so much for working anymore today....
Posted By: ~sign~ on 2006-01-12
In Reply to: Just wanted to see how my avatar looks...ignore. - gmg
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The fact is I am not working for them anymore and left them in
February so this was a surprise. What I don't like is that they took out internet fees, insurance, etc. and I don't need that taken out, so mine would probably be somewhere near $100 or more had they not done that. I am going to write them regarding this. So taking out all of that, they had 2 cents left over for me and I have no idea how they got the figure anyhow because I was QA and the only transcribing I ever did on this stint with them was the initial reports that you had to do to work on DQS and whatever reports might have been blank when it came to QA. So I do not understand and they need to 'splain this to me. LOL
Yep, I have to have a sense of humor when you get a check for 2 cents! They have already insulted me enough with their ways, which was why I quit, but this is a totally new "way."
Strange company and when it is after the fact of being rather dishonest where they are trying to make an impression, you can imagine how the 2 cents really made a great one on me!!
That can be a real problem even for working MTs, we are so out of touch w/friends anymore.
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working today
Yes, us I.C.'s don't much in the way of overtime, do we? I have been working some today, but was not asked to. Actually I don't this company has ever asked me to work a holiday; i just get bored and do it!
I'm working today
With my oldest two kids in college, I have no choice! I can't believe the cost of an education these days.
working today
Happy New Year! Is anybody other than me working today?
working today
Unfortunately I did have to work pretty much today. I have 2 piles of work on my desk all the time. We just came back from vacation and the work just sits there until I return. They are 2 private accounts, very nice people to work for, but there is always a lot of work. One of them gave me a bonus and told me, when you get back you are going to work hard, right? I said, i have been workjing very hard the week before, but they understand and work with me, Thank God for the work, with so many people out of work. I thank God for all my blessings that God has given to me.
Yes, I could be working today...
if I could find a job. I don't know how many applications I've sent out in the past three months. Two companies told me I was hired and would be sending out packets or contacting me for setup. Nope, nothing. How many times do I have to follow up? How disorganized can a business owner possibly be? When you tell someone you'll call them, do it! I guess I'll go fill out my foodstamps application since WalMart isn't hiring either.
working today
Have you tried Transcend? I think they are hiring. Hard to make very much, but better than nothing. Oh yes, they do pay and on time every time for past 3 1/2 years.
Yes, I could be working today
You really should stick with 1 company right now that pays well until the economy heals. If you have good skills, it is a sure bet that you can withstand any crisis. After things get looking better, then I would think would be the time to improve on what you have but a good steady income is the bet one can hope for until this thing is fixed. I am just glad I can stay at home and still make money - that is the beauty of being an MT in my book. Being laid off just would mean taking classes and improving my skills so I will get an even better position - using the time wisely. I think you can even get government assistance to take MT courses (advanced) on line and go on and get the CMT while you have the time. It is something that is well worth the time and looks great on a resume. This beats watching Oprah and eating bons bons.
Anybody else not feel like working today?
You know how you're sleep deprived, then when you catch up on your sleep, you feel even more tired than before? Ugh. I slept for 10 hours last night. I've got a killer headache. All the work coming up on my account today is lousy. I'd rather be doing anything else right now. Time to set the timer and get 'er done.
I was working today, hit a wrong key and...
in my report came up all of the secret code fields..and I could not finish my report..Do you know what I am talking about? It has all of those funny marks, dots in between words, etc...My tech support is out today...Does ANYONE know how to get this off of there? I tried just using my Word and it is in there too..HELP!
fingers not working today
I have had my days with horrible dictors, and today I have a dream dictor, could no thave been happier to get her and my fingers do not work. I can't seem to type anything correctly. lol. Thank goodness I proof my work before sending - thank goodness for spellcheckers and grammar checkers - cause I suck today lol
Does anybody else have that kind of day - or is it just me? Now be nice lol
Anyone with Smartmed on here working today?
I hope this is okay to post here. 
I cannot send my files. I changed my sending options like I was told to a couple of days ago. Would anyone be willing to email me the sending options they have so I can see if that will work? Thanks.
Anyone doing home chores today instead of working? sm
So far we've put out 40 bags of mulch around the flower garden area as it was time to refresh it, and then I've put in a fence in the back yard for the dog (deal alert - if you have a small dog that won't jump over a fence, you can get 150 feet of kennel fencing that is 3 feet high at Lowe's with the stakes for just under $100, and it took me less than an hour to figure out how I wanted it to look and install it... and I'm not a home improvement queen!).
