I think you summed it up in a nutshell
Posted By: MTs who have been online for a long time on 2006-04-26
In Reply to: The long-term MT world is so small - not an official list SM
or have contact with multiple companies do run into the same people over time. I've been online for 10 years and I know certain people based on their postings and others I worked with through the same company and we all parted ways for our own reasons but kept in touch after moving on. Some of these people of MTSOs, some are recruiters, some are QA managers, etc. People do tend to know who is who and talk about people. Gossip is human nature and so is just keeping up with who is doing what where is part of human nature.
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you have summed up a lot of feelings and
realities of this once profession and I really appreciate the post...
Thank you! You summed up my thoughts and plans exactly..
Thank you! You pretty much said it all.
I expect that 2009 will be the last year that I will work full-time as an MT.
In a nutshell? no. NM
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but in a nutshell
for me, they made the job a complete headache, with multi-multi accounts, all with very different account specifics, making it increasingly difficult to maintain good line counts; and all the while, took away more and more of the benefits that i started with. that's just the 2 main layers.
in a nutshell........sm
this lady has a habit of hiring when there is NOT enough work to go around. You have to pretty much sit there and watch to see if ANY jobs come in......they may trickle in at 2 or 5 at a time.....and that may be all you get. when i was there, the most i got in a day were about 10 short clinic notes. then after u start doing something else....she emails you or calls and says there's 2 jobs in there. My friend made $6 the first paycheck.
this is NOT a job to consider for full time for anyone. she is nice, but bugs you to death during the day. In other words, when i was there i was told i would have LOTS OF WORK....never happend and I hung in there for about a month. I have NO idea why she is always hiring.
That's it in a nutshell!
Thanks cj!
P.
In a nutshell..........
There will be a change in VR software which should boost our production so greatly that the Web decided to cut our line rate for VR.
Coming soon to an MTSO near you.............
You've got it in a nutshell
What you say is so true, coming from one who KNOWS, believe me. It is a situation that the team leader has no control over. You have customers screaming on the one hand and MTs on the other and there is no happy medium, at least consistently.
Nutshell: She wanted them to have SM
someone else work the portion of the schedule she didn't like and give her the hours she wanted, but instead they found someone who could work the entire schedule they had available and passed her by.
What you said in your post, in a nutshell,
<< So I'm making less money in my usual shift. This means I work extra hours to make up the difference. So, I lose and someone else wins. >>
This is how they continue to squeeze every dime out of MTs (every drop of blood from us turnips!) They give us high production and quality requirements. Then they make it so we can't meet those requirements in normal 8-hour shift. So the majority of us are working anywhere from 2-4 hours overtime almost every single day, and not being paid for it. If you try to call them out on it, they just say Then focus more. Type faster. Don't take breaks, with a wink and a nod to their fellow MTSOs, who all do the same thing.
If the work can't be done in the allotted time, then it's too much work for the allotted time. We know it. They know it. And it's about time labor regulators in the US were made aware of it, as well.
MTs used to be respected. MTSOs (a long, long time ago) used to be at least somewhat respectable. Those days are gone. Greedy people got their hands on the MT profession, knew they could get rich off of it (at our expense), and then they have the gall to pay less for editing VR, when like you say, our fingers may not be 100% engaged, but our brains most surely are.
If this were happening in any other field, whistles would have been blown long ago. But in the shady field of medical transcription service organizations, it's business-as-usual for the shysters and the unscrupulous. They all belong in the same cellblock as Bernie Madoff.
You've said it in a nutshell. I for one SM
am tired of working like a dog for this company in the hope that I might be recognized with even a tiny raise, only to figure out finally that they just don't give them at all.
I am tired of them pushing a CMT on me. When they cut our ISR pay, are they going to pay for the ENTIRE CMT exam fee? We certainly won't be making enough money to pay 1/2 ourselves. I am tired of yearly increases in health insurance AND less coverage, more money out of my pocket.
Yes, I want to know how much the executives (and there are tons of them) have returned to the company in the way of salary.
WMX, you are pushing a lot of us to leave. You know you are. We know you read here. I'm sure that will give you the excuse you need to use your slave labor at the school to type for you.
FYI: M-Tec is now getting a horrible reputation, what have you done to that school?
In a nutshell, that's what's wrong with our entire
economy! 'Way too many chiefs, and not enough Indians'. ('Native-Americans', I guess I should say, NOT the eastern variety!)
Too many people in management, and not enough people who actually do the work. Just like AIG, which is currently paying bonuses to its less-than-useless CEOs for doing absolutely NOTHING, you know the MT companies are giving raises and bonuses to the managers, recruiters, executives, etc., all the while trying to justify offering the MTs that actually produce the finished product in the service that they sell, lower and lower wages, which are not only ridiculous, they're no longer enough to live on.
The hospital I used to work at was the same - it was all about their image, and the fluff, and they achieved that fluff by grinding their workers into the dirt.
How about this? In a nutshell, which companies DO NOT outsource OFFshore?
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