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Posted: Oct 15, 2014

...budgets, forced early retirements, repossessed cars, mental distress...none of it matters to them. No supervisor has ever been held accountable for their deception, and no HR person fired for covering up for the crooked supes, indeed; the supes are given advice as to how best get rid of people without firing anyone. Just switch their pools, change the accounts they type on, they'll leave on their own. Your replacement is already being recruited and hired, people! 

One week ago, a recruiter told me on the phone they were recruiting for 30 acute care MTs, that there was a hiring freeze for ambulatory. 

And yet, many acute care MTs on here are out of work? Hello! One person here typed that their primary was waaaay slow, then some dictators would reappear, only to disappear yet again. 

Pool switches flipped on, flipped off, all at the supervisors whim. Hmmm, this MT took this long to type this report, that one took this long... so, yes, they know exactly who the most difficult dictators are. You were the living experimental test dummies, and your broken marriages due to financial distress, your foreclosed mortgages never cost them a cent.

You were the software engineers that helped train their pitiful speech wreck while being paid mere clerical wages, not even compensated for the highly skilled professionals you are. 

At this point, most of the HR people and supervisors that ever had a conscience have left in frustration. You do not stand a chance with the ruthless, cutthroat, lying scumbags that remain. They do and say anything to cover their butts and sugar coat their demands that you turn around so you can be had again. 

I am so, so sorry to have ever been employed by Nuance. It has created a dark stain on my resume and a deep hole in my financial future. Please do not stay long enough to let them break you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for this post. - MTinUSA

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You have summed it up so well. Thank you for your thought-provoking post.

Flip of switch - anonie

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I am so sorry this happened to you.

Seems everyone thinks they are entitled to ruin someone at their own whim. Guess where they got that idea.

Anyway, I am just wondering about my situation as I am not getting usual dictators and they are the best ones who have normals too. This is making me really mad to get the dregs every single day. I also think they rig it so that what should come up doesn't to you in some way.

I hope you can find something else and perhaps not in transcription. These people are ruthless and cutthroat. They do try to wear you down until you leave, though I would like to know why if you have always been a good producer with good skills and hardly any errors.

Will be thinking of you and hope you will come back to answer us on what you end up doing and if you find something better. I really hope you do.

Here's one for ya - Really?

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Not long ago, an urgent request for after-hour work and IF you put in an extra 8 hours, you will get 8 hours of PTO. Except, I didn't get even 2 hours OT, so I'm guessing NOBODY got 8 hours, everyone jumped in and did the work, and it didn't cost them any PTO.

Love it that you, too, have experienced deceitful supervisors. - Means I am not delusional.

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I mean, of course, I don't love it that you suffered, only that I am not the only one to have whole groups of worktypes disappear but still seeing reports being typed by others! On the Dictaphone platform, you know you can check for previously typed reports, either for a particular patient, to confirm what you think you hear this MD saying as a diagnosis on the discharge summary, you check for the H&P, for instance...or you check for previous reports by a particularly difficult dictator as a sample...

...I've seen patients who have supposedly been in the hospital for 6 days, and there is not a single report showing in the system. I'm immediately suspicious, thinking to myself, this is a dummy report, being read by the very most difficult dictator for some reason. Or, let's say the M.D. has been on staff since 2013 when their roster was created, and yet there are no patient reports by this person? What explains this (not typing error when typing in the MD name or patient name)? I'm again thinking to myself, this is a test of some sort designed to slow me down, trip me up, etc.

This definitely fits with the pool switching that you describe. I firmly believe they have certain horrible dictators reading certain horrible reports when they want you to leave. There have been posts on this board before about "planted errors," and alot of people poo-pooed the idea. All it would take is a phone call to the facility!

I honestly do not put anything past them anymore.



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