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MModal took our jobs - None

Posted: Sep 12, 2012

MModal took our jobs when the hospital we worked for outsourced to them. We were guaranteed jobs with them and supposedly to do our own doctors, well that sure didn't happen. Instead of working dayshift, we now work middle of the day to evening and rarely get our own doctors. All we get are the mumblers and there is no way to make a good line count that way, but that of course will knock us out of benefits too! It would have made more sense to give us our own doctors and give other transcriptionists what we couldn't finish. I feel cheated and lied to! I am thinking of consulting an attorney because we have it in writing from the hospital we were going home to type our own physicians. Any suggestions???? Also running out of work has been a problem, which should have never happened if we got our own docs and were priority on them.

Welcome to MM. IMO, you were not so much stolen from as you - were sold out by the suits at your hosp.nm

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MM couldnt have taken those jobs if nobody wanted them to have - them. $$ more important than your job. nm

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MModal took our jobs - Fedup!

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We knew it was coming, but they should live up to what they promised such as our docs and not giving us the horrible dictators and yes we were screwed without lube!!!

Have you emailed hospital management and told them they - were lied to, probably had fraud SM

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perpetrated on them and they need to rectify the situation? MM is just doing what MM does and if your hospital didnt do its due diligence in finding out the truth of MM, I say that is on your hospital.

I think there is a proverb about this, a man carrying a snake across a river or something like that. When they got across the snake bit the man. As the man was dying he asked the snake why he did that. The snake replied the man shouldnt be surprised, he knew the snake was a snake before he carried him across the river.

Well, if you have it in writing - that you were supposed

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to go home to type your own physicians, I would think you might have a case against the hospital since they are the ones who guaranteed that, not iMMoral...MMuddle...er..MM. I'm betting that they covered their a$$ tho!

the good dictators went to India - not just for you, for all of us

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All we get is mumblers and foreigners. I had 15 different primaries in the past 6 years, and every one of them did the same thing, good docs leave, crap work is left, and then you need another account becuase you run out. Then, the cesspool hits and you are forced to do work for every account in your supervisors book of business just to get your hours in. Then, they force you to change schedules, work nights, work weekends, no work any other shift, 20 accounts, no work.

This is what MModal does to all of us.

MM didn't "take" them. - Your hospital sold out to them

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And welcome to the world of working for an MTSO where all the clear dictators go to India, hence we're left with garbage. Does your hospital know that a good chunk of their stuff gets transcribed in India? Wait till they see those reports!

Woops, notes crossed. - LOL-On the same page-nm

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MModal took our jobs - fedup

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Well they know they are getting crappy reports because the former boss corrects all of them except H&Ps without anyone seeing them and they are stamped copy before taken to the floor. I will never believe that the hospital saves any money using MModal.

Please, $$ is always the bottom line. If they are not saving money - why do it? Just to destroy you? nm

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Please, why dont you stop trying to control every - single post

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Any time someone posts something, you have to do this? WHY? Nothing else to do?

Just posting my thoughts on a given subject, just like you or - anyone. Public board, it is allowed. nm

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ignore her and maybe she will go away! - sm

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you are not going to win this one and this nm person just wants attention. Don't give it to her.

Anybody notice a trend in this thread? - anon

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There is a trend in this thread to blame the hospital and not MM. Why is that? Whatever is happening, it is spread all over this board and is becoming tiresome. Almost like posters are anti-MT, sticking up for the companies, mean-spirited, nasty and rude.

It is not MM fault hosp. elected to sacrifice MT dpt in - favor of lowering cost. nm

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As opposed to those who think the MTSO is always to blame - no matter what, no matter evidence to

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contrary. As this thread, it is not MMs fault the hospital wanted to sell out their MT department. This is entirely on the hospital, not MM's fault.

Well I doubt M*Modal put a gun to their heads and - demanded the account. Face it...

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thats just the way it is. Had it not been M*Modal, it would have been some other company.

The hospital I worked for promised us that we would never be outsourced either but we were. They said they did it to cut costs and they had to do what was financially best for the hospital.

I must say even with all the bad I read on this board, I am glad they picked M*Modal and not some other company. I actually still make a good living with them and have not had to face any of the horror stories I have read about here.

Who do you think you're fooling? - nm

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MModal took our jobs - Fedup!

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Did you get your own dictators or at least someone who isn't too lazy to open their mouths and speak???

