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Bullying Bosses-New Criminal Laws - BeenThere

Posted: Jul 22, 2010

Below is the link to a TIME Magazine article, which details new laws being put into place to finally crack down on bullying bosses, criminalizing their abusive treatment toward employees. It's about time! The article could very well have been aimed at any number of MTSO's who have screamed, swore, berated, threatened, and even physically abused us. During the past seven years of an "employer's market" economy, bullying employers have gotten away with anything short of murder, because we were all afraid of losing our jobs. Finally, the tide is turning.

Click on the first link to read the TIME article. Click on the second link to enter the AFL-CIO Bad Boss web contest , by anonymously posting your bully boss 'horror stories'.... authors of the best stories win well-earned week-long vacation trips.

Those of us who worked for a certain Chicago suburban MTSO have so many nightmare stories, that it will be difficult to decide which of hundreds to post.

Read, vent, enjoy !

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100721/us_time/08599200535800

http://workinprogress.blogs.time.com/2007/07/26/lousy_boss_vent_then_act/

Bullying bosses - working MT

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An MTSO physically abused you? How is that possible when you work at home and they are somewhere else?

Worked 3 days a week at the office, Sherlock. - BeenThere

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Been there - Working MT

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And your boss physically abused you? How so?

screamed, swore, berated, threatened, AND even physically abused us - literate

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your focus is WAY off here!!

literate - Wondering

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Why didn't you call the police? Physical abuse is a FELONY.

Uggghhh pay attention!!! - literate

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I was simply pointing out that the o.p. did not say JUST physical abuse!!! I am JUST POINTING THAT OUT!! The o.p. was sharing information....she never said "I" or "me." I also NEVER said "I" or "me." It never hurts to slow down and read what is being said before replying.

FYI: Read the posts before replying. You assumed... it wasn't me. - BeenThere

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Sorry...easy mistake to make since you said it happened to "us" and "we" - were afraid to act. nm

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bullying bosses - Dewglo

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I have worked for nothing but bullying bosses in the MT market; not afraid to name them either: Transcend, Edix, HealthScribe, who didn't even have the guts to admit they were Indian run/based after making you fly to Sterling, Virginia for training to meet the Indians running it, Digital Records who was decent until it got bought out by Avesis, and finally, Trans Tech Medical in Houston, who iced the cake on finishing out my MT career. I hope these laws do begin to apply to the MT business. It is far too long that the MTSOs, hospitals, doctors, and other professionals in the medical field have lorded it over the individual MTs who have to put up with the slave trade we call medical transcription. Power to the MTs. Let the revolt begin.

Im sick of bully bosses and companies. I am - so, so, SO ready to revolt!

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And how about bullying QA managers? - s/m

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Acusis really wins the grand prize, in that department. A.H., their quality control manager, is the worst be-@tch I've ever worked under. Miss a comma, and she threatens to lop off your head. That hag has a major bee up her butt 365 days a year. She alone is probably responsible for more MT defections than anything else in that company, even more than their mostly-ESL accounts.

If that Chicago suburb was Lake Bluff - I hear ya! nm

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