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Posted By: MT32 worn out, frustrated etc on 2009-06-06
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where I live the jobs are not plentiful. What I don't understand is the mentality of these companies.

For instance, my company has me on a clinic account. Here are over 1800 reports sitting in the cue. You can't get anything done for having to write so much crap down, switch screens, etc. etc etc. If it were a normal platform where you could just sit down and bang out the reports, Icould probably put out between 150 and 200 of these reports a day. Plus they give free rein for people to pick reports and MTs are not going by date, they are picking out good dictators and leaving the crap. This is one bad way to run a company.

I finally just forget it I quit. When you work two hours and do something like 10 1 minute reports because of all the crap its time to get out.

Suppose to start another job on Monday doing OP reports only on a platform that you don't have to do anything to. This is with a company that I checked out and talked personally to 5 different MTs about. I think if this doesn't work I am getting out of the biz and doing something else. I don't have to do this anymore and I feel bad for the ones that do because I have been there before.

These companies are "shooting of their own foot" messing with all this baloney.


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