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From someone who bothered sending a resume, I take it back. I'm shocked at the immaturity

Posted By: Oh my.. on 2007-11-27
In Reply to: Thanks for the publicity. It's much appreciated. - MTRecruiter

level that is going on. There is no way I would even think of accepting a job that would have a recruiter who acts as you have on here. I'm pretty sure you burned all of your bridges. I feel for the companies who hired you to represent them. How proud they must be..NOT.. Wow..


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    I got the chapstick too. I honestly have no clue why they bothered sending anything.
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    x
    Quest. about testing vs. sending resume to company...
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    Start sending a flurry of resume emails
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    Even go back in the older listings for company names, never can tell, thugh no longer listing a job ad, may just find an opening. Would try and work both places until you can tell if the new job is a match.

    So Sorry this happened
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    They didn't charge me for sending it back
    I thought they were pretty nice about it and my final check was deposited as usual.  They are ethical people.  But the demographics will kill you.
    I heard back from them the day I sent my resume in. sm
    I have not received my paperwork yet, but will be starting to work for them on a part-time basis.  The work is all cardio -- mostly clinic notes, correspondence, echos, etc.  They seem to be a good company, but I guess they all do when they are hiring you.  We'll see .........
    I sent a resume to them but never heard back.
    nm
    Must be why they won't call me back. Sent resume and
    they responded almost instantly, can't wait to talk to me.  They have never called me back.   I've been reading lots of posts today and overall they don't sound like a great company, so I figure it is just as well they didn't call. 
    Has anyone who sent a resume to TypeToo in response to their ad for a psych MT heard back from them

    Once you forward resume, how long till Futurenet gets back with you? nm
     
    Keystrokes sending sending my W2, anyone else? NM
    xx
    wow, very shocked.
    I live in NYC and have lived in various other cities, and having to deal with nonpayment can be a pain. Sending a letter from your attorney is a long drawn out way to try to receive payment. You can call the local court system (I'm not sure if the CALLSTREET is in Brooklyn or Manhattan) and find out about filling a small claims hearing. Some states allow you to do your hearing over the phone, while others let you file a claim and request you to show up. NY is great about rewarding included expenses of airline ticket reimbursement and lost wages along with the award of nonpayment. And the best part ... if they do not show up for the hearing, you automatically win, and then nonpayment following that can lead to an arrest, which is another thing that NYC courts are great about doing - arresting people for bad checks and nonpayment after judgment award. I know, I've had to have people arrested before. The money is coughed pretty quickly when they see the handcuffs!!!
    shocked
    I cannot believe that some of you are blaming us for staying with Heartland for the length of time we have.  We are all in this together and you never know when the floor is going to drop out from underneath you. For the past year Heartland had been treating us very well,  uping the line rate, etc and assuring us that even though the company was for sale it would not affect us. Unfortunately we had not been updated and so we were all in complete shock the the ax fell Monday. Please do not blame us for doing the AMERICAN thing and doing our jobs.
    I'd be shocked if you pay over 9 cpl for
    x
    WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?? I’M SHOCKED!!

     


    Call me ignorant with the MT business lately as I do not get on here very often but I am shocked about the topic on here yesterday and the day before about a company who in the past year has little to no work unless you get on at 2 am or whatever.  I have also read about other companies who also over hire.  I am under the impression that these are large companies right?  I always knew that most of the larger companies scam you on income but did not know that they are now making you sit by the computer 24 hours a day competing with one another for work!!  I don’t know anymore with these huge corporations.  It sounds like from what I am reading on here it has gotten a lot worse.


     


    You guys, we as MTs cannot allow these companies to get away with this for crying out loud or it will stay this way!  I have never settled for lack of work and never will.  I have always worked 6-7 hours on the same schedule I need for me and expect there to be work when I start my day, no exceptions.  I would be a wreck not knowing what my income was going to be each month.  I need to know obviously to pay the bills but also so my husband and I can plan financial goals, trips, or whatever ya know? 


