EEEEEEEW! He was ugly decades ago and now he's ancient and uglier!
Posted By: nas-T on 2006-06-15
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I have this ANCIENT OmniKey 101
that weighs like 10 pounds, I swear is from the 1980s IBM computer days, complete with those AWESOME light-touch clickety-clak keys, and there is NO sign of wear on this puppy. I used to blow through 1 or 2 keyboards a year and this baby is absolutely the hardest working piece of equipment I have ever had the pleasure of owning.
If you like this style of clickey keys, I got this one off E-Bay and it's called an Omni Key 101 by Northgate. It's definitely old school....not pretty, no fancy light-up keys, but my fingers absolutely FLY on this thing and I highly recommend it. Of course, I use the noise-cancelling earbuds so I don't hear the clicky keys, but the response time is second to none.
Working fro ancient memory here, but I think you use
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Ancient stuff from when puters first came out. WP5.1 was a DOS program. Don't even know if DOS co
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At 3 decades in, I'd more than likely
...hate most everyone by that time, not just QA. lol
Probably have to change my name too - Miserable&MoodyMT.
I see this whole discussion has gone and blown up into a battle of MT vs QA.
I'm an ME on SR part time, so I know how involved/time consuming it can be with editing reports. ME is a step lower than QA editor, but basically the same type of job, minus any MT feedback. Sometimes it isn't as simple as filling in a blank, especially when you know you are dealing with a novice, or in my case, SR couldn't understand what it was hearing and put anything in the report. Just ended my night off with a horrid 64-line report that I would have gotten through quicker had I typed it myself and deleted what was there.
Decades as MT
Started out in 1965 putting carbon paper between sheets for radiology reports, went through IBM mag cards doing medical records, IBM Selectric, Lanier teeny-weeny screen computers, and on and on . . . Didn't mean to "dis" you. I think it was a generation gap thing : ) I started out making $1.25 an hour, so $20-$30 an hour now seems wonderful to me. Best wishes on re-entering the field, and I mean it sincerely!
They've been using q.i.d., etc. for decades that I know of
and see if you can name one person who had an adverse reaction because someone transcribed that abbreviation in a report. Get over yourself.
The reason the AAMT changed the abbreviation as well as a lot of other ridiculous horse puckey they change and will continue to change is so they can sell a new edition to their Book of Style. PERIOD
You've gotta be kidding me if you believe that baloney.
You are right, but you are a few decades too late --
Even if it did happen decades ago (an MT union), it would have done little good these days. Not to mention that some unions became more corrupt than the companies they were to protect the workers from.
Also--Have you heard about this new fangled thing called "offshoring?"
Ooooh, Let me tell you about it--It's an amazing process:
1. Over-paid, greedy corporate swines take great jobs from perfectly competent American workers.
2. The swines strip the jobs of all decent benefits/wages/perks.
3. The stripped down jobs are then doled out to low-wage, low-skilled "workers" in third-world countries at a small percentage of original base salaries.
4. The CEOs then stuff their already over-stuffed pockets with cash they save by hiring cheap labor and not paying decent wages/benefits.
5. The American workers are then left scurrying, collecting unemployment, looking for another job, considering going back to school or selling roses on the street corners, whatever works for them, to make their ends meet.
What a process!! Amazing!! So American, isn't it??
To try to form a union now would be a pointless, no-win situation (we are all too scattered, there is no-one to back us up (think money), there is too much money behind the American CEOs and Indian CEOs that could crush us).
Nice thought, but a little too little too late.
I would say find another career. It is never too late. I am in school now (entirely different field) with a woman in her mid 60s, and she has already had multiple job offers.
I have been trying to fight all of this offshoring for quite a few years now, but I am exhausted and have thrown in the towel and decided I am a valuable employee and have decided to move on and take my experience and skills with me.
Good luck to you in whatever you do.
...not supposed to happen for a few decades, but those of us left
will be needing to really be adaptable and go ahead and learn all the new technology.
like this article says, we also did this to ourselves.
it really is to our benefit to learn the new technology. our biggest threat is not overseas after all, but right here in our own backyards...
funny, but all that will be left some day are service jobs...like you said, nursing. well, perhaps service jobs will have to start paying more as more college-educated people have to do them as well.
