You'll hear this claim in all fields by "the suits"
Posted By: Hayseed on 2007-09-06
In Reply to: How insulting, I wonder which national he is with, SM - MT50
I've said it before and I'll say it again...back that sh^t up with a specific name or a place so there can be actual consequences. I can throw anything in quotes and say I heard it from somewhere or someone. It holds no water and only serves to get people workedup for an invisible fight.
Am I doubting what she heard is true? Maybe, maybe not. It can't be proven because there is no factual evidence provided. However, my mother was an LPN and she always said her higherups referred to her as nothing more than an overpaid candystriper or overpaid a$$ wiper. My father, a machine mechanic, said he was referred to as an overpaid janitor. It's a wicked old and wicked lame argument to get the reader or listener riled up to basically do nothing and it's amateur stuff. But, that's just me.
SHOW US THE NAMES! Then we can gather our pitchforks, burning keyboards, and Betty Crocker aprons and go to war!
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Good to hear an update. See message about "the projects" :)
I got the same deal with my ex. He wouldn't leave me alone because he wanted his beloved 3 bedroom ranch house.
I gave him the house (with my teeny share of equity) and moved into a teeny apartment with my 2 kids. HUGE bedroom bathroom and living room, teeny kitchen, great neighborhood. We all bunked in the same bedroom as there was room for a double bed, single bed and a crib with enough room left over to dance and play with toys. My kids were 5 and 2. We loved that place and it's probably because we finally had some peace and some fun.
My ex did the same thing. He accused me of moving my kids to the "projects" because I wasn't good enough to give them a nice home like the one he had. He still has that house and he lives in it alone and has for nearly 20 years. The last girflriend lasted 6 years and finally gave up on him.
He gave up on his kids almost 10 years ago and they gave up on him the day we moved into the "projects."
Best move I ever made. Happily married now for 13 years with 2 more kids that are considered my older kids' brother and sister, though their donor dad always insisted on calling them "half". "He's not your brother, he's your half-brother."
Idiot
Be strong, hang in there and don't give in. 
P.S. I wasn't looking for another man, I just got lucky I guess. He does forget to take the trash out sometimes though. 
"The Searchers", "Gone with the Wind", and "The Notebook" nm
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Maybe we'll hear something from them soon
Tell her what she wants to hear or she'll call you rude.
If I want to hear about KATRINA I'll watch CNN
This is a forum to discuss transcription related issues. The situation in Louisian and Mississippi is very unfortunate. Discussing it on this site is not going to help any of the people who are victimized. Use the energy you're putting into this response to do something to actually help those people. Nobody's chit chat is doing anything to help anybody who needs help.
I hear ya. MY quickest reply now is that they'll have to
first go to a reputable school, there are a few online if you want help finding them. Then, go to work at the hospital because you'll need some experience to get the job at home, 3-5 years to be exact. Even then the going can be rough, but it can be done. Then, widen your network of MTs so that you'll have help when you need it or at least someone to VENT to when someone approaches you with the same questions!!!
LOL aint that the truth...did ya'll hear about the billboard after the
3 or 4 (can't remember) they had in a row? I lived in Virginia for a few years and we had Isabel head our way and it ravaged quite a bit. We went to W. Virginia and called it vacation LOL. We were without power for about 4 weeks and it is AMAZING what you can cook on a grill!!
..but if it's nice out, I'll open window so I can hear the birds. nm
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I think the suits should do the ESL's themselves,
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Well going up against corporate suits
is not such a simple thing.
As soon as the suits was $$ in transcription they descended on the trade and scarfed up a huge chunk of the work. That would be fine if the end result was fair pay and an improved product, but really it equates to some fat cat CEO reaping the benefits while the worker bees, well, work.
Solutions? Here's the hard truth: How many people are willing to walk away from jobs that pay (at least most) of the bills?
Not saying there isn't power in numbers BECAUSE THERE IS! but getting large numbers of people willing to walk the walk at the same time is not easy... just look at how easy it was for our government to ignore millions of patriots protesting this fake war (we knew it all along)...
Suggestions?
Here's what I think the "clueless" suits think...
They think we are just Betty Crocker housewives who still wear pumps, skirts, and aprons every day and do this "typing thing" on the side for manicure money. They know this industry is almost all chicks, and they know that a lot of women will take abuse and not do squatola about it.
