Let's remember, the OP is not the one just laid off....sm
Posted By: HSM on 2007-12-22
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It is her FRIEND, and therefore the OP is adding her own spin to it.
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laid off
I know this because my husband has been "laid off" a lot lately!
I did when I was laid off
(fired, with no intention of hiring me back) along with a whole bunch of other MTs when our work went to the Philippines.
This employer really played some games. First they said work was going to get thin because some accounts were being 'lost' and people might be let go. A month later accounts were booming, and getting way out of TAT and it was ALL OUR FAULT and why weren't we picking up the slack? (I later figured this was the transition period as they switched over to offshore, and something got screwed up.) Then work slacked off again and they said people were definitely going to be let go and we should start looking elsewhere. A couple weeks later they said that they could probably find places for most of us on other accounts, and we should ask for a transfer, which I did. Then I got jerked around by the HR person who would not return my calls or respond to my e-mails for a couple of weeks. Then the account managers she finally referred me to did the same for another couple of weeks. This all took about three months from first inkling to the axe falling.
Then one glorious morning I got an e-mail notifying me of a MANDATORY conference call, with 2 hours' notice. And everyone on that call, 30-40 of us, were the lucky winners, and were locked out of the system.
A couple of weeks later (while I was still in the 30-day waiting period in my state to file for unemployment) I got a phone call from the same HR person who had given me the runaround before. Did I want to reapply for a job with them? Well, not really, but I went through that whole process - as though they did not even know me. And weirdly enough, with 15 years of experience, I managed to fail an untimed open-book test! Fascinating.
So here's what I think the game was (and I am telling you so you don't fall for any tricks.) They tried to scare as many of us into quitting as possible. Then they tried to ignore as many of into quitting as possible. (If you quit, 99.9% of the time you don't qualify for unemployment.) Then when they were forced to lay us off, they offered the jobs back to see how many would go for it; maybe 10% of us did. (If they offer you work and you refuse, then you don't qualify for unemployment.) But since I went through their whole reapplication process, and they did not hire me back (and never intended to) I DID qualify for unemployment.
Hope you are an actual employee and not an IC, and that this info is helpful. Unemployment is not big buck$ but with summer coming, maybe you can have a nice semi-paid vacation while you look for work.
I wish you luck. My luck was that about a month after I was let go I broke my arm. I would not have been able to work for the creeps anyway! I filed for unemployment online. I was able to do all my job hunting from home, hunt-and- peck, online. Nobody saw me. And magically, just when I got the arm back in service again, somebody wanted me to test and I got the first job I tested for. The whole time I was one-armed and applying for jobs like mad (a requirement for getting unemployment) and wondering what I would do if a company was seriously interested, absolutely no offers. As soon as I could actually type again, there was a job offer.
Think bad stuff doesn't sometimes happen for good reasons? Think again!!
The pt is layed off or laid off from her job?
gosh. I cant figure out anything today
He laid down for awhile, but he just did not seem sm
He laid down for awhile, but he just did not seem to be able to navigate or walk because of the dizziness
HELP PLEASE !!! I can never get this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Yeah - laid off
I got walking papers courtsey of Heartland :)
Don't worry - unless you were laid off
Or there is a switch to true EMR with drop down screens and virtually no free text. My cardiologist's office already has this. No chart notes to type anymore; they only need transcription for letters.
You may train your system so well that administration will decide they don't need you anymore. The system doesn't have to be perfect (human transcription certainly isn't!); it only has to be *good enough*.
Laid-off Acusis MT...
Stay away from Spheris. They're a terrible company to work for, and they put out garbage work. They, too, will end up losing the "big" account (which DRC did lose before the Acusis buyout). I am one of the stragglers left behind at DRC/Acusis, but not for long. I'll take the gum chewing, mumbling, flatulent, ESL cardiologist any day of the week over being told someone in India is going to train me on a new account.
lain or laid
Using Webster's dictionary, the past tense of lie is lay, past part. is lain, so this would be lain.
laid back?
 The term marshmellow was used by a group of light-hearted transcriptionists at an AAMT conference once. We used it as a code name when stresses were high (and in this business, stresses are high). We ususally got chuckles when we used it. I really did not expect anyone to know this, except that particular group of people. We used it for years amongst our networking days. (We were all from different parts of the country.)
should be laid-off (ROFL) ...sorry! (NM
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Laid off or chose to take time off? (sm)
Be accurate, now!
laid-back company?
