NOW it is time to close the barn door???
Posted By: typingal on 2006-05-11
In Reply to: AAMT - MTme
They are falling like a house of cards! What else can we expect? We put our faith in some people who had no idea what direction to take. Most of them were at the end of their careers to boot and, in my opinion, not really motivated to do a lot of real good. Their major concern seemed to be flying all over the country spreading gossip on the dues money I was paying them and accomplishing NOTHING. Is offshoring their fault entirely? No, but what did they do to prevent it until very recently? I gave up my membership and CMT 4 years ago. Good riddance!
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It should be getting close to the time where
this conversation disappears off the board. Did anyone ever notice when we start discussing line counts at a CERTAIN company the conversation disappears - poof, like it never existed.
I've been noticing the same problems, and I think I work at the same place as all of you. I have also noticed that my own formula for adding lines up using the word count, which I usually took the count in word and divided by 1.123, and it equalled out pretty darn close to the other count. Now that doesn't add up anymore. Wow, something is definitely wrong with this place. I think it's time to jump overboard for me.
Companies close old and gain new contracts all the time. (SM)
Stop rumoring.
If you have information, share with the Administrator or myself. Otherwise, leave rumoring off the board.
Goldbird
Also...do you have to clock out any time you leave the computer, i.e. to answer the door, go to the
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Yup - horse i out of the barn, that's for sure.
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the horse has already left the barn nm
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getting off the original subject, but bet they'd feel right at home in the barn. NM
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Two of us out the door ! .... sm
I did it ! And so did another MT who worked on the same account. We sent our resumes out a few weeks ago without saying a word. We both got "several" offers from companies with good reputations. We were hired by different companies but with pretty much the same positives. My company is a mid-sized MTSO, USA all the way, have accounts that have no interest in VR (first time I ever said thank God for ESL's) and treat their MTs with respect. Hey, I'll take it! No company is perfect (neither am I). It'll take some time to get adjusted. But at least I know I'm not slaving away only to have a knife plunged in my back. Read all these posts over and over until your frustration turns to anger. You deserve better. Go for it!
I'm on my way out the door
I just started a new job this week and can't believe the difference. MQ treats you like a slave and it's only getting worse. I've worked for MQ for 10 years and the last 2-3 years have been all downhill.
I, too, though rely on my income (it's not monopoly money), which is why I'm still with them but part-time and soon to be PT flex. I just wanted to make sure my new job is the right job for me and to give myself a chance to get my line count up.
As for the new company, better pay, straight transcription, 1 account which is loaded, and less supervision. No E-time - I hate that thing.
I never really thought about looking for another job until the last year or so and didn't realize there were so many options. Having done 5 years of acute care at the Q has been well worth the effort.
Go ahead - take the plunge! Send your resumes out and, like the other poster said, research your companies to find what you are looking for. Not everyone has the same needs (for me, I don't need benefits, just good pay and flexibility). There's a company out there that's right for you and you'll find it in no time! 
I too am on my way out the door...
switched from part time to part time flex, got another job making 3.5 cents more per line with a fabulous account and a great platform. Who could ask for more?
Was with MQ for over 7 years, and am not happy with the direction the company is heading.
Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.....nm
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Don't let the door hit ya on your way out.
Maybe you could go down to South America and b*tch at those people for working for a dollar a day.
Hey, if we take up a collection can we ship you to India? I'm sure there are some of you people (as you like to call us) who are doing whatever work they can get a hold of to feed their children. Maybe you can cruise down in your gas-guzzler - ya know - since you don't have a job and all - and remind them how stupid they are for working for a living.
Yeah. That'd be great.
Revolving door?
Does Heartland have a revolving door? In the past few months on this board, I've read about people being fired, including their president.
Uhhh...Just don't go next door....;)
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Its a revolving door
There ad is always up for MT's.
If it seems like a revolving door, SM
I'm sure it is. As far as wanting your boss available to you...for what? I'm not sure I understand the need for that. You log on when it's time to begin your shift, you do the work that comes to you and you log off. When I worked for them, I might have talked to my supervisor once every couple of months or so. My quality stats came in the mail, my check was direct deposited and I had no need to discuss anything with the supervisor.
revolving door. NM
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I'd be out the door in a heartbeat.
I see that open door
Yeah, I'll just get in line behind 10 former teammates that just got the ax, all the MDI'ers looking for a new gig, and locally, the 450 people whose plant just closed. Once I get through that crowd, I can then compete with my current teammates who are also looking for a second job/replacement job because they are eyeying the open door too, in between competing with one another for work.
Once I claw my way through the desperate crowd of job seekers and into another job, I can wait a year or so, run across the same scenario at the next company, and start looking for work again when their work pool mysteriously dries up.
Or I could just blow my brains out and avoid repeating this loathesome, demoralizing cycle for the next 20 years until I'm retirement age. Thanks for helping me ponder my options.
Close, but not quite.
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All I have to do is close it out.
NM
Does anyone know why MB was shown the door at Interpro? nm
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Uh, not too many people because the door didn't
All that is left are the newbies who don't know any better. They meekly wonder why they don't have any work to do but don't have enough experience to work for a real company so they twiddle their thumbs while their work is sent overseas. Nobody in their right mind would be happy there unless they have trampled on people on the way to the top.
I think they still have revolving door management.
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Thanks for this. I feel like if I could get my foot in the door,
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Heartland in the US was just a ruse to get them in the door...sm
I have watched the company for a long time. They took over the Kansas City Accounts and also Hawaii accounts I used to work saying they were an American Company because they are stationed here and offered us QA jobs to train the Indians (I think not). It was just a matter of time before they trained enough of them and had enough clients they would move it all over there. What is sick about this is that most Americans do not know their social security numbers and personal information are going in the middle of the terrorist lands!
