Too late for your reaction..you've been forgotten...

• When you hire on and run out of work -- - Here's what I did to prompt some action!
  • Well guys, you convince me -- - hmmmmm
    • I gotta ask ALL you guys this question... - do or die
      • as a matter of fact... - sweets
        • and I never claimed to be more important than others - do or die
          • actions and attitudes speak volumes - sweets
            • ah..stop your whining already.. - do or die
        • LOL LOL. now I know you're lying!!! - do or die
          • how dare you - sweets
            • blah blah.. moving on... - do or die
        • To Sweets and Others - new gal on the block
          • You can tell on some dictating systems how sm - O&W
          • depends on who you work for - sweets
        • and you are lucky she does - cj
          • be interesting to see how she would feel.... - sweets
            • I DID wear the same shoes as others.. - do or die
    • We shouldn't matter. Only you - know what you need.
      • that's just sickening - oh, yes,I do matter
        • Well, you can leave work for others while your - paycheck is short if you feel so inclined.
  • GREAT post. So true. I've been in this business - Yeah!
    • Good post!! - gourdpainter
  • yup, it's a dog eat dog...sm - do or die
    • I do not believe it is - sweets
      • will you share my bills too? - do or die
        • will you share mine - cj
          • LOL. No, that's why I do what I do HELLER?? - do or die
    • The "work" belongs to the company - or MTSO; not the employee or IC.
      • oh,and when I say, "work belongs to someone else"... - do or die
      • maybe you should read my post again... - do or die
        • lol. My bad...I meant $5000 consistently - do or die
          • What I said above was not high and mighty. - It's the facts. SM
            • I'm an uneducated child who..: - do or die
              • 5,000 a year????? LOL - no one will ever shut me up, but I see
                • you have nothing more to say so you - lol
                • Too late for your reaction..you've been forgotten... - do or die
  • so in essence, you demanded - hmmmmm
    • Why not? Those coworkers had the - option to say WHERE IS THE WORK??
    • Snooze, you lose. - XX
    • Wow, what a response! (sm) - Here's what I did to prompt some action!
      • RE: Here's what I did - gourdpainter
      • Quite like you I - none
        • I've said it before, and I'll say it again - - SMALL CLAIMS COURT - nm
          • yep demand letter already sent - none
    • I look at it like this...... - sm
    • That is not fair, why did they sit on the dictation, that happens a lot usually giving it to .... - doing the right thing
      • So what happens if everyone starts doing - hmmmmm
        • If everyone did that, maybe they'd feed us less bullpuckey - and STOP over-hiring.
          • Spot on! You've got it right! I am so sick - Yeah!
        • What I am saying is, and take it for what it is worth.... - doing the right thing
          • I am mad at the companies that - hmmmmm
            • It would not matter that you complained to your company, they will just say, "there is no work - doing the right thing
              • Well Said. - You are so right. nm
        • Furthermore, she has now become - hmmmmm
          • Ooops, sent an e-mail - Anon

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incentives, beach parties,  and whatever else is going on at Transcend/MDI are only for their favorites.  The only way we know about them is a message with the backlogs saying what a great incentive party they had the day before. 

If they are going to reward their pets they need to keep it hush-hush when talking about it after the fact.   So much for MT appreciation - a broken coffee cup and a calendar and a hint that you are not good enough to participate in their fun things.   

Always something BIG coming our way . . . This has been promised for almost a year now.  Nothing but low/no work situations on a weekly basis, whether end of pay period or not.  This is the 1st week of pay period and NO work. 

Nice just doesn't pay bills.  So you who say how nice people they are must have someone else to pay your bills!  

TT has REALLY OVERHIRED within the past 3 weeks, but NO WORK BEFORE THEN even.  Just not thinking of their MT's obviously.  TT was an excellent company before the past year . . .

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. 

I have the posts about late pay from TTS (not TransTech).  Could someone currently working for them tell me how many times in the past 2 to 3 months the pay has been late.  Me personally, if I am to get paid on Friday and it does not show up until Monday that 2 to 3 days is not horrible, not great, but not horrible considering some companies I have worked for have been late by weeks and not a few days.  Am not trying to stir anyone up just trying to get a fair time span to go by.  Thanks.

I am new to MDI-MD, but have been wondering if people are cherrypicking or not. Sometimes I get a bit frustrated, but I can't prove it. How the heck do they do that on a Lanier system?? Would QA or liason do anything about it if I complained?

No timesheet, no pay.

They've taken all they are going to take from me.   I am not going to waste any more time being angry.   I hate the way things ended, but I refuse to accept the blame for any part of it because I know that was a lie too, even though they did try to blame the MTs.  I know part of the problem was quality issues, but QA wasn't to blame for that either, although they have been.   

It is time to pick up and move on.   I think mgmt will reap what they sow.   For those who worked on the main account Webmedx is still hiring, though the best time slots have already been taken.