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i'm not angry at all. i am amused at the attitude of some know-it-all poster who thinks they kno

Posted By: Read this. on 2005-08-07
In Reply to: I dont know what gave you such a bad attitude, but i am sorry for - sm

and posts an essay on it and Oh If Only They Would Listen I Have All The Answers essay. Too funny. Actually hilarious!


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    Yep, sour grapes is right. Typical attitude of people who are angry with life.
    x
    I suggest if you are looking for perks where you work and poster thinks
    you should get free stuff from where you work, you might want to forget working at the bowling alley and take a job at a car dealership. Set your sights higher than free bowling. LOL.
    I wasn't upset...I was amused...and still am.
    Poor work getting routed out is not cherry picking.

    All the work has to get done. If cherrypicking has caused the poor reports to be backlogged, it is not cherrypicking for the router to move it up in line so that it gets done to meet TAT.

    I think my view was just from a different direction, that is all.

    Either way, I don't need to "CALM DOWN" because I was laughing and very light-hearted about it! Still am!

    :)
    Wow someone who thinks outside the box
    call the media!

    Too many are too willing to give up the tiny bit of privacy remaining...


    The doc who thinks
    every new sentence is a new paragraph and/or the one who says 'period, new line' after every sentence.  Is this a really pervasive dictating annoyance? Or is it just me? 
    As one who does QA and thinks
    the quality of US MTs is POOR, POOR, how do you find the offshoring MTs work to be? I mean this seriously.

    I read on and India site that it only took weeks to be a MT.

    Sometimes when I am working I think there is no way an Indian MT can do this.

    So, how do they measure up? What is our competition really like?
    Am I the only one who thinks this odd?

    Job post stating they are looking for really good QAs and would be willing to hire newbies for this position............ 


    Frankly, I don't think I would care for a newbie, who basically is still learning themselves, to be put in charge of QA of my work, especially if THEY have it all wrong, due to lack of experience, and that counts against me!


     


    No. Someone who thinks they are "cute" is having fun
    trying to derail the thread and irritate others.

    COokies are done! Pouring the milk!!

    Goodnight, the real Laurie and the real Michelle! I've had fun!!!

    Curdled milk and burnt cookies to the silly ones trying to upset everyone! LOL
    Mig was too pretty for them. Am I the only one who thinks (sm)

    that Marty looks like a drug addict?


    Anyway, I think they made a good choice.


    Me thinks you have burned one too many..
    I'm also in agreement with the movement to legalize marijuana, but come on--do you think this group shares your views? Save your passion for the petitions.


    she thinks it is "cute"
    Ever know one of those women who thinks it is cute to curse? I feel like she probably has not always been this way. She seems to try to use them for dramatic effect. She only knows 5 of them but every time she says a curse word she says it louder than the rest of her sentence. It is about as cute as Grandma cursing. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Thanks for the advice.
    Just wondering what everyone thinks about this...

    I work in the office.  We are being taken over by a larger hospital.  The larger facility is putting their people in the management positions, which is fine.  At our smaller hospital, we have not had the opportunity to work from home, but with the merger, the plan is to send us all home to work by the end of the year and I think that is fabulous!  What concerns me is this, they watch their at-home people like  hawks.  They actually print out a daily report on each Transcriptionist (40+) that lists every single job they did that day and how long they spent in each report typing.  So, say you have a 5 minute H&P and you took 30 minutes to type it, they basically call you up and want to know why it took you so long to type this report.  Their reasoning is they pay us hourly and they don't want to pay us for sitting at home watching television.  I completely understand that, but I am a very productive MT and really don't like the idea of having to account for every minute of my day if I am producing at least the minimum.  Having said that, they also offer a very nice incentive plan where we get a per line rate for anything above the minimum.  So why the need to micromanage like they do? 


    In my opinion, if your people are producing at least the minimum and if you have a very competitive incentive plan in place, then why not just check productivity on everyone at the end of each pay period and counsel anyone not producing at least the minimum and if necessary, take disciplinary action and just leave it at that?  Why check every single report to make sure we aren't taking too long on one report and risk upsetting your productive MTs who maybe got distracted by a phone call or something on that one report, but still produced what they were supposed to produce when the day was done?


    I've been looking around at other jobs just to see what is out there and have lined up some very promising prosects, but none that offer an incentive plan comparable to the one at my current job.  I just wonder is the incentive money worth the added stress of having someone virtually looking over my shoulder all day long?  They are definitely sending the message that we are going to be asked to justify every bathroom break, every sinle distraction throughout our day, no matter if we get the job done or we don't. 


    Just wondered what insight other MTs might have on this issue.


