My husband is a union president and says we should definitely organize.

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  • My husband is a union president and says we should definitely organize. - MT
    • Unions are a way of the past - Pj

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So, if you work for a company, and have more than one hospital/account/client, how do you keep all of that information organized and easy to access, etc? Notebook, folders..? I

Anyone know of good software that can take my digital voice files and organize them so I can keep track of which worker is working on which doctor, keep an eye on turnaround time, etc. -- instead of making endless folders on the computer myself. Voice files are separate from the typed reports, which are done in Word. Thank you.

Dave

When it comes to something like that, that I usually take care of but for whatever reason I can't, I will tell my husband exactly what to do, but when he comes back - to use your case as a "for instance" - I will ask him, "Did the doctor look at his foot?" 

Him: "No."

Me: "Did you ask the doctor to look at his foot?"

Him: "No."

Me:  "I told you to have the doctor look at his foot!"

Him: (shrug)

etc., etc., etc.

Your husband may not be like that - I sure hope he isn't. And yes, they should have checked his vitals and checked his foot without being asked. But sometimes you have to be assertive with people. And while my husband attained the rank of major in the Air Force and had no trouble ordering people around, there are times when he should be assertive but isn't. And he is not intimidated by doctors - he started his AF career as an x-ray tech (that's how we met). I dunno....(Rad MT wanders off, mumbling....)

I visit a local political board that is primarily conservative (something I am totally not, but it's still fun to go watch the "fireworks") and even the hardcore Republicans are peeved at him.  Apparently this immigration "amnesty" bill he's pushing has really not settled very well with his "peeps."  I didn't vote for him twice, so my conscience is clear, but I still think he's a tool, president or not.  I never had respect for him and never will.  I know I am not alone either and I'm sorry if that offends you, but I'm exercising one of the primary freedoms that our poor soldiers are dying and getting wounded for--freedom of speech. 

Here's MY letter--below--to our President.  Our jobs are going people.  But our president has other plans.  To the poster below--do you think that lovely older woman who asked the question about offshoring--or any of us lovely people sitting comfortably in our home offices right now working--are cut out for jobs such as (taken from the transcript) building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs ??  Are you ready to climb a friggen wind turbine and service the propellers? 

I was so upset with his answer.  First, I called the White House.  This is our right.  You ALL should do that.  Second I wrote the following letter to the President.  My own little two cents.  Then I copied it to every news agency out there that I could think of.  Again, just my two cents.  You all should do the same.  Let him know that his answer just will not do.  What are we all supposed to do, in the meantime, to buy food and pay our bills before we get trained to build turbines, solar panels, or go to the lab to create the next biofuel? 

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President Obama—

You owe the American displaced workers an apology. 

How dare you. 

I am shocked at your response to the video question about the offshoring of American jobs.  How dare you say to us that we don’t want those jobs that are going offshore anyway.  Mr. President, for those of us who have lost or are about to lose our jobs to offshoring, yes we DO want our jobs. 

You then went on to blame offshoring on the credit situation.  Oh come on! The financial disaster has nothing to do with offshoring.  Offshoring is the bastard child of government ineptitude and the corporate greed running rampant in our country.  Offshoring means getting the same job done by cheap third-world labor.  Offshoring is about not paying decent wages and benefits.  Offshoring is about stuffing corporate pockets with more money. 

If there was an international symbol for offshoring, it would be a picture of a CEO’s heel grinding into a third-world worker’s back. 

These greedy corporations have sold out the American worker and are stepping on the backs of the low-wage third-world workers .

I am outraged.  I DID go to school Mr. President.  I HAVE a degree.  I have invested thousands of dollars into reference materials and equipment to help me perform my job better.  I also have invested almost 30 years to my career.  My career is very technical.  I could rattle off a bunch of words here for you, and I bet you would not know what they mean.  But I do.  And I have performed my job with pride all these years. 

How dare you brush off the offshoring question with such simplicity.

Well, I would rather Americans have jobs, not undereducated or poorly educated third world nations. 

A lot of the work from my field goes to India, Phillipines and Pakistan.  Didn’t I see a group of Pakistani’s burning the American Flag on TV recently?  Do you know that when my company’s work goes offshore, it contains the name, birth date and social security numbers of Americans?  This is information,  that in the wrong hands, could be used to ruin someone’s life.  How can we be sure in countries with unstable governments, with such widespread hatred for America, with the arrogance to burn the American Flag on national TV, that this information will be guarded with care?  The sad part is, after the Pakistani’s anti-American demonstration, chances are they all went back to work---doing jobs taken from Americans. 

How dare you say we don’t want our jobs.  What is your solution?  Wait for these “green jobs”  to be created some day?  Go to school while we are waiting and then hope that we will be hired when we are in our golden years? 

How dare you belittle what we all have worked so hard to achieve in our lives.  Not  all offshored jobs are call center jobs.  Many of those jobs are now degreed and highly skilled jobs also. 

And—your comment about our children becoming engineers was laughable.  With all due respect—get with it sir—those jobs are also being offshored.   Also, what are we, the displaced workers, many of us middle age, supposed to do in the meantime before we get trained to build solar panels, wind turbines and create biofuels.  How should be pay for our food and our rents and mortgages? 

No, Mr.  President, you are so very incorrect.  We DO want those jobs.  They feed us, clothe us, and keep us off the street.  Not to mention they help us strengthen the tax base in our own country--America. 

Yes, We WANT our jobs, Mr. President. 

You owe all the displaced American workers an apology. 

You Are Wrong. 

Whether or not you like him, he is still the President and that office should be respected. Unfortunately, your statement is reflective of the mindset and mentality of many in our country. And people have to ask why the rest of the world doesn't like us--we don't even like each other.

At the very least you should be respectful of those in positions of authority. It's modeling of appropriate behavior that our children see and emulate themselves.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.