Holiday recognition, etc.
Posted By: Jeannie on 2008-12-28
In Reply to: No X-mas card -- nothing...sm - curious girl
I work for SGS. They sent the same Christmas card they did last year, same picture, some greeting, etc. I can remember working for Edix and getting a cookie jar for Christmas and also QED sent me a cookie jar when I worked for them. I sure would have liked a cookie jar or something other than the same card as the year before, but what are you going to do. As a footnote, I work for SGS but am looking for another job. You can't make any money there. Right now they are upgrading to Version 8 of Escription and require the employees to buy all the upgrade materials, Word program, foot petal, etc. I think that totally stinks.
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speech recognition
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If using Speech Recognition, I don't like it. nm
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Speech recognition.
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