People who wanted to leave were bussed out, but you have to understand
Posted By: Mel sm on 2005-09-02
In Reply to: I'm not angry when I say this about the mayor - sm - no name
that every year we hear the same thing, this is gonna be THE storm of the year, so it falls on deaf ears. I used to live in the New Orleans area and went to LSU in Baton Rouge. You can't blame the Mayor because so many people stayed. The majority of the people there, stayed of their own accord because they didn't think it was going to be as bad as it was.
However, the mayor should NOT have allowed the people staying in the Hyatt to be put to the front of the line over the people that had been in the Superdome for days waiting to be bussed out. He'll suffer mayhem over that move.
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I didn't say I wanted to leave my job.
You need to learn to read before you jump on people without knowing the facts, my dear.
I've never had anyone want more info when saying I wanted or needed to leave. Just
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Thank you! That is all I wanted was someone to understand and be kind! You made me feel better with
future and get better, just BAD luck so far.
As they said to me this morning, some people can't leave well enough alone
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PS! Also watch out for people who leave things attached to your doorknob -
I'm sitting right here in the front room (drapes usually drawn where I sit), and I not only hear them come up to leave stuff on the door, I ALSO hear them try the knob to see if it's unlocked. Pretty darned creepy how many low-lifes and predators there are out there.....
I really do not understand people like you
I personally appreciate warnings about a company. Whether I heed those warnings or not is my business and no one else's. I personally hope that MTs who have a good OR bad experience will keep posting such info. I appreciate more than anyone will ever know.
You should get out now. I don't understand why people are still
organization. Dysfunctional organization. Now, THAT'S an oxymoron if I ever heard one! AAMT or whatever they call themselves now is a JOKE and anyone still involved with them obviously like throwing their money away.
I think most people do not understand our job
they have no idea what it's like. You tell them you are a medical Transcriptionist and try to describe the job but I think they still do not get it.. they think it's sort of like being a medical secretary. If they actually tried to sit there and type a job they might get the idea that not everyone can do it. And working at home? You have to explain to people that while you are at home, you actually are working, as if you were in a real office. Once someone asked me if I got paid less for doing this because I worked at home.
I understand completely and people must
be acccountable for themselves.
I just feel that if we ever want compassion and understanding and tolerance in our own lives, we must give it as well.
No arguing from me. No more to you on this subject here.
I've much to accomplish today and vowing no debating or arguing!
Hope you have a fabulous day!
I understand what you are saying but most people would, I think, get out a check their car upon
hearing, what I am sure was quite a thump or bump, unless it was a bunch of kids who were drunk or high, etc. Maybe the person(s) did get out and check and then panicked and bailed, who knows. But regardless I hope they get them. I am sure those parent's will blame themselves, then the friends at some point, until the day they die. It's unfortunate they could not have had the dad stay home with kid #1, and the mom go to the hospital with her mother or close friend, etc. This is how we handled the birth of our 2nd daughter. My husband was there the first time so I did not need him there the 2nd time, just my mom....plus it was midnight when I went in to the ER anyway. I just hope the parents don't inadvertentely blame child #2 for the death of #1 in some way. Weird things happen in grief.
I think I understand, now if people love VR
they either are lying, are management or newbies right? Seems like the chickens have come home to roost. You are talking about folks who don’t hate their jobs. Let me think about this. I did not see any encouragement about people last week trying to tell about working on VR, only you are a plant, management, lying, and on and on.
I think people don't understand what an audio hour is.
It's typing a one-hour long tape for $20. If it takes 3-4 hours, that's only actually $5-6.67 per hour. Hmm, I wonder why Guru didn't send that one to me! LOL
I don't understand why people turn CHRISTMAS
Growing up, it never occurred to me that people would get drunk on Christmas. There was never any alcohol involved in our Christmas celebrations.
Marry DH and his family shows up at any kind of get together at all with booze in hand - Christmas, birthdays, funerals, weddings, graduations, doesn't matter - never without the booze.  Very low-life behavior if you ask me. I'm no prude but geez. Life's not all about alcohol!
New. Wanted to put in a better card to support a game my 17yo DD wanted to play.
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I don't understand. I didn't get email from MT Stars, I got email from offshore people
is what I'm talking about. I'm not a liar and take offense to your insinuation.
wanted to try it but wanted to make sure
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if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.
As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
so many people was wishy-washy nowadays...love to see people make
a stand for what they believe in...
it is kind of wierd those statements have to be made in the first place but guess we are an ever-transitioning country and are still young. so many different beliefs yet not much tolerance.
I found your post respectful, and right on as to how you feel. it does not seem that difficult to sift through to read and respond to messages someone might not care for...
