If a person doing VR is miserable, then they need
Posted By: SS on 2009-05-19
In Reply to: this is exactly how the situation is with VR...sm - .-
to check around, find out people who are happy with VR as it looks like most are going that way regardless and then make a choice. No sense in being miserable trying to work with a system. Again, life is just too short for misery.
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why be so miserable about your job? is there...
some other kind of work you can or want to do? honestly people, money is not everything and if you are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet you are killing yourself for nothing but paying the bills.
Miserable
Yeah, air conditioner went belly up and the cheap ones are sold out. I would not be working in this if I were not so dedicated to paying my bills, LOL. Know what you mean about being sleepy because cannot sleep in this heat.
I have always had animals in my life (the kids always had to have their own pets and so used to be a full house) and cannot imagine living without a dog and cat around the house and at least one stray or unwanted pet to find a home for (right now a turtle found wandering the streets by a neighbor!).
Stay cool 
I am miserable there and hoping
to get out. I have never made such a low LPH. I was not aware that not being paid for spaces would hurt my production so much, but it has made a big difference. I do like their platform and it was easy to learn, but I still have bills to pay. I used to make 200 to 300 LPH with other companies, make 150 or so with this company. Also they have a program where you can look up previous reports on the same patient or examples of report types or by the same doc, but it always, freezes or goes so slow and I am stuck in my screen. I have heard from some others having this problem. It really slows me down. I am leaving as soon as I can.
Wow, what a nasty and miserable POS
you are. Sheesh!!!
Come on - This board is not just for miserable MTs.
Understand your feelings, but why do you come here? Not everyone on here is miserable. Do they not have the right to post also. You do not have to respond to them, you know.
It is very informative to see which companies have work, which do not, and for how long. Pay, incentives, and bonuses are also very informative. Who gets them and who doesn't.
Don't shoot the messenger!
You sound miserable....why do you stay? nm
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Bet you're quite miserable with that tude.
lol
I think you should at least try to change STMs if you are miserable.
Mine is awesome. Super flexible and super helpful in everything. She gives us the option to flex if we want or take PTO (obviously we could use unpaid if we need) if we would rather. This last week when work was low and a holiday, she told us we should submit PTO request ahead of time and then if we needed we could unrequest some if we were able to make up some hours.
Maybe you could get with a new STM once the new accounts come in? Maybe ask to switch accounts?
You're right. It is miserable to be a US employee anymore.
We treat the immigrant workers and the overseas workers better than we treat our own ... it's the American way, of late, anyway.
I also encountered a QA nazi..She made my life miserable.
She was ridiculous to say the least. Is this company out of FL or UT? It just sounds very familiar.
I am not miserable at all. I am just tired of excuses of why people cannot work! nm
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Sorry. That was eTransPlus. TT had the miserable ESLs and teaching hospital that I couldn't
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As a former "QA Nazi" undeserved or not, you guys make our lives miserable, too.
Especially ESL MTs who used to be doctors in India who think they know it all and like to threaten lawsuits. Yah, that's the ticket.
"The most miserable group of people in the world"? Great attitude for a Lead.
Hope you're not one for long.
I think it is one person. I had a few print outs from a few weeks ago and this person even capital
I have had a positive one. I have been with Keystrokes for 3 months and am very happy.
I printed them to show my manager but she told me that there are few bitter people out there and no one can do anything about them. My manager said that everyone can tell that it is the same few over and over again, for Keystrokes and a few other companies as well. Time to move on Ms. Anon. I cannot think why a company would go through the trouble of getting IDs and getting you installed just to ignore you after that. Doesn't make sense, does it? Are you sure that't the whole truth? You keep saying truth but it sounds fishy.
Exactly what I'm talking about RUDE! You are a very unhappy person. A happy person does not
respond in such a way! This is the reason SS has such a bad name.
I am not a hateful person but that person screamed at me for 45 minutes. sm
She said all transcriptionists are idiots.
that person go.
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Since you are the person
who actually makes an offer to someone, you should have a method of following up with someone after a week or so to make sure that the new hire is up and running, especially after you have been notified that the new hire has returned all necessary paperwork. Your process sucks. period.
Cant you see that the person is already down?
Thats right kick them when they are down. Thats a great example. Get a life.
So they are the same person? nm
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The only way a person would need SM
to have nice people to work for and only communicate with nice people is if they are in need of something they should have within themselves. For me, my job is just something I do for 8 hours a day and whatever they have to say to me, fine, oh well. It doesn't reflect on me whether people are snippy or rude, I just ignore it and move on in life.
It's just work, business. Not my whole life.
Yep. It also looks like this person is just
wanting to hear good things and forget anything else. Just wanting to hear what they want to hear.
As a QA person myself, 13.50 is too low
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who was the person
Could you share the name or initials of the person. I would like to know if it is who is calling me too.
I really wonder if this person's--sm
initials begin with K and end with I, who used to post here and cause nothing but turmoil. Sure sounds like her.
Not the person above but SM
the person looking for the editors has made it a multi-board issue by posting on different boards telling people to go to the Job Seekers board to see what was posted there. That's the only way I'd know what was going on.
As far as he/she being run off the boards forever, oh well. Reputable companies post who they are and the conditions of employment. We had another semi-anonymous person get help from at least 1 person on this site recently and the MT was never paid. The MT has no way of contacting the person who owes the $ now.
