No guilty conscience...no martyr syndrome, either.
Posted By: ndmt on 2009-08-23
In Reply to: I agree with you 100% - Amen
Our experiences are obviously pretty different, and you think MTs are greedy and self-serving. Perhaps I was fortunate to know a completely different group of people.
I am not arguing my ethics in this, which are just fine, and I am not arguing that this profesion is about dealing with human beings. I am saying that poor quality cannot be laid sqaurely at the door of the MT.
Why do you not hold the MTSO responsible for firing these incompetent greedy MTs or the hospital for not having them removed from their account for having so many errors? Why aren't they expected in your mind to have as much at stake in patient care as an MT?
I truly believe your heart is in the right place. I believe it is inherent for everyone to do the best job possible. What I am saying is the players in this industry, all of whom should have patient care upmost in their minds, are trading quality for money. This is money that they take out of MTs pockets creating a situation that will ultimately further decrease the quality of patient documentation.
The good MTs like you, who obviously care, will leave the profession when YOU cannot make enough money. The MTs that are blowing through reports to make money will stay because THEY make good money. The MTSOs who are not firing these MTs because they are making money off of them will stay because they have a great profit margin. The hospitals will try to squeeze 1 more cpl out of everyone for the year-end bonus, and then more newbies will flood the market coming in without any mentoring or QA to submit a finished document directly to the medical record that the doctor signs without reviewing it because there is another emergency to be taken care of.
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Guilty if I work too much, guilty if I don't. (sm)
Not wanting to stir anything up but...The office I work out of wants you (SE here) to do anything extra you can. Keeps them from having to pay out so much in bonuses I guess. Then I get on this board and see others from other offices not having enough work. I feel guilty either way even though how much I do or don't do for my office in no way impacts the other offices with low work.
I am truly sympathetic for those without enough work or having to scratch around a multitude of small accounts to get it though.
What a martyr you are!
:-(
It's YOUR conscience, fellow MT
If you're cool with what you're doing, keep on keepin' on. *Shrug*
I'm not much of a gameplayer myself so perhaps that's where your 'logic' loses me.
Anyway, your justifications are now bordering on ridiculous and boring me out of my mind so I'm out of this thread.
Self-pity was NEVER an attractive quality to me.
No. not martyr = victim...sm
you are a *victimizer*. You apparently relish the idea of kicking others while they are down, telling yourself you are doing *them* a favor by kicking them, to make yourself feel better about yourself. Did your mother beat you while you were little? Did your father molest you? You are certainly insensitive to the hurts, pains, and feelings of others and you seem to relish in the fact that you can hurt them even further, and absolutely gloat about it while you do it. I pray for your bitter soul!
You have to have a CONSCIENCE to feel shame
You are PURPOSEFULLY missing the point: You have yet to answer the point that is being made here: What you are doing WILL result in a lower pay scale.
Dumping Syndrome
The golden rule of transcription:
Those who can do the work, will do the work.
The better you are, the more crap they will dump on you.
Leave them a blank and move on. A poor dictator is no reflection of your skills as an MT. It is hard for many of us who are perfectionists to leave blanks, but if you don't you will not make any money. Your skill is worth more than $5 an hour.
When everyone stops trying to learn the garbled English vocabulary and leaves a blank, no one will do the work.
When that happens, the company and the dictator will do something different, which is what we all dream of.
Ah, that "dumping syndrome!" Don't you get sick....sm
of it? I keep complaining, and they keep telling me it's NOT being done - yeah, right and I have a bridge somewhere near a swamp for sale at a good price! Or the other answer I get is we don't know how to change it. OOOOOOOOOkay.........
im a guilty one too c msg
i work my part-time job as an ic in the morning.
the one im slacking in is my full time job, in which i am paid hourly as a remote hospital employee. i make my required minimum, but i do slack on the incentive every now and then because i wanna watch the news or american idol, or surf the web, etc. i need to stop this because i know i cant afford to lose this job.
Guilty?
You said Cbay no longer had MTs. That's not true. Now you want to say unless A, B, or C.... well then that supports what you said is not true.
