I'm having a dilemma - help
Posted By: MT4Eight on 2009-07-31
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Okay, I'm in the process of starting a PT job for a company that had an add on the job seeker board. I was desperate for PT work so I agreed to this job even though the pay was really way too low for someone with my experience. Now I'm testing for another PT job that pays at least 2 more cents a line than the first company. What would you guys do about this first job? Would you put things on hold to see if you get the higher paying job? I hate to work for a company for a week or so and then get the higher paying job and just run out on the first company. I'm confused. 
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That's my dilemma too. . .
Trying to decide the best course of action because either way, I'll be learning a new format and new accounts. Got a feeling we're in the same boat (and co.). My biggest worry is whether or not I'll have enough work if I stay. There are too many people complaining about technical problems as well as not having enough work, so it's something to think about. That's why I came here looking for some answers.
that was my dilemma
whether or not to say anything, this board is also for opinions and suggestions. I did not mention anyone specifically just wanted to know what others would do in this situation.
DILEMMA
I am needing some advise here, please!!!! My place of employment for 15 years has terminated my whole department, and they will be outsourcing their transcription to a service. The service presented to offer all four in-house transcriptionists positions with them. Here's the dilemma, they keep leaving information out when talking to us, and keep trickling things down to us (such as not telling us up front that we would be required to work rotating weekends and holidays, that we would be required to purchase our own foot pedal and head set. We are supposed to start employment with them on 09/01/07 and have just been given this minor information.
Here's the dilemma I am facing, and I may be paranoid here, but it seems as if this service has used us to get the account, and that my place of employment is using us to be able to outsource because my docs and therapists had a fit when they wanted to outsource before because myself and the other 4 transcriptionists would not be transcribing their work. They only want us to do it. It seems as if they have appeased our docs and therapists by telling them that we are going to be working for the service and will still be transcribing their reports.
I am having a trust issue here -- do you think it sounds warranted to be so paranoid?
I am not going to mention the name of the service, because they may be on the up-and-up but it just sounds weird to me. Oh, they also said that they could grandfather us in with insurance to begin with them on our first day of employment, as this was a concern of ours. Now, they tell us no, they cannot do that, and we have to wait 90 days to get on their insurance, so it was a scamble to get insurance coverage for this length of time.
What do you guys think?
Dilemma
What is amazing is how many of us all have the same story. My advise would be to compare what they are offering and get your best deal. Remember you no longer have any loyalty to your employer so look out for yourself first. You do not have to help the new service make a smooth transition. Bottom line, compare and look out for yourself first. Business is business.
dilemma -- maybe this can really help you -
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DESPERATE DILEMMA
I would like to get some feedback on whether or not I should give my current employer two weeks notice or just quit, effective immediately. Ordinarily I would always give two weeks but this situation is, I think, a bit different, so let me explain.
I've worked for this company for a number of years. For some time now I feel that the company has been trying to get me to quit (rather than firing me where they would have to pay unemployment). I know this sounds crazy, but I believe this is because I am too high a producer and they do not like paying me so much in terms of my benefits that are predicated on my daily production average. So, after a number of years of trying to slow me down by various means they tried the following: Rather than letting me type in the pool they began assigning me all the crappy, difficult jobs. When I asked about this they lied to me and told me they were not assigning my work but I know they are. Then when I still produced a lot, the person who runs the company started personally reviewing my work and picking it apart. I have always had 98+% on QA so my quality has always been there. Now I am getting nasty e-mails about some truly inconsequential mistake I made or telling me that I'm doing something the wrong way when, in fact, I had been instructed to do it this way, by this same person, for many years. I have been told that now, after so many years, all my work is being reviewed on a daily basis so that I do not continue to do these things. This has become a truly personal attack on me.
If I work for the two weeks after I give my notice, I doubt that I will see any of the money I make during this time. Over the summer I took, with their permission, some vacation in advance of accruing the time (they let people do that), so if I quit I would owe that money back. I have no problem with that, as that is only fair to them, but I have already worked enough this pay period so that they could just take this money I've already earned and we would be about even. If I work beyond this time I doubt I'd ever see the rest of the money.
I can't bear the thought of continuing to be subjected to this insulting person but want to do the right thing as an employee. I would never be able to go back to work there if I needed to, but I also cannot imaging ever wanting to with the way I have been treated. If I just quit, and did not work for the two weeks (assuming they would even want me to), I know I would be burning a bridge (probably already burned), but I would like to hear what others would do in my situation. It helps to get a fresh perspective, and I'm tired of agonizing over this.
I have two job offers and was thinking about trying one or both of them out, if possible, while I continued to work here, just doing the minimum I needed to do, until I decided what company to go with, since I realize it's not a good idea to leave a job until you have another one lined up. But even if these two other jobs were not right for me, they're making me so miserable that I don't think I could stay anyway. That being the case, I've thought about just quitting and then trying out the two other companies which would be a lot easier for me.
The options: 1) Give two weeks notice, but try out one or both of the other companies, and hope they pay me for the money I make in this period (minus what I owe them of course).
2) Quit effective immediately and try out one or both of the other companies.
What's the right thing to do????? Any thoughts appreciated.
My answer to the VR dilemma at TT
It is very simple: Those of you who are not concerned about being ripped off and are not concerned about compromising patient care with the nonsense that VR spits out into patient files, YOU do the crap that is VR!
Those of us that care about patients, do not want to even THINK of medical decisions being made based on VR documents and refuse to be RIPPED OFF, we will stick to straight typing.
There, that's the answer for the TT Management/Cheerleaders that are posting here. Simple. If you want to do VR, do it. If you don't, you should not be forced to.
Seems like there are plenty of TT MTs, based on all that are posting here (or maybe it is just a few cheerleaders posting over and over again!), that will do the VR at TT and help keep money in Management's pockets. Not me.
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