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Posted: Dec 16, 2014

I was hired by FNT a couple of months ago and have found their editing platform less than ideal as it relates to production. It's awkward and cumberson, allowing neither keyboard or mouse proficiency; it's a bad combination of both. I'm wondering if anyone out there has worked at FutureNet and found the secret to making money with their no-name platform that's Word based but does not allow auto-correct and has reassigned Word keyboard commands for their own use. Also, after 2 months I'm still on 100% review (after 22 years in the transcription business, the last 11 of which was as a QA). The only feedback I've had has been relative to the demos/report infomation screen and not to the report itself. So it's been feedback x4 in two months. I think unless something changes pretty soon, I'll be on the road again. Thanks.

so true - NotNewMT

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I understand your frustration. For a company that is supposedly loaded with technical wizards, the MTs/MEs are given some of the worst platforms to use.

I personally have not found any secrets or tricks to making money on either of the VR platforms. I think the M-Modal platform is actually the least productive of the two.

As for QA feedback, this company has always been more concerned about demographics and you will never get any pertinent feedback about blanks left in the report itself unless you specifically ask for something on a report. You should have been off QA after X amount of reports. Someone has just not cleared you for some reason. I would ask about this by calling the supervisor (A) or head QA person (L).

I am actually only sticking with this company part time because I am so tired of looking for another place to work and I have found outside work to try to pay the bills until I can retire.

Best wishes and I hope you find a better company to work for in regards to production and income.

FN - OldsterMT

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There's a lot of information in the archives about this company, none of it very flattering.

Of course, it's a very short list of good companies these days.

Worst and most poorly run company I ever worked for. sm - Sheila

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FN has gone down, down, down. I found their QA to be almost nonexistent as far as feedback. Also, the "transcription supervisor" was not a transcriptionist. Why do companies do this? Of what use is this to an MT. Bottom line, you can't make any money, the company is poorly run, and they are bullies.

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