I had a fabulous weekend starting with dinner on Friday night..sm

• My mother's day - chopped liver
  • Mothers day - sme
  • I think it is enough if you kids at least acknowledge the day - sm - Laura E.
  • To chopped liver, read all of the thread, - mthanded
  • I think you have to define Mother's Day for yourself... - Jillian
  • I didn't have a great one either. - I am sorry!!
  • Both of my children told me Happy Mother's - Wannie
  • Mother's Day - MTqueenB
    • Kind of ashamed to admit I threw daughter's card away - chopped liver
      • I think that grandparents who babysit for free are just making their kids dependent on them - and they seldom appreciate it, they grow to expect
  • i know that hurts but here are a few thoughts.... - kat
  • Mother's Day is not a Hallmark holiday (sm) - chopped liver
    • Yep, but MT week IS. and i bet people complain if they arent recognized. :( - nm
  • Lucky Ones - IC
    • I had a fabulous weekend starting with dinner on Friday night..sm - Very lucky also
    • I also know how you feel! sm - Deb
  • I'd give the kids the same treatment on their birthday....sm - Just me
    • That's unfair. Everyone has a B-Day, but Mother's Day is made up. Ditto for Valentine's Day - R
  • I would be hurt too (sm) - anony
  • Great M's Day -- no kids, no husband (sm) - adh
  • i know how you feel - tc
  • Yep - I agree - your kids should know better... - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
    • I think you sound self absorbed to feel you deserve gifts. Being a mother is selfless. nm - R
      • don't attack her re self absorbed....sm - kids understand DEALS AND CONTRACTS
      • I'm not self-absorbed at all - chopped liver
        • You say you're at the bottom of the totem pole - QA
          • Dr. Phil??? Grolier book publishers....sm - put those books out 25+ years ago.....
          • You are right. Thank you. - chopped liver
            • BTW, just FYI, my kids are a tad older...sm - put those books out 25+ years ago.....
            • Might I add that I speak from the heart, - QA
    • oops should've have read "older children"...n/m - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • I don't celebrate Hallmark holidays. If they forget...(nt) - ...your birthday then you should complain.
    • Glad I'm not the only anti-Hallmark holiday (sm) - adh
    • They don't acknowledge that either - chopped liver
      • Again, if you make yourself a slave to them they will never respect you. - Tell her to pay for a babysitter
      • No, YOU ARE NOT A BAD MOM.....sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • What I'm doing is making sure that come Fathers Day, I forget to get him something! sm - Anudder mudder
    • You show people how to treat you. We don't - me
      • I make a big deal out of them too and still dont get squat. sm - nm
  • Me too.... - Disgruntled mother...
    • They're ignorant - some hubbies...sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • I feel for you, your kids should know better. sm - ml
    • EXACTLY !!!!! GMTA.......sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..

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Do you do this every night or just on Fridays? If it's just on Fridays, probably not (nor would I probably even be aware of it).

Thursdays as well, since the work that comes in after 5 isn't due until Monday morning.

Hospitals have a rhythm. Does your way of ensuring turnaround mean that almost every job you have is over 10 minutes, leaving all the 1 and 2 minute 'nuisance' reports in the queue? Do all the ops remain in the queue (I'm a fan of the work type, but not everybody is)? I'm reaching annoyance stage.

I get both long and shorter jobs.

Again with the rhythms- Are there particularly egregious dictators that you get to essentially ignore because they're morning birds while Dr. Chatty Easylines and Dr. Joe Makinbigbucks routinely dictate 1500 lines, which for them entails a total of 4 hours of typing combined) at about 7:00 each evening. Yeh, now I'm PO'd.

All the dictators on this particular account have their jobs come in at various times.  I get the good, the bad and the ugly . . . just like everybody else.

Are you then one of those people that wil come on here and gloat about how on average you type 400-500 lines/hour and make roughly $25/hour, can't understand why all transcriptionists can't do it, and suggest we tinker and modify our expansion program so we can be as good as you? Be thankful the internet is anonymous because otherwise I'd know if you worked for my company and I would be kicking up a fuss like you wouldn't believe.

I make good money, but I don't come on here and "gloat."  I've been with my company for many years.  They are happy with the work I do.  Also, I work every weekend day to do those jobs I take.  The other MTs at my company do not want to work weekends.  I also work nights AND during the day.  I have a flexible schedule, but I work a lot because I want to make a lot. 

and told him about my symptoms (that I think I have tennis elbow...left lateral epicondylitis...lol...I'm sure he thinks I'm a big 'ole hypochondriac using the correct terminology), and he said if it gets too bothersome to come in and he will give me a cortisone shot (so, no need for a referral, etc...just one $15 copay).  That's good to know that he can do it in his office.

Thanks everyone for all the great suggestions.  I actually have one of those aircast braces.  I liked the idea of the keyboard/forearm rest.  It's a bit spendy though, so I'll have to see if we can afford it after Christmas.  Castor oil, huh?  Well it's worth a try.  Hahaha...it reminds me of when I used to do daycare.  One of the parents told me if their baby got the hiccups, I was to tear off a piece of brown paper bag, hold it against her forehead, and feed her a bottle.  I thought they were absolutely nuts.  Well, she got the hiccups...although I felt totally silly, I tried what they suggested...and it WORKED!  I couldn't believe it!  I tried it on my next two babies and it worked on them too!  So now I know better than to laugh at "weird" suggestions. :)

Chickadee

This Friday is my last day of a 2-week notice and, as of yet, the administrator has not said a word to me about leaving. I've worked inhouse for these people for 20 years. No questions as to why, nothing.  The assistant only said she was glad for me and wished me well. What do you make of spending 20 years of your life doing your best and, in the end, they could care less? Boy, do I feel stupid, but definitely made the right decision in leaving.