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new management - pamt

Posted: Sep 13, 2011

Decided to send this note to our new management after the e-mail we got today about Mission One, whatever the heck that is. I know I'll never get a response, never do. But sometimes you just have to vent! Here it is:

Hello. Everytime we get new management, I throw these questions out
although they still have yet to be answered to any satisfaction. I've
been with this company since WAY back when it took over Digital
Dictation back in the 90's. I had started with Digital
Dictation in 1993. The pay used to be GREAT. People I knew were so
envious of my job. However, once Medquist took over and with the
eventual outsourcing to India and speech recognition, my pay has
drastically decreased. It's not because I don't know how to do my job,
I've been at it more years than I care to remember. Why have there NEVER been cost of living raises for transcriptionists with this
company? I have gone from making $25,000 many years ago to now down to
about $12,000 for producing the same work level. That is why morale is
so low with this company. We are asked to constantly increase our
production, not so we can make more money for ourselves, but so that
Medquist management can reap the rewards. Cost of living has gone up,
but for some reason, Medquist management must think that it doesn't
affect its transcritionists. Just wondering if you could provide any
answers because in past years, no one else has. I work here only
because I have a husband on total disability with scleroderma who needs
my daily assistance and I have two sons that need my medical benefits.
I'm sure my e-mails like this usually get instantly deleted. Just
curious to see if this new management will be any different.

I hope you get your answers. I dont bother to ask because - I know the answer

[ In Reply To ..]
And I really don't want to hear it from them. I like the fact that they are snakes and slither around spewing venum because eventually, someone who is freaked out by snakes is gonna come along and take a shovel to their heads!

Well written - To The Point

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Good luck. I hope they have the decency to at least reply. However, I doubt it. This summer my car was hit when I took it in for service at a large, very well known Ford/Mercury dealer in my town. It was hit because the mechanic parked it in a spot clearly marked NO PARKING. Of course the company's reasoning was the place used was marked as such because they "save" that place for the car to be delivered back to the customer after service is completed. It ended up my car was damaged ($833.00) by a hit and run driver on the lot. I emailed the general manager, president AND owner (all the same person) in detail. I have never to this day even received a reply to my email. Sadly, management is about money. They got $1,200 from me that week in business, but I don't matter enough to even be recognized. My next step is to contact the Ford Motor Company. They will hear of what I think of my dealership and it's pathetic management. Good luck to you. You deserve to be heard.

new management - Former MT

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Very well put indeed. The same things basically that I said in my resignation letter (LOL...maybe that's why I didn't get an exit interview.) I wasn't rude, I just put it on the line, I have bills to pay and can't afford any more pay cuts and NO raises, ever!!! Doubt you will ever get a reply, but hope you post the answer if you do.

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