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Posted By: SM on 2008-07-03
In Reply to: ASR strikes again..... - MT and worn out

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ASR strikes again..... - MT and worn out
- Our ASR likes - Overwhelmed.
- Or as the immortal George Carlin said, "If you can't beat them... - SM
  - Here's one sm - MT20

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Is that beat red as in your husband beat or
is that beet red as in the vegetables you eat? Noticed you said he was going to kill you. Hehe

Sorry, that should be "If someone". nm
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Boy I can tell I am tired--- "if you are an IC" - nm
going to bed now!

"Is" should be "if" above.
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"If You Read My Mind"
as sung by Maureen McGovern.

But think about it. What does "if it didn't work out" mean? SM
That she screwed up so many reports while trying to take care of little kids?

There's more to this scenario than just the MT and what she wants. Patient care is involved. I repeat...would YOU want your medical reports transcribed by someone who was so distracted?

Not true. "If the company makes money"???
That's funny.

Bonuses are usually based upon production. If you reach a certain production, you receive a bonus.

Whatever criteria is set, one must meet - I agree.

However, if an MT meets that criteria, and the bonus is to be paid on a certain date, they are delinquent in pay if the company does not pay on that date. The company set the time...not the MT.

I'd still seek a legal remedy.

I mean "If you don't pay in timely fashion, I will bill directly".To have to beg for you pa
unprofessional.

Which way did he go George,
LOLOLOL

Wow - way to go George!
:-)

George W no better
The Clinton revised judicial oath: �I solemnly swear to tell the truth as I know it, the whole truth as I believe it to be, and nothing but what I think you need to know.

Sounds like Bush policy to me.

OMG, you got me beat...nm

got me beat too!
18.68 minutes of dictation and 72 lines this morning. Slow, slow, SLOW!

got you beat!!!
I worked on a 65-minute dictation on Monday followed by a 15-minute dictation. They ate up most of my day!!! Workers' comp. Ugh!!!

I got you beat

Not counting medical insurance and my taxes, close to $7000 a month.

And I don't live in California.

and the beat goes on nm
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I would not beat yourself up on it - sm
I have done the same thing/similar on a few reports. I took over an account from one lady and for probably a month half the letters would still have her initials on them depending on which computer I was on....I forgot to fix the template on my laptop. I sent a report through with the wrong Dr. name just the other day; but luckily I was able to go the the FPT, delete it and fix it and re-upload. I also left out the word "to" in a letter, so I went back and fixed all the ones that they had not retrieved as yet (about 15 of them). I have also sent through a letter once with the salutation wrong...whoops, I figure they caught that one though when they went to pring it out. I did fix the copy we kept in our records though. But when I spot a mistake after the fact I always let my supervisor know. It has never gone against me and they appreciate the heads up so they can fix the problem, and believe me you will never make the same mistake twice (or at least not as bad the second time).

OK, you got me beat.....LOL
I live in Michigan....only 10 here today..>BUT< Windchill is -15. Stay warm now. I sure am trying. LOL.

Don't beat yourself up! sm
When you start a new job, you are fighting everything...formats, platform, new voices, account rules AND you are trying to get up to speed as soon as you can. THIS is the time when we all make the silly and thoughtless mistakes that we have carefully learned to avoid, or so we thought. This is why QA exists.

It takes time to get every little thing under control, no matter how much experience you have and how careful you are. Your brain can only handle so many problems at once. Pick one to tackle for a few days at a time until it locks into your brain and move to the next one. Change your Expander for these spelled out things (see below) and do the best you can. It WILL get better. You are only human.

Since I have accounts that are b.i.d. etc. and ones that are not, I have left the bid=b.i.d. and gone to bidx=twice a day. It was surprisingly easy to get the hang of that, believe it or not. I think it was because I didn't have to hear "B-I-D" and think...oh right twice a day.

George Castanza!! (nm)
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george lopez
He is so funny.

George Harrison

Unbelievable talent that man had and he could make a guitar sing!

