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If I hear one more "coder" talk about stress... - MTSMNP

Posted: Mar 14, 2014

I'm gonna blow...STRESS???? MT/MME is STRESS, pure stress... having to have all the knowledge (which has to be equivalent with coding), and then having to CHURN out reports at warp speed, and PERFECT...BACK-BREAKING, wrist numbing, neck stiffening PHYSICAL LABOR, too.. Mental and physical STRESS. to try and make minimum wage.. PRODUCTION PAY.. NOTHING is more stressful than PRODUCTION... no matter the industry. That, my friends, is STRESS. And warp speed production to barely survive. INSANE STRESS. Give me coding ANY DAY of the week.. Sheesh

Hallelujah, sing it sister. - anon

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The superiority exhibited has been nauseating to say the least.

FYI - anon

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I'm the "coder" who talked about stress. I was also a transcriptionist for 20 years.. So . . . there's that. So blow if you must?

But you got out of MT and are sticking with coding... so... - nm

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Well, obviously there are no jobs in transcription - anon

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So it's not like going back to transcription would be a viable option.

? There are tons of jobs on both job boards. - sm

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I'm not sure why everyone is in such a panic over MM's possible bankruptcy -- there are plenty of MT jobs & there will be even more if MM doesn't have all the contracts sewn up. I think everyone may be panicking a bit soon.

Tons of jobs - Share the wealth

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Being an ex-MT for this horrible company, I do hope they go under and I mean all the way under. Let other companies pick up their accounts and hopefully not all of them will go to Nuance. Maybe this could be a positive turning point!

Gee thanks. Very charitable of you to hope - thousands lose their jobs.

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I like the company. I make fairly good money and have benefits.

It's nice to know that since you had a bad experience you wish for thousands to lose their job. Way to be.

No biggie. Thousands are losing their jobs, already. - If Nuance died, at least the bleeding would stop.

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The job loss would bleed out, and then stop, because no more new suckers would get lured in.

Half of those "jobs" simply advertise for MTs to - test, so they can get work done for free.

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Very few of them even get a callback after that. And those that do, get offered a whopping 6-8 cpl. Thanks, but NO thanks.

Wait'll coding switches from hourly to production. - Then I think you"ll get the picture.

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It isn't the job one does, it's HOW one is compensated for it. And production blows, no matter what type of work you do.

Deja Vu anyone - MT biz 10 years ago. NM

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some coders already get paid by production - anon

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And have for years. Some coders like it.

Some MTs used to prefer production pay, too - back in the day when it all wasnt - SM

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so crazy and greedy. Back when pay was 12 cpl, minimum line counts were lower, headers/footers and spaces were paid for, and production-based MTs could make more than hourly did.

But then, during those years when production pay began to plummet, yet hospital inhouse pay was still getting cost-of-living raises, the hourly MTs passed the production MTs, and kept right on going. That is, until nearly ALL the inhouse jobs disappeared, were sold out to the MT companies, and offshored.

As long as coding production pays more than hourly, go for it and enjoy the heck out of it. But the more of the work that goes to outsourced coding, the more "competition" will factor into things, and the per-chart pay will start to drop. It has to, in order for the outsourcing companies to rake in their customary obscene profits.

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