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How many of you have quit Transcend in say the past 6 mos to a year? - Very Recent ex-transcender

Posted: Feb 24, 2011

Just curious, because I heard a lot of their long-time MTs have called it quits, as have I. If you have resigned, how many years were you with the company?

I DID! - m

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I worked there from June until October of last year.

I am still there and will probably stay. My only complaints with - not me

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them are the complete lack of help or information from Human Resources (just try asking a question and expect any help!), the issues with the platform although I like to edit, the cherrypicking by team leads, and the petty QA crap. If they would clear that up, they would have a great company.

I quit - dmz

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...when MDI merged with them - I lasted from Feb to May - they will never have a great company because they want bargain basement prices for experience. They lost a lot of good MDIers by slashing their salaries. Glad I left when I did, and it seems that they have an extremely high turnover based on all the ads they keep posting.

Mention of QA made me laugh. Still. Always. Problem - is top management, thus will not change. NM

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still there too but - sm

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I am feeling quite unappreciated here lately. I may just quit doing the backflips for the company, hopping around everywhere needed, whenever needed etc. Personally I think some of the big cheeses need replaced. They ought to be savvy enough to know that a little kindness and consideration will reap many rewards. I have a lot invested in this company, but should the right opportunity present itself, well, shame on them.

When they did mergers, they kept the worst people in management, - agree

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and those are the ones who seem to be creating the problems and complaints. They need to look a little harder at who holds the reins and start over in a few of these positions.

OTOH, they also kept some GOOD management people - when TRS was bought out

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My ROM, for instance, was also my supervisor at TRS. Only in the last few months did she decide to hang up her ROM hat and go back to production, but that was her own decision, not Transcend's.

Good management - TAA

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She was my manager too..we were FAMILY when we were TRS. I left Transcend in July.

Oxymoron. - nm

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Transcend - suggestion to read the litigation

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as far as ROM must be mullinax...

Agree - Just me

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with you that when they merged they kept some of the worst people in management. Management by intimidation never works. They need to stop using people and start respecting the MTs who made them what they are. What a pathetic way to treat your workers.

I quit - Moved on

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I was there for about 3 years.

oops, meant to say (sm) - Moved on

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I came in like DMZ with the MDI-MD merger. I stayed a month longer than she did. I was with MDI maybe 3 years. Loved it there. Didn't work for me at all with my particular team lead or whatever they were called at Transcend. That's a good thing, a fading memory...

I did - 4-year employee, high producer. Recent QA scam almost cost me my home. - Too Bad MDI

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I was one of apparently numerous victims of their recent QA shenanigans: "You have recently fallen far below our 98% QA standard. You are limited to 3 reports per day over the next 3 days. Get it together in 30 days of monitored QA or you're terminated." (Not verbatim but this is the spirit of the e-mail and essentially how it read). Though I am a high producer, never before in my 4 years as an MDI-turned-Transcender had my quality come into question. There was a thread posted about this sham recently and several MTs discovered they were not alone in being told all of sudden they are subpar MTs (oh, excuse me - MLSs - that makes me feel sooo much more important). I submitted my resignation after immediately finding a new position and was not even permitted to serve out 2 weeks. "I'll just take your resignation effective immediately," was how the phone call from CB went. Oh, but she offered me a chance to come back should the new position not work out.

I would rather eat fried toenails than work for Transcend ever again.

This happened just before New Years and I had gotten a bit behind in my bills and more so after Christmas. The lapse between my resignation and starting my new position caused me to fall further behind, and I got a letter of intent to foreclose on my home from my lender. Mercifully, I have been able to catch up. Thanks for a wonderful holiday season, Transcend.

Anyone considering working for Transcend should really do their research on here and consider their future very carefully. The trend there is that the 9 cpl straight typing account today will be the 4 cpl VR editing account tomorrow. We are people with families and bills who deserve to make a decent living for our knowledge and skills - working at home or not - whether these Transcend suits allow themselves to believe it or not.

Same thing happened to me - Ex-Transcend MT

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The exact same thing happened to me too. I had wonderful reviews and then all of a sudden they did the same thing; you are limited to 3 reports a day et cetera. I could not make a living and then CB told me that I did not make my line count and I had 30 days to do that (after only 3 reports a day). It just got worse after that and after asking for a chance to bring this up they just flat out said NO and I would not be rehirable ever again by Transcend. All of this hit me with full force. CB is the cause of many problems with the company and if you cross her you can kiss your job goodbye; that together with the MT liaison who supposedly is working for the MT, when the only thing she does is spy for management. I made the mistake of taking her into my confidence and it cost me my job.

I am so sorry you had this happen to you, and to all the MTs out there who worked for Transcend. My leaving happened just before Christmas too.

Too bad MDI - Another MDI/Transcend refugee

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I was nearly driven into bankruptcy when MDI kept telling us (pre-merger) that the work would pick up, the work would pick up, yada, yada, whoopie. Well, it didn't and it nearly ruined me financially. You can just be sure that they have read the MQ playbook and utilized it in their merger with Transcend. The transformation of MDI (as we formerly knew it) into what it became is stunning. My daddy was right--everyone has their price. As to the rather eating fried toenails--I'm with you--never again would I work for those folks, not for a dollar a line!

That was the other time I fell behind financially-when MDI work vanished. Shoulda learned then nm - Too Bad MDI

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I did because of the delusional TL and ROM. Shocking - what they tried to pull off with us. nm

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Stayed until almost 100% editing at 4 cpl... - 4vrtpng

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dropped my pay by 60% (9 cpl to 4 cpl).

Could not get my editing speed up to their high standards. Editing tended to put me to sleep and was ruining my keyboard even faster, since I was using the same set of keys over and over again. I found my hands hurt worse after an 8 hour day of editing than they did after an 8 hour day of straight typing. The motions for editing were more consistently repetitive.

Was part of the MDI merger and was optimistic in February when it was official, but had one of the very first accounts to go to BeyondTxt in April and then editing started 5 weeks later. Paychecks went from over 900 in February to less than 450 per payperiod by the end of June. Found another job in July and started working 16 hours a day. Couldn't do it and decided to quit Transcend. They offered 5 cpl to stay, but just couldn't do it. Took a paycut with the new job, as it is, to 7 cpl for straight typing. But, only one doctor to type, they leave me alone to do the work and everyone is happy. Had to find some parttime work on the side, but am making up for what I lost with all straight typing all the time.

The only good thing was that I almost always had work, just not enough hours in the day to make it work.

I quit too. Worked for them twice. - Will NEVER do it again.

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I was a direct hire with Transcend about 8 years ago, and worked for them for 4 years. It was really good for about the first year, but then slowly started deteriorating until the point of unbearable. Then I quit.

Then I ended up with them again in the MDI/MD merge. I said I would give them the benefit of the doubt and try my hardest, figuring a lot of management was gone after all these years. I was right. All the management I knew was gone, but the MDI management absorbed the Transcend mentality, and again, after about a year it was unbearable again.

Very Recent Ex-Transcender - Ex-Transcender Too!

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I left Transcend at the end of September of 2010, just a very few days short of 7 years.

They just aren't the company they used to be in my opinion.

I did! - tiredMT

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I was there 3 years and leaving was the best thing I could have done for myself!

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