OSi/no work!

• OSi/no work! - anon
  • There is something major going on here - mtmt
    • Sounds like outsourcing to me. - Dazey

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Junior League was like a full-time job sometimes, but I loved it. Now that I have to work, even though it is from home, I still volunteer through my son's school.  I am a school teacher in my previous (pre-MT) life, so I volunteer my tutoring services for children who need the help beyond what the schools are able to provide but whose parents cannot afford to pay for private tutoring. I also know how you felt about being afraid.  I was strangely afraid before I joined the Junior League.  It was just the unknown. But I was SO blessed by being able to help.  Honestly, I am sure that it helped me just as much, if not more, than I helped others.  Go for it.  You won't be sorry.  (Just remember that you have to say NO when you have to say no, okay?  Remember that and you will be richly blessed by the experience!)

the office manager (who does not normally transcribe) dishes out the work, so some days are easy, others are a mix.  So no cherrypicking is possible.  You type up what is given to you, period.  She will alternate the tough one's out so no one person gets him/her all the time unless they want him/her and are used to that doc, or everyone gets a little piece, etc. There are days when I ask for easy work (tired, chemo day, Jen sick, or a lot going on, etc.) but not often, generally I get a mix but they all get easier the more you do them.  I am not working as much as I should be of course, every week is different here so I adjust my limited work schedule accordingly, so sometimes it hard to get better at certain docs.  I used to have a lot of blanks with the Trauma ER unit, but I have been doing that a lot lately and now and very good at it, still a time consuming account but at least I am improving. -----------------------  But I believe the OP was stating she did it to clear out the log, not to make more lines, and only when she was asked to do so.  At an old job I had #s meant everything, everyday we would get report (2=4 x a day) of the backlog, and emails pleading us to work, work, work.  The QA rules sucked  (MQ probably is basing their new plan loosly on this one), however we did not get penalized, just chewed out if you sent in too much work to QA (over 5%, and was 80% ESL), I would imagine eventually fired if you continued to do it. They were a great place to work for until they re-organized....it all went downhill from there.  This is why I prefer smaller MTSOs, it's not all about the #s, yes, they want production too but at least it's not so cut-throat. 

SEs are doing it.  She also told me that it is written in MQ policies

that MQ can let go EMPLOYEES without notice (I'm not saying statutory employees here, I'm saying employees).

I have emails raving about how good my work was.  The trouble came when I started asking questions about pay and complaining that she was sending me work when was convenient for her and not when I needed it.  She would stay up all night and then sleep a good part of the day.  I told her before I started that I wanted to work early mornings.  She said that was no problem whatsoever, BUT then I would see no work until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  She would promise me work and send it to me and it would be the wrong voice files, so I had to delete and start over.  She was SO disorganized.  She said that she has 50 happy transcriptionists and complained that I wanted some samples.  I did not know how she wanted things formatted.  It was just a mess.  The day she "fired" me (I have never been fired before in my life), I had basically told her that morning if things didn't change I wasn't typing another character. 

Of course she had 50 happy transcriptionists.  Her work was being subcontracted by a lady in Atlanta.  She didn't have contact with these transcriptionists.  There was a middle man.  I told her I could guarantee the lady in Atlanta provided her transcriptionists with some sort of guidance or samples.  The hospital system had some sort of weird thing in place where some places needed soft returns and some hard returns and she told me you couldn't mess with that but I was unclear on exactly what went where. 

I don't think I will ever work for a small company again. 

Anyway, I have drafted a demand letter which I intend to send Monday.  Someone below asked for the name of the company, and I would rather not say until this all pans out.  I will definitely post the name of the company eventually.  I just don't want her to know what my plans are at the present time.  I don't know if taking her to court will do any good, but it is worth it to make her miserable.  It is a 2 hour drive for me, but I called and I can file via the U.S. mail.  So it is only one trip.

I have arthritis in a couple of places, and I'm having a lot of trouble making it rhrough 8-hour days, even with split shifts, and I end up working most weekends anyway to make up for my decreasing production durng the longer days. I'm wondering if I should just commit to seven 5-1/2 hours days and be done with it.

You think Indians don't get sick?  They have to be constantly sick in that disgusting place. 

totally am against outsourcing work outside of the United States.  Any company should not be allowed to advertise if they outsource outside the US, in my opinion.