RU an M*M spin-doctor? - Sure sounds that way. nm

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Yep, thought the same thing you did. - Seeing a trend.

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Been on this board for 6-7 years now. You can spot them at work. I will NEVER forget when CBAY bought us out and I was actually fighting and I mean really fighting with words to an Indian. It was quite frightening. All had to do with Unions and boy did I get attacked.

MModal is pure as fresh fallen snow in all things - MModal Livestock

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Didn't anyone tell you? When MedQuist changed its name, it became a force for truth, justice and honor. Like all Faustian deals, the Devil was just doing his job.

In all seriousness, I see it like mafia loan sharks. You're an idiot to take a loan from criminals. Still, breaking a person's legs or killing them over money seems wrong too.

Who said that? Point is MM is not the devil. Just a business - doing business how they want to SM

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and how they are allowed to by our country. I am doing very well at MM, have no complaints. If you were, too, you wouldnt think them the root of all evil. If you could make it work for you, too.

Using hyperbole for comic effect only - MModal Livestock

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MM is not the Devil. They do not dwell in an existential plane of fire from which there is no escape. Just making a joke. Though I stand by my point. MModal ruins lives as a consequence of their greed and ignorance.

Yes, they are allowed to do business however they like in this country do to a lack of moral and ethical regulation. I stand against this regardless of its legality.

As for making it work for me. I'm assuming you're my old nemesis :) from a few threads ago. Anyway, up until a few weeks ago, MModal was working great for me. I was personally quite happy with what was I doing, how I was doing it and how I was being compensated for having done it. I admit, things have taken a turn again (as always happens eventually here), but many of my years at MQ/MM were fruitful. However, they have mistreated my friends. A crime I will not forgive them for until they make atonement. I know I'm a bleeding heart, but when people are being terribly mistreated, my own personal treatment becomes a moot point.

Finally, in rebuttal to the claim that I believe they are the root of all evil (hyperbole too, perhaps?), I must correct this. The root of all evil is the love of money. MModal is therefore only worshippers of the root of all evil. Desperate, sad little hangers-on.

Like 99% of my posts, I hope this is taken as serious, yet lighthearted and know that I respect your opinion. I'm also happy to hear that MModal has been merciful to you. I hope that trend continues. No one should have to see the things I've seen.

If they are being so sorely mistreated, why are they here?? They - are no owned slaves. Geesh. nm

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That is a good point sm - MModal Livestock

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While I'm sure there are some people who stay with MModal because they love abuse or because they are general failures and can't get another job. In today's economy especially, but more simply in this country's general and long-standing financial market, it is no easy task to quit a job and find another. People have myriad reasons for not wanting to leave their company.

For instance, I have several (likely related) medical conditions that make it more difficult for me to get an office job. Many other people are in the same boat. Some are geographically isolated. In my area, there are no jobs that pay as well as MModal because all are minimum wage or less. This is a difficult proposition. A job that sustains me, but is ultra-stressful and I hate it, or one that I would hate significantly less, but won't pay my bills. Beyond that I have to support my disabled mother.

Other people have children and loved ones they support. People who count on them. Or they live alone, but the thought of being homeless or starving doesn't appeal to them. Maybe they are older now and did this job their whole life and don't have the energy left in them to learn a new trade.

Good jobs aren't as easy to get if you can't get a reference from the company you worked at for many years (perhaps your whole life) because you were arbitrarily blamed for all of the industry's ills. It's easy to say "I'm better than that person, that's why I'm doing well and they aren't." We all do it every day in some form or another. But what if that's not the truth? What if all your skill and intelligence and hard work is at the whim of chance?

Leaving any job is a gamble. Some people just have too much at stake to throw those dice.

Well now wait a minute - according to you

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anything that is not anti MM is tiresome? Anyone who doesn't stick up for MTs is mean-spirited, nasty and rude?

Yes. - sherlock

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Anyone not for the MT is against the MT. You are a genius!

but does that necessarily equal - nasty, mean-spirited and rude

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That's what I was asking. Sherlock.

IMO, isnt even about dissing or liking MM. You could insert any - name, Nuance, Transcend, AllType and SM

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there would be those who think the MTSo is wrong, no matter what, no matter the evidence, no matter anything. They are wrong and they are personally out to destroy every MT. And there would be those who understands this is business, not a bunch of friends doing you a favor,or having your back or with your best interests at heart. Business is not personal, dont take it that way.

