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Make sure you are putting some of that "good money" away now while you are able to make it.  15 years from now, you may not be able to bang out those 1500-2000 lines per day and your check is going to shrink. 

I was just like so many of you and became trapped by what I was doing.  After 15 years of it, i was so severely burned out and I am unable to keep up that pace any longer.  I'm in school now so that I can get a better paying job outside the home.  Being here when my kids were yougn was wonderful, but now I need to get out, but I need to continue at the level of pay we've grown accustomed to.

1.  You can go ahead and cash the checks you received and it 's guaranteed money.

2.  You can wait and join the class action suit if you haven't and not cash the check; however, remember that in class action lawsuits the only true winners are the lawyers.  They end up getting most of the money in the end and generally the plaintiffs end up with a very small amount.  It irks me to see things like class action suits that results in the attorneys receiving millions of dollars in legal fees and the plaintiffs end up with less than  $100 because the legal fees ate the money available up.   Look at people who sue insurance companies over automobile accidents for example.  Say an attorney gets them $500,000 - well the attorney gets $250,000 for legal fees and the injured party receives $250,000 - and in situations where they receive large monies it's generally because the person is going to have permanent health problems related to the accident that future insurance companies will exclude paying for.   $250,000 isn't a lot of money if you have an injury that will cause chronic problems throughout your life.

3.  Remember that if you do join the suit that this will probably be tied up in court for years so don't expect a quick settlement if they do decide to settle.  Agreeing to settle a case outside of court doesn't mean the defendant is guilty - sometimes it's cheaper to settle out than to continue racking up costs associated with the lawsuit.  

As a note I don't work for MQ - I've just been out there in the legal world to see very commonly that what people think will happen isn't what happens in the long run.  The best you'll get is checks for any amount you weren't paid properly and possibly some interest, but don't expect to get a truckload of cash because they messed up your paychecks.  Instead if you wait on the lawsuit then you may end up having to share the back wages with the attorneys. 

when supe was pushing jobs into individual que's to improve TAT, since it is always at the end of a job that it happens -- just before another job will download to me.

Yes, it does happen. Not equipment problem, but possibly could be a connection problem -- slow connection causing this, too ????

Have you noticed a pattern to when it kicks you out, such as immediately after you send an e-mail?  This happened to me, there was a setting in my Outlook Express that made it disconnect every time I sent an e-mail.  It was easily fixed. 

My mom and another "girl" were typists for the old pipeline company back in the 1950's. They had to type financial reports (all numbers) on manual typewriters. There was no White Out back then and erasing was not allowed. If you got something wrong, you had to start over.

They finally finished the reports and stacked them up on the windowsill.  Cold windy day and the boss comes in and opens the window. My mom and the other girl sat down and cried and then started over again.

My mom always said she thought the boss might have opened the window on purpose, but that's as far as she ever went with it. Now people would say, "My boss was such a . . . "

As a child I had asked my mother why things like this happen and I'll never forget her answer.....

At some point in time this childs death may open doors that would otherwise may have not.  It is quite possible that the Lord sparred him from something extremely tragic that would of happen to him if he was still on earth.  Sometimes things happen for reasons beyond our understanding.  "The Lord works in mysterious ways", sound familiar? 

This family will definitely be in my prayers + + + + +

Maybe she meant some other regulating organization.

I hope you'll have time to go to Epcot, as there are no many wonderful things to see in that park.  One of my favorite places is the country, Germany, not only for their wonderful food, but in particular for their drop-dead GORGEOUS colored crystal they sell in their shop.  Crystal of every color - Bavarian, Dresden, cut-to-clear, etc.  Bring logs of $$$ and credit cards.  Their crystal is to die for.  I'm a big collector of the stuff and often joke with my hubby that we could give their shop a run for the money when it comes to inventory and variety.....Hehehe!

Have fun!

If ANYONE who does any kind of interviewing has any clue of the "production" that we as transcriptionists have to do, we should be offered ANY position because they would know how hard we work to meet our production quota.  We are VERY HARD workers and should be treated as such....