and that almighty TAT will keep them in business (and us)

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My primary is going to VR this week.  Here are my instructions:

We don't care about BOS rules any more.  It will only confuse the computer.  If the doc starts a sentence with a number, its OK now.  Verbatim, verbatim, verbatim.

We don't care about demographics any more.  That's the price the hospital pays for switching to VR.  I'm no longer paid to be concerned about HIPAA violations, and my ability to do so has just been removed.

We don't care about cleaning up the sentences any more, so we won't worry about tense agreement, pleural agreement, a vs an, etc.  My job now is to train the computer to make me obsolete.  My only interest should be to make sure the computer typed exactly what the doc said.  EXACTLY - if he said there is multiple lesions, that's what the corrected report needs to say.  If I change is to are, the poor computer will get confused, and its what matters.

See, before they were paying me to fix the garbled mess they dictated, and know what they meant and make it so.  Now they're paying me less to train their computer.  The computer is all that matters here.  Not what's right and wrong IMO.

OK, I'm not an MT any more.  I'm a computer trainer, and so are the docs that prefer it over me.  Everyone agrees I'm worth less pay in this capacity.  The docs will be directly in charge of fixing their own mistakes (yeah, provided they even NOTICE them).  I may, out of the kindness of my heart, put a note on a report with a glaring doctor error, but its not required or expected of me any more, and I'm certainly not being paid to fix it and in fact must now train myself not to do so, for the sake of the computer's learning curve.

I think I understand.  Garbage in, garbage out.  My job is simply to make sure the computer PERFECTLY understands the garbage coming in, and when it does, I will have no job any more.  I can simply trust that the docs (who are smart, important college graduates) won't speak any more errors, and not concern myself if they do, as I have relinquished my MT status and MT pay for the glory of making less money to help a machine hasten my obsolesence.  Ain't progress great?

and there are certain questions they are not supposed to ask employees.  What other ways can they invade your privacy?  I would look elsewhere.

Duh!  I guess I don't.  Just supported 2 children all by myself until they left for college with my MT wages.  Nope, sure don't know anything about this business which has kept me employed for 25 years. 

I don't have to know what Andrews is, I learned the right way - on the job.

Just wanting some opinions about what people think of companies that have been around for 5 years and how to weigh the pros and cons to leave a company if the one that has been around less would pay better?  thanx!

If the girl has transcribed errors more than likely from my experience it is due to POOR TRAINING on (OP) or Rad MT's part.  If she was such a good trainer or whatever, the girl wouldn't be making errors!  Sorry, but sometimes ya' gotta' step back jack and look in the mirror!  There's plenty of companies looking for radiology MTs.  Furthermore, the girl probably never got a bad vibe from (OP) Rad MT OR SHE WOULDN'T BE ASKING HER FOR A JOB REFERENCE ya' think????? 

it is feast or famine.  The company can't give you work they don't have.  My company had clinic and acute care accounts.  Unless there is work leftover from yesterday there will be little work today and even less tomorrow if the clinic MTs work weekends.  My company pays holiday pay.  You could take PTO if no holiday pay, or you could anticipate the holiday and the lack of work and work extra when there is work. 

I do acute care work and we're on OT, even this week, though by Sunday and Monday it might be a little slow. 

I can understand your frustration though. 

I've just read a lot of the comments and it made me wonder if most of us have forgotten how to communicate without taking offense at every little thing.  Come on folks, we all work hard and would like to see this particular career become more than it is right now.  I think I understand what the original poster was trying to say, but obviously it did not quite go over as it should.   Now that being said, let’s all take a deep breath and stop with the Xanax talk...lol...Heck there have been days and doctors and companies when I felt like I needed to be on Xanax.  The only way you find out anything is by asking a question.  Let's be more respectful about how we post and word our post.  Now, have a good day all.

(sometimes they are identical) you need to know what hill you're willing to die on. 

The OP can either establish boundaries early on and learn also what hill the boss is willing to die on, or she can surrender the first battle and become a slave.  The boss has won the first volley and she knows it.  Do you think she'll be more or less reasonable next time?  You don't have to yell or be disrespectful, but you do have to take a firm stand, otherwise you walk around with a ''kick me'' sign on your butt. 

I am looking for information on how to send a complaint to The Better Business Bureau in PA.  Or maybe there is another route to take.  Toth Transcription owes me money since July and will not even respond.  They need to have something done to them!

Base rate is $49.95, plus taxes and what-not.  I explained to them when I signed up that I was using it to access dictation files from a hospital, and after talking with a manager, they told me it was okay, that my account would probably still be flagged for high usage, but they would note it on the account ... whew! 

I have also used The Neighborhood in the past by MCI (www.theneighborhood.com) and they assured me that unlimited meant unlimited ... no matter what you use it for.

Good luck!

Can you email me your contact info?

Thanks.