the thing is, I'm not joking
Posted By: highly subjective on 2005-08-02
In Reply to: You are too funny. I'm thinking about it. - In the pink
The most wonderful room I ever painted had three very light robin's egg blue walls, one very pastel mint wall, and a raspberry racing stripe of varying widths. The room made everyone smile - the colors shifted as the sun changed position - I loved it!
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Are you joking?nm
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You are joking, right!
Calcaneocuboid joint and talofibular joint is correct and has been correct for the past 30 years I am doing this. We didn't call them O connecting words for nothing.
No I am not joking
Work for a company right now who has lots of accounts with NO ESLs....however I am tired of no paycheck on time and the excuse of the clients not paying so they can't pay us for the work we have done.
Are you joking or serious?
If serious, would you like to share?
Please tell me you are joking!
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I really was joking
when I posed it as a question. It's amazing the stuff the docs say, that we're supposed to catch. And more amazing is that if I had typed it without questioning, he signed the report without actually reading it and catching the error, which of us do you think would be in more trouble?
naw...you must be joking *ROFL....SM
Of course more than just gay people have AIDS/HIV........sheesh -
I was specifically talking about the GAY community going to Mexico in the early 1980s.........nobody else.
I WAS only joking, I'm a yr older than U..sm
Sorry if I offended you, I was joking because I'm older and I do read many blogger sites of much older, more journalistic type writers, and famous people who are also bloggers.
Again, sorry for any offense taken, none was meant! 
Please, please, please, tell me you're joking.
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I think she was joking? ageist like sexist maybe? (nm)
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I would tell her this and not be joking, but show her some frustration
I would tell her that the clients are not going to pay for jobs that are not turned in when they are supposed to be turned in and that you need someone that is going to transcribe the reports and have them turned in on time because you are losing money paying her to transcribe reports that the clients are not going to pay for because they are late. Surely, she will understand. Either she has the jobs returned on time or you are going to have to let the client go or hire someone else to transcribe and return the jobs in on time and if she keeps it up, tell her that you lost the account because of jobs being turned in late and that you do not have any other clients available for her to transcribe.
Hope you're joking...nothing more need said. nm
you're joking right? Celine? better than Babs?
Celine HURTS my ears! OUCH!
You're joking, right? That was WWII, read your history books.
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You have to be joking. That lady is a complete basket case.
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I hope you are joking or you meant 600 lines per hour.
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Get involved? With AAMT? You've got to be joking. What an incredible waste of time.
It wasn't ALL that and it was expensive no matter. I'm sick of hearing the same old blather and seeing NO change that benefits AMERICAN MTs. I'm in California so it was nothing for me to hop from the mainland, but EVERYTHING on the Hawaiian Islands is expensive. Of course, the Modesto Mavens were there in all their AAMT glory. Can you say PUKE? Sorry, but that's the way I feel about it. I went to see if anything had changed, REALLY changed, and most of it was a big bunch of double talk. Oh, and to think that I actually thought that I might interject in conversation! Boy, was I wrong. I'll never attend another AAMT convention again in my life. What a waste of time and money.
I was joking, cause the poster I responded to made a HUGE typo in a tiny sentence!
would like to believe, MYSELF included! Lighten up!
Ebonics: Not a black thing or white thing. (sm)
I don't think there's any cause to get upset or defensive here. Look it up on line...even colleges are offering courses in Ebonics! ...well of course they are more sociology-type courses, but still, people are PAYING to learn about the why's and how's of this "other" language.
A quote from one of the sites I found:
"UT-Austin's "Introduction to the Study of African American English," teaches students that the sentence, "Nobody didn't leave" is not "mainstream English with mistakes," but rather a legitimate English dialect. "Ebonics: Myth and Facts" and "African-American English" are both offered at Harvard. Penn and UCLA also promote Ebonics as a legitimate dialect in, "Introduction to African American and Latino English" and "Afro-American Sociolinguistics: Black English," respectively."
