I had a very surprising and disappointing experience today with an online contractor. Surprising, because it came out of nowhere and disappointing because the contractor decided to “vent” to my admin person who is a trainee and learning about not only my business, but business in general. The “venting” via MSN Messenger was so out of line and just plain rude that the only option I had was to block them. Given that they had decided to not work for us anyway, it didn’t seem that harsh to choose that course of action. But is it...

Running, no sprinting into the 21st Century the team at The Transcription People are starting to become more and more active in social media in Australia and Worldwide so now it is time for our blog to be born. The role of your stereotypical typist has changed greatly over the last ten years. We no longer use dictaphone tapes, audio files are now now digital and shared across the internet. We don’t wear large headphones on our ears straining to hear the the audio we have to type above the noise of a mechanical typewriter, these have been replaced by...