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After reading about cuts in line rate at Transcend and now mandatory - Conf.Calls tomorrow...

Posted: Apr 12, 2010

I'm waiting for the shoe to drop.

My thoughts exactly -- sm - MT2Long

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If it's not a rate cut, my second guess would be a switch in our platform. I think some of the accounts have already switched over.

If it is a rate cut, I am so outta here!

Any other thoughts?

Did you check both - MT2Long

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your personal email and your company email. I got the 1 notice from my primary on my personal and then a notice from secondary on the company email. I don't think all TLs have switched over to the personal email yet.

MT2Long - My thoughts - Sting

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What would you do if they said they were moving their HQ to India, which would be the new hub of operations?

hope someone will update us on the calls later - sm

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I came in through MDI. My primary is on the Escription platform, which is now managed by Transcend and not an MDI team lead. All 3 of my backup accounts are on Bayscribe and I got an email yesterday for each of them that they are all having conference calls tomorrow (that would be today, now) for their primaries. My guess is pay cut but could be a BeyondTXT announcement (dumping Bayscribe), although one of those accounts is already transitioning to BeyondTXT. I hope someone will update us later. I'm out of the loop on this one since my primary is not on Bayscribe.

How about an update on the conference call? - Robbie

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Can anyone update us as to what happened on the conference calls?

Nothing big this time - sm

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Just the hitech/hipaa stuff and how it affects our jobs. Required training in the future on it.

that's a relief - thanks (nm)

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I haven't gotten any notice about conf call tomorrow sm - Wish it was still MDIer

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but you can bet it will be a rah-rah call about how lucky we are to have jobs, blah, blah, blah. To be honest, they make me ill with their spin doctoring.

Wish it was still MDI - Skeptic

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Ask the former head of MDI how she is enjoying her 16M when others cannot make enough lines to keep insurance. Just sayin.

Yea, I know... I mean MDI before she sold us all out. nm - Wishing

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nm

Heck, ask the current head of Transcend if he enjoys his annual half mill - sm

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And **** her $412,500 annually. The 4 top people in Transcend are making $1,305,000 annually. That's not counting *** and all the other managers.

I guess in view of all that, it makes perfectly good sense why they HAVE to cut our rates and offer crap insurance. The economy is SO bad after all. (excuse me while I puke)

Are you a former MDIer or were you with Transcend before the merge? - Curious

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nm

Not Surprising - sideline poster

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That the shoe may be getting ready to fall. I know it's certainly not a surprising thing in this day and age, and certainly in this industry, but it really makes my stomach sick to hear rumors of a line rate cut and all this yada, yada, yada about competition and keeping up with the industry, and then to see that the upper crust vote themselves a pay raise in January 2010 to the tune of $830,000.00 total salary per year between THREE people, plus the possibility of another $475,000.00 in BONUS money. Bonus money for what, riding the back of the little guy. Again, doesn't surprise me here, doesn't surprise me anywhere in big business, just a little sobering to see it in print and know you can't do a thing about it. I'm a huge fan of my faith and what does the Good Book say in 1 Timothy - people would become lovers of themselves and lovers of money ....... how true, how true.

I'm with you, sideline. All the signs are so obvious. - faithful

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Even people who don't believe in God see it.

Good luck to all - I say that with all sincerity - RLee

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:)

Here's what I know, and it isn't much.... - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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... but may be helpful.

My team did NOT get any e-mails about pay cuts.

We do have a conference call scheduled for tomorrow, but the topic has been announced in advance this time, possibly because I have complained in the past that every time we are told to show up for a conference call with no hint of what it might be about, I break out in a rash....

The topic for tomorrow is to be productivity tips and tricks with the productivity trainer/expert in BeyondTXT (whose name I won't mention because we aren't supposed to mention people by name on here). We were told clear back when our accounts migrated over to that platform, we would eventually have a meeting with her, in addition to the periodic e-mails that she sends out with tips and tricks.

I contacted the employee advocate when somebody first mentioned getting an e-mail about line rate cuts. She told me it is NOT company-wide, and only applies to a few particular accounts where the client has requested a rate reduction. (Translation: Lower our rate or we go elsewhere.) Yeah, that stinks big time. No, it (apparently) hasn't happened to me yet, and I really, really hope it doesn't. But I live in the real world, and my options are always open, although I really, really try very hard not to get exercised about things over which I have no control, and that may never happen. (I don't always succeed. Those of you who have been around for a while know this.)

I will be interested to see what others have to say about the topic(s) of their scheduled conference calls, so please keep us posted.

No big deal, just announcing new team leads on some accts - Me

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