Decades as MT
Posted By: olderndirt on 2008-05-26
In Reply to: 14 Years here on Earth and in the USA - AngieS.
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!
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At 3 decades in, I'd more than likely
...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.
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,
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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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