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Yeah, I would hate to see those people in a comedy club.

Posted By: doodles on 2007-03-29
In Reply to: YEA - SOMEONE finally GETS IT!!! - thanks doodles! evidently UR NOT DENSE!

Some people have no sense of humor. It's alright, though, more jokes for us, ay? :)


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    like this with the liability issue. It is a nonissue with us.
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    working at home by myself. Kids in school, hubby at work, and most of all no hen fights in the office. I don't peruse these boards often, but when I do it never ceases to amaze me that some have so much time on their hands to bicker here.
    I hate it when people tell me that working at home is a benefit (sm)
    Benefits are something that the company pays for. No use as MTs. If it was a true benefit, then they should give us the money to cover the costs of what daycare would be, because if you have kids, generally they stay at home with you, right? So, they should be compensating us for daycare costs on top of what we already make. Now THAT would be a benefit!
    Yeah. Unfortunately, I think they hired too many people.

    And what's the deal with them getting freaked out if there's a little bit of work on the system?  They like it down to NOTHING all the time and I don't think a LITTLE backlog hurts.  I mean not even out of turnaround time or anything and they get freaked out or freak out over weekends when from past experience they should see the work ALWAYS gets cleaned out on the weekends.


    I dunno....I'm used to doing some of my own accounts with hospitals and they have so much more of a backlog than MDI and they don't freak out over a little backlog.


    Yeah Kerry. . . I have had other people tell
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    yeah, they are watching and people take the bait

    /


     


    Maybe it should have been on the comedy board...
    but you can laugh about your rainbows and kittens, and the rest of us will laugh at the risque.
    belongs on comedy board..........
    mtstars rulez......
    Yeah, both.. Really rough accounts but exceptionally nice people.
    It's a shame but some of the accounts were really high ESL. I did like the people though and would have stayed if the accounts were different.
    I agree or it belongs on the political/comedy
    @
    Welcome to the club...

    Sorry, I don't know too much about this company except that most people fail their test - don't know of anyone who passed it actually.  I also failed their test.  I know of only one MT who works for them who posts on this board - and she does well.  I think you have to buy like $1100 work of equipment as well. 


    Welcome to the club....
    We're all being screwed by VR.
    Well welcome to the club. Not the first time this has
    All you saying your time will come are barking up the wrong tree here. Our time HAS come and passed, and most of us are the ones on this board who've been MTs for over a decade or two and making 8 frickin' cents a line now BECAUSE the same thing has happened to US in the past - either the companies we were with had sold out like yours just did OR just taking a hit from VR and/or offshoring.

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    A board especially for MDI/Transcend issue IS a good idea ... because it looks like a lot of you will be joining the others in looking for a new company or two yourselves.

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    nm
    Does OSI still have a weight loss club?

    But MT is JOB, not home, not a social club. It is
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    He-Man Woman Hater's Club?
    ah, old joke.
    I don't get why you won't say the name. You sound like a 6th grader with a secret club. nm
    ttttttt
    Join the club, I quit a few weeks ago. Good luck...nm
    xxx
    lmao!! yeah maybe I'm the recruiter...suggesting that my co-worker is the problem. yeah that make
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    Yeah, yeah, I spelled health wrong -
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    There is a comedy board...put your remarks on that board. nm
    nm
    Yeah, yeah, AND enjoy!

    People at TT have been paid! People who haven't well, maybe you did not make count and your check
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    I hate to say it, but MQ does. nm

    come on now, don't hate
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    I hate to tell you this, but (sm)

    I have over 35 years experience as an MT, and I have never done a resume in my life.  I'm afraid if I had to do one, it might not meet your rigid standards of professionalism.  I am an excellent MT, and you would be the one losing out.  BTW, this is absolutely true.  I have never needed a resume.  I have only had about 5 jobs in my entire career as an MT, and I know so many people in this profession that one has never been needed - so Heaven forbid, I would ever want to go to work for your company - and you would be the loser.


    Well, there's nothing I hate more... sm
    ...than being at the bottom of someone's DO-DO list.

    Thanks for the laugh in an otherwise testy thread, even if it was just a typo! ;-)
    I hate to even ask but...
    what exactly does it mean to be incorporated? I feel silly not knowing, but I'll never know if I don't ask, right?
    Oh I hate that!
    I used work for a company who made all of their MTs have Yahoo messenger open practically 24/7. If they didn't see you online, they would call you to find out why!!! They would constantly message me on my days off, or even when I set to appear offline! I would wake up in the morning and go to my computer to find tons of instant messages from like 4 in the morning! I am SO glad that the company I am with now doesn't do that! To me, if a company tells me that I have to give them my IM address, it would be a huge turnoff. It's kind of like a leash.
    hate my job
    I hate the last part-time job I took learning ESLs and working 1 to 8 p.m., but I must admit I have had work this summer when there were other people even with this company who didn't.  Just depends on what your pocketbook can weather.
    Ugh, I hate it but I do what I have too...sm
    I work EVERY Friday night and Saturday night. I absolutely HATE my schedule but my kids have to eat, right? Plus I worry sometimes that all they will remember of their childhood is me working at night, missing out on things and then napping or sleeping the rest of the time. The economy around here is AWFUL. I have been looking/interviewing for a job outside the home since two years ago. NOTHING.
    I hate
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    I hate to say it, but this is well said.
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    I hate working there but anyone can do a year of it. 


    I don't know if they let you use books for the test or if it is timed or not.  Maybe someone else knows, but a lot of the bigger places let you use books.  Look up everything. 


     


    What I really hate to see is
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    Do I hate it?

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    It does to me too but I hate to think
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    I'd hate to think that! NM
    NM
    Hate this
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    Don't you just hate that? sm
    I haven't applied with them, so not much help there. But, I've been filling out apps, testing, sending resumes all day. This is SO stressful. You just don't even know what sort of company they are, will you get the schedule you need, will the dictators be decent, is their sound quality decent. Soooooo stressful. Sorry I rambled and wasn't much help for you. Hang in there! :)
    Keystrokes is wonderful!! They are the nicest people and care 150% about their people!!
    Excellent company!!!!
    I worked for SS and some people were very RUDE and I am talking about the editing people in some
    instances.  It ALL depends on the person, as it does with any company.  They paid on time and the lady over me was very nice, but boy the person in QA was mean to EVERYONE!!  Never seen anything like it before.
    I hate being left out...sm
    another post mentions Douglasville. Georgia, perhaps, cause that's where I'm at...please tell me, I wanna know...I hate being left out...
    hate MEDSCRIBE

    aNYONE else here despise Medscribe and their corny contests and their rude way of putting their MTs down verbally in emails and on the phone.  It's like an old fashioned factory.  UGH.  Let me outta here.


     


    They are biatches.


     


    I hate Spheris too
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    YUCK!! I hate it!.....
    Very few of the docs talk slow/clear enough for the VR software to catch everything. A lot of the reports pretty much have to be retyped.
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