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Wage Thieves - Will

Posted: Feb 20, 2015

Why hasn't Nuance gotten into trouble over its compensation scheme? This is ridiculous. It is nothing but theft--pure and simple.

Because they have lots of money for lawyers and MTs don't. nm - DisillusionedMT

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It is still new but I predict there will be law suits - eventually. They obviously

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never thought this through to completion before implementing it. They obviously do not have the manpower or experienced manpower to complete audits timely which is a HUGE factor into the end compensation. I think that alone will be a key lawsuit issue eventually. There are too many variables and nothing concrete.

On call for Nuance with no pay - CINDY

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Its the only job I can think of that doesn't pay for us being on call, to sit and wait for that report to come in after 2 hours. They are getting away with murder and then they complain if you stay punched in one minute longer because they have to pay MUP. This company sucks and when we all quit that will be what they deserve.

Can you imagine getting fired because you typed the day in the wrong format. This is what this company has stooped to. Comma out of place, period out of place, number typed out instead of spelled. Aren't these all good reasons to get rid of transcriptionists that have vast knowledge of the medical language and many years of typing. We are people who have been typing as fast as we could for the past 20 years and all of a sudden Nuance thinks they can change our way of working. We aren't going to change our way of working, we are just going to change careers. You can have a good time trying to find every needle in a haystack Nuance of the tiniest mistakes you can all to have yourself f____d because you are a cold, cold, noncaring company and you deserve every piece of sh__ that you get. You are ruining peoples lives by not paying us anything, and then picking apart every thing you can. You will be the one ruined in the end when every single great MT that has many years experience quits and you have nothing left but India typists. Enjoy them. You think they are so great now, just wait till that's all you have left.

Well your score is only 95% because - CINDY

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You had 100% score all up till Friday when you typed the date in the wrong format and so your score dropped to 95%. I told you if you have a short report and you make a mistake your score will go down. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh I typed the date in the wrong format. Fire me over that. Don't worry that I just typed 2000 lines of medical words and everything else correct. You worry about that one little date typed in the wrong format. You piece of crap company. Have fun training all the new people, till they find out what assholes you are also.

Same thing happened to me. - Knocked me off grid.

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Voice wreck had the date in numeric form even though the doctor dictated it with words instead of numbers. I didn't change it. I guess the days of "light editing" are over. I never got that memo. I got dinged big time and fell off the grid.

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