Afraid to lose your job? Go and fight with your cats! .nm

• Please answer my question: sm - mm
  • Not all companies use "markers." We - SM
  • By the way....... - mm
  • I also want to thank DeeAnn who answered - mm
  • I want to thank 'Explaiing Ebonics' and 'Happy MTRobin' - mm
    • By the way, mm, did your original question ever get answered? - Explaining Ebonics
      • Thank you so much 'Explaining Ebonics'! - mm
        • more on blanks - Explaining Ebonics
          • Thank you, Explaining Ebonics, this all - mm
        • it's just that it is a difficult question - sa
          • sa, thank you so much, this answered all my questions...nm - mm
  • When did MTs become a bunch - Happy MT Robin
    • Well put. Robin. - Cece
    • No one was being PARANOID except the OP - NOT Paranoid/NOT Worried
    • The 'unusual' in my post was that I was too polite. - mm
      • And to top it off, I send a THANK YOU not to the - mm
        • NOTE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nm - mm
          • LOL, but to the rude ones.....sm - Ella (retired)
            • nothing what you say makes any sense! - mm
              • Leave me alone. nm - Ella (retired)
  • Depends on your company. One I work--sm - DeeAnn
    • Thank you for your - mm
      • Are you in India? - Curious
        • Just curious: I RESIDE IN NEW YORK and you in a little village in the Midwest, right?...nm - mm
        • What is YOUR USUAL English?...sm - mm
          • I just speak plain ole Texas vernacular....sm - Ella (retired)
            • How are WE supposed to understand you?...nm - mm
              • WE understood her just fine - Happy MT Robin
                • Robin, you're a delight, always so positive. ) nm - Ella (retired)
              • Just don't read my posts. :) nm - Ella (retired)
        • Does that make a difference to you? nm - Just Me
          • Makes a difference to me. - Catfight
            • Afraid to lose your job? Go and fight with your cats! .nm - Meow, Meow!
            • THANK YOU........sm - USA MT
              • Honestly, and no bad feelings, but .... - mm
          • Obviously not - Curious
            • YOU ARE BIZARRE !...nm - mm
              • Did you say bezoar? :D :D nm - Ella (retired)
              • And YOU are a tad too defensive - Curious
                • Geeez, do you imply that you still doubt that I am an - mm
                  • So do I, LOL.....sm - Ella (retired native Texan MT)
                • Yes, it is SHUT UP or APOLOGIZE!...nm - mm
                  • Wow! If my 8 year old used that word S/U - he'd be in time out for a looong time.
                  • Yowza! Them's fightin' words! :D :D nm - Ella (retired)
                  • Wow, its sad y'all don't have anything better to do - like watch TV ?- just got here
                    • Read the WHOLE THREAD, from the begnning,then you'll understand!...sm - mm
            • For CURIOUS: You are not curious, you are paranoid and a sociopath - --
            • True dat. :D sm - Ella (retired)
              • Old lady: What language is: 'Bizoar?' Go to bed!...nm - mm
                • I took it to be a play on words - sa
                • maybe she means 'pissoir', it's French, look it up!...nm - yz
                  • No, no, "bezoar" is a medical term....sm - Ella (retired)
                    • Now I know why they retired you...that's - mm
                      • you must have not done much sm - MT30+
                        • Just glad I never had one! :D :D nm - Ella (retired)
                      • Here's the definition I found: sm - Ella (retired)
                        • This is the definition I found, it's - mm
                          • Let's move on to something else. :D nm - Ella (retired)
                        • yak and eeewww!...nm - mm
                    • P. S. Google it! :) nm - Ella (retired)
              • spare your weird comments....little old ladies should stay in bed....nm - mm
                • Zzzzzz! :D Don't feed the trolls. nm - Ella (retired)
              • whaqt is this supposed to mean at the end of your posts: D?...Enlighten me!...nm - -
                • It's the chat board version of a smile - Happy MT Robin
                  • And:.........sm - mm
                  • Apparently - PassingThru
                    • It is not that I am 'frothing' at my mouth - mm
                  • She made a weird comment to the post - mm
                    • No time right now, gotta go....sm - Ella (retired)
                    • I did read the thread - Happy MT Robin
                      • Never would post a thing like that...sm - Ella (retired)
                      • No, 'curious' posted under 'obviously not' - mm
                        • "true dat" - innocent bystander who did real the whole thread
                          • In her post 'True dat' she writes: - mm
                            • We don't know. :D :D - Ella (retired)
                              • Ebonics - Explaining Ebonics
                                • I love it! sm - Ella (retired)
                                • Sometimes, when they let an Indian speak - mm
                                  • If you've never heard of Ebonics, you can't possibly be in NY - LOL
                                    • what garbage! - mm
                                    • Well, as for me, I always feel flattered....sm - Ella (retired)
                                  • axe vs. ask, wrench vs. rinse - Explaining Ebonics
                                    • Do you want to tell me that 'curious' - mm
                                      • Syntax Report - Explaining Ebonics
                            • For Pete's sake, let it go - Happy MT Robin
                              • o.k, thanks...................nm - mm
                            • Ya ain't helping yourself - MTTwo
                              • BINGO - LOL
                              • What are you talking about? You are certainly confused - mm
                                • Oh, for crying out loud, let it go. nm - Ella (retired)
                        • dude, I'm agreeing with you - Happy MT Robin
                          • Thank you 'Happy Robin'.....sm - mm
              • It is better that you stay 'retired.'.....nm - mm
                • Personal insults are unprofessional. nm - Ella (retired)

