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I suspect you are the same poster from sm

Posted By: Goodness on 2005-08-17
In Reply to: Why would anyone divorce their best friend? - Curious

yesterday with all the anger and craziness in all your posts.  What you just posted is SUPER passive-aggressive.  You really do need to get professional help--maybe not with that poster's ex-husband, but with someone.


Typical of mentally ill - they focus on something completely irrelevant when someone asks them to get help.




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    xx
    Makes me suspect an MTSO who wants to
    know who may be job hunting, so strongly recommend a disposable e-mail address for reply.
    What is KS? If it is who i suspect..let me know and I"ll infomr you.
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    I you work for my company, which I suspect you might, this seems
    account and I am talking for a couple of years, adn did not need to ask for more work. Then slowly the work started being less and less for that particular account, and in fact, 2 of the work types were completely taken out of the pool - OPs that I did and never, never ran low on for one. I have had 7 new ones since October, now it seems to be settling into just 2 or 3 per week. If you want to work, there is no limit to how many you should do. It is confusing though and mistakes are being made I am sure of it, me included.
    I suspect you're NOT out of the loop
    I suspect you just hit a suspected nail right on the head.
    I suspect you're NOT out of the loop
    I suspect you just hit a suspected nail right on the head.
    I suspect you hit the nail on the head
    Years ago when I entered the field (more than I care to admit), the MT was a commodity. Training programs were few and far between (my hospital was training their own since they couldn't find bodies). Now, not only do we have the Indians and other foreign entities and VR, but we also have MT schools on the back of matchbooks, late night TV commercials, and spam mail in our inboxes. Suddenly, millions of people are doing it which, as we all know, not only limits the work each person can get but also drives down the wage, as those of us who have been here a while can verily attest.

    I don't think the MTSOs even staff in particular for TAT. I think that's just a bonus. It's much cheaper to pay two or three people part-time hours than have to pay one person benefits.
    I suspect the owner of the MTSO felt

    it was a good time to retire.  If you Google Transcription Stat and Sausalito (where the MTSO at the root of the whole affair was located--interesting because the office used to be in downtown San Francisco and Sausalito was where Kim lived.  Wonder if she was running it out of her home at the time the whole thing went down...), all you get is references to the UCSF affair so I suspect she is no longer in business.  Didn't one article say her UCSF work totally dried up after that?  That was her main account, as far as I know. 


    I'm beginning to suspect it's the Xanax Express n/m
    x
    with 16 years I would suspect you to know the diff. between wave and waive?!?!?
    nm
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    x
    Hello??!! I'm the original poster! I think I can respond to the poster who replied to my original
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    Not that poster but

    why was she rude?  I didnt see anything rude in her post.  So she got more lines than you, how is that rude?  I work at Transcend also and I got my lines in that I usually get.  I had to type a different shift of course.  I work different times of the day when it is slow and I always manage to make it. 


    Also, the email that was sent out I think was very considerate.  Any other company, when slow ( and they ALL get slow), just slows down with no explanations, reassurances, or care. 


    That's not what the poster said. Poster said
    If the poster was hired at 8 cpl last year and makes 13,001 lines to qualify for the incentive (0.0025 cpl at 13,001 lines) that means the poster only makes 1072.58.  But the MTs hired after Nov. 1 at 10 cpl makes 1100.00 for only producing 11,000 lines.   Tell you what, that would freak me out if I just got hired there.  Because no matter when you get hired, in a few short weeks or months you're just the old worn out mare to them. 
    Are you the same poster as below?
    I appreciate your comments about new accounts coming on board in January and June. That is very likely.

    The MTs here who are sobbing, as you say, and cannot have it both ways ARE the ones who did keep a fairly regular schedule and did for years, and now for the last couple months the rug has been pulled up from under them.
    To the poster(s) below who is/are asking
    about TransHealth, I am the one who answered your questions and got flamed for being honest.  This is exactly why I said before I will never put why I hated a company again.  I have no reason to lie, but just believe me when I say it is definitely in your best interest(s) to stay away from this company. They are the absolute worst out there and that is saying something!!
    Not that poster, but I know what he/she SM

    is saying because I have worked with a number of people over the years who will look you straight in the eye and tell you that they were the best transcriptionists and in fact they were terrible!  Usually they had a bunch of years in, but they had limited value - like typing only 1 type of work or had only worked at 3 little rural hospitals, like that.  They functioned well as long as the dictator was American and spoke at a normal rate of speed but they would never be able to do the kind of work a normal transcription service has.