     


    I did have one experience with this slow to no work crap but this was different because she was small and just starting up her company plus she was very disorganized so I lost confidence in her.  I really wanted to work for her because I was interested in the kind of account she had.  She also paid me 10 cents gross so I wanted to test the waters and see if I liked the account.  I was scared though because I had only been an MT for about a year and a half or so at the time; this was about the 2000/2001 timeframe and I was not sure what to expect as I had only worked for one company at that point.  Thank God I did not leave my first job before seeing what this one would be like!!  Plus I loved it too, mainly ERs.  I miss doing ERs.  Anyway, the very first day that I started I got on at my usual time of 7 am and there was no work, I mean nada!!  I called her and was told it would be picking up in 2 weeks or so but she also said that it did not usually pick up anyway until 8:30 or so.  My heart sunk.  At that point I realized it was not going to work for me and was mad that she did not tell me this beforehand because I told her the hours I was working.  The present company I was working for wanted the work back by 2:30 in the afternoon which was perfect for me because I wanted to be done by then anyway and rested up before my daughter came home from school.  I told myself I would give her the 2 weeks.  Well they went by and still no different so I called her again and at that point my patience was gone.  I said I could not work for her.  She got irate with me!!  I was in shock.  I did not understand why and felt confused.  I politely told her that I could not talk to her if she was going to communicate that way.  She did not calm down so I said that I needed to get off the phone now and that was the end of that.  I was not sure if she was even going to pay me but thankfully she did even though it was a small amount, haha.


     


    How can you work for a company that does not give you the peace of mind of knowing that you make a good living and are financially secure?  I mean can you imagine our society commuting to work everyday only to be told that part of the 8 hours you are there for will be unpaid since there is not enough work to fill up the day?  Isn’t that the same thing as getting up for work at home and there being no work or only enough to make a horrible line count??  Not to mention having to sit there waiting for a report to trickle in or getting on several times in a 24 hour period??  Other types of jobs that pay only on production and not hours don’t do that to their employees.  They need them!!  They don’t have their employees just sitting around doing nothing for 8 hours or maybe give them only a half days’ work.  I mean can you imagine how long a person would stay there??  Not long!!  Our economy would come to a screeching halt if all companies operated the way some of these large MTSOs do.  So why do some MTs accept this and then say that we who expect more and won’t settle for less either somehow we don’t exist and that we are lying, or we are cherry pickers, or lazy not to work the more difficult accounts, or our attitudes are bad, etc.  I suspect the people who respond negatively to MTs like me are the ones who do not make good money in this profession or who settle for a work environment not conducive to making a good line count, and so frankly I feel you are the ones who are lazy and the ones with the wrong attitude because to me it is based on a negative self-defeating way of thinking to settle.  You are settling to being a typing slave for 8 full hours and letting the big companies suck up your line rate.  You do not put the time and energy into finding a better job so these companies have people like you who will work for them.  So they will continue to exist because of it and drive the line rates down or make them stagnant like they have been for the past 10 years.  I am not saying this to criticize but it is the truth and the truth may hurt sometimes but that is how we grow.  I look at people who do better than me as someone to learn from, not criticize.  I would not grow if I was not open to new ideas and had a negative attitude.


     


    First off I know of no 100% perfect account.  I do not think they exist.  I do ESLs just like everybody else but not 80%, nothing near that!!  I did an account with at least 50% ESLs and still did the same amount of lines per hour by getting used to the accent and fixing their grammar in a timely manner.  It was a small to medium-sized hospital as well so you could actually learn them!!  I will admit that these were Asians, not usually the Indian dialects.  For whatever reason I have never mastered the difficult Indian dialects.  I just don’t have the ear for it.  Some people can and I am glad there are people out there who have that ability because I sure as heck don’t.  It took me a couple of months to master the Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese dialects, etc. because they are the worst when it comes to grammar.  You practically have to retype the whole line all over again; that actually happened quite often, haha.  On top of that this account was a 75 character line!!  I was paid gross lines by this company but yet my account could not take advantage of that and was also in paragraph format so I literally lost 10 characters per line.  I still made 365-385 lines an hour on it because it feels just like any other account because once you get used to them it is no big deal.  You fly through them and you do it practically in your sleep after awhile.  My mind always wanders off thinking about other things until that moment when you screech the brakes on and your wandering mind instantly comes back to trained ear mode, backing up, slowing it down if need be, you know the drill.  That still is my average no matter where I go except for 2 companies I tried and they lasted 1 to 2 days.  This was before I started a list to go over with each interview.  Most of the platforms I keep hearing are awful and impossible to get good lines with.


     


    These companies and the way they operate just sound illegal to me.  I mean how can it be legal to hire someone for a FT position for a certain shift and then not give them the work on a continual basis, not on and off scraps.  I just don’t understand how they can get away with it legally.


