A couple of times a year the suits post as

• SoftScript seems different now... - frelvis
  • Thank you. All of us at SS do our best to make it easy. I am so happy to see when it works out wel - S
  • Hhhmm, and what color suit are you wearing - today?? nm
    • A couple of times a year the suits post as - me
      • No suit here, sad sack... - frelvis
        • You are very rude and know nothing - me
        • You have a brown smudge on your nose you - nned to wipe off. nm
          • Must be a good MT...you can't spell - frelvis
            • Neither can you, lol. Mispelled "how" in your post. - nm
              • In your second post. lol - nm
    • LOL! ...nm - nm

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and I fix it, but can't figure out what I've done to fix it.

I have my task bar at the bottom of my screen usually, but now it is on the far right and I can't figure out how to get it back on the bottom.  I know you normally click and drag, but I can't get it do down, just side to side.   I even push the down arrow but that doesn't seem to do it either. 

I worked graveyards at hotels for years.  When it got really bad I'd get up and walk around the lobby, or get the security guard to watch the front desk for me so I could walk around the hotel.  Or do jumping jacks, or do something like an 8 minute Billy Blanks video.  Just something to get your blood moving again.  I have an elliptical machine that I'll get on for a minute or two or three in the middle of a shift just to get my blood going and to get some circulation to my hind end.

The other alternative is how about actually taking a 10 minute power nap?  Do you take a lunch or dinner break in the middle of your shift?  Get a little alarm clock you can set and put by your desk and just close your eyes for 10 minutes.

I had a brutal schedule for a number of years where I worked 8 am to 5 pm at one job, went home and took a nap then went to the hotel at 10:30 pm to 7:30 am, went right back to the other job until noon.  Then went home and passed out (hopefully) to go back to work at the hotel that night at 10:30.  On that first night, I'd sit in my chair around 3 am when it was the quietest and my work was done and just take a nap.  I'm really good at sleeping sitting up.  The security guard knew not to bug me between 3 and about 3:45.  I found that if I got a 30 minute nap then I was good to go for another several hours. 

Good luck. Hope you find a solution that works for you.

an error.

I was going to suggest knitting/crochet.  It is all the rage these days and they have lots of groups that get together in various locations to knit and chat, sip coffee, etc.

I have a book called Teach Yourself Visually Knitting & Crocheting - I got it at B&N for about $25.00.  Wonderful book.  I have been knitting for a year but whenever I need help on a new technique or can't remember something I pull it out.  It has actual photos of how to do the stitches instead of a B&W drawing, that a lot of books have.  I'm sure you could find the book cheaper on-line.  If she would like to take lessons it seems everyone is offering them these days and in the groups there is always someone willing to help out when needed. 

You can get a skein of yarn and some needles for about $10.00 or less.  Hobby Lobby has sales all the time. 

Knitting can evolve into spinning and dyeing too.   I haven't done either yet, but hope to learn both. 

There are thousands of patterns you can get on-line for free, though if she develops a yarn fetish it can get quite expensive.  

They think we are just Betty Crocker housewives who still wear pumps, skirts, and aprons every day and do this "typing thing" on the side for manicure money.  They know this industry is almost all chicks, and they know that a lot of women will take abuse and not do squatola about it. 

I honestly don't think they realize that MOST of us are doing this to actually make a living.  I mean, if they did, they would realize that they didn't have to crack a whip or be verbal blowhards--we know we have to work hard to make a paycheck.  We know we are paid on production and if we don't produce, we don't get paid.

I'm applied at a couple of the BIG companies you see advertise on here all the time and was absolutely blown away when they couldn't tell me exactly how their platforms worked.  The folks interviewing, the folks doing the hiring, are obviously not MTs, have never been "in the trenches" and that kinda blows my mind. 

Why do we continue to work for x cpl?  I was talking to a teacher friend recently and compared her job to ours.  I told her it'd be no different if she had a very difficult student the entire school year and the student ended up being held back.  Should that teacher get docked a % of her pay, or not get paid at all because she was unable to "complete" her projected goal?  Obviously not.  So why should it be any different for us?

Not long ago my PS sent a msg to all of us about a certain client complaining about all the blanks on their reports.  PS knows it's a very difficult ESL acct.  But nothing is done about getting the docs, the Q, & MTs together to suggest ways to improve it for patient care in the end.  The most frustrating part is that everyone would win from it.  But the "suits" are intimidated about making someone mad.  I never once had a doc get mad about suggestions for making the report better and obviously faster in getting on the chart.  It is for this reason that I'm very much against production (and unions) when having to deal with such horrible dictation literally 99% of the time.  I simply don't believe that I should make less money for things that clearly are beyond my control and now consume my shift, day in and day out. If I were getting paid more, and likely a difficulty factor (remember that?), it'd be more legit in my book.

Also, throw the bad soundfiles in and "voila..." 

I also got a msg from support at 8:20 CST saying they're still working to solve the problem but have no ETA as to when it'll be resolved.  Just an fyi.

Too bad ignorance isn't painful! 

By normal I meant NOT sexually perverted, NOT socially inept, NOT desperate, etc.

I also posted later that maybe I misunderstood what the original poster was talking about. I originally thought she meant internet dating in general, but now it seems more like she means married men looking for "friends" online, which is totally different and not at all anything I have any knowledge of.

I have no idea, though, what your comment about "DC" is regarding. I didn't say anything at all about a "DC."

I've said it before and I'll say it again...back that sh^t up with a specific name or a place so there can be actual consequences.  I can throw anything in quotes and say I heard it from somewhere or someone.  It holds no water and only serves to get people workedup for an invisible fight.

Am I doubting what she heard is true?  Maybe, maybe not.  It can't be proven because there is no factual evidence provided.  However, my mother was an LPN and she always said her higherups referred to her as nothing more than an overpaid candystriper or overpaid a$$ wiper.  My father, a machine mechanic, said he was referred to as an overpaid janitor.  It's a wicked old and wicked lame argument to get the reader or listener riled up to basically do nothing and it's amateur stuff.  But, that's just me. 

SHOW US THE NAMES!  Then we can gather our pitchforks, burning keyboards, and Betty Crocker aprons and go to war!

to pay him a cool 1 million dollars.  You can check this out at the Medquist website.   I think the CFO makes $350,000 a year, and the head of IT makes $250.000 a year.

P.S.  This does not include the perks, like expense account, car allowance, sign-on bonus, etc.