Agree and disagree -- there is a time and place for discretion -- but it should be with the approval
Posted By: susan sunflower on 2008-09-08
In Reply to: I agree, please let me rephrase... - KyMT
I used to do shift assignments many years ago ... first off, there are times when you have a newbie (or not so newbie) who will literally take hours to do a few OP reports, when what you need is TURNOVER, VOLUME, SPEED .. in those cases, it may make sense for the overall picture to assign someone new (or ailing) some "easy" work to clear out a worktype ... Ditto, I don't have any problem with requesting (and having request granted) to do certain report types or this-not-that when there is a request for extra hours. If you've already put in your shifts doing luck-of-the-draw, spending extra hours doing the dregs feels like punishment ... and if you're doing an unfamiliar worktype on overtime or extra, your reports will likely be a burden to QA ... net gain lessened.
There are all kinds of cherrypicking possible depending on the configuration of your job -- switching worktypes, switching accounts, taking a "break" are all ways to pass the exhausting and frustrating on to somebody else ... Oh, and no, I make myself NOT do that ... easy though it appears to be for most people to get away with it.
I once had a coworker (whom I liked) who explained that she HAD to cherrypick because otherwise she couldn't reach her line count within her 8 hour workday ...
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Next time I'll run my postings past you for approval then, okay, posting police?
I love the "my way or the highway" attitude. Get over yourselves.
I disagree. The best place to work is a hospital that has their MTs at home.
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well, I guess we all disagree at one time or another--sm
but I did not say hate the BOS, I said hate the AAMT that produces it. Very few people have any respect for that organization any longer, but continue to buy the book from them, which is still feeding the monster, as I put it. anyway, that is just my opinion. NONE of my employers, or any one that I have ever tested with, used the BOS. I know what the book is. I have seen it and still think that it is just guidelines and nothing is set in stone. MOST doctors have their own preferences anyway, which have nothing to do with this book. I have many many reference books, so it is not that I don't believe in booked reference material. I have spent a good amount of money on them and have no qualms about continuing to do so. they are all invaluable, simply as reference material. I simply object to the AAMT, which has *shot the american MT in the foot*. but that is still just my opinion. enjoy your coffee.
I agree and disagree.
For my own personal choice, I detest daycares. However, I was forced to use them with my older child because we could not make it financially without me working. I tried working nights, but that didn't work because I didn't sleep at all. I cut back to parttime after my second child, only working during school hours. I hated every moment I was apart from my kids. After my third child, there was not a chance I would put my kids in daycare again. I did put my child into preschool three half days a week to prepare for kindergarten, and I did work outside the home those three half days. However, I don't agree with 50-60 hours of daycare or more per week.
The part I disagree with is the manner in which you are spreading your message. You come across as young, naive, and judgmental. A large percentage of this country does not have it as good as you do. What are you going to do if your husband loses his job some day? And can't find another one right away? Are you going to go on welfare, or are you going to put your kid in daycare so you can work while your husband either job searches or does odd jobs? What if he is forced to take a cut in wages or else his company shuts down entirely? These things have all happened to my family. Fortunately, you must be an MT if you're on this board. However, I don't agree with working fulltime at home with young children either. And Dr. Laura isn't as wonderful as she tells everyone she is. She's judgmental, too, which is not a ticket to heaven.
Why don't you just agree to disagree, and drop it? You have no right to tell people what they should or shouldn't do with their own children. There's a woman in our neighborhood who doesn't use daycare for her kids because she wouldn't make any money at all. You'd think her kids would be well-behaved and her house would be clean, but she sits on her fat arse watching TV all day long and smoking cigarettes. Is she a wonderful mother for staying home with her children? NO! She doesn't discipline at all. Her kids would spend all day and night here if they could, but I've got my own kids, house and job to take care of. There are good parents and there are bad parents. Having to use daycare does not make you a bad parent, and staying home with your kids doesn't make you a good parent.
