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My mindset was carefully cultivated, watered, and

Posted By: 'Shroom on 2007-06-11
In Reply to: Oh, how wrong you are about me. - sm

FERTILIZED by all the cr@p that management types everywhere think they can feed us.


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MQ Mindset...
I realized MQ's mindset one day a couple years ago when my former manager (since fired, thankfully)told me I should be thankful I do radiology since that "specialty within a specialty" was MQ's "biggest money maker" - the "other" MT's who "only" did ops, discharge summaries, H & P's were "a dime a dozen" - and MQ "really takes care of its rad MT's." I couldn't believe she said that - rad is really pretty simple once you get used to the terminology - my hat is off to those who can even DO op notes (talk about requiring excellent transcription ability). So that's the mindset and mentality you are dealing with. Sheesh.
MQ mindset
I can not even count how many coordinator's, weekend, 3rd shift, trainers, CSR's, account managers  that we've went through in the 11 yrs I've been with them and yep, only about 1 that ever transcribed for a living.
That mindset is why all us MT's is po' !!! :(
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More ghetto wanna be slang a'la the MTV mindset I guess
Sounds intelligent doesn't it?
Do it as I go and watch carefully when I run the
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Read carefully to understand ...
I work at MQ and Spheris both. Work PT at each.

Spheris: I make 10.67 cpl...BECAUSE I make my base of 8.67 cpl; I work at night and get 0.5 cpl shift diff; I produce more than 7000 lines a week and get 1.5 cpl production incentive.

MQ: I make 10.75 cpl...BECAUSE I make my base of 8.75 cpl; I do my weekend requirement to QUALIFY for produc incentive; I reach the minumum for the highest produc of 16,000 lines/pp giving me 2.0 cpl extra.

HINT: Spheris offers base rates up to 10 cpl but it is really difficult and challenging work and I don't want to work that hard! LOL

MY OPINION: Stop pitying yourself for your base rate...it's average and above compared to many. You will make your money with high production, high QA, and working evenings/weekends.

no mistake, i'm sure. read carefully

4000 lines a DAY.  Lettuce, etc. 


very sad someone would post these msgs.


I tried your suggestion with listening carefully
I'm not sure what I'm listening for, but I didn't notice any difference.

I think the shaded out options must have to do with the company preferences. They've probably deselected the options, which I don't understand.

Thanks for trying.
You are incorrect. Read more carefully..
All grads are offered the classes free. You can get a discount on the book if you are a grad as well.

Susan also authors the following info about this on the forums:

When you graduate, M-Tec offers a FREE study group for the RMT exam. We also have discounts on books/materials (study guides) that you can get here as well. I would not recommend taking the exam until you graduate, but I have seen a few who said they did and were successful.

Really....it is free for grads! I'm not arguing; I just don't want anyone to be misled.
You have not taken the time to carefully read the posts then
Don't come into the middle of something and start accusing the wrong people of stirring up trouble.  I think you need to take a chill and read the posts below.  If you take the time and stop looking at it with a prejudiced eye, you will also be able to see the thread.  You are defending the wrong person here. 
You have to watch the breeding pretty carefully. SM

I've had weims since 1994. I just lost my old-man best friend in March. He was absolutely the smartest and most beautiful dog I ever knew and I will never stop missing him.


BUT. And this answers the OP, too. We had two or three years of sheer hell. I will say this. In his whole long life, he never made so much as a puddle in the house. Never. On the other hand, he sucked through 7 comforters, numerous sheets and quilts, two $100 jackets, put a hole in the lining of my beloved Carhartt coat, and numerous other soft items - the brand-new pillows on my brand-new sofa, and that happened in his last 6 months of life. In his exuberance to jump out of the car while I was foolish enough to be holding his collar, he broke the tuft of my ring finger. While trying to control him outside, I got a corneal laceration falling on a sharp weed. What else? I can't think. But this all was caused by my not asserting that I was the alpha member of our relationship early on. Once I got that taken care of, he was a love, the love of my life.


The most important thing of all is that you can't take one of these dogs, toss him out in the backyard to live, and expect him to be civilized. It can't be done. He'll turn right back into what he was bred for, being a hunting dog.


I have his daughter now, and she's a lunatic, because she was never taught right from wrong other than having the tar whaled out of her after she did it. She's very smart, too, but she's no Herschel.


You almost must raise them in the house with you or just leave them out to be a yard dog, but you will be missing a wonderful, beautiful relationship if you do that.


Weimaraners go to rescue because they are so intense. People fall in love with the puppy with the sky-blue eyes and can't handle the 80# teenager who can eat through a door (oh yeah. The bathroom door. He accidentally locked himself in the bathroom) in 10 minutes.


For all my griping, I am in love with this breed and won't have anything else.


Everybody who knows us said that each person on earth should have the kind of love I got from that dog.


You are lucky. But you better do your homework and follow the advice of people who know the breed. They're just different.


You didn't read the post very carefully.
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Yeah I used to spend time carefully (sm)
crafting tactful feedback only to realize later that the MT had apparently not read it, deleted it, tossed it, whatever. You get to where you hear the same old excuses time and again and you realize that some people just don't care.

Another poster made the comment on how she didn't want someone to mother her; well, a lot of the MTs I worked with apparently did. They wanted me to be like a longsuffering mother and overlook their mistakes, take their excuses over and over and over again and offer tea and sympathy. They would repeatedly not write down what I told them, not look in reference books ("oh, I forgot you said to look there") ad nauseam.

So you get to the point where you're just sending to-the-point messages and you quit handholding. And then some people get angry because you're not "nice." Can't win for losing.
Read my post more carefully, did not say not information
until the 2000s; I was not sent home until then. Am glad was able to work when I did in the hospital setting because the money was like a gold mine then, very different from now when MTers seem to be struggling to make a living. Approximately 2002 the hospital decided we could work from home and then decided we were disposable, so out of sight, out of mind also. I remember asking about going home to work first, you know that ask and ye shall receive part you posted, I did and frankly the hospital saw they could use our space and before long they instituted VR and then out we went. The salary, ask and ye shall receive, fell from highs in the 40s to not 25 a year now. Oh, but the comfort of home, don’t forget that.
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You obviously didn't read the post carefully. Try again in a more sober frame of mind.
It made sense to me.