luck to your husband in finding a new job...
nm
Seems 11 cpl is pretty high, good luck finding that one
Keep us updated please.
Are experienced MTs finding they are getting a good response when they apply for jobs or is the
field flooded by now.  I see tons of people looking at the job ads. 
Good luck finding a filler...jobs are scarce right now for sure.
Can't find a job to save my life and I have resumes/apps in everywhere.
I'd go with Keystrokes. The best place I have EVER worked for!!
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Did Keystrokes sell to Transcend? I thought Keystrokes was buying up companies sm
but I heard from another service owner that they sold out to Transcend. Anyone know if that happened?
The best place for radiology is by far Keystrokes. There have a lot of rad accounts and sm
I know of a few more that are starting this week and the next few weeks. This would be a good time to check with them. I have worked pretty much everywhere before KS. I have been with them for 2 years now and have steady work, good pay and love my account! My backup accounts are good too but I never have time to work on them.
Ditto above... Good! (nm)
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Ditto to all the above.......good luck though
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My take on why companies place ads...sm

when there is NO work.  I think they are in the process of getting clients, doing their bidding.  They want to be able to show the potential client that they HAVE coverage....Then, when they do NOT get the account.......the MTs they hired are screwed with NO work. 


IMO, not one MTSO today has the sense it takes to run a business.  Put their brains in a bird, the bird would fly backwards. 


I love Keystrokes...been there for 3 months and couldn't ask for a better place to work...
nm
Ditto on good reports for Allstate
I too have NOTHING but great things to say about Allstate and their AIM program.  If you are lucky enough to get in, work your butt off to stay in.  I have easily learned more in two weeks with Deb and her crew than in all of my previous training!  Disregard grumbling posts.  I am a real person, and I can personally say that Deb has bent over BACKWARDS for me!  Definately worth trying to get involved if you are a newbie.
Ditto - it's never a good thing to learn transcription

Not a good place

I had a 30-second interview and was told my team leader would be contacting me.  He never did.  It took me DAYS to get somebody to send me the account specifics, samples, etc., and it was never management who did it, it was a lady I met on here who faxed me what she had.   They throw you in there head first without the information you need.  They promise bonuses if you don't take a day off and make production...well I never ever saw it EVER.  Right before I left they sent out an email saying there would be none for that particular period because they didn't make enough profit.  The account managers get paid based on how many lines we do and if the account stays current, so expect constant emails from them saying how they didn't make anything this pay period and there are bills to pay, etc. 


Insurance:  The one person doing insurance is something else.   You get a big packet in the mail and you have to figure out yourself which you are eligible for, what percentage for life insurance, etc.   If you email him and ask him about anything, he doesn't answer.   I had been there 5 months and still did not have insurance cards for insurance I had been paying for all along.  I had to go to the top person in the company to get him to email me back.  He just doesn't do anything.


QA:  There were 2 on the accounts I worked on.  One was pretty nice and helpful but extremely overworked.  It was actually her who told me what I needed to know regarding account specifics because the first two months I was there, I never so much as got an email from my account manager.  The other one once sent me an email telling me I needed to go back to school and how STUPID the mistakes were and turns out it wasn't even MY report!!!  I called her on it and told her that is NOT the way to talk to people, especially new hires who have no information to start with.  She was just on a huge power trip and talked to people like dogs.  Had I been the actual person she meant to email and talked to like that, I would have been gone right then and there.


PLATFORM:  It's okay when it works.  When tech support, and I use that term loosely, installed it on my computer, he wiped out my Stedman's that was associated with my MSWord.  Years of adding gone!!  You don't get paid for what you have to fill in on the header page.  It froze up a lot and sometimes would get stuck on all caps.  It was very very slow.  I had to highlight and copy every single report because 2 out of 3 times, it would freeze and I would lose it and the backup retrieval feature didn't work. 


The accounts were very good, best I've had, but a combination of the management, system, etc., just wasn't worth the trouble.   They would tell us the profit margin was low and then send out an email with pictures of them partying somewhere, patting themselves on the back for the work their MTs do.  You never got a thank you for anything.  A bunch of the management members are married and/or related to each other which would be fine if anybody had experience.  Our account was assigned a 21-year-old manager who had never done this type of work before.  I don't think you should manage people if you can't do the work yourself.  I would send her mistakes in the automatic templates, doctors list, etc., and she had no clue what to do with it. 


Getting the required lines was difficult for some reason.  At other jobs I would do a minimum of 1500-1800 per day and with this system, I was lucky to get 900.  I know the system freezing up was part of it, but on the rare occasion when it worked, it was still very difficult.  


They constantly call you to help with this account or that account, which is okay if it's within your time frame to work.  I would get calls an hour before shift start from the secondary account person saying are you working today?   I never missed a single day while I was there and always worked OT, so there was no reason for this and I found it quite annoying.


 


 


good place to try

DRC in California. Never heard a bad word about them. Pay is decent, not exceptional. Good benefits.


 


good place
i've not been there too long but am very very happy -- decent platform, decent work, great people, direct deposit on time, flexible work window, work on a line committment rather than an 8-hr day.
InterPro is really not a good place to go! sm
I've been there and the company is just too disorgnaized, and it will never get any better "because" of the poor management and because they are out to make a quick buck by sending mostly all work to India or wherever else they can get cheap labor. I can really understand sending a small portion over there but these companies that thrive off India really have very poor quality, want reports done too quickly, and it's really just not a good business. I dont' really think that InterPro will carry on too long.
QT is not a good place to work IMO
nm
It's a good place for experience, IMO
But not for $$ or benefits. They do hire a lot of newbies and they don't hassle you if you haven't reached your goals (unlike other companies I have read about).

