You think there are no responsibilities involved in driving a bus? sm
Posted By: anon on 2005-12-21
In Reply to: they get half pay for retirement too! - they should all be fired
What about all the lives they are responsible for in the bus and on the ground? Most bus drivers are considered "professional" drivers. They must study for, pass tests (written and driving), and maintain a CDL license (commercial driver), pass regular physicals. This also entails no drinking, etc., on time off work as they are subject to random testing. Very insulting. That is the pay scale in NYC, everybody there makes more money.
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And our responsibilities are different?
My account specifics also change on a regular basis and I am expected to know and follow those, most MTs are also "getting hammered" to produce a certain amount during their shift. If only account specifics were at issue it would be one thing, but I am seeing changes based on personal preferences that differ from one QA to the next. Since MTs are not allowed to question QAs decisions, at least it does no good when we do, and our scores are based on QAs changes it should be much more consistent throughout the QA team. It is frustrating on both sides of the fence, but if MTs are expected to produce reports that are consistent across the board for that account, I think that the QA dept. should be held to the same standards.
It would be interstate driving, he and I driving as partners so we can
drive hard. The company we are talking with will give us the sleeper truck. I am envisioning MT while he is driving. Obviously, not full-time, though. I just hate to lose my grip with the contract I have - gravy work.
How would I get the internet access? Satelite will be available across country? Can't put any permanent receivers on the truck.
I remind you, this is not MY midlife crisis. I'm trying to work things out to accommodate him.
It's like when you are driving.
You are so used to it that it's just automatic.
Thank you ALL so much!! This has been driving me...
Must be nice! 58 and only for driving? sm
I've been wearing regular glasses for nearsightedness since 3rd grade. Of course vanity put me into contacts many years ago and suddenly, about 3 years ago, I began wishing for longer arms when trying to read something like the side of a Childrens' Tylenol bottle while I was wearing contacts. I told the eye doctor they were making the print smaller and smaller.
It went downhill so fast from there that I either have to wear my regular glasses to see the computer screen or put on the magnifying dollar store glasses over my contacts. Yes I know, time for bifocals, but who can afford them? 
Truck driving
My friend and her husband drove as a "team" before he passed away. She said it isn't as easy as it looks-- especially if you are a woman. She said she had to back the trailers into the loading docks and all the "macho men" would just stand there and stare at her-- apparently they are too "manly" to have their jobs taken by women. Anyway, she said the driving part was fun, but the company monitors you every second via some kind of tracking device and it isn't like I thought-- that you could stop in various parts of the country, etc. There is a lot of technical stuff you have to know about the truck, maintenance, etc., as well. She said she wouldn't do it again.
Dictating and driving
Can you hear me now?? I have a physician who dictates while he drives,and by the way, his dictation goes in and out so unable to get really what he is saying.
How about while driving home - sm
I used to have one who dictated while driving in his car, I could almost see him with the file on the passenger seat flipping through it while trying to drive and dictate at the same time. I could hear the traffic and his signal light going on and off. I am glad I moved to a different doctor before I got to hear something like him having an accident... Do they even know that there is a person on the other end of the dictation???
Thank you so much, it was driving me crazy
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This MD is driving me crazy!
Have you guys ever typed for a doctor who instead of saying period at the end of a sentence, he instead says "full stop". I am about sick of hearing him say that. I have never heard of that. Where do these dictators get this crap from? Please let me hurry and finish typing for this man before I have my hair pulled out!!! 
MD driving me crazy
How about the ones who dictate discharge summaries and they don't have their thoughts together before they sit down to dictate and they are flipping through the patient's chart pausing, eating, and carrying on a conversation with another resident in the same room with them. The dictation ends up being 20 minutes long but you get 400 lines out of it. Drives me nuts!!!
Driving directions...
Why am I not surprised?
I am involved, but that
has never kept me from seeing all sides of any issue. Getting a CMT may not be for you, but it is worthwhile if you feel you want to do it. I think that the nastys you see here are only an opinion and that people should research the issue .. whatever it might be .. and make an informed decision. Having a CMT has worked for me and I know as many MTs who are very proficient at what they do who do not have one for whatever reason they chose not to test. I do not get in their faces about it nor do I expect them to get in mine. Some days I think we forget to respect each other as professionals.
OH YEAH I love the whole CD while I am driving!!
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Help. Can anyone tell me what the song is on the commercial on tv where the guy is driving across
the US to San Francisco for a cell phone commercial and he pulls up in front of his girlfriends house in SF and calls her on the cell phone and she comes to the door and there he sits in his car. It is the cell phone commercial for the cell phone with the bars on it. This is driving me nuts. I cannot remember the name of that oldie song.
Oh, yes, I hate driving on the freeways
To think I used to do it everyday. I do think the traffic has gotten worse though, not just at rush hour anymore, and people have gotten crazier. DH says it's because I don't have to do it anymore everyday, but I really think it's worse. I go out as little as possible on the freeways, and with the price of gas, I try to combine as much as I can, and stay close to home anyway. It's hard not to become a hermit.
not suggesting we quit driving, just think.....sm
I just think if we grew more corn, turned corn into fuel, we'd drive that way and NOT POLLUTE either.......*S*
my kids are driving me crazy...
cant wait til school starts again...
