door in preparation for getting a different horse

• What do I do about continually late - paychecks?
  • Are your checks being mailed? If so, - Getting older
    • Oh, the stories I could tell on the Post Office. - sm
  • caused me to go severely in debt - been there
  • Late paychecks - quietMT
    • late pay and financial situation - quietMT
  • don't know, but - sm
    • not a guarantee either - MslaMT
      • While "holding" your check is unethical... - sm
        • That's a rather snide thing to say - not paying on time is indefensible
          • You're talking about two different things. - sm
            • Obviously you feel the need to lecture about - long term financial planning
              • There were 2 points to the post. - sm
              • No check=MTSO fault. No savings or cushion= - MTs fault. It is never too late to close the barn
                • door in preparation for getting a different horse - (different job) shoulda been done long ago. nm
        • The heck the MTSO isn't. - MslaMT
          • No need to start yelling. - sm
            • If I was yelling, it would be all caps. - MslaMT
              • No need for sarcasm. - sm
                • 3 whole words were capped. - MslaMT
        • This is very true. They are not responsible - for the fact that you have no savings.
          • If her MTSO actually paid her on time...sm - Just my opinion...
            • This is for your clarification. - see inside
              • paycheck - blondie
                • If OP cant financially make it with this job, she - needs a diff. one and not depend on this one. nm
              • I think you are an MTSO. nm - MslaMT
                • LOL. - sm
                  • So true!!. You can only be treated bad if you - stay & allow it. Your life, you run it. nm
    • Very good suggestion! - nm
  • I am dealing with the same thing - with an account that I do that has not paid
    • If someone owed me money since October, I would tell them that I - lynn
    • Did you type that stat report? What did you say - to them when they called? nm
      • Yes I did type the STAT. It is not the patient's - fault; and I didn't want that on my head all
        • Now there's some convoluted reasoning. - sm
          • Agree. Not like pt's care hinges on whether U t - type stat report, just way to avoid confrontation
  • Quit. - MslaMT
    • Anyone know of any nice companies that do - outpatient surgery centers. nm
  • Yes, I would just politely tell them - WorkaholicMT

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Is it worth it.  Are there many people out there that have landed new accounts this way?  Most MTSOs that have been in business for a long time say it is by word of mouth, but what about MTs like me who have been doing this five years.  I feel I'm ready for my own accounts and am not sure if this is the best route.

Any opinions?

I usually prepare my own taxes using the 1040 form.  However, this year I have quite a few deductions, etc. and feel I might need some help.  I checked with a local CPA and he charges $350 to prepare an individual's tax return.  Is this a normal fee or is it outrageous?  Does anyone know if H&R Block or any other national tax preparation company would be good to use?  And what do they charge?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Snagged this straight from the Escription site.  Hope it helps.

We have had success configuring both the Belkin USB/Serial Adaptor and the Dynex USB PDA/Serial Adaptor to work properly with a serial Foot Pedal and EditScript MT. Other adaptors may also work using this setup, however we cannot guarantee that they will.

1. To set up the Belkin USB/Serial Adaptor:
   
2. Install the USB/Serial adaptor per the instructions included with the device.
   
3. After installation, open the Windows Device Manager:
   
   
   
   1. Right-Click on My Computer, choose Properties.
      
   2. From the Hardware tab, cick Device Manager.
      
   3. In the Device Manager window, click the + sign next to Ports (COM & LPT). You should see the USB/Serial Adaptor listed there with a COM port next to it.
      
   4. Right click on the Adaptor and choose Properties.
      
   5. From the Port Settings tab, click Advanced.
      
   6. From the COM Port Number drop-down, set the device to COM6. (Any COM device higher than COM4 should also work; be sure to remember what you set this to.)
      
   7. Click OK to close the Advanced window, then OK to close the Properties window.
   
   
4. Close the Device Manager
   
5. Now open EditScript and log in.
   
6. Once you have logged in, click on the Options button in the EditScript toolbar:
   
7. From the Foot Pedal tab, change the CommPort setting to COM6 (or whichever port it was set to above).
   
8. Click OK to close the Options dialog.

Your Foot Pedal should now work properly through the Serial/USB adaptor.

