Why are we taking this? - winston

Posted: Jun 18, 2012

What the heck is going on here? We're being bought out and paid less than the people cleaning the toilets at the "corportate" offices of the big-three companies. We're scraping by to make one-third of what we used to make. Why? Do you actually believe these companies are charging the hospitals less? We're the only ones getting paid less, and less, and less. The hospitals are getting crappy reports, something they're told can't be helped; there's no other alternative (yeah, because we all work for them and they "own" the market). VR is an insult to the medical field, it doesn't work on our IPhones and it doesn't work in our cars, and yet these corporations are successfully selling it to hospitals nationwide, while we sit back and let it happen. When I left the security of the hourly wage at a hospital to become in independent contractor 20 years ago, the starting rate for a transcriptionist with experience was over $13 and hour. Now it's less than minimum wage, and nowhere, NOWHERE have I see anything on the news about an entire block of our economy being destroyed. What if the hospitals all got together and decided that RNs would only get $8 an hour??? Those good people would be raising hell... everywhere! Look, we cannot wait for this to "go away" anytime soon. We have to fight back. VR and ridiculuous "wages" (you can't really call them that when the guy chucking the paper on the porch makes more than you) are becoming the norm. We are professional people! We're educated. Some of us actually had to do two years of college to lean how to do this job. To take our wages from $70K a year to less than $20K a year so that a board of directors can pay bonuses to the executive branch of a company... the money is there, folks, it's just in someone else's pocket. We have to collectively declare war on VR, get together and form small companies and systematically take our jobs back. We should resolve to never, ever sell to one of the big three. And we wonder why our national economy is in the toilet... The money we used to infuse into our local economies is being infused into these NASDAQ companies. There is a market out there for clear, concise reporting, the kind that can ONLY be done by us, not a machine, not by a typing pool in India. If these major companies can sell VR to a hospital, why can't we sell ourselves? And yet we sit here, and bitch, and moan, and complain, and work twice as hard for 1/3 of the money we used to make.