Oh, yeah, a lot of MTSOs late California

• The field of medical transcription - midnightmrs
  • Can you say what company this was? (nm) - Mushroom
  • I actually had a company...... - MTTTT
    • Deja vu - grasshopper
  • Ay-freakin' MEN, sistahs! - CrankyBeach
  • I am not a lawyer but I wonder - fatcat
    • Recall WalMart asked staff to work off clock for overtime, remember? sm - darlene
      • We MT's do it every day. ------(nm) - Topaz
    • one of MANY reasons, in addition to living expense, - that many MTSO's discrimination against Califor
      • Oh, yeah, a lot of MTSOs late California - fatcat
      • (I cant type today) - I meant, - "discriminate against Californians".
        • I can't type, either, I meant to say - fatcat
  • unbelievable. Work for a week sm - MT TOO LONG
    • MT too long - fatcat
  • Your idea of screening employers who post - on this forum has MY vote!
  • work a week off payroll?? PLZ sm - .
    • Medical Transcription Field - midnightmrs
      • midnightmrs - fatcat
      • By the way....... - midnightmrs
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          • Response to FatCat - midnightmrs
    • I also ask up front if they do VR. sm - MT TOO LONG

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Let me tell what this ONE person achieved on her own and then you can imagine what many of us can do if we stand together.

Two years ago, I was working as an MT for a local hospital.  One day, we were told that our overflow was going to be outsourced to one of the nationals, just the discharge summaries and not even all of those.  Two months after they told us that lie, they called is in one by one and fired us because they were outsourcing the entire dept because it was cost effective.  The service they were using was a very large national who I happened to know had a reputation of offshoring.  And I just knew because our little hospital had easy as pie dictators with maybe 4 out of a staff of 200 that were ESL, our work would most definitely be one of the accounts offshored.

I was angry!  Oh, they offered us jobs at the service and told us we would definitely be working on our hospital, but I'm no fool and I knew it would be a matter of time before we were forced to take secondary accounts which would eventually become our primary accounts and our little hospital would just disappear from our queues. 

I refused the job with the service on moral grounds.  I refused to work for a company that offshored.  And then I decided to channel my anger and outrage into something proactive.  I wrote letters to every newspaper in my area.  Every small farming community newspaper this hospital served, and the big city newspaper in the big city close by.  I never dreamed that anyone would pay attention at one woman's rantings.  But a funny thing happened.  My letter was printed in more than one of the papers I sent it to, and reporter from one of the larger newspapers called me and asked if I would do an interview.  I said absolutely.

Long story short, they did the interview and then interviewed the administrator of the hospital.  They put him in the hot seat and asked him about offshoring health information to India.  He had no definitive answers to give except that he would have to look at the contract and make sure that it was stipulated that his hospital's work was not sent over seas.

It was a small triumph, but I took some satisfaction in it.  Two weeks after that and just when I thought all the hoopla had died on my little letter, another letter appeared in the newspaper -- from an HIM director at another local hospital who said as a result of reading my letter and interview, that she had received a number of calls from concerned people asking if their medical information was being sent and transcribed overseas.  She wanted to write the letter just to set the record straight that her hospital employed their own MTs and did not outsource to a service nor did they offshore any of their work to third-world countries.

And I'm still not done.  Still a few weeks later another letter in the big city paper was printed from another HIM director assuring the community that her hospital employed its own American MTs and did not outsource or offshore.

Now, everything has quieted down since then, but I managed to ruffle some feathers and make a point, and if I (one person, one middle-aged work-at-home mother of two) can cause that much ruckus -- think what a whole bunch of us can do.

I think we, as a group, need to take control of our industry and our career destiny and do something.  Maybe march on Washington DC protesting the offshoring of American jobs -- not just ours, but ALL American jobs that are being offshored.  There are more Americans out of work and losing work to third-world countries and corporate greed than just MTs!  Our government needs to hear our voices!  We need to MAKE ourselves be heard! 

Instead of sitting back and pasting little smiley faces in our posts and saying good luck with that we need to come together.  There is no room for MTs willing to accept lower wages, no room for MTs whose hearts bleed for our third-world counterparts, and no room for MTs who want to sit back and do nothing, but reap the benefits when the strong win the battle.  We've reached a critical turning point and it's time to take up the cause and change the future. 

My company won't hire from California either.  They said they can't afford to pay what the California MTs want because of their higher cost of living.  All CA resumes go in the trash unread.  Just passing on what I heard.

If you have some specific questions, feel free to ask.

JKM, CMT

Walnut Creek, CA

Anyone work for them? How is/was it?  Thanks in advance.

OSi shouldn't be posting it as a United States: Nationwide position if they won't consider hiring from California.  It wastes people's time applying and waiting for a response when they have no intention of using people from here.  Chumps.

If so, if a company ran a credit check without your permission they could be liable for 10,000 in damages.  CA Civil Code §1785.20.5, 1786.12 explain and §1786.50 explains damages.

If you are not CA resident, Google your state civil codes credit reporting employment, etc.  I would also send a certified letter to the credit bureau who ran your report and tell them this was an unathorized inquiry and you would like it removed.

Working for an east coast company doesn't work so well because their TAT comes halfway through my workday.

Pay, People, Platform, Experiences  -  Anybody?

TIA!!