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It's sad how badly new job postings have dropped

Posted By: moon1010 on 2008-10-03
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And those that are getting posted are mostly for places with really bad reputations and/or companies that don't respond to emails.


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Job postings have dropped because
we are in a depression. Yes, I said a depression. No one on television will say the D word for fear of scaring people, but do your homework. Our country's economy is tanking rapidly.
Treated badly? Wow! That narrows it down
LOLOL
Although I feel very badly for your friend,
if, as a business owner, she did not have the insight to copyright her company's name, that name was up for grabs!! The new company did not steal her name - she didn't own it !!

Was it ethical - probably not in the emotional sense, but business-wise it was totally legal. The repercussions the original company owner subsequently suffered were her own doings for lack of research when establishing her own company!

Before even working at home and considering marketing myself as an IC, I read and researched, chose a name for myself, and had it copywritten!!

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine someone actually establishing a company in existence for 10 yrs. that did not realize the repercussions that they would encounter in the future had they not copywritten their company's name !!
If you read down the postings some, you will see my postings--sm
as to the reason why. I do not have the time to restate what I posted just a few days ago. Just look for the Stentel postings and read them. thanks and good luck.
I feel your pain. I was mislead about TT very badly.
There were nothing but praises and I was new to this board and all boards in general. So, after watching for a long time and asking questions etc. I took the job at TT. I stayed for a while but in the meantime I went broke, question myself, because of all the praises continuing here. It took me over 1 year to find 2 good jobs to have (to make up for money lost and I will never be brok again) to replace that awful one. Believe it or not the 2 jobs I have, 1 is highly praised here, but I only keep it part/time because it isn't all that; and the main job where I make the big money is most times trashed here. Probably in the big job the upper management does not come on the board and put false praises. Actually there are very few responses but some are negative, probably from disgruntled workers. I still come here because I like to see what is going on with MTs and the MT world, but I have to say I agree with you 100% about companies using PR falsely to lead people down a bad path on this board. I do not blame the board admin. There is the post about not making decisions based on posts here, no doubt they figured it out and they also stopped the paid sponsors so that they did not have to pull negative posts as in the past. This is an anon board, so really you have to use care, as in life, and seek out real-life references as well. I am with you, though and the lying will be stopped if Karma is at all true.
I have talked to MANY DSG workers who are badly treated. I chose to move on when I had enough!
Feel sorry for those who are miserable and stay anyway.
No. They dropped me to PT because
to their needs but it wasn't me it was the other girl on the account. Anyway they dropped me to PT, she quit, and now they expect me do to the account on a FT basis without giving my FT status or my benefits back.
They dropped the ball with me, too (sm)
I persisted a lot longer than I normally would because I really needed a job and had heard good things about them. I kept on them for weeks, and did eventually get hired. I was with them for quite a while but had to quit because I needed benefits. Still the best MT company I've run across. One account that doesn't run out of work. That makes a lot of difference.
Dropped you an email
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So is this all QA or just those on the dropped accts?
Just wondering!
Someone said 30 straight dropped to 20 VR - sm
There's a thread downstream here about that. But I make 35 now. That's why I want VR to self destruct.
Dropped Accounts sm
How often have you worked for a company and they lost a huge account and you were fired?   I am really getting tired of this career and really need to find another one soon before I go nutters.  Company keeps screaming about TAT and hours and keeps threatening that they will fire us or the hospital will terminate the account.  We rarely get any positive feedback, individual or otherwise, and when we do get one kudo, its always followed by a BUT.. 

