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Transcend versus TransTech? - Just Opinions Please-no bashing each other.

Posted: Sep 20, 2011

Considering both. Anybody working at either now? How are things? Anybody worked at either in the past? Why did you leave? Thanks for any help.

TransTech is okay but - sm

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it is very difficult to make money at TT doing VR. The accounts I did VR for were horrendous. It would have been faster for me to straight type most of the reports rather than edit them. I did like TT's platform and the fact that they leave you alone to work. They are also very understanding when it comes to needing personal time off. Just went broke there. My take home pay every two weeks was about 550 bucks (this is working 80 hours in 2 weeks). Maybe I am just bad at VR!

It's not you. It's Transtech. - Suzy Pudenda

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It is impossible to make any money with their crappy VR. Nice does not pay the rent. Calling your employees "Sweetie" and "Dear" does not pay the rent. Cute little cartoon emails do not pay the rent.

Look elsewhere. TT blows.

VR - working girl

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The VR is escription or ExText, which is what most MTSO's use. Sounds like you just don't want to try anything new. I can produce close to 3,000 lines a day. To each their own. IMO

Typical TT Suit reply. No one is fooled anymore, TT. - Suzy Pudenda

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This is the typical TT suit response you get when you complain about their crappy VR. It's YOU, not THEM.

LOL. Though they do call you Dearie as they are trying to make you feel it is YOUR problem. Hey, I've dated men like that!

I find anyone using 'dearie, sweatie' looking down their nose at others. - not respectful or business-like. (sm)

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Bet they don't stroke the client in that manner.

MHO.

3000 seems almost impossible, but like you almost said, to each his own. - Marmie

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People who say they produce this with TT's crappy VR are either lying... - Suzy Pudenda

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Or responsible for the complete garbage I have seen in completed patient medical records. Transtech's VR totally blows and with what they pay, they are not able to keep anyone halfway decent. A recipe for disaster.

This is of course just my opinion, mileage may vary, yadda, yadda, yadda, as Transtech is known for suing their MTs who dare to speak out on this forum.

Nope, not you at all (sm) - exTTer

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Oh no, it was not just you. I had to leave, too. I went in a space of one year from bringing home $1500-1800 every two weeks to BARELY getting enough lines to pay for my insurance with some pocket change left over as a paycheck and that was putting in roughly 100 hours a pay period sitting in front of my computer literally praying for work to come through.

I was on the same account, same dictators, same platform, etc. The work began to slow down to such a degree (and, yes, I had backup accounts and I do all work types so it was not a question of being self-limiting) with just the usual nonsensical "nature of the beast" replies. I begged to differ, as I had my timesheets from the previous 2 years that proved that excuse invalid.

So, no, it was not just you. I managed to land a FT position with a small MTSO, all straight typing, and my weekly pay is twice what my bi-weekly pay at TT was without having to be shackled to my computer 18 hours a day waiting for work (nor to be forced to sit totally and completely uncompensated at my computer with no work for an entire shift on a holiday).

I can't tell you how leaving TT and going someplace with plenty of work and working just an 8-hour shift every day and watching my pay fall back to that of "the good old days" rejuvenated my love of the MT field.

As always, the above is just my experience and my opinion, yada yada yada...I've never worked for Transcend so I can offer no words of wisdom there, but I did want to validate your post as I experienced the precise same scenario you described.

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