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and I appreciate your sharing that insight.  Even on this site less than a year ago, the head of one of the largest offshoring MTSOs posted a message directly to me to begin dialog on this board.  The problem was that I never designated myself as the spokesperson for anyone else here on this board and was beaten about the ears rather soundly for being what others considered disrespectful towards him.  No one *got* what it was I was saying.  He is a board member of AHIMA.  He is a millionaire.  You would have thought he was god in person the way others thought we should treat him with a higher degree of respect.  I don't respect someone advocating the investment of developing land, facilities, training, and employment of more than 5000 Indians and offering some of the lowest pay in the industry in these United States.

There is a small to midsize national that has a nonorganization policy in its employee handbook.  That is just one that I know of, and I can predict that will begin to become the norm now that AHIMA and AAMT have gotten federal monies beginning to flow for education and internships for MTs...with the largest interest of these monies going to same said millionaires.  They don't want to hear how some of need food stamps, Medicaid and housing subsidies to get by on what we make in today's US-MT-less-than-friendly environment.  They blame us, not what they have done.  What is even more sad is that we have allowed it to happen by turning blind eyes.

If we want to make an impact and have a voice, each and every US MT needs to be selective about the MTSOs we choice to work for, what our wage should be, the benefits we want and decline to accept what is not acceptable.  Unfortunately because we are so splintered, we cannot collectively form a picket line and hold posters and chant.  Heck, we can't even do that in the online environment as long as there are MTs who think the millionaires deserve to be treated with respect they have NOT earned - IMHO.

I stand behind what I say, but there is only so much I can do personally.  It is up to each US MT and the new MTs coming into this business don't support this philosophy because they don't know what we do – we have to teach those who are willing to listen.

Milton's Red Stapler