Ugh - 42 minutes of that boring junk.
Posted By: Ugh on 2007-10-23
In Reply to: Just have to share - sm - bjpnc
Do they really think anybody is going to read all of that? Didn't any English teacher ever tell him the secret to good writing is LESS IS MORE??
How lazy not to be able to shorten it up to something brief yet complete. Shame on him. You poor thing.
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yeah me too...junk, junk, more junk. But...(sm)
tech guy setup SpamBayes on my computer so that they go into a junk mail file automatically. Hope this helps...it sure helped me...don't have to see them and no danger in opening in them.
Read a boring book or watch something boring on TV.
Sometimes I go to bed so tired, but by the time I get in bed I'm not sleepy. I do one of the above and 15 minutes later I'm asleep. My DH works third shift so he isn't there for me to bother him, may not be an option for you.
Junk faxes?? Do you know how much money you can collect from junk faxes??? It's sm
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I used to say he nursed for 30 minutes every 30 minutes. I was trying to figure
out a way to strap him across my chest so he could help himself while I went about whatever it was I had to do. I really miss those days too.
Junk shows.
Sad commentary, but they try to please the majority of viewers. Glad to hear I'm not the only one offended.
Junk e-mail
I get tons of junk e-mails, you know, the pass around type. I never read them. I don't have time and I have no reason to read them. I am trying to make a living! My sisters are the worst culprits! How can I get them to quit forwarding all their junk e-mails to me! One sister is always asking me "did you read the one about....." to which I respond, "No, I don't have time to read those things." She just never catches on. I don't want to be rude, but it's getting on my nerves! I know the simple answer would be to just aske them to quit but things are touchy between us and I don't want to antagonize and already less-than-perfect relationship with my sisters.
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Don't get a Shark---it's junk. sm
I had one for about 3 months then it quit sucking altogether. I was livid. I paid $100 for it. I'm hard on vacs, too, with 2 dogs and 4 men in and out of the house and living by a cement mill. The one I have now is a Eureka EZ Kleen. My next one will be an Oreck I think.
I've tried junk in the trunk before!
Now that is one delicous cake!!!! My husband just loves it. He refers to it as the "honey bun" cake! 
I had one too!! a 1979 piece of junk.
And if that wasn't bad enough it was chocolate brown.
My blinker knob fell off and I had to shove a pair of tweezers in there to work the blinkers. I couldn't wear heels or they'd get wedged in the holes in the floor board and one tire had a big bubble in it.
I can't believe I even dared drive that thing.
Was a piece of junk..but my favorite.
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The only thing left IS junk ESL-sm
Seems to me that newbies are getting trained on VR with many companies. VR gets the better dictators. Offshore is getting the simple stuff and other half of the better dictators because that's all they can handle. Experienced MTs are left with a trunk of JUNK on their systems and getting paid no more than the new grads and offshore MTs, and very few are offering us more for our skills, accuracy and ability to transcribe the more difficult accounts.
I've seen things change pretty drastically just in the few years I've been doing this work. I cannot land a decent cpl for IC anymore. I was landing better offers as a new grad than I am today with experience, and forget about landing a gravy account if you have experience. Just isn't happening! Bottom of the barrel crap is all I get with a bottom of the barrel paycheck to go along with it.  You have to work till your eyes bleed, your head's about to explode and fingers ache to make a fairly decent living, then people wonder why we are sometimes short on patience and PO'd all the time. That's exactly why! May as well be gum on a filthy shoe!
Hoax junk mail
I finally stopped getting these disgusting e-mails. I e-mailed back with big red letters - "F.... you! This e-mail is forwarded to the FBI, Homeland Security, Interpol, and you are being traced as we speak." I never received another one again.
I have too much junk on my desk for a lamp LOL
i guess i need to make room!
check out the junk stores
like Salvation Army. I paid $40 for a few at Office Depot type store and then found a few for $1.99 at our alcoholism junk store. They are Dell and great, and when they wear out, don't feel bad about just trashing them.
How long do you think it will be until MQ throws everything on ASR even the junk to get the reduced
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Aria Platform - anyone use this piece of junk?
We're transitioning to an EMR platform called Aria with a god-awful transcription section that is a step backward from the typewriter. It's largely mouse-dependent, slow (it's through their VPN so there's often a lag on the text) and it doesn't recognize a lot of the hot keys I've utilized in Word for years. It takes me half again as long to get through a report. I'm usually busy at least 8 hours a day as it is using Word with most of the people I type - it would take me 12 hours if everyone were on this system right now.
They've also changed to a "per dictated minute" rate of pay from 65 cpl w/spaces. It's a generous per-minute rate compared to most places I've worked, and they've stated they don't want anyone losing any money in the transition, but it would take a pretty steep increase in this rate to match what I was making previously.
I'm seriously considering changing jobs, although these guys have been wonderful to work with. Does anyone out there have any experience with this platform or any tips, websites, etc., that have information on utilizing this POS to its fullest? Hate to jump ship prematurely - I know what's out there and it ain't purty! 