This is what Norton said it was

Norton Internet Worm Protection has detected and blocked an intrusion attempt.

Security - Default Block Gatecrasher Trojan Horse.

FYI

As an IC, I have tried many times to find skilled, qualified people to help me. If I had a dime for every time that didn't work out, I could retire. The fact is, I DO take my laptop on vacations--much to the dismay of my family--but that's the only way the work can and will get done IN A QUALITY MANNER.

Unfortunately, American workers are pricing themselves out of the market with both their hourly wage demands, vacation/sick time, insurance benefits, etc., and the work is going to the lowest bidder. 

It sounds like you will be receiving a letter soon.  Read the link:

https://www.wellsfargo.com/mortgage/account/stabilityplan/?DM=DMIWESERH1

Yes they are greedy and hire the cheapest they can get by with.  They are the ones who took over what used to be transcription companies owned by women.  They saw a chance to make some easy money and that is the bottom line.  They checked us all out, moved in like vultures and offered our clients free equipment, discounted work for a year, and then it has turned into this mess that we see now with offshoring, bickering, low wages, and on and on.  Now they are overcharging the clients that were unfortunate enough to fall for the line of garbage when theyear switched over to the "bigger techno MTSO" who really were unprepared, as far as I am concerned, for what they took on.  Look where we are now, offshoring, and on and on and on.  Sigh. 

Another thing I would like to see is QA departments policing themselves.  I pulled out 22 binders filled with templates, samples, etc. from 10 different sources and guess what I found?  Mistakes by the boatload.  These are samples that were sent out to MTs by QA departments to "go by" - how hilarious. These were companies with great reputations and some are currently in business using the same templates, the same samples, etc.   The temples were to be used "verbatim" and the MT is to insert any changers by the dictator, but all else was to be left.  One had cc as cc's (gasp) and wrong tenses (gasp), 7.0 instead of 7, and on and on.  Some were horrendous and beyond belief and were handed out by QA departments. 

One client that I do business with has five QA people and none of them agree with the other.  They all have their own "style" as they put it.  So, it just depends on who is on if they pull your report for a once-over or you have a blank.  Then,, the politics goes like this:  They all want the MTs to send the QAs you got from other QA people to THEM (the QA person who did not QA that report).  That is like QA doing QA on QA.  Sounds like maybe extra careful?   No, they then send it to their supervisor trying to get the other QA persons fired.  Nice colleague interaction going there, right? 

I only go by BOS almost completely if the work is hospital because of the audits that go on with JCAH or whatever they call themselves these days.  Then, sometimes the doctors don't agree with JCAH and want it their own way, which may not be the way some QA wants it.  The bottom line is I tell them from the outset that I do it the right way, the way the one who signs the document wants it.  That is the bottom line.  If the hospital complaints I refer them back to the dictator.  When I have one of those I put comments on the page for my future reference and that of QA.  I only violate the dictators wishes when he or she wants me to transcribe against HIPAA regulations (like the patient's name, address, and phone number, etc.)  I then comment that the information was dictated, but not transcribable due to HIPAA regulations. 

I do have a question!  At the end of the earth when God meets us in the sky, how do you think we will get there, in spaceships?

(They haven't been to my door in a long, long time.)

WE ARE UNABLE TO ANSWER THE DOOR TO UNSCHEDULED CALLERS.  PLEASE PHONE AHEAD.   No soliciting.  No trespassing.

I may peep out the window to see who is out there, but they cannot see me and I will not answer it.  Later on you can always tell them you were in the shower, bathroom, phone conference, etc. and did not hear the door or could not leave your meeting.    

Ask yourself -- would people let you walk into their office building and interrupt them on their job if they were at their desk on the phone with the boss or a client?  NOT.

Could one more person talk in the hall right outside my office?

Could you turn your music up a little higher?

Could you come in and interrupt me one more time?

Doggie, could you whine a little louder? (has to stay in my office -- long story).

Could ONE more doctor dictate from a speaker phone?

Sheesh... now I know why I work the red eye!!