Tell me about it! My chip grew into a block and the

• Any information on Precyse? - info on Precyse Solutions
  • Look on pages 9, 10, 11 of the archives, - Searcher
  • I had a terrible experience with them with bait and switch. - I gave up after a few months of poverty. nm
  • I'm a long-term Precyse employee ... - sm
    • ASR sm - info on Precyse Solutions
      • ASR sound seems to be better than regular. Even if - you can't quite hear it, the words already ther
        • Thanks for sharing this ... sm - Long-term Precyse employee
          • Cross your eyes and your toes too. :-) The only - reason I have any trouble with ASR is I type faste
      • Again, I can only speak from my experience ... - Long-term Precyse employee
    • I'm a longtime employee too and I have a couple - questions for you.
      • Please take the chip off of your shoulder ... - Long-term Precyse employee
        • Give it time, they'll get to you. The grand plan is - everything ASR eventually. I don't have a chip
          • Yes, I hear what you're saying and can't argue with you at all ...sm - Long-term Precyse employee
            • I know. Got my W2 today and I'm down 3G from - last year. That's not as bad as some but it
    • I bet you made more than $42 last payperiod. - At least it's not that bad yet.
      • It's not that bad yet ... - Long-term Precyse employee
        • Tell me about it! My chip grew into a block and the - block just keeps growing while the money keeps
          • I was wondering the same thing ... sm - Long-term Precyse employee
            • Any chance you could switch accounts or teams to - a region that has ASR so you could at least try it
              • Thanks for the suggestion ... sm - Long-term Precyse employee
    • Agree with everything in your post. - SM
  • Check the archives. This question has been asked several - me
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      • Don't work there but there is quite a bit of - -sm

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Otherwise I was going to kill him.  He got his paws and teeth on several headsets, at least 2 ipod cords, the cord for my alarm clock which docks my ipod, one foot pedal, one cable modem cord, and I'm sure there's a couple I'm missing.  Nothing I tried worked with this cat.  Nothing.  I was gone for about 3 weeks when my mom was dying and I was staying with her.  I was home for a couple of hours each day to check on the cats, but that was it.  When I got back home for good, finding all of the things he had done in my absence was really horrifying.

I have three kittens now who are about a year old, and a year younger than Lucky the Destructo Cat, and the three of them together haven't done the amount of damage that Lucky did.

I was not going to count on anyone else ever.  It is hard at times, and mostly all I do is work, but my work is social for me in a way.  I MT 3 nights a week for the national, the other nights I do my own accounts, teach in the early mornings and late afternoons, go out on sales calls and do customer service in the afternoon.  Take calls all day long on my cell from everybody... that and email are actually the most timeconsuming and most difficult to control.  I have windows of time to check voicemails and emails and I really try to stay in that timeframe.  If I miss a call I get in the next window.  I text my answers back a lot to save on chatting!  Uh, the phone tag game is my biggest problem, actually. 

Uh, I didn't mention because it sounds like too much even to me, but actually I am also a personal trainer... I train women for bodybuilding and fitness contests.  At times (right now) that can be the most time consuming depending on the athlete.  A carb-depleted woman training 2 hours a day needs a lot of special care!  I don't always train on site with them, though, I set them up via email or phone and give assignments for the week on their training and diet, andI have workshops on the weekends, or everybody meets at the track for sprint work.  I also am not a clipboard trainer, I am there with them so I get my workouts in.  I also am in training myself. 

A lot of my work is seasonal... Sales for the clothing line are a little slow in the summer so I pick up extra work for the national if I need it.  And my national is always a little slow between Christmas and New Years, and both of my offices actually shut down at that time, WHEW! 

This seems really out there and all over the place, doesn't it? I have a degrees in English and physical education... my plan was to teach English and PE... but the money here for teachers is terrible and things just worked out this way.  I love all of my jobs... I am pretty active during the day but at night I love to sit down and zone out on my work.  I am divorced with no kids, with a great boyfriend who also has his own business so often we work side by side at night.  I have a huge dog that sits in the back of my 4 runner when I make all my service calls and he is out at the gym and the track with me for training.  At night he is curled up besides me. 

