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Did anyone else just agree to a nightshift job for a large hospital - account in Connecticut?

Posted: Sep 18, 2014

...in case there is more than one, in particular I am referring to one on the LG supe team? Is it going offshore soon? Wondering why I was moved. Not alot to do. Very curious.

I am on that I believe - newbutold

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I have a different TL but I am on a large one in CT also and have been for about 2 years or so. Very rarely run out of work though unless around holidays and OT on occasion. Very good account, Both straight and VR available and for the most part the physicians are good. No mention of it going offshore. I work day shift

Ha, I just lost an entire block of reports to do that was my regular - morning work account.

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...I guess since I earned a line rate bonus last week, they "freed them up" for this OP or the off-shoring of it has started. I was told to work this really crappy account every day instead, one I have never worked, did, like 5 sample reports back in January. Right before bonus time too--here, do this new account so we can post audit you on these lines as well! Should have seen it coming, I guess. They soooo want me to quit. Voc Rehab just does not work very quickly, especially for someone whose entire waking life is eaten up just trying to get 8 hours in, I mean, when exactly am I suppose to train for something else? Can't believe they just willy nilly take food out of people's mouths like this, anybody's but especially a person who can't just "get a different jobs." Brick and mortar jobs are just not possible for me! I have positively dreaded waking up this whole past week.

Sure don't mean to scare you, but I refer to LG as "the slasher" - in coversations about her with my family.

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I have felt like her sole purpose at Nuance has been to downsize, slash, burn us all into quitting or firing as many as possible. I watch the number of people on her team grow, grow, grow, then disappear again.

My assessment of her brittle nature is that she would very likely take pride in being called "the slasher."

Again, I sure don't mean to scare you, but if you were just recently moved to her "team" unexpectedly, it could be so that night shift would run you off.

We had someone like that at an inhouse job I - used to have. They called her - sm

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an 'assistant supervisor' (pffft!), but her sole purpose was to 'cull the herd', so to speak. She harassed the more senior workers there daily. Entrapped them with made-up 'errors' and 'non-compliance' BS. Started doing our reviews and those of us with once excellent reviews were getting low marks and countless written warnings under this hatchet-woman. I eventually got fed up and quit, as did quite a few others. Those that were left rode it out to the end, but in the end they all ended up getting fired, and the department closed permanently. I still bristle when I hear this woman's name. She was obviously hired from somewhere in the bowels of H*ll.

Sounds like a sociopath. - Val

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What was the point of her harassment? Ego boost? Or to give an excuse to send the transcription outside?

She was DEFINITELY a sociopath. That's - why they hired her. - SM

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The hospital had known for a long time they were going to do away with Transcription in order to "cut costs". At first they just let time take its course, and as people left or retired, they didn't replace them. But many of the over-65 MTs needed to continue working, so they did.

Eventually, as the Big Day drew closer, they needed to start "encouraging" MTs to leave, so they wouldn't be stuck paying unemployment. The main supervisor had her eye on advancement to upper management, and hired the Hatchet Woman to do her dirty work for her. Hatchet Woman came with a rather sordid history of being hired for the same purpose by other hospitals. She was also dishonest and unscrupulous. She even did a lot of things, while on the clock, that were against hospital policy, but she always managed to stay employed. She didn't mind that we all detested her - even seemed to enjoy it.

I was already gone by the time she left, so don't know the circumstances surrounding her leaving, but most likely it was because her assignment was complete: She had whittled a once large and well-oiled Transcription Department machine down to a handful of MTs - a skeleton crew that, when finally laid off, didn't impact the hospital's oh-so-sacred Bottom Line too much by going on unemployment. Most likely she got a huge bonus when she left, too. Karma has a way of biting back, and I will always wish her nothing but the worst possible karma for the rest of her life.

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