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Cancer Treatment Centers of America - Tulsa - Onc-MT

Posted: Dec 01, 2011

The transcription service company that had this account was great, doctors great, but the client has two problem employees that run the show and can make life pretty miserable. They want you to go by the AAMT BOS, but have hundreds of exceptions, which they do not inform you about. Each time you go by the BOS but it doesn't make them happy, they rant in emails with exclamation marks about how you have been told hundreds of times before, when you never have been told about this. I kept all QA and double checked this. I got fired because I was using two spaces between sentences, as I have all my life, and is still correct. They had no rule against this that I was aware of.

It is really a shame because other than the two problem employees, it was a great account!

For some reason - when some people get a little (sm) - roseinbloom

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authority...it literally goes to their heads and they become impossible to deal with.
As the old saying goes, A true person of great authority seeks to make himself small, while the person with no authority seeks to make himself great.

Better: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. NM - Scholar

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NM

I feel for you. That is just stupid, why not just tell you to put 1 space instead - of firing you, sm

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I know that it can be difficult to change from 2 spaces after a sentence to 1 as I always type 2 and when I had to type 1, caught myself all the time doing 2. I think that is the silliest reason ever to be fired!!! It is a shame. Who cares about the spaces. I pull up reports with all kinds of stupid crap typed in them that people should be let go for but are not. Go figure.

1 space instead of 2 - been there

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Unfortunately, this is becoming pretty common, to use only 1 space instead of 2 after a period and colon. The clients don't want to pay for spaces. They want to pay for as few characters as they can get away with. Those reports look terrible, very unprofessional. But the clinics and hospitals don't care. It's all about the almighty dollar to them.

I will never forget.... - OldTimerMT

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Back in the day (late 80s I think) when we first went from hourly wage to line count at the hospital where I worked, someone in management (can't recall who) came into the MT area (we had no department, just a room in the back of medical records) and with a big smile on their face went on and on about how "everyone loves it on line count -- and you get to SAVE KEYSTROKES if you only put one space after a period!" There was no way I was doing that because I had been trained all my life (even in high school typing class) to place 2 spaces after a period. I knew that it not only looked stupid but was more difficult to read/not as easy on the eye. Plus I wasn't STUPID and could see right through the adverse effect it would have on line count.

Then, in another state and about 10 years later, working in radiology as an MT the exact same thing happened, almost the same conversation! They never instructed us to only put 1 space, but they acted like it would be "great for US." Talk about having your intelligence insulted!

I agree, hate seeing 1 space, looks terrible and it is harder to read. - nm

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