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Relation between offer for Tier III's to advance to MME - avoid being laid off??? - Wiscogirl

Posted: Apr 06, 2013

Remember the email we got from Corporate waiving the 90-day wait period to apply for advancement of Tier III's to MME and allowing til April 30 to do it? With all the lay offs going on, anyone think a bigger axe will fall once May 1 rolls around and the Tier III's that did not do this will be let go? From the way things look with all the lay offs, maybe this is one way to hang onto our jobs. Thoughts anyone?

I felt that way also. All the work will be shifted, and only - US MMEs will remain

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Sorry, but I am not selling my soul to edit for ILPs. They can fire me or lay me off, and I will move on from there. This job does not mean THAT much to me.

agree - mt2north

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I've felt that way since they came up with the MME position. I was an MME and tiered down because the pay wasn't worth the aggravation of the work coming through. I do believe more lay-offs are inevitable.

I have a feeling that's what the "All Hands" meeting - is about.

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I think they will complete their layoffs/firing by then, have offered the MME to whomever they're going to offer it to, then hold the All Hands meeting to discuss this new "organization." I'm only a tier 2 so I guess I'm gonna be on "the list."

I highly doubt it, considering they're - sm

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actively hiring cheap newbies & an MME below got laid off. I think it's just the opposite. Get as many experienced higher paid employees as possible to become MMEs and then completely eliminate that position in one fell swoop. It wouldn't be the first time they've done something similar. JMHO.

Amen!! - I refuse to clean up garbage

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For the ILPs who are taking my job. Screw that.

Oh, it would be such a great business move for MM to do that - for them not us

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Look at it this way. They get *2* sets of ears for the price of one.

You pay the Indian workers to do the initial garbage work for ____ pay ... then you get American MMEs to clean up the whole friggin mess for $0.03 cents a line (YES ... that is what I earn as an MME) so you get a near-complete document by 2 people for the cost that it takes ONE of us to produce right now.

Ha ... now that makes sense - anon

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In a way, that's already happening. I'm an MME too and 99% of the work I edit is from the Indian side. The interesting thing about your post, is that by the time it reaches me, it's already been through 3 or 4 "tiers" of their workers. I'm usually the "final stop" for the documents.

Exactly right - old and burned out

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The Indians are receiving only a fraction of a cent per line. That way, the dictation can go through many layers of QA before it gets to a US MME and they can still make more money than if they paid an American in the first place. I suspect though, that after a while there will not be enough competent US MMEs to correct all the garbage because younger MMEs will find other occupations. It will be interesting to see what happens to companies like MM and Nuance then. Hope all the hospitals take their work back and MM and Nuance go under.

My thoughts are - xx

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That it's futile. Nothing we do will change anything--with the possible exception that if we learn Hindi, it might help.

but they laid off at least one MME - this week

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The full time person who posted here was an MME, so it just doesn't make any sense at all. And there may have been others who did not post here.

Raising their standards - HavaHeart

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Anyone who has survived 20-30 years in this business knows, it takes years to get good at MT. It seems they are bringing this company to its knees by ignoring the tried and true experience over all this cheap labor that requires at lot of "cleanup." Why pay 4 people to get one document done when 1 person with the know how could do the job in 1 sweep? Are they not ignoring their loyal, devoted and steadfast MTs who have made this field their livelihood for 30 years? Sadly, this is what is causing the downfall of America.

I never received an email from corporate about this. - sm

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I'm a tier 3 MT. When was this email sent?

Will forward email - Wiscogirl

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Send me your email and I will forward to you.

MME not offered as part time - SM

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If I remember correctly, MME email was only for full-time positions.

I'm part-time so that's probably why I didn't get it. - Thank you.

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nm

Question: If all (or nearly all) U.S. MMEs were - to quit, what....(s/m)

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...would M*Modal do then? When all the U.S. MMEs either throw in the towel or "age out," will the MME work be done by Indian employees? They would need to be VERY well-versed in English, our idioms, American cities and businesses, etc.; and I think any Indian employee who could do a good-enough job at MME work would be following a different career path.

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