Just remember that it is not the people on this board who short changed their people and ONLY after
caught did they (after they were suied) make an effort to look good by sending out these checks. Now, think about this--had they done this many years ago when they short changed everyone, that would have been honest. Does it not bother you that only after they know they are under the gun that they are doing this to try and make themselves look good?
I used to work for MQ and I used to like what I did. I never can say I really liked the people that I worked with, but I really think they had some of the best accounts that I have ever come across in the MT industry. I loved working the major teaching hospitals that I did, but that certainly does not mean that I enjoyed being cheated out of pay.
So chill already. People have been cheated, were lied to, and only AFTER they got caught have they tried to return some of the money they robbed us of (as well as cheated their clients).
We all have reasons not to be happy with this company and you go off on us because we are complaining of things like small refund checks of a penny or a few cents or a few hundred dollars and NO WAY to even check to find out if this is correct?
I am sorry you are unhappy all of us thinking that there is still a dead rat in the cellar, but there is still a dead rat in the cellar and nothing will bring the dead rat back.
I would hold no love for a company that I know willingly cheated the very people who helped THEM make money out of their hard-earned money.
Go take a deep breath and think about that.
My people skills are just fine. I just want to hire people who want to work.
I've not been ugly, I've asked questions, legitimate ones. Please tell me what is wrong with that. This site is not just for MTs, it is for QA Editors, Supervisors, Service Owners, there's even sections for Billers, Coders, and Nurses.
rude people? I would take good pay over polite people any day
Besides that they have never been rude to me and I have been here for almost 2 years. What do you consider a bad account?
I know my account is a little tough, but I am used to it. I am tough!
Rude people? I hardly think so. They are some of the nicest people I have ever worked with. sm
Not just management, but QA as well. No one is rude. They are a very understanding staff. There is one account that is hard but all it takes is getting used to it. Once you are used to it, it is no harder than any other ESL account that you would do anyplace else. I have heard all these things about TH from the archives and I have yet to come across rudeness or any kind of thing that I have read about in the archives. I would definitely pursue them if I were you. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
2 people to do that amount of work, is she nuts? More like 20+ people - nm
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Just wanted to let you know (SM)
 That my cat is doing much better than a few days ago. He's eating food, and I saw him drinking today.  I've been giving him subcu fluid for the last couple days. We are moving to Nebraska on the 6th, so I hope the trip isn't too stressful for him. 
Well, I'm having fun playing with this  ...I was in mtstars withdrawal there for awhile. Hope you all are having a great day! 
Bye for now 
Chickadee 
WANTED:
Come to work for Soft Script. If you are a "newbie" transcriptionist, do not mind us stealing your lines, enjoy rude, threatening, and hateful e mails, and among numerous other things - you like to work for less than minimum wage, then we have the perfect position for you.
Yes folks, this is what you will get when you go to work for Soft Script, it is a lot of fun, everyone should try it.
NOT!!!!!!!!! 
That was exactly the one I wanted to take.
However, there aren't any Irish dance instructors in my area. I searched ebay for the instructional videos last night.
I have always wanted to eat my
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I can't believe you wanted to
Lame 'O' Rama!
I just wanted to be sure you all saw my...
"Thank you" down below. The response to this post was crazy and I appreciate the solid support you have given. Please pray for me to have the courage to face this leap of faith. He says he wants to make things better and that he loves me. I have not told him that I love him since he hit me in the eye two weeks ago and he has noticed. I think he realizes that I am tired of all the nonsense and that this could go either way right now depending on his behavior. I am strong, but I just have to believe in myself. I'll keep you all posted. Thanks again. J.
Just wanted to say thanks
to all of you who responded to my post a few weeks ago about insomnia. I decided to try the Melatonin, and it works wonders!!! I sleep like a baby every night and I don't suffer any side effects. I also like knowing that it's all natural
Anyway, I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!!!
i wanted to say too
when my mom was contemplating having the surgery, the surgeon provided her with names and numbers with patients who already had the surgery so that she could talk to them and see what their experience was.
I wanted to be....
An archaeologist/paleontologist (sic), a zoologist, or a veterinarian. Then I found out how long it took to go to school. That ended that!
I wound up going for computer programming. Hated that. Loved typing and computers but hated the programming end of it, so went into accounting. Me....who flunked math in school, but it challenged me and I was good but not enough typing for me. Then did typing for a book company...got bored. Now I'm an MT. What a life!
Please don't ask my age. LOL
Just wanted to add . . .
It is a blessing to have this site to go to where there are others who truly understand the pain/abuse we take/put up with. Only another MT could possibly understand what it is like at times.
