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MT rules changes constantly - yet pay never changes


Posted: Aug 14, 2012

Does anybody else get emails of updated account specs or just in general about how this is now changing in the MT world and things such as hyphens are being phased out, among other changes to make the document "more readable".  I wonder...all these changes to how we are supposed to do our jobs, yet the only changes to what we are paid to do our job is a negative with pays dropping instead of going up.  I say it here and I can say it so many times, if somebody can sit in an office and change what we are to do in our jobs, why can't somebody sit in an office and say hey we aren't paying our MTs enough for what they do?

Rules changing - NTS MT

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The part that gets me is the rules that they change have nothing to do with patient care. They are just stupid little changes to trip us up and slow us down. They can say what they want, I am sure the doctors at these facilities don't know about have the crap NTS requests of us.

EXACTLY - cassie

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All these stupid little changes have nothing at all to do with the patient's care. I would venture to say that the dr doesn't even care about the stupid changes and just wants his/her dictations to be accurate. Once you get used to a "new" rule, that new rule then changes to be something different, just to give them another reason to mark us off.

I would love to be a fly on the wall at one of the - meetings of the HIghly Paid Ones. (sm)

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"We want more money!" they all chant, "How can we get it?"

"Silly goose! You KNOW how we'll get more money... we'll just screw the MTs some more!"

"Great! I just can't live on the $3 mil. per year I'm making. I need a LOT more than that pittance - my wife wants a new Lambourghini for her birthday!"


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