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Sent the e-mail to you know who - Adios

Posted: Feb 29, 2012

Doubt he will even read it but if he does, it was nice knowing all of you.

I did not use any bad language, but I did speak my mind.

I'm not even totally sure the big picture includes MTs/MEs so I guess we should all be looking to change occupations.

Either way, sooner or later I will be hired outside of this industry. Very sad indeed. It was quite a career until ASR or should I say MQ reducing pay for ASR and buying up every other company out there.

I did state it should not be this hard for people with our experience and track record to figure out how to increase our productivity on ASR. Show us the documentation on how this has been done by a majority or take a closer look at the product. But 5 years is long enough to wait for the product to catch up with the pay rate.

Quite frankly I am embarrassed I have given it this long.

Will let you know if I get a response but don't hold your breath. Will probably be forwarded to one of the cute little named committees who will immediately contact me and offer to shadow me to see where I AM GOING WRONG. Nope. Ain't gonna happen.

E-mail - Sigh

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Good for you! I've been considering doing the same thing.

I hope you do! - Adios

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I wish everyone would e-mail him and ask for proof of the 40% more productivity claim that killed all our paychecks. 5 years is enough.

E-mailing complaints - ancient MT

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It is just a thought, but you could all band together and create a story for Rock Center or someone at CNN, some investigative journalist type who is sympathetic. Then you couldn't be ignored. If you really feel you have nothing more to lose....It might be the right time, 99ers, Wisconsin govenor recalls and such being an indication.

Email at the top - MT Gone

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Way to go Ancient. I had had the same idea many times, but never put it to the keyboard. Hey, how 'bout this....if none or not enough of you who still work in the field want to come forward I'm betting there are many like me, who until recently, were MTs earning at least a decent wage. I received 2 pay cuts after the Q bought my company out, plus other loss of bonuses, Internet reimbursement, and finally my account went to point and click (blamed India at the time, but after researching learned it found out what happened.) The Internet is a wonderful thing!!! Count me in if you need someone who has been there and escaped to come forward, what they gonna do, refuse to give me a reference! From what I understand they don't do that either! Am thinking someone needs to expose this mess. How many Americans know what is going on with thier medical records? I feel another "Boston Tea Party" comin' on!!!

The more people do it, the more clout it'll have. - And by the way, - see msg

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today on the news they were talking about the banksters being forced to work with people who might be facing foreclosure, rather than doing their little shell games and fooling homeowners their mortgages have been re-worked, only to still go ahead and foreclose on them while they aren't expecting it. There's even talk about fining banks that stoop to "robo-signing" of loan documents. People started complaining, loudly, and the squeaking wheel started getting a little grease. There's still a long, long way to go before the fleecing of the American worker is stopped once and for all, but at least the wheels have started to move a little bit in our direction, for once. If M-Muddle's entire workforce starts sending letters of complaint about their shoddy pay practices, they aren't going to be able to ignore it any longer. And you might even be able to pull India in on the campaign, as well, seeing as how lately they're starting to wise up over there, too. As a result, I think currently a window of opportunity has opened for not just MTs, but all cheated workers, to start turning things around. And I agree, 5 years is more than enough time for their beloved ASR to be proven out to be a joke.

It has actually been longer than that - for some of us.

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The first pay cut for the ASR/40% more productivity BS was in October 2005. I remember because we had just bought a house when it happened, thanks Q!, we are now almost in bankruptcy. Everyone was just coming on ASR in stages at the time. Then pay cuts went in stages after that. You had like 6 months of ASR at 100% pay, then cut. They were slick about it. If they had cut everyone's pay at once, we might have stood together.

your right...I held out as long as I could - embarrassed oldtimer also

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before going to ASR. I told my then CCM that I reluctantly give in as she told me I would barely have work if I didn't. that had to be about 2007. She was with MQ a long time as a qa leader first. She left only after 6 months or so as a ccm. She was a nice person. Hated to see her go. I too like the above poster am embarrassed I have been here so long.

wonder if you had my CCM..I left after mine told me to run!! - jh

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My CCM was fantastic..we got along great..I left and reluctantly came back a year or so ago..The ASR worked initially, then they turned it over to India, it went from a breeze to crap almost overnight there is only one explaination for that, outsourcing..Wish I didnt come back, but Im a short timer, real close to retirement so whatever..The ASR I think can work but the pay rate is wayy to low..And it has to be kept seperate, the US cannot train the thing and have it turned over to another country, just doesnt work...So again, our problem is OUTSOURCING!!! Always has been, always will be..they work for less and they are NOT bound by HIPPA laws!!!

ouch! - embarrased oldtimer

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Are we allowed to give initials here? If so it was AB. If ASR worked the way it was supposed to maybe just 1 paycut would have sufficed but not 3. I too believe India has screwed it up big time. what a joke.