I also wanted to add this ...
Many may actually know the terminology but make mistakes in their transcription or typos. Still, it is incorrect and it cannot be accepted.
Hearing correctly is one thing; transcribing it correctly to the document is another.
I think many errors happen on the transcription phase, not the hearing/understanding phase.
Thanks so much! That was exactly what I wanted to know....nm
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I really wanted to ask
my former PS to send me a picture but I was too shy and knew I should not anyway. His voice sounded sexy and just by the way he talked about things in general I had a feeling he was.
yea... i NEVER did whatever I wanted
and as an IC i had every right to, but I stuck to my 24 hour TAT for seven years unless I was sick... i NEVER did vacations, I Never took time off... EVER. Now i'm kicking myself for it since after 7 years they have betrayed me.
Wanted to add
I wanted to add that I do work someplace else also because I don't believe in this industry you can put all your eggs in one basket but I do think Transcend is a nice place to work overall.
Just wanted to say
THANK YOU for the replies. I did receive an e-mail response also, and appreciate that too :).
I am feeling a bit better about this, but still worried too . . . just part of my personality, I guess.
I would still like to hear from others who have experience with this, and thanks again!
Just wanted to say
 that I welcome corrections from QA's who make corrections that are legitimate, a mis-spelling, wrong term, wrong word, that sort of thing. I actually look forward to feedback when I get a particularly tough dictator and had to send it in with blanks so I can see if the QA was able to make sense of it so I will have a better chance of getting it next time. I appreciate your help in making me a better MT. The QA's that I have a problem with are the one's that send my stuff back with "corrections" that are not really corrections, things that would not impact the document in the least. It is silly, anal, and just makes everyone's job harder. I just wanted to put that out there because it sounds like from the posts that there are a few good QA's out there that just want to do their job and help us get better as opposed to nit-picking every little, tiny, miniscule thing they can find. I also especially appreciate the QA's that just give the feedback or explain why the feedback-not the ones with attitude and arrogance and nasty remarks. Those are the people that need to change jobs, because they are not helping anyone.
What I wanted to do but never did (and probably shouldn't)
I always wanted to tape record about 20 minutes of the yapping and then play it back right outside when the neighbor had a window open, preferably in the middle of the night!
Big rig info wanted
Kids are gone. I'm single. I'm sick of being in the house 24/7.
I'm thinking about truck driving school. I love driving. I can drive forever.
I'm going to do my own research regarding schools, salary etc., but would appreciate any "insider" or first-hand knowledge.
I know I need a change.
I have always wanted to be able to use "sic" ...
in reports where we know darn well it's wrong but that's what they dictate. Sic means "just as" and is used where the writer/typist knows something is incorrect or unusual but that was the way it was presented (in our case, the dictator). That way the reader of the reports would know it wasn't our error but the dictator's. However, I have never seen where this is allowed in MT.
you could fix it if you wanted to or is it verbatim? nm
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I wanted to offer ...sm
our RV that is in our yard. DH reminded me that the kids still sleep there because of our house fire (dishwasher door caught fire). Our house is still in disrepair.
I'll have to find another way to help.
I don't think I asked about MQ. I just wanted to know the
Shorthand and Shortcut, so I can buy the best one.
Not OP but wanted to post about rad. sm
I work for Keystrokes on two different accounts. One is the best account ever, and I literally type 22-26 reports per hour. I have been on the same account for 4 years, use Shorthand religiously, sit and type straight through 6 hours 6 days a week (my choice). About a year ago, I got a bug in my bonnet and asked to change accounts. It was right as the new residents came in, and it seemed to be the worst group ever. I moved to another account, and my counts cut in half.
So, I would recommend Keystrokes for radiology accounts but by the report and make sure that it is an account that either pays links or pays higher because it does not pay links.
Yeah, that's why I wanted to know what it was.
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I think you wanted to stir the pot
You wouldn't be celebrating the "holiday" if it weren't for the birth of Christ, why celebrate at all if you want to leave the "religion" out of it since that is the reason for the holiday. I think that you wanted to "stir" things up otherwise you would just be observing quietly and not making a fuss about what your bliefs are or are not.
I wanted to thank everyone who helped below
about DHs red blotches. He is feeling fine this morning. I did tell him the signs of anaphylaxis and to go to the ER if he has any of those symptoms. We may never know what caused those blotches. Thanks again!!! You all rock!
I don't, but my daughter wanted one . . .sm
She wanted a vine (like a bracelet) around her upper arm. She was 20 at the time so I really had no say in the matter except, "Why don't you wait until we go see your grandmother in short sleeves." We did and she scrapped the vine idea in a hurry.
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