Not funny but what a FUN POST!!!....sm

LOL.....*story will morph from 3 feet to 8 feet by the end of the week as you tell it*...... or something..... about had me falling on my face!!  *lol*

I don't live in a *house* though I grew up in one and had one 15 years ago...I feel safer in a BIG building...less critters around and safety in numbers......I'm a condo owner/dweller....up a few floors from the ground floor.I don't *kill* in the life......except roaches or something nasty-arsed like vermin.....I remember putting mice traps when I had the house 15 years ago.....

• Help! Snakes! - scared to sleep
  • I absolutely hate snakes. - mtmtmtmt
  • Hire my kid--he'll catch it for you! sm - mlstoo
    • what a brave son (and parents) - giving me chills
      • He was 13 and had quite a profitable sm - mlstoo
        • Well, I guess somebody has to do it. (sm) - scared to sleep
  • Was gonna post, then decided not to. Opened - SnakesinNJ
    • I think that Health Dept needs a class in black widows - native to eastern, western and northern US
    • Not funny but what a FUN POST!!!....sm - I so appreciate your *tone* of humor!!
  • Odds are its a harmless snake, open up then vent but capture it - sm - XXX
    • I'm in total agreement with you.....sm - most snakes are harmless.......
    • It's still a SNAKE! - MTTomb
      • Okay then, should you kill every animal that scares you be it a dog or - sm - XXX
        • What do you do when a mosquito lands on you? - Buy it lunch? nm
          • No--she is lunch!!!! - hehe
        • Oh, and rats/mice----Eeeek!!!! nm - Dogs/cats okay by me :-)
        • nah, just snakes.....and spiders.....and roaches - Dogs/cats okay by me :-)
  • How do you know the snake is a HE?...sm - do you have a serpentarium in your city?
    • Actually, you can tell a male from a female by the tail. - Misha
  • HOLY CRAP!!!! Here's what I'd do: - fatty
  • Got Snakes - GET LIME!!!!! Sprinkle generously! Burns their bellys. - Old Country Gal
    • and your kids skin or anything else that - yup
      • We live in the country in the south - been using it for years with kids and pets - no worries or pro - Old Country Gal
  • How big? Where do you live? - Misha
    • snake in NC - scared to sleep
      • I'm in NC too! We have good & bad snakes, unfortunately. - Misha
      • could be a harmless snake...nm - can you see what colors it has?
        • I would call it "muddy brown" - scared to sleep
          • Muddy brown is not good. Could be a cotton mouth. - Misha
            • CMs are olive, brown or black - not in NC, but in SC - sm - XXX
              • Here's a site for NC cottonmouth colors: - Misha
                • Thanks. (sm) - scared to sleep
                  • Maybe it's this one. It's nonpoisonous and the site says it is often found in houses when you - Misha
                    • nope, that's not it (sm) - scared to sleep
                      • Hehehe. Just as well. It can get pretty big! - Misha
            • I believe cottonmouths are black, though not sure on that - sm - XXX
          • thanks for responding......sm - can you see what colors it has?
  • Sulfer or moth balls. - g
  • Hating Snakes - I hate snakes!
  • Call Animal control - Yikes!

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This was posted on GURU.com - it's a job up for bidding.  But read carefully and look at all the EXPECTATIONS this person has .... for $20/audio hour.

Description:
I am looking for several Document Production Specialists to start ASAP.

Requirements:

*  At least two years of transcription experience
*  Excellent spelling, grammar, punctuation
*  Extensive vocabulary
*  Medical, legal, and general business terminology
*  Ability to research
*  Excellent listening and comprehension skills
*  Detail oriented
*  Ability to follow simple instructions
*  "Just do it" attitude
*  Professional attitude, communication skills and work habits
*  Express Scribe software and foot pedal
*  Microsoft Word
*  Committed to providing a quality work product

Let me emphasize that this is not a simple typing job.  If you have
fast and accurate typing skills, good, but that's not enough.  I have
extremely high standards and you must be able to meet these high standards.   

