Yep, he's smart! A tent sounds great! My youngest just got her's 2 months ago, and my poor hus
Posted By: MQer on 2005-07-25
In Reply to: Guess what, all three kids are GIRLS! and .... - Original poster
Well, suffice it to say, he just shuddered...and got a tent...
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I think I used Maalox when my kids were small. Poor things, both youngest boys had them everywhere
It was 100 degrees out that year. They spent a week in the house in the tub with Aveeno and more Benadryl than I think they had in their entire lives.
Your supervisor sounds like a smart
man/woman to hold people accountable for skipping a job. I'm glad someone understands where I'm coming from. I figured I would either get cheered-on or flamed for that post. Good to know it's the first one :)
Sounds like poor management to me.
Worked at a company before whose office people weren't MTs and seemed to think everybody could just do whatever, couldn't understand the value of having people, particularly new people, do the same things. Very frustrating for the newer MTs.
Sounds like a case of poor upbringing, but still.... (s/m)
I find it hard to believe people can make it to marrying age without having at least HEARD about thanking people for gifts, even if their parents never taught them any manners.
I try not to take it too personally, but always, somewhere deep inside my mind, I never forget it when I go to a lot of trouble to give a gift and it isn't at least acknowledged. When my nephew got married, not only did a travel a great distance to attend the wedding, and was the only person from my branch of the family to attend, but I went to great lengths to pick out exactly the right gift for them. On arriving at the wedding, there was a big table where everyone put their gifts, and I added mine to the pile. The card was firmly attached, so I know it didn't fall off. Still, to this day (26 years later), I have never had any mention that they even RECEIVED my gift. I suppose it COULD have lost its tag, or even been stolen from the table, etc., but it's not too likely. Especially since all his siblings, AND his parents, were terrible at acknowledging gifts received from people. I of course am crazy about my nephew & his family, but that little "scar" still lingers in the back of my mind. As a result, I didn't bother to attend any more weddings in that part of the family, so his actions had repercussions on other people, as well!
A few years later, a niece got married, and this one I've never figured out. Beforehand, after the engagement was announced, I was invited to the SHOWER, and though I could not attend, did send a gift. The gift was never acknowledged. Not only that, but even though I was very close with this niece and her family, even lived with them for a couple years, I wasn't invited to the wedding or even the reception. The excuse was there "wasn't enough room." Hmmm.... whatEVER!
Their mother, my sister-in-law, is where their training was lacking. I had given her several very nice gifts for Christmas in years past, and I have no way of knowing if she even received them. Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed this. For as long as I can remember, my mother could never stand this sister-in-law, even though she was always very nice to my mom. Turns out that 'way back when she was having her first child, my mom gave her a baby-gift - a hand-knitted blanket - and never got any kind of a thank-you. My mom took it a lot more personally, and has never had a good word to say about her ever since.
A few years ago, my sister-in-law called and left a message on my answer-machine asking me (on very short notice) if I would go up to my niece's house and take care of all their pets (dogs, cats, rabbits), as they were on vacation, and although my sister-in-law was babysitting the house and animals, she had decided to go meet them at their beach house (hmmm... wonder if she was even INVITED?)... and would I be kind enough to come take care of the animals. I rearranged my schedule in order to do that, went and fed, watered, cleaned up after, etc. the pets, which wasn't easy because I didn't know where anything was - had to do a lot of searching. And did I ever even get so much as a phone call from either of them, thanking me for caring for their pets? NO. So as you can see, each time someone fails to show appreciation for the little things we do for them, it creates a little erosion in our perception of, and respect for that person.
My mom positively HAMMERED it into our brains that all gifts and kindnesses deserve a hand-written thank-you! As soon as we could scrawl our names with crayons, we were taught to send thank-you notes to relatives who sent us gifts, let us stay over at their house, etc.
On a recent ski-trip, I had the misfortune to come out of the lodge at the end of the day to find my beloved skis and poles were gone! I reported them missing at the lost-&-found desk, but figured I'd never seem them again, and sadly went home without them, assuming my ski season was over. WELL! A few days later, the security guard at the ski resort called to tell me they'd been FOUND! Another person had mistaken mine for their rental-skis, and taken them by mistake. The security guard went out of his way to meet them in a town midway between the ski area and where they lived, exchanged my skis for their rentals, and then took my skis to his house, and finally back up to the ski area. The lost and found dept. talked with me several times to arrange a time when I would be skiing again, so I could pick them up. Although this was obviously part of these people's jobs, I was still extremely grateful that they had found my "babies" and salvaged the ski season for me! So in addition to thank-you notes, both the lost-&-found dept. and the security guard got plates of my very BEST homemade cookies.
So, what goes around, SHOULD come around, I say. Okay, now here's a similar thing that happened to me... but I'll put it in a new post at the top as a separate subject. Tell me how you'd feel about THIS odd situation! ;)
Three months sounds about right. nm
:)
Sounds like he will do great then. Again, best wishes for great success!
