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Hitting the wall

Posted By: Michele on 2008-02-02
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Hi fellow MTs:


Just wanting opinions.  I find some days, my fingers/brain are really "on" with transcribing, but then I have other days, where reaching my line count is a struggle.  Obviously, I'd prefer to all "on" days and I'm wondering if any of you have suggestions on being "on" more than off.


Thanks in advance and happy typing!




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Whoever is responsible for this current economy in my opinion has just done us in...


This is from an Indian company (if you go to their site check out their job openings, all in India)


See below: 


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High Capital Costs


The burgeoning ‘operational’ costs a company based in the US incurs for basic back office functions such as payroll processing, accounting, distribution and other important functions adds to the high capital cost of a product or service rendered by companies there.

A new ‘strategy’

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Cost ‘benefits’ of outsourcing

When a company based in the US ships a $14 to $15 an hour transcription job assignment to India where a transcriber is paid just $1 an hour, consider the cost benefits the company will receive, in comparison to the in-house service maintained by the company.

How will ‘US’ benefit from outsourcing

US companies will be able to enjoy reduced costs, and the large profits that will result can be re-invested in new ventures or expanding the existing ones, thus the outsourced new contractors can in fact create new markets for American products, and displaced US workers will have the opportunity to find newer jobs in vibrant new enterprises. The US companies will have the advantage of developing newer products with better features and thus antiquated products or services can be handled by the ‘contracted’ offshore companies.

Advantage of a different time zone of an ‘offshore’ company :

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Advantage outsourcing from India:

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I went to their website.  I could not find any link for job openings nor could I find any of this text on their website.  Where did it come from, am I missing something?
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I've beat my head against the wall trying to make a decent

the ESLs, I can't get much past 1200 lines daily anymore.  Anyone else in the same boat?


trying hitting your Refresh button, maybe? (sounds like you're seeing an old
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I think hitting escape at the end does it, or make other shortcuts for the long
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Ctrl/T is for terminating a job. What are you hitting those keys for while you're working? ExText
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and the government has seen to it that american workers are no longer necessary and allows business to outsource many middle income jobs. 
You're hitting Alt+Ctrl+S. Hit Alt+Ctrl+C to get back.
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