thanks for taking the time

• Show of hands, plz: If MQ is getting rid of the quarterly bonus, how many SEs will leave? (sm) - MQ SE
  • I've already decided to quit. - anon
  • When is MQ getting rid of the quarterly bonuses? SM - IN MT
    • You guys are pathetic - Good Golly!
      • I know what you mean. This is so sick. - wow
    • So glad I didn't bust my a^^ to make the 10,000 lines!!!!!!!!! - Freaks. Why can't they let
    • October bonus - MTs.
      • Thank you so much. nm - IN MT
  • My last statement on this subject is the following...sm - Hmm.
  • Don't you guys worry this is a mole, putting out feelers SM - Becky
    • Honestly, the MQ speculation is - MQ'r
    • Why not see how many are outraged - not worried
    • no, we are only a drop in the bucket of MQ - MTs.
  • (sm) but no message inside??? - x
    • It's a good way to get lots of hits on your post! - lol NM!
  • I would be curious to see if many SE's - Busy MT'ing
    • BUSY MT'ing is a mole, I would bet on it! - nn
      • Good grief, no. I'm not a mole. I'm not admin or mgmt in any form. - Busy MT'ing
        • Why, Busy MTing, you little nevus, you! - atypical
  • Loss of Qtr. bonus not a biggie to me. Will stay. (sm) - Me
  • Not me. I'm staying. NM - Busy MT'ing
    • Well, since you work more than one job, your quarterly bonus is probably not what it could be...sm - Hmm.
      • I don't know what others make on their bonuses. - Busy MT'ing
        • geez louise - you're like super MT (this is not a flame) sm
          • Yes, I do get arm stiffness...more often - Busy MT'ing
            • okay now i'm motivated but - you're like super MT (this is not a flame) sm
              • Stretch .. stretch before you work, during breaks, - Busy MT'ing
                • A question for busy MT'g - PASSIN' THRU
                  • I have them at my desk but no, I don't bring anything - Busy MT'ing
                • thanks for taking the time - you're like super MT (this is not a flame) sm
                  • You're welcome. Yes, it is possible. :) NM - Busy MT'ing
        • I also work for both Spheris and MQ. If quarterly bonuses are eliminated I too will still be with M - I can relate
          • Both? I thought Spheris had a "no compete" rule. - MQ'er
          • I'm in good company, then! :) Thanks! - Busy MT'ing
        • Then, pray tell, what will? nm. - Hmm.
          • I guess Ms. Flip decided not answer my question. I am sure MedQuist would love to have...sm. - Hmm.
            • To: Hmm - Busy MT'ing
            • No, I just was finished with my break and had to - Busy MT'ing
              • Then you will be gone very soon too. - saying bye
  • What bonus? - kyradmt
    • We had weekend bonuses - AMHERSTMT
      • May I ask who the person is at Amherst that came up with all this BS we now have to deal with. Must - MQMT
      • PS - AMHERSTMT
    • ARE YOU AN SE? - Old Mq'er
      • Yes... - kyradmt
  • Where did you hear they're doing this? SCARY!! - UT MQ
    • ladies she said IF! - Cindbee
    • This person just posed a question. It is not a fact. nm. - Disgusted.
    • This person just posed a question. It is not a fact. nm. - Disgusted.
  • No, I'd stay, but hopefully a better line rate would - make up the difference. NM
  • Leave MQ? - Kind of Old MT
    • Exactly. Still there but 2 jobs lined up deciding on them. No way are they going to cut me any - MQMT
    • "I'm not sorry I went with them but sorry I had to leave because they are such a sorry company - Huh?
      • Exactly. - Oh, lord.
        • Huh? - kind of old MT
  • I will stay. - MQx4
  • count me as one! - MQ SE-2

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to share such good tips with all of us. 

a kind word and encouragement.  I know there are others much worse off and I know too I'll get through this.  This time of year has always been tough for me since my parents died and I've really been working on putting on a happy face for my family despite how I feel, but just couldn't do it today. 

That is good advice, but I don't know if I can give them 30 days notice because another 30 days of them and I'll end up in a padded cell.  I'm thinking more like two weeks, which to me seems fair, especially considering if they found someone else to do the work for less, they wouldn't even give me a day's notice, right?

Thanks again!

I think too many times IC's are treated like employees.  The OP is an IC and has a set schedule?   If you have a set schedule (no freedom), you should be deemed an employee and given PTO days, etc.  IC's should not be made to let anyone know anything.    Two weeks is an extended amount of time and out of courtesy she should let her "client" even if that is an MTSO know in advance that she will not be available to work those two weeks.  As for toting a laptop on vacation, not me!  The whole idea of a vacation is to relax and not have to worry about typing.  Most physicians do understand that you need a vacation.  They will cut you some slack.  Not sure about a two week period though.  Someone with their own accounts that wants to take off extended periods of time (more than one week) should probably find someone to "cover".    I have also found in this profession that transcriptionists do not trust others as they could try to steal their accounts if they were to take time off leaving the account in someone else's hands literally.  All the more reason to network and find someone trustworthy who will scratch your back and you in turn scratch their back when needed.  Tit for TAT so to speak but at a fair price.

I am so burnt out that I am seriously contemplating just taking the summer off.  Does anyone have any opinions on how this would hurt me come fall and job searching.  I have a job at the present time working IC that I absolutely am not enjoying.  I have tried to give it some time but it has been since November and I have not fallen in love with the job yet. 