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Spent 3 months in Brazil, traveled all over. Great
booze - really knocks you for a loop.
Love my Goldtouch -- can spread it apart and tent it up however you like. nm
When my youngest son was 3-1/2, he was SM
talking to my mother on the telephone. She said to him, "Jeremy, I can't take you to the beach (weekend trip) because you're not potty trained yet." He threw the phone down and ran over to me and yelled, "Mama, put 'unnerwares' on me RIGHT NOW!" LOL...I did and he never had another accident from that day forward.
Just give your child lots of love and encouragement...and bribe him if necessary!  He'll get it sooner or later.
Chickadee
Wow! Sounds great. Thanks so much. (nm)
Sounds great, but...
I am in the middle of remodeling my home although we're at a standstill right now. It's an older home that needs a lot of work. I wonder if it would be too much to ask a housekeeper to come in and attempt to clean with all this going on? I'm in a mess and need help desparately. I live with my mother-in-law to be, my finacee, and one child. I am pretty much the sole provider and take care of most of the housekeeping chores. Needless to say, it's quite overwhelming! I wonder if a housekeeper could help us out? I feel sure he/she would take a load off what I have to do.
Sounds Great!
Especially on a hot summer day. You wouldn't want to send some up to WI, would you? lol
Sounds great, thanks!
Sounds great
Sounds great - Compose a letter for me!
All right! Sounds like a great GIG!
That is great, but sounds like you have
your own accts, not the nationals. I care absolutely nothing anymore about working my behind off. I find mine as easy as pie, no printing nor delivering and it suits me. I think you are lucky but I doubt the majority on here do their own accts nor make what you do. I was just giving an example when they were talking about the low pay of VRing. I think some are so afraid of probably what is inevitable, that is why the vents against. I live in a community surrounded by hospital and many medical offices. I would never want to straight type again, even at the price you say you made. Mine is so simple now and simple is what I enjoy in my golden years.
my youngest started
kindergarten this year and it made a HUGE difference in my production! I am definately glad I was home for those years, but it was not easy for sure. Now my husband is self-employed and has winters off.... I think he is worse than the kids! :) It was really nice to hear some averages of other MTs as far as line counts to kind of know where I was at. I am no super anything, but I think I do okay... So thanks for the post!
When my youngest is in school... (SM)
I'll be going back to teaching, which I left years ago to stay home and have babies. I started doing MT when we had a financial problem when our "baby" was two, but this working early in the morning and late at night and during the summer when I'd rather be out playing with my kids is killing me! Considering how much of my own money I always spent on buying supplies and putting money in kids' lunch accounts and buying kids shoes and coats when I was teaching before, I'm sure I will make less as well... But I can't wait to work a normal schedule!
Good luck to you! Your family will surely be blessed by your decision.
Sounds great but there is no work!
Well, I tried posting but it disappeared. Will just say I show up to work but there isn't any (have several accounts). So the bonus which is what I consider my "sick leave" - is not attainable. So much for working for MQ. And now I hear of more accounts they are losing. But they never tell the MTs. 
The above sounds like a great idea for you
Good luck. Hopefully the friends invited are there because they'd be alone otherwise. Maybe water down the booze hehe.
This year Christmas Day and Christmas Eve are me and my roomie (plus the ankle-biters). Quiet day, small dinner (i.e., turkey roast instead of turkey, just a couple of veggies, rolls (pre-made yikes), and dressing (cornbread, and she's anti-cornbread - sheesh!!!, but tough luck, I'm cooking LOL).
I'm having Christmas with one son and the grandkids the Thurs. before Christmas (he's a roughneck so will be working, plus trying to fit in 2 more sets of us grandparents), one son is in FL (just moved there, I can't afford to visit yet), one is overseas in the warzone. I just lost my dad last year, and lost mother in '91, so a quiet Christmas with my friend/roomie, watching FUNNY movies (and some football!!) is the order of the day.
Sounds great. Can you explain?
My autocorrect has plain text checked and it is grayed out so I cannot change it to format. You must have done this shortcut in formatted text right?
Great idea! Sounds like fun!
I hope moderator will consider it!!!
Sounds great - thanks a bunch! nm
xx
Congratulations! It sounds like a great job.
:)
Haha! That sounds great....
I need to have something to strap my butt in on those days where I get too distracted. :)
I will check that out...thanks.
That sounds so great- where I work
the chairs are unbelievable- they are horrible. They will special order a better chair for you if you need it but it takes like 3 months, and it is always the same kind of chair from the same place and if it doesn't work for you, oh well. The seat pan doesn't adjust, and it needs to. They pay 1200 bucks for these chairs, when they could get a dozen better ones for the same price.
Wouldn't you think a hospital of all places would understand the importance of ergonomics for their employees?? :rolleyes
Interestingly the conference rooms have wonderful chairs and I usually snag one at night and just put it back when I leave.
Sounds like a great marriage you have there...
Wow.
