As MTs, we should actually interview the companies! - Sick of this

If you are an MT with 10 or more years experience (actually a requirement with 1 company), and you are testing and interviewing, consider this.  When you do your research on a company that you are applying with, print all the negative posts such as "horrible platform, hardly ever any work, pay is slow, they offshored my account, VR problems, etc., etc."  If you score perfectly on your test and have good recommendations, land an actual interview, we should address these concerns with the potential employer.  Tell them that your job is a serious employment commitment and that when you accept a job, you intend to work and for that work to be available instead of just sitting in front of a computer all day and only typing 4 hours.  Ask about their offshoring and VR that is in place and what is intended.  Tell them you do not want to be put on a new account they just obtained - only to have it offshored to XXX while you trained them to do it.  Tell them that you do not want to work on an account that they know will be set up for VR, unless they plan to keep you to do the VR at a fair price while it is established (all MTs should at least know how to do VR).  Ask about their "excellent QA assistance."  Is this truly QA help to assist you in every aspect of the account(s) so that you make more money, or are they just editors who write nasty notes and are not available for questions that will make you more productive?

Don't we have this right?  They want to know everything under the sun about us.  Don't you want to know who you are working for and what kind of business they conduct?  Shouldn't their reputations be on the table for discussion?  Wouldn't this send a clear message to them?  Eventually? 

If you are that experienced MT who for years has done double the production requirement with formal audits 98% or better - you are the ones who made this industry and your company what it is.  Voice your objections to being "used" by these companies.  Demand job security and stable employment.  Tell that recruiter or account manager to be honest with you about these things and that if your objectives do not meet their needs to be honest with you about it.  You can't hold them to it legally, but they will realize they will look like a fool if they lie to you - and word will get around. 

After offshoring/VR, etc., the only transcription left is crap that no one wants to do.  ESLs who do not speak their own language and certainly not English, etc.  Ask if that is what they are offering you. 

We need to conduct our interviews as if they are business deals (exactly what they are).  Try to take control of your own destiny, future, fate........ Do not appear desperate to let these MTSO's use you however they wish.  Tell them you have expectations also. 

I am employing all of this starting today.  Thanks for letting me blow off steam.