Not so bad if you can divide it into 7 days. Gross.

I couldn't even think about eating a half of a donut, but even thinking about adding a cheesburger is just insane.

What do these people wash this thing down with, a 2 liter Mountain Dew?

I get heartburn just thinking about it.

• Cheeseburger with Krispy Kreme donuts? - XtremeMT
  • Now, I like cheeseburgers and Krispy Kreme donuts sm - mlstoo
  • Not so bad if you can divide it into 7 days. Gross. - omt
  • I saw Luther Vandross mention doing that a few years ago on Oprah. He must've ignited the craze!n - R
    • yeah, and - he died
      • wow, i didn't know that. I thought - he lost all that weight?
        • Luther Vandross..............sm - A great loss.............sm
        • he died almost a year ago (sm) - ss
  • I saw that on TV, too, last night. Yuck! nm - The Fattening of America
  • Gross! - Who would want to eat that? nm
    • Its actually becoming popular! - XtremeMT
      • Not much different than eating French toast with a side of bacon and scrambled eggs w/cheese. nm - But still not for this veg head
        • sounded gross at first to me, but - you have a point
          • McGriddles are the most fattening - sm
            • I still love them anyway (sm) - you have a point
            • You can look it up on McDonalds on the web. YUCK - omt
    • Gross is right! Check out the picture. Ewww.... - sm
      • If I make it to my 80s, I'll eat what I want! nm - Deb
      • that is so gross! - sm
      • OMG--1000 calories and 10 grams of sugar. - Who would want to eat that? nm
        • 46 grams of FAT!!!!!! - arcogal716
      • that's disgusting - ewww
      • Think I am gonna throw up! ugh! nm - noyb

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I remember the gross line too (back in 1989) and we were on a 55 character line and one clinic account we had specifically requested a 45 character margin so the printed reports/letters could fit on their special stationary!  No ESLS (or very, very rare).  I loved getting paid 7.25 cpl then.  Type "Sincerely," and it was 7.25 cents.  I worked on DOS OS, Multi-Mate and WordStar back then, amber, green or black/white monitor, 640 XT PC with 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies, a 20 meg HD with X-Tree file manager, PRD word expansion software and had a 1200 baud external modem (but can't remember the modem software name!)  Yeah, we were rocking baby!    

I was glad to progress to that machine from the typewriter with my 4 carbon copies and 5 "flavors" of white out (white, pink, yellow/buff/canary, goldenrod, green) when I made a mistake...

misleading everyone.  The majority of MTSOs pay by a 65 character lines.  Paying for spaces or not paying for spaces is usually the only variant between companies.  You come on here and say that you tyhpe 3000 a line a day and leave it at that.  Don't say how many hours your work, how long your lines are, etc.  That is misleading!

I probably am typing 3000 gross lines a day in my eight hour day if I were coutning gross lines.  For fun, I think on my next work day, I'm going to jot down my gross line count in each document and add it up at the end of the day and compare it to my actual line count.  I'll let everyone know what the difference is.

Geez!  Really burns me up when people get on here at start spouting out nonsense as if it were fact and we should all be in awe of their skills and expertise!  For future reference, the truth lies in the details.  You can't just say you do 3000 lines a day and leave it at that.  Notice when I posted below how many lines a day I do, I added that I work a strictly 8 hour day and that my lines are 65 characters with spaces.

Give accurate and detailed information people, PLEASE!

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it was supposed to be your errors by either total characters or total words, but total lines just doesn't seem right.  You do a 90 line report and have one error (that is counted as two points) and you have a 97.78%.  I put an instead of a (on accident of course) and got docked two points and failed the review for that patient.  That just doesn't seem right. 

Is this normal?

I'm very sorry that your lines are 90 characters line and you get paid by gross lines.  You are cheating yourself - that's not my fault.  You cannot change the definition of a gross line.  So I gues I'm not understanding what you are trying to say.  Now if you are trying to say that your line equals 90 characters and that's how you figure your lines, than you are not using gross lines.  You have defined a line to be 90 characters, whereas most MTSOs define a line as 65 characters.  If that is the case, then I must say again, you are cheating yourself.

So which is it, do you get paid by gross lines or by a 90 character line?

Can someone explain the difference between these two?  I am assuming that the gross line is better than the gross character line.  How much better is being paid by the gross character line than just by the standard 65-character line?  Does anyone know how much difference it would make in dollars and cents?

Thanks.

This actually was a comedy routine about them, remember Balki anyone?  Forgot the show but he was here in the US living with his cousin?

He did a comedy stint about his first nice, sit down dinner in America. He was having his boss & family over and wanted to do it just right, so he went to the grocery. 

"Can you believe what you can find in America,  they already sanitize your napkins, so all you have to do is put silverware on them and your table is set"..But he was having trouble with the spoon rolling off the "Sanitary Napkins".  OMG thought I'd lose it.  Then he added the gourmet jelly...KY jelly "it is what the state of Kentucky is famous for so it must be good"..that was a good but gross stint.

I go into file, properties, statistics and that gives me my gross count.  Very simple and easy as long as you are using Word, no program to buy.   I am surprised that the company you are working for did not show this to you.  Also gives you characters if you are paid for characters divided by whatever your line is and not gross lines. 

Patti

I bill for gross line which means each line counts whether there are 10 words or one word each line counts.  So when I type in a smaller font, there are less lines than in Courier.  I do not take the characters and divide by 65.   Hope that makes sense.  So the smaller font, the less lines.  So when I contract with a client I tell them that my price per cpl it is a 65 character line in Courier font.  If they chose to use Ariel 10, I will type in that for them but the line count is done in Courier or at least Ariel 10.