well I bet that makes her feel good, aren't you wonderful
Posted By: mtmt on 2006-09-07
In Reply to: Call me lucky - pj
Nice of you to let everyone know how good you have it compared to others.
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What makes you think that many aren't doing it?
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YES, I always like the polite ones. Even if they aren't the best dictators. Makes a difference
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Well don't feel bad. I have two wonderful dogs that
The shock collar is cruel IF misused. Get a fricking grip!!!
Maybe they also feel that they aren't the only ones going through it.
Working at home is very isolating, and just knowing that we have a place to vent, share, and sometimes compare other experiences can be very cathartic. We can't get it off our chests to our employers because often it is viewed negatively. We can't discuss it with our spouses/significant others because they don't understand unless they're in the field themselves. Discussing it with the puppy next to your chair helps, but not as much as discussing it with someone else who has been through it. We're all human beings and we all have differing needs. Sometimes we just need "to let it out".
and those who don't feel any need to impress anyone because they aren't pathological liars
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Thank you so much. That makes me feel better.
Here's hoping things go smoothly. :)
It is entirely possible it makes you feel odd.
Even if it wasn't a fairly new drug, medications can affect different people differently. It does seem surprising that it took 6 months, so maybe it's something else, or something new you added to your diet or something reacting with the drug.
Sometimes doctors will dismiss patients' anecdotal reactions, but time will tell. That's what happened with drugs like Lipitor. It took a lot of patients complaining of back pain and suggesting it was Lipitor before doctors stopped insisting it wasn't Lipitor doing it (from what I heard from patients).
Definitely talk to your doctor and hopefully he or she will have an acceptable solution for the problem.
That makes me feel
That makes me feel sooo much better! Thanks for responding. I really thought this job was going to work out well at first, but I too have had very little training and/or support for the last three days and I'm thinking "Why am I doing this?" I have another job I can go back to that was much simpler with fewer headaches. I just hate to be known as a "quitter" after such a short time. I guess I should expect some ugly emails huh? lol
Thank you. That makes me feel better. :)
Not sure, but doing MT every day sure makes me FEEL
Most of the time it's VERY hard for me to forcus for more than about 10 minutes before I get distracted.
P.S. If it makes you feel any better
when I had 10 years' exp I SUCKED at ophthalmology, but I was willing to learn and now I am quite good.
Thanks for the info. Makes me feel better.... sm
 I have been doing a lot of reading and I really hoped it would do well with just voice files. Thanks for sharing. I am looking forward to the reducing the noise factor as well. Can't wait to get mine! Will get it possibly by Monday.
Actually makes me feel someone is watching OUT for me
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Hope this makes you feel better...sm
I just let "them" go after 1 day. I went to work for a company and after 1 day of training I could sense the BS coming on strong, so just quit. They just couldn't understand. Works both ways, IMO.
If it makes you feel better, add some chicken broth
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Thanks everyone for the support. Makes feel a bit better. I have other accounts and
I hope things will be okay. I just find it hard to believe that they can get the quality of service they got with me for 11 cents per line! They will probably get hit with either bad quality work or lots of hidden charges....I can only hope!
I don't think you should give a gift that makes someone feel little either...
I am sure if your husband left a $5 Walmart gift card on the table for your anniversary rather than a heartfelt card, handwritten note, or even the traditional nothing, you would feel offended, too.
Okay, if it makes you feel better... Read it at CNN, Commie News Network.
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Wonderful! So nice to hear good things like this!
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Hi, Marie. Mine aren't that good for speed, either. SM
Lots of ESL and disorganized dictators, and so on, plus work flow is sometimes uneven, requiring one to be flexible enough to come back and finish a shift later. But the work is available and the pay's quite good for the many who are earning the upper levels of the incentive scale. Of course, being hired in at a higher skill level for a higher base pay helps too, and a nice extra is the raise offered anyone who passes the CMT exam.
Some bluster- of course docs aren't training to be MTs, mostly Spheris trying to look good BUT
they are definitely trying to grow the business and knock out more of the American share of the market.
What makes you think doctors have good
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Invest in a really good sound card - makes a huge difference
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This is becoming the normal, unfortunately. To get assigned docs & accts. makes for good line
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It's good to know there are others who feel this way.
