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Ever gone through new hire and decided you didn't want the job? - mt

Posted: Mar 20, 2013

Has anyone ever gone to work for one of the major transcription companies but then decided they did not want the job. More along the lines of doing the new hire and they realizing this is not a company you want to work for?

Yeah, I lasted about 2 hours with Softscript :) - nm

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Well I guess you did your best at wasting a company's time. nm - SOI

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uncalled for assumption - sm

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You don't know the circumstances. There's nothing wrong with what she did. Perhaps the company wasted the employee's time. Employment at will.

who's wasted time - OldsterMT

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And how many companies have wasted an MT/ Editor/QA's time when the advertised position was not what we were led to believe? There are plenty of times when these companies waste our time, i.e., extensive application process; multiple levels of interviews when it could have taken one; "we definitely have a job for you, but can you wait until the new account starts?"; bait and switch of accounts; or after passing up other promising opportunities as we hold our breath, oops, this company has already filled all the positions, although we definitely were "hired."

That's why it's called probation period. Both the company and the employee/contractor get to decide if the job is a good opportunity or not.

Not to mention spending an hour or more testing! - sm

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Companies expect us to take these extremely long tests, even though we have VERIFIABLE work history! It wouldn't even be so bad if they said..."Okay, take this test and if you pass, we will hire you." No, they have hundreds of MTs take a test to hire for only five positions. All of the other MTs never even hear back most of the time. THEN, if the same company is hiring again, a month later, they expect you to test AGAIN. I would never worry about wasting their time, as they have wasted way too much of mine!

Yep and I did not listen to the voices telling me - it was a bad idea and I stuck it out. Worse decis

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A couple of years ago I was hired by the then Focus Infomatics. I had a good job straight typing and I thought I'd get in with one of the big guys and learn how to do editing before I was forced into it and still had good income coming from the straight typing job. The recruiting process went great, but the team lead they gave me to was a FLAKE. I resigned and then let myself get talked into staying by recruiting only if I got put on another team. I should have listened to the first set of signs and left when I said I would. I almost lost my house working for that company.

If it's wrong and your gut is telling you it's wrong, you need to listen. You rarely regret it.

Change of heart - sm - MT4_15years

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Once because of the posts I read on line about the company were all negative and could not find a positive post to convince me otherwise.

more than once - anon-again

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Once was with DSG out of Atlanta, GA. From the first week, I knew I had made a mistake. NJA, inconsistent QA feedback, account specifications that were nonexistent or contradictory. Within a few weeks, I knew this was not going to work. Shortly thereafter, I learned that I had multiple colleagues that had gone through the same experience within a similar time that I did.

I had an even more discouraging experience with Keystrokes. I wasted a tremendous amount of unpaid time because tech support couldn't load their program. The coordinator/trainer was not available, although I was. The training was wasted time. Then, although supposedly the account I was assigned had a huge backlog of work and they oh so desperately needed my help, voila, there was barely any work, if any from day one. I begged for a second account and was promised this would occur immediately. Of course, this never materialized. This had to be the most disorganized company I have ever dealt with and I walked away without hesitation within about 3 weeks.

Here's the deal. One only owes any employer a good day's work, one day at a time, in any industry. If there's no work, if it's not a good fit, if the compensation turns out to not be what you were originally told, if any parameters are not what a person needs to make a living income or to keep their sanity, then we need to do whatever it is to move on. Just as these MTSOs do not guarantee us work, we don't have to guarantee them a warm body.

Yes, I have. - sm

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I was desperate for a job and applied everywhere and Focus Infomatics offered me a job. She actually didn't even offer, she called me and TOLD me my start date. She asked that I attend an inservice that all other established employees were currently attending, due to a time clock change. I went to the inservice and multiple employees were asking questions like "Well, I will have maybe two jobs, then no jobs for a couple of hours, do I clock out for that?" Right there, I hung up my phone. If the current employees didn't have work, what would make me think I would have work.

I also fell for the whole Global Information Systems "scam". I was told pay was only 5 cpl due to multiple pull-in lines and I would actually be making 10 cpl or more. ONE DAY and the doctor assigned to me had ZERO pull-in lines and they were all three to four-line reports, absolutely no way to make money at 8 or 9 cpl, much less 5 cpl. Emailed my supervisor and told her this and she said "Not all dictators have pull-in lines, this is the doctor assigned to you." I just logged off and never logged in again.

Yes, and like another poster said, I didn't listen to my little voice - Shoulda Known Better

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My experience was SS - I knew from the interview this wasn't a good place - that plus all the negative posts on the boards. But I needed a job and this one was right in front of me so I jumped into shark infested waters and took it. It was the biggest mistake EVER and I wasted of MY time doing THEIR horrible job. Learned my lesson - will always listen to my little voice!

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