What part of KY are you in? My 2 youngest sons--sm
live in Nicholasville. Just came back from a month's visit. Love the state and would love to move there but my husband is from FL, we live in NC and he can't stand the snow!!
It sounds **great** ... Good luck! sm
They'll probably already have all the reference materials you need! My hospital did. I don't think it will take you a long time to get comfortable there. It sounds like a terrific gig!
After we donate (I just did) how do we "pull from the bag"? Sounds fun AND for a great cause!
nm
I agree -- go for it. After all, 9 cpl is not all that great for IC work, and it sounds like you nm
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We just want to see what you are living, talking about. It sounds great sm
the actual abode isn't as important as the ambience. I am so envious. Obviously, from the pix below of the vacation rental, people buy up the luxury places and rent them out for big bucks.
Sounds great. Hope you love it! (nm)
(nm)
First, congrats on your new job - sounds great -see inside
One thing I would suggest is the electronic version of Stedman's Orthopedic word book and the Neurology word book. There are others too. Sure beats looking through a paper copy and more professional as it looks as if you are working on the computer instead of stopping and looking in a book. This saves me time also. Again I am sure you will do great! Best wishes!
Sounds great. You gonna pay the bills for
nm
Get Momma's recipe while you're at it. Sounds great! nm
Sounds great! I may make that tomorrow night.
nm
Sounds like a great idea, would flush their "profits" - sm
right down the drain, and may cause them to raise their prices to the same level--the only down side I see is that if they turn in "superior product" and are equal to or better than what is produced in the U.S. then the argument that the offshore work sucks would go bye-bye, and offshore would continue to get our potential work, possibly more of it IF they keep the price down at their end. The other thing is actually getting on of those offshore companies to pay that kind of money; for it they will get mucho production, probably 500-800 lines an hour churned out, which would be difficult to do IF the work is in bad shape. I love the idea but not sure it would help U.S. MTs in the long run (presuming you are trying to do that).
sounds like a great career move...30 years ago!
I'm glad they screened you well and did not notice you had already paid your dues, so to speak (and I'm not talking about AAMT dues). :)
with such great documentation, it sounds to me like you should be able to call the labor board
or at least unemployment...it is something you really should consider. there are civil service jobs, if you do not want to work at home, and you can get help finding a job that way.
this is what is needed when going to the labor board so they get a clear-cut look at what is happening in this business.
just because it saves a buck, should not mean employees should be able to be treated like dirt...
you have been pushed out of your job, sounds like, and that at least qualifies for unemployment.
believe me, any other job you find out there will be almost the same, but you could collect some money while you look for something with the same pay, am I correct?
SE or not, too, you have lost YOUR LIVELIHOOD. what do people think, like okay you have no way to make a living now...
Sounds like a great way to use the skills you already have, but you have a real career with a future
x
This sounds like my kind of relationship! No great expectations and you can relax
I always have a fear of disappointing people. It has caused me to isolate myself...
After 25+ years in this profession and youngest is a high school senior..sm
There is no way, in my experience, I could meet my quota as a full-time MT with my young children at home under my full supervision. I had to hire a sitter to come to the home or send them to a home daycare during their infant and toddler years. I have always had strict turnaround times and have done every specialty out there. Many of these specialties involved an intense fund of knowledge be acquired during the learning curve, not to mention meeting my line counts. I have been working from home for a very long time, and speaking from my own experience, unless you want to be a part time MT, you cannot achieve the disciplined focus to do the job right if you are trying to care for your children at the same time. If you have a spouse who works opposite shift, wonderful. My spouse always worked the same shift as I did, so for my success I had to pay for child care. My best situation was having a sitter at my house where I knew my children were safe, but at the same time I could lock my office door with strict instructions that I not be interrupted. It was nice to take a break or have lunch with them. My youngest is now a senior in high school, one is a sophomore in college, and the other is a college graduate.
Sounds like Spheris and Precycse. A great excuse not to raise your pay based on QA.
MQ can hire more QA to justify not paying MTs more. Nice. All the people who have been working on MQ accounts for years are now subject to QA to lower their pay in some cases. What a scam MQ runs.
Sounds like Rodney King after he wreaked havoc and caused a great race riot.
Quit calling people FOOLS and then asking if we can't get along.
poor, poor management
Line count stealing, no help, rude management, you name it SS has it if it is bad!!!!!!! Run, run, save your life.
You betcha! Sounds great! Though I would prefer warm champagne to warm milk, OK??
I'll be waiting...just honk twice! I'll put Dr. Mumble Mouth on hold, and dash away before he's done chewing and swallowing...
$32K/part time 6 months/full time 6 months
I have kept my child home with me half the year, but when pre-K started I began working full time. Helps to only have a main account and one backup account for the 2nd year now, so my abbreviation program rocks and rolls when I focus.
No need to be smart with him. He's got my
respect for having earned his degree, whether or not he's working in that field and for whatever reason.
Not because they are smart...because they
IQ was never the issue!
If they are smart and get out ;)
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