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How many of you ex-Transcenders are looking - SM

Posted: Dec 19, 2012

for another MT gig and/or resigning since the new plan has been rolled out to us? Just curious, don't know how many of us actually look here and I rarely post. Just trying to consider it from all angles, pros and cons, options. Taking quite a hit in pay. In any case, wish you all a peaceful holiday season.

I'm looking - ds

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I'm looking, and so is another Transcend employee that I know. She has already put her application in at a local hospital. My cut in pay is totally unacceptable, and I am worth much more than I am being paid. Hope the CEO enjoys the bonus he gets from cutting our salaries.

That tiny little man has no conscience and no - ... never mind

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I am - sadly

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I am absolutely looking. - sm

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I've started putting in applications for government jobs, even if they pay less, so I can make up for lost time on those weekends and holidays off that I've never had. In the meantime, I'm looking into going back to school. I always thought if I was good at my job, did the worst work and did it well, and took whatever special requests they asked of me that they'd never cut my pay. Through the other buyout I went through in coming to Transcend, that worked. They looked at the overall picture of why my pay was higher than the standard 8 cpl and realized I was worth it. Not Nuance. My 25% pay cut this time (on top of the 25% cut I took when I started doing speech wreck) has made me see the light. Nuance is going to lose the best employees that came from that acquisition in not being able to recognize that some are worth paying more than others.

I am not looking. My mom works in transcription at our local hospital and... - anon

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the pay is better but there are very definite management issues. They are part of a union but the union is not helping much. That hospital has just gone to VR and they are under the delusion that they should be able to get 380 lines an hour. My mother suspects it will not be long before that hospital outsources, too. Not to mention, their training is in-house for 6 weeks and there is no way that I can do that right now.

I am also not looking at other companies. Right now my life cannot handle the drama of switching and generally the pay for new hires at most of the other companies is universally bad. I intended to just buckle down and do what I have to do right now and I am trying to order my life in such a way that someday I can just call it quits and do something I love. I do this job simply for the paycheck and even though it is low, I still do not have to commute.

Ex-Transcender - ex-transcender

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I quit the day after the compensation meeting. The cut in pay was the last straw for me. I had been with Transcend close to 15 years. I had been looking since last March with the news of Nuance merger and luckily found a job doing straight typing that same Wed I quit.

wow, you had been there a long time! - SM

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Glad to hear you were lucky to find another job. Just not sure what to do, about pulling my hair out right now, difficult dictators and getting a pay cut as appreciation for doing it... Good luck to you and all of us, and thanks to all for the responses, just mulling things over and it helps to touch base others in the same situation.

I am - sm

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In fact, have an interview next week at a fairly nearby hospital. To my glee, all their MTs work from home. The pay would be right back to where I was accustomed to before this deep cut and slap in the face. I hope and pray to get this job. I figured to work at another MTSO would just be jumping from one frying pan to another, so I was going to hang in there until I found a hospital job, even if I had to relocate. Also wishing you and all on this board a peaceful blessed season.

likewise looking - also I need to - sm

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sell my house and move into one that is worth half what this one is to cope with all this.

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