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So sick of this!
Posted: Feb 22, 2014
Why are weekends mandatory when there's never any work? I can go work at McDonalds and at least make minimum wage standing around all day wasting my time! This is BS!! I'm stuck in my office until noon today with NJA. I'm not going to use my PTO to make up NJA or work extra hours this week to make up the NJA and God forbid go over 40 hours! This is complete crap! I should send my electric bill to my MTSO and make them pay it! I'm so done with MT, it's not worth it. If I wanted to sit home all day and not be paid, I may as well be unemployed seeing as I have no money for a life anyway. GRRR No wait, I guess I'll use my time "productively" and read yet another huge set of acct specs for yet another client that isn't sending me work. The eye strain and migraines are NOT worth 9 CPL!;
Suggestion - Been There
[ In Reply To ..]Use your NJA time to study for a new career.
Ha ha. Yep. Been doing that. I put in 1 new job app each day this week when NJA. - clb
[ In Reply To ..]I'm trying to find an affordable self-pay health insurance plan for me/hubs, buy it, and then once a new non-MT job comes along, even $9 an hour at an office, don't care, I'm GONE!! I will be out of MT for good by 12/31/2014 even if I have to sell my body, at least that pays LOL
I'm pretty sure ALL of us will be out of MT by 12/31/14. - Its what MTSOs are working towards.
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Why this year? - mt
[ In Reply To ..]Why do you think 12/31/14? Do you mean the big MTSOs or all? Anyone out there think the MT profession will survive?
Because of changes in so many of them last yr, - and changes in IC laws, higher -
[ In Reply To ..]min. wage going up in some states, and the fact that all hospitals and clinics are mandated to be on EMR this year. As they're getting on EMR, they're deciding they don't need MTs at all, nor do they need to even outsource the work. The docs are doing their own report creation now in more and more hospitals. The continual paycuts MTs keep getting have almost reached critical mass. We can't take it anymore and we're leaving in droves - going back to school, taking other jobs, or retiring early. Even Indian MTs are realizing they got the short end of the stick. The whole MTSO industry has been a scam that's just about run its course.
Years ago....sm - SmileyChica
[ In Reply To ..]when VR first began, I read and was also told that the profession would probably be 100% gone by 2012. Its 2014, and while it is certainly diminishing, it is not 100% gone. Why do you pinpoint it to the last day of 2014?
Probably because they now have Epic. Before it was all VR and that really failed. - n/m
[ In Reply To ..]n/m
Epic is not universal or synonymous with EHR - It is just one of them
[ In Reply To ..]You can't lay all of it on Epic. All EHRs are not Epic. That is just one brand name.
The largest and probably the best one is VistA, the system developed and used by the VA, believe it or not. They are years and years ahead of the rest.
I didn't say it was, but it and others like it are taking our jobs. - n/m
[ In Reply To ..]n/m
No jobs stay the same - You can grow into another
[ In Reply To ..]No jobs have ever stayed the same. No matter what you do, you have to change with the job.
EHRs have created loads of job opportunities that you could have moved into.
Like what? - clb
[ In Reply To ..]Besides editor or selling the software? How is being an MT going to help us get ahead when this career is becoming nonexistent? The only way to change with the job is to change jobs completely, or be without one :-(
It's like being a telephone switch board operator, that job never turned into anything once the home phone was advanced. I feel like Rosie Rivots!
Oh, we changed with the job, alright. We learned - VR, trained it and EMR, and -
[ In Reply To ..]"adapted" ourselves right out the door. And during this whole process, how many of us actually got any kind of advancement or lateral job opportunities whatsoever? Some? None?
And what happens when you started looking for work 4 or 5 years ago, found nothing, went to school, & still found nothing? There aren't very many MTs or ex-MTs that have potential employers beating down their doors to hire them in any capacity.
you hit the nail on the head - margarita
[ In Reply To ..]And I just did that....quit. I figured if i was making 50 cents an hour I could literally just sit on the couch. Can I afford? No. However, I refuse to work around the clock, but yet fake my timecard to make it appear like I work minimum wage; and refuse to work the equivalent of $1/hr because I was expected to check emails, fix qa reports, read 500 pages of BOS and account specs and generate letters with no additional pay (and get dinged on things like commas (debatable areas) and a hyphen not medical words or drugs). Yes, we should hold to high standards but people making literal slave wages with respect to hours put in is illegal plain and simple. Maybe if all jobs were put back in-house where they would have to adhere to labor laws this would end. It is especially amazing that most clinics now are laying off txers because of Dragon/VR or point and click; they put disclaimers at the bottom about typos to be ignored and read it in full context; but yet if you work for MTSOs they ding you for a comma??? And for working in these conditions?? Seriously....we should not accept this.
Right now, at $160/week, I'm making more on - UE than I did working for an MTSO.
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Right on! The more you work, the less you make. How's that advancing?? - clb
[ In Reply To ..]Bringing home less and less money for more and more work is BS! Work harder, work faster, work longer, work more, but wait all that production don't mean squat when your QA score falls and then your CPL falls. I bring home at least $100-$150 less per paycheck than 2 years ago. For the same exact work, er more work, more accounts, etc. How sad is it that I'm actually looking forward to jobs that pay $9/hour because at least they pay by the hour? Good thing I don't have kids to feed. :-(
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