How is that unrealistic?
Posted By: sm on 2006-07-12
In Reply to: But very unrealistic! - Bridgette
If you had any other job and didn't meet the expectations of your employer you would be terminated. What makes this job any different?
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But very unrealistic!
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How unrealistic to say they are not going to get
This is just not true and such a blanket pessimistic statement. Of course they can do better. MDI was not the end all of end alls, and to have your attitude, well, of course they will have no options. Might as well just throw in the towel according to you, and give up. What a terrible way to look at life and how sad for you.Of course, you'll reply that you are just fine and dandy, which is BS. Why come on here then and spread your doom and gloom. Say something encouraging, why not?? As I said, I've worked for MDI before and they were OK. They were very nice and very accommodating, but they had no work. No work equals no work. This was not just one time, either, but over a period of several years. They treated me like gold, but were always short of work. Before you bash me, I am a top notch MT who types anything and everything, can handle any number of accounts, so it was not me. I can still write to staff today and they are friendly and would give me a job, but truly MDI was not the best game in town and certainly not the only game.Now why not encourage the MDI MTs some more?? any more doom to toss at them?
I don't think it is unrealistic at all and I am a very
were, for the most part, top notch MTs. But if you haven't noticed, MT has been on a downhill slide for a while now. The writing is on the wall, and that writing just got so big a blind man could see it with the aquisition of MDI. If I am wrong, I'll come back someday and say so. But even with my own accounts and within 20 years of retirement, I am preparing for another my exit from MT.
That's so true. It's unrealistic to think otherwise.
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Whoa, please be very careful. Their ad is very unrealistic
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The powers that be at JLG had unrealistic expectations.
May of 2008 is when they went live with their SR program. They hired a bunch of the QA people that were fired from Focus in their shake up in early May. They hired everyone in at hourly pay because the SR supervisor told mangement that there would be a learning curve for the SR engine. In other words, the QA people hired at the beginning would be teaching the SR engine by making corrections to the reports typed by the SR software. We were basically transcribing entire reports in an effort to teach the engine.
Within two weeks of starting the program, JLG management was crying about losing money because they were paying us hourly and we weren't producing where they thought we should be. The supervisor again tried to explain to them that as the SR engine began to learn, our production would increase significantly because we would need to make fewer corrections. This shut them up briefly. Then they began to cry again and said all SR people need to be paid on production even though they had contracts with each and every one of us stating we were to be paid hourly. So the decision was made to put everyone but the team leads on production.
Still JLG management wasn't satisfied because they weren't lining their pockets well enough or quick enough. They kept pushing and the SR supervisor turned in her resignation. They in turn told her she was terminated as of that day instead of letting her work her final two weeks. They then cut her off completely and told her to not have contact with any of us. Within a week of her departure, the team leads were then contacted and told they had to go on production as well.
Still not satisfied, management began to scrutinize each SR editor, putting some on 100% QA and bombarding them with email, making them feel as though every move they made was being watched. It was a very stressful situation. Management played games such as cutting off work so there was no work in the SR queue for anyone or putting in some phantom editor who was doing SR at a rate three times faster then the rest of the SR team.
Some of us were producing upwards of 3000 lines a day on SR and still were made to feel it was not enough and if we were producing enough, then our quality was called into question.
Now this. Now they just pull the plug. We put our blood, sweat, and tears into making SR work for JLG and they have had no intentions of letting work --> well at least one person specifically had no intentions of letting it work.
So there is the sad saga of the JLG SR fiasco.
Unrealistic view that a lot of MTs do not understand. The offshore companies sm
have very deep pockets and make it attractive for companies here to use them. Even if every smaller MTSO refused to do it, do you think we would be able to compete with Spheris and C-Bay just to name two of the bigger companies that use the offshore transcriptionists?
Hospitals, unfortuneately, often care more about the bottom line than the perfection we expect from ourselves. Many doctors do not read the reports (most from what I understand) and just care that they have satisfied JACHO requirements by having a record in the charts.
Offshore transcription is not going anywhere. Sad but true. I do not support it but I am a small tree in a very, very, very big forest.
Totally unrealistic as long as Indians make it worth their while.
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At first I was thinking that you were being unrealistic, not thinking about taxes, benefits, etc. bu
surprised to find that you are not asking the moon. Let me clarify a few things: Rates charged are not as high as 0.25 per line, but no one that has U.S. employees goes as low as 0.115 or they would not be able to pay their bills. A more realistic range is 0.125-0.165, and that top end is hard to find, most falling at 0.14-0.15 per line.
The rates of pay you propose are very reasonable IF the following is true: These are seasoned MTs who do not need a lot of hand-holding, QA or blanks filled in, unless a very difficult/impossible doctor.
How about a scale based on experience and accuracy of 0.09 - 0.105 per line (acute care), and $1.15-$1.30 per report (radiology)?
The VR one is tough as everyone, MTs and MTSOs and facilities are still feeling their way on this. As an MTSO who was an MT, I feel that VR editing is as difficult to do as regular transcription. I don't think that it should be substantially less pay or charged less as the end product is still the same.
Funny thing here? My company already follows that scale. We should work together, not at odds, to reinforce this industry and bring it back to where it should be, right here in the U.S.A. with a decent paycheck.
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