We will have to agree to disagree---
I have never in my 20 years of homeschooling heard anyone give the HSLDA a bad rap as you have. I fully believe your info is wrong. I won't continue to argue with you over it, for we each have to make our own decision. Personally -- after 20 years of experience, I would not be without them! It gives me great peace of mind and the $85 will go toward helping others who do have legal needs if I do not need their assistance. I don't think this organization would be the size that it is and represent ALL 50 states if what you said was true.
I mentioned Christian Liberty curriculum in another post. Although "christian" is in their title, they offer a great curriculm even if you don't want to necessarily give your child a christian-based education.
I think that the websites that you gave are probably good resources, but I believe that there are MANY homeschoolers out there (and I would be in this category) that would not be able to pick and choose and put together their own curriculum and come out balanced in the end. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, so I might push the science and history areas because I am more familiar with them and be slack on the math side because I personally am not strong in that area. That is why I like a good curriculum such as A Beka, Christian Liberty, or even ACE (my last choice) because they do the leg work for you and you have a very balanced education.
I believe that many students are labeled ADHD and can be high achievers when brought home and taught. Believe it or not, there are teachers out there who just like the students to be a little "sedated" to make their job easier! Some of these issues can be handled with a good diet too.
Agree/disagree.
I do not think interracial marriage is wrong in the sense that it is a sin. However, I have 2 racially mixed nephews and a niece, and here (Alabama)these children, as well as their mothers, have often been insulted because of it. Only because of this, I hope my daughter does not choose to do this. If she does, I will, of course, accept it. I have close friends who are black and I love my niece and nephews dearly. I think that this is changing even in the south, but right or wrong there is still a stigma, at least here.
As for Dog, considering his background and the fact that he was angry, is it surprising that this could slip out? I may have been disappointed in him, as I have been with the relatives and others who have used this word, but this was a family discussion and should not have been broadcasted. Although I do not begrudge Dog his success, I would never have considered him a role model, even before this.
I agree to disagree with you on that
one. Glad you like it. Someone should.
DH and I agree to disagree sm
on this issue, as long as I win. He grudgingly writes the checks but loudly wishes he could use the money to pay principal on the mortgage (nice to even have that choice to make, I think). But one accident or illness for either of us, and the mortgage won't matter anymore, because we won't have a house, and all that extra money we paid on principal would be gone.
Don't think of it as health insurance, but rather catastrophe insurance, or even home insurance. It's a bit easier to swallow that way.
BTW, I have had a very positive experience with ehealthinsurance.com. Tried some of the others for "online" quotes, and a month later, my phone still hasn't stopped ringing almost constantly. None of that with ehealth. Good luck.
I disagree...just because you are in a certain profession doesnt mean you cant have time off..sm
My mom has been an RN for over 40 years now and I have several family members in some of the other professions you mentioned above. A certain profession does not mean you have to work certain days/holidays. If you have vacation time you are entitled to use it whenever you wish. I used to work in a physicians office for 10 years and I always put my vacation time in for my two weeks in December in January. Other employees put their time in for summer. So while they are out having fun with their time off in July I am not crying and moaning because they are having fun in the sun while I work to cover them. It is the same thing no matter when your time off is scheduled. It has nothing to do with what field you work in. If you want time off at Christmas be a little more organized and schedule your time off way in advance. And no I dont think I am the only one with a family who would like to be off for the holidays. I just make it a priority to take my vacation at that time. You enjoy your time when you want and I will enjoy my time when I want.
Thanks! It's nice to know we can agree to disagree.
Have a good evening!
An experienced MT, I agree and disagree with you sm
I have two jobs right now, one I have had for 3 yrs (old job) and one I have had for 6 months (new job).
Old job sends back a corrected copy of every report that goes to QA. I am getting used to a new account, so these are used as references and for learning the new account. I could not learn the new account without this, and that is understood, it is a challenging account. This feedback has always been the case, however, no matter how long I have held onto an account.
