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Food for thought - sm
Posted: Nov 05, 2014
Recently the bus drivers in my area got sick of the way they were treated, literally...They called out sick and the next DAY had a 2% pay increase. Dare someone to arrange a case of "MT flu" Im in are you?
This idea is brought up oh about once every couple of months or so - and no one does a thing - NM
[ In Reply To ..]NM
Which is precisely the problem. MTs never do - anything but lie down and take it.
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Exactly ... I think I've heard this EXACT same idea every few months for the last 20 years - MME
[ In Reply To ..]Everyone talks about it, plans it, says they will participate and then ... nothing. I'm sure the management gets a good belly laugh out of these kinds of posts because they KNOW nothing will ever come of it.
What people seem to forget - sm
[ In Reply To ..]They can't replace US bus drivers with workers in India who will do the job at a fraction of the cost.
Great idea! You do that so when you're fired I'll - have more work!
[ In Reply To ..]x
They cannot fire you for being sick - its illegal
[ In Reply To ..]and all you have to do is go to the doctor and tell him you have a backache and show you went...they cant prove anything..BUT you can sit here and on a regular basis and do NOTHING and sit and take the pay reductions and the work going to India and do nothing..How well has that worked for you?
No complaints - here.
[ In Reply To ..]I have plenty of work and make a good living. Yup, some work goes to India. Not all the work goes to India and not all the work will ever go to India.
Look at how nurses do their walkouts and I'd suggest you do it the same way they do it in order to secure their jobs. They give a day's notice that they won't be in to work that day. Why do they do that? Because they care about PATIENT CARE. You know, that thing we're all supposed to care most about as MTs. If you're unhappy with your job, quit. There are lots of us who could use the extra work to fill in the gaps when there is no work, and maybe we'll even start getting overtime again.
Oh honey, they wouldn't fire you for being sick - x
[ In Reply To ..]They would put you and everyone else "sick" that day on 100% QA where you'd make only 3 cpl and get dinged for every mistake until you'd either quit or be fired for being under 99.6% accuracy. This board is public and yes your HDSM and mine do read every word. Hey, y'all!!
they bank on fear - sm
[ In Reply To ..]They don't have enough QA to put us on 100% QA, besides, QA should be in on this anyway...
And if your not saving every single - sm
[ In Reply To ..]piece of information on audits, feedback, anything having to do with your job performance, you have learned nothing from this board.
and by the way - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I rarely, if ever, run out of work here..they cannot replace all of us with Indians, it will not work..But keep drinking their Kool-aide.
Who is "they" and "their"? - Wondering
[ In Reply To ..]And where do you work, comma splicer? "It" is just a job, done on a computer, which can be done anywhere. Your job is no more precious than our jobs are/were.
Ah, jealousy - x
[ In Reply To ..]I can't tell if you're jealous that SM only rarely runs out of work or if you're jealous that SM is capable of critical thinking. Anxiety is not healthy. Anxiety over something as silly as all your work suddenly on a random Wednesday in November being gone and off to India is called irrational anxiety. The cure? Stop visiting MTStars and believing every word spoken here by the others with irrational anxiety. Make a plan for what you'll do if the worst was to happen (which it won't...hasn't in 23 years that I've been told it's a field that will no longer be here in 5 years).
Patient care? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]If you think that patient care would suffer one little bit with a 1 day call out your are insane. The docs have hand writtent notes in the charts, that are there for a backup. No they are not pretty like a transcribed report, but they are there. No one in their right mind would solely depend on a computer for anything important.
Make up your mind - Comma Splicer
[ In Reply To ..]One post you're for it, the next you're against it, and then you're for it again.
What?? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I am saying this could be done and patient care would not suffer as someone suggested. The reports will just be a day or so late and the docs will be screaming for a nice transcribed report rather than their handwritten notes.
That selfish mantra is so old. - Me-me-me
[ In Reply To ..]nm
In the past it could have worked. But MTs just - dont have the conjones to do it.
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it's not that - just
[ In Reply To ..]it's that no one would notice we were gone.
Strikes work because they get everyone - involved.
[ In Reply To ..]Out of thousands and thousands of employees in the U.S., this post has reached maybe 100, maybe, and some of them don't agree with going on strike. In order for a strike to work, you need the majority of the work force to agree with and participate in the strike. If we were in an office setting, it would be possible that an entire office could be "sick" and that would send a message. Working at home and not knowing who is in our POD, it'll never ever work.
They would just shift the work for the day to the - 2000 Indian workers.
[ In Reply To ..]We are a dime a dozen to them and nothing more.
They need about half a dozen Indian MTs per US MT, not to - sm
[ In Reply To ..]mention US QAs to repair the garbage before the client sees it. They don't have the qualified manpower to cover it all over there, or else we wouldn't be here.
LOL keep telling yourself that. Simply not - true anymore from their business perspective.
[ In Reply To ..]x
It's a fact. Their MTs produce much, much lower line counts, and - nm
[ In Reply To ..]then the reports go through 2-3 levels of India QA, then usually another level of US QA. I don't know why you think it's funny or untrue. It's simply the way it is.
If they didnt need us - trust me
[ In Reply To ..]We would be loooonnngggg gone already.
Which we are soon to be. If you don't think so, - you cant say you werent warned.
[ In Reply To ..]nm
That's pretty naive these days, to think MTs have - any job security whatsoever. In any country.
[ In Reply To ..]I used to operate a Teletype and an AddressoGraph back in the day. Thought was all that and then some. Boy was I ever wrong! ;p
This is something like the drivers who deliver milk - calling in sick.
[ In Reply To ..]No one cares about an occupation on its last legs. You are tooooo easy to replace.
That's Not Very Much - Meh
[ In Reply To ..]A 2% pay increase isn't very much anyway. For Nuance employees, I calculate that's only about $30 more pay per month. Not even worth the trouble.
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