Ah, but you miss my meaning.
Posted By: truffle on 2008-01-18
In Reply to: I bet you are. Do you QA? - lolol
If she does not know that a lot is two separate words, I can only imagine the other kinds of errors that she makes. That is so very basic. I am not jealous of someone who does not know that a lot is two separate words. I am not QA and I don't work for TT and I am not policing anything. I am just really, really tired of the seeing ALOT and other inexcusable errors from people as they are bragging about their awesome quality-oriented companies that hired them. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is tired of it.
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meaning
It is Latin and means "without delay", or "immediately."
meaning??
??? not clear on that.
Different take on the meaning of this
If your testing did not qualify you did it ever occur to you that you did too well? Perhaps you did ace the test as you believe (I do not doubt your feelings at all), but that would mean they would have to give you top dollar, and they don't want to hire someone like that right now, or ever. Don't know this company, but I have been through this. But I go one step further. I always am flexible with my cpl rate in the cover letter, and so when I ace a test like you did they do get back to me. But, I have been offered 6.5 to 7 c/line, no kidding. Then, I say no. What do they think flexible means? Stupid! Yes. They think I am stupid so offer me a job. They know you are not stupid because you aced the test, so they say you are not qualified for their low pay scale. That is just IMHO. Sorry to take the opposite position from the other poster who says you are not as good as you think. Since this person does not know you or your skills, I think that comment may be way off base. So, don't let these things ruin your day. Count it as a blessing and find a decent place who will appreciate you. IMHO. Good luck!
Meaning and substance???
If you are an editor, you will soon be out of work. What exactly do you mean when you say 'meaning' and 'substance'?
Meaning, you are not getting 1000....
which I thought was the requirement. I have a friend who tried them out and went days without work.
Meaning you don't get paid for it
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Not meaning to argue...
but they DID lie. They initially told me that typing was not required. Just as they will review what I type, they could allow me to QA and review what I have QA'd. Very simple.
Whatever their reasons are for requiring this - they should be honest and tell the folks to whom they make an offer that typing is required.
meaning of initials
rolling on floor laughing my butt off ROFLMBO
Thank You all and I wasn't meaning ESL accent...
I was meaning ESL who can't speak English, but make up their own form of Americanese language (broken up/half-English)i.e. physical thrappy for physical therapy and palawong is echocardiogram, therefore the whole report is a big fat blank because I still couldn't figure out how palawong sounded echocardiogram. Thank MT@diskriter, I will give Diskriter a try and I hope to get 2 accounts and stay on those 2 accounts besides rotating accounts 4 or 5 times a week. The downtime sounds like some good insurance. Last job work 2 hours and had no work so I would sit and baby-sit the computer catching job here and there for about 19 hours for 600 lines due to no work and no pay. Thanks again all.
" FOR NOW "... 2 small words with a very big meaning. nm
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If the error changes meaning of the report
Because that's dangerous. It should be something that almost never happens though.
Meaning I sure hope the above poster
isn't a manager at Ax. That is what I meant. Obviously they must work there because they are aware of e mails.
Well, I really wasn't meaning to imply that something ... SM
was wrong with the line counts. Just for some reason, I have a very difficult time making my lines. Yes, what I am typing for the day definitely has something to do with it. I feel that the fact that I get reports from 2 different accounts mixed in with each other also is not conducive to speed. But I really brought this up, just kind of thinking out loud, that I wonder if the fact that it is a good company outweighs the fact that I am not making any money! That's what I'm trying to resolve in my own mind.
Production incentive meaning overtime
Then it would be legal.
meaning that some accounts have assigned doctors...
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She is meaning you will see lazy MTs while doing QA that no longer care
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and do you mean "THEY" meaning DeVenture or in general?
If in general, that's nothing new. If you mean DeVenture, then I'm glad I got turned down.
SC meaning SE (statutory employee) and or IC contractor.
Still looking for help on employee positions with no VR which are good. Thanks.
So, Yes, they were once OmniMed, meaning the same people. Thought so! BAD company! x
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No we won't. I said slow, meaning slower than usual, should have clarified.
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I understand!! Really, it doesn't change the meaning or context and
it is not a medical error, so why are they wasting their time on such trivial things. I call it trivial, because in my opinion, it is.
QA is for editing and correcting gross medical errors and errors that truly change the meaning and context of the document. Some QA folks are ridiculous and feel the need to be important.
I have always ignored those types of corrections. Now, if I made a big boo-boo, I would pay attention to the feedback.
You're right! Hahaha My typo totally messed up the meaning!
Yes, MQ is aware of my other position. I was very up front with them when I took their offer. Spheris probably would not be happy about my situation, I agree.
My other comments were made because no matter what I post, someone has got to be interested in what I'm doing or not doing, whether they think it is right or not, etc.
My whole post on this thread was an answer about great companies. I posted. Then, if you'll go back and look at this entire thread, I am the one getting all the virtual "you can't do that" complainers on my back.
