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Let's make a stand for fellow MTs - do not apply at Transcend

Posted: Jun 06, 2010

It is very disheartening to hear what has happened to our fellow MTs who have recently been terminated by Transcend. To add insult to injury they turn around and have an abudance of openings they are now hiring for. I will not apply there and I feel no one else should either. Make them sweat it!

I know it is tough right now and we all need a good job. This has got to stop and the only way these companies won't get away with it is if we don't tolerate it. Let them send the work offshore, but as long as they don't have USA MTs to edit the work then they will have to do it themselves. How long do you think that would last?

It's time to take a stand and the only way that will work is if we all band together. I say start with Transcend and MQ! DO NOT APPLY WITH EITHER COMPANY!!!!!!

monopoly - mtmom

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Unfortunately, Transcend and Medquist are like the two biggest in the US. They just keep buying everyone else out. Why is the govt. not noticing this?

what would the govmt have to do with it, isn't it free entreprise? - NM Isodense.

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Soon it will only be 2 of 3 MTSOs, and I doubt any - US MTs will be working for any of them.

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nm

No, it's not. There are laws against becoming a monopoly. - Backwards Typist

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It's not free enterprise when a company controls a whole industry, be it MT, phone, cable, etc. Bell Telephone is one that comes to mind as one being broken up by the government.

I can't remember how the government decides which companies are breaking the law by becoming a monopoly because it seems like it is happening in all aspects of business nowadays.

Monopoly - Anonymous

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What about Microsoft?

MICROSOFT MONOPOLY - Smith

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Actually the US brought action against Microsoft in 1998 alleging the Microsoft abused monolopy power and the case was settled in 2001 - "Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who will have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ensure compliance"

oh, OK - Inotsodensenow NM

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I believe it has something to do with price fixing. - Darn near close to that now.

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Did you ever notice how when MQ started dropping the line rate, the others followed suit? Now all of a sudden it seems that 8 and 9 cpl are "industry standard." Doesn't it seem like the large MTSOs are creating this industry standard by buying up all the smaller MTSOs that can't compete with what the larger ones are offering and then cutting rates? Then all the other ones follow suit to stay competitive and call it "industry standards."

A rose by any other name is still a rose. Price fixing by any other name seems to be the way to do business nowadays.

MQ and Transcend - pollyanna

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I really want to know what happened that these people were terminated. I might be next!

apparently they had been with the company - for awhile and were

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some of the highest paid MTs. It sounds like that is what is going on. They are bringing in people with less experience and paying them less and weeding out the more experienced.

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