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How original, Ms. Suit!

Posted By: .:Suity Tuity:. on 2009-08-27
In Reply to: You rock! - Ms.Suit - Stephanie Campbell




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Hello??!! I'm the original poster! I think I can respond to the poster who replied to my original
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Ok, which suit are you?? Have you seen the bad
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He is not a suit...sm
I worked at SS at the same time that Clifton worked there.  He was not a suit; he was an MT and what he has posted is true.  I remember the incident.
No, I'm not a suit.
I'm an MT with 30 years of experience like everyone else here who has just been sold down the river.
Discrimination suit

I know there's that law that protects us from discrimination when we are between 40 and 70.  However, it would be difficult to prove that this was their reason for not hiring me.  I'm sure they would come up with some other excuse.  And, I doubt if the Labor Board would fight with them.  As a matter of fact, I am past the time limit on reporting that, as it happened more than 6 months ago (I think 6 months is the time limit for filing the complaint).  As for a separate civil suit, that would probably be more trouble than it's worth.  But, in the future, I will keep better notes and will create a paper trail just in case.


 


 


Are you that hard up for a job? Maybe OSi will suit you.
good luck
Thank you, suit-wearer.

Yes please - WMX follow suit!
We need more work.
Methingks this is a Suit.

Methinks this is another Suit.
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Dude. Yer a SUIT.
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Funny but your own comments seem to suit YOU to a T lol
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(Middle-management Suit.)

Spoken like a true suit.
Please don't jump ship, it's scary out there, and be grateful we didn't cut your pay even more! I think anyone unhappy about receiving a pay cut & having to do more lines on this horrible VR to make up for it deserves to be upset right now. Many of the smaller companies have tried VR and decided to do away with it, so I don't agree that's it's going to be an across-the-board thing of the future. The quality it spits out is horrible, which in turn endangers the patients, just like offshoring.
Is "indigo" the color of your SUIT?

Alltype changes the rules as they go to suit them.

IMO, they'll tell you one thing when interviewed, but the numbers just don't add up and definitely show in your pay.  They love to send reminder emails regarding working holidays unless scheduled off, and when you do there is no work.  Then, as you sit isolated from your family on the holidays, you get the peppy little emails saying check with your team leader to see if you can take off an hour here and there, and work them later in the day as you are not allowed to take ANY time off without pay (even if there is no work).  Their TAT is more important that your time with your family, also IMO.  If you don't/can't meet your required line count for full-time, they put you on part-time status.  If you're already part-time and don't/can't meet your line count, they put you on IC status (and expect you to work their schedule with minimum line count requirement of 600 lines per day).


Management is demeaning, curt, and unprofessional, and human resources person is worse, also IMO.  Check archives about email resignation that may or may not  have been initiated by human resources...and be very cautious about what they (management) tell you.  The term snakes comes to mind...but, of course, that is just my opinion.  They used to be a nice place to work years ago when G ran it.


Now I ain't sayin she a suit-kisser, but she ain't (nm)
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Not only bringing suit, but our profession's tendency - sm
for it's members to behave like pirhanas towards one another whenever someone mentions something different. Yes, this topic IN GENERAL has been on the news before, but it needs to get more up-close and personal. To begin with, showing what MT really is, how it works, who does it and where, and how it integrates with their doctors, their insurance, and their healthcare, and just HOW MUCH of their personal, NON-MEDICAL information is really contained in their medical records. Then they might just START to care.
A suit actually called MQ MTs typing monkeys?
OMG that's unbelievable.  That's what this biz is coming to, no respect at all except from one another.  How did he get caught with his big ole stinky foot in his mouth?
I think everyone should file a class-action suit

She sounds like future SUIT material, to me.
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Flames? Putting on my flame retardant suit. sm
So what if some are happy and express their feelings about a company.  If given the companies and the reasons, each of us can use this info as we need to.  The remarks that just say Stay away don't help anyone.  In fact, makes me wonder what the poster did that contributed to the bad remark.  If someone disagrees with your reaction to a company and flames you or if you get flamed for giving reasons, seems to me you are getting flamed one way of the other.  Might as well give reasons and help educate the rest of us.  And no one knows who you are, what do you care about the flames?  Actually, when I get flamed, I have to smile a little to think about how I got everyone excited for a few minutes. 
Glad for you! Let's hope Webmedx will follow suit.
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I'm not the original OP, but thanks for this tip ...
I've done searches on companies in the past also and couldn't find recent feedback on them. In fact, the last time that I did a search on Precyse (a few weeks ago), like the OP the most recent posts were from 2006. With the tip that you gave this gave me much better and more recent hits.

