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Two trolls with their 2 posts above...

Posted By: Troll Alert!! on 2006-07-16
In Reply to: I agree Patti, I thought so too when I read--sm - none

Remember folks, don't feed the trolls!


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    Trolls...
    There was a problem and it has been solved. These are the people from OTHER site trying to create panic.

    My anti-virus gave the alerts and after I received the message from MTStars about correction, no more alerts!!!

    Hip Hip Hooray Trolls go away.

    Man, so sorry about the trolls. Best of luck with this!

    I can't feed the trolls
    I promised myself I would not antagonize the almighty know-it all's that keep attacking poor innocent posters with vicious rude remarks. It only keeps it going. Even though I would really like to tell a couple of them off, and one in particular. Let 'em starve, I guess. Maybe they will go away eventually.
    That is bored and you are the trolls--nm
    nm
    One of the trolls is Patti
    We've all noticed she's not satisfied unless she's  and posting under multiple screen names. She is to be pitied.
    Boy, these trolls are really at it today!
    Troll alert above.  Must be the intense heat that's making them all come out from underneath their rocks huh?
    Trolls are considered to be the certain--sm
    individuals who frequent the board and post responses to other peoples posts that could be considered rude or inflammatory, just to start an argument.
    Trolls need to be outed.

    Call it as I see it -- you must be the originator of that nasty reply to someone seeking help. The MQ board is getting ugly and this won't be the first website to crash and burn because mods let the trolls in and the decent people didn't speak up against them.


    Seen it happen all over. Been to mtchat.com lately??? TOTALLY ruined. Mean cliques, nothing but rah-rah-rah for 2 of the schools, lies abound, it's kaput.


    trolls smell rooty
    .
    yes me too nn - i need to be reminded not to feed the trolls -
    it is hard like you say, especially since that's probably just what they want - to get everyone riled up and upset. We are better than that !
    Here's another one. Don't feed the trolls ladies!

    Zzzzzz! :D Don't feed the trolls. nm
    ......
    Oh, feed the poor trolls.....they must be starving!
    x
    Just do a search and read the posts. There are plenty of posts about OSI on this board. nm.
    nm.
    Polls posted by Trolls, data dragnet used 4 later provocation,don't answer,stick w/MT-related stu
    nm
    Um have you read any of your posts and the other posts? I think everyone DOES believe me..you

    I will not feed the trolls...I will not feed the troll
    I will not feed the troll. Geez, she is everywhere.
    There has been a lot of posts about them
    over the past couple of months, few good.  If searching with TRS isn't bringing up anything, search using the full name. 
    regarding most of the posts below
    I just have to say that "redneck grit", I think is how one poster described it, does not only live in trailer parks! I know, for a fact, a used-to-be-nice neighborhood full of new homes--houses--where there are a bunch of rednecks.  I'd rather live in a nice trailer park than in that neighborhood full of houses.  Regardless of where or what you live in, there is always gonna be the not-so-desirables in the neighborhood-regardless! And most of the time, they live right on the main road or right at the entrance..go figure!
    not ALL posts are MQ...this is not..I am not..
    you are just a slammer to slam...maybe YOU are the MQ person and that is why you are so mean and slam...afterall...not every post on this board is for or about or beause of MQ there are lots of other companies out there..good and bad
    To below posts about MT pay and such
    Just wanted to say my piece.  Sure an MT can make money at 7.5 cpl.  Sure many MTs can type 14,000 lines in a week and bring home 4K or more a month.  SURE.  The point is, however, WHY should we have to work that much?  If we are not newbies and have all this experience under our belts, and not to mention a high standard of quality, WHY should we have to take a job paying 7.5 cpl?  WHY.  Am I  not worth more than the MT who has just graduated from school?  Yes!  WHY should I not make more money?  So, the attitude of most MTs these days is simply because we are not valued for the experience and quality that we bring to our companies.
    You can't please everyone, don't let the posts get to you....
    Most of us here are happy.

