Let me guess ... 10 guys standing around and 1 working!!
Posted By: CO MT on 2005-11-10
In Reply to: OK. Now there are construction guys out front - unbelievable
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Thanks guys, but I guess mine has to be higher-
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Those must be the guys working on accts I am editing.
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Sorry Guys - Today is the 1st day in months the site seems to not be working.
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Merry Christmas to all hard working guys & gals in the MT industry!
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Guess what?! It's working now! yay.... NM
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ah, let me guess, you are working for MQ!!!!????
I was somewhere between 15 and 20 accts there, with vastly different CPs. Its virtually impossible to do really well under those circumstances. I did have lots of Expander 'fragments', chunk phrases used all the time. I had my CPs printed out, and highlighted the differences from my most familiar/main account, so i could see at a glance what i needed to keep in mind on that acct. It will affect your line count, and worse still, your attitude and stress levels. There are better jobs to be had out there...
Well supposed to be working and GUESS WHAT NO WORK AGAIN AT AMHERST MQ. No doubt in my mind that
they could care less about the MT, if you make money or starve. These people are absolutely crazy. There is no doubt in my mind.
not a bit homophobic. love queer guys for straight guys.
these guys are clever and witty and have good taste. they are who they are. not a problem. i have problems with boy-men who are currently trendy now. that's my taste. and it's kind of scary that women are attracted to these unisex boy-men culturally. no big deal unless you make it one. this is a board to exchange ideas right?
Do you have EMS standing by? lol
I so appreciate your standing up for me
I do not have to make this up at all. My husband then on dialysis at the same hospital where I worked and this physician on the staff there. My regular doctors there, husband's nephrologist there, I felt in a bind in my ability to do anything at all. I know mistakes made in plastic surgery as far as blotch jobs sometimes but I would think similar has happened before and after me. If I had worked somewhere else, I probably would have persued it further but I could not chance it, raising children and sending to college also. I was behind the 8 ball. I don't know why people come down so hard on another on these posts. If you don't believe, fine, no problem. I thought that $3,000 was not worth my losing my job, losing my insurance on my husband including burial which I had to use eventually, all income. Just didn't make that much sense to me and let it go. Thanks again for your post above!
Try standing
There are desks on the market that can be raised and lowered so you can stand at your station and type for awhile and then sit back down. This may help some people who find it difficult to sit for 8 hours. Just a thought. Some people work better standing and some sitting.
Good for you for standing up to these
You are so correct in that the reign is so tight, it is hard to get ahead. Medquist is probably the worst place ever. Those people there are not happy either, so you're probably lucky you lasted a week there.
Good luck to you! I'm with you on this one, but fortunately, I have my own accounts, so no need to have upper management or shirts on my case.
I wish you all the luck in the world! You go girl!!!!!!!!!! From an admirer who says get out while you are still keeping afloat! I plan to get my youngest through elementary school, and I'm outta this profession as well.
And one more--Does anyone ever type standing up?
I know it sounds a little strange, but sometimes I just plain get tired of sitting and have thought if I had a raised tray for the keyboard and could easily elevate the monitor, it could work.
I take it that's Patti standing in the doorway??
 Hi Patti!
Standing ovation to you! I agree sm
500%!
give Hill credit for STANDING BY HER MAN...nm
You don't have to agree with BOS standing! The sheer numbers
Go ahead, though. Be an ostrich. Hide your head in the sand. As long as YOU don't see it, it isn't there, right?!
lol
Free-standing keyboard tray
I found a free-standing keyboard tray that might be handy for travel. There is a picture of it at this site. Here is the link:
http://www.ergonomicsmadeeasy.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=49
There is also the possibility that someone was standing in line for an elderly person, again
we don't know cause we are not there.
We had two different sizes. The problem is they tend to flatten out instead of standing upright. sm
So if you buy one that says it is 42" deep you really only get about 36-38" deep out of it. You are better off to buy a different kind of pool. We bought one that is a kit, but has a frame to it and is much, much better than the ones with the blow up ring. It is made by Intex and it is blue also, but made of a tough liner type material. It has a metal frame that you build (only took 45 min. to put it up)and it actuall stands up like a real above ground pool. Very nice and not much money..about 350.00 at Walmart for the whole kit, pool, filter, et cetera.
