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Actually Excited To Start May 6 w/Nuance - Smeeps

Posted: Apr 21, 2013

Just finally able to get established from home and no more commute! Gotta look at the bright side, right?

how exciting for you - lets celebrate

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Thats my birthday!

Good for you - NMT

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I really like working here and I hope you enjoy it too. There's been a lot of OT lately too that I'm loving :).
There's a lot of training (paid) to go through at first as I'm sure you were told but just take it one step at a time and it will all come together!!

SMEEPS - Penelope

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I have been at Nuance for almost 5 months now and I have not had any problems. I have been a transcriptionist for almost 40 years now. I only work PT for them and it is late at night, as I work for another company during the day. I have my challenges just like everyone else, but I have not had any problems with nuance. Welcome aboard!

If you say so. I am going back to work outside the home - full-time, this will be my last wk at home. No mor

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Sigh...I will continue on part-time statutory with another company though, one that lets me work as few hours as 15, maybe 16.

Quitting Nuance - recentlyoutsourced

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I quit Nuance back in January of this year and SO SO HAPPY At my new job, outside the home. Been working from home for almost 17 years. This clinic PAYS BETTER, APPRECIATES THE EMPLOYEES AND LETS ME WORK! I worked for Nuance for 1 HORRIBLE year. Don't trust these MTSO's....THEY ALL LIE...was told I would get to keep my account after they took over our hospital (LIE!)and told I get to keep current PTO accrual (LIE!). They give the nastiest dictators to us US folks and send the easy ones to India, AFTER we trained the system for VR. Soon as we get moved to Hawaii, I'm finding another line of work other than MT.....

Nice to hear. Keeping your hand in and skilled options - open is sensible. Best wishes. nm

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Good luck - anon

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Just keep a very close eye on your QA and fight, fight, fight every stupid "false" correction you are likely to get.

Welcome! sm - NTSMT

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I am very content at Nuance. Hope you are happy as well!

starting NTS - miffedMT

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Hope you like getting paid PENNIES! If you sit in your chair for 16 hours a day, you MIGHT make a decent wage. GOOD LUCK!

Getting out - sick and tired

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This is my last week working from home as well. Working at home definitely has its advantages but I can't take transcription anymore, it is really bringing me down. I am looking forward to getting out in the world again doing something different.

Here's another way to look at it: 2000 hard worked hours - next year, MINUS $20K in income. $20 thousand

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dollars below what you would have earned outside.

Enjoy your lack of commute, Smeeps. You'll save more gas than just commuting gas because you will have no pocket money to shop with. Oh, BTW, $20K lost x2 years = $40K. $20K lost x5 years = $100K.

No matter where you're starting from, no matter how used you may already be to living in a cruddy neighborhood on very little, you're obviously not accustomed to actual desperation. Well, continue the slide you're on, and you're going to get acquainted with it.

No need to be nasty. I'm just grateful to have a job.. Sm - smeeps

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I love what I do. Would I like to make more, sure. Since events in my life, 6 years ago, I have wanted to find a way to spend more time with my family; now I can and still earn a meager income. It'll help pay the bills and keep food in the pantry. We've learned to live lean and hopefully will remain that way. As for the naysayers who will comment that people like me are the reasons MTSOs are paying the way they do, well that's their opinion. I don't claim to be better than anyone else. With that being said, I wish all of you here health and happiness.

I find it kind of odd - anon

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regarding the comments which border on rage towards other MTs daring to take a job or god forbid like the job they have with an MTSO.

I too have lost about $20K a year over the past 2-3 years and it hurts but I knew the writing was on the wall 10 years ago and made the error of not getting out when I could. I find myself trapped in this biz for another 2 years at least.

However, if others are happy, I don't find myself enraged by it. I also do not believe those who continue to work are responsible for anything that has happened.

Like many industries, the corporations have simply chosen to take their business to other countries for profit, it has NOTHING to do with US MTs.

Yet, Anon, my guess that Smeeps was probably already - low-ish at least income was right. Not

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the wildest guess. These days, younger people who enter or stay in this field are typically already accustomed to constricted, low income lives, with little accumulated and modest hopes and expectations for the future.

You can say you don't find yourself "enraged" by dangerously irresponsible choices, but it wouldn't be too off the wall to be concerned. You sound like you're about my age or so. You must know how bitterly this choice could cost her over the years, shaping the entire rest of her life - and those of her family.

Smeeps, the American dream isn't dead. It's alive and well for many. It's just that you no longer just sort of willy nilly find your way from here to there by working at some ordinary job for a couple of decades. You need to actually choose one of the paths that leads up.

Sharing your experience is one thing - anon

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and is doing a great service to anyone thinking of becoming an MT. However, getting extremely angry at MTs for staying in the field or being "okay" with the low wages because hubs has a good job seems pointless.

