To Leadfeather sm

Posted By: Dano on 2005-08-15
In Reply to: Do it because it's the best thing for you both now and in the long term. SM - Leadfeather

I can tell from your posts that you are a born leader. Have you really thought about what will happen if all, or most, MTs follow your advice and move on to the few remaining good companies? Your ideas might, and probably would, have worked 10 years ago but that isn't the answer today. Ever hear of trickle down effect?" Well, that's what's happening in the industry, actually in all industries. MQ gets away with it and one-by-one the others follow suit when they are in a position to do so, just as we are seeing happen with the people posting about different companies on this board. I, for one, am glad that I am at the end of my career and work because I want to, not because I have to. My husband, a retired Teamster, gets a retirement check the first of every month for $3000, the reward for putting in 30 years. How many younger workers have anything close to that to look forward to? And...yes, that includes Teamsters retiring in the future. Their membership has dwindled so the "old" benefits just won't be there. Maybe won't even continue to be there for those who have already retired. How far down will the American workers go before they say "ENOUGH!"? Maybe when they are the ones living on the streets and eating in soup kitchens?

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VR, Transcend, MT profession, etc. Long msg - Leadfeather
- PS Leadfeather: MQ and Philips are together working hard on the VR technology... - MTMT
  - I was with MedQuist at one time. SM - Leadfeather
    - Leadfeather, you are right on the money SM - Dano
- one question... - MTMT
  - Fighting back. SM - Leadfeather
    - ...but I did "bail" and now work for a company who does not ... - MTMT
    - Mass exit sm - Dano
    - Maybe it would help if we knew exactly - Looking for another job
      - Do it because it's the best thing for you both now and in the long term. SM - Leadfeather
        To Leadfeather sm - Dano
        The answer is, at least from my perspective,...SM - Leadfeather
        I AGREE 100% - why can't we ask our employees to us it, personally. Maybe I should ask my employ - MTMT
        to USE it, sorry, I am excited now...nm - MTMT
        Well, I applaud you for - Dano
        Yes, exactly!!! The entire profession will wind up being "dumbed-down" - RME
- Me, too! - Just got a new job!
- I did just that! sm - Exiter
  - VR - anon
    - Two of us out the door ! .... sm - Ditto x 2

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Your are right Leadfeather!
I, too, will not take a VR editing job. There was an ad in the local paper a while back offering transcriptionists the opportunity (?) to go to India and teach transcription. Cannot imagine any American Transcriptionist who would do this..... but there are some. I personally think VR will be perfected in the future but I will not be one who edits VR or anything done overseas - will change careers first.

Leadfeather, you are right on the money SM

I could have written your post myself, especially about standing alone. I worked for Medifax when they started cutting pay. Being the outspoken person I am, everyone wanted me to stand up and speak for all of us. Wanta know what happened? Yep, you guessed it. The powers that be weren't stupid, they gave token raises to the lower producers and there went the ballgame. Those MTs suddenly were "happy" THEY got a raise. I told Medifax to shove their job and moved on to MRC. Wanta know what happened? A few months later these "happy" MTs were calling me asking, "what are we going to DO?" (Medifux had taken back their raises and some more to go along with it.) My answer, "Beats me." Most of them ended up at MRC.

I was with MQ when they joined Philips too (bought out along with ddi), and I sure saw the handwriting on the wall. Some MTs think they are so good they can never be replaced. Wrong. I'd wager that in a few years MT, by whatever name it's called, will go back where it came from...to minimum wage jobs. I know of one very excellent MT who was trained by doing editing. I didn't train her but I know who did. She simply listened to the reports that had already been transcribed and looked up the terminology. They'll simply have maybe 1 lead person to oversee the work of 40? 200? "medical language specialists." MTs.....gone.

Leadfeather, they expect us to edit VR because they can

They (management of companies who ask us to do this) know that most people who do MT are not wealthy people, or even average income-wise and are desperate for any work/income they can get. They use this information to their advantage and always will. You said it when you said "a few measly hundred dollars". To many MT's that's a lot of money.

Unfortunate but true.

PS Leadfeather: MQ and Philips are together working hard on the VR technology...
that is why Philips bought MQ. I was reading that yesterday. this is something they are working very hard on, which is why I do not think Philips will let go of MQ - too much invested, even after the loss they have been taking over the recent problems MQ has had...

Philips, however, also does a lot of good things in the medical field, which is pretty impressive a philips medical...