     


    Not the poster above, but that's how I met this
    person. I had a problem and posted about it on this very board, and this person was so kind and caring and helpful. Nothing to do with a job - but with med transcription. She has been a mentor AND friend to many, many MTs for no financial gain whatsoever at all - thus anyone even bothering to post in her defense, let alone know who she is. She got nothing out of me, had nothing to gain from helping me - just went out of her way to help me, and I know has done the same for others. A really nice and professional MT - one who wants to help others newer to the field, etc. I don't see her post here anymore for a long time, and I just pray that she does not read the boards either. Really an all time low for MTs to post personal attacks on a person - I'm sure Admin isn't aware of it, or this whole thread would be in the trash where it belongs.
    I think the poster was asking
    what companies require you to use an FTP site to download your dictation files and send them back. I understand what you mean, but the company I work for does not require MTs to use an FTP site. I could be wrong, but I think that is what the OP was referring to.
    this may be the same poster over and
    over again. Diskriter has a huge turnover. H-U-G-E, both inside the main office and with transcriptionists. I couldn't take it any more. I was jumped from one account to another to another. I was told to work weekends and when I would work the weekend, I sometimes would not have any work. I actually made $23.00 one weekend after an 8 hour shift. I was fuming! They supposedly had all this work, but I certainly wasn't getting any.

    I should state that I have been a Transcriptionist for 12 years, so it's not the quality of my work or lack of experience. When I first started with Diskriter, I was making my line count and my pay was not that great, but I figured I would stick with it. It just got worse. I left. I'm sure everyone has a different experience with them.
    I'm not that poster above, but as far SM
    as my experience with them went, he/she is speaking the truth.  I did a SmartSource account and then went to work directly for Diskriter and it was like night and day.  More like NIGHTMARE working for DR directly.  The PTO, the health insurance, holidays, everything was totally different and much less than when I was on the SmartSource account.  DR's ever-changing management was annoying because you never knew who was running what from week to week.
    I think that poster was just trying to help SM
    because if you wait for the administration to come onto a public bulletin board to address your questions, you will be waiting quite a while.
    Not the other poster, but yes, I would say they-sm
    have a lot of work that is actually worse than on the test.  I wouldn't recommend this job to anyone who doesn't have a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of ESL experience.  All of the accounts are pretty much the same, littered with these horrible ESL doctors.
    Not the poster but
    I got mine from transcriptiongear.com. You can buy it directly from the Instant Text website too. I paid 180 four years ago, but it was worth it. I have tried all the Expanders out there, and this one is by far the best!
    For poster below not OP
    .
    poster below is right - MDI-MD
      where'd the little blue smiley guy with the thumbs-up go?
    lol. Not as if I am the only poster who gets
    x
    Sure am! And also a certain poster on another
    board, one who likes star trek. There was no alternative other than to make this move! My DH probably does not realize it is reality, and I am sure I will be told to bring in the money, anytime soon. But in the meantime, he can help me now. I sure would love to have e mail buddies. Just don't know if the e mail stuff works on this board right now. In the meantime, I will be here saying hi, this place and another have certainly gotten me through a lot lately, especially for companionship. THanks for all your kind words, that is for sure!
    For all this poster said.
    x
    These could all be the same poster using a
    showed how unprofessional she is by ranting on the other thread.  This is so yesterday. 
    The poster below is right sm
    BOS is fine and we have to have SOME sort of industry standards. HOWEVER, the account specifics have to trump the BOS every time. The client gets it how they want it, BOS to the wind. Now, if your QA person is always changing her mind, that is different.

    I don't like she didn't want to go back after the fact and listen to your blanks. I don't care how she gets paid, that is a waste of time, period, end of that story, thanks folks. She may well be an idiot, if she actually thinks that saves her any time. It would increase her billable hours...still an idiot.

    Take a bow, poster, take a bow....
    Thanks for saving me all of that typing and waking me up.