The dog feels like she's in doggie heaven running around without having to have her tie-up ropes and my neighbors across the road should be happy that I've spruced up the flower garden area - especially since they just put their house on the market.
Now I'm ready for a nice long Calgon soak!!!
Okay - Everybody reply with NM if you are going to quit working today!
If everyone is going to stick together (happy with your job or not), then we should all notify our employer today that we refuse to work until things change for ALL american MTs. How many of you are willing to do that right now?
excuse the typos.....been working to long today already! - nm
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Sorry Guys - Today is the 1st day in months the site seems to not be working.
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I'm working too, get double line count for today, but reports are
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Anyone else working today? Am I the only lowly sole with nothing to do until dinner time?
I feel like I am the only on working today, as the Boscov's parade is on TV, my two teens are sleeping, my husband is working OT and here I am working also. Gotta cover my account today, at least until this afternoon, when I have to cook for my little family.
Just wanted to see if anyone else is out there today!
I am working today but i don't get extra pay. just behind on clinic notes and trying to catch up
between cooking.
Not anymore. For some time now, I've been working 32 hours and am considered full time to receive
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HELP with Shorthand. Suddenly today when I tried to start work today.sm
my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away! I checked and the Type It button is grayed out! I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies. Can anyone please help me ASAP? I am lost without it! TIA
Perhaps you are right. This one is dated today. The original article was on Yahoo today also with
But this article states it would only affect new customers right now. So I am upset over nothing. I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge. I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me. It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc. It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.
Blasted cold out today. It was 104 degrees last week, but it's 40 degrees today with rain.
However, I do like cozy days like today when I don't have to go anywhere. I'm done working, the house is clean, there's chili on the stove for dinner already, and I'm just putzing around. I think I'll go bake some jalapeno cheese bread to go with the chili.
You get more working the evening or night shifts and working w/o benefits. And producing like a mad
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Ditto....granted I am not working much these days, but am currently trying out a new way of working
when I do work which seems to be helping. I am timing myself and keeping a log of how long it takes to to type however many minutes. I am averaging anywhere from 13-18 minutes of dictation an hour now doing this. Granted the time fluctuates between who I am typing, and if I have to look up names, addresses, etc., just depends on the division I am doing at the time. But work that used to take me 3 hours to do is now taking me under 2 hours, I am also trying to put in more macros as I go along, which slows me down initially but pays off in the long run of course. I was working "all the time" before but took forever to get done since I was not applying myself. This new "attitude" has helped me a lot. My goal, in the Fall, is to do 90 minutes a day consistently at 6 hours, and then maybe get up to 120 minutes a day at 8 hours, still while having at least half of the day free (do 60 minutes at night, and the other 60 by Noon). Thereby doing 1200-1400 lines a day. I have never really buckled down and done more than 8000 lines per pay period, so it will be a nice change. Maybe you can do something like that and have a specific knock off time as was suggested below. 
Working holidays? Out shopping in stores where someone IS working
that holiday you refuse to work? Grocery stores, food joints & seems any store is open on holidays and you expect them to be fully staffed, so why shouldn't we?
Yes, I took off for the first time on Christmas day, in 18 years and it was great, but I worked Christmas eve and this whole past weekend.
Someone has to do it!
do you ever wonder anymore when they say
they 'lost the account' if it went to VR or somewhere else? Was it an easy account?
Perhaps you just need to get used to the new one. That happens to me, I panic on new accounts, and then after doing them a few weeks they are just as easy...
Sorry to hear you are losing money, though. That can never be good when that happens to one of us...
No. I do not believe so. Not anymore.
i know too many companies who suck too bad.
Do they pay much anymore? (sm)
I've seen a few ads, one I saw yesterday paying a whole $25.00 for each audio tape. The audio tapes were each one hour. Puleeeze!
So if it took you 3 minutes to do their 1 minute, you would make a little over $8.00 an hour. That is if their recording is good enough to understand. If it took you 4 minutes to their 1 minute, you would make a little over $6.00 an hour.
I used to, but not anymore. sm
I went to Wal Mart at 6 a.m. (only because I was already up) a couple of years ago and people were literally fighting in line to get to the door. I got in my car and went home. All I wanted was a 13 inch TV that was on sale, but figured it wasn't worth it.
I went back the next day and asked a salesperson if there was any chance they might have any of those 13 inch TV's left and he said, "Oh heck yes. We have hundreds of them out back. How many would you like me to go and get?"
