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So disappointed in Keystrokes - PoorMT
Posted: Jun 21, 2011
I can't blielieve that this is happening to me, to us. Supposedly they lost a big account to overseas but didn't bother to tell us... jobs were half of what they were before, and I was very suspicious. I've been in the business long enough to know what something isn't right. Only one little email saying that the account was slow or something along those lines. As of today, nothing.. not one single email telling us anything. Not one phone call. How can they do this to people?? I am shocked, disappointed, angry. How can Keystrokes not care about what they're doing to their own employees? How can they sleep at night?
It's one thing that my manager never bothers to email me back if I have a question... this is different. This is just plain bad business.
Keystrokes is not the only MTSO handling "things" this way. I have worked for more than 1 - anon
[ In Reply To ..]actually bought a new home thinking the work would still be there and it was just "gone" one day. Boy am I in a mess because of it. Sure they don't want people leaving in droves but what would they do if they were in our shoes? Companies in general don't care about their employees anymore. The almighty dollar is their only concern.
Handling things - anonytoo
[ In Reply To ..]I mean no disrespect when I say that you must not have much experience with the larger companies. They all operate this way, I have worked for 4 and was treated the same by each, which is why I left every one of them. I now do IC work and love it.
These people have no qualms at all about leaving the MT in the dark because all we are them are machines. When there is work we are to give 100%, when there is none, we are to shut up and "flex". All they care about is meeting TAT. Overhiring and starving people out??? Means nothing to them because it is "the nature of the beast." Meanwhile they sit in their offices and collect their paychecks.
Why should they care about us?
Bravo! Good post--why remain a professional victim? - We should all take control of our own lives.
[ In Reply To ..]Great post!
Handling things - jan2
[ In Reply To ..]You're doing IC work and loving it. So, does that mean that you don't do any work for the larger companies anymore or that you work for more than one company so always have work or what? Thanks.
That is right. If there are 2 or 50 people on an account - KS still makes the same amount of money
[ In Reply To ..]They have always treated their MT's like dirt and they are getting worse as they grow larger.
I wouldn't be surprised if KS also sends work overseas and is trying to keep it a secret.
Like I said before, don't turn your back or you may find a knife in it.
I agree - Old and Tired MT
[ In Reply To ..]I don't work at KS either but I see some "funny things" happening where I do work and I don't like it. We are all supposed to be available 24/7 when there is work, but there is always a very strange silence when there isn't any. So where IS all the work going?
They SHOULD care about us, because - someday, some poor MT who has -
[ In Reply To ..]their back against a wall, and is in foreclosure and financial ruin because of corporate greed, who now faces homelessness and/or starvation, could just possibly storm into the home office someday, and
____________________________________(fill in whatever scenario you envision).
They can do it because MTSOs are completely - - unregulated, and UN-ETHICAL.
[ In Reply To ..]For whatever reason, they, and this whole mucked-up country, thinks that telecommuters (especially WOMEN telecommuters) are worthless, expendable, non-humans.
Most of the people who are in control, not only of MTSOs, but most elected offices in this nation, don't deserve even 1/4 of the fat paychecks they get every month.
What I can't figure out is why the government thinks it can make more money under the table, accepting bribes and payoffs from Big Business, than it would if those businesses were regulated, offshoring were illegal, and American workers were paid more, and in turn, paid more in taxes and in contributing to other aspects of the economy through consumerism.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those of us who shop at thrift stores for 2nd-hand clothing, or accept donations of food from food banks, or who drive around in rusting, sputtering, ancient automobiles, are contributing jack squat to The Economy. And who can blame them? They can't afford to. They've had to revert to bare-minimum Survival-Mode.
All those slime-trail-leaving mollusks and other slitherers that call the shots in the medical transcription industry make me sick. They're the Scum of the Earth.
Couldn't agree more!!! - anon
[ In Reply To ..]n/m
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