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It was a joke. The poster didn't ask anyone to actually do those things. If you can't catch

Posted By: Pathetic on 2005-09-20
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    I think the poster is saying right now be grateful with what you have... things could be much worse!
    nm
    Wow! I'm sure the orginal poster didn't mean it.
    Seriously, sounds like this post is a bit out of control. I am so sorry for the original poster, and didn't answer as I am brainless with computers and lose stuff all the time. I think that's why she didn't get a lot of answers - most of us who use them know little about the mechanics!!  As for her choice of words, I think you are totally overreacting. I understand what you're saying, and I, too, have known those who have committed suicide - by hanging and by shooting and by drugs and by auto - it doesn't bother me one hoot if someone makes reference to shooting themselves in obvious jest. I honestly sincerely think maybe you need to get some help if something like a post that is obvously in fun makes you want to attack. You are also trying to share your story - obviously have a lot on your heart. I do not mean this meanly at all. Written words are so hard to interpret. But I'm trying to kindly say that things this innocuous should not cause you such pain. I think maybe you should talk to someone in real life about it.
    I didn't realize you are the thread poster ...
    Did you meet the criteria set for the bonus? If you did, seek a legal remedy.

    If you didn't, go on about your business.

    If you believe you are owed a bonus, and it is not paid when it is supposed to be paid, then they are in arrears to you.

    I personally wouldn't give that company a 2nd opportunity to fail to pay. I would quit and seek legal counsel.

    Good luck.
    Since the poster below didn't really answer your questions, I'll try...
    While I agree that things are being done to try to do away with transcription eventually, I think that hope is a long way off. Here goes:

    1. A lot of work is being outsourced to places like India because they can do the work much, much cheaper than a US MT. Some hospitals won't all their work to be outsources, but the thought on this board generally seems to be that most don't care or don't know.

    2. In order to work at home directly after school, it is highly recommended that you only attend one of the top schools. Two of them are Andrews and M-TEC.

    3. Most companies, if you are an employee (not independent contractor) will provide you with all the equipment you need. You will have to have an internet connection and pay for that yourself most likely.

    4. I believe the average you can expect to start is in the 6 to 8 cents a line range. How much you make depends on many other things, though. If you studied very hard and have a knack for MT you will do much better.

    Hope that helps a little. But just remember...yes, working at home is a nice benefit for some, but there is a con for every pro to doing this.
    I'm glad you didn't do those things. I, for one, was just SM

    trying to keep you from doing something so unbusinesslike that it might prevent you from getting a position somewhere else. I have many, many years' experience in all facets of medical transcription, MTSO, employee, IC, head of the department in a large hospital. You name it.


    Bottom line is that your thinking was wrong. It may be your business to keep a roof over your family's head and food on the table, but it's not the doctor's responsibility and he shouldn't even know your name. His business is with the MTSO. To go around her and whine to her clients would be a very bad misstep for you.


    It is MTSO's business to keep her roof and her food. She does that by meeting TAT and doing it without excuses. That's her job.


    Hey, didn't those things used 2 blow up?
    When U got hit from behind??? My advice:  Dump it!
    Didn't touch my appetite. None of those things do. nm
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    LOL, maybe so but I wouldn't have married him if he didn't do those things! ;o)
    nm
    John Lennon didn't do extraordinary things?
    I'd say forming the Beatles, changing the face of rock music forever as well as fashion and writing a song like Imagine R pretty extraordinary, in my book.
    Did anyone else catch the BS here other than me? how could you sm
    bill on a gross line and pay on a 65-character line. that is just plain old dishonest. not good business practice in my opinion and cheating the MT who in the case happens to be your mom. how could you do that??? my suggestion would be to be honest and fair with you, your mom, and the office and do things in the normal manner. i hope that was a typo for your sake. GEEZZZZZZZ!!!! how many companies do cheat us all like that???
    AT&T will catch on if you use their plan a lot. SM
    They will (1) dump you from their plan, (2) send you a $4000 LD bill (back charges and (3) send a fraud investigator to your home. Been there, done that.
    Exactly, really can't catch when proofing as you go.
    Think about it, you are thinking, listening, typing, foot pedaling, etc., too much going on at once. Not to mention other distractions. Really can't proof as you go, just doesn't work. You have to stop at the end to concentrate and re-read it to catch all the errors. Trust me, I do audits and find errors in probably 8 out of every 10 reports, some very small but still errors. These are most likely from MTs who proof as they go. I totally understand MTs are paid on production and don't blame them one bit for not proofing at the end! But then also should not expect a perfect report or state that proofing as they go works, cause it really doesn't. Ever hear of a writer say oh you don't have to proofread or edit my book before publishing because I proof as I go?!?! Just some food for thought. ; )
    Thanks. I put this in Favorites to try when I catch a
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    You never catch up with oncology....
    there is always different meds and procedures more than any other field I've done.  I quit after about a year.  Great experience but ya don't make the money. 
    Do you ever catch your typos?
    there wages - ?
    Good catch---
    nm
    I never heard of it. Will be sure to catch it.
    NM
    Oh, yeah...I catch your drift...sm
    All the liberal media is going to show us during a Republican administration is the bad stuff
    I agree. It seems like all of them want to play catch up on one day
    then they expect you to have ALL of their work done within TAT when they went beyond the agreed lines per day.
    Actually, spellcheck wouldn't catch it because
    there, they're, and their are all correct spellings.
    CATCH PHRASES ARE "AMAZING" - NOT!