I honestly don't think they realize that MOST of us are doing this to actually make a living. I mean, if they did, they would realize that they didn't have to crack a whip or be verbal blowhards--we know we have to work hard to make a paycheck. We know we are paid on production and if we don't produce, we don't get paid.
I'm applied at a couple of the BIG companies you see advertise on here all the time and was absolutely blown away when they couldn't tell me exactly how their platforms worked. The folks interviewing, the folks doing the hiring, are obviously not MTs, have never been "in the trenches" and that kinda blows my mind.
suits - I agree
I totally agree. I work for KS and I'm sure the owner is a Transcriptionist and is very good to work for, knowing the ins and outs of the whole job.
It suits her to a "T" - she disagrees with just
To RadGuy re the suits: I agree, but...
Why do we continue to work for x cpl? I was talking to a teacher friend recently and compared her job to ours. I told her it'd be no different if she had a very difficult student the entire school year and the student ended up being held back. Should that teacher get docked a % of her pay, or not get paid at all because she was unable to "complete" her projected goal? Obviously not. So why should it be any different for us?
Not long ago my PS sent a msg to all of us about a certain client complaining about all the blanks on their reports. PS knows it's a very difficult ESL acct. But nothing is done about getting the docs, the Q, & MTs together to suggest ways to improve it for patient care in the end. The most frustrating part is that everyone would win from it. But the "suits" are intimidated about making someone mad. I never once had a doc get mad about suggestions for making the report better and obviously faster in getting on the chart. It is for this reason that I'm very much against production (and unions) when having to deal with such horrible dictation literally 99% of the time. I simply don't believe that I should make less money for things that clearly are beyond my control and now consume my shift, day in and day out. If I were getting paid more, and likely a difficulty factor (remember that?), it'd be more legit in my book.
Also, throw the bad soundfiles in and "voila..."
I also got a msg from support at 8:20 CST saying they're still working to solve the problem but have no ETA as to when it'll be resolved. Just an fyi.
Too bad ignorance isn't painful! 
Gemini - absolutely suits me - two personalities!
Don't know which one is coming out when I wake up in the morning LOL!
A couple of times a year the suits post as
an MT. I used to work for SS and they were so bad that I can't imagine them fixing all the problems in my lifetime.
No wonder they claim they want to (sm)
make us happy!! We are making them REAL happy!!
I did not say not to claim it
I did not advise her not to claim it, she can do what she wants. A company can expense out without filing a 1099. I have expensed out without doing 1099's before and have never been questioned by the IRS. In fact you have to notify the IRS that you will be filing 1099's. Do all hairdressers report all of their "cash" tips? I suppose you could do 1000 jobs at $500 each to make your 50K per year and not claim it but I doubt that you could find that many jobs. All we are talking about here is one job and that is what I based my answer on not the hypothetical "thousands of jobs under $500". I doubt that the amount she made would change her "owed taxes" except for social security and even then not that much. Sp again -- she needs to do what she feels is the correct thing to do and if she loses sleep over not reporting a couple of hundred dollars then report it but do not expect a 1099.
Isn't it time to go to the fields?
Please Amish lady, go pick the pumpkins and the gourds, isn't it that time of year? Then hitch up your horse and buggy and take them down to Wal-Mart to try to sell them.
But there are lots of fields where you can come right out
what you get a degree in. Something like sociology, anthropology, etc. - no, probably not many jobs. Psychology you really need a graduate degree. Social work you can find jobs with a bachelor's but not that well paying, so would need a graduate degree.
But look at a lot of the medical professions - heck, nursing, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, medical technology (except they call it something else now), radiology, pharmacy, etc. etc. - all are BOOMING. Just gotta be smart about what you get your degree in.
Have not in MT field, but in other fields
and how many of us women are the sole support of our families? Many...
Alt + F9 toggles fields on and off.
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You need two commands for fields.
You need to add the End command after each Ctrl + F or all your text after the field will be inside the field when you expand it.
switching fields
Many big nationals have every specialty now. If you work for one, ask them if you could just do rad and path. You might find path interesting but rad could be a tad boring.
switching MT fields
I've been doing acute care for almost 30 years, but I would really like to do radiology and/or pathology. What's the best way(s) to get into these fields?
Jumping to fields
Hi everyone! For years I have been jumping to fields in Word by using the F11 key. Does anyone know if I can customize my keyboard to use alt/c to jump around and how to set that up?