I see now MQ is trying to be the innovator. their merge with Philips Medical was just short of genius, really. if this pans out the way this article says, they will be front-runners...
Wait'll you've been in it for THREE decades,
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For decades, a company benefit has been health insurance
along with retirement plans, paid holidays, PTO, etc. Only in the world of MT (and maybe Wal-Mart) are many companies not paying for these benefits.
There are good points and there are bad and ugly points. Unfortunately, the bad and ugly get
deleted. Just the other day there was info and it seems to be more positive. Like any MT job, some love it, some hate it. But, having been employed there, the bad parts are/were true. The changes sound great but not great enough to make me change my mind about working for them. I do say she pays well for the area. She is one of the rare business owners who actually started out as an MT..I think that makes a big difference in pay.
Don't go there!!! It is ugly, ugly, ugly.
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ugly. nm
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No, I wasn't trying to be ugly to ANYONE. I truly was
trying to make some peace.
Goodness gracious.
Sorry folks.
"Because she is fat and ugly and looks like
and she is Amish too
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
I just transferred a whole group of on-site hospital MTs to a MTSO (I'm currently a recruiter). The money they made was amazing, and was killing the hospital. They all now work for a national.
On the flip side, I just went back to work for a hospital as an MT, the job was advertised recently on an MT board. Great bennies, I know the docs already as it is a local account, great pay. They were once with two major national MTSOs, decided they could do a better job themselves...and from what I've seen, I'm sure they do.
Good, bad or UGLY
Geez guys, I see no work, slow work, and when there is work - "it's bad". What does it take to make you people happy???????
ugly names
I used to work with a woman named GayDonna -- yes, that was her REAL name!!!
What is up with that lately. It sounds so ugly!
lol
Good, bad, ugly...
I've worked for several MT companies and have seen "it all" (no flames, I'm sure there are MTs here who have been working longer than I've been breathing). Anyway, have seen MDs who dictate every few words and expect us to fill in the blanks, had MDs who question in the beginning of the report "I wonder how many days until I get this job back, they must type them on the moon or something" etc.... Then there are the gems out there too, ie "I'm sure you can tell I'm dictating from my car, first of all sorry about that, but I'm on my way to a Steelers game, I sure hope you like the Steelers" As with any profession "Takes all kinds" :)
Star Jones gets even more ugly
Butt ugly comes to mind! LOL...nm
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I dont think these are ugly but I'm so sick of
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Precyse. Good, bad, ugly?
thanks!
Kinda ugly?...she's scary looking...
She's way too young to have had all that work done. My guess is it was a mistake when it said Kat's family and friends... apparently she doesn't have anyone except her parents and grandma!
 TAYLOR! TAYLOR! TAYLOR
Do not be ugly to people on their accomplishments. NM
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Platforms - the good, bad, and the ugly!
Would like to know what platforms are user-friendly and which ones slow you down. Currently working on one that slooooows me down so much!!!
Well, Gretchen, I'm old and ugly, but agree...sm
Rude, cruel, insulting people definitely eat roadkill. Best to blow them off. :D :D
Its not that I'm worried about bidding, but if the seller is ugly in
response to neutral or negative feedback I don't wan to deal with them, I don't care if they have a 99% rating. Sure there may be hundreds of positives, but it is their response that I'm looking for to see if I want to deal with this person/company.
Oh, and to the smart-mouthed poster below trying to be ugly to
those who are wanting to know more....SHUT THE H*** UP. You're not helping anyone.
I had to learn how to use macros, word expanders, etc., to get faster and there is no reason why these MTs shouldn't be given insight, hints, and tips to do it either.
Go mind your own business and stop being a snotty jerk.
Fat can be lost but ugly is forever. It must suck
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dress in black and ugly jewely
nope - not a pretty picture and he got ugly..LOL..nm
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Do you have to wear those ugly black burkas?
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that was just plain ugly, sorry I read that post (NM)
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I have had the good, the bad and the ugly in QA people in the past sm
It shapes the way I do my job, on both sides of the equation.
Right now, I am teaching an MT to do acute care with my feedback. I must be doing something right (she is too and trying very hard) because she is progressing so nicely. She does rad too and she said that my help is making her a better rad MT as well.
