Gourdpainter going to paint gourds and do other things s/m

I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my posts in a nice way.    My presence here seems to stir much dissension which is not and never has been my intent.   I post on a number of forums that are of interest to me and never in all my days have I seen such HATEFUL, SPITEFUL people as some who post here.

To the friends I have met here, please stay in touch via email.

I wish all of you (even the hateful posters) the best. 

• Gourdpainter going to paint gourds and do other things s/m - gourdpainter
  • don't go please... - cj
  • Why don't you stay around GP, sm - MT30+
  • Please stay. SM - MissIndigo
  • Don't let the MTSOs and other - sm
  • why bother posting this? - you can post anon here.
    • If you post anon, you get flamed for being a BIG, BAD, - ndmt
  • Sorry - Alice
  • I hope you reconsider... - Molly Malone
  • Hi, GP: Tomorrow is another day,' don't go...sm - lara
  • Gonna miss your posts GP sm - mlstoo
  • Bye Molly! - NM
    • Your posts are always so nasty. Get a grip already. nm - Jules
    • Sorry to hear GP....try to ignore NM and others who try to bring you down ;-) - anon

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Or just about anything else.  Too poor to retire and can't think of another field to get into.  But best wishes to all of y'all who DO get to leave MT and move on to something else! 

I know it is off topic but cool, I wish I was an artist.  I might get into making jewelry and try to sell that.  I love artsy stuff. 

Oh, by the way, I got tired too of not being paid to sit and stare at a screen and I did find something waaaay better.  Still work at home, but for a local hospital, very small, no VR at all, they don't like it.  Better benefits, better pay, better perks, better situation all the way around. 

So, anyone out there miserable, yes, look.  You would be surprised of what you can find.  There is life beyond the nationals.  

Do what I did and just send or email resumes out to every single thing you see.  The final choice is up to you, just listen to what each has to offer and if no good, go onto the next one.  Send to local places you would not even think twice about.  Local hospitals, small local transcription companies, even insurance companies who don't outsource hire transcriptionists.  Just try anything and everything.   

Seek and ye shall find.  Well, I did anyway. 

I don't paint everything with the same brush either.  Just as there are good people and bad people, I'm sure there are good MTSOs and bad MTSOs.  I think part of the problem has come about with the greed (or survival) if you want to call it that.  Let's say back maybe 20-30 years ago when MTSOs first gave medical facilities an option to deal with the fact that it was almost impossible to recruit qualified MTs.  Up until maybe 10 years ago one couldn't pick up a newspaper in any town big enough to support a hospital where the classified ads weren't begging for MTs. I travel a fair amount and always look at the classifieds and I haven't seen an ad for MTs in several years in ANY newspaper classified. 

The MTSOs were able to fill a gap.  They would pay whatever bonuses were necessary, often 2-3x usual pay rates to get the work out and MTs would crank it out.  The TAT as I recall was 24 hours for H&Ps unless they were stat.  DS, if I remember anywhere close to accurately, the TAT was something like 4 days.  Then more MTSOs came on board and in order for them to get in the action they offered shorter TAT with the argument that faster TAT meant faster $$$.  It got to the point it was and IS ridiculous.  Would a hospital go bankrupt if they didn't get their DSs within 3 minutes?  I doubt it. 

Next, we had the biiiiig MTSOs swallowing up the smaller ones until there are hardly any mom and pop MTSOs left.  Either they could sell out or be put out of business because there was no way they could compete.  Just like the big box stores, the big MTSOs can probably be profitable on maybe a 2% profit margin (volume), something that is totally impossible for a small MTSO.  I know this because I have been on both sides of the fence.  During my career I have worked for many hospitals and many MTSOs, some good, some not.  I never worked in a hospital where the facility and the medical staff did not appreciate and have great respect for their MTs and treat them with respect and dignity.

Then we have the MT training programs.  Again, probably good and bad.  We've all seen the ads that promise people they can take a short course and make $30,000 annually right out of the chute.  We all know better.  We all spent our blood, sweat and tears learning to be professional, COMPETENT MTs.  We all know that it takes a person generally in the neighborhood of 5 years to become proficient.  It takes a physician much longer yet we are expected to speak the language of medicine fluently in a relatively short period of time.  I cannot count the number of calls I have received and still receive from people who have taken this or that MT course and have never been able to find employment.  I tell them that the best I can do is give them a place where they can get an extensive list of MT companies who if they beg and plead MIGHT allow them to test and if they test and pass they MIGHT be offered a job.  I don't have the heart to tell them after spending their money to educate themselves, they would likely make more flippin' burgers.    I also have people asking me all the time how they can get into the MT business.  I have one word for them......DON'T.

Maybe MTs shouldn't go back so far as to be primma donnas as they were in the past but good grief!  MTs and medical records have always been non-revenue producing departments in medical facilities but for MTSOs MTs ARE the revenue producers.  It's kinda like killing the geese that lay the golden eggs.