Here's the link: http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2002/september_2002_2.html
Best thing - I am my own boss and my own emloyee, worse thing - I am my own boss and my own
:P
A "man" thing? What the heck is a "man thing?"
"I was told it was a "MAN" thing and everyone does it (i guess all men)"
whenever anyone takes an action and relates it to a whole gender and then tags on everyone does it....well, I guess there's your answer
And the best thing of all, it's
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Thanks gj...the only thing I can tell you...sm
is that I just worked some overflow stuff and kept looking until I found what I wanted. I am lucky enough not to have to depend on my income right now, so I was able to be much more picky. If you would like more info, let me know and I can email you. Hope all works out well with you and thanks for the good wishes.
one more thing sm
 I was only referring to the bitter ones here who work for MQ, not all MQrs. I am one of the MQrs, ya know! Please get your facts straight before you post a response!
One more thing... (sm)
Tell her if she is willing to travel, there are PLENTY of jobs for traveling coders.
I just had to add one thing (sm)
You need to stop thinking you are owed, whatever the situation may be.
Hard work does pay off and if you're working for the wrong people, there are many more out there. I've found a lot of "wrong people" in this business, LOL.
one more thing...sm
I suck at OP notes...does this matter? 
YOU ARE SO RIGHT - IT WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID ALSO!
And I too heard from companies I didn't even know existed!
I was told by a couple of them that they don't post on this board because they received calls and resumes from people who did not read what the positions were for and it was a nightmare. They made requests for no overseas need apply and of course, overseas would call and apply. If it was a certain requirement, say 5+ years experience, newbies would apply. Just things like that.
same thing
This profession is going to hell in a hand basket.
The only thing I have to say is sm
why on earth would anyone stay with ANY company if they are treated so poorly? A good MT still has a whole lot of options. Assuming these complaints about SS, MQ, KS, Spheris, whatever company, are true, why do people continue to work for them?
one more thing
Go you for watching something that is hard to watch and for trying to inform yourself and others, please spread the word, what an idea to get this into schools, but probably will never happen. There are many videos out there that you can purchase for nominal fees and hold private showings for friends and family members, one person tells one person and so on, keep the information flowing!!!!
one more thing (sm)
If you are talking about disability insurance on your mortgage, credit account, etc. be very, very careful when you purchase it. Read the fine print on the contract. A friend of mine is terminal and had disability insurance on a number of her accounts. The one on her second mortgage is still paying. She had one on a credit card and those weasels charged her $15 every month for the insurance fee, paid $16 on the balance of her credit card each month, and then after a year said they were done paying! Read the fine print!!
My dad is going thru the same thing....
From what I was told he is having all checks made out to her estate and not him personally (he is the executor). She had some stocks ($2000-$3000). If the checks were made out to him he has to pay tax on them but if they are made out to my grandmother's estate then she is responsible but since she did not make enough money in 2005 there will be no taxes taken out. I may be wrong but that is my understanding of the situation.
VR may NOT be the Next Big Thing...
MedQuist has been trying for years to push VR on the hospital radiology department I transcribe for and they absolutely REFUSE to use it. MQ was always like "try it, you'll like it" and I believe they did try it one day and that was it. MQ finally gave up. So there is hope for us all yet!
My son did the same thing.
He was in football and really did well. Everyone in the family always talked about how great he was with football. Then he decided to quit one day. I was so disappointed because I knew he could have gotten a college scholarship. It is SO tough to be supportive of someone when you think they're making the wrong choice. My Dad got on my son's case about being a quitter and an underachiever. He really came down hard on him, so I had to defend my son. In defending my son, I changed my own thinking. I realized that although we give birth to these adorable little babies, they are their own person. They're going to do things that we would have done differently. What can you do? You can't impose your will upon them. We all have dreams for our children. However, their dreams are more important than our expectations of them.