I simply do not believe the people entering or staying in the field and accepting the new reality of low wages are responsible for said low wages.

The world turns on profit and when the MTSOs turned to other options (SR and foreign workers) they no longer needed to pay a competitive wage.

In the end there will probably be only a handful of US MTs left who will make minimum wage, just like what happened in the 1980's when Right To Work Laws killed the union in most states. The corporations simply moved their business to states where they could pay minimum wage instead of union wages. Then those jobs went to other countries. It is not the workers fault, it is corporate greed.

Not Low On Income Scale, just frugal in living - smeeps

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My husband has a great job and was a good saver. My income is needed to help pay bills. I am by no means young (42), but am realistic when it comes to my salary. I don't expect to be paid x-amount of dollars because I am in MT, but realize that the salary (recent) of MTs isn't what it once was. Therefore, when I had the opportunity to work from home with Nuance, I jumped on it. The salary isn't much more than I was making in-house at the hospital (which will be outsourcing shortly). It is just a better fit for me and my family. Don't assume that because I am willing to work for x-amount of dollars that I am low-income.

Not young? Smeeps, you're going to live for - 40-60 years, whatever comes! nm

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I agree - medical monkey

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You are right. The big business of transcription is sent overseas just like the job I used to have, textile. Unfortunate, but that is the way of it.

Hope it works for you. Problem is, life typically has many - "events" and the poor no extra resources. nm

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Sm-SMEEPS - penelope

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Honey, I love what you said. You are right, we are ALL lucky to have a job. And, Yes, we would love to be making 6 figures or at least $30,000 a year but that is behind us. We need to quit living beyond our means and live simple healthy, loving lives and not wanting more. If anyone has a better idea then bring it on, but a job is a job, eating is eating, having family is the most imiportant. Make the best of what you have and be happy that you are still here to enjoy it.

Oh goody, another "employee" trying to do damage control - Spin Away

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this company still blows

No, she is not an employee doing damage control. A year or - so ago, she was posting what a

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hard time she was having trying to pass MT tests for different places. So, she is not a long-time Nuance employee. And I hope she does well after all the trouble she had before

I apologize then. I guess I just still hold a grudge against this co - SM

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If they hadn't affected my life so profoundly, I'd be over it by now. I wish the poster the best.

Yes, I remember Smeeps. She was posting about - working for TTD..SM

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The company that payed 3 cpl and ripped off their MTs. I am also glad she got an in-house hospital job, sorry to hear that they are outsourcing, but at least now she has more experience. I imagine she is excited to be starting with Nuance, her first ligit MT company. Yes, we all know pay sucks but she says she does not need much money and is only doing it to help her husband so it may be a good fit for her.

Good for you!!! Keep that excitement!! - OHMT

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Absolutely EVERY job has faults, it's a fact of life. It's how you handle them that counts. I'm a 23 year vet of MT and I've done it all, even owned my own service. I've made fantastic money doing this from home and I've made lousy money. The bottom dropped out of my world when speech recognition finally weasled it's way into every MTSO, hospital, and clinic I ever worked for and I thought I was done with this career that I LOVE so much. I'm not a youngster either and I don't like change much. BUT, after looking outside my home at what is out there?? I put on my big girl panties and decided that I wanted to STAY doing what I love. With speech recognition, it's an entirely new ball game. We MUST learn this career all over again with different techniques, attitudes, and work processes. If you think of it this way and treat all new information as "exciting" and learn ALL you can, establish good habits and routines from the get-go, it does eventually pay off. I remember first starting this career when everyone around me was making 1500 2000 lines and I was making 300!!! I cried like a baby. With speech recognition, once again, I cried like a baby because everyting was different. Roll with the punches and learn how to do it all over again. I've been with Nuance for 13 months now and I had a rough rough time of it for the first 7 or 8 months!! I really thought I was going to be fired at any moment. But I kept on doing the very best job I could, listened to the constructive critism that I got and applied it. Yes, I checked FIESA and before I even read the corrections, I was STEAMING MAD because I just KNEW I hadn't done anything wrong. Guess what? Their critique was just, I made notes and made sure I didn't do the same thing again. I have 7 different accounts in my work pools and I figured out how to make my own cover sheet on each one that addressed those questions I had most often on each account. Anything else, I kept the account specifics on my desktop at the ready to use the "find" feature for what I was needing. The more times you look that stuff up, the faster you will remember it, or insert it on the cover sheet for the account. Work SMARTER, not harder.

Please don't let all the naysayers on here get to you. I did and it kept my chin in the dirt. Make your OWN path. Good luck. YOU CAN DO IT!!

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