    Just wondering what everyone thinks
    Like you said, you are a "very productive MT." I wouldn't worry about it. The ones who should worry are the ones who screw off. This will be a new venture for the hospital and they will watch very carefully for a while to see how it goes. As long as you are meeting the requirements I wouldn't be concerned. Give it a try and see what happens.
    Thanks, misha! My DH thinks that

    it would help clear up DS's skin if he sat in the sun some every day, or even used a tanning bed as someone below said, although I'd be worried for him to do that because he has light skin, light blue eyes and blond hair - it was so light it was that white-blond when he was a baby/toddler.  So obviously he has very fair skin and features so I worry about the risk of skin cancer.


    But your link sounds like something different and I will check that out.  Thanks for taking the time to research for me!


    Finally someone who thinks like I do! sm

    I never understood how Bucky even got in the top 12!  What drove me nuts the most was was his inability to speak clearly!  I really laughed when Ryan said "I have no idea what you just said" and when Kenny Rogers said he needed to enunciate or the song wasn't going to make any sense.


    Bucky just really had a skeevy look to me...like I wouldn't leave a child alone with him.


    Me thinks you are way off base.
    You may want to find a new career.  When you refer to drop in for an hour or two, you are speaking about ICs who in no way are any less professional than you are working from your home as an employee.  Some MTs work from a typing pool meaning they can take a job at a time and make money in that fashion as a contribution to the household (paying bills I might add).  Many professions offer at home employment.  We are not the only ones.  I think you have a bad attitude and should probably find somewhere else to drone in your sorrows.  Many of us here are professionals even at home with a husband and children.  It kind of sounds like you are jealous about husbands that make money and have insurance.  You may want to re-think what you are saying in regards to MTs working from home and not being considered a professional.  In my experience, my friends and relatives are envious of my being able to make a living from my home office, so I'm not sure who you have that talks about you to where you cannot defend yourself, but that is usually a psyhiatric entity called paranoia.  Sorry to say, but you make as much as you'd like as long as you can "hang with the big dogs".  If you are not making enough money, then that is for you to either take some courses in typing and anatomy or just go with the flow.  To blame at home MTs is way off base.   
    not everyone thinks nationals are awful.
    i have worked for 4. two were terrible, one was okay, one great.

    the one that was okay and the one that was great made you put up a deposit on the computer stuff and if you didn't get it back to them in good shape they kept it. i think that is fair. costs a lot of money to do that.

    all 4 of the companies i worked for checked references. i had to test on terms, meds, and then do a transcription test for 3 of the companies.

    the 2 that were terrible - i just did not like their software (1 sent me a computer that wouldn't work so they sent another one and it wasn't very fast at all). it wasn't really anything they did. i just didn't care for how their stuff ran.

    i think all of them are decent companies. beats the hospitals i've worked for. beats getting in the car for a drive everyday in pantyhose and heels and listening to coworkers gripe about what they're not getting and having to work when they want you to.
    she thinks she is "the mama"
    riiiiiggghhht.
    Me thinks 5th graders would think it's really dumb. nm
    x
    I have been doing this for 12 years and still to-this-day my sister thinks she can just come over
    to my house any time and visit while I am working !!!!! .  I know they think, Well, she is just typing, she can do that any time.  Taken for granit is right and I have tried and tried to re-educate people on this but get nowhere. I just end up being the bad guy for not offering to baby sit or something.  Well, you will be there, can they just say with you.  I think I should have sent my 6- month -old to my sister's house one night (when he was 6 months-old) after crying all night with colic,  and said well, you will be here, can he just stay with you..  You can't sleep when a six month old is a different house especially if he is sick and you can't work either!! DUH!
    Just annoyed that he so smugly thinks I will be - sm
    unemployed in the near future! You see, I have been happily married for 8 years and despite great effort on his part, he has not been able to cause many problems. My daughter has next to nothing to do with him because of the way he treats her. He really just wants to see us unhappy and in a bad situation.
    Who thinks Mick Jagger is still hot??

    she should look at apply for section 8. I thinks its through the
    housing development of the city she resides.
    my family thinks the same thing...
    I even had a friend call me the other day (who I thought understood what it is I do all day) asking if I could get his significant other a job because he does medical billing and can type fast...LOL...I guess no one will understand the working at home aspect except those who actually work at home....
    Consulting dr. doesnt say but says he thinks
    x
    Thank you AllieCat. I'm at home IC. Me thinks
    ``
    me thinks we have all been working alone too long
    We gotta get out more. Poor Kiki.
    Good one. An anonymous poster blows another anonymous poster's head off. Great win for MQ?

    I guess that is a small pleasure for those of you who have lowered your expectations for the company you work for. 


     


    Bet you're married to a fat bald guy too. 