However, I do think it is somewhat of a sink or swim situation. Not a lot of handholding here, if that's what you need. I don't even know if they do any clinics. I have all acute care, almost all ESL, and lots of ops. I personally don't find the audio on my accounts to be bad; it's usually the dictators and background noise that are bad. By comparison, I did 3 months for MQ simultaneously, and while the dictators were better, the audio was crap and you couldn't use your own wav player. I was doing stinky derm and ENT clinics - yuk - and when they finally put me on acute care, I never got the same dictator twice.

SS has started to provide a breakdown by job of line counts, which is a good thing. Constant changes in supervisory/management personnel. In summary, if you can do without the $$ and benefits and can jump in with both feet, SS is a good place to get experience.
They are a good place to start. Yes there are a lot
of ESLs, but everyone needs to learn to do them.  They have a mentoring program.  You can also have a more experienced MT available to you for questions.  It is hard to get a job with no experience, so I would definitely at least give it a try.
Not a good place to work. sm
They screw you over and don't pay very well.  I would stay clear of them!!!!
Good place if you are a mentee
OSI is not a good place to work if you are experienced because you will likely have more experience than your supervisors, not a good thing. Very unqualified, disorganized and condescending.
Look, I think TT is probably a very good place to work. But
There was a legit question about line-counter software at TT, and they are not addressing it. Of course it makes for paranoia. As someone pointed out elsewhere, it's a business, not a social club. Nice is, well, nice, but my lines have been cut to death over the last few years, and, yes at this point I'd want an accounting, too. I don't even think TT is truly trying to rip anyone off, but it does seem like a bad PR and business practice. If the lines are calculated correctly, why not fix it so it's transparent and it's a win/win for everyone?

It IS bringing back some bad memories from the Q, when things were really exploding with some very serious, valid issues and posters were belittled when they tried to point them out. It is an awful thing to be invalidated by your peers.

There are some at TT who seem like they ARE being very petty and need a reality check, and there are some who seem that they have been so wounded elsewhere that they would forgive any MTSO anything just so someone will be nice to them. Like any service (and any forum), there will be nay-sayers and there will be cheerleaders, and the truth will be somewhere in the middle.

I think KS is still a good place to work. They

have 4 different platforms that I know of.  I think how much you like an account depends on what you worked on before coming to KS, how bad the company was you came from, what your expectations are of the company/account, etc.  If you came from SPI, MQ, or OSi (where things seem to be horrendous based on posts) then KS is probably the best place in the world.


While it isn't the place I think I'll end my career, I would still recommend them. 


good place to work
I am an IC and have worked for them for about 4 years. It was much better when it was MDI. They were much nicer and easy to work for. Now it seems money is the main objective (theirs). They always pay on time and live up to their part of the bargain as far as I know. The IC's are treated like step-children or worse now. We used to at least get a Christmas card, but no more. Nada. Hope this helps someone make up his/her mind. There are probably none much better.
Transcend is a good place...
I always try to post this:  The recruiter is excellent.  She's awesome...  The equipment came fast.  I had a death in the family during training.  They totally understood and was going to hire me back, but the need they had were different than the days I could commit to, but I highly recommend Transcend.  They even started me higher than any other company I had contact with at that time.  This was about 3 years ago. 
good place to work?
pay, benes, etc?
As long as you don't need benefits, good place.
nm
Totally agree. Not a good place to be right now. nm
nm
Deventure is not a good place to work
QED pays weekly. Not a great place to work though; neither is Deventure.
Amphion just seemed like a good place to work
I don't like to job hop and between the 2 Amphion seemed better but I have misgivings now and afraid I will be let go. Do they let people go if they don't meet the line requirements?
DTS is not a good place to work. Very unorganized. sm
They have offices in Nashville and Carlsbad, I know. I was all hyped to work for them but it was such a disappointment. They kept losing my paperwork and were adamant about your hours worked. The recruiter was horrible, but now they have the former SPI recruiter, so who knows? The manager was ridiculous. Not far, very nasty tempered.
Very good place to work. When I worked there
I was paid $0.10 Canadian per line with spaces.  That was before the US dollar went below the Canadian dollar.  I think they hire mostly US MT's as there aren't enough in Canada.  I think you can also get employee status there.  Great bunch of people.  I would highly recommend them.
Wow...sounds like a good place to work.
Sounds like they made it worthwhile.
Is Proveros a good place to work?

Does anybody think this is a good company to work for?  Are they worth putting in a long term investment of time?  Do they pay fair and on time?  Good/bad accounts, run out of work?  I was just wondering if anyone had any information and//or thoughts to share. 


Seems a pretty good place to work. SM
I do sometimes run out of work. So far, I only have 2 accts, but it seems when my primary is out, so is my secondary, so I'll be trying to pick up more accts. Compared to my past work, I do not find that they have high ESL, pretty normal. I am a level 4. I think they may have 5 levels. Pay seems okay, even better than most. Good luck.
Any suggestions for a good place to work?
Does anyone have any suggestions concerning a good place to work for a Transcriptionist with 13 years of experience?  This is my 4th day out of work this week - my company is now outsourcing to India, and USA-based transcriptionists are apparently being forced out by attrition.  Any suggestions appreciated - thanks in advance.
Thank you so very much. Need to leave Mq and this sounds like a good place to go, thank you again!
nm
It sounds like a good place to work..
which is why they are at the top of my very short list.  I also am a long-time MQer and the thought of leaving is a little depressing, but it has gotten to the point where I have no choice.  p.s.  Glad to hear you were treated well, and that everyone is doing okay.  : )