In addition, all kinds of innuendos .sm

by them (i.e., sexual; suicide, etc) before any sort of investigation, autopsy, or in short, before they know the facts. 

Hats off to his brother, Keith, for demanding an FBI investigation.

• MTSO's dropping like flies - mtme
  • What scares me is.... - otis
    • that's what happened with the VA records and - no work
    • Look what happened to David Carradine - mtme
      • where i live, everybody is jumping in front of - s/m
        • jumping in front of trains - dawn
          • I never could figure out why, when the train - sm - San Jose
        • Where do you live? - nm
          • San Jose, CA. - N/M
          • Must be another country, I have not - Strange things
            • Read this thread that discusses it - sm
      • In addition, all kinds of innuendos .sm - HeidiHo
        • maybe he made it look like an accident so his - life insurance would still pay out.
          • I think I would not stage an accident where a rope around my genitals was involved. sm - yikes
            • Well, it wouldn't work for me - (wrong equipment). - But still, it would be nearly impossible - S/M
        • Reading about how other country handled this, hmmmm - Better check again
        • Bottom line.... - sm
  • Do you think they will then offshore? - no work here
    • Offshore is not a good solution - mtme
      • They already are, and that seems to be the main - goal/ulterior motive of all MTSOs. nm
        • Not Keystrokes. I have talked to the owner at a few conferences and I liked what she had to say abo - KSMT
      • what is scary is when they threaten to release - no work
        • Oh, let's see, pay us more for quality. If anymore MTSOs resort to offshoring, - MTIAM
          • I actually did that! - old lady at MT
        • Right and offshore is a dangerous option - mtme
          • new option is now going to Eastern bloc countries - no work
            • At least Ireland is a country we could consider moving to. - India? Forget it. Unless you love flies. nm
            • Cost of living is higher - mtme
              • my b-in-law does "reverse logistics" (outsourcing) for - no work
                • That may work for some but.....sm - mtme
              • I meant to say THAN India- nm - mtme

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Hi Mari,

Well said!  I'm going to include your first paragraph on mine and see what they think!

I'm thinking about purchasing Stedman's spellchecker.  Does anyone else use their personal spellchecker with Bayscribe.  If so, does it work well with it and which one do you use?

I'm also thinking about purchasing my own personal Expander at the same time.  I'm looking at InstaText.  Any comments on it?

To the OP:  All transitions are uncomfortable at first, but don't give up.  I've only been with them a couple of months, but I like it.  As for getting my line counts, I'm up to 1000 lines a day.  It takes me a little longer than it did at my other job - but my other job used voice recognition, which helped a lot but paid less.  I'm also doublechecking my reports before I send them in because I was told the account I'm on is scrutinized very closely.  As I said above, I'm looking into my own expander and spellcheck software.  I've had a few spelling errors that the spellcheck didn't catch.  But at least you can add those in the expander to spell correctly.  The people at the company are great and QA staff is wonderful.  They treat like humans, not machines or numbers.  Good luck.  Feel free to email me if you want.

Exploitation is nothing new in the home MT business, but I think that since our economy has taken such a nosedive recently, a lot of companies are using this to their advantage and pushing it to the limit.  Their attitude is, LUCKY YOU HAVE A JOB, SO LIKE IT OR LUMP IT.  My response to them would be, AND YOU'RE JUST AS LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB (TO THE MTSOs) AS WE ARE.  Would the companies have been able to push this VR fiasco on us before, before the market took a nosedive?  I doubt it, but they thrive on the desperation of many MTs who have no other options at this point. 

Any relationship, busines or personal, thrives on old-fashioned give-and-take.  MTSOs need to realize they can't just TAKE and TAKE and TAKE and TAKE indefinitely.

The first is the person who really does this for extra money and isn't too serious about it.  They have a 2nd income from spouse, don't need insurance, etc.

The second group is a minority in the MT community, but is responsible for the perception that most of us are job hoppers.  These people are kind of off--and by that I mean personality-wise, don't like being told what to do, very demanding, prima donna kinds of MTs with very dramatic lives.  They need the money, but they also have a personality disorder that makes them upset at any kind of direction given and they also believe they have superior skills to most MTs and deserve to be catered to.

THAT group is the group who posts that they stayed at XX Company for 1 or 2 weeks, got fed up with something and left, stayed at XX Enterprises for a month, got fed up..cycle continues.  I am not talking about not getting paid-that's a real problem.  I am talking about people who live in such chaos that they cannot really settle down enough to work for ANY company for long and they also don't recognize that the common denominator in the job changes is THEM.

I've been with MDI for years now and have worked on the same hospital account for years also.  The best I can get is an AVERAGE of about 200 lph.  Sure, I get the occasional 250 lph here and there, but I can't say I average that on a daily basis by any means.  The only time I've ever actually averaged 250-350+ an hour was with ER or radiology work, and it wasn't at MDI either.

At 11 cpl and averaging 250-350 per hour, that would put you around $30+ an hour.  I find it hard to believe anyone would really quit a job making this kind of money, and I wonder if you were really able to manage this working on hospital accounts or was it some other type of work?