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Attitude adjustment - anony

Posted: May 11, 2015

I DREAD Monday's. Coming back to see yet mandatory OT. I am so tired. It's all I can do to sit here 8 hours a day and now 9 or more. I try to be positive but when I see the jobs I get, forget it.

Same &*%#, different day.

Wish we could get the doctors to care. It would be great if the sound quality would improve. Static on line, turning away from mike, etc. I am losing my hearing fast. Turn the volume all the way, barely audible. Next report, blow out your ear drums. Wish the IT people would have to put up with this.

I am so frustrated because there is absolutely NOTHING I can do to improve the situation. It seems like every day is no better than the last.

I envy those who are getting 250 lines plus. With my accounts, such is not the case for me. I agree with previous posters when they say tier 3 MTs get crap accounts. Wondering if it is possible to drop down to a 2 and how much pay would be cut.

Looking for a fairy godmother to help me. HA!

Take to drink another cup of coffee and wake up to reality.

I agree - done

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Me too. When I've been off for a while, I try to adjust my attitude, say it's the best thing for now, just hang in there. That is...UNTIL I log on for the next shift. I've miserable from the 1st job. Each second is agony. I, too, want to go back to Tier 2. There must not be many tier 3's anymore. I just get more and more op notes every day, which are the worst, fastest. So many accounts. Ugh. Started as Tier 1, now 3, and nothing to show for it but harder work, lower pay.

Agree, made a fortune as tier 1 - sm

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Typing ER reports all day long..I can do them in my sleep and at least they aren't the same thing day in and day out.

I've never understood the whole tier thing anyway... - dramatized

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There's no tier training in MT school, right? We all learned by doing, why should anyone be exempt from learning how to do a specific worktype? I think it's more a matter of what someone is willing to do, not what they are capable of. As far as I'm concerned it's a form of cherry-picking.

If I were the boss - sm

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I would take a survey and match people up with what they like to do, happy employees are productive employees after all..I hate OR reports, but as a tier 3, that is pretty much all I get. Wish I could drop back

I would love your OP reports. I could type them - 24/7 and be in heaven doing only those. NMthem

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Heck yeah. Back in the day, when I took - sm

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an acute care position as a newbie, I learned the hard way as I went. It was a stressful couple of years & it took a while to get my speed up & not have to look up everything, but I learned it all as I went & did everything everybody else was doing. This new way is simply not fair.

I am a tier 3 and have great accounts - LDSMT

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I don't think the misfortune of getting crap accounts has anything to do with what tier a person is. I'm pretty sure it is just the luck of the draw. I thank my lucky stars everyday for my accounts and if ever forced to change will quit in a heartbeat.

MModal tiers - kcmt

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When I first started at MModal several hundred years ago, I understood the whole tier thing to be as follows:

Tier 1 was for new graduates and less experienced MTs OR those who chose to work at this level. As an MT gained experience, they could "level up" to become a Tier 2 and Tier 3. Tier 3 MTs were given the most difficult reports (OR reports with the 10,000 different kinds of trocars, etc.) and would receive the highest compensation.

Someone earlier called the tier system a form of cherry picking. I do wish that was the case and someone would show me how to do the cherry picking because some of my accounts are just downright horrendous and my line count continually suffers for it.

Here is what I meant by cherry-picking... - dramatized

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You said yourself people could choose to stay at tier one. I used to be able to do 4000 lines an hour straight typing on an account with nothing but ER reports. The pay raise to higher tiers would have to be huge to justify making that kind of money on more difficult reports. I wouldn't blame anyone for staying at tier one and doing nothing but easy work. I just don't think that should be an option, I think once one is past the probationary period they should start becoming exposed to more difficult dictators and worktypes and the jobs evenly distributed to all so that everyone gets some easy and some more difficult work. There shouldn't be a reason for anyone to stay at tier one other than they can't make as much money by advancing to higher tiers, that is what I meant by cherry-picking. Anyone who can't advance beyond tier one shouldn't be a transcriptionist.

