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I didn't say you made this up sm

Posted By: Lyndia on 2007-12-18
In Reply to: ASR/VR - Hope

I have a friend who quit MQ for the same reason, and I know you are being truthful.

MQ is not the entire industry. There are nationals, small and large, who will not follow suit because it is MQ doing it. The companies I work for, 3 at the moment, have all said they refuse to go to VR and one of them has, in fact, tried it and they went back to straight typing.

The thing that I have long said about outsourced work and I say about ASR now is that this is NOT saving the end user (hospital or doctor) money...it is adding to the purse of the MTSO, keeping it out of the hands of American MTs. Hospitals who have sent work to India have been sorry and come back home because any PERCEIVED savings is not worth it.

This is all trying to find a solution to the lack of qualified MTs who show up to work and I have to tell you, this is a huge problem for MQ.


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