The feedback is generic, in that there is NEVER a personal comment about it. You don't get "good job" but you don't get "you should have known this" either. It a tool and THIS very experienced MT uses it!
New job...feedback is rare. You can go back and look up things you have done, but unless you know what you are looking for, you won't find your corrections. In fact, many of my "corrections" were sent as blanks to the client and there is nothing for me to learn from. When feedback does come, it is only for errors and it is by phone with a thorough "ripping me a new one" and I can't say I like this, so I tend not to answer the phone. Every comment is made as a personal statement about me, not about my work. We had a conference call a couple of months ago and every error that one can with the MT system, I have made. Then again, I am the longest serving MT on this account. Every time they wanted to point out something you don't do, they called me BY NAME in from of my peers and said: You know ALL ABOUT THAT, don't you? Cheap shot and unprofessional to say the least.
It is sometimes true that experienced MTs lack adequate computer knowledge and have a lot of difficulty in this area. Some of us upgrade frequently enough (I do) that we have to stretch to learn new things.
I don't, not for a minute, consider that I don't have a certain excitement and acceptance of new things. I have had to learn no fewer than 5 MT platforms in this very calendar year. On top of that, I have made it a personal point to learn to do ESLs of all kinds, which is why I took the new job in the first place.
Knowing the BOS2 backwards and forwards has been an impediment for me because it is not the same as any specs I have ever been given for a hospital or a company. Use it properly? That is why it is very handy in PDF format!
I don't have on the job training in the sense that I have it in lieu of a training program. I took a training program and did extremely well with it and even passed a test and was hired before I could complete it. The rest is history. I am one of the lucky MTs who work part time and make a full time income with extreme accuracy, a willing attitude and the mentality of a team player.
Your post has a point and I acknowledge that. I simply don't appreciate being told that because I have training, a college degree and have been an MT for a dozen years that I am past my prime, I don't like to learn and I can't use the BOS properly!
We are all individuals and I don't think you said that clearly enough.
I disagree. Just because someone doesn't agree with your opinion,
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Agree with this but disagree about Drug Books, sm
Would recommend the Quick Look Drug Book, but I only buy every other year. The FDA site is good but I like being able to cross-reference generic and brand names and get the dosage information.
I disagree, first off, I have a heck of a hard time hiring qualified US MTs
client ready work. Then, when I do hire MTs I constantly run into the problem of how they only want to work part time or can only work 2 hrs on this day, an hour here, or an hour there, or the next problem is consistency. Out of the blue, oops, can't work today, or I lost connection to the Internet yet they're too stupid to go offline instant messenger. One MT owes me money because I was nice enough to help her out (yeah I know my fault) and she screwed me over. Such drama. It's a CONSTANT battle to find good US MTs.
There's a time and a place for everything, and
I prefer to spend mine editing the work I get paid for, not every note I post on web forums.
All the time, I love this place!
I think the man is prejudiced regardless of another time and place.
son or not, he shouldn't have said what he did. I have family in the deep south that refer to black people as "niggers" and I think it's disgusting. I've voiced my opinion about it and whenever I'm around them, which really isn't that often, they are very careful about how they refer to black people.
Some of it's just "timing"...right place at right time. sm
This is an extensive thread and I haven't read every entry, so I might be repeating someone else, but one thing you can do is to make yourself available for work during "unpopular" shifts and days (meaning nights and weekends). A person who would be available on BOTH weekend days would certainly stand out, for instance. Even if it's very hard to accommodate such a schedule for awhile, you'd probably have a chance to move to better hours at some point.
I agree. It's a great place to work,
most places are very slow around the holidays. And the owner is a great lady.
give it time, dust is settling, they just have no place else to gripe yet. nm
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MRC, wow. I loved that place. I started in 1992 and like you was a "newbie" at that time. SM
I had only worked at one large hospital before doing mostly radiology. I loved MRC until it merged with TL then became MQ. Things only went downhill after that.
oops - posted in wrong place. I agree with everything QA said,not U.
