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Medical Transcription Week - Jovi_Lady_CMT

Posted: May 21, 2011

I really used to look forward to and loved planning and participating in MT Week. After all, it is my CHOSEN career and I really love what I do. However, these past four or five years, being employed by a MTSO, and especially this past week, MT week, I have never felt so unappreciated in my entire career life. I have literally works my b@lls off this week (Yes, I am female), putting in extra time, helping set up a new account, providing 100% QA where no QA protocol is in place at all for the particular speciality in which I transcribe, and get an e-mail from my manager's manager that my efforts have not gone unnoticed. Not that I did it for attention, I swear, that is not my motive. But after having put in five, 14-hour days, I have to ask. Where's mine? I keep looking at myself in the mirror, wondering when the "doormat" was stamped across my forehead. How did I let this happen, after I said "never again" the last time? Well, I mean it this time! And, no, now that I've expressed this, I do not feel better; I feel much worse. At this point, I have to ask myself if it's worth it, and I don't know. I really don't. I am the only one who can make a change if I'm not happy, but I don't know how I feel. Numb is a good way to put it. I'm tired.

MT WEEK - Alice

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I hear you! I feel the same. I work for a company that, at week's end, is boohooing because their client is complaining that we have not worked long and hard enough to keep up with their bad dictators, and some reports are sitting as long as 24 hours without being completed (can you imagine? An entire 24 hours!). Of course, those jobs that are submitted as high priority do get top priority handling.

Anyway, the MTSO is pretty much demanding that all MT staff (all ICs) work extra this weekend. If the IC already is scheduled to work 8 hours today, he/she is expected to work 12 or more. Actually, it seems to me that they would prefer that the MT work 20 hours or so, take a short nap, and return to work another 20.

At the end of MT week, I am amazed that this same company could not take the time to even send out a "HAPPY MT WEEK" email to the MTs who they are now begging to work like machines.

I feel the same as you; never have I felt so unappreciated and used. Frankly, I'm used up.

I also agree that we teach people how to treat us, and I am determined to at least set limits where my own work is involved. I do not trust that anyone else will join me. I will not launch a strike in which I am the only one because, as the only one striking, I will be regarded simply as some kind of a lunatic or an MT who has totally lost her mind, at which time, I would likely be fired, become homeless, etc.

MT Week - Jovi_Lady_CMT

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The company did a few things; made this big to-do about choosing MT of the Year. Plus, they drew 50 names per day of supposedly only MTs and gave away spa baskets, chocolate baskets, and coffee/tea baskets, and a 42" flat screen TV. But that was it and looking at the names that were drawn daily...AS IF anyone would know anyone; they could be fictitious made up names for all we know, just so the company can continue to stroke their ego and make themselves look good. Hey, COMPANY, even though we are just MTs, we are not stupid. We know what the stock is worth. We know you have more money than God. It would not hurt for you to really show appreciation to your MTs. After all, without them, there would be no company. It would be nice to have continuing education reimbursement, pay annual dues to AHDI for those of us who belong to the association, acknowledge those of us who do belong to AHDI and also acknowledge those of us who take personal time out of our lives to become credentialed and who maintain that credial (CMT or RMT). What ever happened to production bonuses? What ever happened to having fun while you worked? I remember those days, why not bring them back. The morale on several teams that I am aware of is so low, I don't know how some MTs can bear to work each day, especially with certain supervisors who don't have a clue as to what is going on under their noses. I am lucky, though, I have a wonderful supervisor and a halfway decent team, with only one team member who goes out of her way to not play by the rules and gets away with it, but I would rather have this problem than another team I know who has so many problems, it's a tug-of-war daily to force yourself to work. But, when all is said and done, I love my chosen career. It's my niche, my second skin, my life, like the air I breathe. I am an M.T. Correction, C.M.T. That means more to me than anything.

MT WEEK - roybrit

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I work for a major metroploation hospital. I am a transcriptionist in Pathology. They make abig production of celebrating Lab Week and do not celebrate MT Week, because "we are a part of the laboratory." This year we decided to celebrate ourselves for MT week We had a cake made of the annual MT Week poster and one made to resemble our old Lanier dictaphone. We each ordered sandwiches from outside, played a couple of games. We passed the poster around the lab for everyone to write a note about transcription and from those names, we drew names to give 10 people $5 gift cards to the coffee shop. After our activities, we offered ice cream and cake to the whole department. It was amazing. We even invited our supervisor who had as much fun as we did. IF NO ONE ELSE SEEMS APPRECIATIVE, APPRECIATE YOURSELVES.

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