Well yes I did clinical & Basic 4 for a very laid-back company in L.A. for 7 years & it was great, after they got to know me. But I finally got laid off & worked for MedScribe (Jax, Fla.) doing Rad for 6 months until last week. The first time my production got a little low, BAM they ended my contract & that was IT. So it would be nice to find a little more laid-back company again. If you want a referral bonus, I have 17 yrs MT experience, type 90+ wpm, & I'm available & looking.
They laid off over 200 people at the plant
near me. I'm sure there have been layoffs elsewhere. I'd say that is the problem not waiting on parts. When they opened the new plant here one of the requirements was that all suppliers had to be within 30 minutes of Dell.
Our hospital laid us all off and I went to work for the national that got the bid. nm
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My best friend and fellow editor laid off this close to Christmas! sm
For everyone complaining about his or her jobs, it could be worse. My best friend, who has been in this business for years and years and years, has a work ethic like nothing I have seen before, and is a genuinely caring and gentle soul, was laid off today from her job via a conference call! To add insult to injury, she is scheduled to have two surgeries next month, which she scheduled for after the holidays to accommodate her employer, even though she can barely see, which she will now be unable to have since they are terminating her health insurance today as well. They were aware of her scheduled surgery and knew she had been waiting for some time to have it. We will not even talk about what impact this has upon her family, including her young son, particularly here at Christmas time. How do you explain no Santa to a young child?
She is always the person helping everyone else, both in her personal life as well as professionally. I have witnessed her struggles and she always keeps a positive outlook. I think this will finally "do her in." Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers, as well as the other THIRTY people who lost their jobs today.
They say that everything we do comes back to you ten-fold. I hope it happens quickly for this heartless company.
my boyfriend's union has helped him to be laid off 6 months this year already...
Sure Union's PROTECT the workers... okay that's fine. but they also do plenty of other stuff that is not cool with me. I like the idea of them getting paid a good amount for what they do, but then there are times when if something happens on a job, for example, two workers get in a fight, they may get fired from that particular job, but re-hired with another one that hires union workers. It makes no sense. Obviously I see the point of unions so workers are not taken advantage of... but like someone else posted, someone would sneak away to sleep during her job with the union. I mean, have you seen DOT workers? Cal Trans ? i dont think I EVER see them working and I'm gonna guess they are a union (although I can't be sure).
For sure transcription needs something, but I don't think a union is it. Although I don't think we will ever have anything to protect or help us... too little "higher up" people know the problem.
just please remember that....
science is a GOOD thing :) If anything, the ultimate gift of God. IMO
(shuttin up now)
OKAY, BUT REMEMBER
Remember, maybe your current employer would pay you a penny more a line (MAYBE), but what about the next employer. Things in this business change quickly, and just because your current employer may up your pay, the next one might not care.
Do you remember>>bet I'm
How about those HUGE transcription machines bigger than a desk>>>>I gravitated to MT from KEYPUNCH school...REMEMBER THOSE KEYPUNCH MACHINES!!!!!
I remember
I learned to type on a manual typewriter. I actually won a county typing contest on one of those, when some of the contestants had brought their electric portables with them. I won because I relaxed, thinking I did not have a chance on a manual, and had only two errors. They counted off words for each error. I got my A.S. in HIM, only then it was Medical Records Technology. My first job was in a small physician's office, where I had an IBM Selectric. Dictation was on this little thing with belts. After that was a machine with small little discs that looked like film, that never came out of the machine, just stacked up like a juke box. After that came tapes. My references were a big Dorland's, a Taber's and a PDR. Of course, like another poster said, I had the chart. Even with all the bad things about the business, I don't think I would want to go back.
ek, remember ET...
AND REMEMBER
Oct. 1 if you are ME, you get the "reward" of 20% decrease in pay.
just remember
remember
They used to think that about male nurses too.
I believe so, but can't remember what it is! nm
Don't remember where I was
I probably found out about it at night, when the newspaper arrived. It didn't phase me at all.
In terms of my age at the time ... 27.
How do you ever remember them all?
That's my problem
Remember When? SM
I posted last evening and spent time this morning just chuckling over what people have written. I still have the red book, "A Syllabus for The Surgeon's Secretary." It is all beat up and the spine is broken but I will not part with it. Let me quote, "Only when a satisfactory degree of proficiency has been achieved should a student be given actual work assignments. She thus learns by POSITIVE TUTELAGE as contrasted with the outmoded method of trial and error." The 2nd edition, January 1965 is the date of publication. We had no electronic dictionary or medical speller. Everything we wrote had to be correct or it was literally "thrown back at us" to retype. We had to use our "Dorlands" or "Tabers" and one PDR for the use of the whole office. Believe me, these "one of a kind" books were tattered and torn but we used them or else. We "had" to get it right, no excuses. What a wonderful way to start the New Year. Somehow it seems all worth it now, sore back and tired fingers and all. Happy New Year, Everyone. Mary Mc
I remember when...