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to whiney MTs in their quest for the bottom line profits.  There are too many other people who will happy to work for less just for the opportunity to work at home and then again there are those offshore who will work for even less for the opportunity to simply work, any where, any time, any place.

And as far as battles go, who you going after and how do you prove you were wronged. 

Then factor in the MTs who are getting the good reports.  Are they going to fight the cherry-picking unethical battle with you.

Sorry it's a lost cause and it is the nature of the business.  Maybe 10 years ago you might have had a chance.  Nevermore.  That is reality. 

I saw the show with Sarah Bernhardt and she was a *guest* and was treated so poorly by Star and Elisabeth that day.  Star and Elisabeth didn't like Sarah's politics or view and attacked Sarah....Star by saying *I'm looking too cute today to be bothered by the likes of you* or words to that very effect....and then the Honey line by Elisabeth......

Is this the way people treat GUESTS?  I think not.  The show reached it's lowest point on that day, in my opinion.

I think the show will not survive..........whether or not Rosie or anyone else steps in.  It's time to retire the show.  It's beyond *leaving gracefully* now.  And though I hate to say it, Barbara Walter's credibility is now pretty much shot to heck......because of this show.

refuse to work for companies like this. I've said it many times before. I have worked at two hospitals as an at-home employee. Many accounts for other hospitals, fill-in stuff, doctors' offices.

The company I work for ow is pretty large, its employees national, from PA to Alaska.

We do have account specifics. But somehow, some way, the MTSO has always kept our "welfare" first and foremost, except for some niggling problems with turnaround time that *I* don't agree with. They are fairly minor, I just get aggravated over the hospital thinking they own us.

We are assigned a certain number of minutes a day...whatever we've asked to get. If we do that in 15 minutes, wonderful. We just made a jillion dollars an hour. If it takes us 10 hours, well, we made less.

We can plan our lives. We make decent money. She absolutely does NOT let anybody pull the above crappola on us. There's somebody else on this board who works for the same person. I imagine she feels pretty much the way I do, but I can't swear to that.

Please tell me if I am wrong.  I told my husband that I need an ergonomic keyboard now as my hand and arm have been sore and achy recently.  I am going to do whatever I can to avoid CTS.  Well, bills are tight, of course.  The thing is I asked him IF we can swing it anytime soon, can we get one.  Here's the thing:  I take $100 out of my paycheck every 2 weeks for spending money, i.e. going to lunch with friends, w/ my kids mind you.  He tells me to use my spending money to but the keyboard instead of going to lunch.  Okay.  The thing is lunch every couple of weeks is the only time, and I mean only time, that I get to go anywhere due to time/money issues.  HE on the other hand constantly goes to his dad's after work, where all the boys hang out, and comes home after a couple/few hours of hanging out.  That does not bother me.  What bothers me is that he doesn't get that it will always cost money for me to go out because either we pay a sitter or I have to pay for something,  Lucky him that the beer is provided.  Must be nice to have your freedom.  I don't think he really gets how good he has it.  I am the only wife that doesn't give him an earful when he comes home after being out with the guys. 

Am I being a shrew?

