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That's it, MT has become entirely too degrading! - sm
Posted: Jul 22, 2013
I've been reading posts for the past couple of years on people saying they are getting out of MT. I didn't have a huge list of complaints, I have had to leave and start quite a few jobs over the past few years, but I've still always gotten paid pretty good. But now, I've decided, that's it, I'm getting out, I don't care what job I have to do. The MT profession has become so degrading that I cannot stand it another second. It is bad enough that doctors dictate "wrong" according to the facility and we, MTs, have to correct what they say, instead of politely asking the doctor to do it this way for the facility.
I am also sick and tired of QA audits. I am tired of feeling like I'm being judged every single day I'm at work. The company I work for does random QA audits on all employees, maybe 2 or 3 reports per week. Today, I had a random audit. I had a 20-minute dictation from an ESL doctor, who ALSO was mumbling, answering the phone, background music playing, just a dictation from heck. I struggled through the thing, took longer on it than I should have, didn't get paid pennies for it and it was a random QA audit. I didn't get one single medical term wrong, but do you know what I did??? I missed a COMMA!! I get a very rude email from QA telling me the proper positioning of commas and advising me to read the BOS and going so far as to say I should have known better. I DO know better, I have been transcribing for 20 years, but pardon me while I was deciphering the man's jumbled way of pronouncing medications that I missed a comma!! Why not an email that said "Great job, by the way you missed a comma" I mean, what would be so wrong with that?
I'm done though, thou shalt degrade me no longer.
I will never understand the - business model
[ In Reply To ..]that strives to make the employees feel like so much worthless garbage. I now just ignore the ridiculous audits. They should be grateful to have workers who are even half as good as me (or is it I?).
Yes and this babysitting the computer waiting for work is also - PAMT
[ In Reply To ..]degrading. It is very irritating when they decide to overload the accounts and there you are waiting on work that flies out the door as soon as it hits the dictating system. Give me a break.
Their "business model" is to get rid of all US - MTs, without paying us UE. nm
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Had it too - MT Too
[ In Reply To ..]I agree totally. I was on an account that I never, ever got a correction for the dictation, but all of the stupid demographic stuff that we aren't paid for by the way. No matter what I did, it was wrong. I guess those clerks actually had to look something up! I told the woman I work for, take me off the account, as she sent me a rather threatening e-mail that she was considering taking me off the account because of my multitude of errors. I will just have to make due with what I have and spend less and you know what, I am just fine. No more with the snarky e-mails about things that we should not even have to do in the first place. Rock on sistas! This line of work is so long gone, it isn't even funny, but I will hang onto what I have as it is a good account and English speaking doctors only; yeah, freaky! When this gone, so am I. I apply for food stamps!
I'd be interested to know if that's even legal - - to threaten, or dock pay, or - sm
[ In Reply To ..]cut off bonuses, benefits, or whatever, for so-called "mistakes" in work that we AREN'T PAID FOR. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's something grossly wrong with that picture.
If the work (demographics) aren't PAID work for us, then it shouldn't even be relevant, and not our responsibility to get correct. The people who DO get paid to enter that data in the first place (the nurses? hospital intake clerks? or???) are the ones who should ultimately be responsible for it being entered correctly, NOT the MT.
I've been there 5 times in the last 3 years. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Its ridiculous now. QA seems desperate to find any small mistake to look like they are working and its ridiculous now. I strongly believe that MT is going to be nearly gone if not completely gone soon. There won't be anymore clinic work at all and hospital work will, for the most part, be shipped overseas. I've been watching the changes for 20 years and its only kept going one direction. Its time to get out.
The whole comma thing is such a joke. If we, - MTs who do this for a living, (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]"don't know" exactly where to place a every single blessed time, do they REALLY think the docs or PA's (and ESL ones, at that!) are going to know or care? Pffft! If for some unlikely reason that patient's medical case ended up in a court of law, I seriously doubt the prosecuting or defending attorneys or the jurors are going to know, either! And, unless they get an exceptionally good one, it's not likely even the court reporter is going to be 100% sure where that stray or missing comma truly belonged.
It's all such a load of u-know-what, and they're doing it for ONE purpose, and ONE purpose, only: To have "reasons" to pick us and our work apart, to the point where we throw our hands up in disgust and QUIT.
I'm all for quitting, but not until I have another job lined up - something I have yet to be able to do after close to 3 years of looking. So, if they want me, or others like me, GONE, then they're gonna have to man up and fire us, so we can collect that UE they so desperately don't want to pay us. Otherwise, I think they should just deal with those "dreadful" missing commas while we continue to work for them.
Don't you just HATE these MTSO idiots? I know I sure do.
I don't know of any other line of work that (sm) - JavaMT50
[ In Reply To ..]treat their workers the way MTs are treated. I think the whole thing of working for with these .com companies is they do not have to see us face-to-face so they feel they can treat us like we are all a bunch of idiots.
And the dreaded Book of Style!!!! - OldMT
[ In Reply To ..]What's worse is getting this comment...."Please refer to BOS 3rd edition, we no longer do it like that". Are you freaking serious???? MTs are expected to know how to pronounce medications better than the doctor, know every single lab value and the list goes on and on, but you are going to complain because a BOOK OF STYLE decided that the rules of comma placement, which we all learned in basic school has changed? Can you imagine being in court and a judge saying..."Oh no, they used the wrong Book of Style edition for that comma placement....off with the MTs head!" These MTSOs are flat out ridiculous and most QA are on a power trip of some sort.
I agree. The dropping of the apostrophe was stupid, too. nm - mtwith6yearstogo
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I don't even own a BOS anymore. Had the CD, - never used it, so threw it away! NM
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you just want to say - hey auditor
[ In Reply To ..]If you're so good, you type it.
How About - Addison
[ In Reply To ..]When one QA person says it's one way, and another QA person says it's the opposite.
There's one QA person who picks apart every file that I send to QA for a blank or a question, yet the others very rarely change ANYTHING. Mind you, I just got a 99.9% on my quarterly assessment, so I think I know where the problem lies. LOL
I've had the same problem with QA's not being - (sm) - MTBankAccount
[ In Reply To ..]on the same page. One says one thing, the other says the opposite. I've taken to cutting my losses by splitting the difference, and typing 50% of the reports the way QA #1 says to do it, and 50% the way QA #2 says to do it. Haha- if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em!
What the MTSOs don't understand......... - MTLA
[ In Reply To ..]Newspapers, magazines, etc., have a proofreading department that reads over every article, more than once, before it is published. That is because we are HUMAN. You can have an English professor write a report and without a proofread there is more than likely going to be at least one mistake, especially of punctuation. These MTSOs pay us so low these days that we honestly cannot afford to re-read the document and look for errors, so they will always find some, no matter how good the MT is.
I think they understand it well enough to use it - as a means of building a "case" against us. NM
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it became degrading long time ago. Where you been? - NM
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