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I wish we could do this for our company!!! - Walkout.

Posted: Nov 16, 2012

It is no different than our company. We need better working conditions and raises. Found out there are many MTs in this company and we all are not making the same pay. Some are even higher pay. I was grandfathered in and had to make the same pay as a newbie. I keep asking Amy why?? Of course I get no answer, but found out today all MTs are clearly not making the same pay. Also why should higher ups not get grandfathered in pay like the rest of us.

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Walkout - Just say no more

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Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, especially in this job market and economy, BUT, do find another job and then just turn off your computer and go to work elsewhere. Nothing could be worse than this place; well actually I take that back, there are worse places, so you endure that one and keep looking. Unfortunately that is the way it is now. You cannot find a good company to work for, just find someone who is NOT M*Modal. Make them suffer, like they make us suffer. Let them send it all to India. It seems the hospitals don't care anyway!

The cpl is not the issue. It's the fact that - sm

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they make us work on 50 different accounts, cut our pay to nothing for ASR yet it still takes just as long as typing, and quit paying for CC's & demos which take forever to research. I spend just as much time entering those as I do editing a report, but they don't pay us for that time. I'm not sure how it's legal to require us to search for those & enter those yet not pay us for them. Our low pay goes a lot deeper than just cpl. They know we're all struggling just to barely meet minimum wage after all their cuts. They don't care. Bigger bonuses for them. Until all the work is India & they don't need US suits anymore either...

Class action lawsuit - anon

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There is a company out there that had a bunch of employees band together and file a class action lawsuit about not paying for research time, ADT, etc. You can find it on the internet. Unfortunately, that is what it is going to take for MTSOs to pay. They will get away with whatever they can, and they seem to have it all figured out.

It is illegal. a lot of what they do is illegal, and - yet nothing is done to SM

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stop it. I know about the lawsuit and it is a first step. I really do not understand how they can continue to do these things year after year. I wonder sometimes if enough of us complained to the Department of Labor if there would be an investigation but then I think no that would not happen. People have complained. I realize that explaining all of what this entails can be complicated for people unfamiliar with our industry and I think their eyes just glaze over. The lawsuit does not go far enough but a good step. I am so tired of feeling demoralized day after day, working so hard for so little. How I wish one of these companies would go on Undercover Boss but that won't happen. They have perfected a scam and keep getting better at it.

I see your point, but the cpl the OP is talking about IS a big (and unfair) issue. - sm

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6 cpl vs 4 cpl for ASR - huge difference, especially when 98% of what you're getting is ASR.

200 lph @ 4 cpl = $8/hr
200 lph @ 6 cpl - $12/hr

Yes, yes, cpl doesn't matter a hill of beans if there's no work, but that extra 2 cpl would help a whole lot. And the lower line rate doesn't have anything to do with the years of experience or the high quality scores the MT has, either.

I agree and have - TooOldForThis

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I have tried and tried to explain this to my CCM or TCM or whoever that my line count is suffering because I am spending way too much time searching for crap and entering it in the system, that takes way too much. Only to have the system say STOPPP DONT CC THAT DOCTOR, then gotta go take it out!!! So if the system knows who to put in and who NOT to, why cant the system do it automatically, and safe MY time.

why should we all get the same pay? - grandfathered in at newbie rate?

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How are you grandfathered in at a newbie rate? That was not grandfathered in, that was bought out and you accepted.

I have a difficult time understanding how everyone thinks we should all be paid the same rate.

Because we are all MTs, doing the same job! - nm

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so you should make what India makes, because - you are the same MT doing the same job?

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No... There are different tiers here, and if you are a tier 1, you should not be paid the same as a tier 3. Also, if you have 1 week experience, you should not be paid the same as someone with 20 years experience.

That would be like saying every doctor should be paid the same, or every nurse should be paid the same, or every teacher should be paid the same, or every manager should be paid the same.

Different tiers is NOT the same job, and no one says it is. - sm

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A newbie should be started out at a lower rate, and experienced MTs should be compensated fairly for their experience, education, and credentials, as well as difficulty of work.

What I have a problem with is MedQ/MM paying some MTs 6 cpl and others 4 cpl, even though those MTs have nearly identical experience level and duration, are working the same tier levels and the same dictator difficulty levels, and have the same employment status.

And don't even try to say, "well, I've been with them for years and years and I should be making more per line." Normal, ethical companies who hire skilled employees do not determine pay that way. When I started at my last in-house position, I actually started out making more than some of the current MTs who'd been at that hospital for years, simply because of my experience level and education.

Then maybe you should file a suit for - discrimination!

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I feel discriminated against because I got stuck doing ASR 7 years ago. Some people just switched this year. That is 7 years of lowered wages for no reason.

I think before you try too hard to level the field, think of how LOW India is paid for what you do. Do you really want it leveled?

No we're not! Not by a longshot. - sm

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There are levels of difficulty that should be compensated accordingly. Acute care, for example, isn't the same in any way as transcribing for a cardiology office, and an MT who's worked in a cardiology office for, say, 15 years, does not have the same skills as an MT who's been doing heavy acute care for multiple hospitals for the same 15 years. In fact, that 15-year cardiology MT would NOT be qualified to do acute care unless he/she advanced his/her education, and even then, he/she would have to begin in acute care as an upper-level newbie.

I've worked in cardiology offices, I've worked in ENT offices, I've worked in orthopedic offices, I've worked in hem/onc offices, and I've work for 3 different hospitals in acute care, and while all of my experience together has made me a far better MT, not one of those clinic jobs prepared me for what I encountered in acute care.

ALL MAKING THE SAME PAY - Nature

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So, if you went to work for IBM, and there are people who have been working for that company for 10 years, you think your salary should start out as the same as theirs? If I were the person who had been there for 10 years, I would be upset that you were making the same as me.

Right, see what happened to Hostess workers - L&L

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who went on strike. Mmodal could probably clean up outsourcing even more. Enjoy your twinkies.

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