Not the OP, but he seems like such a sweet fellow.
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Yes, I've tried it. It's very sweet, almost too sweet. sm
And it does cost a little more, but I should really use that for my coffee. Thanks for reminding me!
Okay fellow MTs I know this
was probably asked many times before, but where do you all get the little spongy things that go on your headphones? Mine got a hole in and they were the last pair I had. Do they sell them in any stores?
Or you could help your fellow MTs by...
Taking the time to object to this settlement. Opt out and object! I am sending letters to the attorneys to do just that.
A fellow MT was asking for votes
for a singing competition she is in - like an American Idol type thing in her hometown
www.whiznews.com/ycitystar.php
Dear fellow MTs...sm
I am stuck and don't know what to do. I keep going back and forth and now I am afraid to make any move at all. Could use some of your opinions on this situation. At the moment, I have two part time jobs. The one I have worked for a little over 3 years as an IC. The other I just started about 4-5 weeks ago. I did seek the company out and I started with them full time employee so I could get some PTO for once in my life. However, I had to switch to part time employee because of the schedule thing. We all know as an IC, we have a lot more flexibility and this is very important to me, and the new company is a set schedule that must be followed. Long story short, I went into the new job hoping to make better money, work smarter, not harder, and drop the IC job. But, 5 weeks later, I just still can't drop the IC position so I am now working more, working harder, and working more than full time and I need to make a decision. The new job pays better but after taxes and all, not really! It is an employee position so I have to work a given schedule. The job itself is basically the same as my IC job, not easier, but maybe slightly more difficult to make lines. The IC job is a job and at one point, I was treated very unfairly by the owner and that bothers me a bit because of fear of that happening again, but for the most part, it has been good to me and is considered one of the best IC jobs out there. I really am stuck and need some opinions/advice from you all that have made the leap from IC to employee or employee to IC. I feel I am at a dead end being an IC, but yet I need the flexibility to some extent. I don't know what to do. Both companies are considered GOOD ones by MTstars company board criteria. Any and all opinions/advice appreciated. TIA
Hello, fellow Iowan!
There are plenty of MTSOs online. What are you looking for?
Need my fellow MTs opinions...sm
I've been working from home as an IC for my 7 years of MTing. MUCH has changed in my life and I find that it may be time to leave the home office and get back into the world of the living. I spoke wiht a hospial in my area and got a bit of info - full time position Monday through Friday, full benefit package, tuition reimbursement, life insurance, healthcare, disabiliy, etc. The top pay is 6k less than what I'm making now, but that is not that important as there are other factors I have to take into consideration. My question to those of you who are in-house MTs, would you share your hourly rate - just a ballpark. This is the first time I've ventured down this path and actually received figures from a potential employer.
So, what do you all think?
Fellow struggler
I, too, struggle with my line count (though slowly growing).
I have a few accounts but ENDLESS dictators with one of them.
If I didn't use an Expander I would be toast. Between spelling, word/drug oddities, and making tons of various sentence expansions (to help conform to soooo many dictators), I feel there is no other way.
It is true it takes time but worth it ultimately.
Any knowledge you can gain as far as medical language would be a big plus too. That is another problem I have ... trying to retain the meanings of things to verify if they fit.
g'night fellow vampire! I'm right behind ya (sm)
Hey, stick figures would be okay... heaven knows we're ALL thin in THIS city!!
Thanks for the fun ;-)
She is a fellow MT. I thought it was the right thing to do as many might know her. why?
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Thank you fellow Northeaster. I'll try it! sm
I'm a Mainer. It's getting chilly tonight. I'm not happy. $2.499 for heating oil here and old man winter is coming. I'll break out the heating pad. :)
Thank goodness we have a wood backup and some wood. I've already told the hubby and kids to break out their socks and sweaters because that thermostat will NOT go above 65 this winter. 
to fellow psych major
I would like to start working in the field before I get my BA. Do you know how many credits you would need in order to do that, and is an AA degree far enough to begin work? You're a lot closer than me so I figured you might know this. It would be a big weight off my shoulders knowing I could work within three years rather than 7, which seems so long. Thanks in advance
fellow animal lovers/MTs
boycott Iams pet food - they have been charged of horrible animal cruelty in testing their food, see web site below.
www.peta.org/
good morning fellow MTs
Does anyone have a used C phone for sale. E-mailed a few people on board who said they had one but have not heard back from either one. Thank's in advance....
