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Time to call the authorities and put this person out of business. no mess.

Posted By: Anon at this time on 2005-07-07
In Reply to: C phone SCAM - Kristen Pineda strikes again! - duck

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    RIPOFFS - How many others got taken by this person. PLEASE POST HERE. no mess.
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    I work for the person. I know. Very excellent person, personally and business-sense.
    It is an INSULT to have QA hovering over seasoned MTs who know what they are doing. She trusts her MTs and again if there are questions there is one person, a trainer, who can answer them via phone, e-mail or instant message or you can send the whole report to them if you choose.
    actual typing time mess

    I know exactly what you mean. We see it in E-mails all the time where I work. Although they aren't enforcing it, they do ask that we work our full shift AND get our lines in. I know Dictaphone Extext tracks your typing time and you can see that when you check your line count. It gets really depressing on the speech editing because actual typing time is a LOT less, so it takes longer to get my time in.


    This is another way to get more out of the MTs. I think it's all crap, especially since if you were to go over 40 hours a week you won't get paid!


    Sometimes if I can't get off I say, "I"m sorry. My business line is ringing. Can I call you
    ``
    don't do it. get business card and introductory letter and go in person, asking to speak to offi
    I would go early in the day. If you can't speak with office manager, leave your literature behind. A few days later, I would phone in follow up to see if office manager received your card etc.
    a smart person expecting an important call
    nm
    Well I wouldn't call a person "stupid" because they aren't from here, but SM
    maybe you mean because of the poor use of the language. I know what you mean.
    This is strange. I just discussed a flexible on-call person
    for radiology with the owner of Keystrokes, where I have worked for 4 years. We were discussing the feasibility of having someone trained on a few accounts, ready to do "x" number of reports a day without a fixed schedule, floating on a few different accounts.

    If anyone is interested, please email the office. You can do so through the ads on the job seekers board.
    Can't your set-up person talk you through this? Or call Dictaphone direct if you're
    s
    Such lies. Just yesterday I had a payroll problem. 1 phone call, person answered, and IMMEDIATELY
    remedied the situation. There are always people there to help us.  Wendy is just lying, and like I'll bet she's lying about her name! Its sooooooooo stupid to do this stuff when you're a disgruntled ex.
    Can someone from the Ohio MQ office give me a contact person and a phone number to call or an email
    address. I am interesting in asking a few questions to someone there in hopes of possibly transferring but I need some info first before I go from one problem to the same one elsewhere.
    I'd ask the local authorities to tell the MTSO to stop sending THEM on a wild goose chase! NM
    x
    In this business time is ALWAYS money.
    I wouldn't work under those conditions. Not every company is like the one you described.
    As long as she is using her own equipment on her own time, it is none of your business what she does
    xxx
    I hope they get put out of business. 'Bout time the
    HMOs are ruining the health industry. Many fine docs have quit 'cause they don't like pencil-pushers telling 'em what to do. And you KNOW they're behind all that 'bottom line' BS that has driving our work offshore.

    Glad to see the suit being brought against them, and hope that THIS time they get taken down.
    She is scared about turn around time of her business. Prob nothing you can do other than what you d
    She does understand, just frustrated and wanting to prob, poke, intimidate, make you feel bad. Just stay calm, when giving her choices just stay calm and say which would you want me to handle for you. Say, I can HELP YOU with thus and thus. She knowwwws just scared and just remain calm, stick to your "Calm Guns" and don't take personally. Say, I know you are worried, this is how I can help, which will it be (so to speak, she will soften and might end up apologizing a bit. Remain at least another month and see how pans out.
    When I took a business trip one time, I came home to an immaculate house.
    Then during the next few weeks, I couldn't find certain things like clothes, dishes, and items I kept on the counters. DH had decided to put all the dirty stuff out in the garage where the babysitter couldn't see it because he was embarrased by the mess he and the kids had made. There was mold and mildew on everything because he taped it inside boxes or stuffed it inside coolers, and he forgot to tell me about it.
    Next time...call 911.

     


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    It's always the first thing a computer person asks me...lol! And it works a lot of the time. nm
    nm
    Time for a phone call when stuff like that happens. nm
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    To the person giving the ShortHand tips - thank you very much for taking time to share!! nm
    nm
    Should company pay for time spent on a required conference call? (sm)

    My company has been having conference calls on one of my accounts in which they request that you attend (they take roll call) to learn new rules, changed rules, updates, etc. on the account.  This has turned into a real pain because it takes so much time out of your production that day.  They say it will become more "routine" as time goes by because of the volume of the rules, etc. 


