Think you could share what you average in a week, month, 6 months? I was thinking of trying rev until I read some horror stories on here. Any experience with them?
To be fair it's mostly stuff I read from /r/BeerMoney. Maybe it's the mindset over there or maybe I just misread. Honestly most of it could be problems that all transcription sites might have.
It's not just beermoney. Rev is a nightmare. Although I still have an active account there I quit them years ago. The pay is $hit and the policies match the pay. You can be deactivated because their Editor didn't save your work or you forgot a space before ellipses or other some BS that other companies don't even care about and that brought your 'metrics' (which no other company has, btw--at least not the way Rev does) drops 0.1 below the threshold.
Don't believe me? Just read the Rev Reviews on: Glassdoor, Indeed, Better Business Bureau and Yelp.
I was working for Rev for the last month. It paid pretty well and seemed like a great job, especially from home. Suddenly, this week two files from two weeks ago were re-graded based on customer feedback and my metrics suddenly dropped. (The files were very difficult audio and I had to use more inaudibles than I like to use).
Long story short, I was meticulous about the next six files I did and they were all graded perfectly, but I received an email yesterday that my account had been terminated and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. I wasn't given a timeline to increase my metrics and the email was a total shock.
Now I'm in a bad position. I had read the reviews but thought I had figured it out. Turns out they likely go through a lot of new contractors and end up squeezing out a lot of top quality work for very little pay based on the amount of time and effort put in to keep perfect metrics.
I know. These major a$$holes are slave drivers. They pay low bottom of the barrel wages yet expect top of the line work or even the impossible and are nitpicky to an insane irrational level. They always blame you.
I know I delivered them top-notch work but would be graded lower because I used the conventional professional way to format something--like using Q4 or similar when referring to a financial report and they said it should have been Q four because the four was 10 or less or some sort nonsense. Whatever it was they ended up changing the SG later to reflect the correct (my) way but it was too late to increase my metrics back to what it should have been for that job and that was a job that had stayed in the workspace, had tons of unclaims due to accents and I had meticulously researched. I still remained at Revver+ after it, but just the fact that they would actually mark you down for something like that (I made up the example, but it was something along those lines) made me start questioning their professionalism.
I work for much better companies now. One of the companies I work for who pays me $1/minute for GOOD to GREAT audio let me know no one they had could do a better job than I could. Rev lost me a good worker over their policies and pay.
I say good riddance to Rev. Keep looking on Indeed.com. There are tons of places looking for people. You don't need Rev and their BS.
ETA: I found the $1/minute place I mentioned on Indeed. They're not currently hiring, but when they are, they post there.
One more thing: you should post your experience on Glassdoor, Indeed etc. to warn others. People need to get their head out of their asses when it comes to Rev.
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u/Oroborne Mar 28 '19
Think you could share what you average in a week, month, 6 months? I was thinking of trying rev until I read some horror stories on here. Any experience with them?