Xmas parties where the Prez gets silly,

company-covered bar tabs, having someone come and listen to your blanks, staff meetings, being able to look someone in the eye, your supervisor inviting everyone over to her house for brunch on Sunday. Having the choice whether to work in the office or work at home.

The downside? The typical problems working with a bunch of women. Then there was the fact that I was not a social butterfly and didn't like the endless requests for money to fund birthday, wedding, baby, sick, divorced, married parties, Tupperware, Chef this, Southern that yadda yadda yadda fests. The lunch you were so looking forward to no longer being the in fridge, but the wrapping is in the trash. A favorite reference book being found on someone else's desk at the other end of the hall. And she smokes. Ergo, your book now smells to high heaven because she sneaks her smokes in the office during her late night shift, and her nasty, smelly fingers have been all over it (only a nonsmoker will understand how awful this).  And she claims she doesn't know HOW the book got there when you ask.

Would I do it all again? In a heartbeat.

• What was it like? - kyradmt
  • The nationals were the undoing of transcription. nm - Becky
  • WONDERFUL POST - anna
  • The good days started unraveling when - sm
  • I started my "career" in 1966... - andromeda
  • There wasn't job insecurity, unanswered questioned, behind the scene events that could have major - on your life (nm)
    • detrimenal impact on your life. Loyalty is gone. Almighty dollar has taken its place. - Worrying constantly.
  • We had the best time (sm) - Granny
  • Let's put it this way... - SM
  • My version of the Good Old Days - MTinVA
  • Good old days - Ohio MT
  • Way back - mt
    • I remember bonuses. We would get 10% - of our yearly gross as
  • We were considered a valuable - part of the team
  • There were no nationals - The good old days
    • I have fond memories of transcribing on sm - CL
    • Actually, there was outsourcing. I worked for a service - as early as 1977 and it
  • WAY BACK WHEN - Old Timer
  • RE: What was it like? - Shelly Hendrix
    • Actually the good old days - Dano
      • Yes, they could pay us better back then - see msg
        • Exactly sm - Dano
      • I remember being beside the morque LOL nm - Midwest MT
        • Morgue right nextdoor - we would hear the saws all day - yuk - me too
    • In the beginning ........... there were NO - nss
    • There were in-house parties, donuts, 40 work week. - Benefit/Good wages (NM)
      • I sure enjoyed the old days. - see msg
      • Xmas parties where the Prez gets silly, - sm

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Bless your heart  for still MTing after all these years.......

Good exercise too!

Why don't one of you MQ whiners start a blog so the rest of us with the good sense NOT to stay with a crappy company don't have to see your "poor me" posts.  It is not that we read them, it is just a pain to have to navigate around them.  If you don't have the sense God gave a goose and leave a company that treats you so shabbily, then you deserve to be there.  Just don't subject the rest of us to your pity parties.  Someone start a blog, where you can all go and whine to each other, while your kids "starve".  Btw, if your kids were starving, it would be your faults for not getting a job that would buy your groceries and pay your bills.

We did used to have a wild time.  I absolutely love TQ now that it is no more.  I used to have so much fun and got paid to do it.  Man--I was making $ hand over fist--bought my house--paid cash for all my furnishings, etc.--worked my @*#% off but it was great!!

I hate Pampered Chef parties and all those that I get invited to where it is really about me paying for junk.

Who else hates these things?

I've only seen the first one at the movies, but I'm not much of a movie or TV person.  More of a reader. Can't wait to get the book to add to the collection.  Started the collection with my son who has lost interest at 15.  He looks like Harry though.  He went to the playground one day when he was 12 (dark hair, little round glasses) and all of the little kids were screaming, "It's Harry Potter!  It's Harry Potter!" and running after him.  He said, "MOM, IT WAS AWFUL!"  He now has contact lenses and he put his magic wand away.

you could try using a pair of toddler training pants (or something similar) while you are supervising him.  I have a female dog that was injured in a fight with one of my other dogs and she would not stop licking the wound.  Since it was on her shoulder, I got one of my grandsons old shirts and put it on her, didn't look all that good, but it did the trick long enough to get it to heal. I would suggest you make sure it is something fabric, as the disposable types may be too easy to chew up and swallow, causing a whole new set of problems to deal with.  By the way, let me just say thank you for being a good pet owner and having your pet neutered.

I should have removed "you" and inserted "I." 

I have nothing but the greatest admiration for anyone who has the time and patience to learn these programs, the memories to retain the information (tpwbttop ...), and the brain power to read quickly and make the decision over what you what lickity split.

I'm glad to finally know why I hated school so much. 

I should have known this. Thanks for the info.  

The admin. wants to put this entire thing on me.  She is stating things in comments that are so wrong.

You girls take it easy.  Thanks for all your responses.  I know my business, contracts with ICs, pays, etc and I do not need this stress and the admin is wanting me to somehow show her things that Doris Latta has created in Word or something? Not sure...........  but I was able to clear this up with the Labor Board and everyone else that had to have a response.

So 10-4 and I am out!  XO 

hey, are you talking about that company who makes employees sign a contract not to talk about them on any internet forum?

you mean the one where the account managers get bonues and are investors and don't care if you meet your line count as long as their assigned accounts get TAT met so they get monthly bonuses too and screw you out of your bonuses?

Oh, well, why didn't you say so!  Nay, I couldn't do it.  I have e-t-h-i-c-s.

I don't recall ever hearing of them before. Are they commonly found in the New England area or just in the warmer parts of the country?

I've been an MT for 12 years now.  The Drs I worked for used WordPerfect so that's what I used.  Well, new job uses Word.  That's fine except I'm having 1 glitch...I have it set so that the 1st ltr/1st word of sentence is CAPS.  However, when ending a sentence with a number, this doesn't happen.  One of the Drs I now type for uses dates to end sentences ALL THE TIME.  What am I missing? 

Thanks.

I see the abbreviations of MTSO, ICs and am wondering what these are. Feel like I should know, but never really worked for a company other than a Hospital.

Thanks Carla