     


    The companies I have worked for want to keep their MTs busy so they as owners get their piece of the pie too!  I have always worked from 7 am to 2 or 3 PM, did my 2000 lines for the day, and then had a life.  I also will never work the one weekend day per week deal that I see these companies expecting in their ads.  I did however work every other weekend once but when they advertised they said the position was every weekend.  I told them I cannot work every weekend and they obliged.  That was the second company I worked for.  I don't waste my time bouncing from company to company hoping it will work out either.  You can find all that out in your interview.  I made a Word file when I decided to leave the every other weekend company because I wanted my full weekends back.  I listed the questions I needed to know and if they were unwilling to accommodate my needs I moved on.  There are plenty of companies out there to choose from who still respect their MTs.  How can you ever leave town for a regular weekend or 3 day weekend if you are stuck working?  Don’t settle for every weekend.  At least tell them every other.  I don’t know.  Obviously it is up to you and everyone is different.  I just can't imagine living that way.


     


    I guess if I had no choice but to work one weekend day every week, I would have to take my laptop with me and sit half of my (I repeat my) weekend in the hotel room and try and enjoy the beautiful sunshine and waves crashing down on the beach from afar. 


     


    I am not an IC either by the way although I was for the first company and loved it because of how much you can write off, like half of your 1099!!  There are advantages to both depending on your life situation at the time.  I however took the second job because at that point I needed medical insurance and the place I am at now as well.....


     


    You may be shocked, but most of us SM
    aren't.  Whether it's MQ or any other company, they have no compassion or care for anyone working for them.
    No and I'll be shocked if we do. nm
    nm
    I'm shocked. How come you didn't
    how much you don't care and that it doesn't make any difference to you? Maybe nobody takes you seriously for the simple fact that your posts have no credibility.
    Ask them who they have doing payroll for such a big company. You'd be shocked. nm
    .
    When I open my mail I am shocked to see so many
    mailnotes from my company looking for help!  Do they think all we do is sit at our desks and wait for work?  Where are they when I log on and there is NOT work ---- for days? 
    never bothered me
    nm
    You're shocked and embarrassed that your employees
    do a million lines per month?  Why, is that bad?  Should they be doing more lines, or should you be paying them more per line?  Wouldn't using Dragon Naturally Speaking get rid of a few of your employees?  It doesn't take nearly as long to edit as it does to type and proof.  Do your employees use text expanders?  What are you really asking here?  The gist of what I'm getting is that you want to make more money.
    Half the employees didn't take it? I'm shocked.
    xx
    Has anyone gotten a job from any company not posting regularly from their resume in the resume
    s
    QA is great. I am not bothered
    much by ICQ.  I have had no problems with them.  I have been there since the summer and am very happy there so I guess they were different a few years ago. 
    I heard pay was low, so never bothered
    There is some information on WAHM.com message boards about them.

    Sorry I couldn't have been of more help!
    If you bothered to read my post--
    there were other problems as well. There were problems in all of their depts, not just QA. Let's just say that communication is not one of OSi's strong points. The company's overall attitude played a big part in my decision to leave. I also stated that there are some people who work there that are wonderful and I have no clue why they have not left yet.

    I would like to know how you know what my attitude is? I am stating my experiences, you are the angry one. How would you "know" how I take my feedback, whether I blame people, etc, unless you are in the QA Dept? What's my opinion to you, anyway? What makes you such an "expert" of knowing people's attitudes over the years? So, what reason do you have for your panties in a twist? What's YOUR problem and why are you defending OSi so vigorously? You sure are taking this rather personally for someone who is not "involved".

