Me thinks people who change this stuff are trying to find job security
Posted By: in a dying occupation on 2005-12-26
In Reply to: q.d....... - MTqueenB
Maybe if they make themselves sound important and knowledgeable every once in awhile with a "revelation" that using q.i.d. might kill someone they will have a job longer than they normally would have.
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People always seem to have to find fault in everything anytime there is a change. No, we are not
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Even 4.5 is too low. doctors do not change - they still hem and haw, change, change stuff along wit
It is just not enough for the work. Speech is great on the wrists but you are not just reading what is typed, you are making a lot of changes. I have a hard time doubling a lot of days with all the changes I have to make. Just my opinion.
Think of it as job security for you -- when you QA people pick out the ^easy^ reports and transcrib
for the MT's who should have been transcribing those reports, what do you expect? QALady, you seem to be another QA person who puts herself on a pedestal ! I would sugget you get out of QA and transcribe if you hate your job that much !
Never. I'm lucky I can find the correct spelling for this stuff
You might not find much of a change
As I was reading your post, I was thinking about the job I was outsourced to from the hospital. The hospital job was fine; however when we were outsourced to this company it sounds exactly like what you are describing above. We got emails in letters so big they would hardly fit the page, talk about yelling! We had constant instant messaging, so much you could not do your work, emails galore, terrible working situation, changing rules from 1 day to the other. And raises or bonuses? What in the world are those? Here you better work more or type faster. Working in the hospital is a thing of the past for me, wish that were not so.
Is anyone able to find a new job right now if they want to change from their
present company.
Can't find how to change the sounds..sm
on my computer so I can get the "bubble burst" sound back. I was able to change it from information on here before but can't find that post and I had to rebuild my computer and can't figure out how to do it. Would somebody please tell me again? Thanks.
Might want to check out eBay if you're not into JCP or Sears stuff. Can find some good bargains
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Who ARE these people who make this stuff up every year charge $ for it??
I could make one up every year myself. Why do they think they are an authority. I have never understood this, and will never buy another one. I bought one in my life for $75. What a waste of money to read someone's "made up rules for this year."
Good grief people, what;s up with all this drizzle stuff??
This stuff causes allergies in some people, too, and problems sleeping! nm
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As you may or may not be aware, some people prefer to CHANGE
the company that is corrupt than change jobs. Changing jobs does not make quite as big and impact on the company's bottom line or get the attention of the CEOS as a lawsuit. We are going forward with the lawsuit and we will change the company with a little help from the judicial system and the SEC.
That's exactly what I did - moved on - let them find their own people
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When people find out that I do MT at home,
they tell me that they would like to do MT so they can "work at home." I refer them to MTEC web site, I believe that's the site, which has a "test" and questionnaire to see if they would like it or have the ability to do MT. Always works. A lot less questions to answer! LOL.
No but I wish people would take the time to find this information. sm
Sometimes it just takes the effort to look. I see people wanting information. The information is easy to find, but they want others to do the research and hand it to them. I had to do the research. I now have 20+ docs/clinics BUT key point is I did all of my own research, learned about how digital works, etc. I truly believe, the more you read (research) the more you as an individual will learn and therefore be able to offer your clientm more.
I find a lot of UNPROFESSIONAL people in this profession..
This has happened to me several times. Going so far as to send me programs and such and when contacting them that I am ready to go, never hear from them again.
I have yet to actually even find a doctor that cares about people! All they are interested in is mon
What I think is so sad is that people may give up good jobs to go there to find out these things all
to late. The newbies can learn and use MQ and move on which they do but of course the clients suffer then with all the people learning on them but this is what MQ causes and when they lose clients with poor quality or people that just throw out work then they caused their own problems. You cant keep good MTs with no work I dont care what incentives you offer because they mean nothing with no work ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I wish people would understand that when MQ hires them.
Funny how people are different. I find islands/beaches to be totally boring.
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Don't change. I had to change back to cable. SuddenLink DSL stinks! nm
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Change provider vs change to business plan
In your place, I would seriously consider changing providers if there were others available in your area, but I'd ask around about their service quality first. It may not be any better. If there are no other providers, then consider changing your service package to a business account rather than residential. They're usually more expensive, but they also tend to get faster service if there's a problem.
Last summer, I had no electricity for 3 days due to severe storms, but there were some 600,000 in the same boat with me. We just had to wait it out. It's a downside of working at home.
change attitude, change life
The first thing you need to change is that defeatist attitude! I know that's hard at times like this, but that's when you need to most.