Whining incessantly anonymously on a message board is far from "fighting back and standing up for
your rights". Sheesh. That's how silly you all are. Blah, blah, blah on here 24/7 and I guarantee you that's the extent of your yaw. Otherwise, you'd be sharing some pertinent communications you've had with the people who MATTER - like your supervisors, managers, etc. And I don't like change? Sweetie, I go with the flow and have changed with this career every step of the way - starting back typing on a manual typewriter with 8 colored carbon copies and matching colors of "liquid paper" and listening to tapes, and now using state-of-the-art platforms with voice recognition as well. I'm happy, and still love my job. Thank you for your unstated concern! You have a problem with your work flow, dictators, you call your superiors and have it taken care of. If they don't "change" it to your liking, that's your answer - the handwriting is on the wall, so to speak! You're getting what they want to give you regarding work! Pounding your chest in words on this message board under an assumed name is nothing short of ludicrous. and over and over and over and over and over again....ya, ya, ya, cherry pickers, Indians, cherry pickers, Indians....yawn yawn. Ya take up good board space and don't realize how totally FOOLISH you look... snore.... But its your "breath", and your precious energy wasted, so go for it!! Heavens you should direct your complaints to the proper channel!!!!
i have word 2000 free standing as well with no problems. email support, they will help you shortly.
you shouldn't struggle with having problems. support is there to help us and they are good at their job. as with any new acct, there are always gonna be some kinks. i had some to work out as well with my end of the system. it doesn't sound like something you can fix; probably something with how the two tie in together. did you log out and back in and see if that helped?
My great-nephew standing in his baby bed in his beautiful nursey - he is the most adorable baby in t
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You get more working the evening or night shifts and working w/o benefits. And producing like a mad
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If it's different for each report, my guess (only a guess)
would be no. I think the macro would work if it was the same each time, but not sure if it will if the documents are different each time.
Ditto....granted I am not working much these days, but am currently trying out a new way of working
when I do work which seems to be helping. I am timing myself and keeping a log of how long it takes to to type however many minutes. I am averaging anywhere from 13-18 minutes of dictation an hour now doing this. Granted the time fluctuates between who I am typing, and if I have to look up names, addresses, etc., just depends on the division I am doing at the time. But work that used to take me 3 hours to do is now taking me under 2 hours, I am also trying to put in more macros as I go along, which slows me down initially but pays off in the long run of course. I was working "all the time" before but took forever to get done since I was not applying myself. This new "attitude" has helped me a lot. My goal, in the Fall, is to do 90 minutes a day consistently at 6 hours, and then maybe get up to 120 minutes a day at 8 hours, still while having at least half of the day free (do 60 minutes at night, and the other 60 by Noon). Thereby doing 1200-1400 lines a day. I have never really buckled down and done more than 8000 lines per pay period, so it will be a nice change. Maybe you can do something like that and have a specific knock off time as was suggested below.
Working holidays? Out shopping in stores where someone IS working
that holiday you refuse to work? Grocery stores, food joints & seems any store is open on holidays and you expect them to be fully staffed, so why shouldn't we?
Yes, I took off for the first time on Christmas day, in 18 years and it was great, but I worked Christmas eve and this whole past weekend.
Someone has to do it!
WOW.. you guys should all get together....sm
and contact the Dept of Labor. If they were stupid enough to put their broken promises in writing, you have every right to start a lawsuit. We all have complaints about different companies, but what they've done is downright illegal !!!
I am sure you guys are right,
evil MQ is at it again. That must be it. LOLOL! It never ends, and yet you continue to stay there.
The spy guys in Mt. Dew ad...sm
Last year we went to a sports bar, and about 30 of them came in dressed up! The women were dressed as the white spy and men were dressed as the black spy. Mountain Dew got the idea from Mad magazine. You can probably do a Google search to see what they look like. There isn't much to the costume. I suppose someone made it for them.
how about these guys?
has anyone ever heard anything about peachtree, x-press transcription, or all-med radiology transcription?
Thanks guys. I don't know what it is
Especially this year, i'm just feeling blue and usually I can yank myself out of it. I've always hesitated taking herbs, and I think i'll just keep that on the shelf for now. That light thing i'm going to try, thank you for the suggestion. I might need to go into talk to someone too and get my meds balanced out because i'm just diagnosing myself and getting the meds off line. Probably anti-anxiety meds cause a little depression since it brings you "down" and my anxiety level is through the roof the last couple years so i've been medicating that. Thanks again guys.
Thanks guys......
All very nice comments - thanks guys!! We would not want to feel we were stealing work from you.....
You guys are definitely right.
I need to get out more. I'm just having a hard time lately. My daughter is finally in first grade, I had been trying to work things out with her father and of course it didn't. I did try online dating, but so far either I don't like them or they don't like me. That's the worst thing about this job. I do need to get out more. I went to a kid's birthday party today and was talking to a father there. I don't know if he was single or not, but it was just getting used to talking to people. Thanks for the advice. Home Depot is cheaper than dating services anyways!