    MAP - are you on AIM?
    Thanks, everyone, for your posts. I just
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    Old posts say bad. nm
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    your posts
    The above poster was correct - you could have and IMO should have just not posted. When there is a post about something I'm not interested in, I just skip it.

    But people like you have to be nasty and spread your venom everywhere. What about a little common courtesy and just leave the Soprano fans alone?
    OMG - Best 2 posts on here EVER!!
    LOL
    following posts
    Is there a way to be notified by email when further posts are added to topics we have responded to? 
    Thanks EVERYONE for your posts! I
    really appreciate it. Guess I have a lot of soul-searching and financial planning to do this weekend!! Now, if only I was off...
    posts
    They were replying to posts from quite a while back and just seemed to be stirring up trouble, for example the post with subject of "BLINDED".
    Most of the posts are ... sm
    because people don't have work.  I wonder if you should switch jobs.  What if you didn't have any work at all and could not feed your sick child (grandchild), whatever...  It is a shame you can't work for a company that allows you flexible hours and can understand that you need a day off, too.  Next time, make your coworker do the electives on holidays.  JMO  Cheer up!!!!
    Cannot believe these posts
    A post like yours reenforces people's attitudes about MTs not being a professional job. It is a JOB. It is not something you do so you can stay at home and do housework, take care of the children, tea etc. I wish each and every 1 of you who wrote posts like this would have to drive back and forth to your job, have a supervisor hanging around, make sure you dress appropriately and play the game of office politics. You might learn then to grow up some. My gosh!!!! From in the 70s until 1992 I worked out of the house and learned good skills and work ethics. I never have a problem then nor do I now keeping myself on a schedule. It is supposed to be a job, remember????
    Thanks for all your posts...

    Just to clarify, this is straight transcribing, no VR.  I've been with the company only a week now and have not actually started doing "live" jobs, still in training and getting used to the program which is MedRite XL.  I was previously with MQ using DocQScribe which I found EXTREMELY easy, pretty straight forward typing.  Hadn't been on ASR there yet either as I left before the required training.  MRXL seems to be a bit more complicated, but then again I've been on the system for only a few days and am still learning.  As with anything, practice makes perfect!


    I am not required to use the function keys and I have not been threatened if I do use the mouse.  My trainer highly suggests I use the function keys instead of the mouse as she says it will increase my speed and my productivity.  That may be so, but I still feel much more comfortable with the mouse and I usually produce 200-250 lph.  There again, I could probably do more lph but I don't use Expanders a whole heck of a lot.  I know if I could get comfortable with the function keys and expanders my productivity would probably increase dramatically, but I am of the mindset I don't want to take the time for a learning curve. I just want to sign on and start transcribing according to my comfort level.  I know I could constantly look at my cheat sheet, but then that would slow me down at first and I would probably get very frustrated.  Maybe if I could think in terms of what type of command the CTRL key does, what type of command the shift key does, what type of command the ALT key does, that might help.  But there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what key does what and it seems to be just all memorizing, which at my age is kind of hard to do.  Have too many other things swimming around in my head!  Anyway, I just wanted to get an idea of how many MTs use the function keys vs the mouse, and if I was still back in the dinosaur age.  Thank you all


    Look about 3-4 posts below yours at the -sm
    person asking for ortho sites. The reply has a web address that is pretty awesome. May help you-can never have too many reference sites. Good luck.
    where's my posts???
    Posted twice in the last 24 hours...but none of them are showing up!!!
    Thank you both for the posts so much!
    I appreciate your input because I also was feeling paranoid...it is kind of an awkward thing to talk about as was mentioned because you do not want to seem like you are complaining to get the easier work, but why does it get taken away when you get used to it, plan somewhat on how much you think you are going to make, and get into a real rhythm and do a great job with no errors.

    I was hoping I was not the only one yet am also sad to see I am not also because it must be a deliberate practice.

    It really is a dilemma because you do not know if you should or could speak up, whether it would change anything or not, or like I have had happen - as soon as I mentioned it my fate was sealed the last 2 jobs.

