grow up ladies

• MQ Letter - cowgirl
  • Illegal? Hahaha - Busy MT'ing
    • You sound like MQ management... - cowgirl
      • Wait a minute, Cowgirl. - Busy MT'ing
        • juvenile whinning??? - cowgirl
          • I'm as entitled to my opinion as you are. - Busy MT'ing
    • adjusted their contract - MTin FL
      • I see what you mean. I think the term "contract" - Busy MT'ing
    • Have I told you lately that you make me sick? - ssc
      • I thot it wuz... - MQ2
      • I could care less. :) - Busy MT'ing
        • That should be Busy Mouthing... - Left some letters out -didn't you?
          • I'm rarely on here lately because of schedules ... - Busy MT'ing
            • BS. You're always on here with your RUDE comments. nm - Not so busy, are we?
              • I'm here when I want to be ... and if you don't like it - Busy MT'ing
          • grow up ladies - I don't know why I even read this board
            • Then don't - Oh really
              • There was no "I'm better..." attitude in my post. - Busy MT'ing
                • Funny how you knew who they were talking about - LOL!
                • It's not your advice, it's the way you deliver it. Very snotty. nm - But you know that...just don't care.
                  • Well nice is as nice does ... - Busy MT'ing
  • what F9 feature? the only thing F9 does - nss
    • F9 - cowgirl
      • Isn't that called profit - ?
        • No, profit is they charge the company say 15 cpl and pay - nss
          • I agree. And what about "black letters" - Older and wiser
            • Yeah, just another way to screw us and - nss
      • I didn't find anything about billing, just - nss
      • Thanks, I will check that out. You would - nss
  • MQ is a trendsetter. We should all be concerned about this. They probably hope many will quit. - (nm)
  • all MQMT's need to reply to the letter - yakaback

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I have 35+ years in this field -- started out on the job with a typewriter and "tanks of dictation"  I for one read posts and it's " I only want to work Monday through Friday, I can't work because of kids, whine, complain, etc, I need benefits so on and so forth  -- I have been working for 30+ years   -- I KNOW how to search the internet, how to spell and I will spend time researching etc  -- maybe for those of you, PRIVATE insurance is an option  -- I know in my own personal experience last year when I broke my leg and was in a cast for 2 months, my hospital bill INCLUDING follow up was $26.

So, you didn't get a "Christmas/holiday bonus", so you didn't get an MT week gift  -- right now, be GLAD you have a J-O-B and quiit whining and complaining and most of all GROW UP!!!

btw  -- s/o makes $22 an hour  -- he "got a raise" but come down to the nitty gritty, he LOST HIS RAISE and is making $3.00 LESS -- no benefits either

No one at 20 has the life experience to know herself, let alone know what to want and expect in another person.

Second time, and successful time, age 39. Better to choose than to "settle" for whatever's in front of you at the time.

Unless you're paying me per line to obsess about my grammar and spelling on this message board, I am not going to stress my grammar and spelling.  It's just like when I'm talking with friends.  I don't say "I cannot" and "he will", I use contractions.  However, I would not use contractions in a report.  Casual conversation, like here, is different than professional communication, like in an email to a client, or professional work. 

In short, get over yourself. 

IF MQ did away with quarterly bonuses, not that they are, only a question she threw out as in IF

First off, let's get something straight:  It doesn't matter HOW I spell words in my posts because you are NOT paying me for my posts, okay?

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I'm giving you MY experiences - like them or not, and I don't care if you do because you weren't the one who lost $$$ coming out of the word work because of it and had a bunch of sleepless nights.  

I didn't like the experiences I've had with subcontractors I've used - I give and give and give and can't get decent work back.  Those are the cold, hard facts, like them or not.  I didn't like them!  That's why I do it all myself now.  I personally just don't have time to babysit SCs who are supposed to know how to do their jobs but for some strange reason, refuse to do it.  It was the mentality of pure slop - type it up as fast as you can and hope no one reads it!

It's a good thing I'm a nice person because I tell you, some of these SC's got me SO irritated with the slop quality of their work that I should have strangled their little necks with my own bare hands!

If the MTSO is getting, say, 12 cents a line from the client, do you REALLY expect to get paid more than 8 or 9 a line subcontracting?  I mean, after all, isn't the MTSO entitled to make SOME profit, or do you believe the MTSO is in it just for the joy of it all?

I get a little irritated listening to these SCs who expect a line rate equivalent to what an IC/MTSO is getting.  If you want those line rates, then please.....find your OWN accounts, ya know???  In the interim, please get with reality and understand that when you work for someone,you're just NOT going to get pay like you would if you worked for yourself!!!

I was certainly not saying I was representing "everyone's" sentiments.  I offered insite into WHY I believe not everyone will care to answer the original question.

I have no idea what your problem is, and I don't care.  Grow up. 

beef tenderloin, mushroom gravy, noodles, salad and some fruit.  Then, a whole pot coffee while I work.

I wanted to have a serious discussion about the value of taking the test compared to the value of the profession at this point and where it's headed in the future.  I do take a lot of pride in my work, but taking the test and maintaining my certification are something that will put a strain on my already strained budget.  I'm wondering what good or if it will do any good at all to spend the money to get a 1 cpl increase and still come up short after a 55% line cut due to VR.

I keep reading posts that say if you're not happy get out, there's other jobs. And posts that say VR is the future for MT, so get used to it.  When hearing all this, it makes me wonder if I'm smart to invest to secure my future or just get out now before I invest all this and be obsolete in 10 years.

Jodi and ta-shi--you both have done an amazing job!  My hat's off to you two!  PLEASE make sure you CHANGE THE LOCKS.  Once he's out of the house for, I think it's 48 hours, he can't legally come back.  So don't let him muscle his way back in!!

Congrats!!

I thought I was the only one who couldn't obtain a high line count and my ego has been crushed .  I have often wondered - am I just stupid?  I am glad someone else has this problem, makes me feel a little more normal.  (Not that I wish this on anyone) 

I have been an MT for 7 years and have never made a high line count (I do maintain a 99% accuracy score).  I believe the main reason is that the majority of MTSO do not give you dedicated accounts so that you have the same doctors over and over and over.  This is the only way to get speed (for me anyway).  I am on 2 accounts.  My primary is an ER account.  I know what the doctors are going to say before they even say it, but rarely do I have enough for a full day's work.  On the occasions when I do have my primary for a full day I can make 1200 lines easily.  But, normally I have to alternate between primary and secondary accounts on most days.  The secondary account has 300-400 doctors.  My primary has maybe 25.  That's just too many doctors. 

Another thing that has ruined dictation is the portable dictation devices that enables doctors to drive and dictate, run here and there while mumbling into them. At my very first job I was connected directly into the hospital system where doctors sat at a dictation station and dictated in a timely, orderly manner.   The voice quality was so clear it was like they were in the same room I was in. 

Then, on top of that, MTSOs  want to not pay for spaces, and instead of paying more for IC status to offset the lack of insurance they want to pay you less!  And it's not only the MTSOs, doctors and hospitals don’t want to pay anymore.  THEY can drive around in luxurious cars, live in fancy houses but they are too cheap to pay an MT.  So the MTs have to struggle to even buy groceries.   Do they realize where they would be if all the MTs just quit?  Well, that's my gripe for the day.

I wish the best to all of you who are struggling with lines counts....I understand cuz I am in the same boat. 

party at her home.  Low and behold she had a whole room full of toilet tissue she has spirited away from the office over the 30 years!!!!  She had grown up in the depression and I guess it was a big deal to have toilet tissue.  She sure hoarded it.