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What companies recognize the value of experience? - I get same line rate as a newbie.

Posted: Aug 27, 2013

When I do a job - whether editing SR or straight transcription - it often demands the years of experience that I have in order to resolve the problems and ambiguities that prevent the job from having multiple blanks and going on "hold". For instance, I know how to rapidly formulate Web queries in order to find AUTHORITATIVE documentation regarding new equipment, new drugs, etc. I know how to make the subtle changes in the grammar of ESL dictators so that their dictation doesn't turn into a pig's breakfast. I can recognize drugs that are mispronounced - and how to verify that my interpretation is correct from the context of the report.

Very, very, VERY few of my jobs go on hold because I have the ability, the skill and the KNOWLEDGE required to resolve the difficulties that they present.

And yet, I get the same line rate as if I had just graduated from one of the phony-baloney MT schools and was putting every other job on hold.

This makes me puke.

I agree with you 100% - workedtodeath

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I wonder what would happen if all MTs decided to quit on the same day.

I'll tell you what would happen. - Line rates would go up - immediately.

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The MTSO's get away with this for only one reason - because they CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.

And why can they get away with it? Because there isn't a single pair of cajones in the house, that's why. Gutless, gutless women.

The new MTs would just jump on it. - sm

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They have a hard time getting a job PERIOD, so they would LOVE to have anything. We could refuse to work, but the newbies would do it.

Wouldn't that be ball-less, ball-less women? LOL - sm

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This may be secondary income for you, but it's my only bread and butter, so I don't have the luxury of just up and quitting to prove my possession of gonads or not, tyvm.

Suggestion for you - sm

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Instead of harassing and insulting the people here, why don't you grow a pair and take the initiative?

Oh, sorry I forgot, it's easier for you to be a troll.

Oh, I agree. And just flappin' them lips all over the place. - Love MTs who hate MTs...

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or is that women?

Someone needs a Hallmark moment, fast.

COjones not CAjones! - Please..

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I am constantly seeing this being misspelled lately on this board and it is like fingernails going down a chalkboard!

love the name of this restaurant - sm

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http://c-o-jonesct.com/

Great idea - Now

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Letâ��s stop work and see what happens. I understand you donâ��t want to quit because you will not collect UE or you are sole support. Be creative in your excuses of why you couldnâ��t log on.

We wait for work. Let them wait for us to start work. We have spent years training the speech wreck and training the Indians how to do our work. Letâ��s do our own beta test and see how prepared they are. Letâ��s see what they do. Letâ��s see how TAT is affected and see how good the quality is coming out of India with no US support. Bet Nuance will change from 99% to â��good enough.â�� Affect patient care? We are not direct care providers. The direct patient care providers should be able to handle a computer hiccup. They have a contingency plan in place for outages. Itâ��s called paper documentation and talking to each other.

Our lives have been disrupted for years. Disrupt theirs. The sooner we start the more unprepared they will be. Read this and participate immediately to the extent you are comfortable. Whether itâ��s an hour or two, half a day, all day, or a couple of days. Timing it with their requests for extra help may not be enough, but a place to start.

If we continue to take it, they will continue to dish it .

strike, not quit - RS

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The problem is we don't have a union. We need to somehow organize one, and strike.

Granted, nursing and medical technician unions are being exterminated as we speak, but that's happening on a regional basis, and those Wal-Mart employees were still able to organize a strike.

What companies recognize the value of experience? - ep

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I have always wondered this too. I got the position that I have now working for a surgeon being self taught, no books etc. I have worked for him for 3 years plus and am doing better than I probably would have done through a school. I also have 6 months worth of VR experience that I would love to be able to use but can't because the minimum seems to be 1 year. What gives??

Employers - can

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pretty much do what they want. The economy is bad and we are lacking jobs in the US, so everyone is fighting over the ones that are left here. They can lower wages, require degrees for simple office work, be as picky as they want. Until something is done to keep the jobs here, this will continue.

What gives? - Old Pro

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What gives is that employers want people with a proven track record and education. Would you want a self-taught lawyer, mechanic or neurosurgeon? I would not hire you with your credentials. No insult intended, but you do need an education to do MT. No MTSO is doing to look at the resume twice of someone who has no education. Sorry, that's the state of the industry.

Another use for your experience - sm

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You can put that experience to good use in learning another job. Health information technology or health information administration use it. HIA, in particular, pays much better.

It will also help in learning coding, which comprises about a year of an HIT program, so is a good stepping stone to it.

Just a suggestion. That was my solution to the problem.

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