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well, just got the dreaded QA submission for 2/28/10 period...sm - veryveryoldMQMT
Posted: Mar 31, 2010
Well, 18 year employee here. (PT for 10 years) came from TL which was GREAT company and then MQ bought out. I have very chronic illnesses that I absolutely cannot go and get an outside the home job. I, as stated, don't have a real problem with FTR, because frankly all of us MT/MEs who have done this job for any length of time should be doing our work correctly anyway. This is something I have always prided myself on, and yes it reflected my production rate (even though I am fast) because I took extra special time researching. I too have spent umpteen bucks on literature and software that would help my career, out of my pocket. Now today, and I suppose all of us got this sweet email from our CCMs. Your QA submission rate for period ending 2/28/2010 was blah blah blah. Please be aware that as of April 1 blah blah blah. Okay, here is what really bites me.... Since getting notice of the upcoming FTR, I DO NOT send anything to QA. Before every QA marker placed in a document was sent to QA, even though we did not ask it to be. Now, I like the fact we can send the document to client, because that is how it was originally with TL anyhow. If we had more than 3 blanks, then we were to send to QA, if not send directly to the client. I have never, in the 18+ years with this company been marked down or called on that my quality was bad. In fact, commended for it (not monetarily mind you). I don't bark loudly that I have not received a raise in over 10 years, only pay cuts. I have only 4 years to go for early retirement with SS. My health is very bad, and now getting worse. I don't have bennies because they were taken away when I had to go to PT because of my kidney disease. My hubby is already on disability, and it took him 3 years with NO PAY to even get it. Do you think I can go through that, when people are not getting disability who really need it. What a crock. I get so mad that becuase I do work and have since I was 14, I cannot get Social Services help. Our last baby graduated June 2009, we are empty nesters. NO children, so cannot get food stamps, a free cell phone, rent paid, Medicaid, and the list goes on. I suppose if I just quit then maybe so, but I don't want to be a nonproductive, tax paying citizen of this country. I love my God, I used to love my job at MQ and have been loyal even to this day, but now I am made to feel, as all of us are here in US we are but nothing and stupid. I saw those reports in Repository. THEY ARE HORRENDOUS!!! How can anyone who claims to be a conscientious MT let these type of flagrant errors through is an atrocity. I will continue to have pride in my work and think of our client/patients first always. So, go ahead MQ finish me off.... It is almost there. almost there....
dreaded QA submission - Nature
[ In Reply To ..]I am so sorry you and the rest of us have had to go through this with MQ. I really do know how you feel. Fortunately for me I turned 62 on Sunday, and so I CAN file for early retirement, but if I do, then I will lose out on $250 a month until I die. I too should be able to get SSI, but like you, I do not have those years that it takes to get on it. Please know that I care about you and your troubles, and I pray for all MQ MTs who are having trouble (which is probably most, but not all, of us) with our jobs and the stress we are under. No one really knows how much stress until they have been through it. I also pray for those MQ people who run MQ that their hearts will be softened towards those of us who make it possible for them to make all those big bucks, if that is possible. I don't know what is going to happen to me, but really anything has to be better than all this stress.
another long-timer - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I feel bad for all of us. I don't know what i'm going to do either. I have been with the company since they were called Transcriptions Limited. I have been loyal, low QA submissions, high scores, always work schedule, rolled with the constant change and disorganization, and now I'm disabled. There is a lot of red tape to go through, they make it so difficult to get compensation, let me tell you. I have 25 years until retirement, so I have to retrain for another career. I'm hoping something will go in my favor as I want to work, I'm not one to soak off the system. But when someone needs the system who has been paying into it so long, why is it such a headache? I have been working since age 14 also, my mother instilled an excellent work ethic in me and i'm proud of that, but where is the help when I work my fingers to the bone and can no longer do it? I'm lucky I have a husband who works. He is entry level and we cannot live on his income alone,but listen to his bennies: Three week vacations every year, 14 sick days, all recognized holidays off with pay, overtime is paid time and a half, 100% coverage with low monthly premiums for medical, and one personal "holiday" day a year. He asked his boss how in the heck they provide so many days off for their employees, and his boss says this: "We know how hard you work, and when you have days off, we want you to enjoy them, and get away, so when you come back, your fresh and productive." I'm so jealous, but I also know my God will provide for me in time, I have to hold onto that. I feel for all of us.
My husband has good benefits too, - uglygirl
[ In Reply To ..]but I have gotten to where I am jealous that he doesn't have to work as hard, makes a lot more money, gets lots of vacation, real sick days, and personal days. Isn't that awful to be jealous of his GOOD fortune!
mine too - lucky men
[ In Reply To ..]my hubby also gets 5 weeks of vacation a year, plus holidays paid, sick days, lunch twice a month, huge x-mas bonus and summer bonus ($1500 each!), and his boss actually compliments him!
In my next life, I am going to be a man!
QA Submission - 15+ exp
[ In Reply To ..]I also remember the "good ole days" when it was TL. At 2+ dollars a page and 0.07 for a GROSS line including headers and footers. Then I made a decent living. Went back to work for them once after a few years, and left soon after when the crappola started hitting the fan and all the good people left/were forced to quit. Then, all blanks had to be checked, period. When I did their editing/QA, I got disgusted later on at the quality and quit period (but not until I got them to fix my own medical record - news to me I'd had a mastectomy :-)
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