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OOW AGAIN: Who is in charge of this moronic scheduling? - Who is ahead of the COMs?

Posted: Jun 14, 2015

If everything the TSMs do gets approval by their COMs, who oversees the COMs, and who on earth made the decision to keep work to within 1 minute of TAT and have 50+ people waiting to jump on 30+ jobs. This does not make fiscal sense. What do I not understand here?

I think you are getting the picture. These complaints go back 5 or 6 - years. Constant revolving door.

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People in, they catch on, so those people leave, ad nauseum.

I don't get it either - anon2

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I don't understand this either but it is maddening. I've taken all their crap, jumped through all their hoops, dealt with the pay cuts and fiesa garbage, but I cannot deal with no work. I just can't. I hate this place. I'd love a straight answer but that isn't going to happen, no matter how high up I go to ask. I've tried, very hard, but no one at Nuance will give me a straight answer.

all they care about is their bonus for keeping in TAT - anonMT

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Most, if not all, of the contracts have penalties if the work is out of TAT. So, they over hire so that this will never happen. Of course they know you will run out of work, but they just plain don't care. All of the MTSOs shot themselves in the foot by promising shorter and shorter TAT to try to get contracts. The only possible way to keep it in TAT with the short time periods is to over staff. I couldn't take it anymore and got out of MT.

They want to go all tech - bj

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so they don't have to pay people. Hit me last week, slow brain to figure that easy one out. Must be a much larger profit margin when docs do their own reports. They really do not care.

Sure, they market Nuance software to hospitals, the hospital gets rid of - MTs, and once the software is trained, poof

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...there goes those acquired MTs from
Nuance too. There really has never been any doubt has there? I mean, they don't really want MTs, they just have to have them to move reports out the door while software is being set up and trained. They then ship whatever is left to India as soon as possible. Surely there isn't anyone still wondering how or why their work just suddenly disappears about 5 or 6 weeks from signing on? Surely not...

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