At 3 decades in, I'd more than likely

Posted By: Tired&CrankyMT on 2008-01-02
In Reply to: Wait'll you've been in it for THREE decades, - THEN tell us ya still luv your QAers.

...hate most everyone by that time, not just QA. lol

Probably have to change my name too - Miserable&MoodyMT.

I see this whole discussion has gone and blown up into a battle of MT vs QA.

I'm an ME on SR part time, so I know how involved/time consuming it can be with editing reports. ME is a step lower than QA editor, but basically the same type of job, minus any MT feedback. Sometimes it isn't as simple as filling in a blank, especially when you know you are dealing with a novice, or in my case, SR couldn't understand what it was hearing and put anything in the report. Just ended my night off with a horrid 64-line report that I would have gotten through quicker had I typed it myself and deleted what was there.

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** RANT!! ** I hate QA people! - Those who can, transcribe. Those who CAN'T, edi
- Outsmart them - Cindy M
- Turn down - Miss understood
- to "rant on hating QA" - just an MT
- Hey Einstein, you'd be out of a job with your plan. SM - what??
  - There must have been 2 fair to excellent MTs.. - Weren't you an MT once?
    - What will haappen when Dr says U made - mistake? Would love to see your attitude then.
    - Get your own accts. When approach Dr with - your attitude, wont have own acct for long. nm
    - If you work for MTSO, you usually dont have - access to the doctor. Get your own accts,please
  - I rather doubt that, but if that's what you - want to make yourself believe,
- Define "whining" - me
  - They whine when I send them a blank, and tell me - I should've 'just sent it through'.
- I, as well as many others here, understand your ... - sm
  - Here's the truth--SM - QA person
    - No one said you have to train them. You just have to grow up and be above the bullstuff. - A good QA
    - The above post proves my point. _sm_ - MTs who can, transcribe; those who CAN'T edit.
      - You CAN research what you "cant hear."Google - sentence with blank &will often fill in blank. nm
        You said it - Cindy M
        Do it all the time, honeybunch. - sheesh
        "You can't look something up if you can't even - tell for sure what the word SOUNDS like.)"
        You BET you can! sm - Lyndia
        That's exactly how I - wvm
        I do all that stuff too. But sometimes you just don't - get results.
        Did you not read post about "you CAN - research.." You basically repeated that post.
        Huh? -nm - missed your point
        This is sentence I responded to about googling - sentece with blank to find what blank is. nm
    - Here's more truth for YOU ... - sm
- Grain of salt - Tired&CrankyMT
  - Wait'll you've been in it for THREE decades, - THEN tell us ya still luv your QAers.
    - At 3 decades in, I'd more than likely - Tired&CrankyMT
      - I appreciate your post - Cindy M
      - I'm over the 3rd decade and counting - Thinking
        Well over third decade and loving it - Thinking�again
    - you sound more than ready for retirement! - ;)
      - I've been wishing I could retire since I was still - in high school! ha ha
  - Although I understand the basic premise of your post ... - sm
    - I am on production too s/m - production QA
      - Nah, I'll bet most of you get paid - PER CORRECTION, the root of the problem.
        U make no sense. If paid per correction, why - would we complain about multimistake jobs?
        Nope. We get paid production too. Unfortunately, hourly QA is out the door. - A good QA
        Learn what you speak of. Paid line count - here, just like MT. nm
        So: it's ok for MTs to lose time/$ on researching, - but not for QAs to fill them in?
        I get paid less to edit than to MT. I shouldnt - have to do MT research. How will MT learn?
        If we've researched our brains out, and STILL - can't find the answer, if QA -sm
        Dont mean this situation. Mean repeat blanks, - correcting same mistakes over & over. nm
        THAT is when constructive feedback helps, not being a jerk about it. - A good QA
        Yeah, I'll bet some MTs with bad QAs reach the - point where they just tune them out,
        Could be...but if the lines of communicaton are not blurred with a negative QA, then you can have a - A good QA
        Of course. Unfortunately a good QA - is the exception, not the rule.
        I think you should stop now. You s/m - production QA
        Couldn't be anything NEAR how a 20-blank report - would hold up OUR production!
        If you dont try to fill in blank or research, dont - expect it holds you up at all. nm
        I don't recall saying I 'don't research' blanks. - In fact, the time we take to research
- I edited MT with mistakes in template,told bout - them but she never bothered to fix them. nm
- I'm tired of MTs who cannot SM - QA person
  - 20 or 30 blanks in a report is a NEWBIE. - That's a whole different thing.
  - This type of arrogance and presumption ... - sm
    - I have been on both sides and recently sm - Lyndia
      - EXACTLY! Constructive input is always welcome; - constant little put-downs are NOT.
    - I agree with this post. - I think that QA are not necessarily more skilled.
      - Right on. Here's another thing that really _sm_ - Those who can, transcribe, and who CAN'T, edit
        I feel your pain, believe me... - I think you have every right to question these
  - Blanks in a report - I feel better now
    - I think sometimes it's the only way to get - one of the higher-ups to do -sm
  - I agree. When hear/research blank, it is SOOO - obvious they didnt even try. nm
- They do seem to have a lot of rules. - I think their heads get a little swollen.
  - That's exactly what happens ... - sm
    - Not only that, but lots of MTs get a little - 'black mark' on their reviews
- I'm sorry that you have crappy QA. I wish I had you to edit. sm - A good QA
  - I must say that you do indeed sound like you're one of the 'good guys'... - sm
    - Aw, thanks. I've been in the biz forEVER and in order to learn, you HAVE to be priased... - A good QA
      - People (& animals, too) will work harder to get - praised than they will to avoid a beating.
  - Mentors? - Curious
    - Definition here - Miss understood
    - Where I work it's the 'nice' name they give the - QA's. Sorta like 'sanitation engineers'.
    - At 1 co. was told I had mentor, never heard - from her, even when ?s. I didnt stay there long.

