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That's right, not American owned anymore.

Posted By: NM on 2008-03-04
In Reply to: So then this board is now owned by Dr. Zeshan Ahmed from Pakistan? Do I understand you correctly? - me




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    he is not American on what was an American site
    What we post, jobs posted, and those who are posting jobs have no way of knowing it is off shore because he is hiding it - what a great way to get more of our jobs - not sure why this does not bother you. But as an American it bothers me

    Owned for years
    It is possible to own a home and I have owned 4 in the past 8 years. What I would do if your not sure (its advice my dad gave me many years ago) is try to buy something that would have payments in the range that you would have to pay if you paid rent. Then you know you can afford it. Either way, you have to live somewhere, whether it be renting or buying. Then once you find it easy to make those payments in a few years, you can sell and buy something a little bigger and nicer. Just a little advice that has helped me in the past. Hope it helps!
    No. Owned by a woman.
    x
    Is that still Indian owned by Jay?
    NM
    I never knew who owned it before all this went down.
    nm
    Have you ever owned a laptop?
    The single biggest selling feature of a laptop is that they are...wait for it...portable. So much the same way I don't leave any valuable laying on the table when I go to the bathroom, my very portable laptop goes in with me. When I am in what I feel a safe, secure, environment to leave it at the table/desk, I time it so I am not in the middle of a report and close the lid, thereby requiring the password to get back into it. It does not require a degree in IT to take safety precautions.
    MDI-Florida is owned by Transcend....sm
    but is run as a separate company.    MDI-MD is a separate company not owned by Transcend.
    nope - OWNED BY FRANCE AND....sm
    American Hospital in Paris is owned and run by the French...........they named it when they were still liking us.........*LOL*
    MT Co owned by Hospital corp.?

    How many MT companies are owned by hospital corporations or the hospital corp have a piece of MT companies?  I ask this because some hospitals are only allowed to use certain MT companies.   Is this a way of keeping wages down and/or them getting more $?  Isn't there some kind of rule where doctors can't refer patient to a facility that they have part ownership of. Shouldn't this apply also?


    Just wondering


    ForuMatrix is owned by MTStars. (SM)

    If you have complaints about ForuMatrix or about how MTStars is operating, etc., address them via e-mail to the Administrator (admin@mtstars.com) or myself (goldbird@mtstars.com).


    Thank you,


    Goldbird


     


    Yes, it is still owned by Jay. Is this just for information or to goad that
    /
    USATasp is 100% US owned & operated.
    /
    Do you use a personally owned VR or is it with the company?? sm
    Would like to know what VR programs are good for personal purchase. 
    Indian owned companies... sm
    Have you ever worked for one? I have. All the easy work goes to India. The junk comes to the US-based MTs. I worked there for 2 years until I could take no more. Should have walked out on training. If you want an Indian-based company so badly, go for it. I can tell you first hand, though, you will eventually regret it. No offense intended, but I have lived it and will NEVER work for an Indian-owned company again, even if I have to leave transcription and go back to the office, God forbid!
    I do have a 2nd job with US owned co. that I love. Foreign
    s
    We are a small, family-owned

    company with all MTs and most management being ICs.  There are only a handful of people in management and there are no bonuses for them.  I personally work here because it's an amazing place to work - nothing else.  We'd simply like to have a small reward for quarterly reviews to encourage accuracy.  That's it.  No hidden agenda or big, mean corporate people. 


    Thanks for your response, though!


    YES IT IS OWNED BY A PAKISTANI DOCTOR. HE OR
    SOME ONE ELSE KEEPS DELETING THE POSTS. I WILL KEEP AT IT THOUGH. GO TO MTSTARS.NET FOR ANSWERS.
    No it hasn't. It's still owned by Ahmed

    The money is owned no matter what you are
    the question was whether you are employee or IC as very different approaches would be made to recover $$
    I would worry about them on any puter owned by a company
    x
    The MEDIA is owned by 5 mega corporations
    and they have an agenda almost if not more devious than certain politicians...

