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I was noticing in looking at posts of folks who need word help that often they are stumped by the most BASIC words.  Sometimes I notice that words within the posts that the poster DOES know are even misspelled.  Don't mean to bash here, but how are these people qualified to do medical transcription?  Could this possibly be contributing to the decline in pay we are seeing?  Shouldn't QA be telling these folks to work in-house somewhere for more training? 

I remember when I first started I thought the dictator was saying "AT&T" when he was actually saying HEENT.  That's how green I was!!  That was 15 years ago and I worked for FOUR YEARS in-house full time before I tried ANYTHING at home.

I've got one year of experience working with a national after going through an MT certificate program with a local college.  Had trouble with speed and production.  Want to go back into transcription and considering part time as not sure I could do the 40 hours a week with everything else going on right now.  Wondering if it is possible to learn the tools of the trade, account specifics and get used to the docs with a national when only working part time. 

Thanks.

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I am trying to set up a c-phone which seems easy enough but -- I hook everything up and I get no dial tone and no display on the phone.  The company sent me a new power supply but still nothing.  I have checked and rechecked all connections and still nothing.  I can only think at this point that it is the c-phone itself but I am not a technical wizard so if anyone has had this issue or has any ideas - please help.  I really want to get started working and this is so frustrating.  I have read the manual and done all that was suggested but I am open to suggestions.  Thanks. 

my computer or me that is going nuts. When I go on the job board to read the ads, at the bottom of each ad it says Link/url and then says "click here for more details." When I click the link/url most of the ads take me to the ad for Transcend. So far only one has taken me to the correct company ad. I had it happen on a couple of different companies like Accustat and a few others as I was testing to see if it was just a fluke the first time. I'm getting ready to reboot so please tell me it's my computer that going bonkers and not me.

Or, at least I think it's funny. It's on my blog. Hope it makes someone laugh today.

http://thrivingandtranscribing.com/?p=61

Take care,

Diane

I would recheck on that info. I know that you can deduct some expenses as an employee at home, albeit they are much more limited due only being able to claim that amount above 2% of adjusted gross income (I think that's the figure).  I am going to try to give you a link here that also has links to IRS forms and info that tells you what forms to use and where to enter things...I'm not a tax expert by any means! but the way I understand it, if you own your home you still take the mortgage interest, taxes, etc. but on schedule A you figure out your expenses such as all your equipment, office supplies, and everthing and anything, such as desks, chairs, computer, router, curtains for your windows of your office, you can think of related to your home office and not reimbursed by your employer, and then transfer that to the 1040.  If you rent, I would ask about taking your percentage of office under "otherwise nondeductible expenses" along with the % of your utilities, etc. because that is an expense to you!! I would think and a considerable one at that! and it might make some difference to you depending on how much you make and how big your apartment is.  Your supplies, equipment, etc. are also added in and also subject to the 2% rule as an employee working at home.

Employees working from home really get the old kick in the pants, and if you make a lot of money, you probably will not have expenses to exceed the 2%, so you just get to suck it up.  I also am taking a picture of my office to include in my taxes, in case there are questions later. I was still able to do self-employed taxes last year, but somewhere I read recommending to do that in case of audit. I just try to be very honest in everything I claim (buying a $3000 leather couch for your office might throw up a flag, but, hey! if it's really in your office and you need it so you can get out of your chair and sit on to to review work reports, maybe you could do it, if you could afford it!

Anyway, I don't know what your situation is, and as I said, I'm no tax expert by any means, but that's my take on it, but please get some more information about this just in case you are able to do this. I had a similar situation this year in figuring our taxes where my husband (an employee) had to spend a bunch of money out of our pockets for special clothing and equipment that he was not reimbursed for and we could not claim due to the 2% rule. Employees really get stiffed on this! I told him next year, he better be asking them to come up with a budget for that kind of thing, as I didn't think we should have had to foot that kind of bill for a project that they wanted him to do and that he had to have special items for!

Hope this helps, and good luck to you!

I'm curious (for those of you who wouldn't mind posting anonymously) what do you charge for various types of transcription services?

-StudentMT

On the flip side, does your employer have any kind of disciplinary (for lack of a better word) procedure in place for MTs who consistently fail QA reviews?

Finally, what do you think the consequences for constantly failing QA review should be?

Thank You!

I could hear him slurping to keep the milk from running down his chin. 

Does anyone remember how to save autocorrects and macros to exchange from one computer to another, or one version of Word to another?

TIA for any/all help.

I did a search in the archives, but the info I found was a little outdated. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Can anyone tell me what FTP Server is, and how I can find out what type I have.

Thanks

I just moved to a new neighborhood last month.  There is a family of 5 kids in the neighborhood that have been playing with my kids, and they are very sweet kids.  They are really good kids, never in trouble, and it is very endearing how they look out for one another and never fight with each other. 

However, these kids come over every day, and they constantly ask for food, money, toys and Band-Aids.  They always want to borrow my son's bike or scooter, and they all ask for food daily.  My kids say they have a lot of food at home.

At first I did let them borrow some of the toys, but it quickly got out of hand.  I sat the kids down and told them that they were not allowed to ask me for food or money, that it was their parents responsibility to provide that.  I told them that if they were hungry they had to go home to eat.  They were good for a few days, but went right back to asking again.  I also told them that they could not borrow any more toys or bikes. 

Today their mother told my kids that they were "mean children" because they didn't know how to share. 

I'm livid.  I want my kids to take care of their things, and they can't do that if these children constantly borrow their things.  I also don't think "sharing" is a life skill they need to learn.  You certainly don't see adults sharing their trucks, boats, jetskis, etc.  I think it is more important for kids to learn to take care of what they have, not share it with the world. 

I feel like I need to talk to this mother, but I'm not sure how to say it without being confrontational.  Any ideas?  Am I out of line on this one?