I am wondering how will look on a resume in the fall to have a 3- or 4-month gap in my resume.  I have 8 years experience and I am sure I would have no trouble getting back in to it, perhaps with a refreshed attitude?  Has anyone done this, and how was the job search afterwards?

Thanks for any advice. 

I really do appreciate it. 

DixieKaye

we only had one computer so I did all my practice reports on that one.  I had made up a few shortcuts in word and one was *be* for barium enema.  Didn't give it a thought until I was reading a paper my son had written and gotten back from the teacher and the phrase *barium enema* caught my eye.  No remarks from the teacher, so I don't know if she caught it or not.  BTW, the paper was on torture in the Middle Ages, so maybe the whole thing wasn't so far fetched!

I wonder if that is what the Native People said when the white man came and took over their country. 

Goodwill or similar store and taking a tax deduction.  I spent 2 days sorting, cleaning, and pricing items, had name brand children's clothes in like new condition and I made a total of $6.00.   If I paid myself minimum wage for my time I came about about $100.00 in the whole, plus my DH and children helped some.    I have one box that I allow myself for e-bay items, the rest I take to a charity resale store and take a tax credit.  I don't have to sort, price, and it is gone, gone, gone and I feel so much better.   We still have so much clutter in my house and it makes it much harder to clean.  I don't let anyone in my house and I have put off having some repairs done because I have such much clutter.  I'm getting there and not adding to the clutter, but I'm not at the point yet that I can make a definitive decision about some items.  I have several boxes that I label, a trash box, a pieces box for all those game pieces and legos in hopes of trying to complete them, a charity box, a keep box, and the I can't decide box.   I still have way too much stuff that goes in the keep box and the I can't decide box.  I do sort through them again eventually and narrow stuff down, but still can't find a place for some of the things/paperwork and end up throwing them back in the box until next go round.  

I don't do Flylady because I don't have time for all those e-mails and I can't work with shoes on, but I do feel much better when my bed is made and my sink is shiny.   Once a week I have everyone take 15 minutes and go through their rooms with a trash bag, but my DH is the absolute worst and he puts everything in a bag and sticks it in the closest, under the bed, on the bookcase, etc. and never gets rid of anything.   We have VHS movies that he taped junk off TV that is nearly 20 years old.   He has restaurant receipts that are probably 5 years old.   He wants me to just throw all my stuff away, but he isn't willing to throw anything away. 

I took 3 documents in Word and the program calculated the amount of characters with spaces and without spaces.  I divided the character counts by 65 to get a line count.  I then multiplied the line count with spaces by 8 cents per line and the one without spaces by 9 cents per line.  In all 3 cases, you are better off taking the job at the lower rate counting spaces. 

Example:  1 document 4339 characters without spaces, 5179 with spaces.  Divide each by 65 comes out to be 67 lines without spaces, 80 lines with spaces. 

65 lines x 9 cents = $6.03

80 lines x 8 cents = $6.40

The others came out with a discrepancy of 78 cents and $2.16. 

I did other size documents and none of them came out where you were getting a better deal by being paid the higher line rate with no spaces.

I hope this helps.

I had a TVH/BSO in Sept and was put on a HRT patch.  I now do not have insurance for 90 days and am going to have to discontinue the patch until I get my insurance back.  It was a $40 co-pay when I did have insurance, and there's no telling what it will be without coverage.  Can anyone tell me what effects this will have on me?  Will I just maybe get hot flashes?  I'm thinking that will be all, or maybe mood swings, and it won't hurt me just for this temporary basis.

Along the same lines, the doctor really did not discuss this with me at all, and I'm confused about what I read.  Does the HRT protect me against osteoporosis and heart disease, or does it contribute to it? 

Thanks all! 

stating facts, she is 19 and she is an adult and it is her body and ultimately her decision.  Those 4 things happen to be factual (reality).  Can you not face reality?

Nobody is *taking up for her* as you so stated......

I see a lot of posts complaining about hospitals with many specialties and many different dictators and not wanting to do ESLs etc.  I have got to voice my opinion about this.

While most folks don't like to do ESLs/bad dictators (myself included) it is a PART of the job!  If you have many different departments/specialties/ESLs you are probably doing a teaching hospital.  If you are doing a large teaching hospital usually that is the "bread and butter" of the company that you work for.  Being in this business for so many years, I hear MTs, new and long time MTs, complain about their accounts.  When I get complaints about large teaching hospitals, if possible I take that person off that account, BUT I also warn them that while I can NEVER guarantee the workload it makes it harder when folks don't want to do certain accounts or certain dictators.  It is a part of the job.  Most of the ti these same people are the ones who are screaming first if the work is slow.

After almost 30 years, there are dictators I despise just like anybody else, but I take the good with the bad.  My opinon is that any MT should make it their plan to learn how to do every type of MT, not just certain kinds of reports or dictators.  It saddens me when I hear folks who do not know how to do operative reports or some other kind of dictation and don't want to learn.  You will never be a successful MT or feel completely comfortable if you are not willing to learn everything you can.  Besides if you are willing to learn everything and can do any type of transcription you make yourself a more valuable MT!  To do that it takes years of experience.

MT is a continuous learning experience.  No one EVER knows EVERYTHING  about this profession as medicine changes at an unbelievable rate.  MTs should be continuously learning.  In my opinion, a good MT always wants to be learning.

This is my opinion and I hope I didn't get anyone ticked off.