Thanks again.
Please see my original response.

It's a good company.  With all the negative posts on this board about platforms not working, people not being paid on time (or at ALL), I can attest to the fact that TC is a good company, with none of those problems.  In the 4 years I've worked there, my pay hasn't been late even once (has even been early a couple times through the direct deposit system).  Their training and QA are very good.  The owner is dedicated to always improving the company and is very loyal to her employees.


Good luck in your search.


Original question.
Now if it is a matter of scheduling an interview or start date and then not showing up by a recruiter or trainer that is a different story but that was not the question to begin with.

Actually, that was the question to begin with. The OP stated that the recruiter said she would call for an interview and then did not. Then stated she would call during the weeked and failed to do so again. So, that was the original beef.


Not the original poster, but can I ask if you went
back to MTing from QA? I absolutely hate QA - I HATE IT. I feel like I am just a garbage collector of sorts. I miss transcribing so much. That was my gift. But everytime I mention going back to MTing, my acquaintances tell me I'll hate it and am moving backward. In a way, its easier physically, but I ACHE all the time as well. I never ever noticed that transcribing. I flitted in and out and made great $$. Now I just sit here for hour upon hour and its killing me, physically and spiritually! I would so appreciate any encouraging words from someone who truly understands!
I'm not original poster,
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/story?id=2621388&page=3
What was your original company that you like better? nm
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Not the original poster
NM
Even if the original poster
does not feel that she owes the company the benefit of a two week notice, do you think it is fair to the rest of the MTs that work there that we will have to pick up her slack when she all of a sudden doesn't show up? Usually when someone is rude enough to quit without notice, it's not their bosses they are hurting, but their fellow coworkers.
VR can be really screwy sometimes but not like the original here
If VR were like that, you could retype the entire thing before trying to correct all that mess. I like what I make and I do not think leaving home and going into the work field now most are not going to make what they could with VR with most. Even Walmart has been having layoffs.
original poster
I must say I am very surprised by your post, and have to say Thank you !
If you have always had work at a good rate you are indeed very lucky, and I am glad for you. It just is not the case with everyone, and especially those just starting out and in a very poor economic situation. A few kind words and a little encouragement from others is sometimes all a person needs to pick up and keep trying.
As I said in a previous post, I KNOW I have much to learn, but I also know I have come a very long way and work hard to improve each day.
Questions from a newbie may very well seem silly to someone who has many years of experience, but that doesn't mean you cannot answer in a kind and encouraging manner, you know?
This should be a place where we all can come for info., support, encouragement :)
My original post
I apologize for stirring up a hornet's nest however, I see soo many people complaining on here about the fact that they only want to work certain hours, they don't want to work weekends, and so on that it angers me. Yes, I work weekends, but that is because of the fact that my s/o works on the weekends, so generally I take a day off during the week, that way, I can run my errands. I am an employee for a company, however, I really don't have set hours, nor do I work a straight 8 hour day -- I generally work more, because like all of us, I have bills to pay as well and know approximately what I have to make to be able to have a roof over my head and food on the table. I am my sole support and live in an area with a relatively high cost of living as well. I was making great money up until a couple of years ago, but things happened and I have had to take a job at a lower rate of pay, but at least it is a job. The key here is being flexible in your hours. If there is no work available, then maybe there will be in a few hours and you have to explain to friends and family that this is how it works. Luckily for me, I found a great fit with a company, its only one account, one hospital and I have never run out of work.
Deb, I am the original poster, and I want to
explain that I have never said people working weekends are putting work before family or God, nor have I told anyone to get a life. This has gotten really out of hand, and people are getting lost as to who is posting what, but I am the original poster, and I have not once on this board bashed anyone. Just not my style. I asked a simple question about working weekends, never accused, never looked down my nose as I have been accused of. I am sorry if you think I have offended you anyway, but apparently I have offended some, but they are misinterpreting me as some on here would agree, the people that actually saw my post for what it was worth, not reading into something that was not really there.
In my original post about this, I wanted to say sm

edict rather than law, but figured I'd get jumped on using that word.  One of the late-night talk-show hosts referred to it as a law when one of the guests was baiting him to say, Merry Christmas. 


The point is, you knew exactly what I meant in the first place.  Oh well.  Glad I gave No Name a LOL!  Laughing is healthy. 


