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It doesn't matter if we stop work, type one report a day, call in sick, because they have already overhired and they keep sending more and more work to India. They won't even notice that we have not logged on to work. Do it anyways, for yourself.
It will be a statement about ourselves, for ourselves. We matter. I care that I have lost my income from a job I once really enjoyed. I care that you cannot pay your bills and cannot afford to take a day off in support of making a statement. I care that after starting EMR your pay was cut in half and then half again. Mine was too. The other night I made $6.80 in an hour and a half editing reports. The same report that the same doctor dictates every day, and the VR/SR cannot get it right. Amazing.
When they are in their corporate offices, do you think they ever mention us? What do you think they call us? Do they call us MTs? Pump us up and call us editors? Workers? Peons? The morons? I bet we are just numbers. Lines edited. Lines transcribed.
Corporations' intent is money and profits, get it any way they can for themselves, their families, and it doesn't matter how they do it. That is their consciousness. Do you think Susan Whatever Her Name Is whose contract is on this website who makes $295,000 a year cares about you? She cares about her $295,000 plus bonuses, and those bonuses undoubtedly have to do with how much money she can create for the corporation based on having a lesser-paid Indian do the work and moving lines overseas.
They already stole our jobs, but you already know that. Do something in support of yourself.
I don't believe sticking around and hoping it gets better makes any sense. I don't think trying to make the best of it makes any sense. If the work ever did come back, they would not raise pay. I always knew that someone didn't want me making $26 an hour. When we would begin to create macros and templates and our lines counts would rise, and we would make good bonuses, the daily line count requirements would get higher and higher.
The deck has been stacked against us for years, it is just more egregious now as we end up on food stamps, collecting unemployment while employed, dip into our savings to make ends meet, sell everything off before losing it all, and change our living arrangements. I might say they won't be happy until we have lost it all, but they won't even notice. We are not on their radar, and again, we have already lost our jobs. They are gone and they are not coming back.
MTSOs have created an American third world class of workers, and that it us, and I think the best course of action is to leave these jobs, and leave them now.