You aren't alone. I am frequently mortified and embarrassed by commercials.
Posted By: Endiqua on 2005-07-08
In Reply to: I remember when they first started advertising sanitary napkins - fg
Pepto-Bismol's little song, Charmin, that Tampax commercial..ugh!
When I was a child I used to wonder what Preparation H was for because the advertisements never really said. I wish that was still the case!
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lol. i bet if u mentioned that fact to him, he would be mortified
go ahead, i dare ya....
Scuse me, I meant SM, boy, am I mortified! sm
Like I said, QA never caught my "pass pointing". Well, I never claimed to be the best MT in the world, or anything close to that....just pretty good. :D
What's to be embarrassed about?
They are having fun...plain old fun...have you forgotten what that is? It should not embarrass anyone. You need to lighten up a little, you take yourself way to seriously dear.
I'm embarrassed to, but sure.
I buy a box of frozen breaded eggplant and fry each side (still frozen) in extra virgin olive oil for about 2 to 3 minutes, until crisp. Pat it dry and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Put it in a baking dish and spread a couple tablespoons of spaghetti sauce on each piece and then cover with a couple slices of mozzarella cheese. Then just serve the tortellini with the leftover sauce or with a little olive oil and garlic.
You can use fresh eggplant too, but I haven't done that in so long I forgot how. I think I remember soaking it in milk for a few minutes before breading it.
Now I'm embarrassed because SM
I don't have any that I know of. I just figured it was a website of theirs that I would log into. So, do I need to have an FTP account and access their work via their host name, id name, and password?
Thank you for offering to help! I sooo appreciate it and will check back soon.
Chickadee
I'm too embarrassed to say (sm)
how much I am making and how long it takes me to make it. I work much longer hours to get less than I used to make at an outside job with benefits. Price for being at home for me though. You'd best believe you won't hear me broadcasting my salary though.
embarrassed ... not embarresed ... :)
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I know perfectly well that some of them are embarrassed about this sm
I can't tell you how many times I will get an ESL and they practically whisper into the phone when they speak to me, but seem normal volume if they break to talk to those around them.
I have to think that some of them are told...okay so you pick up the phone and some gal is listening on the other end...she'll help clean up your English for you, don't worry about it.
They are talking to a STRANGER who will help them out with their English...okay so a stranger is listening and will judge their English skills. I would be really embarrassed to be in another foreign country and think that someone I didn't know was listening and fixing me up to be acceptable. I think I'd mumble too.
I have had a couple of ESLs in a situation where I could ask my office manager to call over to the practice and ask that the ESL speak louder, not more clearly, just up the volume. If I can hear them, I can understand them better. The last time, I told the office manager to make it clear that I could not HEAR this fellow and NOT that I could not understand him. That would have been an insult to say that. Well, he started to speak up and was very pleased (he called in) to say that his reports suddenly started being so perfect. Yup, I could not hear you, but I could understand you.
This is not the only mumbler.
The only other thing that think we as MTs need to understand, and our employers with us, is that not all of us can do every ESL type. I can do an East Indian of most dialects, Arabs, English, German, Spanish, Mexican, but I don't do Asians well. Not all ESLs are created equal and not all of us ears for the same things. I think in the future there will have to more ways to route jobs with ESLs to MTs with the right ear for each of them.
Should be spelled and embarrassed. Where are you QAing?
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TV commercials
For a Friday laugh (we've earned it) has anybody seen the commercial where 2 people are in a rowboat, spring a leak, and she plugs the hole up with a Tampax?!! OMG
Commercials
I like the one where the cartoon adult male and female are talking while eating popcorn shrimp. All of a sudden, she says "Where are the kids"? They look down at the container of popcorn shrimp and start screaming. Funny in a sick kind of way. hehehe
commercials
Those commercials remind me of a bad trip on acid, glad to know others feel similar.
Your just beating up everyone on here arent you.
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Not this many, this frequently,
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We arent talking about the wrongs of the
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I don't like any commercials dealing with
gender, medical, racy or adult topics. I mean, really, when's the last time you saw a feminine product on TV and decided that you simply must run to the store right away to get you some? Cialis and Viagra? Come on, maybe E.D. was invented to give women a break for once in their adult lives. And all those pills being pushed by the manufacturers? Yes, let's go to the doctor and demand pills because we're all self-diagnosing.
gross commercials lol
This actually was a comedy routine about them, remember Balki anyone? Forgot the show but he was here in the US living with his cousin?
He did a comedy stint about his first nice, sit down dinner in America. He was having his boss & family over and wanted to do it just right, so he went to the grocery.
"Can you believe what you can find in America, they already sanitize your napkins, so all you have to do is put silverware on them and your table is set"..But he was having trouble with the spoon rolling off the "Sanitary Napkins". OMG thought I'd lose it. Then he added the gourmet jelly...KY jelly "it is what the state of Kentucky is famous for so it must be good"..that was a good but gross stint.