Like many others, I got into this field to "work at home." I loved MT and I worked my way up into management, QA, and instructing. Now, because of the trends to outsource, eliminate mid-level management positions, and change employee positions to home-based IC positions, I'm back at home again with no benefits, no paid time off, no job security, feeling shut off from the world, with no professional "friends" other than nameless, faceless internet acquaintances. As you said,I feel as though I'm losing my social skills because the only one I talk to for 10 hours a day is my dog, and I have gained the dreaded 10 pounds because I have no motivation to get up out of my chair and exercise! I agree that it should be obvious to anyone that the future of this career is not bright, to say the least. Don't get me wrong, I make a lot of money and I have a lot of flexibility, which, to some, may make up for the negatives, but in my case, the negatives outweigh the positives, and I feel the only answer is to get out now. I haven't always felt this way. As I said, I have been an MT instructor. I painted a beautiful picture for my students of what a fabulous job MT could be. It's only in the past few years that I have developed such a negative outlook. I commend you for your decision to complete your degree. I wish I had done it a long time ago.
While you may feel good about yourself,
your attitude really isn't professional. I had an attitude like your's about 20 years ago at the start of my career - days of tapes and paper. Sent back a report with a note that I could NOT type it - could not understand it at all, and my boss sent it back saying "you have to hear it - its your job"...I struggled thru it, and many others and I developed an ear for ESLs. Lots and lots of professional MTs have developed their ear for ESLs - all ESLs - fast or slow. They are understandable by your peers. So, I feel sorry for your attitude - you will never learn the business in full. And I'm sure you'll spout that you're proud of not doing the hard ESL's, but that's just an excuse. You can't, or won't, let yourself hear them. And I totally relate - years ago if I even heard an accent, my brain froze, and that was it for me - zero understanding. You have to want to hear it. And now, for lots of us, ESLs are no big deal - no difference at all, so nothing hinders us! Much better environment.
It does feel good looking forward.
Thanks MTPockets! You bring up a good point. I AM moving on and it is going to be okay. My kids need to see me normal and happy. That's two things my younger two have never seen because he's their daddy. This post became so fun and I love that! Thanks again to everyone to who posted!
that cant be making you feel good.
wondering what company it was...your making me feel scared...i dont have a lot of exp either, hope its not gonna spread.
We all get burned out, don't feel alone. That is good (sm)
money. You can set your own hours, etc. But, taxes are a concern as well. I went to work for our local nursing home and found it more rewarding emotionally. Actually was left money by a lady I use to stay and play cards with. So just remember to be true to yourself and there are people who do good things when you least expect it. So your efficiency obvious has not gone ignored, but take the break if you feel you need it and go back when your ready. That's the great thing about being an IC!!
what some people have to do to feel good about themselves
"What do you all do when you have to type an expletive? I am working on an account where this comes up often. I refuse to type the actual expletive so I usually just put (expletive) and go on. No one has ever said anything, but I was curious as to what everyone else does."
That was my ORIGINAL POST. I wanted to know what any other MT in the field did regarding expletives. I didn't ask you to judge my character. I didn't need anyone telling me to "put my big girl panties on." All I was looking for was for you all to tell me what you did in that situation. I guess it makes you feel good to pound on a person rather than address the inital question - if that's what you need to do, then so be it. I am not new to the field. Been an MT for over 10 years and have never typed an expletive, though it hasn't come up often. Found this board and am mostly a lurker and thought I would finally run it by some others. Should have just kept it to myself. No wonder I like being an MT - you don't have to deal with other people very often.
Go ahead and feed the piranhas if that's what gets you through your day.
Good for you. Did it make you feel better?
I feel lost---is this as good as it gets? Need advice PLEASE
I have been doing MT now for almost 3 years. Previously to being hired, I had never done MT before, but I had worked in a hospital system and public health for a total of about 19 years and I had a Bachelors Degree to boot, so I was hired. I worked for a medical clinic that housed about 100 doctors of varying specialties.
The QA person never helped me, nor did I get training--I was pretty much on my own.
Reports were pretty simple, so I was able to get by without anyone helping me. However, the boss was a horrible woman, a supervisor of medical records who was ALWAYS firing people for any little infraction. If she didn't like you, you had even more problems.
She didn't like me, so she made my life hard. I was short 100 measly lines of a goal she set and she made my life h-e-l-l. She constantly wrote me up about it, even those I was sooo close, but other people that she liked, didn't have to have to meet goals.
Anyhow, I got fed up and quit. I got hired at a hospital in acute care--a friend who worked there got me in. This time, I had feedback. Unfortunately, acute care is something I had no experience with and now my issues are QA.
