I don't think she is crazy..more culturally sound..sm

• Okay I'm Really Bored. If you could only have one food and one person on desert island, what and - Curious
  • ol school - msbeanctr
  • island - me
  • DAVID GRAY and tiramisu. - No Name
  • Really bored... - typ4food
  • Taco Salad and the really hot Aussie home improvement guy ... - yen2772
  • Okay, I apologize ahead of time for this - but Hugh Grant and oysters! nm
    • apologizing for Hugh Grant ? He's a doll. - why
  • orlando bloom(lord of the rings without the elf ears) - MI MT
  • My husband, lobster and margaritas! nm - just me
    • Isn't your husband considered family? LOL - no relatives.
      • Oops..didn't read the whole message..let's see..still margaritas and lobster and how about...A - just me
        • Got so excited about my fantasy, the name did not make it...Andy Garcia! nm - just me
  • George Clooney, chocolate dipped strawberries, and Dom Perignon champagne. - justme
  • Bono and vanilla ice cream. - ;-)
  • Billy Bob Thornton, collards, and Pepsi. - Ruby Sue
    • Billy Bob?!! Say it ain't so! nm - frost
      • I think BBT is evermore cool, really. SM - Ruby Sue
      • After I saw his name, I realized I should have thought of him. - Oh, it is so - Billy Bob is cool
        • Another wise woman with good taste! SM - Ruby Sue
        • you know as couples go, angelina and billy bob were perfect skanks for each other. perfect! - huh?
          • Get back together - yes - Skanky? No, that's your interpretation - Billy Bob and Angelina
            • So you think kissing your brother with tongues is NOT skanky? It's, like, cool, huh? - Okey dokey
              • Billy Bob and Ray Liotta are both weird, but I love both of them. - nm
                • I love Ray Liotta..his weirdness and all..nm - frost
              • Whar you frum, honey? sm - Ruby Sue
                • ruby sue, you're a hoot! are you related to billy bob? - LOL
                  • Yeah, Daddy said Billy Bob's grandmother was his grandfather's third cousin's second wife. - Ruby Sue
          • Agreed. I always found them to be a match made in trailer heaven - two skanks in a crud.
            • How dare you? I used to live in a trailer and was not a skank - nm
  • sean connary, chocolate, white wine - dls
  • George Clooney, hot wings, and Coors Light - yum
  • Richard Gere. Don't need nuthin' to eat. LOL. nm. - passing by
  • HMMM thats a hard one..Johny Depp IN the Pirates Costume and CHOCALATE!! - sm
    • Yes....except I'd go for steak, that way I'd have plenty of food and energy - for lots of fun!!!
    • No you can't survive on sex and chocolate but will die happy probably pretty quickly. - Why not?
  • Johnny Depp and some extra spicy indian food - along with Jim Beam and Diet Pepsi!
  • pizza and denzel washington - as for me
    • Sean Connery-who needs food? - fg
    • sounds good to me right about now. when's the next boat to the island? - any time, any way, any where
  • Brendan Fraser, stuffed jalapenos, and Corona with lime. - dreamy
    • You have great taste, my friend! - on my way to take a cold shower
  • Brad Pitt, sushi, and Corona.. - frost
    • The reason he dumped Jennifer - My opinion
    • i used to like brad until angelina. what's up with that. she is CRAZY as in NUTZ - Wonder what they talk about?
      • What does Angelina see in Brad?? - inquiring minds want to know
        • i don't see babyish or effeminate at all but both brad and angelina are kind of like charactertur - just me
          • Did you mean caricatures? - Typing police
            • yes, blushing. i should know better, huh? but you knew what i meant. - thanks
              • Used to be a proofer - Now I'm blushing
        • a twig and berries, a notch in her belt, a feather in her cap - a great way to get her picture in the paper
          • Brad Pitt - twig and berries - love it - GOOD ONE
      • I don't think she is crazy..more culturally sound..sm - sm
        • for what god gave her in beauty, the devil gave her in insanity. - just sayin.....
          • Privilege and weak parental guidance helped too. - sm
            • So did a lot of people, but they didn't grow up to be skanks. - she's old enough to grow some character
              • How do you know she is gross? - sosa
                • Gee, I dunno. Maybe the way she tongue kissed - her brother on TV that time and said
              • All i sense from you is major jealousy! She is beautiful inside and out..something you OBVIOUSLY ar - soo sorry.
                • Ah, so you know her personally? What I sense from you is - a vicarious lesbian crush of some sort
                  • Oh if you think a person is beautiful, you're a lesbian? HMMM - sm
                  • By applying your logic, that would mean that those of you - I fail to see your logic
                    • I think Dubya's hot - smart, not swayed by - public opinion, more character than his predecesso
                      • dubya is too stupid to be swayed by anything. - ohmygawd
                  • I still wouldn't like her even if I WAS a lesbian. - I'm rubber, you're glue
                    • Spending too much time with your child? - find an adult to talk to.
                      • Any child is more adult than you are. - Yawn...
                        • You must have a small attention span because i only said a few words..definitely - find an adult to talk to lady!
                • Just because someone dislikes a famous person - I totally disagree
                  • Some people have no friends in the real world and seem to see - celebrities & internet acquaintances as
                    • And just where would I go? - nm
                    • Let's apply your logic here once again. - I fail to see your logic
                      • You'll have to try to start a fight with someone else because - I'm one of the ones who does NOT like her
                        • I'm not starting a fight. - not me.
                • have you followed her career and her private life? she actually sickens me. - huh?
              • A lot of girls growing up with privilege like she had turned skank. - Angelina is just one of them.
                • A lot of people who grew up without privilege ended up skanks too - check out the latest welfare statistics
                  • I was thinking along that line when there's no role model - .
                    • hence the difference between a rich skank & a poor one is? - ???
                      • Rich Skank, Poor Skank - Nick Nolte
                      • rich skanks dress better and have nicer cars and homes. - Paris Hillton
                        • Can't argue with that! - You're right!
      • I used to like Brad Pitt. Now, not at all. - I have to agree.
      • I don't think much talking is involved, if ya know what I mean. - sm
        • scary part is she is adopting kids. skank-o-ramas never last. it still diminishes brad though. - poor brad
          • I think the foreign kid adoptions are liberal Hollywood - "embrace diversity" crap
            • i think you are 100% correct. these kids are like paris hilton's dog tinkerbelle. she gets more - good point.
              • Paris Hilton's another one - Skankeroo! - .
  • Raw oysters, Mr. Ed, and Bud Light. - you didn't ask for a drink, but is necessary! ;
    • good choice. mr. ed provides transportation and conversation. - as for me
      • That would put Ed in the conversational category of my ex husband - sm
        • yeah but mr. ed is dead from head to toe. - dream maker
        • oh, funny!!! - nm