I so rarely send anything to QA at my other FT job and I had to send one yesterday, the first in over a month! I was so p o 'd, but the doctor threw some obscure equipment at me and I had 7 blanks, but that was for only 3 words I could not document well enough to suit me. My favorite QA gal grabbed it and gave me some feedback on the words and she went on to tell me what a good job I did (not!) because she said that most MTs have 10 to 20 blanks for this same doctor. I almost never have a blank with him, but this one time...it was a complex lower extremity interventional vascular procedure and I am not up on the equipment for those just yet with the switch to cardiovascular from OP notes. I felt like a fool, but she was great.
I have some really awful ones and there is one in particular who comes to mind because of her extremely condescending and childish manner. I actually have the QA position for a gal who was fired because of a similar attitude problem.
As QA, we are around to be the MT's safety net. We here for an extra set of ears so that the document is as full and correct as possible. Providing feedback helps an MT so that the quantity of their work going to QA will diminish. If you really want a justification for your existence as a QA, it is in the number of blanks you fill in and low numbers of jobs you have to review. IT IS NOT a promotion! IT IS NOT job advancement! It is using the knowledge you have gained to help others.
I can sort of understand the attitude because MTs seem to be having more issues with quality than they used to, or so it seems to me. The quality most lacking is a sincere wish to do the job well.
No, don't! This is fun! If you go away, I'll be too tempted to go back up and read those UGLY
posts. I just know that then I will be rather more than irritated! If I read them...I can tell they're horrible...But if we're here, talking about warm milk, and who is who, and why is why, then none of us will have to go back UP and read those...other posts!!
Mine is my mother-in-law. She is so ugly sometimes and then acts like nothing happened later. We jus
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It got quite ugly to the point that I removed the entire thread. We just all don't have
time to pick through and pull out the ugly posts, so in this case, the whole thread went. Franky Boy has been banned.
I just opened the post regarding Jen having an ugly nose and there was the OSi ad. No hunt here. I
the post about Jen's ugly nose lol
I guess they are enjoying their ad campaign on here though trying to drive the moderators nuts
Someone who unfairly grabs the easy stuff instead of doing the good, bad, and ugly,
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I meant it in a good way, and I will not turn this into a huge ugly post.
I am not a "paranoid mass of jelly", for Heaven's sakes! But I have lived thru having neighbor children try to poison my puppies over our fence in similar circumstances - not identical, but similar. These same kids used to stuff picked flowers in my mailbox, and I never knew how to take it. I just asked that she be extra cautious. Obviously you ladies have been blessed with not being confronted in life with strange "encounters" like this - I have, and have tried to learn from it. There used to be no more trusting person than myself. I have learned, though, to be cautious in situations like this - not paranoid, just cautious. Wisdom, some would call it? For what its worth, my sister is a psychiatrist, and she thought the flowers creepy as well, but in a different analytical light - with her mother's and sibling(s) death of late, and her expressing that she wanted the puppy killed, to my sister, she said they could be symbolic of flowers on a grave. Not paranoid - she's nearly 60 years old and deals with school-aged kids on a daily basis. Her "job", so to speak. Again, probably a 100% innocent gesture, but to those of us who have had encounters with the "children from H*ll", it could be eery. My post was meant out of genuine concern for Puppy Mom!
Disney thread still on this page down under the ugly names post. nm
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Again, jealous heads rearing its ugly head. When I said ice cream, sm
I meant I COULD NOT AFFORD TO BUY SQUAT for them. Give me a break. I am not going to Angel Ministries or anything else. And, you have NO idea how much I actually paid for my SUV. There are mini vans out there that take a lot more gas than my SUV!
Ugly, physically repulsive people with nasty attitudes have that effect on me.
Ugly, ugly, ugly
Emdat platform?? Good, bad or ugly? Any info is appreciated. Thanks in advance. NM
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Yeah, no one has ever offered me more, even for ugly ESL accounts. One rate I guess is the standard
Just make sure it's a good fair rate, especially if you do pretty complicated work. There is no way I'd do less than 8 cpl for ESL but may think about it for clinic work. It just has to be fair, which is getting tougher and tougher to get in this biz. Rates get lower but cost of living is going up and up.
What an ugly thing to post. Your job could be outsourced tomorrow, sweetie. FYI...Job security
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Not conducive! LOL...ugly U-shaped metal desk facing a couch with a TV on a dresser out
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