 


 


I am the original poster to this thread, and this was one of my SM
questions. What does it really mean to our jobs? Will they just work alongside of us on the accounts? Granted, I don't like it -- that is for sure -- but right now, I do still have work and plenty of it. Just wondering what is down the road. Someone mentioned the hospital that has all the Middle Eastern docs on it -- maybe the offshore MTs are doing that one?? I have all kinds of things in my head, and all of them are speculation. Really, maybe we don't need to know as much as we do. One thing is for sure, the info was leaked out when it was not supposed to be, but I do believe it and how it was said it happened because I have been told things before like that in the past, only not nearly this big lol.
On GIMT's web site, it says there the original
company was bought out by a national?  Does anyone know who that national is/was?   I am debating whether to apply with them.   I have heard good things about them; however, know absolutely about them right now.  Flexibility?   Pay?  QA?  run out of work?  inquiring minds want to know.
Yes, the original post that started this all was by DK.
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Maybe you should reread the original post. sm
OP thinks no response required when you apply for a job. 
The original poster had it as if the industry has
a blackball list. Speaking as a recruiter, I can tell you that we do not. There are people who might not be good for one company that might fit well into another so this kind of thing as I see it does not exist and if it does, I know my company does not participate nor does anyone I know who recruits.

If it exists, it only exists privately then, certainly not an industry thing.
not he original responder, but also happy OSi MT

I'm happy with my pay, the flexibility, the fact that I've been able to advance from a clinic only MT, to acute care MT with their help.  I rarely run out of work and when I do, it's only for a short time.  I'm currently paid better than most of the jobs I see advertised here.  I love working on ExText, which is one of the main reasons I was able to move from clinic to acute care, being able to look up past reports and see what in the heck it is they're saying. I'm paid by direct deposit and it's there every time when it's supposed to be without delay. 


yup, that was it! And I was original responder, not someone else being critical :) nm
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Re: The flame by my original post
Folks I'm sorry someone considers my post a flame.  That was not my intention, but then again I have never been treated worse by an employer in my whole professional life.  That's why I'm looking forward to working for a company without local roots and the small town, small-minded mindset it brings.
not talking about the original poster
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Ummm, ever see the original MT ID field?
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Go to your original post. Scroll down a bit and look
for the see related messages in blue.  Click on that and you'll get past posts. 
Original poster. I disagree with you.
We were told not to contact the original MDI team. I go through my 'team leaders(?)' who do not respond to e-mails. I run out of work frequently. I ask for work and get no answers. I do not like this new platform, but guess I'm stuck with it. The tech support is getting a little better, but still not what it used to be, even when it was not available all night.

As I said, I have been there forever. I work my shift, I work extra, but I do not get the letters of appreciation. The offer of an incentive is rare especially with no work available most of the time.

Maybe my best solution is another company and hopefully it will be great. My misery is that I have no work and no one addressing my problems, communicating with me, etc. I do not consider an e-mail to the entire staff every day with most of the accounts out of work something to look forward to.
follow up to my original post

I see certain people on this board, who post under the same names and I can take a 1 hour break, a 2 hour break or a 3 hour break and they seem to be whining and complaining about life  -- yet they can get new puppies, new kitties, new other animals but BOTTOM line  -- oh gee no work  guess what people  -- I have to swtich back and forth between 2 accounts on my MAIN account and 2 accounts on my secondary  -- I literally work till I dropand thank heavens, I am in a relationship where my significant other understands  -- yes, we ALL have to deal with being on hold with India, but that is where you take a day, to pay the bills, vent with customer service reps, etc and move forward  -- and like I told my other half  -- bill dosent get  paid its YOUR responsibility  - a relationship, whether it be marriage or othewise takes 2 people.


And as I mentioned before, TAKE THE time to learn online resources as well  -- for example, if you hear Kem-7 THINK Chemistry-7  -- learn punctuation, grammar and most of all spelling and --sorry been working from 7 am to 11 pm -- with VERY few breaks  -- might help in the long run


 


Did you answer the original question that was ask?
And, if you can't answer the question why respond with three more questions?

You don't strike me as being very darn bright.
By the way, I nearly forgot this original post, as
I got so absorbed in reading the GREAT posts below.  I am now so proud to say that I have just done what you suggested, and am now joyfully employed with one of the three companies you listed - go US MTs! I left the company-who-shall-not-be named due to these issues, and feel I have at least tried to do something.  Its a good feeling, too, for a change.