Thanks you guys, I'm going to try these
I was up until 5:00 a.m. downloading and scanning with programs just to find out they were not free and then I'd have to start all over trying another one. The free ones have not been successful at removing Dealhelper yet....hopefully one of these will work! Thanks so much!!!!!
Wow, I'm not too far from you guys...
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Thank you guys!!!!!
Hi again and thank you all for the input. I had pretty well decided to not mention anything about the cost of printing, but just wanted to get some opinions here. Patti, I have several accounts that I type for, but have never had any ask for both digital copy and paper copy, so that's why I asked (didn't know what other people do). I am an IC so I'll just write it off with my other expenses and, oh yeah, I bought my own computer too.
Boy, you guys will never get over
That's what cracks me up 
Thanks guys! That is exactly
what I needed!
Thanks guys.:)
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what do you guys think?
I hate reading how some are not getting paid for the hardwork we do. Do you think if we started reporting these companies to the local news that helps the battered consumer it would help? Maybe at least give them some bad coverage. Maybe even contact the local news where the company is located.
Thanks you guys!!!
Come on GUYS!!!
Please, please, please help me out here!!! I need some advice.
Ok, so I work in-house at my local hospital. I get paid a decent wage by the hour. We get annual raises and cost of living raises. However, I have been put in charge of transitioning all of our clinics to a new dictation/transcription system and have been meeting with all of the doctors, setting up templates, meeting with the product vendors and deciding how we want to go about implementing the new system. In addition to this I have been making my minimum line count EVERY DAY. My question is...Should I ask for a raise in pay since I am doing all of this extra work for the hospital even when I have been getting annual and cost of living raises anyway? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
A lot of my weight problem is medical, but I think more so is my emotional state. I have a very emotionally abusive husband. He rides me all the time about my weight. When I was thinner (wearing a size 7 - - now wearing a size 28), he would badger me then about my weight. It got to where I was sneaking food and of course what happened? Now it is even worse. I try, I really do. I am definitely an emotional eater though.
My husband rode me and rode me and TOLD ME to get the bypass surgery. I had everything set up (this was about 5 years ago) with the surgeon who brought bypass to the United States. I felt totally comfortable with him, and to top it off he is my regular physician! Then my husband totally freaked and said that with MY LUCK, something would go wrong and he would be stuck with an invalid for a wife, and DEMANDED that I not do it. So, here I am - - a total of 160 pounds overweight -- and need to lose 70 of it by the end of February to have insurance. I get so depressed sometimes that I do not even want to get out of bed.
I am going to look into Alli and the liquid diet mentioned. I really appreciate your help and suggestions.
I definitely think I need a support group, but I don't know who that would be. 
Anyway, I am going to look into these things. I think I will try the liquid diet and see how it works.
AGAIN, THANK YOU!
Thanks guys!
I really am starting to feel better about it now. My biggest fear was that my company wouldn't wait for me to get better. I don't mind doing the hard work, putting in more time, researching blanks, listening over and over and over, as long as they don't mind getting many blanks for a while ;)
I guess only time will tell. Thank you for the encouragement!
Don't know about you guys,
but I seem to operate about 90% on 'muscle memory' , which is why changing accounts is such a problem for me.
I learned to type in high school which was a loooong time ago. So after 40+ years of period-space-space I'm supposed quit it because some dilbert decides so? If this becomes a QA issue, it might be the hill I choose to die on.
Thanks guys!
for the feedback and encouragement. Cranky, I started off on a typewriter too, many moons ago :-)! I will keep plugging away at it.
By the way Cranky, what in the world is in the picture. I have looked and looked at it and I cannot figure out what is in your picture - lol!
Thanks guys! It's just hard. . .sm
Very small neighborhood. Houses are very close together. We've lived here almost 7 years and we all know each other and chat and the neighbors help each other out, no matter what.
These people just scare me because everything is drawn up tight and the "skinny" woman of the house seems very nervous. I've only seen her "husband" once and he looks as if he may be the thing that makes her afraid.
I have gotten to the point, however, where I will make some phone calls. The poor dog finally stopped barking, but my daughter went out back with her friends to swim in the pool (behind an 8 foot stockade fence) and all you can hear is "yap, yap, yap."
Geeeeeesh.
regarding the hot guys post below (sm)
One man that has definitely aged well is John Travolta. He is sooo sexy! 
Can you guys say who these companies are? Thx. nm
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You guys are awesome. Thank you!!!
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