MH? That brings back bad memories...

• Anyone know if Tidewater has the same recruiter/supervisor from about 4 yrs ago? - If their still around, that is. NM
  • No... she is gone and TMTS sold out - mtmt
    • Hey girl! Email me.......sm - LMT
    • This person was abruptly let - AnonMT
      • What's the company? - mtmt
      • I hope she learnd how to answer emails and not blame it - on the other person's email program all the tim
        • Oh please! I never had any problems with - AnonMT
          • Good for you. Unfortunately, a lot of others were - familiar with my experience as well. nm
            • Yes, unfortunately this is true - wimt
            • MH? That brings back bad memories... - nm
              • No. Talking about the office manger/recruiter/supervisor. - nm
              • Who or what is MH? nm - AnonMT
  • They sold out to another company a couple of - me
    • I MAY be mistaken, but.........sm - wxyz

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I remember preparing my very first resume...fancy stock paper with watermark, with the obligatory short-n-sweet cover letter included, even a reference sheet if I was feeling ballsy, all mailed in a manilla envelope the same size as the paper so there were no creases!  Now everything is done electronic and it's SO impersonal!

I'm such an old fart.    

I must have a few years on you, I started on a manual typewriter....UGH!  Oh yes, those mag cards, weren't they mosters?  Older than dirt, aren't I?

Nope, MT isn't what it used to be, makes me sad.  We aren't a valuable comodity like we used to be.  There used to be a shortage of MTs but no more, there's one on every corner....they come and go...go meaning most were duped when they were promised they could make $30,000 easy the first year while bouncing their baby on their left knee.  HURUMP! I've always told people it usually takes 5 years to be really proficient.  This isn't true with everyone but I've found it to generally be true. 

I agree with everything you posted and could add more.  TT is definitely getting ^top heavy^ in the management dept.  I hated it when this first happened.  We are so micro-managed now that it is really disgusting.  Why in the world does TT need all these leads/sups and whatever else those others in/out of the office do. 

Oh, such sweet memories of 2 years ago at TT.

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.

Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 

There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 

I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 

Good luck to you!

happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.

I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.

Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 

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If anyone is interested, I have an oral surgery account that I need back-up help with every once in a while.  This will be p.r.n. Very easy.  0.07/65-character line with spaces.  Will need wave file player and MS Word.