Driving a van was actually considered "cool"
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yikes ! ESL driving me nuts
 Just a quick vent - for the last 45 minutes I have mostly been listening to the sound of her breathing with an occasional "continuing dittation" thrown in here and there followed by more breathing . I even heard someone in the background say "You can push 1 to put it on pause" which she does for a split millisecond and then continues back with her breathing/"continuing dittation" pattern. Not having a good day today.  Beam me up Scotty, Please ! 
Driving to Children's Hospital with my mom - sm
who was visiting at the time, and going to my then 3-y/o's speech therapy. Also had my other daughter with us, then 18-months-old. We heard on the radio that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers, at the time we thought it was like a Cessna or something like that, found out quite differently when we got to the hospital and watched it all unfold on the TV in the waiting room.
Sorry but truck driving is going south also
Also had hubby as truck driver, as well as done team driving --the rates there are going down as many are coming over the borders and able to drive for less. So that profession has dropped 50% as well or at least held its own over the past ten years which is not a progression at all. Even owner-operators are seeing a decline. So it is hitting everywhere.
This is trivial but driving me insane
I saw Matt Lauer named his new son Thijs. Does anyone know how this is pronounced? I can only think of "thigs" (rhymes with figs) and that just seems too weird to name anyone.
I will be shortly - school bus driving - sm
$60 a day for about 3 hours of work, about the same I make for MT. I will be very PT at first as I am only a substitute once I finish my training (10 hours of driving with students is all I have left to do). But eventually I will have my own route, then I will probably cut back to about 300 lines a day, or about $600 a month. Don't want to over do it.
my shortand is driving me nuts
It's running so slowly behind what I am typing that I am really messing up and have not even added that many items to it yet. I need it for a job I have that you cannot use autocorrect, which I love, but have to use shorthand. Is there something I can adjust so it does not lag so far behind
This doctor is driving me crazy... sm
I hear a lot of crazy crap in the background, we all do but this is the first time that I have had a doctor listening to Christmas music - in August. She has it up so loud that I can barely hear her and every now and then, while she is flipping pages trying to get her sh*t together, she will sing along.
Now I love Christmas and Christmas music but this is a bit early even for me. She is driving me batty. 
I have to vent! ASR is driving me up the wall!
When I was started on ASR, I was told it was strictly "voluntary" and that if I did it, I would get a "mixture" of ASR reports and straight MT. Well, not the case. Now everyone has to learn ASR and every report I get is ASR-- even the most horrible of horrible dictators. I keep fixing the same mistakes over and over and ASR has "learned" nothing from the corrections. I still think it is all a ploy to put ALL the dictators on it, no matter how bad they are, just so we will make the same per line as the Indians. My last shift, I had exactly ONE very short report that was not on ASR and all the rest were. Just as soon as I can find another job, I am out of MT altogether. They have totally ruined what used to be a good profession with all their "progress". Well, they can have it!
Try 12 cpl and no sweating involved. LOL
I'm happy.
I'm not allowing myself to be taken advantage of at all.
What a sucka** attitude you have.
I don't think much talking is involved, if ya know what I mean.
 Skank-o-rama
hi, i'm not involved in this argument, not trying to be mean
in? Congrats on getting a degree, I think thats wonderful! A lot of hard work.
There is no equipment involved.
I use my own computer. I don't use any of their stuff.
I wish I could, but it would implicate others who don't want to be involved
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Ok, she was a parent when she got involved w/ a
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There are several factors involved
I believe the average line rate is anywhere from 100 to 200 lines an hour. The software platform you are using, what type of report you are typing, whether you have templates you can use, whether you have an expander, all factor into this. If you type letters only and have no expanders, for example, expect the lower range. Those with many standard templates and heavy use of Expanders can expect to type much more than that.
The other poster is correct in that a lot of the national companies expect 150 lines an hour.
Get him involved in either a hobby, or doing
volunteer work. Let him do for those less fortunate and maybe his life will seem pretty good. If he feels needed that may change his whole attitude and everything else with just fall into place.
He might also need some adjustments in his meds. It s/l there is some depression involved, but it could just be situational and the counseling will help with that. Meds could possibly diminish his libido and it would be worth talking to his doctor to see if that could be the case in his situation.
Maybe you could make him a list of little things to do to help out, or plan the meals and have recipes on index cards so that he can actually prepare the meal. If he is home all day he needs to at least be doing the daily chores.
Because of all the variables involved, sm
I think it's ridiculous that your team leader would post such a thing. Every MT's situation is different--different accounts, shifts, work types, hours, etc.--and a team leader should know that. As far as working for a national goes, I feel less "communication" is better. Why stir things up? These companies ought to just let us transcribe and keep their silly emails to themselves. Don't they know the old saying, "Familiarity breeds contempt?" Maybe your team leader needs more real work to do. Don't let it bother you. Just do your part and forget about it.
