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A nice, refreshing (NOT!) dip into the cesspool - for me tonight! sm


Posted: Aug 08, 2010

Only now they call it a helper pool! Just about every report is from a new, unfamiliar hospital! Yay! Plus, my computer is doing that slowing down/stuttering thing that people were talking about yesterday! What my luck! I do so love my job (did I really say that?). Ugh

I'm getting a helper pool of Spheris accounts! - what are they thinking

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guess my accounts are being pushed to go to India, although it would not surprise me at all if my accounts were in turn given to former Spheris employees. That would make a lot of sense. NOT!

work load - kminpa

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I must say as a former Spheris MT, I am surprised none of my other MTs are speaking up, we are in the same boat as the MQ MTs. Since the bankruptcy I have seen the 3 teams under my supervisor shrink down to one half, possibly one-third the size. The 3 teams combined don't equal what my team used to on a low day. We too are getting squeezed out. It is a scary sad time we are in right now and I think we need to realize it is not Spheris MTs against MQ MTs....

You got me beat -- I don't have a clue how - anon

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big my team is. Could be 10 of us or 1000. I have no idea. Never been told anything about the group I work with.

I posted about the Spheris accounts - not blaming former

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Spheris employees at all. It's not your fault. Just trying to figure out what's going on.

work load - willy

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I am a former Spheris employee. At first, I thought MQ MTs were getting all of our jobs, but on reading this forum I see that it's pretty much the same problem across the board. I work part time now and I have to spread my hours over 8 hours a day just to get 4-5 hours' worth of work in with this low work load.

are you working on the Spheris platform? - sm

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Unless you've been cross-trained and are now working on the Spheris platform, doubtful you're seeing "Spheris" accounts in the helper pool.


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