Anyway, should I be worried..  Should I have another job just in case.  I am an IC and get my lines and rarely work other than the schedule I gave but I can't be without a paycheck.  We are barely getting by now. 
Nope, I dropped OSi for another company.
BUT, I bet you are doing OSi's dirty work....LMAO!! Good luck...you are going to need it!
You are right. Even Bill Gates dropped
the whole idea of VR, saying that it could not be perfected enough to be profitable for the software company who manufactures it. You are also right in that if something inferior is sold to someone and it doesn't work properly, they won't even think of using it again. In my experience, the C-phone worked the best and even WP5.1 for speed and from my point of view for making the most money. I also used to use Mac and found it to be very fast and efficient.
When they dropped 's from eponyms they lost...sm
what little respect they have.   Many doctors think transcriptionists are stupid if they type things like Alzheimer Disease instead of Alzheimer's Disease. 
My accounts were not dropped. They were still going strong nm
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Glad I dropped her a line
It turns out she lost my email and she was happy I wrote. I'm really glad. She's a great person to work for.
My line count has dropped due to CPL
I get taxes and insurance taken out of my check but my income went way down when cpl went down.  At 11,000 lines of regular transcription at 8 cents a line  my take home was around $800 (before taxes/insurance).  When speech rec came out and we were not given a choice of regular transcription or speech recognition the CPL went down to 4 cents a line.  Now my check is $500 (before taxes/insurance).  It makes a big difference!!
My sister dropped her insurance. sm
It was costing her $350.00 a month for one person. She pays for her office visits in cash and gets a discount because she is under the income level. Same if she goes to the hospital. She gets a poverty discount. I think it is about 20%. Go figure.
sorry "most" of the time - dropped my sentence. nm
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Ha! This is what dropped into my pool of its own accord. It was a "pocket" and that happens s
I am NO ONE'S PET.
I didn't drop, the computer dropped a "k" but as a professional
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They weren't good for me. Their Mosaic plan dropped my pay down to an unacceptable rate, so I
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Job postings

The companies that are constantly posting jobs post them not necessarily because of growth, it's because they can't keep employees for whatever reason. 


Spheris, OSI, Transtech, TTS, Softscript, Transcend, Medware, etc. offer ridiculous bonuses and other niceties to attempt to get new employees. 


The best companies are word of mouth ONLY. 


It is common knowledge that some companies have NO WORK and other crappy working conditions, i.e. low pay, no pay or late pay, poor management, but they still post jobs. 


Educate yourselves and realize the real reason behind these job postings day in and day out.


Where have all the job postings gone?
Still wondering... looked on here, and pretty dismal. Not much on other sites.  Is it spring break everywhere, or MQ people flooding companies with resumes so that the companies are not putting ads?  Anybody got any insight? This MT is curious, because I like to keep track of what is out there (grass/greener etc.). Thanks.
And by the postings I see, some here
should go back and learn how to spell and use verbs correctly. Frankly, I think there are some Wal-Mart employees on here protraying themselves to be MTs.
Postings
Thanks Gloria Brown and CindyMT for telling it the way you see it. Your point of view is well taken since you've lived through it. MQQA, if you read the whole thing, you would note that they have left.
The more mean, defensive postings I see from you indicate to me that
because you're getting a little too angry and taking it a little too personally not to be. 
Seems like there were only good postings about
x
check the job postings....
There are companies on there looking for MTs to do clinic notes.
many KS postings have been deleted due to
people supposedly working for Keystrokes who were posting...in a nut shell, the KS people were not putting themselves in a good light and the posts were pulled but you would need to ask KS about it for their version.
Most postings are con with this company in the
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There are postings further down RE: Focus. nm
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so it seems MD-IT lies in its job postings (sm)
Every ad I've ever seen from MD-IT claims that compensation is based on testing and experience, and yet it seems that no matter what, the starting pay is the same insulting rate for everyone.

That's another one to add to my list of Places to Avoid - if they can't even be honest in their ads, I can't imagine what it would be like to actually work for them.
Anon postings

I was threatened a few years ago for posting on the site by a company that wasn't paying its people.  The owner threatened to sue me for deformation of character and slander.  First of all, I told her as the owner of a transcription company, she needed to learn how to spell.  It's defamation of character.  Next, since the board is in print, it would be libel instead of slander. 