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and we do pay their salary so who needs their approval. They need ours.
I would love to subject managers/supervisors to QA and have their salary based upon their performance. Which begs the question, what do supervisors do all day but generate e-mails? We do the hard work to bring money into the company so a supervisor can e-mail us and what else?
do you have your approval letter
from medicaid? There should be a blurb about how much your household can earn before having to do a change of income report to them.
Yes, I'm sure the approval rating has to do with hate
Do you not know how ridiculous that sounds? I might not approve of things my kids do, but I sure don't hate them. I'm sure there are people who "hate" the president. That happened when he got more votes than Gore and won...and he's been "hated" by some every since. Sorry 'bout that.
hey if you can afford it and a supervisor's approval means more to you than cash, have at it.
i want the luck of the draw. you think your supervisor is going to pay your bills when she routes crap to you and it takes you twice as long to do a report? all you do is make her look good and she gets a raise.
so if someone else posts something that rings true, you ignore it? you need adminstrator approval?
first you cry to administrators to fight your battles and now if they tell you that they wrote the post, you will take it to heart but otherwise, you don't care? dano, you need a psychiatrist to see why you need authority figures approval and why you are still tattling to get this authority figures attention. seriously. you got issues.
I guess we have to wear ID bracelets "no docs not on approval list" nm
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It's the only place I have ever lived.. Great place to retire or raise a family. Low crime rate e
living is pretty easy here. Low stress..
I agree with you. It takes time to get the
kind of help in there. They have one road open. Everything is flooded. There is no airport to land at. Gas is scarce. 90% of the gas that came from that area is no longer functioning. Cars are being stolen from places just to get out. Thugs are shooting at helicopters trying to evacuate critically ill patients. You've got groups of thugs shooting everything up and steeling anything and everything, but they don't realize mostly everything they take will have to be left behind. Everyone wants help now but it takes time to put together a plan of these proportions. Nobody was prepared for this because they didn't think it would happen. You have people commandering vehicles with guns for their own use that are being brought in to help evacuate. The only boats you see are very small ones because the big ones can't come in and work. The water is not deep enough.
A lot of people stuck there are making the situation worse for everyone else because they are helping to put off rescues that can happen by shooting at vehicles, shooting at police officers, setting intentional fires just to get the police over to the fire so they don't come chase them for looting or terrorizing others. You have idiots walking around with AK-47s down Canal Street.
Shephard Smith described itbest the other day. Made me think too since I live in Fla. The day after a hurricane you hear chain saws going, you have people cleaning up, you get out there and assess the damage. They could not do that because for them in NO it was not over. The floods were getting worse and rising. There were no people assessing damage, no chain saws cutting down trees, no power trucks checking out downed power lines just because they couldn't get into the city. Everything is blocked. The closest city to them that has power is 90 miles away. That means no gas for them. Yes, they're bringing buses and stuff but it's very slow going. Trying to figure out how to do everything and coordinate everything w/o communication to others is very hard.
One of the guys in the news conferences said yesterday that he spent 18 months at ground zero. They are looking at being in NO much longer because that is much more damage than what he saw at ground zero.
I agree with MQLOVER this time!
I am at MQ too and we are to space once after a period. Maybe MQLOVER was right all along, we are looking at the wrong persom that is stirring up problems.
I totally agree. They certainly had time to
prepare but just didn't. Who's to blame?
I agree...Time to be positive
No one is perfect, no company is perfect and everyone has frustrations. I try to teach my little girl to focus on how to make things better and we all should too. :)
AGREE! It's time for MTs to go to war on this issue.
