Ohhh...be careful guys...The rug can come from under you.

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You're not supposed to be sending intercompany information anywhere.  I would get it in writing first that your ISP isn't going to be tracked and your info handed over to Transcend so they can fire you.  With all the info on this board about what they are doing, Transcend still has their weekly cattle calls on the job seekers' board, so it doesn't look like Transcend is going to lose anything.

Just be very careful.

It can mess up your Word program so that some of your commands won't work any more (if you use Word for anything else).

In case you have not read the MQ board lately, 70% of controlling stock has been sold to CBay Holding Systems, an Indian company, that will probably/possibly begin offshoring work to their Indian transcription company.  There is much debate over this, and I would caution you before giving up a good offer with another company.

As far as flexibility goes with MQ, it all depends on your supervisor.  Mine was great.  The pay was awful - no raise in 5 years.  Not to mention, ASR/voice recognition cuts.  See below.

MQ pays 70% (currently) of your base rate for voice recognition, which is pretty good in comparison to other companies.  About 75% of my paycheck was ASR.  If the other company is straight transcription, you will make out much better than ASR at MQ. 

After reading what SS reportedly promised you about upping you to 9 cpl when removed from QA, that jumped out at me.  If they were unethical enough to do as they did to the other MT, why would you be any different?  Just something to think about. 

I hope I'm wrong.  Truthfully, I had no idea that this co. was uncool.  I'm glad that names are being dropped so the rest of us will know intead of having to dig around and hope they get lucky re the proper info.

Hope you keep us posted.

Julie you are so right!!!   I once came here and posted some rather unflattering comments about company I was working for at that time.  Well my boss saw everything and she knew it was me.  At one time I had a pretty good relationship with my supervisor, but needless to say, after the posting she was rather cool towards me.  It was very uncomfortable and she did finally confront me regarding my post and warned me that if I posted again like that, I might lose my job.  

I am just warning everyone here that you might think you are anonymous here, but they can find out very easily your identity.  Just be careful what you say here -- it could come back to haunt you.  

I would start looking.  I know you reach a comfort level where you are, but TRUST ME, there are reputable companies out there (I work for one) and believe me, you are better off leaving now, before things crash down on you just when you start feeling comfortable again.  Good MT's can still find work in this country, and they are paid in dollars, not rupees.

you e-mail the account name or some specific hint so I if apply I can be forewarned?  Thanks.

I am sick and tired of taking these so-called top notch transcription tests with the most difficult grammar questions, BOS-style like questions, abbreviations, what is a plural,etc, and only having an hour to complete the test.  I just recently jumped through hoops for a compnay I shall not name.   The VP told me I had exactly one hour to complete the all most impossible task.   Well, I passed her fricking test.  Then, she told me to gear up I had exactly until the end of the day to complete her 4 wave files.  I completed them.  After all this, she had the nerve to offer me a full-time IC position at 7 cpl.  The wave files I heard require more than 7 cpl and why on god's green earth would I take an IC job doing acute care for 7cpl, I would be losing money.  Then, she had the nerve to set a schedule for me Monday-Friday starting from 9 am to 5 pm.  No thank you.  I will keep right on looking.  I do not need this stress.  I am going in-house.  I simply outdone. 

Thanks for letting me vent.

all the drama you had to deal with at Focus.  I had a bad feeling things were going south at JLG right before I quit back in July.  I can't believe they didn't even offer you MT positions!  Well, my opinion is they are going under and they probably didn't have anything to offer you.  When I quit, I sent out an resignation email and never got a response.  So I just quit working and started my new job earlier and nobody said a word.  I thought that was a bad sign.

I was having trouble getting my pay checks when I quit and then right after I quit they sent out the email about not using direct deposit anymore and then I kept reading about all these poor people who were late getting their checks.  It just didn't look, sound or smell good at all.

Man, it just goes to show you there isn't a reliable company out there anymore.  Used to be when I first started working from home JLG was one of the most reliable companies around with a good reputation.

Well, good luck gals!  Drop me an email sometime.  It's still the same and use me as a personal reference if you need to.  I have nothing but good things to say about all y'all!

Lori

Hey, lighten up!

In the old days -- 20 or so years ago, or maybe as recently as 10 years ago -- those terms were possessive with the apostrophe and the s.  It wasn't until recently that the definitive references like Stedman's (or should that be Stedman?) decided to drop it. If you read medical literature, you will see that in most instances the apostrophe s is still used.  So it has changed, and a lot of oldtimers (and M.D.s too) still put the apostrophe s at the end.

I prefer the apostrophe s as most docs dictate it that way and that was the way that I was trained to do it many, many moons ago.