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MTs Seek a Fair Shake - AHDI magazine article

Posted: Sep 11, 2012

I just saw this posted by AHDI and don't see it discussed yet.

Just curious what you all think of this article?

AWhat a bunch of hippocrits. They are why we are in this mess. - Couldnt stand to finish the article. nm

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Glad to see it - Leaving MT

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I am glad to see it being reported. I think it was a fairly accurate reflection of what has happened to MT. I still feel rather bleak about the future of MT, however. As long as schools keep turning out desperate new MTs willing to accept any pay scale to "work from home," I don't see any incentive in a quantity-over-quality driven industry to change its compensation, especially now with MT jobs being scarcer than even when I attended school 4-1/2 years ago. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for things to change any time soon.

Get your story straight--not AHDI at all - anon

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This was written by and published in For The Record magazine. Nothing to do with AHDI at all.

I think what she was referring to is all the quotes - taken from AHDI regarding compensation.

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Although regular MTs are interviewed, note that all of them are CMTs or RMTs... AHDI's bogus "credential".

As the article progresses, a lot of the info is coming from AHDI. Especially when you get to the part that says we should all have their "credential".

I think it's even more interesting that all of a sudden backpedalling on a lot of things, almost in the same breath as the mention of the lawsuit going forward against Transcend. It's heartening to read that other MTs are looking into lawsuits against these dishonest MTSOs, in addition to the original 13.

Maybe AHDI is trying to cover it's own rear, just in case some of us go gunning for them, next. I would imagine there could be quite a bit of a settlement to be gained from suing their deep pockets, and maybe they realize that and are trying to cover their tracks, in terms of how much of this mess they're directly responsible for.

Well excuuuuse me, I made an error in whose story it was. - Not like it makes a difference.......

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It was posted on AHDI's facebook page, makes reference to AHDI and their stance multiple times through the article, and a very brief scan of that website brought up many articles about AHDI (as I'd never heard of "for the record magazine"), so I assumed it was their article.

"Get your story straight" is a bit aggressive over a simple error, isn't it? Pretty sure it doesn't matter who wrote it, it may as well have been an article published by AHDI with all the BS contained in it.

Apparently, it does... - Des

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The thread right before this one, which discusses the same article, doesn't mention the article as being affiliated with AHDI and it gets mostly positive responses.

Your post, however, suggests such affiliation and gets mostly negative responses.

Also, this same article is discussed again on the Nuance board. - nm

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As long as the job market is so bad - It is not going to get any better

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Right now, too many MTs in our country truly cannot find another job that works in their life situation.

Also, as long as India is involved, there will be an incredible downward pull on salaries. There is a vast sea of well-educated, English-speaking, hard-working and motivated people in India who are happy to take our jobs.

My 4 cents' worth

If AHDI really cared about the MTs they supposedly - "represent", then why arent they

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fighting tooth and nail to stop the hemorrhage of American MT work offshore? Instead, they're advocating for more of it going offshore, to China.

No matter how happy those people are to take our jobs, they wouldn't be able to do it if MTSO's didn't hand them over on a silver platter.

And the MTSO's wouldn't be handing so much, or maybe not even any, of it over if they weren't getting so many perks and tax breaks for doing so.

If AHDI were REALLY "for" the American MT, they'd be fighting for legislation to heavily tax American companies that offshore jobs.

Hypocrites, is right. One would almost (but not quite) - -sm- Meerkat

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believe, from reading that article, that AHDI is just learning about all the inequities of MT compensation for the first time. What a bunch of baloney. A lot of the so-called el-cheapo "standards" the industry is following today came from the morally-challenged gargoyles that started this godforsaken organization.

When they talk about hourly pay, they think $14/hour cuts it? Starting hourly pay for this job should be more in the neighborhood of $18/hour, and go up from there, depending upon experience, difficulty of accounts, shift differential, etc. And VR should not be done cheaper, as it's harder to do.

I had to laugh when I got to the 2nd-to-last paragraph, where they say one thing that should be done is all MTs should be credentialled. [SNORT!] Yeah, AHDI biddies, we've already heard that one before. You can take your fake credential and _____________. (Fill in the action of your choice here).

Well stated! - meer

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you go girl/guy!

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