    For a fleeting second, I thought maybe I needed therapy because I actually ENJOY my job and make very decent money.

    Again, BRAVO!!!
    Thank you! The other poster obviously sm
    has a reading comprehension problem.
    I did not take as the poster

    ripping apart the company, she just stated her experience with the company to date and her frustration.  I can totally understand her position, wanting to be hired by a certain company, applying with them, getting excited because they send you a form to complete and then nothing after that.  I have gone through the exact same thing but luckily once I did finally hear from the company, some months later, I had had enough people to tell me to run and RUN fast from them. 


    Again, I just took it as her venting her frustration, as so many do, on this forum, just as you have with previous companies.  She did not give her name so it really makes no difference what she said about them.  I know that management from some companies watch these boards and hopefully some of them will take a hint if they read a post such as hers and change things .... yep and I am still waiting on that million dollar check from Ed McMahon. 


    above poster
    My company sends a 'thanks but no thanks' letter if you don't meet your line requirement. Maybe your company is heading in that direction with you.

    Read your contract!
    another poster
    is really quick to judge when she has not walked in our shoes. I was told time and again that several huge accounts would be coming on in September and October. And who are you to tell anyone else what they SHOULD be doing. Please do not SHOULD on us, please. As to we will still have jobs. Some of us have too much integrity to sell out to working for people who offshore. I guess it is all in what you value.
    another poster
    Your self-righteousness is most unbecoming to you.
    Regarding another poster
    I don't think we should waste time on her. Remember that old Southern saying that you should never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll never succeed and it only annoys the pig.
    Another poster
    No people do not want sympathy and attention. They do want to be treated decently. Perhaps you do not understand the concept.
    I don't think I am above everyone else. This poster...
    chose to belittle me as being an ignorant housewife MT. I explained to her that I was not.

    If you have owned your own MT business and have tried to treat your employees fairly, I am glad for you and sad that you are not in business anymore.

    Are you not in business because you were undercut by companies offering rock-bottom line rates? If so, you should be mad, too.
    What SHE said (poster above me)
    Nicely put ;-)
    I didn't see anywhere that the poster who was....sm
    saying they're making $13.50 an hour editing works for Transcend.  Where-ever they work you should be giving them kudos for making more money instead of bashing them! 
    Never said the poster was from Transcend
    I said that explains why some would be happy making $13.50 an hour, doesn't necessarily refer to that individual poster.  Also, if thinking that the poster is a little naive for being happy at $13.50 an hour is considering bashing, then what she posted about the people upset for taking a wage reduction is bashing also. What goes around, comes around.
    There is WAY more to this story than this poster is saying.
    Don't believe everything you hear about Transcend. The GOOD MTs like this company!
    I think what that poster means is that SM

    to ask for a job to do only 300 lines per day (which for an average MT is about 1-1/2 to 2 hours a day) and a specific kind of platform AND to just "hop on during the day" is just too unrealistic in today's world.


    Most companies who hire for part time want a true part-time schedule, 15-20 hours per week, 600+ lines per day (versus normal full-time 1200 lines).


    I mean, think about it.  300 lines a day is maybe 2 consults or 2 H&Ps, 1 psychiatric report....see what I mean?  It's really not much work at all. 


    Yes, I think that is the reaction that poster is going for.
    He/she/it goaded me to the point of wanting to pop his/her teeth out, too. I'm not old, fat, stupid, poor, toothless or ugly either. Oh, well. She/he/it needs to believe that the rest of the world is ugly, fat, stupid, toothless, and old to make him/herself feel good. The reality of the situation is that her/his true character is the reason he/she can't hack life in the real world. That's why he/she/it hides behind the mask of the Internet. Truly sad, to be pitied. It's a cry for help. Perhaps it's a case of the abused becoming the abuser.....
    Ditto to the poster above!
    I average on average transcribe 275-325 lph on Bayscribe. It is absolutely awesome. I am only part-time. If they offered bennies, I would be there full-time in a heartbeat. Pay is above average- excellent.
    No, the above poster is correct. sm
    Self-employment tax is Social Security like she said.  You pay the whole amount.  As an employee, your employer would have paid half of it.   When you get your yearly social security benefit projection statement, it shows you paid Social Security tax.