About 4 years ago, it was anywhere around 99 cents to 1.09...now it is 2.41 (could be higher today)

it changes every day -  up, up, and away!

• What does a gallon of gas cost in YOUR town? - yen2772
  • $2.73 here on Vancouver Island, BC Canada - KAZ
  • $2.19 in Joplin, Mo - janeblond
  • About 4 years ago, it was anywhere around 99 cents to 1.09...now it is 2.41 (could be higher today) - NYMT
    • It's $2.25 in upstate NY - NY'er
    • also heating up, utilities up, pay has not gone up...in fact - NYMT
      • I can second everything you just said. nm - INMT
  • gas - msbeanctr
  • Gas - Unknown
  • 2.21 here in North Georgia - GAtrans
  • $2.17 in Savannah, GA - robin
  • $2.29 in Central Maine - Mainer
  • 2.30 (but that was at Sam's Club with the membership card) (nm) - Denise
    • oops... I should have said that I am in Albuquerque, NM (nm) - Denise
  • $2.39 for regular in Boynton Beach, FL. - nm
  • $2.58 for regular in Central Valley, Calif. (NM) - Not driving far!
  • $2.09 in Tappahannock, VA, about $2.26 in Mechanicsville, VA (35 miles South) - Laura E.
  • $2.39/gallon - Philadelphia - nm
  • today it is 2.49 a gallon, NE Indiana - Hoosier MT
  • $2.38 at Shell in Lexington, Ky, but it's the wknd. - memt
  • ($2.89 No. Cal 2 days ago, San Leandro, SE of SF. NM - Margaret
    • I will never complain about $2.12 again! Yikes! - Busy MT'ing
  • It went up to $2.29 yesterday, was $2.16 earlier this week... - Marietta, Georgia
  • 2.16 to 2.19 in Alabama. nm - wannie
  • Lower NY state 2.39 and up. nm - wanderer
  • Gas - Texas
    • Gas - Mary V
    • Gas prices - Northern Arizona
  • Paid $2.69/gallon in So. Cal. today. (nm) - Poindexter
  • I haven't had to fill up in a couple of weeks. - I don't know.
  • $1.99 Wednesday, today $2.11 nm - Southern girl
    • That's what ours cost a year ago! Where in the South are you? - nm

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I cannot believe that this happened to me today.  I went into one of my doctor's offices this afternoon to pick up his tape for today.   I was given a tape and told that his wife, who is the office manager, wanted to see me in her office.  I thought nothing of it because she sometimes has extra things that she wants me to type up for her and we talk quite often also.  

She tells me that she just has not gotten around to talking with me yet, but  "tomorrow we will start dictating through a company over the internet".  I was blown away!  She said she wanted to give me a break and that if it does not work out she will let me know.   The whole time she was tell me this she was writing me a check as I had just turned in an invoice.   

My first inclination was to throw that #@%$ tape at her and say "do it yourself", but I knew that wasn't the "professional thing" to do.  I was thinking how could she do this to me, not even a 24 hour notice.  She handed the check to me, I snatched it and walked out. 

I have had this account for five years exactly (began August 1, 2000).   I have never took a day off, never raised my rates, never asked anything of them, and my work has always been the best possible quality.  I have been the most dependable person they have could had.   I have passed up other accounts because of them, and I always put them first.   Thank goodness I have other accounts to fall back on.   In our town, there is only one other transcriptionist besides myself, and we both have more work than we can handle most of the time.

Just thought I'd remind all those other MTs out there that no matter how good we are and no matter how much we try to please everyone we are still not appreciated.  I will never be fooled again.  No one will ever receive the attention from me that I gave them.  

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

Something should be said about their false adverstisement.  Wal-Mart is not cheaper or more convenient as they say in their commercials.  In the small Wal-Mart you use to be able to run in and pick up something quick but not that is impossible.  A trip to Wal-Mart, no matter how much or what you need it takes over an hour.  Why do they put all those cash register lines in if they do not use them?  A gallon of milk is 30 cents more at WM than my local grocer.  This year, we did not buy any Christmas gifts from WM.  When comparing prices for one large ticket item we bought, WM was $30 dollarge more than the specialty store.  I agree, they are greedy. 

Our community was one of the first in the area to have a Wal-Mart and the only reason for this was because we had a Howard's which went out of business a year after Wal-Mart opened up.  Then they opened up another store in a neighboring community.  Wal-mart stayed open for 20 years (in the terms and agreement) then decided to close and build the super store in the neighboring community.   I admit I still shop at WM for some things but if I have a choice, I go somewhere else.

Here's the thing, you are a business providing them a service.  You don't have to care or hear about their personal issues that keep you from getting paid.  They need to do their jobs.  So if the person who usually cuts the checks is out because she just got married and the person who is now cutting the checks is not reliable, not your problem!  You should go to someone above them and say "listen this is business and I want to be paid!"  I wouldn't type a keystroke until they pay you what you are owed.

Then from this point on, I would let them know in no uncertain terms that you expect to be paid within say 5 business days of receipt of your invoice, or you will charge them a late fee.  Type it on your invoice.

It's tempting to be friends with the office staff and to treat them like friends instead of customers or clients and cut them slack and feel sorry for them when they tell their sad stories, but in the business world a person's personal crap doesn't matter.  Business is business!  You have bills, kids, etc.  You provided a service and you need to be paid on time!  Your paycheck should not depend upon Susie Q's wedding or boyfriend problems or anything else.  Susie Q should be doing her job period!

Thats why they hire minorities, they work cheap, do not complain, and work hard.  Americans are in trouble in regards to job stability because of how everything is computerized now.  I cannot get a live operator on the phone anymore and spend more time punching in the correct number code for my particular question.  Its so frustrating trying to understand someone with a thick heavy accent when you need instructions on how to do something immediately in regards to pc help.  Working for corporations sucks, its cold, unrewarding, and scary.  We all better find something to fall back on.  I hope to work for myself one of these days.