My son just did the same thing...
to him and we all had to adjust our schedules to accommodate him and he just quit. This was going to be his senior year on the varsity team. Unfortunately, he did not participate in anything else for his whole high school career, so now he has no activities resume. You can't tell him anything though. He does do extremely well in school and takes several APs as well, but it was disappointing. He was going to try to get an internship with our local hospital, but of course, that never panned out. Now he works about 15 hours a week and hangs out the rest of the time. His attitude is getting really crappy too, but his father won't do a thing about it. He took his car the other night, but gave it back to him the next morning. Yeah...that really taught him a good lesson :(! He has been really frustrating me lately. He is a great kid and when he is good he is the best, but when he isn't, he is just unbearable. He's not into drugs or drinking or partying and is a homebody, so I guess I have no real complaints. Maybe it's me not handling his new "adultness." pheww....that was a vent and a half!
Same thing here
Arizona-- not even in the HOTTEST part. Couldn't stand to live there any more. I am anxiously awaiting fall, too.
Going through the same thing.
It is VERY frustrating.
I did the same thing...
There were 3 different times I have done this. Twice, I needed to be out of town and once last month when my daughter had surgery. It wasn't so much the money as making my minimum lines for my phone reimbursement, which I am still waiting for after 6 months of putting in the second line, but that is a whole other thread!
and another thing
That's how I even learned what a macro, expander, acronym was - when I worked for MQ/TL 10 years ago. These are tools now thare are quite invaluable to me. $120 investment was worth. Sounds like a lot, we probably spend that on the first two isles in Wal-Mart.......
same thing
happened to me. I canceled the credit card. Also recently when I had to find a new physician/medical group, I asked if they outsourced to another Country and if they did I did not choose them. I wonder how many patients would stay with a physician/medical group if they knew their records were going somewhere else, granted some have no choice.
It is one thing to have fun, but that was
disgusting and perverted. I bet that guy was a molester or something.
I get the same thing
It's a big joke. They don't realize how they are pushing people right out of their once great company and they are heading right down the tubes, under bidding jobs, promising things they can't keep and taking it out on who? The people who make the money for them. With MTs, no Medical Transcription company!
I only have one thing to say...sm
I agree wholeheartedly!
It really ticks me off when someone has something positive to say about MQ, and then they get bashed to death!!! 
Like so many times before it has been said; If you aint happy, there's plenty other places out there to work. FIND ANOTHER JOB!
And don't hate on the rest of us who are happy with our jobs, be it withMQ or anywhere else!!!
one more thing...
Don't plan to drive through Cuba NM on a Friday or Sat night unless you like being stuck in traffic (I hear its a big thing to "cruise" there on the weekends and hear they drive very very slowly). I have never been there myself but can believe it because some people in NM really love and make an art out of tricking out their cars and showing them off. Someone can correct me if I am wrong. I think it holds true for a lot of small towns, just this one in particular I have heard mentioned more than once.
One more thing........
If you re-read my EXACT post, you will see that I said it will be DIFFICULT TO DO BUT I WILL MANAGE.
My kids DON'T have set schedules on when they wake up, need a changed diaper, are sick, or get hungry or thirsty, therefore, that makes it difficult for me. Again, I am 100% happy with MQ and am not complaining, just simply stating I will adjust. What gives you the right to attack me for stating that?
One more thing sm
The rates I quoted are average. I am a CMT and make more per hour and I have been doing QA for a long time. This is an average rate for QA that I quoted.
One more thing (sm)
Remember your child will need social skills as well, so I'd definitely encourage an outside activity with other children, and when 16, maybe even a volunteer job or part-time paying job. I can't believe I forgot to type this part because this is so very important.
One more thing
If he had access to your car, even if it was while you were sleeping and he got up in the night and took your keys, take your car to a car alarm business and have it checked for a global satellite positioning system. I found one on my car hooked into my radio so every time I cranked my car, the GPS sent out my route to a web site that he could access for less than $10 a month to see where I was.
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Hey! That's the same thing I do.
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And one more thing
I didn't find it funny, it was a serious question!!!
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