***If you cannot complete one hour of transcription and provide a
PERFECT transcript within 24 hours, please do not bid.*** 

It is very important that you be able to work without advance notice
and without distractions.  If you cannot do this, please do not bid.

It is also very important that you be able to take the ball and run
with it and not ask a lot of questions.  If you need a lot of
hand-holding, please do not bid.    

If you get frustrated easily and cannot handle challenging
transcription work, DO NOT bid. 

For those of you who want super-easy work for tons of money, DO NOT
bid.

I need for you to indicate your days and hours of availability.  These
days and hours should NOT be flexible.  These should be the days and
times that you are ALWAYS available to work.  You will be receiving jobs
during these days and hours without advance notice and you are expected
to do them, no excuses.

Please don't ask me if work is available.  When work is available, I
will send it to you during the days/hours you have specified.

If you are a serious professional, confident about your abilities, take
a great deal of pride in your work, and don't mind working for a fair
but demanding boss, please bid PER AUDIO HOUR.  Keep in mind, however,
that you will not be paid more than $20 per audio hour to start.

I responded in a polite way, stating that I do not know of anyone that would take work on a MOMENT'S NOTICE, turn it around in 3-5 hours for the total cost of $20.  I got the nastiest response back .... "Well guess what?  I've had bids for $10 and $25.  So there." 

What do you all think? 

How childish!  Just another embarrassing post by an American MT !!!

girlyman hater, I think you are trolling us here.

the country singer type I have no idea about, but a smart humble guy... science is a plus... bein' good lookin' can't hurt, but I dont want a sweaty singin' cowboy.

*just kidding, but this is how you sound.

Patient states, "I feel like s--t!"  I called my boss and said "I'm sorry, I cant type that in there." 

I used to work for an old cranky country doc that actually dictated the chief complaint as:  "Doc my b--ls are killing me."  I told him when I turned in the completed report that I had changed the chief complaint to:  Patient complains of testicular pain.  He just laughed and said, "That's why I hired ya!"

you confront an MT who is putting exactly 200 extra spaces at the end of each and every report and they are just DUMBFOUNDED that they are there. They have no clue as to how they could be getting there. So it stops. Then, before you know it, they are there again. Sorry, but they aren't magically putting themselves there. It's a macro, sweetums, and you're happy to be messing with "the man." Typically the same people will do it at the end of paragraphs, too, but of course with fewer spaces. Most of the time no one can see it, no one would think to look for it, but they're there.

The company I worked with called it "creating margin," aka the MT getting more money and happily shafting the facility that gets the transcription bill. Were the MTs told to not do that? Nope. They were not. Shame on the MT, and shame on the MTSOs who condone this behavior.

Last year I made 56,000.  This year I stand to make slightly more.  I have my own accounts and am self-employed.  Also, I do quite a bit of pathology transcription locally.  I have done rad also in my time.  I am getting ready to get my CMT.  You don't have to go to school for this.  As a matter of fact, many that do go to school know less than I do, as a lot of schools don't teach what they should these days.  It is just a basic fact.  Whether you go to school or not doesn't make you a good MT.  It is your work ethic and level of committment and actual experience on the job. 

Also, you sound so immature in your posts like you are really mad because someone can be successful at MT w/o going to school.  How silly is that? 

The idiots in the SUVs that have 4-wheel drive that pass you doing 70 in a blizzard.  Oh yeah, like it isn't SNOWING!  Hello? And your 4-wheel drive is designed to get you slowly out of mud, snow, etc., not race down the highway in a snowstorm.

I used to work 20 miles away down a major highway (45 mph speed limit).  I saw a total of 12 vehicles off the road in the snow last year in one week. All of them were 4-wheel drive SUVs.  Some had flipped over and landed roof side down.  Fortunately nobody had serious injuries, but these SUVs would just fly by my little car and leave me in total "white out".

I still don't get it how people who buy these hugh monsters think they are oblivious to snow.  It's slippery even if you're walking or driving a military issue Hummer.