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This place makes me literally ill. No joke - MT

Posted: Oct 02, 2012

I don't think I am going back to working here. My son thinks it isn't right for me to leave b/c of a bad boss who micromanages everyone until they cannot breathe. I have another source for money and for the little I make here it isn't worth the effort anymore. Just writing to warn others about the micromanaging done here. The pay is so little, it isn't worth it. Thanks for listening. I know this is a negative move on my behalf regarding money but you cannot take money to the grave. Here's to choosing life... Thanks for listening to my vent.

literally ill - mt20years

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My son, daughter and husband have begged me to quit this place. I have an okay boss (but I really dont think she can even type). This place causes me to have headaches, chest pain and it's just not worth it. I have been an MT for 20+ years and I have never had a problem with QA, any supervisors, nothing until I came here. If I had another source of income (and I am looking), I would be gone without notice.

Sometimes, you just have to vent.

Literally ill - Typing-T

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I thought it was just me. Really glad to hear that I'm not the only one who was stressing to the point of being sick for a company who couldn't care less about their staff. I quit several months ago and it was the best decision I've ever made!

Is it just me - sm

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Has anyone ever thought about using this experience as an opportunity to learn how to deal with anxiety, things in life that are beyond our control? It can't always be that it is always someone else's fault!

It is just you. Please. - nm

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go away

Oh brother - PLZ

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It is you! It's something how a majority of people of this board complain about the same type of problems with this company. Maybe YOU go out in life thinking everyone else is at fault who have all the similar problems in the world???

It isn't just you - There are just many bitter MTs that think...

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...just because they have done this since dinosaurs roamed the earth that they should be given a handout. Nuance has a TON of employees, and it is generally the same type of "I'm better than you" mentalities and "I've done this for 20 years, so I know everything" type of people who are bombarding this board with negativity. The thing is, many are scared of change, and this career is changing... So, you have a choice: Sit around and gripe about how unfair this is, or take the opportunities to learn how this field is changing, accept it, learn about it, and grow with it. Or, if you don't want to do that, change your career... Voice recognition is not going anywhere. It is here to stay, so make the most of it or move on and give the positions to those of us who really want them. :)

Is it just me - sm

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That's the impression I get from these boards. That's why I asked. I am not the best MT in the world. I don't know everything. But I have been very successful at Nuance. There is such a thing as personal responsibility, which I don't see a lot from the gripes on this board.

Exactly! - New Nuance MT

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If you run out of work, learn a new account. If QA flags you on something, learn the reason why, and don't keep making the same mistakes. (I would definitely prefer someone to be uber picky with my medical records instead of not caring.) I hear people gripe about running out of work and in the same breath gripe because they were asked to work when there is an abundance of it. It IS all about personal responsibility, and the only way anybody is going to succeed working from home is by accepting responsibility for your own work and being proactive about your career!

ps: is it just me - sm

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I know someone is going to jump on me for having said I'm not the best MT, ha ha, Nuance hires people who are not even good MTs. I know I make mistakes. I accept that I make mistakes. I learn from them. I learn something new every day. It's not about me having any anxiety attack from Fiesa, it's about me doing the best jog I can for the institution and the patient.

ps:it is just me - mt20years

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This entire thread is funny to me. I just simply stated my opinion and somebody thinks I can't adapt and I been around since the stoneage? I can work circles around you sister.

As well, I am not the only unhappy camper on here as I can see from the DISLIKES on your comments.

As with other MTSO, Nuance promised everything and then finds ways not to live up to that.

I hope you're happy with 4 cpl and being a doormat. As for me, I DISAGREE.

Oh, it's about you doing the best "JOG". LOL. I can see that you are NOT.

Yeah, you never made a typo in an informal forum. - nm

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"I can work circles around you sister." - This is exactly the type of...

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"I'm better than you" mentality that I was talking about. Disgusting, actually...

NM and typo - mt20years

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I have no "im better than you" mentality but I can probably still work circles around you. I won't back down from that statement.

Nonetheless, my only problem is with the way Nuance does business. No problem with you since your opinion does not affect my position in any way, shape or form. So get over yourself. AND HAVE A GREAT DAY. LOL.

This is why I am glad - I work from home

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How could anybody stand working in the same office day in and day out with the constant complaining, negativity, and proclaiming to be better than everybody else?

OH BROTHER - PLZ

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Are you crazy? Why NOT have the work when we are scheduled to WORK? I have a life of my own that needs attention outside of NUANCE! They don't pay enough to have me babysit the computer all the time!

YOU DEFINATELY SOUND LIKE A TL!!

Really? - hmmm

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Ok so you struck my nerve just now. I have been a loyal employee for years now going through my second buyout now Transcend to Nuance. I have anxiety the medical condition so I find your statement insensitive. This company and this industry does not value us. I have been literally made sick. It is not just my job that is true but it does not help at all that I have to worry about running out of work every day now and not making enough to pay my bills and then if I get sick I feel like I have to explain my every move and defend myself. I take off for a dr appt I have to make it up later that day even though there is nothing to type. Leave your desk and they need you get nasty emails but don't get paid for the downtime waiting for work. No raises, no appreciation and feeling like a number will cause anxiety and that is this company's fault. They value nothing but their bottom line who cares if we cannot pay our bills because they overhired and now have old TLs typing as MLS taking more work away from us. Deal with that anxiety! Deal with knowing you checks has less than halfed.

