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How about a poll? - like if you agree dislike if you do not

Posted: Oct 17, 2012

Like this message if you believe there is no future in MT and that the best plan is to escape. Dislike this message if you believe in MT and think what we need to do is unionize or use some other means to try to save it.

Not everybody is bad off - anon

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Some of us are doing OK and have no other choice but to work at home. I am too disabled to work outside of the home (no, not collecting disability). I worked extremely hard to build up my clientele instead of doing whatever and having fun. I spent a lot of time and money and now reap the rewards because I worked for it.

You are beating a dead horse here...SM - Peanut

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The issue it not that cut and dried. It's not an either or situation. I personally would like to give this issue a rest.

it's just an opinion poll - what dead horse

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I never said it was cut and dried and I'm not sure what you'd like to give a rest, but there seem to be two factions these days, the ones who think we need to "save" the MT profession, and those who think that the profession is no longer viable. So far it looks like the "savers" are in the minority.

Good. I worked long and hard - to learn this profession (not)

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to have my livelihood stolen by corporate thieves and work with hospitals and doctors who don't care that I am making minimum wage because they went with an MTSO to save money.

So you need to work at home and don't collect disability. How many hours a week do you work? What cpl do you charge your clients? Do you do all the work yourself or subcontractors? What do you pay your subcontractors?

Do you get preference when you submit bids because you have a disability?

Life shouldn't be so grim for all of us. You deserve what you have worked for and deserve fun. We deserve to paid for the work we do, instead of having our pay stolen by people in management.

There would be no MTSOs except for us. Even with VR they still need us (desperately).

Then you get to click on Dislike - but you are outnumbered

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It's just an opinion poll.

both are negative - me

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what if you're happy, don't need a union, and think the market will right itself and some MTs just won't like what that looks like?

that falls under "other means" - you get to click Like

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You think the profession is still viable.

sorry I mean Dislike - you think the profession is viable

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Dislike if you think profession is still viable.

my problem is with the second part of the dislike sentence - OHMT

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I didn't click either option. I don't like the way the profession is changing and that wages are dropping. However, I also don't believe a union will fix the problem. Why give more of our hard-earned cash to some union thugs who will only scare away the companies that are still left here for us to work for? They will just be more inclined to ship our work offshore to countries that don't have unions.

I did'nt click either like or dislike because neither - applies to my opinoin.

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nm.

that's why I added "other means" - to save it

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you believe it is worth saving, or you don't. You think it is viable and has a future, or you don't. You think you will be able to continue doing this for years to come, or you don't.

Save what? Transcription is evolving and changing with - technology. It will never be old school again..sm

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I agree with the lady that said, it's changing and if we or whoever else does not like it, we need to get out.

There is nothing to save, you cant bring back the old days. We are living in the year of 2012 soon to be 2013. It's about technology and truth be told, they dont have to use us - They can switch to EPIC or point and click systems. So what is your point? What are you trying to save?

Let me also add though - That I love my job and will ride it - out till the end, editing and all and I

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am not one of the ones who liked or disliked your post, I just did not agree with it one way or the other.

I have no complaints and I like what I do. So I will stick with it for as long as I can.

no, that wasnt the question - me

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" Dislike this message if you believe in MT and think what we need to do is unionize or use some other means to try to save it."

I don't want to unionize (heaven forbid) and I don't think there needs to be anything done to save it. So I don't qualify for dislike.

It's going to right itself. It's just a matter of who's left standing when it does.

going to right itself how? - what do you mean

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exactly how do you think this thing is going to right itself?

What the poster meant by dead horse. - Silly poll

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We cannot save anything. As pointed out, technology is changing and we have to change with it, make it work for us. If you cannot do that, you do need to "escape." If you are not working on an account making the pay you feel is appropriate, you need to find another one or "escape."

This unionizing is the "dead horse." IT IS SIMPLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. It has been discussed here for years and years. IT WILL NOT WORK. You cannot stop progression, and this progression is going to evolve. You have no choice but to evolve with it or do the escape. What do you think a "union" is going to do? This is like saying the Sears or J.C. Penney catalog workers are going to unionize. For what? Technology replaced them. End of story.

I'm the dead horse poster and thank you...sm - Peanut

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for summarizing my thoughts so perfectly and succinctly. That was my exact meaning.

well make up your own poll then - phrase it how you want it

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and I'll vote on yours

ok. Polls - like or dislike? - NM

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I liked your poll. - RC

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Sorry people are nitpicking it.

Poll - Cheerio

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I agree. I think MT is a thing of the past. I feel for those who get hooked into ads on MT schools and pay a lot of money for a job that is a thing of the past. It is slave labor now.

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