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Hiring frenzy or off shoring? - Pollyanna

Posted: Mar 20, 2014

Can it get any worse? So little pay, so much brow beating about errors and now work is disappearing!

Probably hiring frenzy. Ads asking for little to - no experience. Writing on the wall.

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Pollyanna - Anonymous

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It's these F---------N foreigners taking our jobs away!

No, it is absolute greed. - nm

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VR-ing. Bayscribe to VR - yes it CAN get worse with this "opportunity." nm - Oh well

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Saw that email - me

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Don't see how it can be a positive opportunity - sounds more tedious - listen, talk, listen, talk, proofread - time to make a move, not feeling very warm and fuzzy about this. In addition to work almost nonexistent the majority of the time.

I kept looking for the fine print - About a pay cut

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Didn't find any, but sure it's coming. I'll pass.

From my experience (prior Webmedx) - the pay cut is insidious

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First warning sign? Your company who has been bought out says they are going to pay you a small bonus for a few months.

This is no doubt because they have looked at the pay scale of Nuance and the average income and say, OMG, our people are not going to like this. So no doubt in the buyout deal they agreed to pay some of the huge amount they received to smother the instincts of the decent MTs by delaying the agony. Oh, they won't say that though, they will just call it "getting up to speed with Nuance's speech engine, getting used to the account, we are sure you will be up to speed after 6 months."

Total BS. It was just so we wouldn't immediately decamp and frankly it was nice to have that bonus for a few months, but then, when you are subjected to full FIESA, their tool for taking "bonuses" off you, get ready to be paid minimum wage and like it.

I have tried other places, they all either are in the process of being swallowed up by the big 2 or they are not acute care, which is my thing.

If one company would rise up and promise and deliver even SLIGHTLY better conditions for MTs, say you don't get docked for making errors, if you make errors consistently and without improvement you actually get help rather than your pay cut, we would all go there en masse. I so wish that would happen, because I am NOT someone who consistently makes errors and makes bad errors, yet they find a way to get my bonuses off me every time. They have 3 months to pick at your work and find little errors and they do it, trust me.

But even if you are the worst of the worst I don't believe they should be able to use QA as a tool to pick off your pay, and Nuance has perfected that.

You expressed it perfectly!.....sm - LoveMT

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Nuance has perfected a LOT of things... Cutting the pay to near poverty is just one of them and probably the worst...

I might add that they also KILL any self-esteem you might still have left after being shuffled through all of their nonsense and promises to the place where you end up working 10 hours a day but you're either only clocking 8 because at least 2 hours of "work" is NONPRODUCTION tasks or you clock 8 hours and only get in 6 hours ACTUAL production pay because you have spent hours DOING NONPRODUCTION TASKS. You just can't win no matter which way you turn with this company. It has literally become a living breathing nightmare for me, and I cannot WAIT until I can quit and never look back.

Bravo-well said - Schmuance

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You have it completely 100% right. Nuance comes in, absorbs you, keeps you at your hourly wage for a while, all under the guise that you will get up to speed and telling you that you will get incentive for producing additional lines and then they come in the backdoor and work to take your incentive away. I say stay for a few months of getting your hourly pay, while looking for another job, and then RUN, RUN, RUN when they drop you down to minimum wage/production pay. They aren't really "taking" your incentive or bonus away because you will never achieve it with the way the company has QA structured to work against the MLS. I love how they sell the bonus and incentive package to new MLS and then behind the scenes work to keep us from achieving it AND think we all don't get what they are doing. What a racket.

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