Brain surgeons and the U.S. President take vacations; so can you. The world won't stop if you do!

• Dealing with burnout - Lynn Jacoby
  • You also couldn't afford a breakdown - sm plz - Bobbie
  • I work the same way you do. - We're alike
  • Brain surgeons and the U.S. President take vacations; so can you. The world won't stop if you do! - Amanda
    • the president's vacation isn't long enough. needs to be permanent. - fg
    • If I made $250,000 a year and had Air Force One to myself, I'd - apples 'n oranges
      • Best post all day. Thank you. (nm) - reality check
    • Maybe she works because she needs to - just passing
      • I'd love a vacation, but cannot afford it - Lynn
        • I feel your pain, Lynn sm - eyetoeye
          • Now I don't feel so alone - Lynn Jacoby
  • must do vacations! - Mom-CMT

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She has a very monotone way of speaking and never pauses between sentences.  Rarely dictates a period or any other punctuation.  Most of the time I can figure out what she is saying, but she also has a sort of stream-of-conscious way of dictating that strings things all along together.  If I can't figure out clearly what it is that she's saying I leave it all as she dictates it.   Like you, haven't had any fall out from that tactic, either.

I type for three hand surgeons and I have yet to see a WC claim go through without a big, big fight to pay for carpal tunnel surgery.  Yet if you use any pneumonic tools, or drive and clinch a steering wheel -- truck driver, they will pay.  But they seriously say that it is not the typing that causes it and will find some underlying cause to be the primary cause of it.  All three docs agree.   I got CT when I was working in the hospital answering phones a lot and clinching the phone and had the surgery -- 20 years ago.  Now with typing sometimes 10 hours a day, never have a problem but guess I am lucky.  Anyway you can try but it is a long, slow battle for you to climb and you will definitely need an attorney.  Watch out if you are more than 15 to 20% overweight also, they will blame it on that.

Patti

tapes I really do Monday thru Wednesday, Thursday my day off but if there are tapes here, I do them and pass on the day off.....

Yep, there will always be the smaller office or the MDs who like the personal touch of us doing personal deliveries, having just ONE MT do their work.....and these guys are all in their 30-40s.....they will not change because I have had them for YEARS..... and they are all within 8 miles of my home....I'm lucky

It is very_difficult to get time off for vacation when you work for yourself and cut out middle people......I do exactly that and I haven't had a vacation since 2005 and before that during 9/11/01.  The offices may understand and allow you 2 weeks but then you have to play *catch-up* when you return, trying to bring them all current.

It's a trade-off for sure, unless you have friends that can cover your vacation time and who you trust with the work. 

I visit a local political board that is primarily conservative (something I am totally not, but it's still fun to go watch the "fireworks") and even the hardcore Republicans are peeved at him.  Apparently this immigration "amnesty" bill he's pushing has really not settled very well with his "peeps."  I didn't vote for him twice, so my conscience is clear, but I still think he's a tool, president or not.  I never had respect for him and never will.  I know I am not alone either and I'm sorry if that offends you, but I'm exercising one of the primary freedoms that our poor soldiers are dying and getting wounded for--freedom of speech. 

Here's MY letter--below--to our President.  Our jobs are going people.  But our president has other plans.  To the poster below--do you think that lovely older woman who asked the question about offshoring--or any of us lovely people sitting comfortably in our home offices right now working--are cut out for jobs such as (taken from the transcript) building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs ??  Are you ready to climb a friggen wind turbine and service the propellers? 

I was so upset with his answer.  First, I called the White House.  This is our right.  You ALL should do that.  Second I wrote the following letter to the President.  My own little two cents.  Then I copied it to every news agency out there that I could think of.  Again, just my two cents.  You all should do the same.  Let him know that his answer just will not do.  What are we all supposed to do, in the meantime, to buy food and pay our bills before we get trained to build turbines, solar panels, or go to the lab to create the next biofuel? 

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President Obama—

You owe the American displaced workers an apology. 

How dare you. 

I am shocked at your response to the video question about the offshoring of American jobs.  How dare you say to us that we don’t want those jobs that are going offshore anyway.  Mr. President, for those of us who have lost or are about to lose our jobs to offshoring, yes we DO want our jobs. 

You then went on to blame offshoring on the credit situation.  Oh come on! The financial disaster has nothing to do with offshoring.  Offshoring is the bastard child of government ineptitude and the corporate greed running rampant in our country.  Offshoring means getting the same job done by cheap third-world labor.  Offshoring is about not paying decent wages and benefits.  Offshoring is about stuffing corporate pockets with more money. 

If there was an international symbol for offshoring, it would be a picture of a CEO’s heel grinding into a third-world worker’s back. 

These greedy corporations have sold out the American worker and are stepping on the backs of the low-wage third-world workers .

I am outraged.  I DID go to school Mr. President.  I HAVE a degree.  I have invested thousands of dollars into reference materials and equipment to help me perform my job better.  I also have invested almost 30 years to my career.  My career is very technical.  I could rattle off a bunch of words here for you, and I bet you would not know what they mean.  But I do.  And I have performed my job with pride all these years. 

How dare you brush off the offshoring question with such simplicity.

Well, I would rather Americans have jobs, not undereducated or poorly educated third world nations. 

A lot of the work from my field goes to India, Phillipines and Pakistan.  Didn’t I see a group of Pakistani’s burning the American Flag on TV recently?  Do you know that when my company’s work goes offshore, it contains the name, birth date and social security numbers of Americans?  This is information,  that in the wrong hands, could be used to ruin someone’s life.  How can we be sure in countries with unstable governments, with such widespread hatred for America, with the arrogance to burn the American Flag on national TV, that this information will be guarded with care?  The sad part is, after the Pakistani’s anti-American demonstration, chances are they all went back to work---doing jobs taken from Americans. 

How dare you say we don’t want our jobs.  What is your solution?  Wait for these “green jobs”  to be created some day?  Go to school while we are waiting and then hope that we will be hired when we are in our golden years? 

How dare you belittle what we all have worked so hard to achieve in our lives.  Not  all offshored jobs are call center jobs.  Many of those jobs are now degreed and highly skilled jobs also. 

And—your comment about our children becoming engineers was laughable.  With all due respect—get with it sir—those jobs are also being offshored.   Also, what are we, the displaced workers, many of us middle age, supposed to do in the meantime before we get trained to build solar panels, wind turbines and create biofuels.  How should be pay for our food and our rents and mortgages? 

No, Mr.  President, you are so very incorrect.  We DO want those jobs.  They feed us, clothe us, and keep us off the street.  Not to mention they help us strengthen the tax base in our own country--America. 

Yes, We WANT our jobs, Mr. President. 

You owe all the displaced American workers an apology. 

You Are Wrong. 

Whether or not you like him, he is still the President and that office should be respected. Unfortunately, your statement is reflective of the mindset and mentality of many in our country. And people have to ask why the rest of the world doesn't like us--we don't even like each other.

At the very least you should be respectful of those in positions of authority. It's modeling of appropriate behavior that our children see and emulate themselves.