I won't go into detail, but my financial situation is also at an all-time low, we couldn't even exchange gifts., daughter in hospital twice, & no med insurance)..but then I heard about how much worse things were for others around me this season. Now I'm thankful instead!
Wow someone who thinks outside the box
call the media!
Too many are too willing to give up the tiny bit of privacy remaining...
The doc who thinks
every new sentence is a new paragraph and/or the one who says 'period, new line' after every sentence. Is this a really pervasive dictating annoyance? Or is it just me?
As one who does QA and thinks
the quality of US MTs is POOR, POOR, how do you find the offshoring MTs work to be? I mean this seriously.
I read on and India site that it only took weeks to be a MT.
Sometimes when I am working I think there is no way an Indian MT can do this.
So, how do they measure up? What is our competition really like?
Am I the only one who thinks this odd?
Job post stating they are looking for really good QAs and would be willing to hire newbies for this position............
Frankly, I don't think I would care for a newbie, who basically is still learning themselves, to be put in charge of QA of my work, especially if THEY have it all wrong, due to lack of experience, and that counts against me!
No. Someone who thinks they are "cute" is having fun
trying to derail the thread and irritate others.
COokies are done! Pouring the milk!!
Goodnight, the real Laurie and the real Michelle! I've had fun!!!
Curdled milk and burnt cookies to the silly ones trying to upset everyone! LOL
Mig was too pretty for them. Am I the only one who thinks (sm)
that Marty looks like a drug addict? 
Anyway, I think they made a good choice.
Me thinks you have burned one too many..
I'm also in agreement with the movement to legalize marijuana, but come on--do you think this group shares your views? Save your passion for the petitions.
she thinks it is "cute"
Ever know one of those women who thinks it is cute to curse? I feel like she probably has not always been this way. She seems to try to use them for dramatic effect. She only knows 5 of them but every time she says a curse word she says it louder than the rest of her sentence. It is about as cute as Grandma cursing. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Thanks for the advice.
Just wondering what everyone thinks about this...
I work in the office. We are being taken over by a larger hospital. The larger facility is putting their people in the management positions, which is fine. At our smaller hospital, we have not had the opportunity to work from home, but with the merger, the plan is to send us all home to work by the end of the year and I think that is fabulous! What concerns me is this, they watch their at-home people like hawks. They actually print out a daily report on each Transcriptionist (40+) that lists every single job they did that day and how long they spent in each report typing. So, say you have a 5 minute H&P and you took 30 minutes to type it, they basically call you up and want to know why it took you so long to type this report. Their reasoning is they pay us hourly and they don't want to pay us for sitting at home watching television. I completely understand that, but I am a very productive MT and really don't like the idea of having to account for every minute of my day if I am producing at least the minimum. Having said that, they also offer a very nice incentive plan where we get a per line rate for anything above the minimum. So why the need to micromanage like they do?
In my opinion, if your people are producing at least the minimum and if you have a very competitive incentive plan in place, then why not just check productivity on everyone at the end of each pay period and counsel anyone not producing at least the minimum and if necessary, take disciplinary action and just leave it at that? Why check every single report to make sure we aren't taking too long on one report and risk upsetting your productive MTs who maybe got distracted by a phone call or something on that one report, but still produced what they were supposed to produce when the day was done?
I've been looking around at other jobs just to see what is out there and have lined up some very promising prosects, but none that offer an incentive plan comparable to the one at my current job. I just wonder is the incentive money worth the added stress of having someone virtually looking over my shoulder all day long? They are definitely sending the message that we are going to be asked to justify every bathroom break, every sinle distraction throughout our day, no matter if we get the job done or we don't.
Just wondered what insight other MTs might have on this issue.
Just wondering what everyone thinks
Like you said, you are a "very productive MT." I wouldn't worry about it. The ones who should worry are the ones who screw off. This will be a new venture for the hospital and they will watch very carefully for a while to see how it goes. As long as you are meeting the requirements I wouldn't be concerned. Give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks, misha! My DH thinks that
it would help clear up DS's skin if he sat in the sun some every day, or even used a tanning bed as someone below said, although I'd be worried for him to do that because he has light skin, light blue eyes and blond hair - it was so light it was that white-blond when he was a baby/toddler. So obviously he has very fair skin and features so I worry about the risk of skin cancer.