See - message

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I quit this company a month ago too and very happy with the new place I work for. NO MORE SPEECH WRECK TO DEAL WITH. I could not also stand these Hitler-type QAs anymore who get a huge thrill of making MTs feel like they're worthless!

SM-It IS just you - mt20years

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See, It is just you.

This has nothing to do with 20 year experienced MTs not wanting to change - MT

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Reading into it much? Who said it was about 20 year MTs not wanting to change. Seems like you read into it. OP said the place makes her sick. Period. Seems to me it is the MICROMANAGING which is, I agree WRONG and BAD MANAGEMENT which bothers her.
And I say to her go for a better place to be... this place indeed makes people sick and for those who enjoy it, good for you.. and to that person I say, good for you, now go micromanage another person into wanting to quit... gives you a sense of power and Nuance enables that behavior, wait your turn will come. That's a promise.

"wait your turn will come. That's a promise." - NO, it wont. Your experience is

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not everyone's experience. What works for some may not necessarily work for others, but that is no reason to go speaking negativity on anyone.

your turn - anon

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Oh, rest assured, your turn will come, maybe not on your current job, but it will come. Not speaking negativity, just fact.

Everybody gets a turn in this industry.

I doubt that very seriously. I do well, I make good money - and WILL CONTINUE TO DO WELL.

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So as you believe, so shall you recieve and I dont believe that for one minute.

People with negative attitudes tend to have negative outcomes and Im not a negative person and I dont buy into the stuff I read here. I dont even work for Nuance, but I am an MT and I was the one who posted that not everyone's experience is the same.

If there are happy MTs at Nuance, let them be happy. You speak such strong words, as though you are wishing and hoping to see someone suffer or have misfortune. Why not agree to disagree without trying to pull everyone else into your misery.

If you are that unhappy, I do hope that you find a better job that suits you, but in the meantime, the negative insults wishing/hoping the worst or speaking bad things on people should seriously stop.

Like the old saying goes - The very hole you dig for someone else could be the very hole you fall into yourself.

How delusional are you? - MT with self-respect

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This is exactly the kind of complacency that has this industry working for pennies per line.

You don't work for Nuance???!! Why are you even answering here. - MT

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How can you comment on the micromanaging that goes on in a place you DO NOT WORK. How in the world do you but in a conversation you know nothing of??!! This floors me you have the NERVE to criticize people going through experience in a particular company you are not even involved with! What NERVE

Nuance blows. 4 cents is NOT COOL. - RC

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I don't give a rip if some other MT thinks I'm lazy or ungrateful or can't adapt because I think Nuance blows.

I think they're insane for believing 4 cents a line is a good job. It isn't.

And it certainly isn't enough money to be treated poorly - Anon

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And to be belittled. Add on 50K or so more and maybe then that treatment might be tolerated.
Either way. Nope. Nothing in life is worth being treated poorly. And I do not think the OP is alone.

I dont think anyone is advocating for 4 cents, I think - even the most happiest of

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MTs would have to agree that the pay for Nuance sucks.

so, I have to ask, WHY are you happy again? - pay is the bottom line here

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I really don't get how anyone can be happy with this pay. As far as accepting what the industry has come to, I think that's silly. No one has to accept anything and be happy with such low pay. This is just what Nuance wants you to think, that you're not good enough for anything else, you're not good enough for better pay, we can easily replace you with someone better, you should be lucky to have this job with all your errors in FIESA... Reminds me of what an abusive spouse would say and it's sick and abusive.

If it "blows" so bad, - why did you take the job?

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You could have turned down the offer, but you agreed to this rate. If it bothers you that much, get another job...

No kidding? - RC

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Thanks for the advice. I had totally failed to figure that out for myself.

I took the job because I needed a job. I'm in training for a different job, but in the meantime, I work for Nuance.

It still blows.

So you just want to . . . - sm

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Bellyache to anyone who will listen about what you feel are poor choices you have made in your life? That's what I mean about responsibility earlier.

Oh, puhleease. - RC

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I am giving my opinion on Nuance, and this is the place to do it. If you don't approve, that's not my problem. And save your "responsibility" lecture for someone you may have actually met or know a smidgen of information about.

Do YOU think 4 cents is a good wage????

Taking the job - fedup

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Some of us were not given a choice. I made much more money when it was Webmedx. Enter Nuance, cut pay and turn this into the worst job I've held in 25 years. Save your breath, I've been looking along with most MTs here.

Why did some accept the job? sm - anon

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Some of us came over with WMX, hoping for the best, including increased production, found out otherwise.

Personally, I loved my accounts having worked on them a considerable amout of time. Also, quite used to platform we work on.

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