Not sure if you understood financially I am not able to
Posted By: curiousMT on 2008-12-24
In Reply to: Not at all - EmmaMT
switch careers. Bless you if you have enough money to do that for yourself.
Luckily, I am not one of these people who does not have a good job, I do, but whatever the reasons, mainly greed in my opinion, I am losing a lot of benefits and money steadily.
if you want to blame the MTs that is fine but one thing I have never understood is managements lack of ability to well manage. when I was in management people were not qualified never even got positions so not sure who is to blame really. why do all these (yours words) shoddy MTs get hired. Management is an art, and companies that let this go on just so they get their work typed - I do not think a lot of them really care how it gets done. Now I am speaking of the bigger companies. they pawn off any conscience they have on the MT making us solely responsible for caring for the patient when if anyone was really concerned about the patients healthcare would still be not for profit and not a business like it has turned into. But we MTs are the only ones expected to put out 99-100% work or get our pay reduced in many cases?
Gotta run right now but I could not disagree with you more really in some things.
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MTs work from home is a fact. I don't believe what I make was ever mentioned anywhere in this thread. Maybe you have the wrong post?
Any IC's who are single parents- How do you manage financially?
I want to try IC'ing but afraid to take the plunge!
ATF broke me financially - I left after spending all my $$
anyway-----------and then all roads lead to STINKFEST anyway.
i agree ...stay home a little longer if u can financially
i wouldnt trade the time i've had at home for anything
What is not understood is that is that OVER AND ABOVE
throughout the day. And NO she never said that at all. For goodness sakes, if she had answered that one question without cryptic I start here and do this and then do that and come back and do more when it is available. That doesn't say if she worked more than 8 hours total or not.
She understood?
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I never understood why anyone would
pay a company to work for them. Shouldn't it be the other way around? There are tons of companies out there that don't require you to use their computer and who do not charge for the foot pedal, software, etc. 
I understood what you were saying. s/m
Very few things make me more angry than people who bend over backwards to not do what they don't want to do. I always say to cherrypickers: If *you* don't want to type a certain report what makes you think *I* want to do it? I know I'm flexible because whatever comes across my screen is what I've been hired to do. Reminds me of an op that I was privileged to get to do the other day, a quintuple bypass with the worst ESL I've heard in years. I think God Himself would have had a hard time understanding him. Obviously someone was HAPPY they didn't do it because the DT was way out of sequence. It took me exactly 1-1/2 hours to complete the sucker and when I was finished it looked like swiss cheese. I was at the end of my shift but when I heard it I wasn't about to sign on off and leave it for someone else. That being said, I do believe I can call myself flexible. For all I know Ms. Bend Over Backwards Happy may have been the one who skipped over it. And speaking of which...cherry pickers can cherry pick in so many ways that no company can do anything about it. I'd like to wring their necks right off one and all!!!!!
Understood - i'd go over her head. SM
I agree that different STMs manage their work differently but I'd sure talk to someone higher up. There's no reason for one MT to run out when others are inundated.
I understood your point
I understand your point totally. My point was that they actually promote those 10 days off without pay as a fringe benefit, when we have many more than 10 days off due to no work, or at least this has been my experience since October. Add this to the constant hiring and it makes me sick. I work with Editscript and they won't let me have a dictaphone account. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything else yet.
I understood what the other poster was saying
Of course your management will know what type of report you get. What the other poster was saying was that the end product would be the same if it was corrected by you through editing or corrected by you through erasing and straight typing. Being familiar with VR editing, I can tell you that some reports are so bad that it is far less time consuming to completely erase the whole report and type it than it is to try to correct it. This often happens when the physician or account is new to the VR platform. It sounds like you have been very fortunate to be placed on a VR account that has been trained for a while now and so the reports generally come through as a breeze. I've been on the other end where it was much easier/quicker to erase the VR report, enter my shortcut for a particular procedure and make 1 or 2 adjustments than it would have been to edit all the garbage that came through.
yes, understood BUT it is the fact that sm
it is more -- it is that we are losing our jobs period. I don't blame the phillipines or India employees, that need to make a living just like us. It is when we become the minority.
Just like all the foreign born doctors are here (and bring there cultural attitudes with them, I might add. I believe in sharing and a better life, but we no longer even have a choice of American born, attitude, culture physicians,etc.very very few in my area which is
Victorville, Barstow, Apple Valley California. Just are none, not even half a dozen.
There was a thing on TV, I think it was PBS where in India, the Hollywood cartoonist (there was another word for it, I forget, anyway, their jobs are outsourced from Hollywood to India because here it would be 73 million and there it is 30 million to do the job.
There must be some solution where the U.S. employees are able to survive too.
Look what they expect us, very well versed, very skilled technician in the medical field, who must actually know more that the doctors (they get an inch to the left or the right and they need to call in a consultant, and we are offered, 2.5, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8 cents a lines.
Figure it out, say 1000 lines a day, that is 125 lines an hour TIMES THE ABOVE to get your hourly rate. This why the MTs are frustrated. This is WHY.
Not Seymour, but I understood the post.
Seymour wasn't making fun of ESLs. Anyone working for Transcend would know that there are several accounts that are very heavy ESL. Seems kind of [fill in adjective of choice] to post an ad for 1 account that is no ESL. Most people aren't foolish enough to believe that the majority of applicants are going to apply for a heavy ESL account when there is one with no ESLs. We're also not foolish enough to believe that if we get hired for the no ESL account we'll be on that account for long before running out of work. The no ESL ad is a carrot. I'm just figuring (from Seymour's post below about Gone with the Wind) that the Scarlett interpretation is because Transcend is in Atlanta.
Oh, I understood your point perfectly.
Your statement was why call it a holiday if you don't get paid. To which, and I say again, it's a holiday whether YOU get paid or not, something you should have made a note of when you were hired.
And, BTW, individual beliefs and holidays and pay - and our attitudes to such - are all related to our human existence, existentially speaking.
KUDOS TT23,,,like you I understood what TT was doing
they explained rather clearly. It is a shame that this situation (which was only meant to help TT MTs) got so blown out of proportion. These are just rumors, bad rumors,, it amazes me how someone could totally miscontrue a very clear email!
I understood her to mean she was paid hourly plus
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Exactly! Glad you understood (& I'm ex MQ myself so I knew it when I saw it too!) nm
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Understood, but MTSO's cannot afford
to sue every poster on these boards because of their bad press, or whatever you want to call it.. defamation seems extreme, but I didn't read the comments made by the posters who are being sued. Most people here post general angst-y things about companies and if a judge were to read over the comments on this board, to get an overview of the climate and what is considered normal conversation and postings on these boards, they would probably see that this is a normal, everyday occurrence on message boards. Are they going to shut down every message board? Where would they start? As someone said, some of the angry, horrible postings in the political forums are much worse than anything said on the company forum. IMO. I believe that on these boards the MTSO's AND the MT's BOTH post angry things at times. No one is innocent here.
Oh, I understood the post precisely and still
the people letting VR just go thru in order to not be docked should be immediately terminated.
I never understood how MTSOs came up with not paying for spaces. sm
You have to hit the spacebar just like anything else, and the document would be pretty darned hard to read without them. I refuse to work for cheaterhead companies like that. Thanks for passing along the information.
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