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I worked at Wendy's too, for a short time (sm)

Posted By: Ex=Wendy's too with a funny story inside on 2005-11-17
In Reply to: Wendy's for me too!!!!!!!! - mq_mt

They had me working early morning shifts on Saturdays and I think they picked a wrong time for me LOL

One particular morning I was frying bacon for breakfast and early lunch burgers. Seems there was supposed to be a bucket under the grill, toward the back part, to catch all of this grease from the bacon. I kept scraping it into that little hole and a few batches later, I noticed I was slipping and sliding! There was bacon grease all over that floor!!!! I didn't fry bacon anymore. I became the drink person. ahahahaha!!


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Per report if they're short, per line if take too much time. nm
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Wendy's for me too!!!!!!!!
I was a burger maker and HATED IT!!!! Back before the screens that they can now look at to see what the person wants on their sandwich. We were supposed to be listening to the one ordering while making the burger for the person before them. And do this in 8 seconds or less. COME ON!!! I even asked to be moved to a position CLEANING THE DINING ROOM. Nope, nobody wanted the burger maker positions so they gave those to the newbies. I stayed a week and found something better. I was 18.
THANK YOU, WENDY! I will try that!
I appreciate the response. Good luck to you!
(((Wendy)))
You and your family will be in my prayers. Please email me if there is anything I can do or if you just need someone to listen I'll give you my number. I am so sorry, hon.
Dear Wendy

Those of us who have been in the business for a very long time know all of the sweat and hard work it took us to get here, and we know that yours will not be an easy road, nor will it be a very accomplished one if you plan to work at home.  Hospital- or clinic-based experiences, often hopping from one specialty to the next, is the only way to get proficient at this game, and it offers PRECIOUS LITTLE in the way of monetary rewards, let alone respect. 


I agree with Oldster.  Best word of advice I can give you, kid, and I don't even know you:  "Get out while the getting is good."  Find another line of work.  You will not regret it.  This field?   You'll flood the field with your tears.   Best of luck to you, young lady.


Is that the wendy city??
NM
Jack, Wendy's, Mac???

I'd surely like to know which fast food place pays $11.50/hour to start -- please let me know as I'd be the first in line for that!!  My hourly wage ranges anywhere from $8 to maybe $12/hour depending on the dictators I get -- ugh!! Before 2002 I was making anywhere from $15 to $22/hour, but transcription has certainly gone to the dogs -- grrrrrr!  I think there would certainly be a lot less stress flipping burgers, ya think!


Yes, they have - I worked in management for a time.
Yes, I have seen the contracts. Yes, I have had the accounts I managed flat out change their direction mid contract because they want to cut that cost and go to offshore.

YES, I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

What an ostrich you and others are for thinking that the American public and facilities do not know anything about offshoring or want it. This was going on way before this economy took a nosedive and now it is even worse.


I did all the time when I worked there but have moved on to find
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I started using it when I worked for Rodeer. They had used PRD at one time
I like the simplicity of it, and the fact that's it's fast compared to others I've used. I'm not sure why that is.

It doesn't have any prompt that reminds you of your expansion, so you have to have a system of remembering, which is another thing I prefer. The reminders only get in my way and slow down my production.
I worked part-time in a hospital sm
radiology department for a copule years and they did the floppy disk thing. They were huge compared to now. We didn't have a main frame at that time. Your format stuff was on the "system disk" you put in on the left nad then your disk with your work went into the right hand slot. It was this big huge monster of a "computer" thing.
Haven't worked for SS for a long time but they do have the best
sound files of any company I have ever seen. They have a very decent platform, as well. I think it is just management is a little off-balance at times.
Has anyone worked as a housecleaner part time?
I was just hired on for about 15 hours a week to supplement my MT income (or lack thereof).  I'll be cleaning residential homes.  Anyone ever do this for awhile to help pay bills, and if so, how bad is it??  : )
I had one for 3 years and it worked fine the whole time.

Actually, I have not worked as a full time MT for nine years
and that's the problem. Is there hope for me to get back in to MT even though I've been out of it for so long. I did work part-time from home from the lab for about two years after that.
Shelley
I, too, worked most of the weekend part-time....sm
We had Thursday and Friday as holidays, but since I knew there was a backlog and that it would truly be appreciated by my bosses, I dug in from time to time and we got the backlog caught up for today. I truly treasure my bosses and love my job, and all the co-workers I talk to feel the same way. We really do appricate and value a great MTSO and we prove it!!
If I worked full time I would make
at least $40,000 per year at my job. I only work part because just tired of working all the hours I have in the past. The majority of my work is VR (about 95%) and straight but am fast. I don't have a lot put in Expanders but do well over 3000 lines per day total.
If I worked full time I would make
almost $35,000 a year, made more than that in the 80s, just do not want to work full anymore.
Wendy, do you know what bitterness is? pls read message
it's "drinking the poison yourself, hoping the other person will die from it". You need to let go of your issues with MQ.  Apparently, it is in the past, so honey, just let it go. 
I worked part-time for someone like that and they used the QA % to keep from paying bonuses
the QA % to keep from paying bonuses and I think that is so wrong. I no longer work for them.

