Dianne, Folks like you wouldn't know the truth

• I really wish - MTNY
  • okay to better explain my POV - befuddled
    • Enuff already! Please! We get it! - VoiceWreck
    • Okay, can we all get off this subject - nn-no name
  • There are negative things happening in the MT field that's why - ARK MT
    • Agree and have something to add! - sm
      • And yes, I know I spelled cystoscopy wrong......... - cystocoscopy - LOL! nm
    • That's still no excuse to be rude and critical, or abusive - nn
  • There are lots of us out here who agree with - VoiceWreck
    • Guess you are right - nn
      • I know its hard! I have one calling me and - VoiceWreck
      • yes me too nn - i need to be reminded not to feed the trolls - - MT NY
        • Yes. We ARE better than that - nn
  • what is up with this group today? - putting myself in time out
  • You start your message with a flaming face emoticon - and then complain about negativity - sm
    • Poster do not insert the flame icon. (SM) - Goldbird (Moderator)
      • Okay, I'll say this differently this time - The content of the message starts with a
        • Your point is mud. The flame is not inserted by the poster. (SM) - Goldbird (Moderator)
          • Goldbird - IMA_MT
          • not trying to disrupt anything, honestly - befuddled
          • She is talking about the little face posters add INSIDE the message I think. nm - another view
            • I think she meant this one... - SM
    • The flame comes from the message - nn
      • I can't even offer a comment to you. - Carlos Mencia-dududo! - NM
      • She starts her post with a - sm
  • You're right - Dianne
    • Dianne, Folks like you wouldn't know the truth - VoiceWreck
    • Weren't you ever taught that if you - nn
    • oh please - stop wasting my time - MTNY
      • Golly. All that nastiness directed at someone who agreed with you? - Dianne
        • no dear - look closely - it was for you-nm - MTNY
          • That's what I meant. I agreed with you. - Dianne
            • geez - nn
          • yup, sure was--for Dianne - nm - nn
  • It would be nice if there was a reality board - Beezle
    • Reality is one thing but - nn
      • exactly right nn - MT NY
        • No I don't think so. Everytime I see postings about the MT market failing it gets pegged as "n - ARK MT
        • Thank you. At least there is one other - nn
  • It's part of life - me2
  • It's really strange that you post this when there is no negativity here, - me
    • Don't be perplexed "me" - MT NY
      • No, that was my thought about u. No longer perplexed. nm - me
    • In fact, upon further searching, I see very few negative posts - in a few days or so. me
      • to "me", you should further review - IMA_MT
    • you missed them - they got deleted by the administrator nm - MT NY
      • Then it's already gone, why post a complaint? - me
        • Apparently you did not read everything - nn
          • Must have been my ability to overlook. Now that it's pointed out, - me
            • LOL - I'm with you. nm - Mimi
          • I agree..."me" should read those posts. very negative. NM. - IMA_MT

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she does speak the truth when it comes to legal issues only.

Oh, yeah, she really *told the truth on Larry King* - N_O_T - it was her interpretation of the truth.  And again, she said *medical intervention* with her weight...another lie.  It would be *surgical intervention* as any good MT knows.

Give me a break!  I hope Jones' career goes right downhill.....she is soooooooooooo self-absorbed ALL the time.

And remember, what goes around comes back around and does bite!

8 cpl is about the top out in the US MT industry. If you're making more consider yourself lucky because it just might be snatched away from you at any moment. For the 14 cent per liner, good for you! You went out and got your own accounts. Others should follow your example. As far as the "stupid" MT comment, keep in mind that she was not consistent and **often** had one excuse after another not to work, yet I could see her online and when I would ask her why she was online she would give VERY lame excuses.  Also, keep in mind that I also was the one who helped this gal out monetarily to begin with and she took advantage of my generosity.  Don't make me out to be the bad gal here just because I own a service.  The shoe could easily be on your foot.

So, NEWS FLASH, if you have an MT position that is paying more than 8 cpl, consider it a real blessing and pray that your job isn't outsourced offshore. 

years experience as an MT.  I say misfortune because MTs with this much experience usually have gigantic egos and feel like they've "seen it all and done it all."  They simply don't make mistakes.  Not possible, no way.  This particular MT became irate with me.  She actually threw her 20+ years experience in my face and said "I've been doing this for over 20 years, I think I know what I'm doing!"  It was painfully obvious, she did not have a clue.  She'd been doing it wrong for 20 years and no one ever told her, so she thought she was right.

I had another MT with 10 years experience call me to scream at me and hung up on me when I tried to explain her errors to her.

The plain truth is, some people can't take criticism whether it be constructive or destructive.  They don't like to be wrong or be told their wrong.  Egos get in the way.  We are all guilty of letting our egos get in the way from time to time, but in this field, you need to be willing to admit you're wrong and you need to be able to accept criticism gracefully and give criticism diplomatically.

As an editor, I encourage MTs to let me know if they disagree with any corrections I've made.  I am happy to provide MTs with my reference materials and resources.  I am happy to admit when I am wrong and I am happy to say that I make mistakes too.  Just don't try to tell me that an MT with 16 years experience can't possibly be making terminology mistakes - she can and probably has in the past and will again in the future.

Hey there all you Indepedent contractor folks.  Just want to take a quick poll and see if you are happy being independent.  I am thinking of the making the jump over from employee to IC.  Just want to see and get a quick glance and see if you are happy or not so happy with being IC. 