George Bush
He is an embarrassement to this nation. He makes us all look like floundering idiots and he's the lead idiot.

I bet all the "red state" folks that voted for him are having second thoughts. He could care less. I do believe that he is slow on the response because it was not an area of well to do white people who support him but are poor hardworking mostly minority people. Take a good hard look America; this is what we are stuck with.

Did it occur to anyone that even terrorist groups are laughing at us!!!! UUGGHHH.

I'm ready for the flaming that is sure to come my way but...whatever....I can't stop crying from watching these people trying to survive in conditions that no one should be forced to endure.

George Bush
I'm not slow, just making a comparison to say....Florida last year. Granted the situation is on a much bigger scale but if you think back, most of the people were able to leave the areas hardest hit in Florida, mostly white, with transportation available.

As Katrina was coming up through the Gulf, the people left in New Orleans were the people who had no transportation, who lived in housing projects and/or were unemployed. They had no way to get out. I use the race issue because it is painfully obvious that most of the people waiting at the Superdome, on rooftops and various other locations were mostly black. There is no way to have missed that.

It is also painfully obvious that George Bush has taken a beating over this (and about time too in my opinion) and suddenly trucks, food and water are to be had. I guess he heard enough bull from enough people to finally do something to try and salvage himself politically.

George Strait
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George says we are misinformed...
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Is this OUR GEORGE E FROM TEXAS???? nm
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cannot stand George!!!!!!
But luv luv luv Matthew.

George Clooney...ewwwww!!!!

Matt over George any day. sm
Besides being gorgeous, he is also very patriotic and supportive of our troops.

George W. Bush! :) NM
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George W. Bush. nm

Lake George NY has the best...

Hypertype is EXCELLENT!!!

I think I have you beat! I have a 65 Mustang
coupe in my garage, all original. My husband bought it 2 years ago for 1200.00, cleaned it up, put the original color on it. Runs like a top, still the original tires. Had it appraised for $15,000.00. Can't beat that. It sits next to his 79 corvette. Mine's purtier, though.

Wow! You got me beat. I do remember. . .

The financial office I worked in that went "computerized" and there was like one mainframe and you had to save your stuff on this HUGE floppy that was about the size of an LP and carefully walk to the mainframe at the other end of the building so that static from the carpet wouldn't "shock" the info off the floppy.

Only one printer too and that was in the basement. You had to stand in line. And we thought we were so state of the art. But actually. . . .we were!

Got you beat...check this out
I am 4'9" tall (short) and I can definitely relate to your problem. Never use top shelves...never have!

Don't beat yourself up or second guess your
decisions. You love your dog, and made decisions based on what you believed to be best for her. As for spading/neutering or not, it seems to just be fate or whatever. I have had spayed dogs die young of cancer, or died young of other problems. In general, I have had more luck with not neutered or spayed dogs than vice versa. So much is in the bloodlines of our dogs - unless you breed them for generations, you just don't know, and so much of it is genetic. So I personally believe our dogs are predisposed to certain ailments, just like we are - and try as we do to prevent things in our pooches, its gonna happen anyway. No what I mean? There also is a lot of controversy over neutering and the ages to have it done. I personally believe in having it done after the dog matures - it does stunt growth cycles, usually unseen in females, but observable in males. I know in Europe, many dogs are not spayed or neutered, and European dogs have longer life expectancies than US counterparts. The whole neuter/spay campaign in our country had so much to do with the responsible pet owner thing and to stop unwanted pups, etc. I understand how you felt - you knew your dog was not in danger of having an unwanted pregnancy! Sounds like you were/are a wonderful dog owner! I'm sure you made all the right decisions - when you begin to doubt, just think of something happy - block it!

In a heart beat
Am currently trying to get on with them.

I have you beat in years by
23 years and I make nothing as compared to what I did in the past. I make 4C for editing and 8c line for straight. I am fast so I still bring home what I want on my paycheck and do not want to increase my hours at this point in time. Like I said, a lot of the companies you will speak to want certain times and days for you to work. Think I have only seen 1 post where any different but give it a go.

