Much anger there is in her
Aug. 1st, 2008 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
volksdragonI'm posting this here, because if I don't, I'll post it back to the user forums for my company, and that would be poor.
A litttttle backstory. My company hosts a transcriptiont forums board, where Transcriptionists who use our software can come to ask questions, get help, communicate, etc. There are 1-2 very "outspoken" people who come on not to ask questions or help other people out, but to bash our software and rant about how we're ruining the art of transcription with our computers, and how it's our fault that transcriptionist jobs are being outsourced overseas.
In particular, we have one thread that has now been going on since MAY, spawned after one MT posted that she was being let go from her hospital, along with some number of her peers. That particular MT (medical transcriptionist) was relatively sanguine about it, but a particularly thorny person, who I'll call "LT" decided it was time to rant on again about how our company was evil, and how it's our fault this MT had lost her job, and our fault jobs are going overseas. She somehow believes we're telling hospitals to pay MTs less and then fire them. (Yeah, I don't get that either.)
This thread has gone on now for SEVEN pages. Arguments. Counter-arguments by other MTs. Some people telling her to shut up. The whole gamut of responses possible has been explored. Personally, on these forums, I restrict my postings to questions asked of me directly, and to generic help requests that I know the answers to. Today, though, this new post by LT almost broke my resolve.
I have been keeping quiet for a little bit but still reading some of these posts. To those who want to continue fighting for your jobs, congratulations Very Happy Very Happy It is unfortunate that in this country, "We, the people" have to fight for what is ours. As stated in previous post, time to let the public know what is actually going on with this industry and why some of the hospitals' medical records are being breached. It is time to stop being sheeple and start standing on our own two feet and make a difference -- we will not let our jobs go to foreign countries without some type of fight.
And if the powers that be don't like it, well, too bad. They are not the ones losing their livelihoods - we are. I wonder if, oh, let's say, Wiley's job and all those jobs that he can do, would be threatened to go overseas, especially if he has worked for this job for x-amount of years, do you really think he would just rollover and say, well, okay?? Then, again, he probably would, "for the betterment of the company." For any company who would do that to their own people, "SCREW THE COMPANY!!!!!!"
Back to my hole.
Where to start? 'It is unfortunate that in this country, "We, the people" have to fight for what is ours?' Uh, wasn't the entirety of our country based on people fighting for what they wanted?
'we will not let our jobs go to foreign countries without some kind of fight.' Great! Stand up for your jobs. Get the hell out of this forum with your bitching, go lobby your legislators, talk with your managers and owners of your company! Oh, and by the way, GET USED TO A GLOBAL ECONOMY! IT'S NOT GOING AWAY!'
Finally, the piece that most got to me, and why I'm posting....
I wonder if, oh, let's say, Wiley's job and all those jobs that he can do, would be threatened to go overseas, especially if he has worked for this job for x-amount of years, do you really think he would just rollover and say, well, okay?? Then, again, he probably would, "for the betterment of the company."
Wow. Well, this person REALLY has no clue what the hell she's talking about. She doesn't know I've quit companies before in part because of the practices she's railing against. She has no idea how much trouble I've started at companies where I didn't agree with the business practices and management styles. And aside from that, why did she bring ME up in this anyway? I hadn't even COMMENTED on anything she said! Grr.
And in conclusion: LT, STFU, YOU TROUBLE-STIRRING ANGRY PERSON! TAKE YOUR HATE ELSEWHERE!
A litttttle backstory. My company hosts a transcriptiont forums board, where Transcriptionists who use our software can come to ask questions, get help, communicate, etc. There are 1-2 very "outspoken" people who come on not to ask questions or help other people out, but to bash our software and rant about how we're ruining the art of transcription with our computers, and how it's our fault that transcriptionist jobs are being outsourced overseas.
In particular, we have one thread that has now been going on since MAY, spawned after one MT posted that she was being let go from her hospital, along with some number of her peers. That particular MT (medical transcriptionist) was relatively sanguine about it, but a particularly thorny person, who I'll call "LT" decided it was time to rant on again about how our company was evil, and how it's our fault this MT had lost her job, and our fault jobs are going overseas. She somehow believes we're telling hospitals to pay MTs less and then fire them. (Yeah, I don't get that either.)
This thread has gone on now for SEVEN pages. Arguments. Counter-arguments by other MTs. Some people telling her to shut up. The whole gamut of responses possible has been explored. Personally, on these forums, I restrict my postings to questions asked of me directly, and to generic help requests that I know the answers to. Today, though, this new post by LT almost broke my resolve.
I have been keeping quiet for a little bit but still reading some of these posts. To those who want to continue fighting for your jobs, congratulations Very Happy Very Happy It is unfortunate that in this country, "We, the people" have to fight for what is ours. As stated in previous post, time to let the public know what is actually going on with this industry and why some of the hospitals' medical records are being breached. It is time to stop being sheeple and start standing on our own two feet and make a difference -- we will not let our jobs go to foreign countries without some type of fight.
And if the powers that be don't like it, well, too bad. They are not the ones losing their livelihoods - we are. I wonder if, oh, let's say, Wiley's job and all those jobs that he can do, would be threatened to go overseas, especially if he has worked for this job for x-amount of years, do you really think he would just rollover and say, well, okay?? Then, again, he probably would, "for the betterment of the company." For any company who would do that to their own people, "SCREW THE COMPANY!!!!!!"
Back to my hole.
Where to start? 'It is unfortunate that in this country, "We, the people" have to fight for what is ours?' Uh, wasn't the entirety of our country based on people fighting for what they wanted?
'we will not let our jobs go to foreign countries without some kind of fight.' Great! Stand up for your jobs. Get the hell out of this forum with your bitching, go lobby your legislators, talk with your managers and owners of your company! Oh, and by the way, GET USED TO A GLOBAL ECONOMY! IT'S NOT GOING AWAY!'
Finally, the piece that most got to me, and why I'm posting....
I wonder if, oh, let's say, Wiley's job and all those jobs that he can do, would be threatened to go overseas, especially if he has worked for this job for x-amount of years, do you really think he would just rollover and say, well, okay?? Then, again, he probably would, "for the betterment of the company."
Wow. Well, this person REALLY has no clue what the hell she's talking about. She doesn't know I've quit companies before in part because of the practices she's railing against. She has no idea how much trouble I've started at companies where I didn't agree with the business practices and management styles. And aside from that, why did she bring ME up in this anyway? I hadn't even COMMENTED on anything she said! Grr.
And in conclusion: LT, STFU, YOU TROUBLE-STIRRING ANGRY PERSON! TAKE YOUR HATE ELSEWHERE!
