Honey, you are running yourself DOWN...sm

Why do you even bother to come her to try to explain your ridiculous ad, you must not be busy enough either, to be on this board and if you feel you have to explain your job ad, oh well!!!!!!!!  You will only get flamed and torn to pieces with this mess.

• 6 cents a line for surgical reports for an ESL dictator? Are you NUTS?? - omg
  • by the tone of her ad, she almost sm - Long time MTr
  • I'm more offended by the typos in the ad. nm - Octo-MT
    • I'm offended by the Rude TUDE - catsxoxo
  • Is This For Real (nm) - OMG to the second
    • Pitiful, just pitiful........nm - just pathetic
  • Must be an April Fool's joke! - catsxoxo
  • Crap, what a slap in the face. nm - jacque kitch
  • I am desperate for work, but I won't even touch that. nm - Cojo
  • I wouldn't transcribe English speaking dictators for 6 cents per line. She is CRAZY. - pc
  • Saw that too...WOW. I am guessing it is subcontracted work - Colleen
    • My request for workers - Tonya
      • Since when are EGDs and colonoscopies surgeries. That is new to me. nm - PAMT
      • Why dont you do the work for 6 cpl and keep all the profit for yourself but - PAMT
        • Thank you. - Tonya
          • LOL. nm - Yeah, right
          • Thats great, I am sure you got just what you paid for - ExMQMT
      • Sorry, but you're wrong.... - omg
      • NIGHT WORKER - Alice
        • Another person who works nights, hello! - Guess what?
      • Not all of us work DAY SHIFT - catsxoxo
        • THANK YOU........well said...BS is all this is. nm - cs
      • Honey, you are running yourself DOWN...sm - cs
        • she's here checking on her own reputation. nm - mteatime

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that I post on a message board, but if you look at my work, it is top notch.  That's why I have contracts with local hospitals.  I have my own accounts.  Can you say the same?  No, I doubt it.

I think the recruiter is WRONG to encourage people to cheat.

For one thing, most of acute care is NOT elective.  And acute care does not consist of only surgery anyway.  Also, lots of people DO have surgery this time of year because for one they have time off, and for another if they get it in before the end of the year they can claim it on their taxes for this year, and also if they have already met their deductible they want to have anything they need to get done done before the first of the year, when they will need to meet their deductible again.

It's not the time of year.  It's that there are too many MTs.

Hi there!

About running out of work - I see this is a very hot topic on the boards, as well as in the entire industry, and it's always the same this time of year.  I am a supervisor now, but when I was a regular MT, working on production, it used to be the most frustrating time ever - from mid-October to right after the first of the year.  I'll never forget dialing in multiple times on my C phone one Christmas - all day long.  I just felt like I was fighting for work. 

First of all, the reason for this dramatic drop in work is attributed to several different reasons.  It's not that the company has hired too many people, and pushed you out of work.  It's not that someone is secretly manipulating your work pool, and taking work away.  It has nothing to do with offshoring, or any of that - Trust me.  This was a problem WAY before offshoring became the major issue it is today.  This is simply a result of less office and hospital visits.  Most hospital visits are generated by older patients, and their routine, or urgent, procedures, necessitating H&Ps, Consultations, Discharge Summaries, OP notes, clinic visits to follow up the surgery they just had, etc., and etc. Many of them simply do not want to get out this time of year.  They will put off going to the doctor until after the holidays.  No one wants to schedule things during the holidays, and even people who have minor emergencies will try to treat themselves rather than go to the ER during this busiest season of the year.

So, how do we manage it?

I take a lesson from some people I know who are union workers, and their work is mostly outdoors.  Their work slows down during the wintertime.  They know it, and they prepare for it.  They put their funds in a savings account, or their branch of the union does it for them, to doll out later when work is leaner.  You can be your own credit union.  Many companies offer great - ABSURDLY great - incentives when the work is in a big backlog.  Take this opportunity next year, and put all of your overtime or incentive pay in a savings account, so you can use it when the holidays hit again near the end of October next year!  You could just jump from company to company, or decide to go work in an office somewhere hourly, but don't fool yourself.  Neither of those solutions will ever replace the rewards for being a dependable, steady, disciplined, loyal employee of a good company.  Find one you like, and stick with it, but know ahead of time that this year is going to be lean.  Be ready - be expectant.  It's one of the things about this industry you wish someone would have told you when you started, right?  Well, I'm telling you...

Either these companies are overhiring, or losing accounts? What do you think it is?  I am afraid to start my new job, because I am seeing posts where they run out of work....This is too frustrating...

Either these companies are overhiring, or losing accounts? What do you think it is?  I am afraid to start my new job, because I am seeing posts where they run out of work....This is too frustrating...

of the time of the year.  Typically the period between Thanksgiving and the first of the year is a slowdown for the entire industry. 

This company pays well and on time.  They treat their employees very well.  You won't go wrong applying here and accepting their offer if one is extended.