Most of the reports that I had sent in were sent because the quality of the file was bad. it had a lot of skips and jumps in it and it could not be filled in.

They required 10%. The closest I got was 33%.

I think it is so wrong to require a %.
My child worked part-time at 14 after school

She started at minimum wage and now is an office coordinator and medical assistant for 2 surgeons making much better money (and goes to school at night).  She didn't work at 14 to pay for her stuff.  She stashed all the money away as she had always done with birthday and holiday money and so at 17 she bought her own car!  This child amazes me - she GOT the work ethic!!!!  *lucky mom here*  Actually it was more than luck....it was hard work on my part but it ALL paid off.  A lot of it was based on my own insanity.  I had to know if, G_d forbid something happened to me, that she could support herself, take care of herself, earn a good living, and keep on keepin' on in a forward-moving pattern.  She is doing just that!!


Proud mother here....


Have never known shift lead who just worked 8 hours a day for 5 days. By the time they
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actual typing time versus hours worked-venting here

I just have to vent about companies that keep track of your actual "typing time" and then say you are not putting in your 40 hours.  I always come up short and not by just a few hours.  They have said I worked only 60 hours when I worked 80.  But they say "their system is not wrong."


For one thing when you look up old reports or do research on-line or if you walk to the fridge, that shouldnt count as "not working" as long as you are getting your line rate.  Also something is wrong because I dont take that much time looking up things.


Also how can they get by with making you work 40 hours when you are paid "production?"  This is wrong.  Either pay me by the hour or leave me alone!!


 


Ditto, short ERs or short OPs....short anything! sm
And I especially don't like long OPs, they are the most boring for me, and the doctors pause a lot cause they have to think more. I just want to be done with it! Next!!! ; )
Long short forms vs short short forms

Carla,


A long short form is usually easier to remember. So I would definitely assign the short forms as suggested by Kelli:
SmithCThead
SmithCTabdomen
etc


In most Expander programs you would opt for a short short form as you have to type the whole short form before you can expand.
In Instant Text you don't have to type the whole short form: you type the first two letters of your long short form and then you can type any of the following letters.
So in this case you would type smcth for the first one, smcta, and you may also type smhead, smabd


This is possible when you use the Instant Text marker key to expand. If you use the space bar to expand, you may be better off assigning the initials as suggested in the second response, as you would not be able to "jump ahead".


Marianne


Every company is different -- I worked FT for one as an employee but worked a split shift - sm
So I never took breaks. I would work 5 hours, break for about 4 hours then do another 3. Another company I worked for did not care what hours you worked (IC) but wanted a min. amount of work each day, 500 for PT and 1000 for FT-- BUT they paid you by how many lines an hour you put out, the higher the lph the higher up the scale you made per line in pay; they have since changed everyone to a flat rate with incentive. But bottom line, if you are an IC it does not matter what hours you work, though many ask for a schedule and ask you to stick to it, they just want you to meet line requirements daily, i.e. 1000 per day, 1200 per day, whatever it is.
I got up early, worked during naps, and worked when DH got home.

You have to be disciplined to make yourself work when baby is napping instead of maybe watching TV or doing housework, etc.   


I might also go the route of having a teen come into your home, or either trying a mother's morning out program at a local church/daycare.   I've been home since my youngest was born and he has never been in all-day daycare, but I did have him in a mother's morning out program 15 hours a week at a local church.   It didn't help a lot with my work schedule because I had an older son in school and was a room mom and tutored other kids, but that might be an option.  The only problem with the mother's morning out program is they are around other kids and tend to pick up every germ.  I finally took my DS out of the program because he stayed sick.  You were supposed to keep them off if they had green nasal discharge and I did, but no one else did.  Every time I got him well after 2 to 3 days back he would be sick again.  Other than that it was very good for him because he would not have had a chance to be around kids his age otherwise. 


The short of it.....
When management sends you E-mails filled with typos, they are going to you, not to the client.  Since you aren't paying management, it doesn't matter if every word they type in their E-mails to you is spelled wrong.  See, management's paying you to transcribe error-free reports.  Understand now?
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I have been using the PRD short cut program on an old DOS-based computer in WP51.  I have upgraded to Windows XP with WordPerfect X3 and wondered if there is anyway to use the PRD with this program.  I have had to use other short cut programs for Word on my XP computer but have recently had to move all my WordPerfect work to my new computer and need a short cut program for it as well.  I would sure love to be able to use the PRD.  Anyone with any helpful information would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks so much!


I do think it's too short but...
the company I work for only gives you 2 days. :(
short msg

My guess is that VIPS like this would have decoy names, and they should.


I agree that AHDI or whatever AAMT wants to be called now is just another thing to watch and not trust.  That said, why should anyone want government to be in charge of everything and be trusted to not screw it up?  They've shown us already (both parties) how well that's worked, so I'll handle my own "change," thank you.


