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Feel the Pain - Kicking&Screaming

Posted: Jul 14, 2012

Wow, what a day! We had our conference call today regarding our hospital outsourcing to M-Modal. I had come on this forum to ask honest and serious questions from former and/or current M-Modal MTs. I am very appreciative of the responses that I received which I believe were heartfelt since most of you had been through this before or are still going through it.

I was able to at least voice my opinion today that I did not believe what M-Modal was saying would be what is truth. It was very interesting that the supervisor holding the conference call actually said, "oh, you will be doing this region's work". If you take the offer with M-Modal you may be doing something else besides this hospital because it will take 60-90 days to get the platforms in place, and when that's done you will be switched back to this region"!! I started laughing in the phone, all I could say is really???

I then proceeded with, this hospital has no control over what M-Modal does once we are their employees. They will keep us on other accounts we are unfamiliar with so we lose pay, and they will move other MTs to our supposed "region" so they will lose money because they are unfamiliar with that region. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Then I said wait until they outsource offshore to India, and then she said, "oh no that's in the contract". LOL Like they will know M-Modal is doing that.

In summary, I did not base my facts solely on what I found out here on this site as some of the other MTs had done research as well, and even one MT knew a former MT for M-Modal personally. So, it wasn't just me obtaining information about M-Modal. I even told her that I was hard pressed to find one positive comment. That's when she called upon the "independent service advisor" who in turn said, "the internet is full of negativity and you can always find negative things about anything". I in turn said, "but, why can't I find any positive?" She didn't reply. LOL

Well ladies, needless to say there will be another conference call next Friday and we requested someone from personnel to be present so we can figure out our severance/unemployment. That's all I really wanted from them anyways as working for M-Modal was not ever going to be an option for me. I'm too old for this crap!

Again, thanks to all that responded to my concerns - it did help me make an informed decision for myself and probably most of the others.

Thanks for the update! - Good luck to you all!

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You told them the truth! Good luck with your severance/unemployment!

Dear K&S - MT Gone

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What a well-written post. You so hit the nail on the head. Yes, negativity spreads faster than positive news; however, I came on here and read the "bad" stuff and took it with a grain of salt. Maybe I just WANTED to stay an MT. Anyway after 2 pay cuts, loss of bonuses, then my account going away, all things I had seen on here, I figured if it walked like a duck and quacked like a duck, pretty good guess it's a duck. Bless you and good luck. I wish you the best. By the way, there is life after M*Modal and being an MT!

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