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Here's a good one . . . most neurotic mtso you have ever worked for??? you don't have to - weird people out there nm

Posted: Apr 27, 2010

SORRY, NOT LOOKING FOR NAMES, JUST STORIES!!!! - weird people

Heres one: My first job, small transcription co. - owned by a neurotic and apparently - sm

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drug-addicted woman. She was always bouncing back and forth between telling us to "slow down and be more accurate", or shrieking at us to "speed up and produce more". I soon realized here "quantity" vs "quality" mood swings had to do with whether she'd taken her uppers or her downers that morning. If it was downers with a vodka chaser, she'd come in late, usually marginally groomed, and while slurring her words, tell us how important quality transcription was, and would point out out mistakes in front of everyone. It it was an upper day, she charged into the office at full gallop, usually carrying all sorts of folders with papers falling out of them, with a wild look in her eyes. As she richocheted off the ceilings and the walls, she'd be alternately making phone calls to backlogged clients, and yelling at us to go "faster, faster!"

The last straw for me was one day when NO speed was the right speed. First thing in the morning, she came to my desk and said she was going to lose my account if I didn't type faster, and if she lost the account, I'd lose my job.

About 2 hours later, the phone rang, and when she hung up, she came to my desk and threw everything I'd done on the floor, and started screaming about some complaint the client had just made. "You're going too FAST!" she yelled, "Slow DOWN!!!"

My desk was situated in a room adjacent to the front room where her desk was. Fortunately my desk faced out the window, with my back to her. But I could FEEL her glaring at me from the next room. Soooo, not giving a you-know-what anymore, I spent the rest of the afternoon typing my reports with ONE FINGER, hunt-and-peck style. She finally turned all red and looked like a giant pimple that was just about to explode. She same in and screeched, "Why are you DOING that?!" and I said, "Well, you told me to SLOW DOWN, so I'm just being extra-careful".

So then she says, "Get out! You're FIRED!" To which I replied, "That works for me." Got in my car and drove straight to my State Labor Board, where I filed suit for the raise she had supposedly given me about 6 months back, but which had somehow never made it to my paycheck. Not only did I get my money, but they also uncovered a bunch of other little bookkeeping "indiscretions", and she was put out of business. About 2 months later, I heard "through the grapevine" that she had ended up in a psych ward, where she should've been all along.

I love you for that story, thank you! - GigglingMT

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Honestly, you told that so well I could envision every little and LOVED it. What a hilarious experience to look back on and giggle about!

Thanks for sharing that, seriously, it made my night a little lighter!

And just think! Those were the "good old days" of MT! - It was mostly all downhill from there. nm

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great story! - nm

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This story is so funny, it's almost sad!!! nm - Serious

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And she is now CEO of.... - J

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Fill in MTSO of your choice!

Crazy supervisors - I know how you felt

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I worked for a place for quite a few years and went through 4 supervisors while I was there. The last one, who we all agreed should not type, would go into reports and make changes. I used to e-mail the owner and tell him she should not be typing. She put cabbage in my report in place of CABG, among a dozen other things in one single report. I was LIVID. When the owner called her into the office and asked her about it (he was not an MT and probably did not realize how bad it was), she said "my spell check wasn't on." Holy cow. They never did "let her go," so I finally had to quit. Every time they would get a new account, she would work on it before they agreed to sign us on, and they never could land any accounts while she was there, and I know that is why. It's hard making a concern known to owners or higher-ups because supevisors have the ability to make you look like you are being petty or have a grudge when they have day-to-day contact with the higher-ups, although since she is not there anymore I assume they figured it out. I loved that place - wish I wouldn't have had to quit because of her - but I couldn't take it anymore. She was embarrasing me.

Thats how too many companies get rid of the crazies - in their ranks: PROMOTE them to management.

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Here' s my story - me

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When I first started in this business it was WAY back when you still worked in the MTSO office and used tapes. My manager thought she was gorgeous and would swish around the office. One day she flipped out at work and the white coats came and got her. The assistant, who took her place was an alcoholic. She would go to lunch and the joke was not to light a match around her. She would be out for a week at a time and not call the local office or the home office. We had a small kitchenette area and if someone didn't wash and put away their dishes she would wash them and lock them in her desk. I had a key because I was in charge when she wasn't there, so I would just go get everyone's stuff. She was finally fired when the backlog got to 7000 minutes and no one in the home office knew. Upper management finally stepped in and promised us the next manager would be an MT - she wasn't. We think she was doing the owner's son-in-law at one time and he needed to get rid of her. I complained that she wasn't an MT, never had been, and she said she could type and her English was good and she believed she could help out if she needed to. Her grammar was bad and she didn't even know how to turn on the computer. The office ended up closing because no one was taking care of business and the main account fired them. The manager had to move back home and live with mom and dad because she couldn't find a job. I thought she proved how good she was and I didnt/still don't feel bad that not only did she lose her job, but that the company had to close an office. I think they are still in business, though most people probably have never heard of them, unless they've been in the business a long time.

That was great! LOL... I totally understand your - description of the "swisher" - sm

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I used to have to work under a "swisher" once. She wasn't an MT, she was an x-ray tech who had recently been promoted to Chief X-ray Tech. As soon as she got the promotion, she no longer wore scrubs to the office and actually took x-rays. She rarely did anything except bark at everyone all the time. Everyone hated her. She'd come to work in the morning, dressed to the nines in expensive clothes and spike heels, and would sit on a stool in the main area of the x-ray department, sipping her latte and reading the Wall Street Journal. She kept coming into my office and wanting to "borrow" my typewriter all the time, even when I was actively working. I'd come back to find my margins all changed, my typewriter ribbon used up, and food crumbs all over my papers. I finally started removing the carriage whenever I left the office, and locked it in my desk drawer. Finally we got rid of her one day, though unfortunately it wasn't how most of us would've liked. In fact it worked out even better for the snooty tech. One day after work, she walked into the employees' garage, and got hit by a car. And not just ANY car. It was a DOCTOR's car. The last I heard was, with the settlement she got, she bought herself a huge ranch up north - hundreds of acres. She's probably still sitting up there on the front porch of her rambling ranch-style home, sipping mint juleps or more lattes, and still reading the Wall St. Journal. We all hope she gets "et by a grizzly-barr" some day.

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