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Oh my dear Lord - 10 Nifty Ways to Pump Up Production? - anon

Posted: Mar 24, 2010

Once again, whoever is writing this drivel needs fired and spread out their salary to those actually working. Just when I think I can't get any more fed up. . .

What are they? Can you share please? - not at MQ but love production tips... please nm

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These really only work for MQ MTs - production tips

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1. Quit and get a better job.
2. Quit and get a better job.
3. Quit and get a better job.
4. Quit and get a better job.
5. Quit and get a better job.
6. Quit and get a better job.
7. Quit and get a better job.
8. Quit and get a better job.
9. Quit and get a better job.
10. Qut and get a better job.

There.... Your production just increased.

Nifty? Nifty? Okay, that is it . . . - I have had enough . . .

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Who uses the word "NIFTY"? Who? Not me. Not in this decade. Somebody in India might though.

What a bunch of pigs the MQ board members are. Nothing but a bunch of filthy animals!

First they try to cram this FTR down our throats by creating a devious way to put it in our own writing that we accept these pay cuts by making it seem like a "FUN" "cash award" "contest."

Uh, yeah, right.

Now they are listing "NIFTY" friggin tips on how to make do with the pittance of wages we make.

I can't stand MQ. The day I get the call from my new job telling me I can start is not coming soon enough. That moment, THAT VERY MOMENT, I abandon the 50 cent 10 page job I am on, turn off that computer, RAM IT in the box, kick the box around the floor for 10 minutes while singing "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD." Then I will throw it down my steps and take it to the postoffice with a BIG RED LIPSTICK KISS MARK ON THE FRONT OF IT. I will tell MQ in my hand written notice that they can STICK THE KISS WHERE NO SUN EVER SHINES!

"NIFTY" THAT MQ!!!

In other words they can kiss off . . - They can have their slave job . .

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How does MQ wrap up pay cuts, department eliminations and DEMOTIONS?

They wrap them in CUTESY FAKE CONTESTS and emails that are nothing but a SLAP in our faces. That email should read

IN ORDER TO MAKE MINIMUM WAGE, DO NOT BREATHE, DO NOT REMOVE FINGERS FROM KEYBOARD, DO NOT GO TO THE BATHROOM FOR YOUR ENTIRE SHIFT. OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT EVEN HIT THE MINIMUM WAGE MARK.

They are nothing but sharks in the water. As we read that email, they are devising more ways to take money from us and reduce payroll and head count.

STINKY THUGS.

Sorry, I am at my wits end.

Nifty, Gee, That's Swell! - adios

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Can't agree with you more. Every day the only thing that keeps me going is the faith that another job is around the corner.

It is so insulting to see those tips. Ya, right, that is why I am making no money, forgetting to check the repository, then checking the old report look-up, then asking for samples. That's why my production is so low.

Glad I'm not the only one who groaned when I saw that e-mail. Nifty. Please. That just really cheapens our attempt to pay our bills and the feeling of disempowerment we all feel when we know our line counts have dropped through know fault of our own, and are continually asked to believe it must be us.

I have fallen for it so many times. Maybe now I will understand where my lines went and how to get them back. Then I wait the hour it takes to be able to pull it up and read it and feel like an idiot again.

Please.

Don't waste your money. They will send you a shipping label and you can call UPS for pickup. - mrs.krabs

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I finally got mine the other day, only a month after quitting. It's a relief not to have to look at that POS anymore.

Here are MY "10 Nifty Ways to Pump Up Production" - s/msg

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To all MTSO's:

1. Show us the money. You make tons of it. We know it. You know it. Try paying us more of it, and cheating us out of less of it.

2. Simplify your transcription platforms. Every time you "improve" them, for some STRANGE reason, it gets harder and harder to do a day's work on them. Some software salesman has sure taken advantage of whoever in your company buys transcription software. Please. Develop some sales resistance.

3. Let MTs working on a primary account STAY on that account, whydontcha? Once they pick up speed, knowledge of the specialty(ies), and a little "institutional memory" for that facility, you give it to someone else, and start that MT out on something totally foreign to them. I'm not saying we should have no variety, but I AM saying, once we've got good speed and knowledge of a certain account, it's counterproductive to all concerned to keep bouncing us around.

