Dont agree. It is never to late to try to make life

• While I am not a "suit" - I do know this...sm - southernMT
  • Mostly right - me
  • WRONG! - You are so...
    • I agree. In a normal work environment, not only - sm
      • The MTSOs have really been out in full - sm
        • I know - and they think we don't know! - LOL!!
          • I'm sorry, laughing so hard - ROTFL
          • If the work force is so intelligent, why do they - continue to stay in bad situation? Why allow SM
            • MTs - sammie
            • Maybe because we have been doing this for 30+ years - ....and it's too late for us
              • Oh my, please don't give up! sm - MT30+
                • That's not really what " I " said... - NMMT
                  • first of all I wasn't singling any one sm - MT30+
                    • Not touchy... - NMMT
                      • well I am glad you are a newbie sm - MT 30+
                        • sm - NMMT
                          • I am NOT judging anyone skills sm - MT30+
              • Dont agree. It is never to late to try to make life - better. Waiting until tomorrow is one more day SM
    • There are a lot of different circumstances........ sm - m
    • Wow. Naive. nm - southernMT
      • YES YOU ARE - AND RUDE TOO!
        • Love these snappy replies, lol. - nm
    • Those things MTs pay for are tax deductions. And - who pays for the means of dictation getting from S
    • "MTSOs do NOT have to pay for building leases and utilities because most of their staff works rem - wow
      • FYI - A lot of MTSOs do have - ht
        • Oh Poor MTSO - must cost them - $200 month for electricity
          • My husband and his brother have a business with a small office that has 12 people in it. - MT2long
            • Exactly. If all think MTSO just cashs checks, let - them get own clients and see how easy it is. SM
              • AMEN! I too prefer to just work sm - MT 30+
                • Exactly back atcha, MT 30+ - I don't want to be the one up all night when the reports are out of - ncmt
  • MTSO - Z
    • MTSO has taken "our wonderful pets" as a - business prototype. THey treat us like dogs. SM
    • What do our "wonderful pets" have to do with - business. As long as MTs have these pie in SM
      • MTSO - MM
      • I don't understand why people make posts - confused
        • Venting is fine. But when continues on and on and - on, to the point it becomes whining, yes it is SM
          • Why? Because you incite whining? - with your inflammatory remarks?
            • Inflammatory remarks? Lets see, stand up for your - self, dont be a victim, if not happy move on.SM
              • Insulting others who are hurting is not standing up for yourself - It is pure cowardice
                • If others read my posts as insulting that shows their - mind-set. I dont mean them that way. SM
                  • Oh, so GOADING people who are already beaten down - is a GOOD idea? LOL!
                    • Certainly a better idea than whining along with them. - I can live with goad if it gets just 1 MT out SM
                      • What a martyr you are! - Thanks but no thanks.
                        • You need a dictionary to make sure you use the - right word for your name calling. SM
                          • No. not martyr = victim...sm - anon
                            • Not at all. I dont relish seeing MT wallowing in self - pity and abhor those who contribute to victim SM
                              • Although I do have a relative--sm - anon
                                • Again, YOUR mind set reads me as yelling. I post - as not yelling. What happened in your SM
                                  • Sure, blame the reader for your - inept communication
                                    • well put...sm - anon
                                      • I am the 1 you are flaming and just wanted to let - you know, I first posted about eye roll along SM
                                        • soooo, you are posting anonymous posts to your own - anon
                                          • Yeah, so? I am equal opportunity anony poster. - I just wanted the credit due me, according to you.
                                            • credit due you? Since when do I owe YOU anything...sm - anon
                                    • And I have nothing but boredom for your posts. - Not worth anymore of my time. nm

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up your own mind.

In the past 7 years that I have been an at-home IC (left my hospital job), I have made no less than $50k and this year, will hit my all-time high of $62K.  There are still good accounts out there, with great dictators that pay .10 to .11 cpl and if you are fast, with great macros and expanders, you can still make $40-$50/hr.  Experience and reliability are what get you top dollar and there are companies willing to pay.   Its sad we doubt those that make the good money.  Maybe there is a tad bit of jealousy there!

I make 10 cpl at the Q, but have been there 12 years and was at that rate when my prior company was bought out. 

There are people who make that, but not for clinic work and probably not for just starting at a company.  I have been applying like crazy and the best I came up with was 8 cpl for Basic 4 and 9 cpl for straight OPs.

Thats 15 years experience.

Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

ha ha ha ha. That's original!!  Spelling police??  You have such an original way with words!!!!  Things that make you go hmm?  What year was that? I am so laughing and laughing.

I spend most of my day doing this work.  They say come back later in the day when there is work.  You get a few hours off, but you can't plan anything.