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AHDI strikes again - BeenThereMT

Posted: Nov 02, 2012

I was looking for the BOS, 3rd edition. This only comes in the book format and on-line yearly subscription. It does not come on a CD-ROM. So, at the yearly price of $30, they charge you over and over again for something that we all know won't be updated until they decide to present the 4th edition. What a bunch of scam artists.

I guess I'm stuck with a book -- how archaic.

Another validation for my having dropped my membership to this group that just doesn't get what it's members need.

I could not agree with you more - Leaving MT

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I was disgusted when I found out that the only way to get a digital version of the 3rd BOS was through a yearly subscription. I never have purchased the 3rd edition because of that. I don't need another hard copy book cluttering up things, plus the digital search is so much more efficient than having to pick up a book and look through it. Thirty dollars a year for the BOS??? Are they nuts? They must think we are the dumbest, most gullible people on the planet. Oh, wait, we're MTs working for pennies a line. Maybe we are that dumb.

I'm wondering if... - See Msg

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...the online subscription would include updates as they come along. In any case, if the company we work for requires we know all this stuff as it comes along, they should pay for our subscription.

yeah...like that will ever happen.... - anon

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these companies expect you to have all of the tools necessary to do your job and that includes the BOS. If they had to pay for the BOS, they would have to pay for your computer, your internet connection, your keyboard, etc. Not gonna happen. Besides, they change the BOS every year so that you HAVE to purchase another one just to keep updated...it is a scam for sure!

They Used To... - Pay for things

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They used to supply the computer, keyboard, headset, foot pedal, and YES, Internet when they switched from the old-fashioned dial-up software to DQS which needed high-speed. Back then, I really didn't mind buying my own books or CDs, actually. And I was actually making money, so I considered a lot of it as part of my investment in my career and I felt it was benefit to me. I don't feel that way anymore.

I don't buy much in the way of books anymore, except for my Quick Look Drug Book.

They used to even pay us to transcribe. Now they - dont do that, either. nm

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I just tell my employers I have the book. But I don't. - Why bother? QA never sticks to - SM

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anything those books say for more than a week, anyway, then they move on to some other "standard".

But I'm sorry - I don't care how adamantly these MTSOs demand we "own the BOS". I refuse to support a scam outfit like AHDI.

Pay to play - TMSOA

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The AHDI is a self-serving pay-to-play organization, much like the BBB. If they had any real leadership skills, they would demonstrate it in the arena where local MTs are getting beat - and that is in the field of technology. The fact that they are visibly archaic is in-of-itself proof that they are wasting your membership funds.

this is one difference, tho. I believe the BBB. - NM

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