As a child;
Movies were 50 cents. We went at least every weekend...
We got cable TV...wow, more than 3 or 4 channels!
Our first VCR had a remote...with a cord running across the floor!
As a teenager;
Let me just say...leg warmers!
Big hair!
Wham! Boy George! Flock of Seagulls...
Those were the days...
I remember
as a child
Combination TV and record player. The record player could play 33-1/3, 45's AND 78's
Stores were closed on Sundays.
As a teenager
White lipstick
Rolling hair up on orange juice cans.
Cash registers without scanners.
Wishnicks (lucky troll dolls)
Don't let the trolls get you down.
i remember those
I'm old enough to remember standing at the meat counter with my mom watching the butcher weigh out the meat and wrap it and if she wanted a special cut he would step back to a table with the meat saw and cut it.
I also remember long trips on Route 66 before the interstates- getting car sick because I was sitting with my knees on the seat looking out the back window watching the stripes and telephone poles go by- my cousins had a Rambler station wagon and that was really cool cause they got to sprawl out in the back it had a luggage rack on top - oh, boy am I really telling my age
Boy am I old. I remember......
when I was a child, and there was no TV, we actually had one of those big floor model radios, and we actually sat around it and listened to it. Wow. When I was a teenager, gas was about 18 cents a gallon, and we used to go out on a Friday night and get a dollar's worth. I also remember our first color TV. Everything looked bright pink, bright blue, and bright green. Probably my most significant memory as a teenager was being on my senior class trip in Washington, D.C. when Kennedy was killed. We saw the White House flag being lowered. Car radios were on all over town, people gathered around cars crying. That was back in the time when everyone was kind of "innocent" - things like that just didn't happen. Wow, what a memory.
I remember when...
Michael Jackson was "normal" and very cool. I remember when we only got three channels out in the country. I remember being in love with Erik Estrada from CHiPs! Ahh, nostalgia. I remember when Ricky Martin was in Menudo. OMG, so cute! When I need a nostalgia fix, I watch "13 Going on 30". She was my age exactly then! Loving those layered polo's and plastic necklaces! I remember watching NEW episodes of "The Cosby Show". Oh, can't forget "The Facts of Life"! Woohoo! Good thread idea. I'm smiling now! Thanx!
WHAT I REMEMBER
When we waited for guys to call us now girls ask guys out (I have two daughters). When you would not be stuck with one guy and would go out with several. When College was an option because jobs were more plentiful. Now College is a must. When TV had the good shows like Different Strokes, Facts of Life Etc, when Kenny Rogers was as hot as Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. When TV was a little more sensored than it is now. When there was more little corner stores and not a variety of supermarkets. When you only had one brand to choose at the store and not a million. When Sundays were a day of rest and not work(stores were closed). The only time you could get donuts was on Sundays at the corner stores.
I remember when...
Milk used to come in glass bottles with cardboard tops. Bread was wrapped in waxed paper with a label on each end. Kids had to be inside as soon as the street lights when on. Everyone ate dinner together, and you had to ask to be excused from the dinner table. All 3 of us kids waited in the back seat of the car while mom did grocery shopping, and we actually believed she could see us.
As a teen I remember city buses took us everywhere, or we walked. I remember bleeding madras shirt, tight cut-off kakhi-colored jeans (but I'm not sure kakhi was a word then), boys with bleached blonde surfer haircuts, and penny loafers without socks. I remember circle pins, letter sweaters, and Aqua-Net.
Thanks, fun!
Just remember
were you were only four days ago. You posted on this board "bawling your eyes out" and having no idea what to do. I am very happy for you, please understand that. But I have been where you are right now. I am not trying to dampen your spirits or get you down, I'm just trying to give you a little bit of reality. I didn't respond to your original post because I felt that you had enough people putting their two cents in. I left my husband over four years ago. It took a lot of courage and it was a very scary thing to do. He was a very emotionally abusive man who had taken away every ounce of self-esteem I had. But I got me and my son out.