The American QA is out the door too. they are using their MEs from India
to do the QA on the foreign based MT and the MEs suck just as bad as the MTs do.
Anyone know how to get a foot in the door @ TransTech
I have read a lot of great things about them, and would love to know if anyone knows how to get a foot in the door. I just went to their site and submitted an application, but haven't done the testing yet.
I have over 5 years of MT experience, and am sick and tired of working for crappy companies that have late paychecks and run out of work! :( I want to get somewhere and get comfortable!
Webmedxr laying by the door
looking out the window....waiting for work...waiting for work....waiting for work...
My company was practically next door to JLG. They
stopped our 401K, then stopped our direct deposit, then they lost all their big accounts and we all lost our jobs.
I'm definitely groping for the Exit door!
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All your jobs have come knockin on your door? You
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Sure you do, if you don't have a close friendship with
Don't be fooled. It has been said here before that the office staff are all pretty much related in one way or another, and they are. So why couldn't those working at home be close friends and relatives too?
pretty close to DQS
a little different
If they were very close friends, yes I would let them know. sm
However, I would be very tactful in doing so. Maybe give them a hint to start looking for another company or job that you have some inside information...etc. If they don't get the hint, then just tell them.
Chances are the company may know this is coming and didn't tell the MTs. Most companies know when their contracts are up for bid or they are given 30-90 day notice the hospital dropping them. So, if the owners of the company do not have the common courtesy to let their MTs know, shame on them! It happens all the time in the corporate world.
Little bit of advice - do not get into gossipy detail, he said, she said. Just do it with diplomacy.
Good luck whatever you decide.
this will never come close to mtjbs. n/m
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October is close enough
You don't have to be to the letter, to the day, to the exact moment. It's October in 3 months. Four years and 9 months is just as good as five years.
they are based close to me
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I doubt it.....Not even close
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fat cat may be close to retirement sm
but she still has some humanity about her! Probably why she still has a job so close to retirement.
Not all companies have the attitudes that you post. In this business, there is absolutely no call for that kind of attitude. The companies can cover their butts. Half of them don't have work anyway.
I have been through exactly what the poster posted and I told MQ to stick it after 23 years. Have not had a problem getting a job and have been upfront and honest about the situation I found myself in.
When an employer calls someone at hospice and starts ragging on them, knowing full well there is no work to do the 8 HOURS I WAS SCHEDULED PER WEEK, then its time to get out. I did and never looked back. Probably was the boost I needed to get out of that place.
I applaud the OP for doing what she did. Family comes before any doggone job. She won't have a problem geting UE either. She applied for FMLA, they denied her, what else can she do? FMLA is there for situations just like this.
I don't blame her for telling the higher-ups. I would have let them know too before I left that place and never looked back.
Wish I knew waht place it was!
Not even close - laughing
I am just one who has been trying to offer 'food for thought' posts, that's all.
Only 20 years of exp. here, but that's close enough,
right?
I worked for them for about a year. It was an okay experience. I had a surgery center account which was small and just about the perfect amount of work for an 8-hour day, plus it was M-F 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. I didn't like it that my primary was somebody else's secondary, so sometimes I would get kicked to my secondary because somebody else was on my primary and it wasn't big enough to share. My secondary account was slim pickins so I usually actually got kicked straight to my tertiary, which they PROMISED would NEVER run out of work, but of course it did, sometimes for days at a time. The one thing that bothers me most is running out of work. I get really nervous about that. Add to that the new e-mails about transitioning to VR and I said I'm outta here. I just wasn't interested at the time in doing that.
Maybe I should have stayed and my account would have been safe from VR - I don't know. I just didn't want to have to worry about it. All in all, other than the fact that they don't seem to offer more than 8 cpl, they were an okay company. Not horrible, not wonderful. Mine was a Diskriter account, not a hospital employee account, which are two entirely different things.
Oh yeah, the QA for my account was an absolute ditz. I wasn't impressed with her AT ALL.
was treated like dirt... and shoved out the door. don't do it.
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years ago that was pretty much the only way to get an MT job to get your foot in the door - sm
I noticed that there are a few temp agencies in Tampa that are looking for transcriptionists. Keep in mind that the pay may be lower because the agency needs to be paid through the client. So if the client is paying $18/hour to the agency, then you may only be getting $10-11/hour. If you did any paperwork with the temp agency, i.e. filling out an application or tested with them, and then you decide you do not want to take the assignment, you cannot go to the client and say that you are a Transcriptionist and you will do the work for X-amount of dollars/hour. If the temp agency finds out, then they can sue you - noncompete-type of suit.
It's a foot in the door. I don't blame them for grabbing it up
I started out the same way, making .05 per line about 4 years ago now. It was my foot in the door. I was on full QA for about a week, quickly went to .06 per line, then .07, and then changed to an account that was .08, in less than a year. I've since moved on from that company, and I think I'm doing pretty well for myself now, but I wouldn't be here if I hadn't taken the opportunity when it came along.
You have to show a picture proving you have a door?? sm
Man, that is really getting picky. I would fail that requirement, I'm sure a lot of us would! Sounds like they are TRYING to make it impossible for you to continue with them.
revolving door. can't survive. don't bother. nm
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Switching jobs is an opportunity, the door to better
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When one door closes, another opens, several others if you are brave.
There are very few mean MTs actually.
R.H.Occupant-the sad thing is the door is standing
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How many MTs?? Not even close to 400 unless you are counting your offshore MTs.
Tell everyone how many MTs and QA Specialists you lost in one months' time.
Do you see this as coming very close to Spheris. Is this what this is all about.
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