    I am not the only person who has had problems with OSi. Apparently there are a lot more out there after reading some of the other posts. We can't ALL be wrong about this company. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if there is smoke, there is fire.
    If you bothered to read my post
    I agree with you dear
    WEll the bottom line is if you don't want to hear anything that is posted here, then don't read it. It's as simple as that. It appears some people are complaining and posting about people who are posting. I have to laugh at that. Bottom line also, people are not happy at OSi and talking to a supervisor there is like talking to a wall. People are upset because we have a QA Manager who doesn't know anything and is not qualified to do her job and Management does not care. I think their opinion is "oh well, so that one quit, we will just hire another one". Do not ever believe you cannot be repaced. Unfortunately, people looking for jobs and are turned off by OSI. If anyone ever asked me a question about OSI i would be perfectly honest and state my feelings and then refer them to this board. After all this is a "company forum" that's what it is here for. I personally am not one sugar-coat anything unless it's the truth. I have to agree that most of the posts here are right on target. And that's why I am soon to be out of here too.
    which just proves further that the other companies really have NOT tried and can't be bothered. n
    x
    Depends on what bothered you 6 months ago...
    I have worked for the Q for almost 9 years. I must say everything cycles with them. Something that bothered you this time last year may have changed. They continually change the way they want things done, especially when the higher-ups change. I give it another year and they will be back almost to where they were with us 2 years ago, about the time they did away with the IC positions...that flexible part time thing is dangerously close to that.
    I'm more bothered by any poster who defends
    xx
    If you had bothered to read correctly- it said
    Some years ago working inhouse and my having seniority and supposedly had first choice at vacation, the time I chose was a time another person with less seniority needed for a trip overseas. She had put in for the time I wanted and I was told like it or lump it and I did not have a choice in that week. Being as I was making good money, I just sucked it up and stayed there. HOW DO YOU GET SHE TOLD SOMEONE ELSE TO SUCK IT UP????? SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT HERSELF. READ CORRECTLY NEXT TIME.
    Sarcasm. I knew I should not have bothered to answer. nm
    nm
    Why have they bothered advertising or tried hiring people when they do not have enough
    manpower to get it going in an efficient manner. Truly, I hope Shiela is also not the one responsible for doing payroll. That may well be too much on one person. I have worked in offices where doctors were too cheap to hire extra help and just ran us into the ground with so much work until we quit from burn out. It just not the right way to run a business, having one person do everything. I do feel for Shiela but who would want to contact her now and burden her more. BTDT
    anon who is so bothered by misplaced post
    Maybe you need do to something about that anxiety disorder. So someone made a mistake. Don't let it ruin your day.
    May not be lying.. *certain* companies never bothered to check their work.
    x
    If you bothered the CEO of the company, who I personally know does not care what is written here, sm
    than you are taking this all way too serious. The CEO (can't use names here anymore) used to come here but does not anymore except here and there to keep up on some industry changes(her words). She does not take this stuff serious and neither should you.

    What you shoud be concerned about is the fact that you felt it necessary and OK to run to the CEO of a company on a weekend for insignificant things. If she is laughing, it is probably at you. If she is upset, it is probably because it has gotten out of hand, but I bet she has bigger things to deal with than a public board with anonymous posts. Gheesh. Both sides are out of hand.
    I bothered taking the test weeks ago and never heard. You would think...
    they could at least say either way, hey, you did not pass the test etc... but I never even got that.  I even took someone's advise and followed up by emailing HR and asking them if they could let me know either way but I took the time to do the testing as well as I had been also testing with others and needed to know whether to keep waiting on them or move on. Obviously, I moved on. I find it totally unprofessional to ask someone to take time enough to test and then they cannot even have the common courtesy to tell you that you stink or whatever. I could handle the truth, but to never heard anything, UNPROFESSIONAL. I do wish you great luck and maybe they just only contact those who pass and let the rest of us figure it out on our own.
    i proofed a few reports from a filapino and i was shocked at the good quality. wasn't expecting
    ;
    No, but she didn't say she was sending any
    We talked this morning, and I told her I needed a couple of days to think about it. Yes, I'd like to chat via e-mail, but how do we do that? Do I do post reply versus post quick reply? Tell me how, and I'll send you a note about it and we can compare notes!
    Yes, the week is not over. They are sending
    out MT week gifts, and they sent them out late due to packaging problems. Of course, it would be better to win the lottery - but the gifts are very nice! (A tote bag, a pedometer and a stress ball that is modeled as a computer). (I know this because I work in the office)
    You are right, they are sending me a check
    so obviously it has not been invested. How dare they use our money?
    How would you be getting and sending the jobs? SM
    I once worked for a hospital for all of six weeks. They had a main frame, which was extremely slow. The head of the department told me how fast it was. The problem was, she never used it.

    Find out what the platform is like and if you can use Expanders and how they divvy up the work. Then I would take the job, because I work for national and it is indeed going downhill fast.


    After sending one Email you should have
    nm
    I would see nothing wrong with sending
    one to the company/office in general. It would be very nice I think.
    Yes the same MTs sending work to QA
    day in and day out. I get sick of it. And nothing is done about it from management.