US versus Indian MT - Part II

Going further from my collectibles of what an US MT thinks about Indian MT, here are a few interesting ones collected from Internet:

First one, of course, targeted at me only:

"This Kooldudz is an Indian MT? - Wow!


A few blogs down, he states it time to celebrate again the 61st Republic Day. He wishes his fellow Indians across the globe a Very Happy Republic Day.


TELL ME THIS, HOW MANY OF YOU UNITED STATES MT'S WOULD WISH THIS TO EACH OTHER! I personally never heard of this holiday.


What I am getting out of it is what they have done to the United States MT's and we are venting and anything negative we day, well to put frankly, any TRUE FACTS we say, Kooldudz uses it against us United States MT's. That is what I see is going on."

This one is so interesting to read, maybe very disgusting for the Indians, that clearly tells the mentality of an US MT towards the Indian MT and the high frustration level he has seeing his jobs going to India.

Another one: "Don't hate India, hate the greed in this country."

An interesting one: "I am on a Spheris shared 'global' account, and if it weren't bad enough that we get the harder stuff and they get the easier work types, I am noticing that my manager is manually routing out all the work sometimes, and routing me REALLY hard dictators. Also most of what goes through speech rec is a joke, and it is faster for me to delete what was fabricated by the software and type it myself... but at considerably reduced pay than if it had not gone through speech rec. I think it is getting worse by the day here at Spheris."

A thoughtful one: "Merging of two service areas resulting in more of us scrambling for jobs. I was NJA for a while last night. I have very little PTO left and my paycheck was $200 less again because of more ASR."

And lastly a positive one (finally!!!): " I initially MTed for two sisters from India, whose English spoken and written, was very good, well above average for people raised here, sad to say. They learned it at school in India and learned it properly. (They were also charming, fun, and very nice to work for.)"

Hope every reader reads between the line and able to find out the degree of frustration level brewing in US against India, this might be true for all the work being outsourced, not only medical transcription, I think a volcano is preparing to erupt...



© 2010 Ranjan Kumar

US versus Indian MT

Well, the battle line is drawn and going by the amount of dissatisfaction with most of the MQ and Spheris jobs being outsourced to India, one must start thinking that there is something seriously wrong on this front. I just looked into a few MT forums and what I read there is really outrageous.

"I was laid off from Cbay & later MQ as well because they were sending so much to India. These greedy corporations have ruined what used to be a good industry, while endangering patients' health and privacy by sending the work overseas. They can't go bankrupt fast enough for me, and with the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bonuses for the head chiefs, I doubt it will take long. It seems to be the new way of corporations these days anyway -- get in, run the little guys out of business, move numbers around, take huge bonuses & get your money off the top, then let it sink...."

"we are now called "medical language specialists". What a joke. We should be called "translators" because most of our time is spent trying to figure out what the foreign doctors are saying in broken, horrible English. We can't make a decent paycheck because our line counts are so low. I make about $100 per week now, when I used to make $600-$750 per week. I am a very fast and accurate typist (120 wpm) and have been doing this type of work for 30 years. Do not waste your time working for these slave-drivers. They want Indian workers? Let them have them."

"If you make a little mistake, you are threatened with termination. TERMINATION is the constant threat. The morale in this companyis terrible. If you request anything, you are threatened with Termination. Don't work for these people. They treat their workers like SHIT. One day, when they are stuck with all Indian workers who can't spell or speak English, and their clients ditch them, they will be sorry."

These are just the tip of an iceberg, maybe in the near future, we might see even more aggressive remarks.



© 2010 Ranjan Kumar