4000 lines an hour? - nm

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Docs all said the same thing for almost every report, I used macros - dramatized

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Kind of like VR but mine were WAY more accurate! Oh the good ol' days :)

I used to do that as well but no where near that - count..nm

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Holy cow, I meant 400. - Dramatized

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Wasn't wearing my reading glasses, sorry!!!

Even that is hard to believe - anony

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Great for you. Can't do it in my pod because of all the accounts and client profiles.

I can do it on ER reports only as well - sm

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Straight typing, they do say the same thing over and over and over, just make a generic report and change it around to fit the patient..I miss my ER reports.

It was a long, long time ago in a universe far, far away... - Dramatized

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I haven't typed an ER report in more than 10 years. Now I'm lucky, very lucky, if my line count is half of that. I wasn't bragging by any stretch, just trying to make the point that if you get all easy reports in tier 1 you can do really well, why would anyone advance if they didn't have to? More difficult time-consuming reports at even $0.02 per line more still equals less pay, especially now when most are on many accounts. Back in those days everyone worked on one account, at least in our office. (This was before anyone worked at home; reports were printed and copied in our office and hand-delivered to the hospital or clinic. Different universe, right?)

Agree 100%, used to type straight ER - sm

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first for a company working off Word 5.0, I figured out how to make generic reports and from then on it was game on. Started here doing ER, left and came back, wish I had tested down last go round.

anyway, my point was... - Dramatized

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not my line rate 25 years ago. I don't think there should be tiers. If it's true that there are sound issues and multiple account specs at tier 1, then why should they get paid less than tier 2 or 3. And why shouldn't everyone learn all worktypes? I agree that it would be nice if we could all just do only what we wanted but let's face it, there's a lot of crap out there nobody in their right mind would volunteer for. So the point I was trying to make was why shouldn't everyone get some good and some bad, instead of some getting all the crap and some getting all easy work? That's all I'm trying to say, albeit apparently not very clearly :)

LDSMT-aren't you the lucky one - anony

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Some get cream, other's get curdled milk. Me, I get curdleed milk. I don't even bother sending e-mails to HDSM as nothing changes. Too bad we can't all get some easy accounts once in a while.

I am so tired of struggling to hear and wasting time tryng not to leave blanks. I can remember a time when I used to have a fairly easy primary but that memory is fading. FADING FAST!!!!

Work is not divided out equally and never will be. That's corporate for you. I keep hoping this will change some day but know that in all likelihood it will just keep getting lower and lower.

tiers - mt

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If the dictator is bad, it doesn't matter what type of report.

I thought the difference between tier 2 and 3 was op notes only. Shouldn't everyone get the next report in the queue unless it is not in your tier level? I don't see why dictators would be divided up. That doesn't seem right.

That is how it works. - LDSMT

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I get whatever job in my account is next, but am a level 3 so I get every kind of job in my account that is next in line. I get bad along with good, but fortunately my account, on the whole, is pretty good.

tiers - phatty

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You don't see why dictators would be divided up? How is it fair for some of us to get the worst dictators 90 to 100% of the time.

I bet this scenario has happened to more than just me. You are on an acounts or accounts and as soon as you get it to a decent level and understand the nuances of the more difficult dictators, they (don't know exactly who has I have had so many supervisors in the last 6 months) that I have lost track, you get put in anothe POD with absolutely lousy dictation.

The quality of the dictation does matter, and poor dictation brings line counts down I just wish more people would admit this, and stop talking about short-cuts and such.

You misunderstood my meaning. - mt

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I meant that I don't think certain dictators should be assigned to certain people. We should all share the dictators. That's my opinion. The tiers should only have to do with worktypes, not with dictators. I thought someone said that tier 3 gets the most difficult dictators.

I agree that production has to do with the quality of the dictation for the most part.

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