No need to briar beat yourself...
I haven't been in the field nearly as long as you have but I did psych for approx 5 years, got fired from my inhospital job, came home and started taking care of my aging/bedbound mom and started working from home. I tried others with OP's, and signed on with a couple of companies to realize that I really did not know all that I thougfht that I did about transcription. After about a year I was able to land a job b with a psychiatric hospital account...Wow...even so, I still don't know alot of things. It is ever changing but I love it. I feel like a turtle at times but hey I get the job done....I am sure that you are a great Transcriptionist and your speed will increase as mines has but it is like going to rehab and learning to walk all over again, we fall down but we get up...believe in yourself.....

If You Can't Beat Them Join Them

There's an old saying which says "If You Can't Beat Them Join Them" I dunn think any of us can stop outsourcing and I dunnt feel there is any point crying over loss of income. So I have followed this ("If You Can't Beat Them Join Them") and I did't lose a dime as the companies outsourced big time. I have myself started taking 100% more work than before and am outsourcing them to individuals in India (the quality generally is good) who does the transcribing (obviously I get the work done at a much lower rate than what I myself get paid). By doing so my hourly rate works out even higher than anno's

George Clooney...something about those eyes! nm
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One way to beat the high gas prices...

Gas prices drive man to commute by horse

By Associated Press

MINOT, N.D. --Jim Jundt was so determined to rein in his spending on gasoline that he got out of bed early and rode his 14-year-old quarterhorse mare to work.

Jundt lives 15 miles south of Minot and works as a mechanic at Goodyear Tire & Auto Service in the city.

He said he and his co-workers had been talking about rising fuel prices, and he joked that he would ride his horse to work if gasoline ever hit $3 a gallon.

His co-workers laughed, but when the price at the pump soared to $3.20 last week, Jundt headed for the barn.

He said he was only five minutes late riding his mare, Patty, to work.

While he worked, Patty waited patiently, eating hay out of the back of a truck.

Line counts -sm - beat ya

Hey since everyone is bragging I just did 563 lines in 2036 minutes -- sorry had to put that in but it is true but I forgot to sign off my document on as I went to bed. Guess I don't make the 2000 club in the last 24 hour period.

I am sure the paparazzi have beat her to the punchline
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also can't beat Stedman's Immunology
maybe get used on e-bay or here? Good luck - once you get it down it's a breeze.

Right! Andrew is top notch! You can't beat it!
They will work closely with you. Both places she mentioned are great. They turn out such great MTs that all the nationals will be running into each other breaking down your door in the desire to hire you. I know when I graduated I had three call me in one day alone! Let us know how it all works out, okay Dumbfounded? Best wishes, good luck, take care and all that other good stuff.....

Ears now beat red and they are off for good.

My ears are not beat red and killing me. I love the NC and they help quite ambient noise even with the feature off but wowzers. Back to my cheapos for me. I may try the Koss headphones and see if they are any better. Hubby is not working so he gets to do all the running. He is going to kill me.

i'm glad they gave george that role last
night. him and izzy wanted to become doers and he sure did! i'm curious to see what they do with his character now...i hated to see the bomb guy get blown up! he was cute. i used to watch him on mysterious ways a long time ago just because he was a cutie!

George Clooney and Richard Gier (sp?)
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You forgot Ben Casey, George Clooney ... sm

notwithstanding.

But actually, the first DR. KILDARE wasn't TV's Richard Chamberlain. Series was based on series of old movies (no age issue here ... first one came out same year my mom was born, around 1932 or 1933 or so). There, Dr. Kildare was played by Lew Ayres and Dr. Gillespie was played by Lionel Barrymore.

Docs were male, nurses all female and scurring around with, "Yes, doctor... No, doctor ... Right away, doctor."

I just read the article and was going to post but you beat me to it.....