How do I do it?  Sometimes I don't know.  But I try to take it one day at a time, try to work as hard as a can and be as decent as I can and I never ever get pinched up (at least I don't show it!)  I try to find humor in everything because sometimes that is the only way to stay sane.

I treat everyone with respect and kindess and like they are very important to me.  Most people I deal with do not know I have other jobs.  When they are in front of me it is all about them and what we are working on together.  I have to turn work away all the time.  I have never had to advertise for any of my businesses.

My friends think I am a freak... but I am 40 years old and have no lines on my face, no gray hair (well there could be some but I am a regular highlighter!) and a body of an Olympic sprinter.  I cannot say it is easy... but like the quote goes I guess if it were easy everybody would be doing it. 

so it is no big deal to me.  I do not have any children, so I have pretty much always volunteered to work the holidays so that others can be with their families.  As someone pointed out, when you work at home for the holiday, you can jump off and on whenever you want, so it does not really feel so much like working. 

Sorry that you are unhappy about it, but unfortunately, people still get sick on the holidays, and part of being in the medical profession is accepting that you will work some holidays. 

Hope the New Year brings you lots of things to be happy about. 

As I've stated, I'm only sharing my experience with Precyse and have acknowledged that the experience of others may be different. 

To answer your question, I don't REFUSE to do ASR.  In fact, I'd like the opportunity to give it a try, but because I haven't been able to make my minimum line requirements in a while for the reasons that I've already stated it hasn't been extended to me. 

To address your statement that Precyse must not be all that bad because I'm still there, I didn't say it was 'all that bad.'  My focus was on the fact that I, and others that I know of, are not making a decent living wage there.  They have great managers, good team spirit, they treat their MT's with courtesy and respect, and have good affordable benefits in respect to the rest of the industry.  I, though, have just not found the money to be there. 

The OP asked for experiences and I gave her mine as honestly as I could. 

If you take 5 cpl and work set hours as an IC, then the MTSOs think everyone is willing to accept that and it makes us all look bad like we don't know what we're doing.  It is no different than offshoring in my opinion.  Offshore MTs will accept very little per line and work endlessly.  If every American MT decided to let MTSOs make demands on us as ICs, then we are giving in and have no reason to gripe about offshoring.  Does that explain it to ya' a little better?

It's the same as underbidding.  If the MTSO can get away with it, they will, because in the long run they save money.  Think about it for a minute and it will make sense. 

Hello to my fellow Keystrokes Radiology Transcriptionists!  I just got hired by Keystrokes and really feel that I got blessed to have gotten on with this company although I have no misgivings about the hard work that lies ahead.  I will begin training next week.  I do have long-term experience which is hospital and clinic based, but I am sure that there are many tricks of the trade that at-home transcriptionists use to build speed that I am not familiar with.    I received a "Boomerang and Trans/Net USB Foot Control Adapter" from Keystrokes.  If you are familiar with this equipment, can you tell me a little bit about it, and in addition, which shorthand or shortcut speed typing software will work with this equipment.  I would love your advice and guidance with respect to how I can set myself up in the best way possible to "keep up with the big boys!"   Some day, I'll be there for "the new kid" just as I am asking for your assistance now.  I have a full office set up, but have yet to purchase the necessary software I'll need to make my job run more efficiently.  I also have a library of medical books, but rather than list them, if you would let me know of any absolute necessities you think I should have on my book shelf, I'd really appreciate your letting me know.  I thank you in advance for your helpful hints.  Jayne, from Port Townsend, Washington.  P.S.  Do I even need to purchase a shorthand software program?  Perhaps Keystrokes provides that?  I'll be getting installed the first part of next week.  Thanks again!

The removal part is under the same section of the control panel where you uninstall programs. I think you have to click something at the top that says to show updates, then scroll through to find the update. I could not connect to the VPN my company uses when I downloaded SP3 and had to uninstall it. I also downloaded a tool from Microsoft that blocks the auto-update feature for SP3 for a year. If MS is offering a tool to block it, then you know there have to be problems with it. Here's the link if anyone wants it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7c9a07a-5267-4bd6-87d0-e2a72099edb7&displaylang=en