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Well I've been reading about it. Looks like it might happen in my neck of the woods now. I work in a radiology department in a hospital where I get a semi-decent hourly wage plus incentive pay and it turns out to be a pretty decent job for me. We are short-staffed due to the inability to find qualified help or even just "trainable help" these days.
I just got word that if we cannot keep up with our workload, it will be outsourced. My boss just told me within the last six months and stressed to me that this WOULD NOT happen at OUR hospital because the doctors wanted to keep the work here. We have a couple of radiologists who will absolutely blow a gasket if they get the quality of reports that I've read about from outsourced work. And I'm not talking about some of the more conscientious smaller companies..you know who I'm referring to.
I am expecting a baby in the next four months, the father has decided he wants to wash his hands of us and I MUST have this job to survive. I've been driving back and forth an hour each way for almost a year now because this is a much better job than I can find in the small town where I live. I am taking another course in a totally different career field but I don't expect to finish that in the next six months or so. I don't know how long this change will take or if they will just walk in one day and say "Bye everyone!". I'm just so frustrated. Sorry for the rant, but this has been a good career for me for more than 10 years now and I'm afraid I'm watching it go right down the drain. And I have no other skills. I didn't think I needed them because this WAS a good field at one time.