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Decades as MT
Started out in 1965 putting carbon paper between sheets for radiology reports, went through IBM mag cards doing medical records, IBM Selectric, Lanier teeny-weeny screen computers, and on and on . . . Didn't mean to "dis" you. I think it was a generation gap thing : ) I started out making $1.25 an hour, so $20-$30 an hour now seems wonderful to me. Best wishes on re-entering the field, and I mean it sincerely!

They've been using q.i.d., etc. for decades that I know of
and see if you can name one person who had an adverse reaction because someone transcribed that abbreviation in a report. Get over yourself.

The reason the AAMT changed the abbreviation as well as a lot of other ridiculous horse puckey they change and will continue to change is so they can sell a new edition to their Book of Style. PERIOD

You've gotta be kidding me if you believe that baloney.

You are right, but you are a few decades too late --
Even if it did happen decades ago (an MT union), it would have done little good these days. Not to mention that some unions became more corrupt than the companies they were to protect the workers from.

Also--Have you heard about this new fangled thing called "offshoring?"

Ooooh, Let me tell you about it--It's an amazing process:

1. Over-paid, greedy corporate swines take great jobs from perfectly competent American workers.

2. The swines strip the jobs of all decent benefits/wages/perks.

3. The stripped down jobs are then doled out to low-wage, low-skilled "workers" in third-world countries at a small percentage of original base salaries.

4. The CEOs then stuff their already over-stuffed pockets with cash they save by hiring cheap labor and not paying decent wages/benefits.

5. The American workers are then left scurrying, collecting unemployment, looking for another job, considering going back to school or selling roses on the street corners, whatever works for them, to make their ends meet.

What a process!! Amazing!! So American, isn't it??

To try to form a union now would be a pointless, no-win situation (we are all too scattered, there is no-one to back us up (think money), there is too much money behind the American CEOs and Indian CEOs that could crush us).

Nice thought, but a little too little too late.

I would say find another career. It is never too late. I am in school now (entirely different field) with a woman in her mid 60s, and she has already had multiple job offers.

I have been trying to fight all of this offshoring for quite a few years now, but I am exhausted and have thrown in the towel and decided I am a valuable employee and have decided to move on and take my experience and skills with me.

Good luck to you in whatever you do.

...not supposed to happen for a few decades, but those of us left
will be needing to really be adaptable and go ahead and learn all the new technology.

like this article says, we also did this to ourselves.

it really is to our benefit to learn the new technology. our biggest threat is not overseas after all, but right here in our own backyards...

funny, but all that will be left some day are service jobs...like you said, nursing. well, perhaps service jobs will have to start paying more as more college-educated people have to do them as well.

I see now MQ is trying to be the innovator. their merge with Philips Medical was just short of genius, really. if this pans out the way this article says, they will be front-runners...

Wait'll you've been in it for THREE decades,
nm

For decades, a company benefit has been health insurance
along with retirement plans, paid holidays, PTO, etc. Only in the world of MT (and maybe Wal-Mart) are many companies not paying for these benefits.

EEEEEEEW! He was ugly decades ago and now he's ancient and uglier!
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