I believe you took what the MT said out of context sm
Posted By: outsider looking in on 2005-07-27
In Reply to: that's not true...sm - nope
the MT was being sarcastic. So there was no theory to it wonder why you work for MQ . comprehension issues
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Question is out of context
Where you live really matters. An MT in NYC or California needs/makes way more than an MT in Arkansas or Alabama, for example.
You take my words out of context, don’t you?
I was trying to explain how businesses work. I sucked it up, said nothing about her doing this and yes, you have to develop a hard shell, if you don’t say like the OP, then you wind up without a job in hard times with a family to support and possibly not getting unemployment because she quit. That is business and these are not new attitudes. My mother died in 1990 and like I said, I had to find my own replacement at that time IF I wanted probably to keep my job. I had a family to support and could probably had just left, walked off the job and then what? Poverty city. No one owes us anything. We are not queens out in this world. We are the workers and companies could for the most part care less about us as a person and our families. If you are close to retirement, you should have learned this by now.
Within the context of this forum firestorm
Especially since the posts have been running pretty much 98 to 2 in favor of her viewpoint. You must have been following the thread with blinders on to have missed the tenor of the posts she was responding to. It's that garbage in/garbage out phenomenon that is pretty much status quo on anonymous forums such as this.
BTW, without spending another 45 minutes or so reading through all the muck, it is next to impossible to determine which question you are referring to that you think she is answering since she is the one who started this current thread. Pardon me for pointing out that relegating someone to the bottom ofthe heap of humanity does not exactly qualify as civil discourse and can easily be construed as talking down. Never say never.
Market forces that exert downward trends in cpl rates (subcontractors) have a tendency to make MTs scream and complain regardless of how long they have been transcribing, and with good reason. We already have taken a 20% hit since 2005. There is not a whole lot of wiggle room left at the bottom of that barrel. If we go any lower, we won't even be making the same cpl rate that they get in India.
You made some good points in the remainder of your post, most of which I agree with. Everything you said is more than familiar to me as I too have been transcribing since 1974. Though most of what you said is right on (need to be broad based, MTing can't be learned in school, in-house vs working at home and the whole 9 yards), unfortunately it is highly unlikely that any of those good ideas will ever come to pass. Those days are long gone.
Subcontractors such as TTD would have ICs (new or seasoned) making LESS than FT employees. Because of their lack of benefits, wasn't it just a few years back that ICs made MORE than FT status? That train is going in the wrong direction.
BTW, those prima donnas and all that screaming and complaining? That IS the new reality of MT. That's why I do not see how x has said anything here that is more objectionable than, say, MT for example.
Sorry, part of post is out of context :(
Not crazy about this platform.
I understand!! Really, it doesn't change the meaning or context and
it is not a medical error, so why are they wasting their time on such trivial things. I call it trivial, because in my opinion, it is.
QA is for editing and correcting gross medical errors and errors that truly change the meaning and context of the document. Some QA folks are ridiculous and feel the need to be important.
I have always ignored those types of corrections. Now, if I made a big boo-boo, I would pay attention to the feedback.
Talk about taking everything out of context good lord and you're calling yourself a prof???
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