I've seen the incompetence in medical records, including some of my family's records that have had to be corrected. We've all made mistakes because we are human but when someone transcribes pot of orange, it doesn't take much to see that person doesn't have a clue and the quality HAS sufffered because of inexperienced people trying to make a living under the most nefarious conditions.  I, for one, can't fault people for worrying about paying the rent and feeding their kids!

why do you still feel compelled to paruse this board?  If was retiring and no longer wanted to be an MT, I think I'd find the gourd painter message board and be very happy. 

Why are you finding yourself still downing MT.  Not all of us feel we'll have to buy a job.  We don't all have bad luck and not all of us are down on the MT business.  A lot of us are doing rather well and love this job...

Good luck with your retirement, but something tells me you'll be back after Thanksgiving...  

merged with TL and became Medquist. I miss those days...

Do you think you could go to work at ANY company and continually bash them, either online or to other employees and NOT get fired or sued.  There is such a thing as libel and defamation, and that has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech.  I have gone through the archives and am shocked at the things people say on here about the companies they STILL WORK FOR.  I cannot imagine going to work for a company and to continuously badmouth them and to be able to keep my job!!!  Someone else said on here in another post I read about not having to use your real name or be accountable for what you write on here and that is only to true, which is why I use my name!!!  I have nothing to hide.  If what you say is true, then you should be able to show your identity!  You cannot knowingly lie or defame a company  ANYWHERE, especially where it could potentially poison the pool of current or potential employees.  If you are SOOO unhappy with the way things are where you work QUIT!!!!  I have been through the ups and downs on work flow with Transtech too, but my intelligence tells me this happens everywhere!  There was no change in payroll company since I have been here, almost a year, or if there was I had NO PROBLEMS and did not even notice.  I had no rush to get my paperwork in or mistakes in my paycheck and whomever implied those things about TransTech's questionable payroll practices, deserves to be sued.  You cannot say those kind of things about a company, especially  when to my knowledge they are UNTRUE.  That is defamation of character and NOT Freedom of Speech.  They are owned by a parent company and THAT company does our payroll NOT TRansTEch themselves.  Everyone really needs to do their homework on this sort of thing.  This is EXACTLY what people get sued over and as well they should!!!  There is a difference in stating you were unhappy, or if you did not get paid on time or not at all, but to continue to work somewhere, and then get on here and CONTINUOUSLY bash them, is just plain WRONG!!  There are plenty more companies out there... find another one to work for if you are that unhappy!!. Again, I am NOT management and I have had problems that I needed to work out with them, but that is exactly what I did WORKED IT OUT WITH THEM!  This is a company just as if you were working in an office, and there is protocol when working in a business environment that many of you just do not get!  For those of you that do, this is obviously not meant for you!!!   For those this does not pertain to, I know you will not be offended by this.  If you are offended by this, this is obviously meant for you.  Have a great day!

Why would I ask my own post be locked???  No wonder you USED to be a moderator - you fail to understand the use of this message board and what can and can't be done.  Sounds like you're the goof!!!!

Do you think you could go to work at ANY company and continually bash them, either online or to other employees and NOT get fired or sued.  There is such a thing as libel and defamation, and that has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech.  I have gone through the archives and am shocked at the things people say on here about the companies they STILL WORK FOR.  I cannot imagine going to work for a company and to continuously badmouth them and to be able to keep my job!!!  Someone else said on here in another post I read about not having to use your real name or be accountable for what you write on here and that is only to true, which is why I use my name!!!  I have nothing to hide.  If what you say is true, then you should be able to show your identity!  You cannot knowingly lie or defame a company  ANYWHERE, especially where it could potentially poison the pool of current or potential employees.  If you are SOOO unhappy with the way things are where you work QUIT!!!!  I have been through the ups and downs on work flow with Transtech too, but my intelligence tells me this happens everywhere!  There was no change in payroll company since I have been here, almost a year, or if there was I had NO PROBLEMS and did not even notice.  I had no rush to get my paperwork in or mistakes in my paycheck and whomever implied those things about TransTech's questionable payroll practices, deserves to be sued.  You cannot say those kind of things about a company, especially  when to my knowledge they are UNTRUE.  That is defamation of character and NOT Freedom of Speech.  They are owned by a parent company and THAT company does our payroll NOT TRansTEch themselves.  Everyone really needs to do their homework on this sort of thing.  This is EXACTLY what people get sued over and as well they should!!!  There is a difference in stating you were unhappy, or if you did not get paid on time or not at all, but to continue to work somewhere, and then get on here and CONTINUOUSLY bash them, is just plain WRONG!!  There are plenty more companies out there... find another one to work for if you are that unhappy!!. Again, I am NOT management and I have had problems that I needed to work out with them, but that is exactly what I did WORKED IT OUT WITH THEM!  This is a company just as if you were working in an office, and there is protocol when working in a business environment that many of you just do not get!  For those of you that do, this is obviously not meant for you!!!   For those this does not pertain to, I know you will not be offended by this.  If you are offended by this, this is obviously meant for you.  Have a great day!