    My family probably thinks elves clean up after them - sm
    As I try to do all the picking up, etc. after everyone is in bed. Granted I can't vacuum then but most of the junk is picked up and put away, including the laundry. My husband wants to hire someone, I really don't want a stranger in my house though. Also my husband fails to understand that they will not pick up his dirty clothes, or put his stuff away where it belongs, etc., and that you actually have to straighten up a bit before someone comes in to clean for you. What he wants is a maid who will do what I won't!....maybe after we win the Mega Millions, right?
    Me thinks so too. Snowman poop is for babies. :)

    My hubby thinks he's another Rock Hudson - NM
    ??
    U to be right but me thinks thou doth protest
    x
    I'm very angry but

    My mother would not side with me.  I know this for a fact, thats why I keep the responses to myself.  She pretends like she doesnt see it, she is one of those moms in denial about everything.  I'm also afraid she will feel threatened, I don't want that.  Also, the family member I told has a big mouth, and I think some of it may have leaked out because the last time I went over there, I went swimming and I had a towel wrapped around me.  Exact words from my stepfather "Why are you all covered up, do you think there's a pervert here or something?" And he's become very hostile lately.  The whole thing is a mess.  Its sad because my stepfather and I were close in a normal way at one time.  Its like I lost that.   


    Very Angry MT
    If you are new and have a year and under why do these companies not respect that fact and try to teach you and make you better instead they just get rid of you over one report that went bad... Are we just garbage?  Just because you do not have to look at a person in the face does not give them the right to do these things, Now let me say it was the account not the company that fired me...
    To Angry
    I am sorry this happened to you, but I think there could be many reasons and no, this was not fair the way it happened to you given the history you just gave. However...these things do happen. Let me tell you, a couple of years ago I decided to go back to working inhouse. There was a doctor there no one could understand, even the more experienced struggled. He had a certain MT for many years, but when new management came on board this MT was let go. Anyway this doctor simply would not allow anyone else to do his work without finding something wrong. He wanted his old MT back. They found someone to do the work for him but he was very, very picky. Maybe this is what happened to you. It could be anything. You will bounce back from this and go on to find something else even better. However, I am just wondering why didn't they have a backup account for you.

    Best wishes.


    To Angry sm

    Since I have never seen your work I would not presume to pass judgment on it.  *IF* your work consistently had gross errors and you were never informed, that says enough about the company you worked for.  In fact, as far as I'm concerned, a company that would ask ANYONE to work free for "months" as you said in a previous post is beyond despicable. It might be possible this is how they are making their money, the profit margin for free work would be pretty good but I would expect they wouldn't last long.


    On the otherhand, I've had more years experience than I care to say, so let me tell you I KNOW how bad the baddest ESLs can be.  This actually happened to me:  I worked for a company about 10 years ago when tapes were sent to us at home by UPS.  I consistently got this one ESL who was so bad I said that God Himself couldn't understand him.  I called the office more than once saying I hated sending the reports directly to the hospital because they looked exactly like swiss cheese.  I was told to "just do the best you can and don't worry about it."  Well, one day I got a tape of his dictation and the tape itself was bad, so that work looked more like the whole block of swiss cheese with huge chunks where the tape was nothing but a stretching sound, thus, large chunks of blanks.  I called the office and again was told to "do the best I could" and send it on to the hospital.  Well, the next day I got some more of his tapes and the first thing he said was, "ah dunawa **** ado MA tie."  I translated this to mean, "I don't want **** to do my typing."  I immediately called the office and I admit I was pretty distraught, even considering how bad he was.  Know what I was told?  "The hospital knows how bad he is, their MTs refuse to do him which is why they send him to us and you're the only MT we have who can do him.  Don't worry about it, just send the tapes back and we'll tell them we're not going to do him anymore."  WHAT????  Why the heck didn't they tell the hospital that way before I pulled all my hair out??!!  And this was a large national that has since been gobbled up by MQ.


    Don't give up.  Ask an experienced MT to review your work and give you some honest, constructive feedback and then do what it takes.  If you have to pay someone to mentor you for awhile it's a small price to pay for the education you'll get.    Hang in there.


