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I wonder if CBAY's CEO would jump up and down for a $50.00 bonus!! - Notatrainedseal

Posted: Jun 24, 2011

Wonder how the CEO would feel if he had 1/2 to 3/4 of his - pay taken away nm

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Oh trust me, I asked. When MQ dropped the pay down for ASR I asked him how he would feel having tha - mqmt

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how would he pay his bills? His remarks was and I quote "this is what is in line with the industry."

How smug.... - sickofit

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I think the whole thing is insulting...I think we're all doing a bang up job and trying to make us jump around like trained seals is horrible after what we've been put through over the past few years. Can you imagine in any other profession being treated that way?1 We're supposed to get raises based on our performance not gimmicks. It all just makes me sick...

I didn't even waste my time on such a stupid e-mail - just want to work

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I didn't even read it, just clicked delete button.

What a cop-out answer he gave. Typical corporate-speak. - We may be poor, but we have more principles than t

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I hope someday when he has passed on (and has gone not to heaven, but that netherworld down below,) that his new boss (the one with the long tail) gives him that same line when he asks for a drink of water, and is denied.

Why is it a copout? If it is standard in the industry, it would - not make sense to do otherwise. nm

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It's a slippery slope - and CB started the muddy hill. - It all boils down to money

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ILP/CP undercut wages and, of course, hospitals/clinics (etc.) go for cheaper and cheaper to cheapest. Because of this, I lost my job because the service I worked for could not endure the undercutting and poaching. ILP wanted the account and countered our offer until it was to the point we would not even be able to keep the dictation lines going, and that is where we finally had to drop out of negotiations. With the cost of ILP labor, they can undercut US workers to the marrow. And ADHI has endorsed this as evidenced by ever changing SOPs which has hurt the American to a greater and greater extent.

IF the lesser pay was so as the company could stay in business as someone said, that would be differ - mqmt

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that's one thing. But the companies are still making their normal profit for our work and then actually making more because they are paying US less.

Any company can pay what they want and if they want to pay better they will and take less of a profit. This "what the standard is" is a copout. MQ could pay us a lot more and they don't. It is all about the money, the bottom line but it will come back to them. Just give it time!

It is not going to "come back to them." sm - Time to face reality

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We have a government working towards establishing centralized automated electronic medical records and nationalized healthcare.

That combined with the fact that hospitals are increasingly looking for ways to decrease their expenditures for depts that do not produce revenue directly and their willingness to accept lesser quality to decrease those expenditures equals the demise of the MT industry as we knew it as a well-paying profession. That will NOT be coming back.

Many years ago when I was new and after becoming well established in this industry, the MTs were treated as special. The healthcare profession respected medical transcription. Our quality mattered and we were paid as such. Then, the tide turned and the MTs were put on the back burner in favor of the coders. Now, the coders are experiencing the same thing we have been experiencing for years: automated programs that do their jobs as well as offshoring.

You can deny that this is what is going on and continue to think that things will change for the better, but the proof is in the pudding.

Wages will continue to go down due to the fact that we are being replaced by automated programs, offshoring and yes, even people in this country are selling out to work for 2.5 cpl for ASR (not MedQuist YET). If they can find someone willing to do it for 2.5 cpl, why would they pay you more? They have shown time and time again that quality does not matter, so that card doesn't come into play anymore.

It is time for every MT to take a real hard look at where they were, where they are now and where they want to be in the future.

I'm going straight into the unemployment line when this is over...lol...and hopefully TAA - MT short timer

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TAA offer ends this year, hate to tell ya. LOL - nm

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GET OUT!! GET OUT NOW!! Refuse to work - in a sweat shop.

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I have 1-1/2 semesters left of school and I am out of this so called sweat job profession that I have been doing for the last 24 years.

Went to FASFA.gov and all my schooling was paid for up front, of course I have to pay some of it back, but most of it was with no interests.

GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN. You guys are silly to stay in this field. Wait till the EMR/EHR kicks in.

Did you see how much money our CEOs are making??? While our pay is less and less and I am supposed to believe what you say which is due to costs? I do not see the board of directors paying dropping any at all!!!

Well I disagree with you because I think all corporations are going to have a rude awakening because - mqmtt

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Then it will come down to either the US goes down the tubes (which it is pretty much there now) or corporations will "wake up" and realize they have to pay more to their employees and get back to treating all of working America like humans instead of numbers who make them money.

Our profession will probably be replaced by machines but there are others that won't and something has to happen to turn the US around from all this mess we are in. Government is going to have to change and so is coporate America.

Besides it is all about karma, what goes around comes around and they will get theirs eventually---trust me.

Um...this is an Indian company. Why would they do anything to benefit - American workers? nm

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Problem with karma - anon

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1. Karma happens in your next incarnation, not this one.

2. Therefore, since you are suffering in this life as an MT, what did you do in your previous life to deserve it?

SOULLESS VULTURE! - xx

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