It's just amazing that a company filled with - supposedly such smart

people can be so stupid, or oblivious, to the fact that they have an over-abundance of MTs during the week that run out of work on a constant basis but, on the weekends, work is over-flowing to the tune of "help help help".

Can they not figure out that if they would cough up just a few more cents a line for someone to cover weekend shifts, and offer it IN HOUSE first, that this all could be eliminated?  Of course, I don't know why it amazes me.  These people never were in the transcription business.  They just saw where they could make incredible money to stick in their deep pockets and bleed it until it was gone. 

And the team leads....wouldn't you think they would get tired of begging and pleading all weekend long for someone to "save them"?  I know that if I were a team lead, I would be screaming my head off to the people above me in management to figure it out, that scheduling is a nightmare, that there has to be a better way...of course, I probably wouldn't have a job either because I would be livid by now. 

Welp....I'm done with this place.  I was with MedQuist for TEN YEARS.  Happy as a bug in a rug in the beginning years.  Then, voice recognition hit them and I hung on for as long as I possibly could stand it, waaaay longer than any of my coworkers, hoping it would change, it would get better, but when a job starts becoming that much of a stress factor in your life....well....it's just not worth it anymore.  Much like this one with Nuance.  It's just not worth it anymore.  It's not getting better, it's getting worse, day after day after day after day.

I've tried, I've changed my schedule to what you said would give me the most work, I've changed the DAYS I work, again, because of what you said.  I've offered to learn new accounts, I've learned over 15.  You promised me, "hang on just a couple more days, we've got a new account going live" over and over and over again.  Yup, another new account, another set of account specs to learn on top of the 15 I already have and there's no work in those either.  And, if there is, it lasts for about 2 days and then mysteriously disappears.  Nope nope nope....I'm done with my husband paying all the bills.  HE is done spending his well-earned retirement money on all of the household bills.  It's not fair to him for me to stay here....It's not fair TO ME!

I put in an application with Precyse a few days ago.  I learned that I got the job this past Friday.  Here I go again, switching companies again, this will be the 4th in 5 years.  I've never switched jobs like this in my life.  Never.  I just hope, wish, and pray this is the last one until I can retire in 2016.

Everyone here sticking it out, good luck.  I really really hope that it settles down and Nuance figures out how to manage people and schedules and realizes that they MUST pay some money to make money.  My advice to all of you....when you run out of work, clock out.  Go about your day.  Check in the next day, if there's no work, clock out again.  Don't check your email every hour.  Make them call you.  If there's work and it's still during your shift, then you gotta work.  If it's outside your shift, don't work it.  When they're begging for help on the weekends?  Just don't.  And I know it hurts...you really really need the money you can get on the weekends.  I do understand.  But, if you keep this up like you're doing, pretty soon you won't have a life at all.  Nuance will own it.  Nuance probably already owns your life if you can make it only by scrambling for weekend work only. 

Again, good luck, stay strong, don't let them insult your integrity and skills, or let them drag you down.