I do want you to be happy and excited about the steps you are taking, but I don't want you to forget where you were just a few short days ago. It is very easy to fall back into the same old routine. I heard many, many promises from my ex, and I stayed with him only for things to always go back to the terrible. If you hang on to where you just came from, you won't allow yourself to go back there again.
Good luck.
remember when
I remember when I was working FT outside of the home. Lots of days it grated on my last nerve but I am, make that was, a people person and felt I needed that interaction. Due to child care circumstances I work FT at home now doing transcription. I do find myself getting more and more reclusive and miss the public less as times goes on. I do, however, have a p.r.n. position at a local hospital that I work when I want and so that gets me out there. I usually works Saturdays. I can work there as much or as little as I want. It is really not a hard job but by the end of the day I'm ready to go home. Both jobs make me appreciate the other one more.
I remember that too.
Besides, it looks bad. "He was seen 1 day ago and has had 2 episodes of chest pain, 3 times a day." Come on.
I remember.....sm
I remember the group "Seacrest out" now that you mention it. But I though he did it every show last year. That's cute that you use it.
Oh how I remember it well....sm
I was married for 13 years and we never left the offspring with a babysitter (husband=European)
..and so I read somewhere WAY BACK THEN.....that if he doesn't want to leave the kids with a babysitter, you make plans with your friends and STILL GO out with them.....the article indicated that while the husband may not be happy with that, he will respect you.
I divorced him after 13 years of his CONTROLLING passive-aggressive ways....the fact that his things were always more important than our things...me being an equalist. I want a man in my life, not in my house full time. I will NEVER marry again by choice. *lol* Joni Mitchell (singer back in the 1970s) once sang a line "We love our lovin, but not like we love our FREEDOM!!!!!"
So you go on out and have a GREAT time and DON'T FEEL GUILTY......you deserve time on your own away from everyone at home. I don't even know you and can tell you that with CERTAINTY!!
ENJOY YOUR EVENING.....and hopefully you won't come home to the THIRD DEGREE (questions). *LOL*
remember this . . .
illicit - illegal
yep, that's how I remember this one too.
:)
Does anyone remember (sm)
Pat from Saturday Night Live? LOL
Yep - I sure do remember Pat from SNL.....nm
i remember
playing hopscotch on the sidewalk, jumprope and my pogo stick. In those days we were allowed to actually play outside without fear of being abducted !
I don't remember the man's name, but--sm
he and his wife did their Christmas party for many years. He was a family friend. He also did not need a "costume" as he had a long white beard etc. already. He had also given JonBenet a teddy bear that night at the party and when he was on Geraldo, he had the bear in his hands. Still just my opinion.
Yes, but I cannot remember the name of it--sm
but they do advertise occasionally for an MT to go to various in-house hospitals and type dictation. Might be good for someone with no responsibilities at home, but not me.
I don't remember much about it, other than
that I loved it. I don't think its very fancy, not a lot of bells and whistles, but I believe I used to use it at the Q, and I always made great line counts and was really fast on it. I would love to use it again! I'm sorry that I don't remember the details other than above.
They way I remember it,
As I remember it, punctuation rules changed in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I remember some teacher telling us, and I think it was when I was in college. We learned very different rules, but many doctors still use the rules I learned before this change. The new rules make more sense to me now, and I use them, bearing in mind that the trend in medical reports is to use fewer commas rather than more. Most of the medical journals that I've read use the same style I do, so I don't know why the MDs don't notice how it's done in the journals.
Now I remember why I don't come here often (sm)
I guess I referred to them as "normal interruptions", because frankly, I think we will all agree that working from home is very different from working in an office environment away from home. My 4-year-old son is home with me, which does create interruptions and since he is very active, I actually have quite a few interruptions. However, since it is my choice to have him home with me and not in day care, I try to deal with it the best that I can. I do not want to put him off or insist that he be silent while I am working. He does go to preschool 2 days a week, 2 hours a day, but that actually is more of a hindrance than a help, since I drive both ways.
I do not do housework during my working hours, other than to clean up an occasional spill or mess that might occur while I'm working. I do take occasional breaks to play with my son though. My voice mail answers all my calls, and I have caller ID so that I can screen them as well.
I appreciate your input and I think it is super that you are able to accomplish so much work in 2 hours. However, I really don't understand the tone of snootiness in your response.
I remember once
a store clerk tried to get my mom to give her SSN# in order to allow her to write a check. She told him he was crazy if he thought she was giving him that info.
It probably could be that the school needs proof that the child is who you say they are (think of kids who have been kidnapped, illegal immigrants, etc) but I would think that a birth certificate would serve the same purpose.
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