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I am having problems with my sound on one of my computers.  Several different ExText program have been on it so I don't think it is the program and the sound is just now as clear as on my other computer.  Has anyone switched (disconnected the internal sound care and replaced) to a new sound card?  Did it make a difference. 

Everyone on this board is so knowledgeable, I really appreciate you.  You have helped me many times. 

Makes no sense!  Wonder how these types of people are running the HR depts?!!  I am fortunate enough to have three offices that I IC for.  So, you moved because of the pay situation??  Hope your in a great position now!

-DAWN-

Are you serious?  I can't believe they would cut our pay.  The more you produce, the more the pay should be.  They are getting paid per line from their clients.  I'm sure they are not getting less from their clients because of DQS.  If that happens, I'm quitting.  I barely make enough now!!!  How much was the cut, if you don't mind me asking?

Although you may be expecting too much of yourself too soon in your MT career.

I have been in over 12 yrs.  I have my own Expander with 20,000+ short cuts in it (if you email me, you can have a copy of it).  I know this expander like the back of my hand after using it for about 10 yrs.  I make about 1800 lines or so a day, less if I am tired like I have been lately :(. 

It IS doable, but I don't believe you have enough expansions to maximize your skills and time.

 I am not sure what would trigger anyone to think washing a keyboard in the dishwasher would work.  I know from others who have had accidents by spilling a cup of coffee, water, soda etc it shorts out the keyboard so what would make anyone think washing it in a dishwasher is smarter?  I cannot believe someone would try such an insane thing.  Oh my.   Those who have tried and ruined a keyboard obviously like to waste money on having to buy a new keyboard.

benefits and put them in their pockets and called them PROFIT.

They put us at home and said that was an excuse to LOWER THE BASE RATE OF PAY.

