Too many balls dropping...
Posted By: happynewyear2006 on 2005-12-27
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Why are there so many balls dropping these days? One in Times Square, Las Vegas, LA, Disney World..Goodness! Which ball are you watching drop?
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And you should know about balls. You certainly
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If you don't have the balls to get rid of a man
there's nothing anyone on here can do for you. Get some counseling.
fur-balls!
i have a few of the little darlings myself. their timing is impeccable--no?
Balls instead of chairs - Hahaha
Just thought I'd pass this along in case anyone is tired of sitting in the same old chair everyday while they work. I've seen this "tip" before but never bothered to try it until recently.
I purchased one of those large inflatable exercise balls and use it instead of a chair. It's a very refreshing change. I did have to learn to balance a bit because in a chair you can move around, even when you're not aware of it, and the chair is stable but the ball isn't. It also helps me keep better posture, is easier on the low back/sacrum, and I think it is helping my abdomen because you are working your abdominals and legs while sitting there.
Anyway, it was worth a try for me. I may not use it all the time but it is a great change.
Sulfer or moth balls.
A snake in the house will leave eventually if it does not have a food source. They only eat people in the movies. They are mainly looking for mice but sometimes they wander into places they shouldn't. Sulfer (you can buy it in the garden center at Walmart) sprinkled around the perimeter of the house works (outside). Snakes hate it and will avoid it. Moth balls work but not if you have kids...they think it looks like candy. Sulfer will last a long time even if it rains. You can go to a farm supply place and buy "snake repellent" (and pay $20) but if you read the ingredients it is just sulfer. Country lore says a snake won't cross the sulfer line. Works for me.
I wish US leaders had the balls to make a
It's so eloquently spoken and TRUE. They chose US, we did not choose THEM.
My grandfather came to this country LEGALLY. He learned English BEFORE he came. He had a sponsor to vouch for him, and a job waiting when he arrived. He wanted so much to be 'American' that he changed his name. He became a citizen as soon as he could. If I wanted to move to another country, I would want to feel ACCEPTED, and one of the best ways to do that is to assimilate oneself into that country's culture, I would learn the language, and woulnd not go bashing that new country's beliefs.
Great balls of fire! sm
The most I EVER got was maybe 250 lph, and that was including headers, etc., and a word Expander like PC Shorthand. Course I was always a sluggish typist, never the fastest by any means! Just couldn't do that....I depended on my experience and my word expander.
they are dropping.
our hospital switched to editing a while back. Because editing you get 400-500+ lines an hour, we lost several MTs and MT staff. Our hospital does extensive research and we are paid according to other hospitals, and what other services pay. We went from hourly pay (more than 17 per hour for me) to getting paid per line for editing and some straight typing we have to do but the pay was equivalent to our hourly pay. Now we were advised of a cut to become comparable to the MT market and after learning to edit our pay per line will compare to 13 on hour for me. So that is a huge cut.
But with dropping food - SM
You run into more logistic problems. First of all - it's got to be dropped in a place where people can get to it, it's gotta float, and it must be waterproof.
Unfortunately, too, you run into the problem of distribution, with the people reaching the bundle first possibly hoarding supplies for themselves rather than sharing them out.
IMO, there's a certain amount of Monday-morning quarterbacking going on, but NO ONE wants this situation prolonged. They're working like heck out there.
dropping everything you pick up...
and my favorite, the old juggling act: and now folks for my next trick, I will type for 15 minutes, answer the phone, fold a load of laundry, run to the bathroom, do up a coupla dishes on the way back, sit back down to type another 15 minutes, only to be interrupted as you just get going again...
gotta love it!
139 (and dropping like a stone!)
We were told they were dropping the
hyphen between numbers and measurements - 4-cm mass is now 4 cm mass, and also dropping the periods after Dr, Mr, "etc", and things like that, but we have not started using it yet.
Dropping AHDI and CMT - anyone else?
It took me several years to make up my mind - I decided this year to drop my AHDI membership as well as not do my CEUs for my CMT (due this past January). I've been an MT for over 23 years. I joined AAMT 18 years ago and was thrilled to be part of it including in my local chapter for a long long time. I passed my CMT in 1994 - 15 years ago. I have never been paid any extra for my CMT.
I worked for MQ from 1997 to 2006 and finally found the guts to leave and have been happier for it. I don't make any more money. In fact, I'm making the same cpl that I was in 1997 now - that is no raise in 12 years. That is in spite of my CMT, in spite of taking on every new and difficult account I could, etc., etc.
I will leave AHDI and the certification process because I am finally admitting to myself my thorough disgust with the connection between MQ and AHDI - that started well before this so-called settlement. I sure wish I had checked in here before now, I didn't take note that there was a deadline to send in objections.
Most of my coworkers, with more experience than me and with similar hard-working, transcription loving ethics, long ago left AAMT in disgust at how they were not doing a thing for us to raise wages and how they paid more attention to MTSOs, hospitals, etc... and then, the whole offshore thing.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my 2 cents. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with their thoughts. I've been reading and listening to pro-AAMT stuff trying to wade through and made my decision. My final bottom line was that I listened to my gut, my instincts, and and accepted that I know in my heart and head that for AHDI to still pretend they are for us MTs is a sham - and shameful - and their getting anywhere NEAR a company like Medquist says all that any of us should need to hear. Or, rather, that I need to hear.
dropping AHDI
I will also not renew membership to AHDI this year. Haven't been paying that much attention, but now that I have lost my job to VR after 14 years, I am paying attention and don't like what I see. I will not continue to support an association that is supposed to represent me, a hard working U.S. MT, that promotes MTSOs who offshore. I'm just sorry that I didn't realize that fact years ago as I would have dropped membership sooner.
Another reason why our wages keep dropping...
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You shouldn't be picking up, dropping off or using your paper anyway
so first you better "pretend" you have an account and figure out how to go digital and send stuff over the Internet. Pickup, dropoff and printing were done in the 20th century :)
My jaw is dropping at the number or errors in your response--nm
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I worked there and they always ran out. Accts dropping like flies.
I'd find something else, fast!
I would write a letter to AHDI and tell THEM, too, why you are dropping. sm
Your opinion and reasons, as someone who was a part of them for so many years and saw NO benefit from it, is a truth they need to be told over and over.
Or becuase of dropping rates, the small MTSO
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