A fellow co-worker said it was all mucked up
last week. I think she's off today though so haven't heard. Wouldn't doubt it.
Ok to snag this and send to a few fellow MTs? sm
This really rings a bell for me, and I know it would a few friends of mine, also. I would never copy it and send it on without asking permission, though.
Merry Christmas!
Fellow QAs/editors: Using a mouse 8 hrs a day
is really making my right hand hurt. Has anyone found a mouse that's more comfortable? TIA!
Just wanted to say STAY SAFE to my fellow Tx MTs. sm
I am in East Texas and although we don't expect the hard hit, very high potential for flooding, tornadoes, and power outages. Everyone take care of yourself and prepare if you haven't already.
Good 4U! Fellow people-pleaser here LOL.nm
OT - Restoration of faith in fellow humans.....
Homeless man receives rewards worth $4,000 for honesty
7/25/2006, 9:55 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — A homeless man is finding out that it pays to be honest.
Charles Moore, who found and turned in nearly $21,000 worth of U.S. savings bonds, has received rewards worth $4,000, The Detroit News reported Tuesday.
Moore, 59, was originally given $100 from the son of the deceased bond owner, but residents here and in other states decided that wasn't enough.
A Belleville man sent him eight trash bags full of returnable bottles and a bowl of coins. Three people pledged a combined $2,500, while two Troy businessmen donated $1,200, a shopping spree at a men's clothing store and a lead on a job.
"I was thankful for it," said Moore, who lost his job in Toledo, Ohio, as a roofer, moved back to his native Michigan and can't find a job.
David C. Smith, of Albuquerque, N.M., gave Moore $1,000. Smith said he and his fiancee wouldn't have thought twice about what to do if the bonds had belonged to them.
"We would have given him the whole amount, period," Smith said. "No questions asked."
Moore said he plans to use the money to find an apartment.
He was searching for returnable bottles in a trash bin when he made the discovery last week. Moore took the bonds to a 24-hour walk-in homeless shelter, where a staffer made some phone calls and tracked down the owner's family.
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Information from: The Detroit News, http://www.detnews.com
I'd make fellow VLC students aware, to
nm
Hey fellow Montanans, I'm in Lolo, crazy!. nm
nm
Wow...cold reply. No empathy for a fellow MT at all. nm
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You are welcome! I'm glad to help my fellow MTs. And to answer your philosophical
questions... it does seem they stack the deck against us. So that's why we have be sneaky, more clever, and technically savvy!
Nice to see a fellow dirt-roader. :-) nm
nm
Fellow of the American Association of Medical Transcription
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A fellow back brace wearer! I wear one too. sm
And I wear a waist-nipper type undergarment underneath the back brace, for comfort and because it seems to help my back too (not as much as the brace, though).
I put off using the brace for a *long* time because my doctor discouraged it, saying that it's a substitute for strong back muscles, so better not to wear the brace and strenghen the back instead. Yeah, right! I did exercises every day for months, and I would still have back pain if standing for more than 5 min. (Chronic, muscle spasm type stuff, supposedly from mild scoliosis, but who knows...) I would be in misery with a burning kind of low back pain after doing something as simple as going to the grocery store. It was awful.
Now I wear the back brace for anything strenuous, and my back feels sooo much better. I found the brace at Walmart, under $20.00.
(Disclaimer: This was just my experience. Consult your own doctor! )
Hi, Fellow Georgian. I've been editing for years SM
and love it. This is a good move for you once you get used to the common corrections and work out your own ways of making them quickly. Like programming in a hot key or keystroke combo for backing up to erase a common, insert a period, and drop in a "The" to make two sentences from one runon. And so on.
