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From a dialup employee who LIKES 6.1, and I am more concerned now about crackdown on required to sen - ververyoldMQMT
Posted: Sep 15, 2010
Okay, enough already my dear friends and colleagues. This "mutiny" has gone on far enough to long. I was very concerned because I am one of those who has dial up. I am used to slow response time, and YES it has affected my production because of waiting. So, I was very, very worried. I did have to take my MQ computer to my parents and use their DSL to do the training and the download of the 6.1. Support was great, they found out that I did not have a netframe file, and took 2 hours getting all loaded down. Brought it home, praying I would be able to work. IT WORKED!!! These changes ARE NOT BAD!!!! I don't and will not use the CTRL H Header List, for it is a waste of time. My expanders are all there, and I have always used them for headers. The skip marker feature is good!! I really, really like the numbering feature. And quite frankly, my response time is BETTER since the new upgrade. I have been here 18 yrs and the pay cuts are bad. But this upgrade is a good thing by MQ. Yes, I am sure it is designed so that the ILPs can do the job with no brains. That is bad.
Now, here is the thing I am concerned about. In my region we have been told on 2 of our accounts that if you have 3 or more blanks YOU HAVE TO send to QA. The clients are actually going to send them back. I normally don't have that many, and I have been using the document look up when it is really bad, but with dial up I cannot keep my connection on because it takes so long to pull down the files. I am already one who has accepted all the paycuts. I don't make what some longtermers do, and I have been a Tier 3 for the entire time I have worked for MQ (formerly TL). This concerns me. I can't afford to have them dock my pay for some REALLLLLLYYY bad dictators that are on these 2 particular accounts. It would put me making 1cent a line, and that is just not right.
Do what we are required. Fighting over this download of 6.1 is not a good thing for those of us working here in the US. It IS a good program, and I am NOT a cheerleader...
We must be in the same region. - I got the same emails today.
[ In Reply To ..]I wanted to cry when I thought about a couple of dictators. I am a tier 3 and have been at this a loooong time, but I cannot get less than 3 blanks on a couple of these guys!
BTW, I have already done the download and I agree with you!
That is a travesty - Mouse
[ In Reply To ..]Have you spoken to your CCM about this? If that is the policy of the hospital and they are plagued with garbled ESL doctors, there should be an exception made so that your pay is not affected by this "rule". It's ludicrous that you should be penalized when in all likelihood, QA is not going to be able to fill in those blanks either.
They SHOULD realize - how counterproductive
[ In Reply To ..]this is. I have been doing hospital transcription for over 20 years, and 99% of the time when I left a blank and it went to QA, QA could not fill it in. This rule will serve to do nothing but decrease our pay because we will be forced to send reports with over 3 blanks to QA, making us financially take the hit for bad dictators. Glowing essays or no, most of us know that FTR is a delusion.
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