It's not anyone else's business. One of the OPs started it I suppose with the trying to tell me I can't post on this forum because I work for Spheris and I can't use their computer. Then others chime in. Then others start in with what they think I can and cannot do.
It's none of anyone's business. I wasn't addressing any of those subjects whatsoever.
I seem to be prime fuel for the flaming activities, regardless of the subject of my posts. Even if I respond to others, 9 times out of 10 I get flamed and for other subject matter most of those times.
Hahaha, you are right in your answers to some of the other posters. You and I are having an adult conversation and understanding each other well, even if we disagree. THAT is how it should be.
As I answered you somewhere in this same thread, I understand what you were bringing to light for others who may not realize about working for more than 1 company. It is a gamble. I agree wholeheartedly.
It isn't just the competition between Spheris and MQ though. That expectation is with other companies as well, maybe not all, but most. And most, if you read the employee handbook imply that they do not want their employees on forums like this.
One of the OPs stated that I signed a contract with Spheris forbidding me to be on this forum. No ma'am. That simply isn't true. I went back and looked at everything I've signed. I've signed no such contract. There may be an implied policy but I have not signed any such contract.
I personally think that each company has really good aspects. I can also see where each could improve. That will be with any company though. As long as I am well paid and have flexibility and opportunity, I'm a happy clam.
Ah, ya big lug. Ya know ya miss us...
miss yog
I was with them for 10 years. Ah, the good old days...LOL...
what and miss all this fun!!
What i think is happening here is another company is assaulting KS. I don't think these posters, most of them anyway, ever worked for KS. I think its the same company who did a lot of recruiting on this board saying they were MTs and what a great company they were. Quite a few of us fell into that sandtrap and if we all hadn't been threatened I am sure there would be more telling their story here, (come on ladies you know who Im talking about). Well turns out they weren't a great company. It comes down to about 3 posters and maybe a couple of crazies out there who have nothing else to do. So my advice ignore all of it and see if this company doesn't show back up here trying to recruit, Ive already seen mention of them a couple of times in all of this, look carefully.
I so miss YOG
Those were truly the glory days. I could so easily make $1000 a week working for Carole. She was a little nuts, but so am I, so we got along great. It wasn't that hard to stay on her good side. She really appreciated good transcriptionists -- then she hung us out to dry and sold out to MQ. So sad, those were my best days.
did I miss something?
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well here's one for you miss know it all
YOU STATE: And, as far as I know, poster's here cannot request to have their thread closed. Again, another ASSUMPTION on your part.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THE GOURDPAINTER ASKED THE THREAD BE CLOSED BECAUSE THE MODERATOR E-MAILED ME ABOUT A POST I MADE IN THAT THREAD STATING THE OP REQUESTED THE THREAD BE CLOSED.
So, you don't know it all, now do you, miss copy and paste... so next time state the facts!
not much work anyway - they probably would not miss
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Is this Miss Preachy?????
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Boy do I miss Philly.
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miss you if you were absent.
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I miss my coordinator...
Dear Little Miss Red Pen
You responded to my post saying I would think you weren't very bright at all…That's quite some judgment to make - that someone is not very bright - based on maybe 15 or 20 words they have written - this board is full of people who engage in that kind of judgmental baseness..and it says a whole lot about who they are…
Maybe I can explain myself a little more clearly so even someone like you can understand..
I used 2 forms of the word life one with a small L and the second with a capital L - I can see you didn't notice the nuance but it is the kind of literary gradation many of the intelligent posters on this board often employ..
When I spoke of going through life - with a small L - I was as obvious talking about people who breathe - take up space - in this case - are mediocre - controlling - anal retentive - who don't have the capacity to engage in ideas so resort to red penciling everyone in life they disagree with - it's a particular ugliness people with unhappy lives and small minds are prone to..
I then urged you to get a life with a capital L - meaning disabuse yourself of the notion that other humans are here for you to correct and put down and make judgments about - in your case misjudgments. The life little L big L
or hope little H big H or any number of variations is a simple basic literary device introduced to most college freshmen in writing 101 class, maybe you were absent that day..
I too find it hard to believe there is an MT with 100% consistently for 5 years, but still I can at least envision how that could be - same account easy account good dictators thorough familiarity with the account…and maybe even a QA staff that had a good sense of priority as to what was important and not - after 11 years it could definitely be possible - but there was no such possibility in your mind - just slam and hammer and get out the trusty old red pencil…why didn't you ask her a few questions before you hammered her? I am not making a judgment but something tells me you might not be a very nice person…I have edited and managed in this profession and know how to get outstanding performances from MTs and others that they never thought they could achieve, maybe she was lucky enough to get one of those editors, ever think about that?
But as for my post, you don't know me or my QA scores or years of experience or education or anything and based on a 20 word post you judged me to be not too bright…or - judged me to be another one - a perfect MT I think you termed it. I don't in any way consider myself a perfect MT, have gotten quite a few 100% QAs, and probably will again, and have gotten lots that weren't 100% - but there was nothing in my post about any of that…you just made your holier than thou judgments about me because I factually pointed out how you had red penned someone's post rather than engage them…Maybe if you were a little more refined, educated sophisticated you would have picked up the nuance of my post, understood the subtlety I had put there - and considered it - instead of taking your red pen to it…
Again I urge you..
