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tier up - sm

Posted: Oct 15, 2009

I was just informed that I HAD to tier up. Has anybody else been told that one? I don't want to tier up. I don't get much NJA and I like the accounts I work on. I was told that I MIGHT get a raise if I did, but there was no guarantee. Why would I want to tier up without getting a raise doing the next tier's work? I just don't get it and I never will.

Focus on the word MIGHT, means don't count on it. - SM

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if your pay now is in the range for the next tier, there will be no raise.

I wouldn't do it unless I had a guarantee - Worker Bee

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of more $$. If you tier up to a tier 3, they'll force you to be an MME - and then you'll really lose money.

never told that but - :)

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I asked about 5 months ago the first time and never heard back and then 3 months ago and just now my CCM responded that she will look into me testing up... so crossing fingers! Good luck! I am sure if you dont want to tier up they can move you. They can't fire you over it because then they would have to pay unemployment.

Curious, do they want you to tier up from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3? - kiki

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they want a 2 to a 3 and then to - CTL....

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nm

Think of it this way, - Jazz

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if you gain the experience at a higher tier here it will make you more marketable to find a job that does pay more for that experience. Use MQ for the experience and then quit when you find a better job. Why limit yourself, go for it.

Tiering Up - Old Lady

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Jazz took the words right out of my mouth. Why WOULDN'T you want to learn more? The clinic jobs are going overseas and to ASR. I know, only crud is going to be left at MQ, but there are other places that would give all the tea in China for a good acute care MT and they don't treat their employees like crud. I had 3 offers when I decided to leave MQ. They were only looking for acute care MTs at the time and it pays more per line than clinic.

tiering - sm

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If I were a newbie, I would definitely tier up just for the experience alone regardless of a raise.

However, with over 25 years of hospital and specialty experience under my belt, tiering up without a raise would just be giving away that experience to MQ for free. I don't like that idea at all!!! How often do they give away anything of real value for free?

I just think my experience should afford me a guaranteed raise with tiering up. Maybe I'm wrong for thinking that way.

I guess I could always intentionally fail the tier test, and then at least I'll not be bothered to tier up again for 3 months.

Tiering up - Jazz

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I guess 25 years of specialty work would make it hard to want to learn something new, so I guess you are stuck unless you can find another company with a need for your kind of experience that pays better than MQ. Good luck.

tiering up - sm

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If I honestly thought I'd learn something, then I'd do it. However, according to CCM, the increased work would be nothing new to me.

I already QA at the local hospital. MQ is just my extra income job for family vacations and such.

CCM is supposedly working on it. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Pride goeth before the fall - No message

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don't do it! - thornbird

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My (formerly known as) supervisor tiered me up to III soon after I was hired. Being unaware of the evil Medquist ways back then, I thought that was actually a good thing. Next thing I know I'm being streamed much harder work, work that I had no experience with, really bad dictators, and since there was no pay raise involved, I actually made less money because it took me longer to do each report. It essentially just made my job very unpleasant and cut my pay. If I could go back to being tier I I would do it in a minute. There is no benefit whatsoever in being classified tier III or tier II. If you can fight it, fight it. I would love to be "demoted" to a tier I or even II.

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