    Remember the MEDIA is owned by FOR-PROFIT corporations. Corporations like this have a LEGAL responsibility to make as much money as possible for shareholders. What does that mean? It means they choose sensational garbage over substance to "report" - and in the case of this so-called war, they BENEFIT the reads PROFIT directly and indirectly, so they purposely censor the information that gets in the way of true public awareness.

    If ANYone sincerely believes the media is our friend, they have not done their homework. Don't take my word for it: Google "who owns the media" and see any number of studies showing WHICH corporations own the major news corporation.

    GE make "bring good things to life" BUT they ALSO make bombs (WMD) - AND they own NBC. Connect the dots yourself, and consider asking your reps in Congress for legislation to clean up the media.

    Yes, there are crack reporters who are DYING to report the truth, but they are EDITED out by their supervisors who follow the agenda of the corporate bosses.

    The facts are out there if you look for them.
    Yes, not only are they Indian owned & offshore, they are horribly rude.
    I had the worst experience when a male worker verbally attacked me in a very chauvenistic manner. 
    Nope, my computer is owned by the hospital I work for, and does not even
    x
    All ForuMatrix forums are owned by the same company. The songs that were
    posted on the Holiday/Recipe forum were posted erroneously and have been removed.
    To clarify, MTStars is owned by USAType. Both companies are under the
    /
    My company foreign owned but they have US office people
    p
    Ascend is Idian owned and hires newbies -
    NM
    Working for offshore owned companies and feeling
    j
    Does this happen to be the former company owned by Carol, gosh, can't think of the name
    In Newport Beach.......circa Medquist
    It is owned by Zeshan Ahmed from Pakistan. It is no longer
    xx
    Lots of HMO's are owned by religious groups these days -
    nm
    Off-shore owned MTSO usually have a token US citizen as the front guy.
    ;O
    My experience with quality/quantity and an Indian owned company.
    I worked for an offshore owned company where it was all about quantity.  Company even kept a HORRIBLE MT just because she cranked out the lines.  Didn't matter her quality was crap and was considered a joke by middle managment.  India did most typing but with US edit.  Typists changed regularly so it wasn't like they learned to do better.  Quality would improve slightly and then would notice, after couple of months, that quality was crap again so we knew we were dealing with a new batch of typists. Even so, the push was always on to get the jobs off US edit and send Indian work straight to client.  Of course, the clients never knew they were not getting US editing anymore, as they got no price reduction when they no longer had that level of work being done on their jobs.  The problem is the facilities accept the crap work so why should the companies change.  It took a while but I finally found a US owned company where quality matters.  Now one of the first questions I would ask a prospective employer is if they are US owned.
    I have a desktop Dell and it has been alright so far, but I've never owned a laptop.
    What brand are you currently using then?
    I've owned cheaper chairs and learned the hard way.

    The old saying that you get what you pay for is true when it comes to these cheap chairs! My back always hurt and I was having to buy a new chair at least yearly. You do the math; I've already had the $1000 chair five years and I quit having the backaches five years ago. This chair is no where close to wearing out and will last me at least another five years, probably more. So, if you think that spending $200 every year on a cheap chair is worth it, you go right ahead; I didn't hear anything but thanks for the OP for my suggestion.


