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When I print something from this site, i.e. a reply, the copy comes out very, very light. Is there a reason for this?

This is just to funny not to share:

"The patient may have had a decrease in weight due to a decrease in appetite and weight loss."

Really!  I never would have figured that weight loss would result in decrease in weight!  How about that?!

The poster was having a hard time finding employment because she had a disagreement with her supervisor and got fired.  I was having the same problem (although I quit and didn't get fired) so I removed them from my resume.  Guess what?  I start a new job (outside the home and NOT transcription) next week.  I'm excited to be inching my way out of this business.  The money in transcription sucks and I'm tired of paying my own taxes, insurance, etc.  Bye ya'll.

I have an MT friend who is trying to get an IRA rolled over from a company that has all but gone out of business.  We both worked for this company and everyone experienced some kind of problem with them at one time or another - it was a very unstable situation.  However, isn't there some type of control over the IRA accounts.  Does anyone know who she should contact.  She sent the paperwork to the company and they have refused to sign it as the trustee to release her funds.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hey, everyone.  I need some advice - again!  I just started training on Escription and have noticed that it has some processes that run in the background while I am not even using the program.  Did a little investigating and found out that these processes are monitoring me!!!  Now, call me paranoid, but I do not think Escription has any business monitoring me when I am not running the program.  I know this is part of their whole "learn to use shortcuts and be a great transcriptionist" program, but it kinda burns me. 

I was really happy with my company until I discovered this.  Now I am very displeased, and not sure of how to handle this, what to do.  I guard my privacy almost religiously. 

I know Escription is a popular platform, so some of you have worked/do work on it.  Can you tell me how you feel about this issue, what you would do, etc?

Thanks in advance. 

HC

I'm trying (wasting way too much time actually) to do the avatar thing.  I believe I've filled in everything correctly, but when I click on submit, nothing happens.

Direct me to avatars on MTStars for dummies, please!

So what is the average person's income tax return? 

Mine is over $5,000.  Anyone care to share theirs?

Hi all ... I'm going to a local hospital tomorrow for an interview.  The job is in the laboratory.  It's a f/t position where half the day you do pathology transcription and the other half secretarial work.  It's mon-fri, 9-5. 

This is in New York (the suburbs) actually, about 1/2 hour north of NYC.  I have 13  years of medical records transcription experience, and prior to that for 5+ years worked as a secretary to a medical director.

How much of a salary should I expect ?   Thanks! 

JoJo

Can anyone help?  My email worked up until today. Now all of a sudden it keeps asking me for my password, yet it's there. I can't receive any messages from, and probably can't send any,  to the company.  To recieve, I get" Password rejected - known user or bad password.  This happened before and I fixed it myself, but don't remember what I did.

It tested by sending an email asking them to email me back to let me know they received it and haven't heard anything.

We are going to start shopping for a used SUV, less than 20K, probably 2003 to 2005 depending on model.  Leaning towards Ford or GM models, mid size, but right now open to most anything.  

Can any of you who own SUVs comment on what you own and what you like/dislike about it?   TIA :)

So many companies have different ways of sending and receiving work that I am a little confused.

I work for a local hospital. We used to send and recieve work via a DVT transcribe station and phone line downloading work from the Lanier system. Now we use Lanier VXP interface and player.

My question: Is the DVT transcribe station the same thing as a Lanier for Voice that some services state you need? Or is it completely different?

I had to pay mucho $$ for this station and don't want to see it gathering dust.

Does anyone know what the most popular program companies use for sending and receiving work? I notice ExText is mentioned quite often, but I seem to have conflicts all the time with that program shutting down on me for no reason when I'm in the middle of a document. I, nor tech support, have been able to figure out why.

I'm thinking of changing jobs as I am totally bored/sick of doing the same dictators  over and over again. I need something to perk me up. I'm also sick of ESL dictators, of which I seem to get more than my share during each day. Since I would rather give quality instead of quantity, I'm finding it harder and harder to get my line production every day.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Just curious as to everyone's personal opinion on this . . . what do you consider to be a fair/average cpl and what do you consider to be a poor cpl?

I keep running across ads for companies (and I'm assuming their outsourcing to somewhere other than the U.S.) that offer 7cpl to the client and I'm sure that, in that case, the MTs aren't getting anything.  So, just assuming that they have SOMEONE working for them, I was wondering who would consider anything less than 7cpl to be a fair wage?  I wouldn't, but maybe that's just me.

Would this be correct instead of 2 words?  Thanks

Could some MTs that use either of these systems please email me.  I have a ton of questions concerning these machines and don't know where to look.  Looking at working on an account that requires one of these machines and have been looking on ebay.  Asked a few questions to one seller and I don't think he knows what he has.  Any help would be really appreciated.

Tabatha in Charleston, SC

Am I missing something here?  How do you get Smartype to let you put in an abbreivation to expand to a phrase longer than 34 characters.  I tried to put in snn for Soft, nontender, nondistended.  It said your abbr. and expansion cannot exceed 34 characters.  Well I need to know how to be able to make shortcuts for phrases longer than 34 characters.  TIA.

I use the dvorak keyboard for typing.  The keys are in different places from the 'querty' keyboard.  All the most used keys are on the home row.  This requires about 10 times less hand movement.  However, it makes you look like an idiot when you try to hunt and peck on someone else's querty keyboard!!

Fleece socks!

They're great. I couldn't work in my slippers because the bunny heads kept hitting rewind or fast forward.

They can be a bit pricey and I was skeptical, but I found some at a local discount store for $5.00 a pair. My feet are toasty warm and comfy too.