But your link sounds like something different and I will check that out. Thanks for taking the time to research for me!
Finally someone who thinks like I do! sm
I never understood how Bucky even got in the top 12! What drove me nuts the most was was his inability to speak clearly! I really laughed when Ryan said "I have no idea what you just said" and when Kenny Rogers said he needed to enunciate or the song wasn't going to make any sense.
Bucky just really had a skeevy look to me...like I wouldn't leave a child alone with him.
Me thinks you are way off base.
You may want to find a new career. When you refer to drop in for an hour or two, you are speaking about ICs who in no way are any less professional than you are working from your home as an employee. Some MTs work from a typing pool meaning they can take a job at a time and make money in that fashion as a contribution to the household (paying bills I might add). Many professions offer at home employment. We are not the only ones. I think you have a bad attitude and should probably find somewhere else to drone in your sorrows. Many of us here are professionals even at home with a husband and children. It kind of sounds like you are jealous about husbands that make money and have insurance. You may want to re-think what you are saying in regards to MTs working from home and not being considered a professional. In my experience, my friends and relatives are envious of my being able to make a living from my home office, so I'm not sure who you have that talks about you to where you cannot defend yourself, but that is usually a psyhiatric entity called paranoia. Sorry to say, but you make as much as you'd like as long as you can "hang with the big dogs". If you are not making enough money, then that is for you to either take some courses in typing and anatomy or just go with the flow. To blame at home MTs is way off base.
if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.
As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
not everyone thinks nationals are awful.
i have worked for 4. two were terrible, one was okay, one great.
the one that was okay and the one that was great made you put up a deposit on the computer stuff and if you didn't get it back to them in good shape they kept it. i think that is fair. costs a lot of money to do that.
all 4 of the companies i worked for checked references. i had to test on terms, meds, and then do a transcription test for 3 of the companies.
the 2 that were terrible - i just did not like their software (1 sent me a computer that wouldn't work so they sent another one and it wasn't very fast at all). it wasn't really anything they did. i just didn't care for how their stuff ran.
i think all of them are decent companies. beats the hospitals i've worked for. beats getting in the car for a drive everyday in pantyhose and heels and listening to coworkers gripe about what they're not getting and having to work when they want you to.
she thinks she is "the mama"
riiiiiggghhht.
Me thinks 5th graders would think it's really dumb. nm
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I have been doing this for 12 years and still to-this-day my sister thinks she can just come over
to my house any time and visit while I am working !!!!! . I know they think, Well, she is just typing, she can do that any time. Taken for granit is right and I have tried and tried to re-educate people on this but get nowhere. I just end up being the bad guy for not offering to baby sit or something. Well, you will be there, can they just say with you. I think I should have sent my 6- month -old to my sister's house one night (when he was 6 months-old) after crying all night with colic, and said well, you will be here, can he just stay with you.. You can't sleep when a six month old is a different house especially if he is sick and you can't work either!! DUH!
Just annoyed that he so smugly thinks I will be - sm
unemployed in the near future! You see, I have been happily married for 8 years and despite great effort on his part, he has not been able to cause many problems. My daughter has next to nothing to do with him because of the way he treats her. He really just wants to see us unhappy and in a bad situation.
Who thinks Mick Jagger is still hot??
she should look at apply for section 8. I thinks its through the
housing development of the city she resides.
my family thinks the same thing...
I even had a friend call me the other day (who I thought understood what it is I do all day) asking if I could get his significant other a job because he does medical billing and can type fast...LOL...I guess no one will understand the working at home aspect except those who actually work at home....
Consulting dr. doesnt say but says he thinks
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Thank you AllieCat. I'm at home IC. Me thinks
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me thinks we have all been working alone too long
We gotta get out more. Poor Kiki.
I think I smell either VR on the easy stuff, or offshoring of the easy stuff.
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My family probably thinks elves clean up after them - sm
As I try to do all the picking up, etc. after everyone is in bed. Granted I can't vacuum then but most of the junk is picked up and put away, including the laundry. My husband wants to hire someone, I really don't want a stranger in my house though. Also my husband fails to understand that they will not pick up his dirty clothes, or put his stuff away where it belongs, etc., and that you actually have to straighten up a bit before someone comes in to clean for you. What he wants is a maid who will do what I won't!....maybe after we win the Mega Millions, right?
Me thinks so too. Snowman poop is for babies. :)
My hubby thinks he's another Rock Hudson - NM
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