    It's time to move on from these phrases that I've heard ad nauseum from people who can't think of anything on their own.


    "At the end of the day."


    " . . . amazing."


    " . . . awesome."


    Anybody else?


     


    yes, I did catch it;hence the haha you missed it
    nm
    ooh, i catch jealosy vibes lol
    /
    Hire my kid--he'll catch it for you! sm

    He loves snakes.  I don't care for them but we have lots around here too, especially in the spring when they are mating. I live in Illinois. They are regulars in my yard. The only thing he hasn't caught and brought home yet is a rattler. We've had hognose snakes, pregnant garter snakes, blue racers and regular garden snakes. He has a pet pine snake in my dining room.  Hubby and I don't like them but he is the one who takes care of the them, buys the food, cleans their little homes, etc.  My neighbor was once infested with blue racers and he went over there and caught them all and turned them loose. I bet there were 25 in the guy's garage. He made $50.00 for an hour's worth of work.  He had a pregnant garter snake once that gave birth to 20 little babies the size of nightcrawlers and sold them to the pet shop for $3.00 apiece. He doesn't do it anymore and he only has the one snake now, but I learned a lot just from watching him. I've been told that a black rat snake living under your deck in the winter is the best mouse control you can have.


    I notice that too. QA will eventually catch up to them.
    dd
    i do it occasionally when needing to catch up; sm
    as the other poster said, my production shows in the next 2 days though. i always keep a light on (not just a lamp). i have lots of dr. pepper. i usually do laundry so that every 45 mins or so i have to get up and fold another load and that keeps me awake. i avoid food as that will make me sleepy too. also do as the other poster said, don't surf the net at all as that makes me sleepy to. i stick to my work and knock it out as quickly as i can.
    Scan through and hopefully catch mistakes as I go. sm
    That don't pay me enough this day and time to proof every single word I type. Take our wages minus IC expenses and we aren't making much. I look at it like you pay for what you get sometimes. Now that isn't to say I don't care about quality as I do. I just proof as I go and try my best to catch it and be accurate but I do have 15 yrs exp and can usually tell immediately if I have made a typo. I may get a he or she mixed up here and there but no major errors in the report.
    Yeah, sometimes I catch mess-ups...sm
    when I go back through the report, and I say I am glad I proofread. LOL.
    Good one. An anonymous poster blows another anonymous poster's head off. Great win for MQ?

    I guess that is a small pleasure for those of you who have lowered your expectations for the company you work for. 


     


    Bet you're married to a fat bald guy too. 


    Bad things? what bad things? people's being petty and small?
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    Ok, Six Feet Under fans, did you catch it last night?
    I'm sad.
    You guys are better than I thought. I was wondering if you could catch those, lol nm
    :P
    I get tendinitis too occasionally. If I catch it in time, sm

    can avoid the trip to the orthopedist for the x-rays, exam, shot of Marcaine and big bill (ugh).  He gave me stretching exercises to do every hour or two, and I take 3-4 ibuprofen (actually, Advil Liquigels -- it may be just hype but I do believe they work faster) if I have a flare.


    Good luck.