I find that after a certain amount of hours, say 4 or 5, my arms and hands turn to jelly, and my body gets sore and fatigued from sitting in a chair. It is to the point where I actually dread working. And it's not because the work is hard, because it isn't. It's because it takes a lot of of me physically.

My question is, what are some tips to help fight fatigue? It's almost to the point where I want to only do MT for 4 hours and find another job to do for 4 hours a day, one that doesn't demand so much physically. Although I wouldn't mind doing this until I retire, what it does to your body pretty much has made that not an option for me.

Said he is going to fight against that medical records thing.  Didn't mean offshoring, does not sound like he has any idea about that happening to our medical records.

Why would they deny it?  Unless it's an unauthorized procedure via HMO.  Bleah.  I'd also talk with your daughter to see if she has concerns.  Be patient, though.  She'll talk to you if she knows you'll talk with her instead of yelling at her.

I'm fighting a bill for several thousand dollars that has been denied three times now in the past 18 months.  However, I legitimately had dual insurance coverage at the time, so I shouldn't have had to pay anything out of pocket.

seeing one of those earlier Star Wars movies, maybe the first one, and some guy next to me had a little about 2-1/2 to 3 with him.  That kids are TERRIFIED, keping asking "what's that Daddy, why's he doing that Daddy, DADDY DADDY!"

Have people lost their brains?  Kids can't process all this stuff.  Let them watch Thomas the Train or Little Bear and let them be kids.

in he political system.  These politicians are bought by special interests.  Many of the people with special interests are corporations, insurance companies, etc.  They have major money to contribute to run a politician's campaign.  Both Democrats and Republicans take this money.  So if both the politicians are in need of money to win an election and you and I can provide the money the special interests are going to be heard above and beyond the little guy with a beer in his hand who is working 8-5 and wouldn't know how to organize a revolution if he had an instruction book.  Besides he is too darn tired and has to mow the grass, take the kids to the movies, etc, etc, etc. 

So you got both parties taking special interest money in return for favors granted (or the funding is stopped and the party can't win) What is the American public going to do?  Not vote?  You only get two choices and the system is corrupt.  What do you do?  Once again, you are assuming the American public is intelligent and united.  If you read posts or editorials anywhere you will see the American public is divided led by sound bites or blind loyalty to a political party.  You aren't going to see anyone overthrow this government in this lifetime.  People in power are not going to give it up to let Joe-Six-Pack run the country on his $100 day budget to campaign.  It is sad but true.  We have been led down a path that it is too late to turn back.  While the politicians were passing these laws to allow offshoring/outsourcing, we were watching TV or busy with daily activities of living, thinking this will never affect me.  And it's the same deal now. 

Anybody agree on who should be president?  How about Iraq war?  Anybody agree on forcing the national companies to pay us more for MT?  Come on.  Be real.  You can't unite this country on the smallest issues.

The Four Bumpas Brothers (so called because they love each other so much and are alway bumping heads together) who are Big, Baby Dogfood, Baby and Smokey Bumpas. Mr. Atticus Pinkas, because when we got him he lived in the attic for weeks and always comes down with pink insulation on him. Mr. French (he just looks like he would be French with his moustache). Dead-eye Lil, who obviously has one bad eye, her babies Paper and Plastic (they were born last week in a brown paper grocery sack) Sherbie, who is an orange barn cat. Old Dogfood, who came with the place we bought 10 years ago and is also a barn cat. All of these are outside cats, except Mr. Pinkas, who fears the outside world! The others were all drop offs and strays. Living in the country we get a lot of these!

Depending on the cat of course. Had a neighbor who had kittens that would play with the baby skunks and the momma skunk would just sit and watch.

I delivered newspapers for 4 years and never got sprayed.  Just stand still and they go away.  They're basically nonagressive unless they feel threatened.

I have an albino cat that was meowing in the garage one night and I opened the door a crack and they were nose to nose, like they were talking to each other.  Weird.  Actually my cat was probably saying, "Hey buddy, thanks for opening that garbage bag, they had KFC last night."

they are pretty independent, try not to worry too much.

I live in the country and we get strays and drop offs all the time, we have 9 right now, as some people who were renting a small home near ours moved without taking their cats! Imagine that...I have a very soft spot for animals, much to my husband's dismay at times, so I at least make sure they are fed to keep them from wandering onto the highway to who know's what fate! 

Good luck, let us know!