I’m sorry to hear that you feel this way, Jolie. But, the rise of the internet has made it possible for anyone to work anywhere in the world. It is not only in the US that people from other countries can get jobs. We have other locations like UK, Canada, Australia, etc. This kind of mindset really limits us, and I hope that you will embrace the flexibility and confort that such online companies provide.

They try to justify the criminal violation of US laws by saying they hire the inexperienced. It does not matter whether you have experience. Entry level jobs in the US are required to pay living wage. Paying below minimum wage is stealing. It is a violation of US labor law and US fair labor practice. Stealing is stealing no matter how you look at it. Most of these online sweatshops are foreign-based or operated by foreign nationals from India, South America, Mexico, or they have communist and socialist agendas that don’t do anything good for people in the US.

There are all sorts of cheats and abuses besides the ones described that go on there at Scribie and other online sweatshops. Of all of them, I think creating or perpetuating poverty is the worst. In my opinion it is worse than being dishonest about pay rates, giving unfair grades that take eight hours of extra time per day to challenge and reverse, or discrimination against English-speaking or white people when they become “too successful” by their foreign standards, meaning they earn too much, or rise too high.

For anyone who is an average typist of 30-60/WPM their false advertising of earnings is never going to happen, and if the East Indians or other foreigners who are the owners and operators find out you’re a white person, forget it. They will cut you for no legitimate reason if you consistently earn more than a few dollars a day. If you make it to the top, they will douse you and start over with another low earner.

It’s a communist or socialist mindset that anyone whose head is above water should be drowned I guess. They punish success and try to make everyone a homogenous, impoverished, failure. Misery loves company.

It’s ironic because the people who have the least expense in the world for cost of living are trying to punish those whose cost of living in the US is the highest. They get free education, free medical care, low-cost housing, and they still try and undercut the US wage base and steal jobs and opportunities in the US where we have to pay for everything. And they want to call Americans greedy? Hardly. We don’t get a free ride. We earn our way. They get a free ride and still steal from us right and left. It’s not fair in the least.

They ought to be prohibited from soliciting labor in the US. The fact that Trump is showing them the door is probably a good thing and the fairest thing we’ve seen in the last decades. They are violators of minimum wage law and don’t even come close to living wage law in this country.

Thank you, Anthony!

Hello Anne,

I would say yes and no. Yes, because many medical transcriptionists start as general transcriptionists then venture into medical transcription after getting their fit wet. No, because I only teach on general transcription. There’s a lot of info that you may require that I do not teach on my blog. It would be best to seek out places like http://www.careerstep.com/medical-transcription-training

I’m not sure, Caro because it seems to have a very low score on Scamanalyze. I only rank sites I’ve personally dealt with or that I have seen my fellow transcribers deal with.

Regards
Carol

What is Speechtotextservice’s ranking?

Most welcome Rene. Regards.