    You say this as if you are angry
    Next time, don't come here to ask such questions. It could have been much worse. YOU are the one who is at fault here.  You are lucky that anybody responded at all.  YOU came to this board TWICE asking for help. There are no doctors here.  Use your brain!
    Angry
    I think you should see a lawyer. You may have a case for wrongful termination.
    angry too, but not as much as
    having a doctor dictate to the song mack the knife on every dictation - i guess he either thinks he is bobby darrin or just funny - but it gets annoying
    You seem to be very angry
    I said I THINK, not know. Having a college degree means what in transcription? Nothing that I have been able to find yet and I have done this over 30 years now. You need to find something else to do apparently. I do not find this a crap job and have made really big bucks in my career but then again I have the speed to go along with the background for doing transcription. These hospitals, companies, offices are in this to make money. They are not there to pat you on the back. You seem to be in over your head. Probably something a little less stressful would be a good thing for you. This is just a job that I do not stress about- after first going through a rigorous training program. Have a good day!
    I'm angry!
    No, they aren't taking over; they've already taken over. Let me tell you - when my husband became seriously ill, I had to fight for two years and delete our savings in the process to get his SS disability, in spite of four doctors (one being the SS doctor) saying he could never work again. We had to go on food stamps and it was a very humiliating experience. However, I was the dummy who was completely honest about everything, so I put down on the quarterly statement when it asked if ANY family member had received cash that my son received $160 in birthday money. They cut our food stamps by $160 the next month! It was a humilitating experience for our family and it taught me that the system is against you! Now, these illegal aliens come over here and get food stamps with ease and I'm working my tail off to pay for them? Is that supposed to be okay? The food stamp office acted like they were doing me a favor even though my hubby and I had both worked for 20+ years at our jobs and they KNEW we weren't deadbeats. I'm angry! I couldn't even buy toilet paper or bath soap with those food stamps! But, I sure saw a woman buying a wedding cake with them in the bakery of the grocery store not too long ago - and she didn't speak a word of English. I have a problem when I see these people paying with a food stamp card and then pulling out wads of cash to buy alcohol after ringing up their foot purchase.
    They're illegal and I shouldn't have to support them. They are getting free government benefits and we're the working Americans who are supporting those benefits. They know how to work the system and America has allowed them to do so, so they have indeed taken over.
    Now I am angry
    Just did a ESL report. The patient was a white American female as dictated by the doctor, and he "could not get an accurate history due to the language barrier".

    This just irritates me.

    You seem really angry????

    Some people do not think Google is an acceptable resource as you can get "wrong answers."  So, if the term is already in question, then I'd say your advice about googling is leading them down the wrong "path." 


    Instead of being so critical, why not just "be quiet" since you obviously have a "thing in" for new MTs. 


    Furthermore, to single out one post from a new MT the word board is hateful.  Goodbye!  Peace be with you.  I hope you find some peace soon. 


    Not angry
    Google is always a great start if you don't have anything more specific bookmarked. Part of the skill any newbie needs to learn is how to sift through Google for authoritative references, and/or how to do a search in a way that limits the responses one is going to get to those that are usable.

    If I look up something ortho-related, do I take something from Bob's New Age cast supply? or from Wheeles'?

    I still -- & will always -- feel that it is better to teach someone how to teach her/himself than it is to spoon-feed a bunch of predigested facts.

    You are darn right I'm critical, and no, I'm not going to be quiet as long as I think a newbie can learn something from me.


    postively sick that some self-righteous MT thinks no one should make $$
    but her but the only talent she has is to tear up everyone else on an MT board.  Probably hates the doctors she works for because they make more money than her w/o a clue that they are educated and she isn't.
    You're really looking pathetic here. Notice how everyone thinks so? Move on. nm
    x
    I thinks it incredibly boring. I miss Carter. I wonder how the
    nm
    I'm not angry when I say this about the mayor - sm
    The mayor kept telling people to leave over and over and over again. He stated that he knew thousands did not have cars. He even said "this is the real thing, folks." Why didn't he provide school buses or city buses to get these people out - just take a few belongings, get on the bus, and get out of the city.


    Apology for angry MTs
    Please speak for yourself! On reading the posts - no one called anyone a liar. We just asked for information or proof. There is abundant false information out there. I worked as an IC for a company who had "hired MQ" to take over the hospital jobs but the quality of work they got was so poor, they went back to their own MTs and FIRED MQ. I am not FOR or AGAINST MQ. I simply work there now and need facts. If the DQmanage has that ability, then new hires should be able to ask, "just exactly will I be paid for up-front" instead of taking the job and then finding out half of their work is not paid for. I have no fangs and I did not tear anyone up.
    No whining, but ANGRY
    With a MQ blog you could communicate and discuss to your hearts content, while you change nothing and your children starve.  And if MQ started the hole you are in, by still being there you are handing them the shovel to make that hole deeper.  Of course it is hard switching jobs and learning new accts but how does staying at MQ with NO jobs make that any easier?  If you have children and bills, you darn well better be doing something other than just whining about what a bad company MQ is.  You can start that process now or you can do nothing but whine and still have to start that process sometime in the future, all the while you bills are adding up and you kids are getting thinner.  And another thing, why do you have to buy anything for a new program or new job?  I have never had to buy anything for any company I have worked for.  It is hard to have alot of sympathy for a person who is constantly with the "poor me" but who does nothing to pull themselves out of the mire.  And if you think I am whining, you are reading my posts all wrong.  I am not whining, I am angry that you are letting yourselves be taken advantage of.  It makes all MTs look bad,  like we cannot take a stand for ourselves but feel ourselves to be at the mercy of any company that wants to take advantage of a hard-working MT.
    They are angry. They don't want or need fact,
    if they weren't so abrasive, offensive and racist it would actually be quite sad.