Can we remove our glossary from company computer?
Posted By: I want my glossary! on 2009-05-05
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I am attempting to move a glossary which I created over 4 years via e-mail which is proving to be difficult as an attachment to use on my PC for a side job.
Is there a company policy that says we cannot do this? (Spheris).
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Can the MQ glossary be copied over for Medware?
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Can the MQ glossary be transferred to the platforms
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I have normals, lots and a huge expander glossary sm
I also have 20 years in this business, which helps. I am not a fast typist really and I can't type at all without the expander, not anymore. I have a photographic memory for terms and how they are spelled...see it once, know it forever.
There are exceptional MTs and there are very good MTs, there are good ones and ones who can just about pass muster. Don't beat yourself up trying to be exceptional. I think exceptional MTs are born, but very good ones can be built from scratch. There are MANY MANY facets to success as an MT. You have to have quite an ear for voices and even the very best of us can't do every accent. You have to either be a great typist and/or Expander user, and you have to know it well (I have used my same one most of my career). You have to know your terminology inside and out. You need to know how to properly organize your normals so that they are consistent and easy to use. You have to have an excellent platform to work on, preferrably a Word client. You also have to have a company who stands behind you and makes sure you have enough work with QA people who can and will take the time to teach you what you don't know. My favorite QA gal is a font of knowledge, a BOS2 expert and she even corrects my emails for grammar. I have learned a lot from her. It helps to have someone on an IM who can answer questions on the fly for you. I have had those in the past and now I am one of those who does the answering.
Most importantly, do your very best at whatever mode of work you are doing. Show up every day, give it your all. Don't worry about what the rest of us are doing, be the best you, you can be. Things fall into place when you do that, I know because this is how I had to approach the early stages of my career. Persistance pays off.
I would have a company computer plus my own
I was just wondering as far as learning new platforms at the same time how it was. I think I could handle it but was just checking how it was for others who had done it. TIA!
The company computer comes loaded with whatever
you need to do the job. I guess they figure it is easier to load the computer and then send it to the MT rather than to connect via PC Anywhere or similar program to download the programs. You aren't paying to work for them, you are renting the equipment.
What is company spyware. Why would they put it on a computer?
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company computer vs. personal
You normally can use the company computer to research anything related to the reports you are transcribing. They will check at some point which websites you visit. You should have received company/computer guidelines regarding surfing the web and what you are allowed/not allowed to do. By using their computer, they can tell you what you are allowed/not allowed to do. I always used my own computer to surf the web whether for research or personal matters to stay out of trouble. Also depending on how good/fast the company computer is, it can slow your work process down immensely. Where I used to work, they would periodically check everything on the computer!
When you use your own computer, I think they can only deternine what else you are doing on your computer aside from your work if you allow them onto your computer. Some companies like to gain access to install their software by their experts. But you can limit their access by only allowing them into your computer after they specifically ask to do so and stating the reasons. If you need to allow them to have access, then sit and watch what they are doing! I believe the only thing they can see through the VPN is how long it takes you to do a report and in which order you do the reports.
Company-provided computer does not have printer with it.
Help out with this situation? Company's software is not compatible with Vista (my personal computer) yet, so I have no access to printer in order to print IM, if that is possible. Further help?
I doubt anyone posting about Spheris is using company computer, so how exactly would
!!!!!
Regarding Spheris, are you allowed to use your own computer for this company and are the accounts
full of ESLs. I know they used to take off for QA or something. Do they still do that. I am just curious as it seems like some people are liking this place better and just wondering if they have gotten more lenient with their MTs as far as time schedules etc.
Ditto. Please don't buy a computer for work from this company. I left (sm)
this company because of lack of work.
BOS is BS when we remove the O, right?
The BOS used to be a good tool. The new version is horrendous and all the English teachers and professors I had during my education would roll over in their graves if they saw the new rules. I use the old version along with all I learned from the wonderful teachers I had the good fortune to have and quite a few tried and true reference books. I could never take seriously and use advice from a book of style that does not even believe in the complete sentence concept. Sometimes, if there is a serious gray area, I research in current medical journals for the standards used by the PHYSICIANS themselves, not some panel or whatever of bumblers who want to create their own reality. They make a great deal of money from selling this schmuck, so my advice is to get the old book of style and take good care of it, get Stedmans Word Books, use proper grammar, spelling, and research at reliable sites who have nothing to gain from creating an artificial reality in the medical language arena. Now that AAMT is no longer an American organization I have my serious doubts about anything they put forward. As for standards at work so everyone will create a uniform document, I must comment that if those documents are uniformly wrong, then have any of us gained anything? If there are 20 transcriptionists all using the same wrong reference is that progress? Is that good patient care? That is why medical Transcriptionist jobs exist, remember? Another thought, if someone publishes and sells a book that changes the alphabet as we know it, grammar and usage as we know it, or say even the names of everything as we know them would we all run out and buy that and change our language accordingly? Would a wagon then be a Wagun because the new book stated that was the true and correct name? Give me a break. A wagon is a wagon. A complete sentence is a complete sentence. Graves' disease is that way because a guy named Graves discovered the disease. It could also be typed as Graves's disease (but that is funny-looking). He was not named Grave. That is where you go when they bury you, right? That is why it is not Grave's disease.
