I don't think I could be an MT now, sigh...sm

• I have to vent! ASR is driving me up the wall! - Old and tired MT
  • You are so right... - cindyoh
  • I don't think I could be an MT now, sigh...sm - Ella (retired)
    • It can be profitable if you have - sm
      • And don't forget avoiding carpal tunnel syndrome! nm - Ella (retired)
        • Not all related to repetative movements - sm
          • Boy, I sure did! sm - Ella (retired)
      • or a big pay cut when it looks like this - sa
        • Oh Lord, I'd be depressed again too! :D nm - Ella (retired)
        • This is a good one compared to what I get - Old and tired MT
          • control shift - other sa
          • Control-shift sux. Death throes? sm - Ella (retired)
            • Just experiencing acute care dictation, for the first time in years - Me too!!!!
            • I was out there too Ella and also sm - MT30+
              • This has been a theme of mine for some time - sm
          • VR - sa
            • I feel better now... - cindyoh
              • Had a friend who was on VR - sm
                • Exactly... - cindyoh
            • Tried using those shortcuts - Gracie
              • There is little or no incentive to learn and use - sa
          • Oh, my, again I will state - sm
  • SR - Lilly
    • I like VR, too and also resent getting - Backwards typist
      • I too do a big 'sigh' when I get a long straight - typing job....sm
        • Typing and backwards, what systems do you use? - sm
          • Dictaphone Enterprise Express Editor - It has served me well.
  • Told same thing, immediately went to - another mt
    • SR - Lilly
    • Same here - Old and tired MT
      • People here are NOT listening - sm
        • can only judge from own experience - another mt
          • Do you have any idea how - sm
            • sounds old, does not mean it is not true - anonamous
              • Get ready for yours to - sm
                • don't get your point - anon
                  • Hey, you can stay and change until - sm
                    • I agree with you - anon
                      • How long have you - sm
                        • I don't know - anon
  • You probably are working for a company that - sm
    • ASR - Old and tired MT
      • I don’t know about other companies - sm

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 - here goes, anyway!   ----  "How funny would THIS be?"  

I know it would be impossible to ever get MTs to stick together on anything, let alone a work-stoppage kind of strike.  But can you imagine the hilarity (at least on OUR end, anyway), if for just one week.  Heck - one DAY, even -- we all decided to transcribe everything verbatim?  And I mean, VERBATIM, not the 'fixed-up' kind of verbatim most of us are expected to do.  I mean verbatim, as in if they don't punctuate anywhere in a 3-page letter, they get a 3-page unpunctuated letter.  They screw up the 'copy-to' addresses, then instead of spending OUR time looking up the correct address or spelling of the recipient, let it go as-is.  If they say "left" and MEANT "right", they get "left".  When they bounce back and forth between calling the patient a "he" and a "she", and don't clarify it, then that will be come a report on the world's first simultaneously dual-gender individual.  All the little checks and balances, and save-their-@ss type of transcription we do automatically, doesn't get done for one day.  Unfortunately, it would probably cause every Editor in the country to simultaneously call in sick with killer migraines.  But that's okay, at least it would be FUNNY.  And lord knows, this profession could sure use a laugh now and then, couldn't it?