Did you check your junk mail or spam folder? Sometimes they in there
ATT- I was paying $320 for 7000 minutes, I am now paying $175 for 5000 minutes in CA. nm
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Good advice...Iams is junk food anymore....
It used to be good, but it's gone by way of most of the rest of them... Anything that can be purchased in a grocery store is garbage. I recommend Wellness, Innova, or California Natural. Only pet stores stock premium dog foods. However, Labs and GAS seem to go hand in hand, having owned 2 of them. Rice and some boiled chicken mixed with a good healthy kibble might help.
Only by the mounds of junk mail every day...cc apps, advertising circulars, etc. nm
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I carry my mail in, sort it immediately, and put the junk in the trash.
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Right away it looked to me like the kind of junk that spreads in email. Good eye. nm
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The junk faxers aren't leaving correct info so you can track them down.
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BORING!!!
Sand or tan walls, okay, if you want drab and boring go with sand and tan walls
Might be boring but
I'll take boring over nasty any day. I guess to each his/her own.
They are boring -
:(
It's no more boring than anything else.
MT will always be boring....
because it is a dead end job with no future. Try studying something that will provide a better living.
BORING...
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Not boring!
I have to say that it's not boring! I learn something new every day, even after doing this for 20 years. I think if you look at other professions other folks are griping too. It's all a matter of attitude! Make it work for you! It does pay the bills!
Not a big fan, went there twice & boring.
board might be boring that way though
But the work is boring . . . (sm)
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by boring I mean very repetitive...
but easy to normalize. They use these tables for different degrees of muscle movement and stuff. Maybe you could get a sample from one of the other MT websites.
I agree that PT is boring. sm
When I worked in-house, we had to rotate days of doing PT notes, one day a week. Those days of doing PT notes seemed to never end. You may end up enjoying it, but I get bored easily and PT is very repetitive.
When they have bad/boring shows
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Boring account
I've just been taken off my favorite work type and put on an extremely boring account. Lots of work but it is so dull. How can I keep my productivity up when I am yawning through these reports? I am quickly losing my incentive to stay at the keyboardj! Help! Any ideas? TIA
Boring reports
I did a 45-minute dictation the other day, which mostly consisted of the doctor saying, "Uh, um." LOL He was doing a review of records halfway through, reading them to himself as he went. I had to sit there listening to the silence! It really stinks too, because those pauses translate to less typing, which means a lower check for my aggravation.
Boring Account
When I get a boring account, I try to make as many abbreviations as I can and that helps the account go faster and keeps your mind on what new abbreviations you can make up (for your short cuts)
yawn - your tit-for-tat is more boring than your
<<<<>>>>>> got coffee?
But don't you think editing is boring? I would -- (nm)
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I find myself doing it if a particularly boring
long report or when I'm tired. I frequently nod off because I'm so tired and then end up having to relisten to the port at least once more, sometimes up to 4 times because I keep nodding off. My QA score is very high so I'm catching the errors, but my line count sucks. If I'm not tired I'm okay. I've worked 7 days/week the last 5 months and it is just hard to sit day after day and type/transcribe.
If your mind wonders go back and relisten to the entire dictation. If you find lots of errors, even minor ones, maybe that will help you focus more. If you need a nap, get a power nap. If you need to do some physical activity get up and do it. I work split shift as there is no way I could sit for 8 hours straight. I get up every 1-1/2 to 2 hours and do something to break the monotony.
I think clinic notes are boring, you have the same
number of doctors usually and for the most part there isn't a lot of medical terminology and they have lots of normals, which is good because they you can have lots of macros/expanders to help, but I like learning from my dictation. With clinic notes I did know when viruses/illnesses were going around and what the standard treatment was, so I could try some of the same treatments if we got sick without a doctor visit, just after a while they were just boring. I much prefer acute care. I have lots of dictators so I don't get sick of hearing one doctor all day, although occasionally I do get a slew of the same dictator, the terminology is constantly changing, new drugs, new equipment, new procedures, etc.
Rehab is good. Might get a little boring to some
Rehab i
Easy but boring. Only thing I will ask sm
not to do. Also, there is the ---- factor with the doctor wannabes.
I wouldn't care if the job were boring, if
doctors would learn to dictate and give a flying flip in the wind how hard they are to transcribe day after day. If they had to transcribe their own dictations (or another physician's dictation) they might do better. So, it's not so much the boring part, it's the goof ball dictators who make my job miserable.
I feel the same and I find them truly boring.
And nowadays you are lucky to get the same MDs twice at most large nationals and most are ESL, so the money maker thing is becoming a thing of the past. I get mostly OPs but would take a good challenging consultation over a boring OP anytime! I don't know how anyone could like doing OPs long term. For me that would get old real fast.
Let me see, VR versus straight, which is boring?
Hmmmmm, I don’t think so. I have had majority straight today and really do not like anymore- can fly when I have VR and make $$$$- straight only slows me down and like the bumper sticker I saw the other day- I am not speeding, I am qualifying! Loved that.
meh, you're boring me now {{yawwwnn}}.
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