Thank you for this platform on which to vent my anger and disgust with all of this. My physicians are professionals in the medical field. I produce their documents to reflect their professionalism and to enable them to provide excellent patient care, no matter what BOS says or does not say.
but it does not remove anything....
from the registry, so if the program was set to load anything automatically into ram when you start your computer or reboot it, it will continue to use your ram. You have to go to a technician thant KNOWS how to clean up your registry to get rid of all the remnants of a program. CCLEANER cleans up your hard drive.
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I will not remove a post that does not violate posting guidelines just because someone claims to be the author of it and requests it through the report a message feature.
Thank you,
Goldbird
How to remove post
Click on your original post and look in the blue strip across the top (just below the advertisement). Click on the button to report message with the smiley icon beside it. Send it to the moderator and they will remove it.
remove post
Is it really thumbs up for thumbs down? Do 9 other people have to vote?
Moderator please remove post sm
naming account at Keystrokes!
as I asked to remove it many hours ago myself.
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She could remove all MQ-related stuff, samples, etc.
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Yes, they'll have to remove superlatives from the web site
No longer can they put the best, proudest, most dedicated and conscienscious MTs. New PR/advertising will in the future say:
Acusis...our American employees are just average and only moderately concerned with quality, but by Vishnu, our management eats the best samosas and curry a rupee can buy!!
I wanted to use my own computer and get rid of the RENT on TT computer, but Vista is not compatible.
Good way to make them money. Not have to upgrade software so that Vista is compatible with Vista. Huh?
I just asked the moderator to remove Denise's post...sm
from the board. Since we all figured that she must be new on this board making such a faux pas, I thought that she does not know how to tell the moderator to remove her post.
Correction: One is told to remove or change the nasty expressio
from your post before it can posted.
One more computer question. I got my computer today and
trying to set it up. Man unpacking the box and setting everything up is a major undertaking; more so for me because I used a laptop before and my desk isn't tower friendly. Anyway, no info came with the tower and I don't yet have the password to get in (paperwork says to call M-F). Is the tower WiFi compatible? My DSL is hooked to a different computer and I wanted to know if I can setup new computer as WiFi or if I need to move modem to new computer and set other computer up as WiFi.
No, I had to use their computer. Yes,
the accounts were full of ESLs. I was off QA really quickly, though. My team leader wasn't strict about the time schedules, but I always felt as if "big brother" was watching me. If I had to pick the kids up early from school, I had to make up my time. Understandable. It's not a bad place to work.
If you are using your own computer,
you can have on it what you want and have attached to it what you please. Only if you are using their computers can they ask this.
buy computer
You have to have $300.00 deducted from your pay checks in increments and if you stay with them for 3 years they will refund the money; that is what I was told when I was thinking about working for them
Do you still have their computer?
It is my understanding that when computers are sent out, the understanding is that if MT leaves final paycheck is held until equipment is returned. Which does not seem unreasonable to me.
Do you have to have their computer? Can you use your own? nm
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use own computer, or theirs?
I was wondering if you get a company computer...I don't think Extext works on my computer, but If I had theirs, I could hook up my keyboard/monitor/mouse with a KVM switch to their towr
computer
thanks! I get the drift! I won't be downloading anything. 
What is the RAM. on your computer.
I was told when I first started that if I did not have 512 RAM on my computer it would cause the programs to lock up. I tried updating my computer to 512 RAM so I bought memory card after memory card but my computer is stubborn and won't go for it. So I have been typing on Merit on 384 RAM and so far so good. I was just thinking maybe that statement was for the Dictaphone.
you have to use their computer - sm
A lot of companies want you to use their computers because you will be transcribing directly into the hospital system. There are other reasons that companies want you to use their equipment only, i.e. virus protections, spyware, etc. If you take the position with Diskriter, please note that you cannot do anything personal on their equipment. They do monitor it. This means no personal emails or looking at sites that are not work related. I'm not sure if they emphasize that any more, but they did when I worked for them. And yes, they definitely monitor it.
yes, you need your own computer.