    Is Terra Nova owned by a guy that lives on the border of Maine/Canada? - sm
    If so, this guy is a snake. He was willing to pay $0.14/line for the Kaleida account just temporarily until he could get his lines set up to offshore. He told me that on the phone!!!
    So then this board is now owned by Dr. Zeshan Ahmed from Pakistan? Do I understand you correctly?
    So this is NOT AN AMERICAN BOARD ANYMORE?
    INDIA, INDIA, NEWBIE LOOKING FOR INDIAN-OWNED COMPANY-FORGET AMERICA COMPANIES HIRING NEWBIES!!!!
    Our country sucks when it comes to teamwork.  My experience is in hospital transcription and 95% foreign dictators.  Most of my dictators are from India and surrounding countries.  Give up you all, India is already way ahead of us!
    the american way
    it's always someone else's fault. forget she was drunk, forget she was trusting her life to a complete stranger, forget there is no evidence to hold other suspects, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with natalee and her mother's bad decisions. or could it?
    Might as well, they certainly are not the AMERICAN
    They not only sold us out to the highest bidder, now they are courting the very people they gave our jobs away to.  I can't wait until this organization just self-destructs.  They have done NOTHING for us except take our money.  They are useless. 
    are you an American???
    you're kind of making a bit of a generalization here, the implication would be that all American workers are the same. I think you're getting a little carried away with the generalization and if you are American you have to lump yourself right in there
    Yes I am an American
    Yes, I probably would lump myself in there with the Americans that are lazy, as my expectations are very high, but I must mention that I am also a hard worker that does not come on this board to say "I can't make any money because the Indians are taking my jobs".  You say what you want, but that is just another excuse for us to be lazy.  Give up?  NEVER!  I am lucky in that my resume is packed to the limit.  Every job I have applied to, I get a response, which is pretty darn good considering these jobs are up for grabs to anyone in the U.S.  So, yes I guess I am lazy, because I will no longer test or take 6 cpl.  I will however accept 8-9 cpl because I do not have to leave my house, and the work is easy (for me anyway).  I already have two accounts that I do solely for myself (18 years of experience here), and I have to be responsible for all of the inquiries (which are not QA issues, they are archiving issues or STAT reports needed), keep my own records, make invoices, and also go and pick-up/drop-off the work.  Both of these accounts pay very, very well (I've cut out the middleman/the MTSO).  I am the MTSO.  So, yes, I speak from a lot of experience.  And, yes, I am American 100%, and yes I still think that sitting around complaining is not going to get us anywhere!  JMHO!    I have to hand it to India to be smart enough to get in on a good thing!  I guess they can't be lacking too much! 
    Since I am American
    My first concern is and will be USA jobs - If the India MT is getting screwed over - as you put it, then they can begin their own little MT riot over there. I for one will not worry about over seas workers - seems like our government does enough of that for me. I will continue to put my energy here on US soil. Sorry if that offends you - but I have kids that will need jobs at some point in the future, and if they go over seas I would like it to be for pleasure not work or war.
    This one is American
    born and bred and thoroughly grossed me out. I was lucky enough to get several of his reports today - sucking snot up his nose every 2 seconds. Say a few words, suck some snot -- gross!!!
    They took American out of the name...
    I assume because they offer international membership now, although I think they always did.
    Well, there is no way American MTs can
    compete with the rates in India. It will not be too many years before we are out of MT work in America.
    do you ever wonder anymore when they say
    they 'lost the account' if it went to VR or somewhere else?  Was it an easy account? 

    Perhaps you just need to get used to the new one.  That happens to me, I panic on new accounts, and then after doing them a few weeks they are just as easy...

    Sorry to hear you are losing money, though.  That can never be good when that happens to one of us...
    No. I do not believe so. Not anymore.
    i know too many companies who suck too bad.
    Do they pay much anymore? (sm)

    I've seen a few ads, one I saw yesterday paying a whole $25.00 for each audio tape.  The audio tapes were each one hour.  Puleeeze!


    So if it took you 3 minutes to do their 1 minute, you would make a little over $8.00 an hour.  That is if their recording is good enough to understand.  If it took you 4 minutes to their 1 minute, you would make a little over $6.00 an hour.


    I used to, but not anymore. sm

    I went to Wal Mart at 6 a.m. (only because I was already up) a couple of years ago and people were literally fighting in line to get to the door.  I got in my car and went home. All I wanted was a 13 inch TV that was on sale, but figured it wasn't worth it.


    I went back the next day and asked a salesperson if there was any chance they might have any of those 13 inch TV's left and he said, "Oh heck yes. We have hundreds of them out back. How many would you like me to go and get?"


    Well, I just had to buy 2.


    Not anymore
    Just a couple of weeks ago it got hacked and let through all kinds of worms/viruses.