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Working for Nuance: A Truly Kafkaesque Experience! - Will

Posted: May 06, 2015

If you doubt me, see the "Urban Dictionary" definition. It's about as good as any that I have seen:

http://tinyurl.com/28rqen4

After working for far too long for a smaller MTSO, which was aquired by Nuance and which also treated its workers like dirt, and coming to this company, I begin to wonder if this is just the state of affairs in Health Information Services or just employment in the United States generally. Trying to get and keep a decently paying job just seems like an act of futility these days!

I have heard Europeans, especially Scandanavians, call Americans "poor bas****s" and sometimes I believe they are right. It's so disheartening. It seems like no one, especially not the Republicans or Democrats, gives a hang about the working people of this country, though we are the ones who make the economy run. Certainly, the fact that our elected representatives don't care leaves us vulnerable to exploitation and other abuses. Seriously, I sometimes feel at the end of my tether with all of this!

Rant over.

I bow to your advanced vocabulary!! nm - anon

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nm

Sorry - Kim

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I worked for them in the past, worst choice I ever made. Sadly they bought out the company I had originally been with.

Kafkaesque experience - DJ

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Have recently gotten into some "conspiracy theory" books and I think there is something to it -- world being run by a shadow government, Republican or Democratic president, no matter -- the globalists are running the world and keeping us all down. Get those people out of the streets of Calcutta and give them a nice 1 bedroom apartment and a moped and at the same time reduce Americans to a 1 bedroom apartment with a moped. Okay, I'm paranoid, but things are really bad in the American workplace, not just for MTs.

Welcome to the plutocracy. - And we keep giving them tax cuts.

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When we allow major corporations to get away with paying no taxes while expanding the ranks of the impoverished with what used to be the middle class, we have lost every vestige of decency. Gives new meaning to the real definition of fascism, and we the workers have no chance at all.

Plutocracy - DJ

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Read "Rise of the Fourth Reich" by Jim Marrs. Slow going at first, but he explains in detailed documentation the infiltration of the Nazis/fascists after WW II into American society and how their ideals have not died, but are alive and well in the good ole USA. He also wrote the book that was the basis of Oliver Stone's movie "Crosshairs" on the Kennedy assassination. Interesting stuff.

Correction - DJ

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His book was Crossfire, not Crosshairs

Issues - Dotts

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See my post under "Dump the ad hominem .." post below. This week, I wrote a letter to Senator Bernie Sanders about all the shenanigans by the transcription companies; post name "Dotts" ... hey, at least I am fighting this mess any way I can.

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