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Agree. Next time may be YOUR child with
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I agree. Give yourself time
to learn their accents, the way they word things.... ask QA to give you feedback, if they are not, and report back on words or phrases that you didn't get. Hang in there. I'd give it 2 weeks and you will be done leaving blanks. Good luck with the new account.
Agree with poster below, do it this ONE time,
but after that, redictations are paid at the cpl rate you have set, and let them know this.
The position varies from place to place..
Sometimes you end up doing VR, which can be really easy or a real pain. Sometimes you end up simply editing files and all is good. Other times, you end up with more job responsibilities and hours than you ever wanted. All in all better than typing LOL.
Agree. LOVE Switch and use it all the time.
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I agree with you. I outgrew this stuff a long time ago.
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I agree with old time MT -- best to fix it when you see it and not rely totally on spellcheck. sm
In my old QA days, I found too many errors that were obviously the cause of word Expander errors, things not caught by spellcheck, etc. I doubt that it really slows you down that much. I have been doing it that way for so long, it is just second nature and quick to go up and fix something real fast, than wait until the end and hope that spellcheck catches it.
Good luck! 
I agree with the other posters that I found them to be a waste of time ...
I sent them a resume with over 20 years of acute care experience and they didn't even extend me the professional courtesy of acknowledging that they received it.
The archives yield posts by other MTs stating more disappointment with them after making contact than favorable results.
I agree...tooo funny...first time I laughed out loud all day!
thanks!
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I agree - doesn't sound like it's worth your time to fight her anymore. NM
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Agree! I hate Daylight Savings Time. It takes me a good two weeks
to get myself and everybody in the household adjusted to the time change every six months. If the farmers need to get up earlier, let 'em! That doesn't mean I should have to, also! DST has definitely outlived its usefulness. I stay up later and get up earlier in the summer, but go to bed earlier and sleep later in the winter. It's like my mind and body are tied to the sun, not the clock. I never got an extra hour of sleep last night anyways because the neighbor's stupid dog barked from 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.
I disagree
Edix/Spheris pays a bonus based on production and QA. The MQ office I worked for didn't give a rats bottom about QA, it was LINES LINES LINES and they paid production bonuses. My company expects the lines with NO bonus, NO shift differential, NO weekend differential, and NO OT. What you download you are expected to do, doesn't matter if it's 200 reports, you better have them done.
I have to disagree with you.
I think that people actually like it. That is the thing. I care a lot if the people are fat and ugly. It is such a weird concept to me. Being extremely thin and beautiful, I can't stand that. I mean, what is the harm in getting plastic surgery or gastric bypass? It will be a very hard thing for me to do.
I would have to disagree with you...
I have lived in California for most of my life and now for the last 6 years have lived in New England. Yes, it's expensive but not nearly as expensive as California, especially Southern California. For instance, a small tract house with 1200 square feet and no yard whatsoever, lined up like sardines in a can, will run you about 450,000. We have a 4 bdrm 3ba, in ground pool,1.4 acres, 2,300 sq ft house worth 300,000. The reason most of theNortheast is so expensive is the high tax burden, with the exception of New Hampshire,which has the lowest tax burden of all 50 states. One thing that is horribly expensive is college tuition, even community college is ridiculous compared to California.
I disagree with you. SM
As the other poster said -- if they're all that concerned, they need to (a) watch who they hire (b) provide the equipment.
No way on this earth I'd grant that kind of access to my computer. They'll have to find another way to calm their fears.
I disagree... (sm)
I believe Silent Type is a totally family based, oriented firm and found them most pleasant to work for before starting my own business.
I disagree
I have been an MT for a fair few years. One of the reasons I chose this career was because of the "bright" outlook. I believed that there really was a shortage of MTs in this country and jobs aplenty. Plenty of MTSOs are hiring, but trying to get my own account has been like pulling teeth. I have had to move out of my city, then out of my state, and now am calling surrounding states looking for work. I have excellent qualifications and reasonable rates, and I can tell you, nobody is interested.
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