I tell you what, 4 years ago I was making $42,000 a year working for a hospital.

I had benefits along with that $42,000

I WORKED AT HOME IN MY JAMMIES.

I HAD FLEXABILITY OF TAKING OFF just like I always had in life.

Do you want to know what I made last year doing the same amount of work??

I made $14,000 and NO BENEFITS.

The company I have worked for (which shall remain nameless but we all know who it is) has managed to take away BONUS LINES, ENOUGH WORK, and NEVER GIVE ME A RAISE IN 6 YEARS.

If they think they have created a better medical record system they have lost their everlovin minds.  Reports are less accurate now than they ever were.  The hospital may have a PIECE OF PAPER back in their hands quickly, but it isn't worth a tinkersdam. 

So if you new MTs and even the older ones who now are on supplemental income or have a husband to back them up, us MTs who need to make a living to support our children - think again if you believe what we have been WORKED DOWN TO is a good deal. 

MTs at home have taken on the RISKS of transcription.  It is our personal time that goes unpaid while the company RISKS NOTHING.  We are the ones sitting around setting up computers, eating down-time, trying to learn new programs on our own dime.

THINK ABOUT IT

but I don't really see how telling the truth is a stunt.  I have never watched The View, so I don't really know why Star is so anoying to people (Please fill me in!), but it seemed from that video clip that she just decided to tell the honest truth.  I think it is admirable that she decided not to put a spin on it and deceive people, IMO.  From that clip, she seemed very gracious and sincere.  I don't think it was a stunt.

Talk me out of this, tell me why it would not work, and tell me I am nuts. 

OR tell me it is a great idea, how it would work and why...

I keep reading of all those who want to get into the MT field.  Those who are in school and hoping to land their first job.  Those who have finished school and are struggling to get a job because they have no experience.

I keep thinking I could do something about this.  Somehow I could mentor newbies.  Get them up and running, give them experience, then off they would go into the world of MT.

Whenever I get this crazy idea, I think I must be insane.  Why and HOW would I venture to do such a thing?  I have years and years experience, I make a VERY good income as an IC, I have what most would want in the MT field.  I have no accounts of my own, nor would I desire that.  I contract from two services.  They have the headaches - - - I have the flexiblity and pay I want.

Then I think, maybe I could do this for a service instead of having my own accounts.  Then I think no one would pay me what I make now.

THEN I think I have lost all my marbles and I put these crazy ideas aside.  Then, they resurface.......

Please tell me why this would not work.  Help me understand once and for all that it would be a devastating move for me, that newbies are too hard to mentor, that the field is *going downhill*, etc., etc., etc.

Or tell me why it is a great idea.

Thank you for your input.

My past experience with this has been a sure sign of spyware/adware or a virus.  If you have any programs to detect such, try running them and see what comes up.  Sorry to say, I wasn't very lucky with this problem and ended up getting a new PC because of a virus I couldn't eliminate.  I HOPE this is not your problem, but it sounds similar to what I had once.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but lets hope I'm wrong.

work for company A: Mornings (Tues-Sat) approximately 10-12 sometimes 9-12. Monday 2-6 , then make dinner , 7-11 pm work again  go to bed "early" on Monday night.  Usually work 2-4 hours on Sunday afternoon/evening.   Sunday morning church, Sunday night watch a DVD or something (love Netflix)

company B (this company has plenty of overtime available): sometimes do a few hours Monday morning, Tuesday-Thursday 12:30-pm 6 - dinner  - 7:30-12 am , Friday and Saturday 2-6 - dinner - 7:30 - 1 am. 

don't take too frequent breaks - once in a while to make tea.  too many breaks is bad for my concentration.  and so is checking my e-mail on my PC. (but sometimes I do).

I have a new doc today and he says that he has a ton of reports to read, so to make it easier (I'm not sure for whom) he says NOT to type articles (is, are, of, etc.).  It is actually HARDER for me not to type these words in than it would be to add them!  It's making me nuts looking at these choppy reports.  They should just be doctors and let us do our job!

How about the ones who dictate discharge summaries and they don't have their thoughts together before they sit down to dictate and they are flipping through the patient's chart pausing, eating, and carrying on a conversation with another resident in the same room with them.  The dictation ends up being 20 minutes long but you get 400 lines out of it.  Drives me nuts!!!