It's great that your account is already trained on most dictators. So often, the speech recognition system is just beginning to learn the dictators and most reports are a mass of mistakes. People usually get paid more to train the system, but it can be irritating at that point. At your point, you'll breeze through twice the reports you used to, dropping in corrections here and there, and it'll be much easier on your hands and wrists. Plus, once you get used to it, if you read fast and speed up the dictation you'll likely make more money editing than transcribing. I do. Enjoy.
I knew I would get the support of my fellow 'gals.' As a poster said below, no affair -he's
been there 2 weeks. And the way he puts it, "nothing but construction guys down here." Yeah right. He's only 5 miles from the newest casino they just built and he's always telling me how there's so many people down there and I know for a fact he's gone a few times and I know those gals serving those drinks aren't ugly!! But then again, neither am I! LOL
Hell, I never thought I'd need the book, "He's Just Not That Into You" married! Tha's why I AM married! MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't live with them, can't live with them.....
Fellow is a highly respected title in the medical field tho--
not for medical transcriptionists!
Hello fellow transcription princesses - my daughter pimped my computer LOL (sm)
Yeah, I hate that word too but she did! She has this Barbie software that changes your icons and background color and sounds...so everything on my computer is fuscia, pink and purple and I have a cute pink barbie hand for a cursor and every time I spell check I get this starry wand sound. It's actually kinda fun...helping me stay awake and making things a little more cheerful. This is the third day since she did it and I think I like it :-)
My best friend and fellow editor laid off this close to Christmas! sm
For everyone complaining about his or her jobs, it could be worse. My best friend, who has been in this business for years and years and years, has a work ethic like nothing I have seen before, and is a genuinely caring and gentle soul, was laid off today from her job via a conference call! To add insult to injury, she is scheduled to have two surgeries next month, which she scheduled for after the holidays to accommodate her employer, even though she can barely see, which she will now be unable to have since they are terminating her health insurance today as well. They were aware of her scheduled surgery and knew she had been waiting for some time to have it. We will not even talk about what impact this has upon her family, including her young son, particularly here at Christmas time. How do you explain no Santa to a young child?
She is always the person helping everyone else, both in her personal life as well as professionally. I have witnessed her struggles and she always keeps a positive outlook. I think this will finally "do her in." Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers, as well as the other THIRTY people who lost their jobs today.
They say that everything we do comes back to you ten-fold. I hope it happens quickly for this heartless company.
Thank you fellow MT. I love that site.....good source of info without the complaing....
Thanks again.
Thank you fellow MT. I love that site.....good source of info without the complaining....
Thanks again.
Now that's sweet!
You're raising a good bunch of kids! As an Air Force mother, I say thank you for thinking of our boys!! Tell your girls how much it means to us. 
That was so sweet of you. Again, I am so sorry
for all this pain, and so sorry for your sons. Absolutely horrifying experience, and absolutely no other way to word it. But, time does help. I know that's so corny, but it does. I understand crushing pain. I have 2 way older siblings. My Mom had me after she thought she had menopause - a late in life baby? Well, my siblings were so jealous of me since my conception, I guess. Long story short, it was like we were 2 separate families, but I was the one who stayed close by and took care of my parents when they were elderly. One day my mom had a stroke and was taken to the hospital. Did my Dad call me? No. First time in his life he went to the older 2. They had planned this, or plotted it, and told my Dad NOT to call me. No reason, just don't. He is very old and feeble in his 90s, so he obeyed them. Long story short, my mom died a hideous death - her primary said she would have recovered probably back to 80%, but my siblings wanted her dead. They refused all supportive care and they shipped her to a nursing home. MY FRIENDS worked at the hospital, and I'm surprised I didn't transcribe her report, as its my account, too. But nobody could call me do to HIPPA. In the meanwhile, when I spoke to my Dad, he just acted like my mom was resting and all was fine. My sister gladly called me, all giggling, when my mom was dead and even CREMATED. Not my mom's wishes. She never had a funeral even, no obituary. And she was a nice mom. Did not deserve that. At least she had a plot, and some stranger with a shovel buried her sometime in the winter - 3 months after her death. Wow! All this to say, I know pain and shock as well, and time does heal. I was in a shock-like state for about a year, and then it started to clear. Now its been 5 years, and I can talk about it. So, talk, talk, talk. Its good to talk about it. And, yes, my husband and I have had very dear friends and relatives take their own lives. Over 20 years ago now, and its still sad, but not as painful. One thing for sure - I will always be thinking about you guys, and wishing you well.
