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Are all companies going to VR? - Discouraged

Posted: May 21, 2012

My pay has been cut by more than half and I'm working longer hours due to VR on most accounts. Well, when I have work anyway. Are there any companies that hire for straight typing any longer?

How do people live on this work now? I had to come back to my verbally abusive husband due to no money and I was literally starving. This is all I know, have been an MT now for 20 years. What to do............

I can sympathize..making $7 to $8 an hour...sm - Not so fast there

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and who can survive on that. My pay has dropped $5 an hour since this account switched over to some of the worst VR I have ever seen. I am old and ready to dig a hole, crawl in, and cover up.

God has to have a place in heaven for us ALL! - anon

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My sympathy goes out to you completely. You are so, so right. I have been in the business longer and yet feel so alone as how this profession has treated its workers here in the US. Where do we go from here? You are not alone...if that helps any. Hopefully a new pharmaceutical will be on the market for verbal abuse...many in our business should test that drug also!

i was excited about it at first... - edyth

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i'm no luddite, and am always excited to learn something new.

well, the company went full steam ahead w/ m*modal--after over a year of wasting time (and losing $$$) over the same docs it should have "learned" by then, i gave up.

in the time it took to fix the absurdities in two reports, i could have done three to five using SR.

i'd be willing to give it another try if i were paid by the dictated minute or full page though :)

I'm going groke on VR - Discouraged

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It's unreal. I'm working on average at least 4 more hours a day now and making so much less than I was doing straight typing. I went from hardly ever touching the mouse to where now my hand is on the mouse more than the keyboard. Just another way they're showing no respect for the years we've put in working for them.

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