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How many MTSOs have reps posting on this board? - More than one, obviously.

Posted: May 26, 2012

Yes - I was born at night, but not LAST night.

how would anyone know for certain - its an anon board

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I could say that I am, but I am really not, but maybe in my trying to convince you that I am not, you really think I am, but no one really knows for sure.

I believe it was a rhetorical question. - ...and one worth pondering.

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Since I understand the technological and linguistic challenges of VR, to say nothing of the process of editing itself, I am very suspicious of messages claiming, for instance, speeds of 700 lph.

I am also suspicious of shrill posts from people who seem to feel threatened by any expression of dissatisfaction, and who seem to believe that the best form of defense is attack. They do this by immediately questioning the credentials, capabilities, experience, etc. of anyone who expresses frustration with VRE, the atrocious rates being paid for this *knowledge* work (emphasis on *knowledge*), etc.

I am suspicious of polyann-ish posts that nearly repeat, word-for-word, the constant drumbeat of childish happy-talk that team leads are prone to deliver.

Ditto, the posts that mimic the inane advice we get from the same sources - particularly this one: "Work more and complain less" - when they have no idea whether I might be (a) out of work, or (b) posting on my time off (as I am now).

That there *are* shills, plants and phonies on the forum is not the least bit in question, but it's interesting to speculate how many there are. Whatever the number, they stink up the place.

MTs are pretty good at context, and at reading - between the lines. Dead giveaway.

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nm

I'm with Nuance, seriously underpaid but not otherwise - abused. I represent myself and am otherwise

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satisfied with the business. I prefer editing to transcribing and am good at it. Tighter schedules are unpleasant but justifiable, same for monitoring keystrokes.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.

Now, please stop with the pretense that all the people who're doing sort of okay or even better aren't valid members of this board. Am I on the same team as those who lower themselves to those tactics? No, relentless complaining and smear jobs aren't my style. But I'm not going anywhere either.

"Seriously underpaid but not otherwise abused"?? - Hello?

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The mind boggles. Seriously underpaid, but not OTHERWISE abused? I can't even wrap my brain around that.

Underpayment IS abuse. - nm - Meerkat

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LOL - wheres_my_job

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oh, if we could just have a party in person, and everyone reveals their true identity! THAT would be interesting.

Yep, they got their spin doctors trying to do damage - control. They sure aint foolin ME!

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When you read a post that you think just couldn't POSSIBLY be from a real MT, most likely it isn't.

But if everyone who says they're doing okay are liars, - here to deceive you,

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everyone else is failing.

So, WHY are you here? What on earth is everyone doing still in this field? Enjoying a nice slide and just waiting to hit rock bottom yet? Seriously. This has been happening, getting worse and worse, for years now. How can you stay when ultimate economic disaster at the bottom of the skid is the only option?

Paranoid - whocares

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Who cares anyway? This has caused paranoia on this board. In another thread, someone accused me of not being an MT, and that my identity was shown for real on Facebook. I was like, WTH? So, I replied with the company I work for and told them to call them and chill out. And, why did they say that? Because I SHARED SOMETHING NICE. Imagine that. That showed me that the % of MTs here take the cyber world way too seriously.

Paranoia for a few. Most are just mob attacking MTs who have - not joined their group. The problem, of course,

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is all the poor souls who come here for information and perspective and run into a board threatening to be swamped by this hooligan behavior.

We all of us need to keep reporting our own experiences--good, bad, indifferent, whatever. Simply, honestly, and in useful detail. Consider it a good deed, because it really is. Long after posts scroll down and are forgotten people trying to make important decisions are still coming by and searching them for the information they need.

They don't fool me either - because

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When things were going good for me some years ago, I felt no need to come to this board. Nowadays with minimum wage the norm and crappy VR, I come here to vent and gripe and complain, same as the rest of us, and to realize that I am not alone. That alone gives me some solace. That is not to say I don't have a plan for getting out, I do, I work on it daily, but for now I am stuck in this job and coming here helps keep me sane. These people who come here and talk about how well they are doing are not fooling anyone, they attack us for staying in a job that makes us unhappy or say we are negative or bitter. I've said this before on this board, why would MTs who are more successful attack those of us who are struggling? That's why I am not fooled.

men - really

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I hear what you are saying. I do believe, though, this would not be happening if this board were full of men. I am a proclaimed feminist, but here, I believe it's this underlying plague women have to compete against one another.