One time I told a national bigwig (because my opinion was requested) that if I were asked to draw a cartoon which described this company's relationship with its MTs, I would draw the MT in a cage, sitting at her computer, with a (particular) "suit" poking the MT with a big stick, saying "They produce more when they're angry."
Fortunately now I am a happy IC with a very nice company that treats its MTs with respect. Ya have to kiss a lot of toads in this life, ya know?
Just what would be involved in copywriting our
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LOL There is alcohol involved in that
message. Lucky girl.
There is a lot of training involved.
I'm not sure a 16-year-old would want to go through that much training. I know I wouldn't have. Are you a transcriptionist? I could be way off base here, so please don't be offended if I am, but I'm wondering if you believe some of the hype that a person can just sit down and do medical transcription. If you've been misled that way, I apologize, as it is much more difficult than that. It's a very common misconception that it's an easy job.
There are so many variables involved that you
really can't compare things. A lot of the people making that money have their own accounts or are working many hours. You don't know if the person making 60,000 is an IC and has to pay their own taxes. IC positions generally pay better than an employee position. One acccount may not pay for spaces or headers. You might actually be doing the same amount of lines, but they aren't being counted.
At one time it wasn't that difficult for someone to make that amount of money if all the variables were favorable. These days it is harder because line rates are overall lower and companies are always reconfiguring how to count lines in their favor.
If you are pleased with the amount of $$ you are making that is all that really matters and I would not feel that you are inadequate.
the wifey involved is always, always
and I mean it. Every time I've had contact with an office and the wife works there, things are not as they should be. They like to hole the money up as if they'll miss a shopping spree they could take on that cash or something! It's sooo true!
These physicians are loaded, and the wives don't take kindly to the money flying out of the window or at least that is their perception.
I'd leave that sucker like he was yesterday's trash.... He deserves nothing and didn't even deserve the cut in rate.. what a jerk!
Yes,, I know that there is no 'plastic' involved!
Geez!
Are you a naive blonde?
I meant 'plastic' is short for 'plastic surgery'.
BTW in this 'face lift' the sutures with the 'hooks' are left in place.
It is very seldom that the surgery or lift or whatever the expected results are achieved.
Either no results are seen at all or it is so obvious that one can spot the 'plastic' miles away.
I would NEVER do it.
Are you so desperate to improve your looks?
Supplies and driving to and from, time printing - no less than .12 cpl.
Why is it that court reports are so well respected and their pay never an issue?
I feel like I am stealing when I ask to be compensated for my knowledge, experience and reliability. It is basically the same work, one is in legal field and one in medical field. What is up with that????
Grandson driving his little jeep. Cute! nm
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How much is gas where you live and have you changed your driving patterns?...sm
Gas is $2.99 here and going up 15 centstomorrow as the state is putting the gas tax back into place that they lifted temporarily after Katrina.
I've been trying to cut down the driving I do as much as possible. I'm sure glad I work from home! I was planning to go to Florida to visit relatives in October but am delaying that until the prices come down. I'm not interested in paying $100 in gas to make that trip!
Why does not driving equate to staying home? (nm)
Cap lock and unlock is driving me crazy
I wonder why the light above caps locked is so small. With the constant need for capitalizing words in this industry, I am constantly backspacing to delete words mistakely capitalized or not capitalized, especially with IT. Does anyone have a cure for this?
I have something similar, will be driving somewhere and then totally forget - sm
how to get there. Luckily it does not have very often and I "remember" quickly how to get to my destination, but it is a pain to have happen. Makes me wonder if in 20+ years I will get Alzheimers.
I can tell when I have got to get out of the house because I start to get terrified of driving my
car and being out in traffic, which used to never bother me. Church doesn't bother me but hate the grocery and malls during peak hours.
Right. And because this overstuffed 5-house owner driving her
gas guzzling SUV can't buy ice cream for her kids, she goes to Angel Ministries and takes the $25 bag of food, which means the last person in line who goes there and really NEEDS it, goes without. Nice. Real nice.
Clickety-clacks driving me insane!
I need helping deciding...I'm looking for a keyboard that feels like a laptap's keys do. I hate the clickety-clack sound! Sometimes it's so loud I've got to turn my volume up on my headphones!
I've been looking at "quiet" keyboards but they still make too much noise for me. Someone suggested a gaming keyboard one time but I have no use for all those extra function buttons and LCD screens, so why pay ($100+) for something I'm never going to use??!!
I've been looking at Macally's IceKey and from what I've read, even though it's made for Mac's you can still use it on a PC (just the volume controls on the keyboard won't work, no biggie to me). The only thing (and this is a big thing) that's keeping me from buying this one is that it's USB.
I don't have anymore USB ports available on my PC!
Does anyone know of a keyboard similar to the IceKey but is PS/2? Or perhaps can I just use an adapter with it?
If anyone knows, or can suggest another keyboard, please help me out.
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