Right now McDonald's in our town starts employees at $8/hour and pays benefits and some school benefits.

I have worked 30 years in transcription and make less now than I did in 1985.  That's 20 years ago.  I know more and earn less.  In fact I am a fraction above poverty level.

If you don't think MQ is getting ready to take us all below poverty level right down there with Mexico City, just hide and watch.  Or rather, sit here and think you are with a "good" company.  I didn't, because they are making millions in profit off your hard work and not sharing a penny of it with you. 

In the old days an employer spread the wealth of the company with the employees who made it happen.  This group has never heard of the concept.

I can really relate to your situation and wanted to tell you this story. 

I live at the base of a mountain.  There is an RV place out here and every winter the hunters camp and .....leave aggrevation everywhere (garbage).

Yesterday i drove the 15 miles to town to the post office where they know everyone by name.  I was packaging my book to mail and was listening to this conversation:  A gentleman handed a change of address form to the Postmaster. He says," You just moved in that new house on the hill last fall.  Is everything okay"? 

Naturally everyone looks that direction.  The gentleman says " We don't like that housing developement on the hill.  There is way too much snow".

Continuing with his story:  My wife had the kids were in the SUV and the road was covered with snow and ice. (duh, it is all winter long).  She had to stop because of the herd of Elk standing on the hill in the middle of the road.  She slid back down the hill and wouldn't drive up again until I came home from work".

So i have asked my husband for a snow maker!!!!!! Maybe they will all move back to the city.  At the base of this hill, a herd of Elk always graze in the field.  There have been many occassions i drive the grandkids that direction to watch.  The 3-year-old asks to me take him to see the funny cows.

So if anyone has a spare Snowmaker please send it to me.....I would love to drive the rest of the city folk out of there!!  

I think that you thinking you "put yourself through college" when your parents were paying your tuition and rent kind of says this is the pot calling the kettle black. 

What do you think of a manager of many MTs, who shares intimate details with each of us regarding her situation as a wife as well as sharing details of other MTs with each other, some extremely complicated and highly personal, which I believe were given to her in confidence.  Then, having her turn into a professional zealot and alienate us with her emotionless response to us which is such a contradiction to prior interactions that it leaves us spinning and feeling as if we do not know her at all.

I have come upon this before early in my career.  And I would say that changing ths subject in the conversation is the answer so to not end up in this web.  What do you think though?  It is awkward and confusing. 

 She is new at supervision and maybe it can be chocked up to that but she holds a lot of power over us and some whom she confided in during long emotion-filled  conversations, word has it, she has turned against to the point they had to transfer to another department.

It is placing a shadow over the job for me

...We are trying to figure out how to become independent, so we can make better than overseas pay.

I realize that every company/employer is different and some want verbatim transcribed.  At my company, it's never been specified, and so sometimes I trust my judgement to change things as I see fit, and other times, I flag a questionable item and explain my thought process to QA.  Oftentimes, when I do the latter, QA just leaves the questionable item as dictated, and does not respond directly to me regarding my question, which makes me feel ignored.  This leaves me feeling frustrated and feeling like the report may have returned to the doctor not 100% accurate.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about, but it's not necessarily the best example from a cesarean section note:

Rectus muscles were then separated in the midline and the peritoneum identified, tented up and entered sharply with Metzenbaum scissors.  The perineal incision was then extended superiorly and inferiorly, with good visualization of the bladder.

The bolded word is obviously incorrect and should be peritoneal.  Do you think QA and everyone else concerned would appreciate if I just used my brain and fixed this without taking anyone else's time, or is there a chance that using my judgement and changing it would come back to haunt me if this report were pulled for a QA review and someone saw that I didn't transcribe what was dictated?

I'm not a newbie.  I'm been in the MT field for almost 8 years.

really not representing the American Transcriptionist at all. I'm really just speechless. I wonder why they're making such unprofessional attacks on the US transcriptionists. 

The representative who wrote the response is either uninformed or downright deceitful in stating that the Indian transcriptionists want the CMT credentials just to have them. On the contrary, their employers are using it as a tool to get their feet in the door to get American work.

I'm just curious as to how many of Indian CMTs have been grandfathered in (not required to take any testing because of years of experience) because most of the companies who do work with them have to have US transcriptionists do a lot of heavy editing.  If this is the case, then the CMT credential is as worthless as it was 30 years ago.  Sad for our industry, really. 

I wish some retirees would start up another professional organization for US transcriptionists only <hint hint> 

Mine has been daydreaming of Leland from Dog The Bounty Hunter.  Hummina Hummina  What a hunk!   Wooooooooooooooo pour some cold water on me!

Through friends/family?  At school?  Met each other at the grocery store when you reached for the same loaf of bread at the same time?    Through an internet dating site?  

friends on public boards online......you're right, the Gay thing should never have been brought up in public......

some have class and some lack class and are uncouth....

You convinced me that it is better to let something else slide rather than the mortgage payment.  I wasn't sure what would be the outcome as we have never gone past 30 days. 

their folks as did their folks. My point is more and more ESL's are coming into our country and expecting us to learn their language. Would you like to die on the table because the American OR nurse misunderstood the ESL surgeon? I think not.

Furthermore, I think it's great that you are willing to help calm someone's nerves in a crisis, but just the fact that you had to only proves my point. I hope I am never in a situation where I'm being provided medical care in American hospital and feel the need to have a translator, only to find one is not available.

This is just too much fun!