I think the FREQUENTLY mentioned ones
if you'll check are the ones who are talked about on this board quite often. The good ones are only talked about infrequently, that's the only point I got out of this whole thing. Can anyone name 1 company that called them after a month and offered them ANY raise at all. I'm interested if anyone can. I only know from my own experience that I only get raises when asked and have only had 2 in almost 10 years and they weren't more than 1/2 cent, so I think the author of that is correct in their viewpoint.
I've been getting this frequently
I assume they've been getting a bunch of blanks lately (due to their slurring/mumbling/chopping off words in mid syllable) and assume we don't understand the particular words that were blanked, instead of listening to their blanks and realizing they were incomprehensible.
Shush? You arent that person's mama.
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There arent as many "in house" places as there used to be.
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The best commercials are the ones you remember, for whatever reason.
There's so many commercials that are really good for some reason, but you can't remember the product, just the commercial. Ineffective to say the least.
The tampex commercial may be shocking, but you remember the product. That makes it in advertising terms, an excellent commercial. 
I didn't see it, just the commercials. It's scary and
several teens around here are addicted too. My niece actually had pics of my grandsons on it, I told her to get them off there because if someone walked up to my youngest grandson (4) and asked him if he wanted to go see (niece's name) that he'd go with them. It gives the creep looking for info enough info on anyone to be real hurtful. My niece tells how she's sick of playing games and is looking for real love. Just think about the creep reading that who finds her and offers her a lot of attention, she'll go to. I can't convince her how dangerous that all is.
They offshore, frequently change their
pay scale so it s/l you are getting big bucks but are actually getting less, dictators difficult (at least on acute care), sound quality not so great. Lots of posts about how disorganized they are and many unhappy MTs. S/l there would be lots of work because many are leaving. Company used to be called Transcription Solutions (I think).
A few years ago, when I had 15 years' experience in acute care, they asked me to send a resume. I'm not sure how they got my info, but I did send resume. They were looking for at least 5 years' experience. The recruiter then told me I didn't have enough experience. I had not even tested. They contacted me because of my experience, so not sure what that was about.
Recently the MTSO contacted me, I tested, and aced the test. The MTSO was very anxious to hire me, but I wasn't interested after their offer and hearing the quality of the sound files. At that time they were not offshoring, but they are now. I was again offered a position to QA the offshore work, which I was told was "surprising good" - NOT.
Thats a really good question. Maybe they arent all as hard as the folks below had it.
The person who said they worked all those hours (the 3 dollar person the OP referenced) posted they werent doing it anymore. That is what I read, but maybe I just assume that those were the same folks.
Yep, but MT week IS. and i bet people complain if they arent recognized. :(
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I drink hot cider frequently and it doesn't keep me
awake. Apple juice is a stimulant, but stimulates the other end.
'and it certainly does not seem to be any of the companies who are mentioned frequently on these
boards.' This statement is not necessarily true. I know of a number of companies mentioned right here on this site that treat their employees/ICs quite well. I know because I maintain informed. I have friends who work for different services and they tell me of their experiences. The poster should have researched a little further before making that statement. That is that one posters opinion, but not the opinion of everyone.
I travel frequently and I have not found this to be a problem.
You can either search on-line or go to store like Office Depot and look at keyboard trays. They have them that will clip on. You can clip one to a table. Many times I've propped a pillow against a table and put the keyboard tray on the pillow. I've worked at a picnic table with a folded towel on the edge of the table. The height isn't the best and the towel kept the hard edge from pressing into my wrists. I've used a bed tray and put my laptop on top of that and placed the keyboard underneath.
I'd try a few things now before you go. I found that if I had to work I found a way to get the job done. I've even typed on the laptop keyboard with the laptop on my lap as we are going down the road.
stick to the topic -- we arent talking about home associations -DUH
The topic was that they should be allowed to paint their house whatever color they want if they paid for their house. They make the decision to be in an association and most that want the "weird colors" know not to buy one in an association.
The point is you can PAINT your house any color you want.
Yeah, the halftime show and the commercials this year
were just not up to the norm. Did everyone get local commercials during the 3rd quarter? We did and that's not usual either. Ah well, like with everything else, we look forward to next year anyway. Have a good one!
I'll give it a go. Fortunately I don't have to punch in and out so getting up frequently won&
be a major issue and will probably be better for me in the long run anyway. My feet swell horribly and my rear hurts after about an hour and being more mobile will probably help those too.
I think people with higher IQs actually frequently feel insecure,
and people who razz them or put them down. It's not hard to get a complex about something that personal when people get down on you for something you can't help, and had nothing to do with creating. God-given gift. And then when people FLAME you for it, it hurts. And you go back into "turtle" mode and get a job as a Transcriptionist because machines don't bite.
Go to frequently asked questions at bottom of site..sm
it will tell you how to spread the word with other locations to post the link.
i think it is incredibly gross. personal hygiene commercials are just gross anyway.
this one is stupid and gross.
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