How sweet!!
When we got "Lolli," our Pomeranian, she weighed a mere 1.25 pounds. Just a black puff of fir and the sweetest little thing. The vet told us to feed her Gerber baby food, which we did. I used to love to get her all the beef, chicken, and veal dishes, with the little chicken sticks and blueberry buckle for dessert! Boy did that little girl like to chow down!
But chicuhas's (sp) are my FAVORITE little dog. I used to have a precious female short-haired teacup whom I named Consuela Conchita D'Alfina. What a baby!
wow, that is sweet! (nm)
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Sweet!
KS and TM, you are both very sweet.....
I was actually so upset by the posters below that I broke out in hives!!! Can you imagine???
I have been struggling to switch to Word from DQS and Word Perfect. I have been reading Windows for Dummies. I have been searching through the Word Help Index, etc., etc. I have been struggling to make some kind of line count that adds up to over $7 an hour during this "learning" process. I thought for sure I could post a quick question and get a short and quick answer to help me along but I guess not. The last thing I needed today was someone trying to teach me to fish or trying to teach me how to do proper research. I KNOW how to research, it was not working for me fast enough, and I just needed a quick short cut.
I do believe * what comes around..... * and I believe you two will get good things in short order.
BTW, the short, to the point instructions JAM emailed me - i have been using over and over this evening and have been saved SO MUCH time and aggravation, as opposed to Ctl-Delete for every word I want removed! Blessings on her/him also.
See URL. This is sweet.
http://www.electronickeyboards.com/silent-keyboards.html
Sweet
I have a lady doc who always ends with "have a blessed day." I think it's nice.
Sweet!
I've been holding off getting one until I had confirmation that one actually worked! :-)
sweet nm
sweet
Wow, that's so sweet of you!
I wish I could apply for unemployment but independent contractors don't qualify. My status was IC for the past four years. Hope you find something soon, too! I did wind up going back to school to become a teacher, but I still need a steady income until I graduate in a year. Something will kick loose soon.
yes she is sweet, isn't she?
change of pace from the arguments
Thank you, how sweet!
It is now 9:15 and system still down. I hope it's not going to be much longer . . . . . .
I saw a very sweet documentary....
the other night about chickens. One of the segments was about a man who had installed about 250 roosters on his property, presumably for cock fighting. Anyway the racket the roosters made all throughout the day was deafening and driving his neighbors (none too close, as this was a rural area in Ohio I think). Finally all the residents of this area took the guy to court and got a court order for him to remove the roosters. Maybe a lawsuit is the way to get rid of the yapping dog problem!
awww!! How sweet! (sm)
I only wish I would write half as eloquent a post praising good QA personnel.
I work on a platform now where I can easily and quickly go back and listen to my blanks after completing the report just to see if they are any more clear. It's incredible what I can actually fill in on some of the more difficult dictators when I'm at the end and the voice characteristics are more familiar. However, before this platform, who knows what kind of blanks I left!!
I'm sure QA likes me more now LOL.
You are very kind to take the time to post this. We all appreciate it!
If it makes you feel any better, I'm starting a long night/morning shift in ESL-land! ;-)
Thank you again!
That was really sweet, Wannie.
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Kids are sweet!
Three of my grandkids were here to spend a week with us. They are ages 9, 6, and 4. I had forgotten how earnest they are at that age, how sweet & sincere. They argued over who got to help me open the gate to our driveway when we went out (we live in the boonies). We ended up taking turns.
A conversation with the 6 y/o: "Grandma? This is funny, right? You know James? In my class? He brought Cheetos and I brought Fritos. Get it? Cheetos & Fritos? That's funny, right?"
I am trying to enjoy them as much as I can before they get to that teenage, who-wants-to-go-to-grandma's phase.
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