I can't figure out how to use the shorthand properly (brain dead I guess) (sm)

• Anyone out here with JLG, what expander do you use? (sm) - quietmoods
  • think it depends on what platform they're on...which one are you using at JLG? nm - flybye
    • Its Vianeta (nm) - quietmoods
      • It comes with Shorthand or use autocorrect. - JLG'er
        • I can't figure out how to use the shorthand properly (brain dead I guess) (sm) - quietmoods
          • Give yourself a little time --- - SCMT
          • I personally think Autocorrect is as good as anything. - Oldie but goodie

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for explaining about accepting 7 cpl for pay.  Those of us old timers remember when the MTs ruled supreme.  We were in great demand and the demand would often result in a bidding war for our services.  An MT would get an offer of maybe a cent more per line, give notice,  and the company he/she worked for would quickly up the ante.  That was in the days when MTSOs knew that the only commodity they had was their MTs.  We had benefits too, company paid insurance, vacations, sick pay, holidays and no one worked weekends unless they wanted to.  Along came the work-at-home privilege and there went all of the above benefits right out the window. I can't even remember when I last had benefits, back in the late 80s maybe?   Then came the MT schools promising the moon while working at home in your jammies and kicking out 100s of wantabe MTs every week.  So what we have is an over saturated market.  Just look at the jobs board.  There are hundreds and hundreds of views on each and every ad.  It's a jolly wonder anyone ever gets hired.  Years of experience most likely isn't an asset in this day and time either.  If by chance the recruiter actually gets to a resume with 20 or 30 years experience, it wouldn't surprise me if they would pass right on over it for fear that MT might actually ask for and expect a living wage.  Back in the day when we were paid on gross lines one could make a very good living at 6-7 cpl but with a 65-character, no headers, no footers, free demographic typing, etc. there is no way anyone is going to make a living unless they have the best of the best dictators.  I don't know about VR but I don't personally know anyone (and I know a LOT of MTs) who is making a living at 4 cpl.  I believe them, they have no reason to lie to me.  I've done Q.A. which I hate, but being a fast typist, I could type a report faster than I could do a full listen Q.A. so VR would seem about the same to me.

I think that MT may evolve into something different with VR and EMR but I think there will be jobs in the foreseeable future.  Likely those jobs are going to require a college education in the not distant future.  An RN degree might be worth pursuing. The problem is the pay.  Most people need to be able to count on X amount of dollars during a month.  I've said before and I say again, MT needs to go back under the DIRECT control of the hospitals.  With available technology, there is no need for MTSOs anymore.  They used to serve a purpose, not anymore except to provide really good paying jobs for the top brass.  Hospitals could not possibly be saving money by outsourcing their MT and there is certainly no excuse for offshoring when there are AMERICANS begging to work and some will work for almost nothing and with the current trend nothing is what they are going to be working for, 2-3 CPL would not support one person let alone a family. 

I am doing what I can to help as I feel I owe something to those who come along after me but who are far less fortunate.  I'm an old MT with nothing to do but work to try to make life better for others in other areas as well as MT.   I have discussed the issue of MT as it relates to health care costs with my Congressman who happens to be a friend and coincidentally is also a physician.  He has promised to discuss it with another physician colleague and promised to bring this matter up in Congress.  I feel sure he would like to hear other MT stories.  I don't know if it would be proper to post his contact information on this board but if anyone would like to email their story and their thoughts to me I would be more than happy to forward them to him or you can find him by researching for the Representative for the Third District of Arkansas.  Don't forget to write your own Senator and Congressman!  Write and write again until they listen!  I know it is hard to trust anyone these days but I assure you I am trustworthy and I would like to help all of you.  Sometimes one has to stand up and be counted in order to bring about any kind of change for anything.  I could just go away (as some have suggested) and paint my gourds but I really do have a caring heart. 

While MT Stars will not voluntarily give out personal information, I seriously doubt they would be inclined to defy a court order.  Anyone who thinks their identity is truly annonymous might ought to think again.

It occurs to me that it is very interesting that someone(s) are attacking me as they are.  Could be that someone(s) finds it objectionable that I am standing up for MTs who work under the most difficult and unfair conditions of any group since the coal miners?  Undoubtedly some MTs have better working conditions than the majority.  This board is only one of my sources and the allegations of MTs with 20+ years not being able to find employment, no OT pay, being forced to flex  their schedule to get required lines but flexing only to the benefit of the employer, being fired or forced to quit for speaking up, etc. etc. are true in one form or another for the vast majority of MTs.  That doesn't even touch the subject of people paying good money to attend MT schools and never being able to find employment.  Many do find employment, the majority do not.

While MT Stars will not voluntarily give out personal information, I seriously doubt they would be inclined to defy a court order.  Anyone who thinks their identity is truly annonymous might ought to think again.

It occurs to me that it is very interesting that someone(s) are attacking me as they are.  Could be that someone(s) finds it objectionable that I am standing up for MTs who work under the most difficult and unfair conditions of any group since the coal miners?  Undoubtedly some MTs have better working conditions than the majority.  This board is only one of my sources and the allegations of MTs with 20+ years not being able to find employment, no OT pay, being forced to flex  their schedule to get required lines but flexing only to the benefit of the employer, being fired or forced to quit for speaking up, etc. etc. are true in one form or another for the vast majority of MTs.  That doesn't even touch the subject of people paying good money to attend MT schools and never being able to find employment.  Many do find employment, the majority do not.

Go back in your cave and stop trashing a good company.  After 4 yours, have had nothing but a great experience.  Time for you to hit the pharmacy for you meds as you obviously need it.

It is most certainly a pay cut.   I have worked on ChartMatrix and can tell you that this software is slower.  I did not see any improvement whatsoever in the quality of the SR that I did on that software compared to what we are working with now. I would have to be able to consistently do more than 350 lph with the new software in order for it not to be a pay cut based on what I am making now with our current ISR.  In the example she provided the MT was only doing about 280 or so LPH with the ISR, correct? I know it was NOT over 300... 

If these companies came on here and started naming employees that were bad news, you all would be in a hurry to find a way to make it someone else's fault.

There must be grounds for the poster to be sued by TT or else a lawyer wouldn't have taken the case.  Who wins?  No one. 

The poster allegedly being sued came on here to gather up a herd of followers and then closed her thread.  I don't see her posting any longer, do YOU?  But, you are here to defend her?  For what reason?  It makes no sense to me.

Whoever this person being sued in my OPINION has screwed up this board for the last few days.  It is nothing but fighting and bashing!  That poster is gone with the wind now, probably never to return again and we're all at each other's throats.

Can we please quit beating this horse; it's dead; deader than a doornail!

that you know is wrong, but you use it anyway?  That is what happened there.  How embarrassing. 

When the coordinator mentioned getting a copy of my license she probably was talking about my driver's license/ID. 

Very strange, never saw where you could not reply to a posting, but the ones below to TTS are just like that. First of all, baloney to all- TTS is a great place to work, been there several years now, they do not bother you and how, pray tell, think about it, can you possible work at your own home and have someone miles away KNOWING when you take a bathroom break, get a glass of water - that is unless you had been gone for a longgggggggg time. Who is trying to post and pull someone's leg? I think the board has been hijacked.