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Constant complaining...? - Valentina

Posted: Jan 07, 2013

I just have to ask, in all sincerity, why does everone on here just bash all of these services to death? I have rarely found a good word from people about the places that they've worked for. You mean no one has had an enjoyable moment at any of these companies?? It just seems very odd to me that this is the way this board is run....

Is this really the case....that ALL of these services are garbage? Come on....There has to be some service that is a decent service to work for...right??

Yes, they're all garbage. All the formerly good ones - have been bought out by the garbage.

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Most of us currently working for the garbage are either:

A) New to the field, and don't know they're being taken advantage of.

B) Longer-term employees who are still around because they haven't yet found a way to escape.

I can only speak for mine... - Nuance

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And it is garbage pay.

Luckily, I don't depend on it and have another job.

well.... - Valentina

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I've been in this field for 10 years so I hear you and feel the same way to a degree about this field, but it's very disheartening to hear so much negativity when I'm on a new job search due to Epic potentially eliminating my hospital position.

Well...just so this world doesn't seem so cynical and negative, can anyone name the good services to work for and good experiences that they've had in the recent past?

It depends on which route you go. - sm

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If you go huge national, I think you'll be disheartened even more when you experience it for yourself as a new hire especially coming from a hospital. There is hardly any training and they all pay peanuts and want 2nd or 3rd shift that is if and when they even have work after all the offshoring they do on a whim.

It is hard to explain what is good or bad as you may be one that wants straight typing or one that wants VR or one that wants midnight shift. There are just so many variables.

Your best bet in all honesty is to try to post out of your department into a different section of your hospital and stay there. These companies do not offer much in the way of benefits and make it awful hard to maintain any type of quota to even keep the offered benefits.

There is a lot to think about for you, but if you must know, yes, the MTSOs treat MTs like crap and that is obvious all across these boards and every day a new post pops up yet with a different company that has either dropped the pay or has no work.

All in all, find a job as a secretary or another MT job close to your home and save yourself the bother.

Hope your job search goes well - Anon

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If you are going to stay in the field, then you will probably end up at one of these companies that people keep complaining about. I hate to say this, but you are probably going to have to find out for yourself why so much negativity.

If you find a good place to work, more than likely they will be bought out by some other company. It's what's been happening especially over the last year.

The pay is lower than low and we have to work longer and longer hours to maintain some sort of paycheck to be able to pay our bills.

I don't know what you are making right now as far as money, but don't be surprised if you get hired on at one of these MTSO and at the end of the year you only make $20,000 or less . . .

It's hard to be positive when they whack you in the pocketbook and think nothing of it while people are literally losing their homes, cars, etc.

If you want to see positive posts... you can always - check the archives

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There used to be plenty of them before India and VR really took over. The last MTSO I was happy with and paid well by was Heartland back in 05 to 06. I thought they were pretty decent. You can also look in the archives at what happened to them.

Maybe there's an offshore MT board you can check out if you want to hear warm fuzzy happy sunshine stories about companies.

Good luck.

Happy campers don't advertise it - YogiBooBoo

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1. They are called liars, "suits," or idiots who don't know they are being used and abused.

2. They are besieged with responses/emails asking for contact info so the sad sacks can bombard the good employers with job-begs.

3. They are busy working at a job they like and for which they are paid well. No time or desire to crow about it.

Possibly maybe not all are - garbage.

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but I have applied to quite a few over the years and even if everything else was wonderful about them, the pay scale now is atrocious. Apparently there are some mythical "good companies" out there, but like UFOs, the Holy Grail or Eldorado, no one has of yet offered concrete proof of their existence.

As far as complaining, who else do most of us have to complain to? My cats just get up and leave whenever I start to gripe! LOL.

LOL. cats and dogs sm - cats&dogs

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Loved your post! Thanks for the chuckle. My dogs will usually stick around to listen while my cats are not very sympathetic. As a rule, I've found my cats to be much more intelligent than my dogs, but love them both. ROFL

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