    I was wondering, do any others have had that situation and, if so, have you been compensated for that time? 


    I should note, I am an employee, not an IC, and am paid by the line.


    Thanks!  


    i'd call that brownie points for heaven LMAO...and a waste of time!
    ;)
    Unfortunately it is legal..so yes it is business and they will continue with bad business practices
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    Point was is the person willing to make up for the slack of the person who types 1 job when there is

    if that is all they WANT to type.   Is the person who wants to be a supervisor willing to make up for those people?


    You have crap supervisors, editors and mts in the business like you have good ones.   Sadly, the really good ones of all of them are few and far between. 


    She's a mess and always has been.
    I never understood the attraction to this dumpster-diving looking woman.
    WOW! Now that is a mess! sm

    It is odd that she wants to tell you what to do with clothing that she "gives" to you.  That is horrible!  In my opinion you did the right thing about telling her that you don't have anymore room in your clothes.  She does know why you are not accepting the clothes anymore.  If that does not make her change her tune then nothing will.  So, I think it is best, even though you two are missing out on a good thing, to have nipped this thing like you did.  You may be losing out now but if it would have kept on and perhaps all of you been at the same place at the same time with your friend wearing "your gifts" then it could have turned out to be sour.  Now the only thing sour is your "friend" that has an abundance of clothes right now.


    BTW - what kind of a friend does that to another friend?  Hopefully, no friend of mine...


     


    You are probably going to be really in a mess
    if you ever have to explain to the IRS about fees for your animals. How about my 22 pounds cat- can he be my guard cat? If you can charge for guard, then you should be able to take off monthly fees for security monitoring. Hehe
    the mess
    Janet's right. SR/VR just totally mangles a lot of reports. What sounds perfectly clear and concise to me will be total nonsense in the SR/VR draft version of a report. You need to remove or add punctuation and also capitalization of words on almost every line, sometimes multiple times per line. You have to fix anything that needs to be put into a numbered format. You need to correct headings - add them or delete them. Entire sentences or paragraphs could be missing that the dictator clearly spoke -- I heard it, why did the speech engine miss it? I'm not talking about mushmouth dictators or ESL's. You could have very good dictators that the draft report is just a mess. It is time consuming and frustrating. There are some reports that would be quicker to just type from scratch, but not for 3-1/2 or 4 cents a line!
    I made my business your business by posting and...
    I totally respect everyone's opinions. It is easier for others on the outside looking in. That's why I pushed the "post reply" button yesterday. I trust my fellow MTs and I know the more I read from you all, the more confident I am becoming. I just need that final push, not from him though. I also wanted to let you all know that the physical abuse while I was pregnant was documented by my doctor and the hospital. I only wish I had known then that it is a felony to abuse a pregnant woman. I also photographed my face from a couple of weeks ago and told several people in my circle. I had such high hopes for us. Now...not so much. I'm not saying that I won't try to get him to church, but I realize that God can only do so much for someone who isn't listening. j
    Business is business. Internet forums are
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    N'Awlins Mess
    Well, between opening all the jail doors, and locking in all the poor "projects" seciton inhabitants, the mayor's pretty much taken a pass on re-election.  This goes beyond partisanship well into the range of sheer, corrupt, beaurocratic incompetance.   But the national-level response has been pretty pathetic, as well.  "oooh, we didn't know it would be this bad!"  Well, drive in, look around and use the radios the army gave you, General!   Sheesh.
    Clutter - mess
    I have five accounts that I receive schedule print outs from that I check off the names and it seems that they pile up weekly.  I cannot find the time to put them into their designated files.   I also have mail, other things all over my desk.   I usually take Saturday morning with a cup or two of coffee and straighten it out and SWEAR that I will keep it that way but the once again by Friday I am in almost the same shamables.  I thought it was only me.  I can find everything, do not lose papers or tapes -- usually -- and for a supposedly paperless profession I sure do generate a lot of paper.   But glad that I am not alone.  Now where is that schedule???
    I'm an IC & I can tell you I'd get out of the biz before I'd work for such low pay. No Mess
     
    quick fix when you mess up ? sm
    Highlight your upper case text, then hold down the shift key, and press the F3 key. Everything should revert to lower case.
    Except that what actually STARTED all this mess - sm
    with overseas undercutting was ANY hospital or MTSO doing American business with cheap offshore workers. I know that our cars, clothing, and even our (poison-laced) pet food comes from overseas, and that's bad enough, but this is worse. This is American healthcare, and American ID's and information, and there should be laws against ANY of it going offshore. If Indian workers want to do American MT work, the only way they should be able to do is is by actually living here, and having to pay American prices for their food, rent, and yes - health care.