And I have NOTHING to feel guilty about. I'm intelligent and wise enough to know that we live in a global economy. I educated myself and acquired necessary skills and do not feel at all threatened by work going to India or VR or anywhere else. Good MTs can always find work :)
BTW, Cbay has treated me just fine so a better company would need to be defined. I make good money, love the boss, and see no reason to look anywhere else.
I have 25 years exp and run into the "no work syndrome" also.
It happens! I got tired of hearing no work or can you go on later...etc. I went out and got my own accounts and it has be heaven!
Believe me, the no work situation happens at every company no matter what anyone says. I think I have tried every one out there and the same thing....great for the first few weeks, then caught up and no work.
You may need a part-time job to fill in for the $$$ missed.
Good luck.
Sounds like you are suffering from the overhired syndrome that is
causing lots of us to look elsewhere. There are lots of MTs who work for more than one account. They can't be without work so they juggle. I don't see a conflict with working 2 jobs, unless both are full-time and then juggling them might be an issue.
I've worked 3 jobs at once, 1 full-time and 2 part-time, but that was back in the days before work was offshored and VR and I had a ton of work and just couldn't do all that was being asked of me. I have worked 2 for a short time while starting a new one and not wanting to quit the other one until I got a feel for things.
My solution to the feast or famine syndrome
I work part-time with a daily number of lines to complete, no set schedule. My work is usually pretty steady, but over the holiadys when things slowed down, I decided to get another part-time job. I ended up in direct home sales. I make more money at it than I do MTing and I get to set my own schedule. I usually do 2 shows a week, averaging about $150 to $200 per show. The shows take about 3 hours in total and the computer work is about an hour or less.
It also gets me out of the house and gives me a break from my kids. I will say that I'm pretty fortunate that my husband has a M-F 8-4 job, so he's able to be home with the kids on the evenings I do these.
I keep a separate checking account for my business and it's really neat to watch it grow. I'm saving the money for a rainy day (or famine) and when I get to a certain amount, we're putting in a pool. I'm halfway there already.
No way would I stay attached to my computer. If things are slow, I put that time into my new business and work on getting new shows booked or party games or invitations. There's always something productive to do.
Guilty? For what? Having an opinion?
I do not feel that anybody was sold down the river. However, I simply do not do business with anyone who offshores. That is my personal principle and I stand by it. I got a new job the next day and am making as much as I made at MDI. MDI treated me very well, I really like them and I wish them all the best, but the current merger just did not work for me. I wish everybody well, those who left and those who stayed.
Sure sounds like the old "CYA" syndrome to me. Are they giving you another acct?
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Only guilty of asking a simple question
:(
Well, if that's the case, then I won't feel guilty for -
ignoring it from now on, and just following my references and the BOS. I was going nuts bouncing back and forth trying to keep up with the *correction-du-jour* that kept changing all the time. I got one correction the other day that wasn't even a correction - it was exactly the same before and after QA's *change* was posted. Incredible. These people must be getting paid based on how MANY *corrections* they make, not on how ACCURATE their *corrections* are! From now on, I'm not going to waste my time even looking at them anymore. That time is money, something I sure don't have enough of already.
on MDI merger, anyone feeling guilty?
I feel terrible for having copped such a bad attitude, ie, that we were sold down the river. Having settled down and really looked at those Q&A emails and considered our economy and the market and/or world as it is today, I am having a change of heart. The fact that MDI has done such a fine job of taking care of us and the business all this time, lends to my thinking why would they suddenly not care about us? It is not a perfect world and choices are not always easy. I do think we have been spoiled by MDI in such a good way that other companies look rotten. But I am hoping I am not alone and that more MDIer's will give this merger a chance. Happy labor day weekend my friends.
Not feeling guilty about taking new job
Like they said,*business is business* and we take care of our own, right?
It is what it is
Heck no I don't feel guilty. (sm)
All the messages of I am saving your jobs and help out or this account is going to leave, etc. and I busted my butt all those weekends only to line D's pockets...No way do I feel guilty!
ps: Please excuse typos! "Hands-working-faster-than-brain syndrome!" haha (nm)
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