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From a grandfathered employee of MQ - for almost 25 years,
Posted: Jul 12, 2011
You have successfully cut my pay over a dollar and a quarter. ALL YOU BOARD OF DIRECTORS have NOT cut your pay, but in fact have gone up in pay with bonuses totaling over over a 1 million and a half in pay.
HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY AND HAVE A SOUND SLEEP DURING THE NIGHTS FOR DOING THIS!!!
For this company, in years past, I have been called at all hours in the morning, 03:00 hours to type up YOUR STAT reports. Never called in sick and loved working for The MRC Group. Then you merged with Transcription Limited. After 24 years, you would THINK I would get some kind of retirement, but NOTHING, only one negative after a negative working for you. Just when you think it could not get worse, you have successfully succeeded and I am sure there will definitely be more disappointments to come.
You have completely made me positive to know that I have done the right thing by going back to school and doing something more useful with my life than staying to the end for your company while you can pay for your fancy expensive homes and kids 30,000 a year college tuition. Because I know in the near future, you will let me go when you do not need me anymore when the M-modal or EPIC systems take over and will not be needing hardly any MT's in the future.
I know you have planted in your brains that there are not enough MT's in the United States and we all know that is a pure lie from heckl. You have also stated there are competitive costs when we know that is not true and if it is correct, it is because you are worried about your own salaries.
Yep, had enough being treated like crap after working for you this long. We all know you tried for the past couple of years to let us oldie but goodies leave/quit. I applaud you because you have won.
Lastly, I know you do not care about any of what you are reading because you have no heart and no soul. Thanks for an unbelievable ride for the past 20 some years.
hmm... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]A million and a half dollars a year, thats something I only dream of. I actually do, quite a lot. I know money is not everything and i'm close to losing what i've got, but they are material things. I keep telling myself they are just material things and they are not important so I do not lose my sanity.
The sooner you realize what makes this world go around, the sooner you will...heck, I have no words of advice here. It's fun to dream:
1. Play the lottery, you will feel like a millionaire for a couple of hours.
2. Window shop online and fantasize over things you cannot buy. You will get a pleasant rush.
3. Picture yourself in a soup kitchen or receiving aid from a local church. This way, when the time gets closer where you cannot feed your family, you have that comforting feeling YOU CAN.
4. Stop paying creditors; Our president has, and he is our example right now. Therefore, no guilt! :)
5. Pet your animals...ALOT...now there is something worth it!
6. Cling tightly to your Bible, join forces with God, channel some of that unconditional love of His (this is probably the best advice here, so I saved it for last).
My carpal tunnel and other issues from working here for 15 years is kickin in and I have some more dreamin' to do anyways.
Hey, we should start a thread of pure fantasy. For example, I fantasize I suddenly have 200,000 (I don't know why that number) and I spend it on things piece by piece, starting with my debt. Maybe I choose this modest number because its just enough to get me over this economic slump, but not enough to turn me into a lazy, greedy moral-less slob?
Have a good day anyway.
That sounds like me thinking - CA-MT
[ In Reply To ..]I've cashed in my soda cans and use the money left over from buying vegetables at the local market (cheaper) to buy a lottery ticket a week. For some reason my mind doesn't allow thinking in broad terms of fantasy. My main fantasy is actually having money to spend on normal car and home maintenance without having to resort to putting it on a credit card. Yesterday I looked at my dying water well pump and cringed, knowing I won't have the money needed to replace it. My Bible already has scratch marks on it. My prayer to God is to give me the strength to endure all of this.
pay cuts - Dede
[ In Reply To ..]I am so sorry for you, and can totally identify. Although I have only been with MQ for 10 years, I have been an MT for about 25 years, but was acquired by MQ when the hospital where I worked outsourced us. It has been, as you said, an unbelievable ride. Not only was my pay cut by 50% immediately, but then I received actual pay cuts through the years (due to ASR work), and now we have just been notified that our pay is going to be decreased even more! I hope the CEOs, administrators, and even most of the supervisors are making plans to be buried in asbestos, because it's going to be very hot where they're going.
i think everyone at MQ who got a pay slash should - walk out for a week. whats to lose?
[ In Reply To ..]About $150 for a week's work? It'd be worth it to me, knowing the Q would be losing far, far more. Especially if a ton of work got way out of TAT.
Don't think it would take a week! - Disgruntled
[ In Reply To ..]If we were to get together and stop work, I think we would put them to their knees within a couple of hours. Seriously. I think I feel the blue flu coming on.
Couple hours? why hurt them a little, when you can - hurt em a LOT by taking a week off.
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I'm saying.... - Disgruntled
[ In Reply To ..]My point is within a couple of hours, they would be making concessions. BIG concessions.
You ARE right about that, but my sadistic side - would like to tighten the screws a bit.
[ In Reply To ..]Watch 'em squirm. Make 'em beg.
All that good stuff.
didn't work shift last night - North MT
[ In Reply To ..]Normally I work a split shift but I didn't work the night part. No notice, just didn't work. I know I just needed a night to think things through and decide where I go from here. And yes there was a critical backlog in place. Too damn bad. Loyalty should go both ways and I am tired of always being the one to work extra or switch my hours or help out on this account and then turn around to find ASR is getting cut or line rates are cut or out of work once again. It sure is nice to know MQ doesn't think I am worth more than they hired me at 10 years ago.
MQ - nina
[ In Reply To ..]I don't work for MQ, but I keep seeing posts about a bunch of horrible things they have been doing recently, so what exactly are they doing? And, this is a serious post/question, I am not being snide.
Scroll back a few months. Or years. Or decades. - NM
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I bet we know each other - sp
[ In Reply To ..]I worked for The MRC Group (under Sidney Franz) and then TL! Those were the good 'ol days. I'm in the same boat as you, praying someday they'll bring back the bonuses, pay raises, cost of living increases. I'm pretty such the Christmas Bonus envelope on our desks will forever just be a memory.
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