Well, I just had to buy 2. 
Not anymore
Just a couple of weeks ago it got hacked and let through all kinds of worms/viruses.
Not anymore
I used to type verbatim and thought that was the way it was suppose to be as an MT until I was told that I needed to correct grammer, punctuation etc. from the company I work for "which is part of being an MT and not just a typist". So, since I was "informed" of how things were I make changes if necessary.
Don't cry anymore...get out as soon as possible.
Please follow the advice that has been written here in this thread... You've given this man (?) every chance. I wasted 7 years of my life to an alcoholic who was selfish, could've cared less about his sons, and all the while, I was hoping and praying that he would change. As a matter of fact, I gave him an ultimatum, and he is the one who left. It was a Saturday, I cried all day, didn't have a job, never had a job, what was I going to do? Well, come Monday, I went to the Welfare Department, got an emergency check, and by Monday afternoon, I was singing, dancing around, thrilled, and my kids had not seen me that happy all of their young lives! Really sad when I think about what I let them go through! It is not fair or healthy for the children, and to think I cowered until HE made the decision. After I left the welfare office, I thought how easy it was, and why didn't I do this sooner. Then, when I got my bearings, I went out into the big world and started working, scraped of course, but life went on, and the kids and I were happy. As the old saying goes, you have nothing to fear but fear itself. Please do this for yourself, but especially your children. God Bless You and give you strength.
yes, but not bad anymore.
it took numerous dermatologists to even get it diagnosed right. But mine itches fiercely. Used to have to take anti-itch meds orally. I have a mild case right now on my hand and legs. Years ago, had an Rx specially cococted at the pharmacy. The only component of that I recall is urea. Avoid hot water and soaps as much as possible. Other than finding a GOOD dermatologist, I'm afraid I don't have any advice to offer though.
Not anymore.
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from someone who does not have Mom anymore
I don't have my Mom around anymore and so with this in mind what I can suggest is time, do something with her, make time for her and make her feel important. Give her your undivided attention. It only has to be a lunch, a drive somewhere with lunch but most of the time all they want is time with their children. Just like when we were children and wanted their time and attention, now it has come full circle and they want our time and undivided attention. Even if you don't get along that well with your Mom, try it and see if it works. Wish I had more time with my Mom and there were times we did not get along but would love one more Mother's Day. Just a thought.
Not anymore, but I was 24 when I got into MT, 34 now. nm
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Used to like her, but don't anymore (sm)
I agree. Who cares what her favorite things are?
Not anymore!
Happened to me too. I now work for a company that charges the hospital by the minutes dictated, so even when they do change their minds, I'm still getting paid.
I don't SR anymore but
I really liked it when I worked at the Q. The complaint that you can type it faster than edit it never applied to me because I used to be reading and editing way ahead of where the dictation was. After a while, I learned to interpret some of the garbage ASR put in and would change it before it was even dictated. So I was actually editing faster than it was being dictated. I am not sure I explained it well, but no way I could have typed it that fast.
it's sad that nobody ever says thanks anymore
I might catch and correct literally hundreds of mistakes in any given week, but if I happen to miss one - THAT'S the only thing I'll ever hear about.
not anymore. nm
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Its not too expensive anymore, and i think...
that it's worth it. It could make the difference between a new client, and that in itself would pay for the cost of your website. I would suggest either of these services:
www.aplus.net or www.sitefever.com
I used to use a timer, but not anymore.
It would jump the living daylights out of me every time as I was "in the transcribing zone." :)
Can't be too careful anymore.
Very wise call.
Nothing about MQ is adding up anymore.
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not a legal anything anymore
You really need to speak with an attorney about this. I see several issues: 1- she was not divorced, as I understand it, so her husband might have rights to the m/c; 2- Dependant on the existance (I spelled that wrong huh) of a will, who knows who actually owns the bike; but, 3- if the bike is in her name on the title, and there is no leinholder, odds are, the seller has no legal footing (unless there's a contract of sorts with receipts to verify his legal standing).... it boils down to, talk to an attorney in your state, laws vary so much state to state.
I'm so sorry for your loss, and so sorry this had to pop up to get in the way of your grieving and healing process.
I don't do homemade anymore
Being single, its just easier nowadays to buy chili, the fritos and cheese. One thing I NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy (or made) chili with beans .... el yucko!!!!
I use to all the time. Not anymore though.
It is only because no one offers that anymore
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