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Would like to compare notes with others new to MQ, - sc

Posted: Apr 16, 2011

especially if you're on a southwestern account and doing editing for the first time. I started with MQ last month and feel very discouraged, mainly for all the minor negative feedback I'm getting. I'd like to know how the other new employees are doing so I can get a sense of where I stand. I keep thinking any day now I'll get a notice I'm fired. Email me directly and dish it out.

That's how MTSOs keep their MTs' wages down... - keep telling them theyre not donig well - sm

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are making too many mistakes, etc. And just to mix things up a little bit and make sure no one gets comfortable, they change the account specifications constantly, add more and more annoying little details about each account that has absolutely NOTHING to do with patient care, or quality of transcription. Then, they either switch you from acccount to account, or give you so many accounts that you can't possibly remember all the details, or that there are even details to look up. (IF you can even find them, in the reams upon reams of printed material you must slog through each time you need to look up an account detail.)

That's how they keep us all doubting ourselves, doubting our ability, fearing termination every time we send in a blank to QA. That, and then overstaffing so we're all preoccupied with scrambling for work, keeps us thinking how "lucky" we are to be scraping by on what they pay.

Don't forget that they tell you about the - people who are averaging

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600 lph to "motivate" you.

not really new - qmxbpg

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I worked for them before and hated it then and came back in desperation when yet another job went to VR and the company went under. It's even worse now because I'm doing at least 90% editing on a terrible account that requires me to retype nearly entire reports. Then, of course, there are the MMEs, all of whom do things differently so I get contradictory feedback every day. The QA tells everyone not to be frustrated because there's more than one way to do things and they can both be right. Well, if that's the case, why nitpick about it?

I've never worked so hard for so little money in 30 years of being an MT. If they don't zap every bit of confidence you have, they apparently don't feel like they're doing their jobs.

To answer your question, I'm sure there are very few (if any) new MTs who don't expect to be fired any minute.

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