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      • Correct me if I'm wrong but I think courier 12 gives 65 characters - with 1 inch margins and courier 10
        • 10 is smaller not larger than 12, so it would be more than 65 cpl- nm - xx
          • In the past, on a typewriter, Courier 10 meant - 10 characters per inch and 12 meant
          • More -- 10 is 77 cpl, and 12 is 64. Now if is usally is a lot of partial lines than this will be a - xx
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That was on a typewriter and you were lucky if you could get 60 lines per hour    and when you made a mistake in a letter you had to rip it out and start over or if the doctor changed his mind and no count of the previous lines.  With the computer came the capability of macro's, auto text, etc. and our lines per hour jumped to 300 per hour.  You have to compare all the facts.  That is why I count more of what I make per hour than what I make per cpl.  If I make my $$ per hour that I want, I keep my cpl the same.  Just me.  Have done it both ways and to me am happy with my cpl now versus what it was when I was doing it on a selectric.

Ariel 11 is in their favor - not ours as MTs, many more characters fit onto one line of type with that one.  Accepted standard for years in most communities I do believe used to be Courier 10; perhaps that has changed through the years.  My MDs don't care what font I use. 

By the way, I didn't have ariel 11 available for this female MD (was on WP5.1 at the time) and did her account for a year and then dumped her - she was too rude (heard she goes through a new MT every single year) and had insisted that I credit her 5 lines per report for the entire year.  After I did the math, I lost $1000 that year.  Not in this biz to lose $$.  So, I gave her a couple of options which she was not happy with and then we mutually pulled the account.  If they go through a new MT per year - the problem belongs to them, not me/us  *grin*

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Way back when, I didn't even know it was "transcription."  I did some transcribing as a secretary at a clinic with 8-10 docs. Office manager showed me how to use "a tape player that you operate with a footpedal." (never heard the words "transcriber" or "transcription"). Only had a Dorland's Med. Dictionary and IBM Selectric. Wasn't until several years later at first actual medical transcription job, realized previously had already been doing medical transcription, "typing" the doctors' chart notes and letters (plus answering phones, sorting/distributing the doctors' mail & journals, bookkeeping/accounts payable, payroll, etc.) for ridiculously low file-clerk type pay for what was really an administrative assistant type job. 

You wanted a laugh though: One time, in a hospital transcription dept., me & the other ladies were in the breakroom, giggling about something in the newspaper, someone made a great joke about whatever the subject was, & we were laughing so hard, the security guard came running down the hall and into our breakroom to see what was going on (he thought he heard screaming!)  When he saw us all cracking up, he just shook his head, laughed, & told us to get back to work!

is less characters since it's larger.  So you probably have a 60-character line instead of 65.  You are probably making more money this way.  Plus a gross line usually pays if there is anything on a line...not just 65 characters.  Each line is counted separately so if it ends with one word, you get paid for a line.

When I was taken from a gross line count to 65 characters, I estimated a 15% reduction in lines.  That's just a guess.

It seems that they dredged up the past by wanting the release signed to keep them out of trouble for unfair employment practices.  Usually when a person ends the working relationship, they give formal written notice, the company accepts the notice, and the employment is over.  Smells pretty fishy to send a termination agreement and, oh by the way, sign this release.  LOL

The hospital I worked for for 28 years (as a medical lab technologist) always gave us a Christmas bonus. This ranged from $3,000 one year in the 80s down to an orange (yeah, a piece of fruit) and a calendar a few years later. It usually averaged, though, around $200 or so. It always depended on the hospital profit for that year.  

The clinic I work for now gives us $100 and a really fancy dinner-dance party (that I don't ever attend).

If you have never learned in life that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a *gift*, that's why we call it present...and to forgive what was years ago and condemn him in his 60s and continually name-call him, such as *perv* - you apparently have the personality disorder.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, just as I am.....so like I said - go into the mirror.......and become introspective before you name-call....

oh, and your history is 100% perfect?  Oh, I get it - you have no faults from the past or prefer to point out everyone else's faults or past. 

'tis all in the attitude.......

In fact, he's estranged from both of his children, one son and one daughter, they actually hate him and have written nasty letters.  The daughter is completely insane, does drugs, married about four or five times, a thief, but nothing has been brought up about any sort of abuse.  His other daughter and I have talked.  She said that her mother growing up was very suspicious of her and her father's relationship.  Actually accused her of leading him on, or teasing him, and something happened where she caught her naked and him in the same room and got mad at her.  The daughter swears nothing was going on, but who knows, we didn't know him back then.  So it ruined her relationship with her mother. 

He has my family fooled that he's this great wonderful guy, yet his own family wants nothing to do with him.  Thats why bad mouthing him, I would be ostracized.  They all know he's slightly perverted, but its accepted.  Thats why i'm wondering if i'm blowing it out of proportion.  All I know is that its changed and i'm extremely uncomfortable.  Being too specific about what he's said is too embarrassing to even mention to them. I don't even want to make eye contact with him. 

I remember that term from years ago.  

I did a Google search and the closest I got was a Maxwell Sweetheart retractor: http://www.snowdenpencer.com/snowden/dspcatalog.nsf/b7e010000d3e8e708525666e004dfec2/0174ad87011670c085256673005b0e34?OpenDocument

If you read the first paragraph, it's referring to the shape of the blade ... so my guess is if you can have a heart-shaped blade with a retractor, why not with the tenaculum.

My ex was and is still in a union as a truck driver but they are slowly being phased out and it will be that way everywhere.   That industry was hit prior to us with more or less outsourcing when the Fair Trade act or whatever it is called  opened up with Mexico and Central America.  You do not see many English speaking truckers anymore and their income went from 70 to 75K per year down to $35 to $40 and so we are not the only ones that hit by more or less outsourcing.  And now the place where he works, has a union and  non union company and at each terminal when the union contract comes up for renewal, the non union side bids lower and it goes that way.   He is in the last terminal that is union and I doubt it will be that way when their contract expires in two years.   So unions are on way out.