AHDI is another form of big government making things more difficult for us.


one can short of a six pack! nm

Don't sell yourself short....
I charged docs/clinics 12-14 cents/line 5 years ago. They had no problem with this. Being paid by the hour in Canada at home where I work for a local hospital I make $18.33/hr plus 14% in lieu of benefits plus 4% vacation pay ($21.73 per hour) For contract work MT's in my area charge $25 per hour or 14 cents a line. This is not through MT companies - just for docs asking for extra help and our Physiotherapy Depts that do independent medical assessments contract it out to local MTs. Hope this helps. I'm in Ontario
Don't sell yourself short.

If you think that you need to "lower" your rate because you're not driving and picking up, then charge .10/line; otherwise, I would stick with the .11/line and consider it a "raise" if you get the job. Honestly, if the OM is happy with the quality she'll get at .06/line, then you probably didn't want that account anyway because I have found those OMs are the biggest pains and you're better off without the aggravation. JMO.


My short story
Somebody removed themselves from the picture before someone in the extended family tried something with me and if they had spoken up there is a chance I would not have that horrible memory now.  I yelled loud and clear so that no one else had to go through what I did.  I don't care how old he is, unless you are clearly mistaking his actions - which I doubt  - then something is wrong.   This is probably easier from you to step away but if you read or found out that he had tried this with a 7, 8, 16 or 20 year old or even someone else or he had with his daughters -- could you then live with yourself.  At least tell your mother the reason why and if she choses to put her head in the sand, so be it but you told someone.   If you have questions about what you feel or think is happening talk to someone but do something. 
I'd get up and kick my dog if I got that. I like short SM
little tonsillectomies and stuff. :) Keeps me awake.
I have Short Hand. Never used the others -sm
You can install ShortHand on multiple PCs. I like it. You can actually have one shortcut for a few things (found that really, really useful). You do have to pick from the list which one you want, but I'd rather be accurate even if it might slow me down a little. It has drawbacks too though. If you forgot to put -ed on the end of a word for instance, and you go back and do that and if ed is one of your shortcuts, it will expand when you don't want it to. You can save your personal shortcut dictionary (which is nice for backup) and install it along with the program on other PCs. You can also convert an old PRD dictionary from WP if you had one and possibly others too.

It works with anything windows and you can have multiple dictionaries for multiple jobs or facilities that might have different rules.
life is too short
Just chalk it up to your value system being different from your value system. Nothing dumb about it. I have seen the same happen.
Life is too short
to let these kind of games drag you down. You know what you contributed and "she" knows you are the one who provided the original data. She will have to live with her dishonest type of manipulation. You cannot change her, you can only change how you react to her.

Keep doing a terrific job for your own satisfaction. The only person you need to "oneup" is yourself. Set goals to outdo yourself and know that the better you do, the more satisfying your job will be. It takes 2 people to play the game. I suggest you bow out of the game and it takes away the fun for the other person.

I have been there too. It will happen anywhere you work if you "play the game." The choice is yours. I hope this helps. I only mean it in a supportive way.
Short message for you........sm

I do many things, am an MTSO for 10 years who just now had to get an occupational license because the city I live in now demands home offices to have one, now had to send off to the county with copies of OL to get county license...I'm an IC for 10 years and also do some weekends for a national...


where do these people get their info from, that all ICs are *prima donnas* - N_O_T......WOW....the narrow-minded and ill-informed......surround us.....unfortunately.....


You know you're short when...

My boyfried recently bought me a new office chair for my birthday.  I was very happy as I desperately needed one.  The funny thing is that even with the chair all the way down, my feet wouldn't touch the floor...LOL.  My toes touched the floor, and I could still manage to push the foot pedal, but it was killing my knees after sitting for long periods from the stress of my legs just "hanging" there.  So, my boyfriend build me a very nice platform that is about 4-inches high that sits under my desk.  My feet rest on it as well as the pedal.  I'm 5'3".  I know I'm no amazon, but I didn't think I was THAT short...LOL.  Guess I was wrong.


depends but usually short
If I have a short attention span that day, short reports keep me awake.  If they're long, I tend to lose focus and get tired.
The reports are usually short
I have done both acute care and Radiology. Radiology by report usually works out to more money in your pocket. Since I switched to radiology I never want to go back to acute care. My line rate stayed the same, but I make 50% more money!! I agree, Stedman's Radiology is wonderful. You can get it on CD and keep it open while you work...quicker to look things up.
short hand
I've been using it for about two years and love it! Good luck to you.
Short-cut system
Try PRD - I used to use it with WordPerfect and it was the best Expander I have ever used.
short response
Where in my message did I say that the test should be "used?" I simply provided a couple of links for reference.

And I feel you are being rather judgmental. Simply because something is not difficult for you does not mean it is not difficult for another individual.
The short and sweet of it, you get what you pay for.
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