Thanks!
Those who claim to have so much compassion....
say so only to make themselves feel superior. You think you're better because you say what you say. But how much do you do? When Bush cut taxes, did you feel so strongly that it was a mistake that you insisted to continue to send in the former higher Clinton taxes? Or do you think that only those horrid selfish "rich" people should pay? Sounds bites and lip service.
claim was denied.
esd said that i was not laid off because of no work so that i could not claim. you have to be laid off because of no work or company shut down (like for inventory, etc.).
no dice. :(
I have my DH claim 0 and single, but we also have
extra $$ taken out of his check. We have been hit with a penalty of under $60.00 the past 2 years for not having enough taken out for state though. Hopefully this year we have taken out enough.
New studies claim..sm..
cell phones are perfectly safe to use in non-clinical areas, such as waiting rooms and hallways. Just Google hospitals "cell phones". Tons of info.
I have never seen a white man/woman in the fields.
Who would want to stand in 100 plus degree temps or, in winter, nonstop rain, chilly temps, working the fields or tending the cattle? No one who was raised with sliced bread; they'd probably starve first.
I was married to an ag man (cattle). The immigrants come and go across the border often (visiting family). It is not difficult.
They are keeping the price of the food you eat down.
Admin: I get cut off a lot in the subject/name fields.
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don't care for it. too many fields to fill
in because it seems like the demo's are never there and of course you don't get paid for that, then you have to wait for extra screens to come up before you can select the dr/cc/patient name/etc. there's no way to drop the normals in directly without using the menu, the Expander is more hassel than good. it's straight forward to use but I feel it is a slow process since you can't just start typing without filling in numerous fields.
If you are gpod, you can make a LOT more doing MT than either of those fields.
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Wherever you want the field, do ctrl F9. Once you have all the fields....sm
in you do F11 to "jump" to each field. Makes life a lot easier.
Hit Alt F9 after you insert your file and you should see your fields. nm
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Inscribe help... QA marker and fields
On my acct I am supposed to put brackets and put the time of the marker inside [1.12] for QA to review.
When I put this in and continue, my typing jumps to that field and erases over and over.
Can someone tell me how to prevent this??? It is driving me insane.
Using fields in Instant Text
If you are typing in MSWord you can create fields for the places where you want to fill in the different type of phrases using shortcuts.
See post:
http://fitaly.com/board/itmainforum/posts/5849.html
Add fields with Ctrl + F9 and jump to them with F11. sm
Shift + F11 will take you back to a previous field.
F12 is the shortcut for opening SaveAs.
Sheri, can you at least file a claim
for the automatic $100 of insurance UPS has? I know it won't help immediately, but perhaps you can recover something.
There are scam emails that claim to come from
Gotta be careful.
You claim it in 2009. If you did not receive
it in 2008, it does not matter it was owed, only what you received in the calendar year.
I'm afraid I'd have to see the evidence for that claim. sm
It would really take all the planets being lined up to see that kind of average production among that many people.
Don't let him stiff you for the $ -- file a claim
Does anyone use SmarType and Word using text fields {}? When I F11..sm
to the next field {} it causes SmarType to lock up. Does anyone know how to fix this?
thanks so much
Make 12 cpl but constantly rewinding, going in/out of fields
If you can utilize speed typing engines, have same docs, the format is user friendly, it is possible, in the long run, to make as much as I do at 12 cpl.
I think you should try it for two weeks and consider that after three months you will be twice as fast due to familiarity.
I understand your frustration but this is happening in all fields.
It affects every work situation as technology advances, etc.
The fact is one cannot expect to have a lifelong career in any one line of work without experiencing some times of either changing with the flow or stepping into another line of work.
hit insert button before filling in fields.
see if that works for you. You will need enough space in between or you will type over the next field.
you also can do columns but I am not good at those; hopefully someone else will come along with info on that.
The worst? pretty wide claim.
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Seems like you're over-reacting to something that you claim not to care about.
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If you paid with Paypal you can file a claim with them, just do it before
30 days is up. If you paid via credit card you can file a claim with the credit card company, even if you paid via Paypal with a credit card. You can also file a fraud charge with the U.S. postal service if the item went through them. With the post office it would take a while to get your money though. You can also notify the police in her state/county, though most likely they will take a report and that is it, unless this is a habitual thing and others have complained.
Hopefully the administrator will be able to help you.
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