You get "dinged" for any mistake and I can't pass QA! I've been there for 5 months, but I'm scared I am going to get fired. NEVER have I ever had to worry so much about my performance or getting written up and/or fired.
I've been having nightmares I am going to get fired. I dread opening up any emails I get from QA--a fellow employee checks mine and she is VERY anal and dings me for everything. I feel like they think I'm not "getting it" and I believe they are circling the wagons to get me fired.
I feel so dumb when I get my QA feedback. How could this be? I know I'm NOT dumb and can do this job. Certainly someone who made the Dean's List at an acredited school, has enough intelligence to excel at this, right?
I'm just ready to give up. I'm scared to quit, as the job market and economy is pretty poor, but with my work experience and education, I've never had a problem getting hired. MT has been the WORST choice ever for me. I have a small child, so I thought this would be a good fit for me, but it's been a disaster. Is this the way it's going to be? Am I expecting too much of myself too soon?
I just feel like there isn't any learning curve anymore. I feel so all alone, I can't talk to my co-workers about it, because they never share their QA scores or line counts. I'm so freaking frustrated and stressed about this. Any advice on my situation? Is this the way of life for an MT? Thanks
I think you handled it well. You wouldn't feel so good about those clothes if you cut off your
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Good luck - you will do just fine and feel great afterwards! nm
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Do you guys ever feel like just a number? Remember the good old days...
When if you had a problem, you could go straight to the manager and they'd take care of it right away, making you feel secure in your position and important? When I talk to my supervisor, I feel like her main focus is to get off the phone with me asap, being very short with me, and quick to say she will get right on something when in fact she never does. I just feel so remote and always worry about how long i'm going to have a job in the MT field because of how uncaring the supervisors are, not knowing us personally, not having a face to go along with the person, being able to yank us off an account we're comfortable with onto some ungodly thing where our line count goes down to zilch, and having NO control over it. I was never one to work around people because of all the backstabbing that goes on with women in the office, but I would love to have a home office to report to periodically throughout the year, and maybe work in-house a couple times a month, just to put a face with people and not feel like a number that would be easy to dispose of.
No reason to feel good about it. Just showing that kids are going to get into trouble
So let them learn how to function in society rather than hide them from it.
Good idea although you really wouldn't be able to "feel" the marker but you would feel a st
Good point. I guess if you do not feel comfortable dislosing sm
a list of your clients to your subcontractors, you could only hold them liable if they try to contract work with the clients they know about, i.e. whichever accounts they work on. If you have accounts with Hospitals A, B, C, and D, but the MT only works for and knows about Hospital A, then seems like she would be within her rights to solicit work from the others since she does not know they are your clients. I am curious, though, if you have them sign a noncompete clause already and they are working for you, why would you be reluctant to share that information with them? They would be bound by the contract. Maybe I am missing something .. I usually do (ha).
Hope you figure out a solution to your dilemma. :-)
Fill in the blank time! Today I feel ______ (for me it's good)...sm
Good work day so far, kids will be home from school in a couple of hours and the weather is nice outside.
It's Dictaphone's ExText and it's good/easy, but some feel the line counts are skewed at
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if you feel like that after 12 years, and I feel like that after six months
what hope is there?
I feel people who feel like this post
needs to a) either be a stay at home mother and not work or b) realize that she is no queen bee and I could care less about a degree. What company out here that you know of compensates for having a degree? Means nothing to them. Your working and being there when they assign/need/require/whatever is what you should do IF YOU WANT A JOB in this field, otherwise get out and do something else or become that babysitter.
No need to feel badly for me - feel badly for an adult who has no control of his/her own life!
I hope these people didn't produce any daughters! Bad, bad example!
If everything is wonderful---
Why were you complaining???
That is just wonderful (sm)
No more waiting for months. Congrats again!
How wonderful! Can I ask...
How did you go about this? Are you a parent, and if so did you wait until kids were older? Not trying to be nosy, but I have been thinking about this a lot. My kids are still relatively young, but as they get closer to both being in school full-time, I have been thinking about going back to school and studying something in the healthcare field. I think becoming a doctor is too far out of my reach, although in another lifetime, that would have been my dream. But, maybe a PA, or some type of therapist, or a nuclear medicine tech?
Any info you can share would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
How wonderful!
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That's WONDERFUL!
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I got a wonderful new job! nm
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We know, we know, you are wonderful at all you do!
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