I'm well aware we edit..but someone on here stated

• VR and ASR will never EVER replace MTs - no way...sm
  • That's why we edit it. nm - MQT
    • the post clearly states "replace" so you - missed the point BUT (sm)
      • VR - justanmt
    • I'm well aware we edit..but someone on here stated - we'd eventually be REPLACED. nm
      • my perspective - Snow Bunny
      • Perhaps they meant replaced as in these companies - C-msg
        • and what qualifies somebody to be a - Snow Bunny
        • They are already trying to do that.Offer6-8 cpl - grrr...SM
          • If they want "experienced" then they want to pay - 9 cpl at least. 10+ years

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already brought it to the Docs attention, but he doesn't care as long as he is making money (and he makes it hand over fist).  Without going into detail....should I report him?

of how much grammar rules have changed over the years, particularly when it comes to punctuation. As I said, I learned this long ago. And you are right in saying that the method I was taught is British, although I grew up in a small town in the U.S.  Here is a quote from a British grammar site:

There are peculiar typographical reasons why the period and comma go inside the quotation mark in the United States. The following explanation comes from the "Frequently Asked Questions" file of alt.english.usage: "In the days when printing used raised bits of metal, "." and "," were the most delicate, and were in danger of damage (the face of the piece of type might break off from the body, or be bent or dented from above) if they had a '"' on one side and a blank space on the other. Hence the convention arose of always using '."' and ',"' rather than '".' and '",', regardless of logic." This seems to be an argument to return to something more logical, but there is little impetus to do so within the United States. 

Here is a post buried deep down the page here. (I'm going to repost it here for us to re-read)

I too am refusing to move over to ASR.  and I too run out of work all the time

yet I can dial in and find work later - that was actually on the system for hours

before when I had dialed in earlier and been told NO JOBS! 

SO WHERE HAD THAT JOB BEEN?  WHY DID I GET A MSG THAT THERE WAS NO WORK? ..

The work room has obviously been not truthful with me - and probably others.  Whitewashing it.

So, here it is.  And I agree - Ain't that a great thing for patient care - let the report sit there and "cook" while people decide whether they will do it or not on ASR - then if nobody is going to do it - throw the left-overs to those of us out here starving to death - dialing in for hours finding no work. 

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I don't know about that, but I do know that towards the end of pay period...

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Posted By: MQite (sm) on 2005-09-17
In Reply to: An MQ recruiter told me yesterday if work is low they "cut off" the work - to SEs. And don't tell the

when we run out of work, I have to call in and have them special-assign me the ASR reports that just sit there like a lump and can't come to me automatically anymore since I don't (and won't) do ASR.  Getting sick of it, too. 

At least I do know what's going on now, after researching it via various sources. I pity the others who don't know and just assume there's totally no more work on the account at that point without checking.  Those ASR reports do "turn over" at some point and go automatically to whoever's on, but they have to just sit there for awhile first, waiting for an ASR MT to come and do them.  Isn't that just GREAT for patient care, too? 

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My cockatiels were very messy with food, etc thrown everywhere.  I'm sure a bigger bird will make a bigger mess.  Are there problems with feather "dust" with Greys too?  Cockatiels give off this white dust constantly.  We kept them sprayed with water and that helped.  How often do Greys molt?    

 people are starting to realize that it's not such a great idea to send certain kinds of work overseas. I just saw an article about this recently, here's a link:  

http://www.aamt.org/smf/index.php?topic=3342.0

in this business for 25 years.  Used to be able to charge higher rates, but partly because of offshoring, that is no longer possible.  Raise your rates, and the work will be sent offshore instead.  I see a lot of MTs on this board proclaiming what how much they should get and how much the MTSO should charge, but reality is different.  My accounts are all 14 and 15 cpl.  I pay my MTs 10, 11 and 12 cpl depending on the account. 

Even a hospital MT supervisor told me that their MT department was getting 18 cpl for their MTs to do clinic work for the doctors at the hospital and the doctors decided they didn't want to pay that much and went with a cheaper company rather than paying 18 cpl.

What you say sounds good; but it's not reality.

"obviously upper middle class"....so that does definitely have a bearing on the response made.  There are so many variables here as well as trying to compare almost apples and oranges.  I'm very sorry that happened to the little girl, but they knew she had been already for for 14 hours; they don't even know where Holloway is; she was in a foreign country when she disappearing and said foreign country is not sharing any information.  There is a big difference between these two cases.

With all that being said, I do absolutely agree on one thing; there has been way too much coverage on Natalee Holloway.  I don't believe they will ever find her.  It was much too easy to throw her weighted body into the ocean or, maybe she was sent into South America to be used as "whatever they wish to make her do".  I haven't heard any reports on incoming or outgoing flights from Aruba during that night have you?  All it takes is a little single engine plane to do the job.  

I worked in the HIM dept of a hospital at the beginning of my 10 years in this field, so I know what position this degree could put me in.  I also know that just the fact of having a degree is more than just being an MT and it will give me advantages than I currently have. 

I do feel like this is almost a lost cause and that the MT industry is reaching the point of no return (or has already).  I currently work for a fairly small transcription company and I am very thankful for the work that I have, even though I don't get paid what I would like, but I do have plenty of work and it is getting me by.  I chose to go back to school because I don't want everything to turn upside down and I have nothing to fall back on.  I wish all the best for the MT industry and if things do turn around I would never leave it, but I don't think that will be the case.

If it were ME, I would be blaming myself.  Each and everyone of us are responsible, one way or another, as to what happens in our lives.  Too many people over the past so many years find it much easier to place the blame elsewhere.  That is one of the problems with our society.  I was "accused" of being an over-protective parent as my child grew up, but guess what, he never, ever even came close to an incident such as that, or close to being kidnapped or any of the other things going on in the world; didn't fall down steps; wasn't involved as a passenger in a car accident, wasn't around drug users or "bad" people, because I PAID ATTENTION...I didn't allow accidents.  Accidents are only LACK OF ATTENTION and lack of common foresight! 

Also, my "over-protectiveness" did not in any way inhibit my child's growth.  He is a Gunnery Sargeant in the Marine Corps and handles great responsibility well and has the foresight and the attention needed to prevent accidents! 

As for the driver of that car, I'm not trying to "take their side"....I'm just saying we don't know what the circumstances were....my goodness, we have all run over something in the road at one time or another and when the weather is inclement or it is dark, sometimes you don't know what it is.  I would certainly hope that if they knew it was a child, of if they find out through newscoverage that they ran over a child, that they will come forward.  I'm sure that at least 99.9999% of people out there will not willfully run over anyone.  Perhaps he/she looked down at the dashboard or the left rear window for just that one second and felt a thump as he car moved on.  Probably wondered what it was but had no idea whatsoever that it was a child....why would any driver in their right mind think that a 2 year old was out on the highway at 2:00 AM or midnight or whenever it was?????