Corporate culture - Creator of "M-Muddle"

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First, I'm proud that you all like my choice of a name for this sorry organization.

This company has a corporate culture that expects it's CCMs to be on call 24/7 and to take their laptops and company cell phones with them wherever they go. I used to work with someone who was asked to stop in and work on the way to her son's funeral. Another CCM was expected to bring her laptop along to the hospital when her husband's leg was being amputated. Now we MTs are being told to do administrative work by correcting our own time sheets - no pay, of course. Really, what century is this?

So, while I am sorry for everyone who has to work for this despicable organization, I don't think you should ever expect any kind of positive or satisfactory response to your complaints.

how awful - oldtimer

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but you know what karma is out there.

Jeff Rossen from the Today Show does - SM

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investigative reporting and wants ideas from the public. I believe if you go to the Today Show website somewhere there is a place to submit your idea/complaint to Jeff Rossen to see if he will investigate it.

Hope you all - write

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this guy and the other suggested above. I have been writing for a long time to big newspapers and TV stations but nobody will respond. If everybody would start writing, maybe we will be heard. Maybe concentrate on the couple listed here so they will get flooded.

When I tell people that their medical records are done in India they are pissed - sick and tired

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No one has a clue what the heck goes on..I have a couple of doctors that believe as I do, it is a violation of homeland security to send personal US citizen info overseas..They only use in house transcriptionists..Seems to be more the trend, at least in my area..

When I tell people, I get mostly blank stares - Not enough care to make a difference

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and "so what, all our other info goes over there like credit card and stuff and I have had no problem..." So, I don't mention it anymore because the majority don't really care.

Today show,,, great idea - sick and tired

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I write often - and tell him

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exactly what I think. Why would anyone be scared to write. He is no better than you are. I wouldn't cuss, but I can get my point across without cussing. They cannot fire you for writting your feelings. We live in America, not India. I wish everyone would write and tell them that you are not going to do the garbage they call ASR anymore. Tell them you are tired of them de-valuing your skills. Tell them you are tired of your pay being cut in half on that stuff and tell them they can do it if they want but you aren't. I write often with my opinion.

THEY CAN'T FIRE YOU FOR WRITING!!!!!

and does he reply? - missindale

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I mean, how do you know he even reads your emails?

Did I miss where you posted the actua Email?? - I would like to read it...can you post? NM

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I didn't post it.... - Adios

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Maybe I will do that. Need to reread it and make sure it won't get me in trouble with the moderator.

I was thinking when I wrote it maybe I should turn it into a petition and get everybody to sign it.

Fighting Back - Blue Star

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I've always figured the way to get to these bloodsuckers is to publicize what is happening here, but we had to be unified and never were before. It sounds like that might be changing now. This place is run like a sweatshop in the 1930s. Watch the stockholders run if this gets out with a major network. Of course, the elite will lose their bonuses, but c'est la vie. My idea was to publish a list of the hospitals who are having their records done with MMModal "globally." I don't think that would be a HIPAA violation, but the "globals" don't recognize that anyway. When patients of those hospital get wind of it, I'm sure they will have something to say.

I totally agree to make it public what is going on - in this industry

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From what I have seen, no way these medical records are 100% accurate. I have sent jobs to QA when there were clearly a few words slurred and the editor will put in one word. Do they think I was not thinking of that "simple one word" when I was editing it, but knew there was more to it. I think America needs to know what is going on with the inaccuracy of medical records and being outsourced to other countries. I say we all strike and demand better wages.

You are correct - I think

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as has been pointed out before, it is hard to organize a strike for us since we are spread across the country. I think small steps like not doing their garbage ASR and demanding regular accounts is a good way to start. Tell them if they don't give you regular work, you will have to look for other employment. Put the ball in your hands. We are the experts in this field, not a bunch of egg heads who couldn't type one of these reports. By not doing ASR, your pay will go up. Don't let them bully you.

Do it - wheres_my_job

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just go ahead and put it out there - no patient information, you can figure out how to protect patient privacy and be a whistleblower, you are an MT after all!

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