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My reasons for dragging my feet on 6.1. - L&L

Posted: Sep 15, 2010

have nothing to do with difficulty, upload/download time, or any MT-related issues.

The majority of you STILL DON'T GET IT. 6.1. is an enhancement for back-end editing.

Back-end editing means more automatiion and need for fewer and fewer real live human MTs to do MQ work.

So great, jump on the bandwagon to eliminate your jobs. I'm relatively confident I'll be one of the last to be let go whether I upgrade to 6.1 now or a month from now or whenever.

You are just making it easier for them to NOT NEED YOU. I hope that whopping wal mart gift card makes up for losing your job.

so, besides the numbering feature, how is the rest for - backend editing?

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Also, if you do not use the numbering feature, how is it helping back-end editing?

How are you so confident you will be one of the last to go? Are you an MME from the North Region with 2 E's in your first name?

nope, I'm the prima donna working for the movie star hospital - L&L

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automatically ordering headings, and who knows what else. Did you read the on-line manual. It specifically says these changes are for back-end editing.

It's going to make more reports ASR - Mouse

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I did realize that immediately when it mentioned how now we won't have to worry about putting headings in the correct order - it will be done on back-end editing. I currently have a few hospitals with work types requiring 8-10 headings that right now are straight typing. The new 6.1 intends to eliminate that little windfall for us by enabling those types of reports to be ASR.

The problem is that this is the direction...sm - Spring

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that the whole industry is going, not just MQ. I'm not sure if you've read the company board or any of the other boards, but people aren't happy at other places either. Change is happening whether we want it to or not, and it seems to me that the people who have the best chance of doing well are those who keep an open mind about it and are willing to go along with it. It's like the old saying, "Blessed are the flexible, for they will not break." Yes, I'm sure there will be more ASR down the road(although I've had more transcription since switching to 6.1 actually), and yes our roles are going to change in this industry, but if you're not willing to adjust, you'll have a very hard time and might end up making yourself obsolete instead of those people willing to lean new technology.

If for some reason you are right and we end up working ourselves out of a job, then something else will come along. MQ is not my god, and they will not be my end-all and be-all to get my family and I by. I'm sure that things would work out....things always do eventually.

and you are going to stop them how? - way to stand up for yourself

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Now that is what I call taking a stand! You think that by not downloading 6.1 you are changing the course of our jobs going away? You are not stopping them. Even if none of us downloaded, it will not stop them. You are so easily replaced, and for a lot less money. If you wanted to protect that cushy account that you believe will carry you till the end, you best better hop on board and get good at it.

So, by stomping your feet and pouting, you - are somehow stopping the changes?

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Ok. Good luck with that.

BTW, I don't have that heading crap on any of my accounts. I still number the old way out of habit. Other than the numbering change and the stupid physician lookup, everything else is the same as it was before.

you post twice about OP stopping it; where does OP say she is stopping it - in her post? nowhere. n/m

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n/m

Excuse me. I did not post twice. - Only once.

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Um.. I posted once! - way to stand up for yourself

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totally different person

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