4. Incentives. "Essay Contests?" C'mon - get real. That's bull, and you know it. Production contests where all you get is the CHANCE to have your name pulled out of a hat for a prize? Pul-EEEZE. We're not that dumb. Give us real, monetary rewards for those times when we give up our weekends to help you with your backlog.

5. Flexibility. You *claim* to have "flexible" schedules in your ads. Then you try to lock us (IC's included) into rigid schedules, penalizing or locking out MTs who must sometimes deviate. We may be just keyboard-pounders to you, but we ARE humans, after all. We get sick sometimes. Or hurt. Or have dentist appointments. Work around it. That's what your production coordinators get the big bucks for, so how 'bout they EARN it for once? Your rigid-as-a-schoolmarm schedules were bad enough when we were in-house. At home, when work dribbles in at 3 jobs an hour, and on what you're paying, it's ridiculous.

6. Go back to paying OVERTIME. Nuff said on that subject.

7. Pay your QA's better, and TRAIN them better. Most of them are illiterate, and they're confusing and/or pissing off your MTs to the point of quitting.

8. Learn more about what we actually DO when we work for you. Most of you don't have a clue what medical transcription is - all you know is pie charts and profits. Broaden your education. Try transcribing one of your accounts for a day. You might actually come to respect what we do.

9. Un-learn the outdated, 1950's "punitive" management style. People DON'T work harder, faster or smarter to avoid punishment. Punishment only breeds resentment and passive aggression in the workplace. We'll work harder for respect and an actual living wage, than we will from fear. Quit dinging us all the time for what we do wrong, and start rewarding us for when we've put out the extra effort you keep begging for.

10. Re-consider your belief that offshoring is good. Yeah, you're making a tidy profit right now, but sooner or later, it's going to come back to bite you big-time. Another added benefit of becoming a 100% American company again? Maybe after you die, you won't go to hell. Because the way things are now in medical transcription, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that's straight where you're going someday.

Great list except for number 10. Too late for that. - MQ isnt MQ anymore . .

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CBay owns MQ. CBay is India. There is no going back on that one. Their plans are to take it ALL to India except for the very few clients who say no. But they will work on those clients, too, just like they control our work flow and slash our earnings.

They will dangle a real cheap carrot in front of the client's face and see what happens.

Ya know what Id like to see sent to India? - IfWishesWereHorses

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A large metallic device that, when dropped from great heights, produces a large, mushroom-shaped cloud.

Naw, that is too good for them. - beggers would ride

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That would be quick an painless. They should have to suffer like us... give them a slow, painful death! GIVE THEM THE FTR PROGRAM!
Thats right, dock them 3 cpl for sending a blank to each of their QA! What? They won't make any money? Awwww, too bad. Then don't work there!

Im sure as soon as another lowlife country (China, perhaps?) - underbids India, thats exactly what will happen! n

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I hope I am still around to hear the Indians whining when they lose their jobs!!!! - anon

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nm

Maybe we should take out ads to promote the Chinese labor force? - Anon

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HaaHaa! Oh no! We are losing our minds!! So this is what a nervous - breakdown looks like!!

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I read the two posts above and thought it is not funny really, but I am laughing my a** off!!! HaaaHaaaHeeee!

MQ is pushing us off the edge!!! It's so sad!!!!

or we could send them our bankers & politicians - L&L

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and just destroy their economy...

Excellent idea! - Zircon - nm

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s/msg for president!! - (Whoever you are)

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I'm praying one or more of the MQ suits reads your words.

They will. But they wont care. I was told by my old CCM - That they lurk here all the time.

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But they don't care though. They probably have everything planned out to the day for the next five years.

I don't think we have seen NOTHIN YET. They got more tricks up their slimy sleeves.

Sorry I didnt ID myself - was in too pissy a mood and - forgot. Sorry bout that. - Zircon

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nm

Well said - Badcat

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Couldn't have put it better myself.

Yeah, cuz all of that was BRAND NEW INFORMATION, right? - MT bank account

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why didn't they give us these tips before? Surely now we can ALL double our production!! No more excuses!!

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