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Did try - it caused my supe to giggle :{ NM

Posted By: lallapalooza on 2006-08-13
In Reply to: How about at least trying to negotiate for a - raise? Harder work should equal better pay.

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giggle

How's about 4 oz every hour? Can you do that?

And believe me, initially you'll piddle a lot but after a while your body retains what it needs and you won't go as much.


Should I say something to my supe?

I just got someone's report they transcribed with the header typed as follows:


CT OF THE CHEST WITH CONTRAST @ 2:00 A.M. 9/22/05


I've never seen the @ symbol used this way! Clever, yes, but appropriate? I don't want to get someone in trouble but I'm wondering if I should tell my supe? Account is not the strictest with punctuation, but this just really floored me! Should I just mind my own damn business?


My supe puts NOTHING in an email

other than her little account update. She will NOT respond to an email (nothing in writing) to any questions at all -- she picks up the phone and calls.  I have sent her several emails with concerns -- NO RESPONSE -- but my phone will ring at home -- I guess I will start recording my phone conversations with her !!!


I have asked for a LONG TIME about my account "going bye bye", and because the work was no longer there. Only this week did she say that it had gone to VR -- she would not put that in writing, or even hint that the account was going by the way, and believe me, I have asked her where the work has gone. When you have been on an account for a long time, an MT knows when the works "dries up." Doesn't she?


So basically, the supe's responsibilities are to email account updates 2 or 3 times a day, beg for the MT to take on ANOTHER new account that she has been handed down to her team (to slow the MT down), beg for the MT to work WHEN SHE NEEDS YOU (not when you were scheduled to work -- because the overseas MT's was not going to work that day and she needs you, or ASR equipment was down), be team cheerleader in an email occasionally when you have made HER look good, take care of the little kids they have at home with them. That pretty well describes the supe on my team.


Your supe sounds like ours! (Except ours ain't married). (sm)
Ours is a pathological liar, and an outright head case. up and down like a yo-yo, so I think she should get her meds readjusted! And just like yours, ours goes and tells supposedly *confidential* things about other employees. When that gets boring, she lies. Boy, does she LIE! But even though some have been the types of lies that should have gotten her fired, she is still there. Yet if we so much as come in to work 5 min. late, she's ready to have us sacked. Never mind that she comes in late, takes 2 hr. lunches, and leaves 1-2 hrs. early! She sits in her office all day with the door shut and does NOTHING but surf the internet, and then has the gall to actually SCREAM at us if we fall behind in our line counts.

Why was she hired, you ask? Because HER supervisor is just as much of a jerk-off as she is. So of course she has to hire someone even more pathetic, so she doesn't look bad. Its all about image. Make that next Lexus payment, but never mind not being an ethical person. Management at that place is so corrupt, you'd think our establishment was a 3rd World country, or something.
I talked to my supe and she said the same thing.
She then said that some people can make 1800 lines a day on that account so it can be done but I guess not by me.  I have to work from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. to get it all in and I do not want to have to work like that.  Too much computer time makes me cranky. 
Usually bonuses are not under a supe's control

