Sharon:  I see your point about fairness, but there may be a good reason for using percentages.  I've worked in places where the older, more experienced techs only worked days.  There were so many of them that they did not even have to work weekend days very often.  They also tended to have the higher pay.  It seems like a ...

I have recently become aware of a relatively inexpensive solution.  Data Innovations sells middleware that, in addition to connecting instruments to the LIS, has the ability to add rules to do lots of things like autoverify, add tests to a specimen, add calculations, convert a result from numeric to alpha, route specimens to a specific ...

I keep reading that techs are overworked pretty much everywhere.  As you say, with autoverification, the results that don't need checking ''will just auto-transmit''.  Wouldn't that always be a good thing to have working for you?  You don't waste time reviewing them, they get to the doctor faster and you only have to focus on the ...

If you are using it, in what department of the lab?  Is it done on the LIS or in middleware?  Which LIS or middleware product? If you are not using it, why not?  Are you thinking about it?

I traveled once as a Lab Manager.  Did a 4-month stint and would still be doing that if there were more opportunities for management roles.  The few travel techs I've met all enjoy the good pay, variety of locations and schedule flexibility.  There are tons of opportunities out there so I'd recommend you contact a few of the ...

I have relocated twice in the past ten years.  First because my spouse took a job in a different state and the second was because I took a job in a different state.  I really did not like the place my husband moved us to.  Had trouble finding a job I liked as well.  I made a career change into Lab IT and relocated to work for a ...

You are the only one who can help yourself.  It's a big world out there with lots of better opportunities.  Get a move on.

I do agree with you but would like to offer an observation of my own, after 30+ years in the lab.  We laboratorians are a stoic lot.  We may have strong feelings of displeasure with our current position, but we just put up with it.....for YEARS!  I was recently told by a laboratorian in Atlanta, that nurses will move to ...