    I could go on and on about all the greed in American companies these days, and not just MT. These guys don't seem to get that you can make tons of money (and maybe even MORE money, in the long run) by being honest and ethical, rather than by being greedy and unscrupulous.
    If you don't want to mess around with paying
    quarterly, have more withheld from your husband's check as you file jointly. With that and your deductions you should be okay.
    Thanks for all the responses! - no mess.
    :)
    My husband doesn't see any mess that is his...

    as long as it's his 5 pairs of shoes by the door, his clothing draped over the chair in the dining room and his misc. "stuff" piled on the dining room table (yes, the dining area is also by the front door) then it's invisible to him.  NOW, if it's mine or the kids' stuff anywhere - the house is a "disaster."  I intentionally leave all his stuff wherever he leaves it so that I can point it out to him whenever he starts to complain about the kids' toys in the living room...    


     


                    


     


    This was a major national. You can mess with just about anything...
    as long as you have a space bar.
    Ditto what Wally said. Don't mess with it.

    Young people can have heart problems.


    I've been in a panic lately because my left-sided chest has been hurting off and on.  I've had two abnormal EKGs in the past.  I went to the doctor two weeks ago and he blew me off.  I'm in my early 30s, too.  I have high school friends who have had heart attacks and coronary artery grafting or died.  Oh, the doctor just treated me like a hypochondriac again.  I've got kidney problems, too, but they won't even do a urinalysis.  Evidently, none of my symptoms are serious enough to warrant workup or treatment.  Never mind the fact that diagnosed "reflux" was actually a hiatal hernia and diagnosed "constipation" was actually large kidney stones blocking my ureter.


    Long story short.  LISTEN TO YOUR BODY.  FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS.  Get thee to a doctor and be persistent, for you, for hubby, for your kids and for your peace of mind.


    I was impressed with this. My computer was a mess. nm
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    We should get paid more just to listen to this mess
    You know, the people cut our pay and put us on things that we have to be mind readers most of the time to muddle through. I am doing VR and regular work but I cannot believe how dictators are changing their dictation time after time- on the same sentence. It is a wonder that anything comes out halfway right. Half of the knowledge about this job comes with knowing (or thinking you know) how to change these fricking sentences they dish out to us. On a day like this retirement looks better and better.
    of course...you may not get it but you deserve it (small mess)
    You mention annual and cost of living raises, what about incentive raises. Anything not in your job description should constitute some type of compensation.

    If no money, at least get this on your resume and added to your personnel file, yes?

    go for it because if they say no you know where you stand. knowing where you stand can be important. if you do not ask you will never know and you may start feeling resentful.

    just my opinion...

    they certainly would not let you go or anything, right? perhaps you could ask for a review with your manager (something in writing) and then go for it ?
    Yeah, sometimes I catch mess-ups...sm
    when I go back through the report, and I say I am glad I proofread. LOL.
    Have you seen photos of the tangled mess of
    What an incredible MESS. To think that valuable, often sensitive personal information travels through that knotted mess made me nervous even BEFORE the attacks in Mumbai. And now the risk those records face there makes me nauseous. It's a huge U.S. security and/or identity-theft breach just waiting to happen.
    Agree wholeheartedly, 100% on this one (No Mess)
    xx
    When you have a QA person that is picky and another QA person that is very lenient where does that
    leave the MTs because some are getting a lenient reviewer and others are getting one that picks at everything. How do you reconcile that issue with the difference in QA mentality. Some people make out well and the other people could be just as good but dont. I wonder about that.
    The person MTSO pays is the person who
    dsf
    got the "phone call" -- get this, MQ has hired a bunch of telemarketers to call all of us to

    we received our "incentive packet."  They don't even have the wherewithall to contact us personally.   These are temp-agency hired telemarketers sitting around a boiler room making sure we're reading our mail.... told him it don't pertain to me because I've been demoted from FT to SE.... He said, "yes, the letter is vague, but it does pertain to FT as well as SE...." yeah right, we'll see.


    Here's the phone number for the Frederick, OK PD see mess.
    (580) 335-7503