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CBay/Please read - BB
Posted: Jul 22, 2010
I just got through reading the website of CBay in its entirety to get more insight into their company. They appear to be a giant in the field, own almost everything that has to do with medical transcription or the likes thereof. I clicked on the Executive Bios section and got to read about each executive's background, etc. What I saw and read were numerous CBay individuals (all men I might add) with many years' worth of previous employment by well known companies, some American appearing, but overall all Indian appearing, now working for CBay.
This company is hungry, real hungry to be #1, Top Dog, if you will. In my opinion, we, the medical transcriptionists, do not have a fighting chance to get ahead. We will never get back what we have lost whether it be wages/salary, benefits, but most of all our self-worth and self-esteem.
I cannot believe what I read each and every day on the MTstars, all of us wondering what will come next, whether we will even be employed in the near future, depressed, crying, tearing our guts out, litterly torturing ourselves over a company that only wants billions in revenue in a years' time, and all we want is the ability to earn a living, a real living and not minimum wage or below.
Each and every one of us are worth more than the likes of CBay and Medquist. To quote the song with the lyrics "the way we were" is what we have to remember and move on to something/someone that will appreciate us and treat us with respect and not like livestock. Maybe women in foreign countries just do not know better, but here in this country we were brought up differently, we are to be respected, but I truly believe we have to respect ourselves first, love ourselves, know that we are worth more, and move on. Just like a bad marriage, one must move on.
I truly wish us all the best that life has to offer, but it is not with CBay, Medquist or in the field of transcription. There has to be something else for us all and I sure hope we all find our own way and move forward.
Thank you! Moving on, - going back to school this fall.
[ In Reply To ..]My husband lost his job back in 2002 from an IT company he had for 15 years. He finally found a job out of state and so we moved. The company was Indian run. It was just a horrible place to work. He hated his job the first day he started. Company could careless about their employees and only cared about their stocks. Finally, just after 5 months, he spoke up. He had to because it was not right what the company was doing, especially his boss. He was fired the very next day. Good riddens. So we moved back since we were not able to sell our house and he later found another job.
We have friends who moved near us. He was a radiologist who worked in a lab that was India owned. He lasted 1 month and quit. He could not handle the job because of how it was run. He made a vow that he would never work under an Indian again, EVER.
You are right, medical transcription is on its way out for the United States since CBAY has taken over. I too read all about CBAY the last few days. I wish to God we really fought and tried to have a Union before CBAY bought us, but I guess I did not try hard enough. Do not get me wrong, really did not want a Union, but it might have been our only chance to save medical transcription. Too late now, especially with the merge with Spheris.
My bill for school came yesterday - MQ picking up the tab
[ In Reply To ..]I guess my tuition bill is a small price to pay to take over the world.
Go TAA! :)
Yay for you! I'm hoping to get the same - CA-MT
[ In Reply To ..]That's why I'm trying to put up with this job for now. I can't afford to go to school, AND I have a second full-time job which will never pay my bills. I'm on my own, no husband and no chance to get one as I'm so busy (eh, who cares?). I'm trying to plug away. I still love the actual medical transcription but MQ makes my life miserable. It hurts to know I have to change through no choice of my own. It's like getting a divorce because your husband no longer loves you and you still go on loving him.
That is just it, working UNDER the Indians,sm - Spherite
[ In Reply To ..]It took a little bit to sink in, but I realize now that is what happened. We are UNDER them now.
BTW, I quit last week. It made me very sad, and I will miss my team and my account which I had been on for over 9 years, long before it was a Medquist account. So sad, but I am moving on too.
To: CBay/Please Read - BB - naturegal
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks for that -- it helps reiterate what all of us should really take to heart and move on for ourselves. MQ appreciates no one except their bank statements with their hefty deposits. The Karma wheel might be slowly turning, but it will eventually get around to greedy executives. When they post on MQCentral another new suit, I just see the 6-figure dollar signs - shame on them for not even allowing their MTs to even make a decent 5-figure salary!
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