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still begging for help you have to wonder what is going on - fired/laid off MTs or did enough

Posted: Jan 12, 2014

Just up and quit? crazy.

Lots of job opening postings - soapie12

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maybe the whole industry work level is up. I was in the biz 14 years and its always been like that, up and down workload. Hopefully this upswing will last long enough for me to land a job! Nope, not coming back to MM, sorry.

I would guess a lot of MTs are of retirment age. - me

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So the question is do you keep going or do you take Social Security, and I would imagine many prefer to take Social Security.

Still 5 years before retirement. - Frustrated MT

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I think there are a lot of MTs in late 50s and early 60s who, like me, will not be able to retire from transcription and be able to live on social security. As our pay goes down, so does the amount our social security checks will be (if there is any money left in social security by then). I am still trying to find something else, but nothing in my small town that will pay what I am making here and when you add the gas I save by not driving, less mileage on my car, less expense in office attire, it really is not bad at all, IF I can pass the unrealistic audits. So I am just putting in savings every penny I can for the day when all MTs are overseas.

Got out in mid-November - old and burned out

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I had planned to retire this year anyway but the idea that they would put me on 100% QA after 40+ years and expect me to work for 3 cpl while this lasted was the final insult. I wish all of you were able to get out.

thank you for standing up for yourself - Original Poster

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Will make it easier for the rest of us. Hopefully they will rethink the way they do performance management. I will be done with my associates in May but do need to go on to University. I'm hoping this job will tide me over for a few more years.

I'm lucky I was financially able to do it - old and burned out

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and it breaks my heart that so many reliable, competent, knowledgeable MTs are being asked to work for minimum wage. Someone said it's not MM's fault, it's the industry. Well, I don't see MTSO execs earning less money than they did 30 years ago and some hospital execs are making 7 figures yet they expect experienced MTs to work for the same wages as unskilled hospital employees. I think in the end they will get what they pay for.

It's many industries - Valkyrie

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Those jobs are gone. Then to add insult to injury, all these bureaucrats denigrate the people who want to work and can't find decent jobs.

I up and quit on Friday... - stressedmt

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I am an ex-Meridian MT. For the past 2-1/2 weeks before I quit, I had no work. I couldn't take it any longer. I made it a year with this horrendous company, who took a job that I loved and turned it into a HUGE stress in my life. My pay was cut almost in half from what I made 2 years ago. Thankfully, I have had a second IC job for a local hospital for almost a year that was SLAMMED with work over the holidays and super busy. I had the best sleep of my life in a long, long time the night after I quit. I feel like a GIANT weight has been lifted.

Good for you. I was glad to be done with it also. - Cathy

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It has been a week away from them for me.

Quit - I did too!

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Happy to hear that MTs are starting to stand up to this place and getting out, little by little. Let them run their ads, let them make OT mandatory (good luck with that), let them bully, let them degrade with QA, let them cut salaries and let them all hopefully) burn! New year, MTs need to find another line or work or at least, another company to work for and not Nuance or any of the other MM clones. These places need to self destruct, just like they have destroyed so many others!

me too - gone

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I left in December after 30 years. Found a great transcription job locally, so happy to be gone

Ex-Meridian also - Deb Stotler

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I had been with Meridian for almost 10 years. I quit MModal in July. I am now working for a local MD and LOVE IT! My whole life has turned around since I left, it was the best thing I could have done!

Like the job - MT

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I'm very grateful to have the job. Just depends on your circumstances.

Same with me - happy here - anon

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I have a great schedule, make very good money and get along great with my management team. Like MT above, I'm very grateful ... it could be a TON worse.

You're very lucky - old and burned out

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Your situation is certainly not the norm. I hope it all stays the same for you. I was also sort of okay until the last BOB change.

It's all about the attitude - NM

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NM

I quit a week ago too. Also was originally part of an aquisition. - anon

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Main reasons: More stress but less pay.

How coincidental...Saturday was my last day! sm - We shall see

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I was ex-Meridian, too. Like you, no work lately, I have hated working for MM like no other! Also, I watched my pay dwindle and stress elevate! I hope to semi retire in 4 months. Hope that dream comes true!

I wish I could do that too. - Also Ex-Meridian MT

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I really miss the days at Meridian. I actually looked forward to going to work every day back then. You maybe had 1 backup account. If there was bad weather or no work, all was forgiven. Management and QA were much easier to work with. Training was thorough and account specifics were easily understood. I have never seen a company (MM) make the process of transcription and simple daily work routines so complicated. If we neared TAT at Meridian, we all pitched it and got it caught up, and we did not even make full OT. Now, there are so many MTs on so few accounts that it has a very major impact on your production.

MM could certainly learn lessons on quality and production from other companies and even their own MTs. You simply have to stop overloading the accounts with MTs. The more one works on a single account, the better quality and quantity from every MT. If you have to move from account to account, and people are moving in and out of your account because there are too many MTs on theirs, everyone suffers.

Who wrote the account specifications here? Who input the templates? For a company that demands 99.6 accuracy, they should take a closer look at who is doing this. I have been here a year and the specs on my primary account are still not right, and I have complained so many times about major mistakes in the templates that I gave up. I just correct them when I use them.

I want out too. I want totally out of MT though, and in the small community that I live in that is very hard to do. I am not giving up though. I wonder how many Meridian employees are actually left. To go from that kind of company to this really blows your mind. We were all very high-producing dedicated MTs back then, but this has reduced me to disliking the whole profession.

Amen sister! nm - Gone

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