    And the result is like a Catch-22. Clients/MTSOs

    so they turn to alternatives like offshore or VR.  But they don't look far enough to see that the root cause of not enough experienced MTs is because the experienced don't want to stay in a sinking ship.  I think they feel that using the excuse that lack of experienced MTs validates them turning to cheaper alternatives, which in turn, makes the ship sink even further.


    Did anyone catch the show with Sandra Bernhardt?
    Where she and Elizabeth had sort of a fight over politics. That was the best! lol
    It's very easy. You'll catch on in a flash.
    nm
    Oops. worth OF catch up and wants it ASAP.
    x
    Anyone catch Discovery Health Channel last night?
    I always watch the Plastic Surgery epidoses with Dr. Jan Adams who narrates the different procedures profiled.  Anyhow, he was explaining how some patients are more susceptible to keloid formation, and in the subheadings where they type these words, they had it as "keyloid"  It just struck me as funny, being a medical show and all!
    don't worry, they'll catch it. Probably take it out of your next short paycheck.nm
    nm
    great post; hope your ideas do catch on.
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    It takes me three months, then I catch up and exceed the expectations.
    Also, takes about three months to decide if you even enjoy the work, company structure and your team members. If not happy, change teams or if it just does not fit, change teams until you feel at home. Being worried about your performed, feeling somwhat discouraged and even temporarily anxiety ridden is not unusual traits of a conscientious employee and valuable employee, by the way.
    I may even be able to proofread and catch spelling errors (interruptions)!

    I meant to answer your post earlier, but I've been trying to catch up on

    housework before school starts.  I cannot WAIT for school to start.  I'm so tired of the kids' bickering and attitudes this summer.  They've taken to ignoring me whenever I ask them to do anything.  I threaten them with grounding, loss of privileges, or slave duty.  Then they bicker about who did more chores or who made the mess to begin with.  Instead of cleaning up after them, I leave it sit until their Dad gets home.  If they don't want to listen to me, they'll darn well listen to him.  


    They are usually really good kids.  I think it's mostly cabin fever because a lot of their friends went on vacation or stayed with their biological Dads for the summer.  The kids are so bored.  I'm just so tired of it every summer.  I have all these grand plans for finishing work early and doing something fun each day, but I get the same garbage every year.  Too many kids over here, too many interruptions, too much bickering, too much mess.


    Let me tell you, I'm celebrating on the first day of school.  I'm going to the coffee shop and buying a big mocha latte.  Then I'm going to sit there all by myself and read a book.  On the way home, I'm grabbing lunch for myself and watching a chick flick by myself.  No McDonalds either.


    I am working today but i don't get extra pay. just behind on clinic notes and trying to catch up
    between cooking.
    Hey, I don't live on this board. We catch negative posts and delete
    at any time. In the top, right hand corner of each post, there is a Report Message button you can click on.  We do the best we can.
    A hyphen never killed anyone but a left and right error did and I catch plenty of those as the MT.
    blah - these aren't rules, they are decisions made by a circle of anal retentive MTs. Dorland's and a grasp of the English land and basic sentence structure all make it happen but a love of medicine is what makes an expert in this field because they follow the doctor's hands, eyes and mind.
    OT: Girl singer on the July 4th shows - did anyone catch this show on the Fourth?

    I'm trying to find the name of one of the performers on the evening of the Fourth who sang God Bless the Child (I think it was on the show where the President attended).  Does anyone know who that singer was?  I missed the first half of her song and they did not announce her name again at the end.  I thought it might have been Brandy but I haven't kept up with celebs lately. 


    Thanks in advance.


    Well of course we know that now. Back then we didn't because he didn't allow unfettered access.
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    right we children didn't tattle to the administrator did we. BTW, didn't you think we were &#
    because some half-witted idiot said everyone was jealous because some other anonymous poster said they were going to be a doctor. Didn't they call it doctor envy. Oh yeah, that was all about you wasn't it busy-body MT. You with your degree and premed but yet you still post here and acuse others of jealously. I dunno but you and dano seem so close, I can't put my finger on it but I would say you could be computer clones. Jealous indeed. Children indeed. I think you are blowing your covers) dano and busy body MT. This whole "jealously" thing makes me think that you may be one and the same poster.
    I didn't go into labor until 2.5 weeks later, so it didn't work. Sorry!...nm
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    Is this a joke?