yep - Trinidad is doing MT work for USA today....

• Question regarding outsourcing to India (sm) - cat lady
  • I can tell you that..... - SmallMTSO
  • Yes, sm... - vt
  • In 7-10 yrs, outsourcing will be out of India and into - other countries. SM
    • yep - Trinidad is doing MT work for USA today.... - many countries are getting involved now...NM
  • There is also the time difference. - We are sleeping while they are typing. nm
    • There are 2nd and 3rd shifts here working - nm - typ4food
  • outsourcing - clk
    • Plus your medical records include your SS#, too! nm - Kirsten
      • Outsourcing - ERMT/Oncology MT2
      • When I talk to family and friends about this, - no one cares. They don't give a flying fig.
        • When I tell people, it really seems to bother them - - and they do care
        • That's because they don't think it involves them. - Kirsten
      • I cannot tell you how easy it is to get someone's SS# - criminal mind
    • IBM hires overseas accountants - uhhhh
      • HP has overseas support. Couldn't understand a word of it. nm - MSMT
  • Americans are bad too - Silvie
    • I was told by several actual Indiam MTs that they were trained by watching ER episodes and typing SM - jade
      • ...that should be Indian MTs. nm - jade
    • The fact that no one is perfect still does not justify - nm - paying us 3rd-world wages.
      • What you are saying is true, but - there are American MTSOs
        • wages - QArbouncin
    • The competition is in the price NOT quality. - uhhh
      • but if the american quality were better..sm - uhhhh
        • do you understand? It's the well versed US MT editor who cleans their mess up. SM - mj
        • I've seen firsthand that many hospitals just don't care. nm - Kirsten
        • I get what you are saying, but, - uhhh
          • if that were true, teens could do it - uhhhh
            • You just don't get it. Read posts above and below. - uhhh
              • True. bottom line - our job is to produce accurate, legal - sm - Kirsten
              • that's apples and oranges - uhhhh
                • Read Goldbird's post...clearly states the facts. - uhh
      • Americans edit Indian work, never Indians - Silvie
        • indians editing - CONFUSED and unhappy
        • Focus Infomatics uses Indians to edit Americans' work - deb
          • If Americans are a little thin-skinned and anxious right now, (sm) - Kirsten
        • not always true - from personal experience - - been there
  • offshoring to India - -results remain to be seen
    • most doctors have no idea, how would the patient ever know?...sm - mj
    • Hate to say it but most patients have no.. - Sad but true
      • I've been telling folks Xrays being read in India - telling them for quite some time now..nm
      • I agree. Believe it or not, there are many doctors who are clueless as to where... - mj
    • and if patients start going only to doctors who do not offshore.... - - and doc does not want to lose business - no mess
      • 100% correct - please see message - mg
      • Then ask, I do! - me, too
  • I think it's a combination of both. Plus, the work gets done lickety-split and they -- sm - MSMT
    • and the scariest thing is - doctors seldom if ever look at their dictations - - been there
      • One supervisor I had actually said, "They should be checking these reports." uh no, not dr - it's mine!
        • Dont you think some places purposely hire the - sm - Kirsten
      • I would hope - anon

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A certain company is advertising for people to go to Trinidad and train new MTs. 

Haven't we lost enough freakin work!

Who is making the money to keep your paychecks the same????

Is this really fair?  You mgmt people should be doling out some of your paychecks to us MT's who have NO WORK and LOW PAYCHECKS.

I have tried flexing and checking in every 10-15 minutes to get lines and then having to often make them up in the evening eating into another persons shift. 

I have now picked up a PT flexible job that I do pretty much of an evening and my days off.  I just have to commit to lines, not hours.  Great gig.   I don't want to endanger this PT job because I have to flex all over the place to get lines with WMX. 

How are you all managing the low work flow situation?

I've managed 2 small jobs so far today.  My account had picked up for about 2 days and actually had a good backlog, but then it was bombarded by MTs instructed to go there, so completely wiped out and nothing left for the primaries.  And I see instructions for other MTs to come here for part of their lines again today as well, which means the primaries on my account have to fight them for work again.  If my husband hadn't just had his hours cut also, I'd consider just taking a week off and getting stuff done, since I'm mostly wasting time babysitting my computer that I could put to more productive use elsewhere.

Pay is per hour. They have .8 and .7 positions. Both are elligible for full benefits. $196 per month insurance for family, dental family is $32 a month. Hours stink. 4 days a week 5pm to 10pm and 8 hours either Saturday or Sunday. 0.55 shift differential. Don't know what hourly wage would be...yet. Strickly radiology reports. Would have training at the head MT's home, about 45 minutes away from me. Don't know how long that would be. I was showed basic platform and it doesn't look to bad. WordPerfect 5.3. Their computer and equipment. I guess they are swamped. They have 19 hours of dictated minutes right now on their system with 8 MTs currently. They like to see it more around 4 hours.

Opinions?

I think:  Individual $26-something per pay period, employee+spouse was $180-something, employee and children was somewhere close to $200, and I think the whole family was $360-something (really high for family), but these are guesstimations so don't hold me to it, but this is what I remember.

Came from "Mike" at corporate MQ number on caller ID.

Just wanted to verify that I got the letter and that I would be getting the new benefit package in October. I politely asked if he could give me any advance FYI on any of it and he said, nope, they were just calling & verifying we received the letter...and that October was not that far away  my last name starts with G & I'm in the midwest, so maybe their going in alpha or by office, who knows.

I did ask him a question about the new links on the QNet, about what to find on there and he actually had to pull the page up and his computer was running so slow he said, that I just told him never mind.

So...the suspense goes on ladies and gents.