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TT/IMEDX "Merge" was March 2014. - Thoughts?

Posted: Feb 11, 2015

I am not up on my business particulars, but when this "merge" - ahem - took place March 1 (I think) of last year, could all contracts have been resigned for a specific period of time, say 1 year, or did contracts just continue as is until they were up, more than likely ending on various dates?

Could we be looking at our 1 year anniversary where all contracts come to an end? Are there legalities that go along with a 1-year period for employees? Employer tax breaks?

There is at least one account that the managers have been saying is being watched closely by the client through this month, which also coincides with that date. Then, is it a good way to let us go with it being the MTs fault b/c we could not handle the work on this acct (all of a sudden after years and years).

Just throwing out some ideas....seems like a LOT of accts all gone within the last two weeks, all just a few weeks before the one year anniversary of us finding out we had "merged."

Thoughts?

tt/medix merge - gonesoon

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Bet I know one of the accounts you are talking about. almost wish they would lose it - but that would put a lot of people out of work. I looked at my line counts from a year ago, and it was really slow on my 2 main accounts then, too. But I was still making more money because I flexed when there was no work, rather than trying to struggle through this account. Looked into phone sex operators once - they make $40,000 a year. Now, there's the ultimate at-home job. Don't know if I could do it without laughing, though.

Are you allowed to say hurry up and get it over with? - LOL!!!

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TT/imedx merge - gonesoon

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To be serious, I try not to think too hard about it. Don't feel like losing sleep over something I only have so much control over. I'm just squirreling away money as much as possible and trying to come up with different backup plans in case I get kicked to the curb again.

Don't you think part of what is going on now is:
1. People don't have the money for elective surgery until they meet their deductible, so aren't coming in?
2. Most of us don't have any PTO time built up enough yet to take time off, so there are more of us trying to get 40 hours in a week.
3. The fact there will be less dictation to go around anyway, since the hospitals have to get their EMRs up and running.

I wouldn't think all the accounts' contracts would be up on the same day. Would all depend on when they were acquired. But can't say never.

The one account I'm thinking of that is currently being watched, there was a lot going on at the time. i was putting in bonus time on the account - noticed a lot of reports that were 3 to 4 weeks old, so doctors waited till the last minute to dictate.

Another factor would have been the fact there were a lot more people off than would have been normally, trying to use up vacation time rather than lose it, thanks to imedx. So, that made a lot of accounts short staffed. It's not that people weren't working - there were only just so many to go around, and MTSOs seem to forget - we are humans, not machines that can work 24 hours a day.

No, that is not what is going on. - Accounts are being taken or opting out

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... of iMedX. It is historically slow in February, yes, but that's not what is happening now. In the years I've been with TTMS, I've always managed to make up the slow work one way or another by clocking in off my schedule, but there's no work when I do that now even.

The clients that have left or have been taken over by imedx --- all those MTs suddenly out of work have been placed on other accounts, thereby taking work away from those people who worked those accounts as their primary.

I've been through too many of these buyouts - and I can promise you... it has nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the other clients that are gone - and everyone is now swooping in like vultures... all on one account now.

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