Why is distance important with DSL? (#4676)
"If you have heard even something about DSL, you will have heard about distance. Your phone lines normally terminate at a telco office, usually nearby. This distance, (the length of your line between your location and the telco office), is a very important factor in whether or not you can get DSL, and what speed you can get."
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I think the suits should do the ESL's themselves,
.
Well going up against corporate suits
is not such a simple thing.
As soon as the suits was $$ in transcription they descended on the trade and scarfed up a huge chunk of the work. That would be fine if the end result was fair pay and an improved product, but really it equates to some fat cat CEO reaping the benefits while the worker bees, well, work.
Solutions? Here's the hard truth: How many people are willing to walk away from jobs that pay (at least most) of the bills?
Not saying there isn't power in numbers BECAUSE THERE IS! but getting large numbers of people willing to walk the walk at the same time is not easy... just look at how easy it was for our government to ignore millions of patriots protesting this fake war (we knew it all along)...
Suggestions?
Here's what I think the "clueless" suits think...
They think we are just Betty Crocker housewives who still wear pumps, skirts, and aprons every day and do this "typing thing" on the side for manicure money. They know this industry is almost all chicks, and they know that a lot of women will take abuse and not do squatola about it.
I honestly don't think they realize that MOST of us are doing this to actually make a living. I mean, if they did, they would realize that they didn't have to crack a whip or be verbal blowhards--we know we have to work hard to make a paycheck. We know we are paid on production and if we don't produce, we don't get paid.
I'm applied at a couple of the BIG companies you see advertise on here all the time and was absolutely blown away when they couldn't tell me exactly how their platforms worked. The folks interviewing, the folks doing the hiring, are obviously not MTs, have never been "in the trenches" and that kinda blows my mind.
suits - I agree
I totally agree. I work for KS and I'm sure the owner is a Transcriptionist and is very good to work for, knowing the ins and outs of the whole job.
To RadGuy re the suits: I agree, but...
Why do we continue to work for x cpl? I was talking to a teacher friend recently and compared her job to ours. I told her it'd be no different if she had a very difficult student the entire school year and the student ended up being held back. Should that teacher get docked a % of her pay, or not get paid at all because she was unable to "complete" her projected goal? Obviously not. So why should it be any different for us?
Not long ago my PS sent a msg to all of us about a certain client complaining about all the blanks on their reports. PS knows it's a very difficult ESL acct. But nothing is done about getting the docs, the Q, & MTs together to suggest ways to improve it for patient care in the end. The most frustrating part is that everyone would win from it. But the "suits" are intimidated about making someone mad. I never once had a doc get mad about suggestions for making the report better and obviously faster in getting on the chart. It is for this reason that I'm very much against production (and unions) when having to deal with such horrible dictation literally 99% of the time. I simply don't believe that I should make less money for things that clearly are beyond my control and now consume my shift, day in and day out. If I were getting paid more, and likely a difficulty factor (remember that?), it'd be more legit in my book.
Also, throw the bad soundfiles in and "voila..."
I also got a msg from support at 8:20 CST saying they're still working to solve the problem but have no ETA as to when it'll be resolved. Just an fyi.
Too bad ignorance isn't painful! 
Gemini - absolutely suits me - two personalities!
Don't know which one is coming out when I wake up in the morning LOL!
A couple of times a year the suits post as
an MT. I used to work for SS and they were so bad that I can't imagine them fixing all the problems in my lifetime.
You'll hear this claim in all fields by "the suits"
I've said it before and I'll say it again...back that sh^t up with a specific name or a place so there can be actual consequences. I can throw anything in quotes and say I heard it from somewhere or someone. It holds no water and only serves to get people workedup for an invisible fight.
Am I doubting what she heard is true? Maybe, maybe not. It can't be proven because there is no factual evidence provided. However, my mother was an LPN and she always said her higherups referred to her as nothing more than an overpaid candystriper or overpaid a$$ wiper. My father, a machine mechanic, said he was referred to as an overpaid janitor. It's a wicked old and wicked lame argument to get the reader or listener riled up to basically do nothing and it's amateur stuff. But, that's just me.
SHOW US THE NAMES! Then we can gather our pitchforks, burning keyboards, and Betty Crocker aprons and go to war!
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