QA person from, you now where!
Small company and owner is very nice, but the QA person was the absolute worst! Very insulting and humiliating. That is why I left.
I WONDER IF IT IS THE SAME PERSON
SHE WAS A TEAM LEAD WHO USED TO DO THAT, SHE WORKS AS MT AT ANOTHER COMPANY. DON'T KNOW ABOUT A SUPERVISOR BUT A TEAM LEAD USED TO DO THAT A LOT AND YOU KNOW THAT SHE KNEW THE SCHEDULES. THAT HAS BEEN A LONG LONG TIME AGO THOUGH.
Not the person above, but...
The pay is low and they don't pay for experience. Otherwise, they have plenty of work and are a very nice bunch of people.
well my tax person
said because i am in the 15% tax bracket, i should withhold that plus a little (my ss will be paid by employer). Figure 18% will do.
It happens with the job, not particularly the person as I well know.
in straight typing for the last 30 years at 3 different hospitals always made at least 2000 lines per day. Since outsourced now started at a company last summer and was getting around 1200-1300 a day, said no way and the work was not that hard. I changed jobs. Doing VR and straight now and averaging at least 3000 per day and very happy now. (By the way, with the low rates companies are paying, have to speed it up and go as fast as my fingers will take me in my 8 hr day to get that).
I don't think this is the same person. Please
be sure you are not trashing an innocent person with just a similarity in names. And the original poster is just ranting in generalities, but not same person you are jumping to conclusions on - not same name, and not same companies. Names are not the same as the person you are thinking of - just similar.
If one more person says...
Offshoring has nothing to do with cutting costs, but is due to the fact that there are not enough qualified transcriptionists in the US I am going to SCREAM!!! The more I see these things the more it infuriates me!
Try again not the person you think
Wrong person that you are thinking of. Sad if this happened to yet another person, I mean there is my friend and then there is the person you are talking about. If management said they could come back they should stand by their word. You just added to my position that even you, who are defending them, know that they are doing that to others, or at least one other that you know of. Just sad. You know my friend almost had me convinced to leave my current company. I am so very glad I did not.
I don't think it is the same person but I bet they ALL do it.
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Are you the same person who...
always says, 'check the archives' whenever someone posts a question here? If so, I really wish you would stop it. If someone posts a question, there may be people here who are willing to answer, but you (in a way) close that opportunity for the person posing the question when you post things like this.
probably why the IT person was not much help, I don't
think they want to mess with another company's computer, nor the other company's programs, even though you were the author of that particular content.
If all fails - delet your list. why leave it for them?
looks like the only person
who has something nice to say about them has an Indian name.
You don't have one QA person, so while some are
tougher than others over a period of a week you are likely to have had them all. I believe them to be fair, they do try to post links that will help you, and you can dispute anything you don't believe is correct - not with QA, but with MT supervisor. They tend to be less lax if you continue to make the same mistakes and/or don't follow account specifics. I know of one account that is difficult because of a high percentage of ESL and one account that is difficult because the quality of the voice files is poor. I know one person who couldn't handle the high ESL account and another who says it really isn't so bad. If you produce quality work, work your schedule, etc. they seem to be willing to work with you to find a good fit.
There are some things I would change, but overall very pleased and plan to retire with them.
They do pay better than the majority of the other companies, benefits are much better than 99% of the other companies, I've never not had enough work and usually on OT most days. They do pay for down time. They don't offshore either.
You are a mean person.
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How to become a mean person
Mostly you need a personality disorder that makes it difficult for you to see anyone else's point of view of feel compassion for anyone who does not fit your pictures of how they should behave or ask. And you have to be willing to live a completely miserable life because bullying is the purview of cowards.
anyone know this person, ****
does anyone know of a ***** with tarheel transcription?
You know if this person cannot even
then that would be a red flag that most likely the work will be inconsistent as well as the pay. If this person has such a great team, then she would not have to post like this in such a disorganized manner.
I just read about this on the job seekers board, and it would seem to me that a simple job posting, and then having applicants follow simple test directions would have been a much better approach. Not all business owners have the best business ethics.
What do you do when a QA person
The feedback messages come across as rude. They send you corrections that don't make sense. How do you exist with someone like this? I've never been in this position until now. 
Am I being let go? How does a person know
without the company saying anything?
I think it has a lot to do with the person
I have been doing for past 35 years, 66 now and I do not notice a difference in my stamina. I do lots of VR so that helps the arms out some but when I started VR still had almost 32 years in transcribing, no problems.
You can't seriously think it's just one person...?
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Same person.....sm
she may have started her own company or this is an extension to eTranz...either way, I would email and ask her about that because eTranz has a VERY bad reputation in the MT world. I thought about applying, but passed when I saw the name.
Same person, NOT associated....sm
with eTranz any longer. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the eTranz and the people who run it. :)
from a former QA person
As a former QA person there, I'd like to add that we certainly didn't like having to deduct points for blanks and when they first implemented that little nuggest of love, at every QA meeting someone argued for the MTs. Always to no avail. And for the record, if we didn't mark off every single thing per the EMP, we were slammed in auditing.
Then they yammer on and on about quality and have quality meetings ad nauseum but issue the directive that the MTs are not to ask the QA people questions specific to their accounts. We didn't like that either, but as simple cogs in the wheel, didn't have a say in that either.
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