They have a point - Inquiring minds

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MM was probably approached by the hospital in the first place. Trust me, it was their choice to outsource. I've just gone through this where I work and the decision had been in the works for a couple of years. My employer approached a number of companies, not the other way around. In this case, trust me, it was a mutual agreement. As far as the hospital promising the MTs that they would have their own account, that is probably what they were told by MM, so they passed it on. The hospital is not to blame and neither is MM, it's how business is done.

MModal took our jobs - fedup

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Regardless of who did what, we were promised our doctors and our doctors were promised that we would do their dictations, so the lies need to stop and someone needs to step up and do what is right. Yes, I know it won't happen, but I am personally tired of being a doormat!!!!!

Some of those posters are management snoops, - trying to keep us scared of - s/m

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our own shadows, so we won't rock the boat, or fight back, or possibly cost them their precious, high-paying fluff-jobs.

I do not think they would promise you typing the - same physicians forever. It

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just doesn't happen. If the hospital wrote this, you need to take it up with them. MModal will tell you on a buyout that nothing will change "for now," opening that loophole for when it does change. Some quicker than others. Unfortunately, if you're not used to doing this from home, you're going to find the same scenario at whatever company you go with. Good luck to you!

Exactly. "for now" The save their butt catch-all - phrase. nm

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You may be able to type the same account for a couple weeks. - mom2huskies

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You will not be on the same account, trust me. My company was bought out by Mmodal and I have been changed multiple times to different accounts. Once you start to get a somewhat decent line count then they will change you again. By the way your hospital is to blame for outsourcing your job just as much as Mmodal.

I am sorry that you lost your job. Transcription is not what is used to be.

MM - Fedup!

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Not so much blaming MModal and yes it was the hospitals fault for outsourcing. I believe outsourcing should be illegal, but I did expect MModal to live up to the agreement that we type our hospital's stuff and MModal keeps trying to say we are primary on it, which is BS when we might get 1 report from our hospital a day. They also are doing this to keep us from getting benefits. I tried to tell the hospital not to get involved with them a couple of years back because they were trouble especially after their major lawsuit and I also saw tonight where JP Morgan bought them out in July, so what will they change the name to this time. They have a monopoly and that is the bottom line. They say they can't drop us below minimum wage. Well give me someone who doesn't sound like they have a mouthful of s**t and I will produce good lines for them. I am tired of being lied to! We did complain to the hospital about not getting our work and within 5 minutes started getting it, that lasted about a week and then they back slid again. I am actively seeking another job and it won't be working for a company to make them rich!

That is why you work for ANY company. To make them rich with - trickle down pennies going to you . nm

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I'm sorry to hear you're stuck in this leaky old boat - MModal Livestock

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I left MQ and joined another company to get away from them. Then my company, which I quite loved, stabbed me in the back and sold me to the highest bidder, hence the name. I know that the higher ups in my old company probably don't see it in such a bad light. What to them was a normal business deal felt more like human trafficking to me. It's all about money in America these days.

As for suing MModal, I wouldn't bother. They've got ten lawyers for every employee. If they killed your family, burned down your house and destroyed your hometown, they'd still get away with it. If you've recently inherited a billion dollars, go the legal route. I would love to see them taken down, even if I'm out of a job. If you don't have a billion dollars, they've already won in court.

I'm lucky. I was promised to maybe, kind of, for some amount of time get to do the same doctors and I basically still do. They don't always break their promises. Only when its convenient. Or they forget. Or they haven't reached their quota of broken dreams for the day.

I wish I had better news to give you or some advice. If I knew an easy way out, I wouldn't be here either. Whatever you do, don't lose hope and don't let MModal trample you down too much. They will try. They'll tell you that you can't work anywhere else. You're no good. Let their insults roll off you as best you can. And come here and vent when you can't let go that easily.

You get the mumblers because everything - decent has been sent to

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India probably. This has been our plight now for years.

Your hospital canned you because MModal - mumbler queen

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promised to do it cheaper. Always comes down to the money. In-house transcription departments are a thing of the past because they were expensive. They were great, of course, but expensive. Funny that with all the money the hospital is saving, the cost of being in the hospital hasn't gone down any?

Wait a minute, this sounds exactly like my post from 2 years ago. Woah, serious deja vu. - Ex-Q MT

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If you are young enough, go back to school - and get trained in

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something else QUICK. This field is horrible now.

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