GET A LIFE!!!
PS You made a few grammatical errors in your post…better get out the red pen.
You still miss the point...
the poster said it would be one SMALL report for 2-3 months...it did not say 4-40 page report, but ONE SMALL report per day. My point is who wants to do one SMALL report per day for months before finally getting the big stuff, if at all!!!!!???
Miss Webster
Fast should not be your focus if you want to inrease productivity. How much anatomy do you know? Pharmacology? How much real scientific background do you have? Speed is only incidental. Yes, I keyboard very rapidly, but what helps me is education, not speed. Focus on building a proper knowledge base and the rest will come, it really will.
Miss Piggy
I look at ESLs as my job security. I am on a high (90%) ESL account that apparently nobody else seems to like. Goody for me. There is work any time of the day or night I want to sign on. ESLs are not so bad--once you get the hang of it, they are not any worse (and sometimes better) than the good old US of A mushmouths who are too lazy to move their lips.
I miss the days of
Word and FTP - simple and fast. All they've managed to throughout the years is slow us down, complicate our job, and cut our pay.
I think the weird platforms started so the suits and supervisors could track things easier, and they just don't care how much slower/more difficult it is for MTs.
You miss the point
SOME doctors really have come to realize what a valuable asset their medical transcriptionists really were. A compliment, I feel, is always nice whether or not it does any good. I, for one, generally appreciate someone saying something nice.
As for change, why my grandmother would be turning in her grave probably about now at the changes in the world. She was born in 1880 and passed in 1961. She moved from Tennessee to Arkansas in a covered wagon. Can you imagine? As for me, I've seen plenty of change. I did my first MTing on a manual typewriter. That is where you had to use a lever to return the carriage at the end of every sentence. I have transitioned pretty well through the years but I will be da**ed if I will do this highly stressful job for $10 or less average per hour and that was where it had dropped with straight typing in the last few months I worked at it. I have no doubt that in time MTs will be totally obsolete. All the female members of my family worked or are still working in MT, I trained them myself. I advised all of them to start looking for a new occupation several years ago. Did they listen? No. Two are single, of them one gave up completely and is checking in a grocery store and taking courses in photography; one is working part-time doing MT (when there is work, which she says is rare) and is working as a management trainee for a restaurant chain. Two are still doing MT but both have husbands who earn a very good income and have benefits such as medical insurance. I wouldn't recommend even to my worst enemy that they get into MT now.
Maybe I got way off topic here but I still feel passionately for those of you still doing MT and suffering for lack of work, decreasing pay and no affordable medical insurance let alone a vacation or any time off. So....if I strayed from the topic, please forgive me.
ANd you may well miss out. As evidenced by others
it most certainly can afford one a decent living. You just gotta know how to work it.
Wahhh... I miss it too.
Not one day has gone by that I don't say ''I miss the old MQ''
I loved my old account, could do 2000 lines a day, made mega money, and that abruptly stopped in 2006.
Now, (still at Q), I can barely get in 1200 lines and at the reduced ASR rate, all you long-timers know how much money I am out.
Boo-hoo. Big hugs to all my fellow TL's!!!!!
Hope I didn't miss anyone, but if I did.....sm
they have a post on the job board.
Good luck !!
As for Miss "Misery wants company"
Maybe one day she'll choke on those sour grapes (or he, whichever the case may be). Her (or his) posts have gotten way past tiresome.
I did miss the threads on this, I'm going there now to read.
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I worked for them for year and miss them...
I know precyse pretty good, as I worked for them for years. I just decided after being there so long and was not completely satisfied that I would go elsewhere and see if I could find something better. The supervisor did manipulate, in that she would tell you it was okay to work Mon-Fri shift, but then there would not be any work during the week and tons on the weekend. Another word, you'd end up practically working every day of the week trying to get your line count in for the week. If you can work the weekends, its a wonderful place to work. PTO money goes into an account and you can withdrawal it whenever you want. It accumulates so much for every hour you work. Good affordable benefits (Aetna), life insurance, everything. Easy platform. Just that schedule thing ruined it for me. If you like weekends, I'd say do it, it's one of the best ones out there.
The voting booth? What does that mean? did I miss something?
I'm really going to miss the posters that have left! nm
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miss pitypat is right-could work...sm
The only thing I had was schooling and it was not even all transcription. I hired on as a transcription clerk first, hoping to get my foot in. After 9 months and, being the transcription department was unionized, my boss pretty much had to hire from within first so there was my chance. I was overwhelmed, of course, but I am now into my 6th year. Good luck with the situation.
Thank you miss picky....jeesh!!!
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My guess is you would miss the word sm
companys if it came out of SR, right?
Yeah, I'm going to miss J. Very down-to-earth
Philly might just as well be in another galaxy.
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