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You mean the woman who took her time to walk me

Posted By: I think you are a little off on 2006-03-08
In Reply to: Sorry to disappoint you but I'm no threat to her - in any way but she absolutely

through a problem at midnight one night? She spent her time helping me at their website and she did not have to do that. You call that hateful?

You people are too much.


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    Run, don't walk. There are much better
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    Not sure where they would walk to since
    x
    Run, don't walk!

    Nastiest woman I have ever worked for. I quit and she had a fit ... sent me horrible e-mails on and on.


     


    run don't walk
    I'm so sorry to hear this.  I want to get out of where I am and was interested that MedScribe used ChartNet, an awesome platform.  Oh well.. so much for that good idea.  Guess I will stick with the sweatshop I'm at now. 
    Walk in my shoes

    I am very small MTSO and it still gets hairy with turn around time.  All it takes is for one I/C to say, today I don't want to work -- which they can -- like the one above said, I want to work when  I want to and do as much as I want -- and suddenly she decides not to work, well suddenly that leaves 1000 to 3000 lines to be spread around, times that by 2 and what a mess.  You cannot control what and how much the docs dictate.  I would not hire someone unless they were strictly for overflow without somewhat of a committment whether it be the lines or time that the could do on specific days.  Imagine having 15 people with this attitude.  Like I said walk in my shoes, it is a balancing act.  Too much work, they gripe -- too little they gripe.   But someone that wants to work when they want, how much they want could not budget accounts that way.  It would be strictly overflow and then if you weren't available when the work was you probably would not stick around nor again would I keep you around.   Sure an IC can set their own hours but I expect a certain amount of work done in a certain amount of time to meet my TAT and not be docked because we didn't. 


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    I can tell you run don't walk from Chronicle
    xx
    Did you just walk into the end of this conversation? You really
    nm
    I can't walk at the moment but

    I'm definitely gearing up.  What burns me the most is that D says she's for the MTs, but where has she been these last few months when MTs have been starving for work?  Was she giving it to Transcend then?  How long have we been going without work because she was giving it to them?  And all along, she's been playing the supportive and caring act.  I think she quit caring back in April or May when we got that first shocking State of the Union about VR, cutting pay, etc.  It must have been in the works then. 


    What a complete disappointment.  I came to this company because of their loyalty to the MTs and now this.  Back to the pavement.


    constantly over-hire run don't walk nm
    nm
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    No experience beyond that; never worked for them, and never will, if that's the best they can do.
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    z
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