If MT were a man's field, all these problems likely - wouldve never happened. nm

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nm

Man's field - Gerri

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I think there are a lot of men who are MTSO's. They do not know what being an MT means and they are only after the fast buck. One of the top guys (and I do mean guy) came to the hospital where I worked and tried to get the hospital to use his company. When we asked questions, he did not have a clue as to what was being asked.

House, it's not venting on problems we all share that - we object to. It is that

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for some people just venting doesn't do it. Indulgence of THEIR feelings requires lies, buckets of them one after another. Raging the boards with verbal torches. Malice. Distortion. Abusing other MTs who try to maintain some kind of balance.

As for "attacks" by successful MTs who suggest trying harder and better would pay off, if you're a good MT, normally work your schedule fairly industriously without goofing off, and have developed your skills and speed continually over the years (in other words, a normal competent MT), we aren't talking to YOU.

If you came here and admitted to some combination of being a goof-off, lazy, slow, sloppy, bad at grammar and punctuation, but did NOT put all the blame for your low income on your employer, we weren't talking to YOU either. (Of course, who ever does that?)

If you spent 20 years in a hospital or clinic as a valuable hourly pay worker before everything changed, now find employers consider you hopelessly slow and underskilled, are even slower at editing than transcription, and are unable to make a living, BUT you ask how to get better, for sure people always are glad to offer helping hands and share the tips it took them months and years, and considerable personal investment, to develop. This is a great place to come for help.

Here's the issue: This field is full of normal competent MTs of average skill level putting in their hours regularly, working steadily, not slaving and not goofing off either, who should be paid a living income in return for their service. By that I mean $30-40K working full time.

Their story is being LOST in the mud kicked up by people who come here complaining that they can't even make the minimum wage a sweeper at Arby's makes (typically in spite of 20 years' experience) because they're being cheated.

Umhm. Can't even make as much as a sweeper does and it's all somebody else's fault. Something is really wrong with that picture, and everybody knows it. Competent MTs really need to stop letting these people claim to represent them to the world, claim to be typical MTs, because everybody also knows employers watching these boards are all hoping and praying they don't accidentally end up hiring people who behave like that. There are undoubtedly some very sad stories and problems hiding behind some of these furious postings, but personal problems are not industry issues we can expect the companies to address.

Translation - If I'm failing, then EVERYONE must be failing - Ad Nauseum

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Another poster was right.

Why don't all of you collectively start a new forum, such as "Miserable and/or Failing MTs Unite" or something similar.

Successful MTs "sure aint foolin ME" yet you're "foolin'" yourself by refusing to believe some are doing quite well in this business.

If you're so miserable that you've decided ANY MT with a positive experience is a "spin doctor" (lol), why even bother to open up a positive post? Just so you can post back and attempt to discredit anyone who doesn't wallow in the trough full of misery with you?

Pathetic. IMO, just plain crazy and delusional. I suspect the very negative attitude you display towards EVERYONE who expresses a positive experience is probably at the root of your lack of success and misery at your job.

JMHO, of course.

If we are employed by an MTSO, then one way or another - We indeed ARE their reps

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Just because not everyone is miserable and failing does not mean we're somehow compensated for expressing a positive opinion.

The disgruntled MTs on this board really need to look within themselves as to why *they* are not succeeding in this field.

To keep deluding yourself that if another MT is not miserable and failing in this field, and accusing those MTs that are successful of being "suits," "liars" and now apparently "agents", does an even greater disservice to yourself than it does to the other MTs.

Putting it bluntly, if the postings of successful and happy MTs on this board elicits this type of negative response in you, then perhaps you should consider taking a break from the boards and look into more productive ways to spend your free time.

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