Employee Relations or your supe, I imagine. SM
Sorry, but I'm not going to give out any names/emails/phone on this forum. You must have some contact information, I'd imagine.
I send my nat'l supe/family sweets
My private offices get a beautiful basket of food every winter holiday season and my supervisor at a national I moonlight for on weekends gets a gift to the home with sweets for the family/kids.....
same supe 5 years, help desk always decent
5000 employees here in the U.S. and 500+ accounts. Never had a bad experience with help desk; treat them decent, they will return decent. Several supervisors have ran same accounts for years. With a huge company like this there will always be some disgruntled employees. Pros and cons to all companies....I left twice to 2 other companies and returned.
Email your supe to make sure they activated your work pool
I had this happen at another company. The supe had failed to add any accounts to my work pool.
Do you know what caused the ....sm
water damage?  Is it something that could happen again like flooding??  I would certainly wait until after inspection.  Personally, though, I would probalby keep looking.  Do you have a realtor?  They could answer your money questions.
Hey Susan..I don't think it really caused any flames.
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I bought one of those cat fountains and it caused
A brown area on the white fram around the plug. I sent it back and got my money back. Most of this stuff is made in China now and I think they use cheap wiring. I was glad I was home and noticed it because it could have melted the plug and started a fire.
I am pretty sure braces CAUSED my DD's TMJ
She never had it before she had braces, and has had it ever since.  I started to do some research on the web about it, and it seems it is pretty common for orthodontists to line up the TEETH, but not the jaws - which is kind of a DUH thing to me.   I mean, you would expect an orthodontist to know they needed to have both in line, right?  My DD's teeth look beautifully straight, but her jaws click and sometimes get stuck.
caused me to go severely in debt
that 10 years later I am still recovering from - was writing checks on charge accounts to pay mortgage - this was local and when I would go to her house to pick up and drop off tapes I was seeing boxes from QVC yet she said she wasn't getting paid.  Still angry. 
I have heard that this can often be caused by stress.
In the early years of my first marriage, my husband soaked the sheets nightly. He was in the middle of a nasty divorce and child custody case. When those issues resolved, the night sweats disappeared.
Here's a different perspective on what really caused lung cancer.
http://www.vialls.com/transpositions/smoking.html
That is what caused me to be unable to transcribe anymore.
I have to do QA now and it is a good thing I like QA, but I cannot do anymore transcribing due to the mess it has made of my back and to my hands/wrists. I also did minimally 2200 lines in 5 hours and have done as many as 3200 before. Those were the good ole days. Do it while you can because at that rate, it takes its toll on our body.


Apologies all around, we experienced a glitch that caused
the content on the inside of the post to not belong to the original job ad post. The error has been rectified.
chapped lips are caused from dehydration in the beginning and sm
chapsticks are a chain reaction causing continual need.
I read a book once that burnout was caused by being out of balance. sm
Working too much and not giving time to other parts of your life is the culprit in the job arena. Variety is the spice of life, so focusing on balancing your job, your need for a good cash flow, with times to enjoy yourself is essential.

It takes work, and fortunately I have an S/O that demands that I take time for us to have fun and for "me" to have fun as an individual.

Mwahahaha. Just call me the dealer that caused the shuffle. SM


I'm like you, I couldn't understand how this particular subject could cause such a ruckus.  I got a little picky about how the question should be answered because there are many variables when talking about line counts.


So I'm just going to give my answer and hope that this helps you.


I work 8 hours a day and my line count is based on a 65 character line with spaces.


In an 8-hour day, with very few interruptions, I produce 1800 to 2000 lines a day.  If the kids are home (as they are today), my production will slip to around 1500, sometimes even lower, but let's not talk about those days! 


My headaches were caused by a bad chair! My boss told me about the same thing and sm
I went out and bought a new chair. No more headaches. That was 4 years ago and it still ticks me off that I had a headache for 5 months that no one had a reason for. Turns out that my chair was tilting funny and I was over-compensating for it without realizing that it was off balance.

Yes, I work 80-90 hours a week. I am going to stop because life is passing me by and it has caused
depression. There is no way mentally or physically you can keep up the pace. It is finally getting to me and I now realize there are more important things in life than work.  I have been a workaholic all of my life. It started as an escape to a bad marriage but I ended up missing my kids grow up, I've lost friends because I have no time for them, and this is my last chance with an 8-year-old child left at home to get it right and put my family first. It means giving up a lot of "material things" but what do they matter when all you need is the love of your family. I'd never recommend this to anyone.
Sounds like Rodney King after he wreaked havoc and caused a great race riot.
Quit calling people FOOLS and then asking if we can't get along. 
All I know is it caused the company I work for to be unable to do all work due today and the rest
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