Mumbai - time to bring our records home

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Would you consider $1000 a week, IC status, working 5 hours a day, 5 days a week "great money"?

This is for informational purposes only and not to belittle or degrade anyone or boast and put anyone on a soapbox about their income.

to pay up or get out. It sounds like you're being too nice and if the tenants know you're a "nice christian family", they may be taking advantage of you. Tell them if they don't pay, you will be taking them to court and putting an ad in the paper to rent the house. You can be a "good chrisitan family" and do business at the same time. If you're not getting any money, you might as well kick them out and get other renters in there. You have experience in renting so you know that you can collect a deposit and first months' rent from new tenants. And, chances are, if the current tenants move out quickly, they'll leave the house in a mess, so you'll have some clean up.

Right now, it's a buyer's market and not a seller's market, so things are going to be really tight. I have a house I'm trying to sell and the market is so flooded that it's taking roughly 120 days in my area for property to sell.

As a person of strong faith, I don't believe in vengence or discrimination; however, with all our work going to India this has changed me. I look at the opulence, Bollywood excess, etc and think; okay we have slums right here in the USA. We have people who ARE WILLING to work now for even slave wages. And just like India we have those who live in opulence with disregard for the poverty in front of their eyes.

My point, help me not be so darn angry every time I here the word India!! I know it is not right. I am a peaceful person.

Dozens killed in India terror attacks

There now are reports of as many as 80 people dead -- a number that is likely to rise -- in apparent terror attacks aimed at tourists and travelers in Mumbai, India.

Reuters is reporting that at least 250 people have been wounded in the attacks, which appear targeted at tourists. In addition, Indian television is reporting Westerners are being held hostage at at least two hotels. News networks and wire services are reporting there have been at least seven separate attacks in the city, largely at luxury hotels and restaurants.

"I heard some gunshots around 9:30. I was with my friends. Something hit me. I ran away and fell on the road. Then somebody picked me up. I have injuries below my shoulder," Reuters reporter Sourav Mishra said from a hospital bed, Reuters reported.

The Times of India reports there have been eight separate attacks, including a major terror strike at a large passenger railway station.

Our coverage is here.

(Television broadcast capture of a fire at the Oberoi hotel in Mumbia courtesy NDTV, via AP)

Update at 3:57 p.m. ET: According to the AP, gunmen are known to have attacked a major train station, a well-known restaurant, two luxury hotels and a police station. A previously unknown group calling itself "Deccan Mujahideen" has sent e-mail to news organizations claiming responsibility for the attacks, the Times of India is reporting. The AP now lists the death toll at 78. There are multiple reports that attacks are continuing.

There was a discussion about how MTs would prefer QA to handle correction situations. Here's an example. Right now doing QA on several "new" MTs that were kind of thrown into a new account. They were all suppose to be very well qualified and only suppose to review for "format" issues. Well.....spending a great deal of time adding text that was left out, changing things transcribed that was totally off the wall, besides the format part just not getting yet. I try to be as 'tactful" as I possibly can, offer useful tips, give websites for lokking up info, etc. But right now falling so behind and still making same "format" corrections I was two weeks ago because still not getting it right or just not reading E-mails!! Our responsibilities only go so far. We have to help but you also have to help yourself. Don't transcribe anything you haven't documented somewhere and NEVER leave words out!! That's my 2 cents!!

Just stopping the flow of records overseas is not going to solve the problem. There is a special class of visa that industry can turn to if they cannot find enough American workers to do a job. This has been used for engineers, IT professionals and nurses among others. It is not necessarily that there are not Americans that can do the job, but that they will not do it for a low wage. We need to pay attention to the immigration debate as well. It isn't simply about poorly educated, low-skilled workers being involved in a guest worker program.

Maybe when you walk on someone else's shoes, you might not be soooo nasty. That is exactly what you are, too, NASTY.

I normally do not say much on this board but after I have read some of the comments made to this lady, I am beside myself. Who the heck are you to judge?? Evil people reap evil things.

I've done many reports where doctors say they prayed with the patient. I'm about as anti-religious as they come, and typing that didn't bother me in the slightest. If a patient is religious and so is the doctor, I see absolutely nothing wrong with the doctor doing it OR dictating that he did it.

So I guess I am still failing to see your point in the original thread, or in bringing it up again. It's not offensive, and there is ZERO reason to even question whether you should type it, IMO.