Ready to quit, too...sm

I just started what I hoped was my final MT job, but now it looks like it's time to start looking again.  I have over 35 years' experience and this outfit has had me on QA for a month now. 

They're nitpicky over hyphens.  You use a hyphen here, but not here.  Hello?  These doctors can barely make a coherent sentence.  They don't have a clue whether near-syncope has a hyphen or not...FYI, per the BOS bible, it does, but not according to the outfit I'm working for...nor does the MD care.  He just wants his report back in a readable format. 

And there is no such word as cary or carie when you're referring to teeth...it's caries, period.  I did win that battle. 

I worked for a short time for another outfit at minimal pay (marking time until better thing came along) that was nitpicky over semicolons. 

As my DH's boss once told him when he was worrying about the small stuff, "Don't worry about the mules, just load the wagons."

So if there's an MTSO out there who's looking for a fast, accurate, punctuationally-challenged (apparently) MT who loves ER/psych, feel free to contact me. 

• Re QA, has anyone stopped - MT****
  • Thank you, thank you, thank you! - Colleen
  • Ready to quit, too...sm - Tanya
    • Your post sounds like I could have sm - 3 decade and more MT
  • Especially when most are anal QA...sm - stopped a long time ago
    • I especially love it - Colleen
    • All that punctuation nit-pickiness was brought about by - AHDI in their quest to offshore virtually EVERYTHI
      • there was a book being used before BOS - a different career
        • The 'Holy One' speaks........ - nm
          • not Holy, just forgiven :) - NM - a different career
  • When you stop caring, it is time to find - a different career
    • How dare you speak to a colleague in this manner. - Right on Sister
      • calling it like it is does not make me a bully - a different career
        • Not disagreeing with everybody but QA is a necessity! - Fingers
        • Yes it does. - *
    • I haven't cared since about 1988. And I still - have all the work I can handle. (sm)
      • Isn't it in 1988 when we were paid well? - I remember there was a time but
      • I love what you say about not caring since 1988 - Funny
    • In reality, I think most of us DO care - a lot - (sm) - Mushroom
    • Career? this thing is not a career anymore...sm - nn
  • I don't look at edited reports anymore. Not only do - the QA people mess up - (S/M)
    • Why are you generalizing? - Not everyone is created equal.
      • I generalize about QA because they're - Anonymous and Untouchable.
        • So, you blame this on QA? How do you know - that every single QA want to be
          • QA people - KATHY
          • you are the type QA that sm - 3 decade and more MT
            • Not to mention, QA does not get pain to argue with MTs - Fingers
              • Sorry, do not get PAID (see, I need QA) - Fingers
          • FYI - this is a medical transcription board, - not a QA board..................
            • I am an MT and QA. I do both. - I am an MT. I will preach. Thank you.
            • QA is a part of MT like it or not. nm - 3 decade and more MT
  • I feel your pain (sm) - Mushroom
    • RE QA - spitfire
      • Then it's definitely time for you to get out - Anon
        • totally disagree - just me
        • A hyphen never killed anyone but a left and right error did and I catch plenty of those as the MT. - 1mg 1-mg 1 mg po p.o. blahblah
        • Except that when QA screws up originally correct - reports, pt. records ARE impacted.
    • Thank you, for letting me know I am not the only one... - MTex
    • Same boat - AAHANTIAM
      • QA - Zippymt
        • They want us to look bad and feel non- - confident so they can get away with - (sm)
          • Just wanted to say - cjhutch

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so I scheduled in the personal things I need to get done.  Errands, baking, housework, planning a kid's birthday party, post office, bank, bills.  Guess what I got up to this morning?  Tons of work.  That's fine.  It's money, so I'll do it.  However, now I'm totally overwhelmed because all this other stuff still needs to get done today.

I'm also really tired of doing all the research and record keeping without getting paid for it.  When I figure out my income versus how many hours I actually spend working, not just typing, it hardly seems worth it any more.  Phone calls, emails, looking things up, keeping logs, downloading, uploading, line counting, waiting for work, and all that other jazz.  It's worked into a fulltime job without fulltime pay.  I worked until 9:00 last night to get everything done so I could have today off.  I just wish I could find a decent MT job where you do your lines, you don't have to look up a bunch of information while guessing on the spelling, and the platform was streamlined for maximum productivity.  It's gotten to the point where I've been reading the Job ads again to get out of MT entirely.

I could kick myself -the company I am working for keeps saying it will pick up and I keep staying, meanwhile I have put on hold a job I should have taken-MDI in Maryland. I have learned my lesson! I am finally ready to move on-anyone looking for an IC who can do 1300 lines a day?

Students will come out of the top 3 schools ready to work, but will have to work for lower line rates as apprentices.  So who do you think the MTSOs will hire? 

We won't hire newbies that's for sure. There's way too much training that you have to do with a brand new MT, lower line rate or not. That's the least of our worries as MT's.

Is anyone willing to strike when an agreement is not met (higher wages, etc)?  I doubt it.  Most are living paycheck to paycheck as it is.

I hate to be a pessimist, and this will be my last post on this subject, but sad to say most of us can't even get along on this board, do you really think we could come together to form a union? 

There was another post about someone trying and no one showing up.  I guess they had to stay home and type...  Good luck though...  I truly mean that..

have to be fabulous.  A meatloaf with some veggies made all together in a throwaway pan is easy to make.

If you have an option on your monitor for taking the settings back to the factory default, I'd try that.  If it continues, then I'm afraid there's a problem with the monitor itself and you may end up having to get a new one.  Sorry to hear about your troubles.  I've been there.  It's frustrating, to say the least.