I've only been there about 6 months.
No. Take a look at your computer and see sm
if maybe you have too much running in the background. That definitely slows everything down. I only have my virus scan running, nothing else, in my startup group. Works fine. It's not always the company server at fault.
Why would you need to buy a computer?
ouldnt you just upgrade if you needed to?
TT Computer
I can answer the question about the computer. You can either use your own computer or rent one from them. If you use their computer, the cost was around $9 a pay period (every 2 weeks). It comes with everything you need.
TT computer
You have to pay a rental fee, approx 9.00 a pay period.
No you don't have to use their computer
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Using Mac computer
Does anyone out there know if new Mac computers will work on Word accounts? I am told by the Apple store that they have Word you can install so will it work? I'm getting tired of viruses and am told Macs do not get them. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Can you use your own computer? sm
They say they provide equipment at no charge, does this mean they provide a computer that you have to use?
ANY new computer?
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use your computer you have now
and once you start for them, you can buy a new one. 
TT computer
It costs approx 9.80 or so a pay period to rent theirs
Computer
Gloria...you didn't step on my toes and I will be happy to answer your question. TT will lease you equipment for under $10 a pay period. It's okay equipment, too. Has all the programs they use downloaded in it. I rented mine for a while. Never had a problem. Got my own though and use mine now. TT is an excellent company to work for. These message boards are full of negativity and the negative comments are usually posted by those who are not good workers anyway. They complain about what they're being paid, cost of insurance, hard to meet line counts, QA, everything. I take into consideration EVERYTHING. I have worked for TT over a year now and it's simply the best company I've ever worked for. They are kind and treat you like a human being, they DO expect a quality product and you WILL go through QA in the beginning and periodically throughout the year. It's only reasonable to know that you will consistently be graded. I know personally a QA person and I know how rigid they are in demanding a perfect report. Luckily I never have more than 2 blanks in any of mine and even 1-2 blanks is rare for me. She has told me of people sending in reports with 5, 10, 12 blanks. To me if a person has to leave 5 blanks they are not a qualified Transcriptionist and I would never even consider keeping them on. When I look at the amount I am being paid per line (currently 8.5) I also take into consideration that they pay my internet when I consistently make my line count, I don't have to drive in rush hour traffic back and forth to go and come from my job, I save money in make-up, work clothing, I don't miss an average of 1.5 hours a day commuting to my job, I am not constantly hammered by the office to make MORE lines than what is asked of me to begin with and I receive little extras from TT throughout the year recognizing me as a human being (Christmas AmEx Gift Cheque for 25 bucks and MT Week 25 gift Cheque) not to mention being treated professionally. Yeah, the group insurance went up, but EVERYONES did. My husband had a BIGGER increase than I did and a few friends who work for other companies had a larger increase than ours did. It all turns out that I am making MORE money when I consider ALL things. I love working from home and I work well independently without someone peering over my shoulder every minute of the day. THAT in itself is worth countless $$$. TT is a good move...the best I've ever made and I would recommend them to anyone who is willing to work and not complain and moan all the time. Oh yeah, plus you don't have to deal with all the gossip that a hospital or in-house/office transcription position has. Women are constant bellyachers and most of them on this board that complain and spread negative thoughts about TT are simply the ones that would do it irregardless of the company they worked for. You work hard for TT and give them the lines they/you agree upon when you are hired and you will be richly rewarded, not only monetarily, but mentally as well. I love it and would not change for anything in the world right now. All the best and good luck!
MDI-MD, you use your own computer. nm
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Computer
Don't let the others get you down. If you want to work for MDI, then do so. I have just cleared QA myself and started working on it at full throttle all week. I must say that I have had work all day long Sun through Thursday. I have been working mostly in the afternoons, evenings and into the night and when I finish my two weeks with my old company I will make it just nights again with some afternoon work. They started me with just one account and when I could not finish the five jobs each day due to lack of work, 06/02/2008 through 06/06/2008, they immediately set me up with two other accounts to get work in. They are serious about making sure you have enough work. I have had work all week, 10 hours worth easy. So, even if this is a sparse time in some accounts, it may be that others are needing help. They will try to put you where you will fit the best, based on your experience and skills.
As for the computer (I bought one for this job), I got one with XP in it. Vista still has to many bugs in it and XP just seems really easy to use. I bought a computer so that I could work for more than one company, if needed, on the same computer. Can do that with a company provided computer. If you want particulars, you can e-mail me.
Good luck in you search for a computer and/or job.  
Anyone know if JLG provides computer? nm
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No computer, no PT
OSI provides a computer nm
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