For any MTs who are afraid of being sued over posts, the most important thing to remember is that they can only sue you if what you say is not true.  If you stick to the facts, whether it's not getting paid, bounced checks, etc., you don't have anything to worry about. 


I have posted deragotory comments about 2 companies, and both have threatened to sue me.  I have a little file in which I keep all the evidence of late pays and bounced checks, so I'm not concerned.


Reading down through your postings
You said you learned acute care but then said you had trouble with other specialities? I hate to tell you but acute care about covers it all. I do acute and have worked over the years from everything from a neurologist to oncologist, every type I do in acute care. I really am not picking up much in reading that shows you have much experience in transcription work. You are not straight forward in saying what background you have. You also said you would not work for poorly run companies- yet you said you were paid cash or off the books. Pray tell, what kind of company does that? Sounds like the poorest of the poor run companies to me. You said you worked in market research. That sounds like nothing relating to transcription work which means basically no experience there. Someone here asked you to post experience. I think they want you to post TRANSCRIPTION experience because from reading your posts I really find nothing. That might be why you are failing the tests. So, really, put down in black and white here..... what type of training did you have at Career Step and what type of medical transcription have you done? Your story has a lot of holes in it.
I'm sure many postings are shaded by negativity but
If I see something that goes into great detail describing a negative experience, not getting paid, bad management with a pretty good explanation why, etc. I steer clear of that company. No one could be making some of this stuff up.
postings about them is that they weren't getting paid. nt
 
See the 2 postings by Sharon and Rikki (sm)

on the Job Board......or go to transcriptionoutsourcing.com ......this company is in Wisconsin, but they are great to work for, good dictators, weekly pay...always on time.  Great people.


Attention THMT - thank you for your postings
You helped me make a decision to join your team because of the way you are level and positive.  Thank you!
Because of postings on a bitter board? Why would you
quit a job or question your judgement based on postings on an anonymous board? If you like the job, stay. If you don't, look elsewhere.
you need to really look back to prior postings
This company has been flying all over this board even back in March. I think it goes further than disgruntled employees. Take a look at how their lead people handle these comments. They have badmouthed these employees horribly. Yes, companies will have unhappy employees and there will be some grumbling, but it clearly looks like a much bigger problem with Shapin. A lot of drama for low pay. I would have nothing to do with them and NOT for the grumbling of past employees, but for the obnoxious and crude way Shapin's management individuals conducted themselves!
That's great, but I was talking about the job postings. sm
Some companies/entities do know what IC means, but others do not.

The job postings state IC status, but want a schedule like an employee, and pay peanuts at that.
Job Postings for Focus....beware
If anyone is applying or is thinking of applying with Focus Infomatics, beware.  They are posting ads that say 'all shifts' when in actuality, it's only 3rd shift or 16 hours on the weekends that they have available.  At least that is what was told to the QCs that they had to put on other accounts due to losing an account.  Be careful with these people as when they hire you, they tell you one thing, but eventually, it all changes and you go to making maybe a third of what you started out with.
To Moderator Re Aspen in Job Postings
What company is Aspen?  Is this a company or a name of someone?    Can you please tell employers to list the company they are with.  Thanks! 
Perhaps you didn't read all the postings.
Maybe that's what the OP was talking about; we don't know as it could be interpreted either way. However, a subsequent poster did state that she indeed had a company charge her $5 a paycheck for the privilege of having it direct deposited. So maybe you better check your alarm clock.
I didn't see any such postings and if there were, they're false
Why don't you use the time and energy that you use posting lies about one of the few REPUTABLE companies left and fix what's wrong with the company you're working for. I smell jealous management.
The main reason for continuous job postings
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and then there are SOME postings that make one wonder if it's the OSI poster backpedaling
You guys really must think we're all stupid. You're not allowed to post here because of YOUR behavior so get over it and grow up.
A search here will show you the many negative postings about DSG. nm
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Any info on Tidewater (TMTS)? All postings are old
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