    Again, I thank you for sharing, and if any consolation we are not alone anyway...

    If you find a way around it, please share!
    MT...most of your posts are
    rude and heartless.  You have your own opinion of course but it is a proven fact that depression is a disease.  How can you say to this person....get up, take a shower and get a job.  You are not helping this person but probably making it worse for him.  Do research before you give such advice on depression.  Glad I'm not your friend - you make me depressed with your posts.
    two posts from me?
    Sorry if there ends up being two...I thought I lost one. It shows in my posts, but not here. ???
    many posts on top 3
    nm
    I'd look at all the posts here of
    and then count your lucky stars you're being paid by the hour.  If you're getting all this work in without OT than I don't think it would rise to the level of "extra" pay.  If you're getting OT, there's your bonus. 
    From my posts on here I probably don't...sm
    seem the best MT. I don't watch things on here. I just vent usually.

    I would like to get in to acute care. I did do it for a couple of months with my company, but when the opportunity came for my cinic account back, I jumped on it cause I made more money on the clinic account because it had good dictators and most of the dictators on the acute care were TERRIBLE. They ended up not keeping that acute care account too long anyway for whatever reason.

    I do need to get into acute care though. I know that is where the work lies.
    Thanks to the posts below
    I was going to look into Intant Text myself to see if it would improve my productivity better than AutoCorrect, but it seems to be too much trouble getting started and sounds complicated to use. I find AutoCorrect very easy to use and was up and running with it from day one without any problems.

    Does Instant Text automatically expand from a few letters typed like AutoCorrect or do you have to choose from a list every time from a few letters typed?
    For the below posts...
    I have been searching for info on the laptop question for a while. Would any of you be willing to email me about what kind of setup you have with the laptop? I get so many conflicting views on what you need and don't need. I would love to hear from you about the things you have learned doing this.
    Which was exactly what was said in posts above.
    nm
    exactly. But I have seen posts sm
    lately on the word board that had the DTR thing and one that didn't know about rales and wheezes, normal stuff that you learn at the beginning. These people should not be transcribing at home by themselves!

    I too prefer my books unless I can get to a Stedmans website for a word check once in awhile. MTs nowadays are not willing to invest what it takes to get going in this business and don't understand that it takes years and years to get the experience needed to be able to do this independently.
    I see your posts all the time on here
    I like your posts and I think that you sound like a nice person.  You always seem to manage to stay in a debate w/o being cruel.
    Which posts? Mine?
    I wrote the my take on single mom whatever whatever.  That was my post. its not bad really.  I didnt mean it bad.  I just felt compelled to say something about single moms because of my mom and how hard i know it was.  thats all.  i promise.  I wasnt flaming anyone. 
    I'm not an MQ mgr and all the posts are not mine
    I think you're irritated that there ARE people who get a good deal with MQ, get good lines, good pay, and are happy.
    Regarding the posts about procrastination....sm

    What works for me is setting up tasks or meetings in Outlook. It works for both procrastination and forgetfulness. I have everything in there, so the reminders pop up all the time.  If you find yourself wandering on the net, etc., while trying to transcribe, set up a reminders for yourself that say something like "how's your line count?". When it comes up snooze it for 2 more hours or an hour, so you can't get too sidetracked. I also put everything on my tasks list, chores, phone calls, bills to mail, etc., with reminders. It helps. I try too keep the number of tasks on my list down to a certain number. If I'm really busy, I might increase the number of allowed tasks for a few days. I can go through the tasks and reminders and reorganize them by making the due date/time for high priority stuff sooner and lower-priority stuff later.  When I'm done for the day at the computer, I print the task list and knock off the non-computer related tasks like phone calls, bills, etc. It's always nice to delete some of the tasks, and very little slips by undone anymore.


    My posts have vanished sm please
    I searched archives but they are gone.  I had asked for input on two companies - Golden Isles Transcription and WordZXpressed....got two answers so far...anyone else.  Good or bad experiences with either company.  Thank you!
    someone posts on the board
    does not mean they are doing it during working hours.