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What are you? A bitter old school marm? Hahaha

Posted By: Busy MT'ing on 2005-08-06
In Reply to: i asked you directly who hired the MT and do you want to hire the recruiter, tester or - PAY ATTENTION!

All your "PAY ATTENTION" posts. Hahaha



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    Hahaha You mean a wooden nickel -- worthless! Hahaha
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    POLL: Home School vs. Charter School vs. Public School vs. Priv ate School...
    Pros and cons of each too. I have two little ones that will be starting school soon and I would like opinions on all. Thanks in advance! :)
    Not bitter one bit. (sm)

    Just showing the other side of it. I'm trying to point out an employer can expect a few oddball resumes from people grossly underqualified and even those new to the whole process of presenting oneself in resume-style dossier. In the same way, potential applicants can find that the drummed-up company names and profiles for a job posting at any website, in any newspaper, anywhere can be nothing but an e-mail dress and/or fax number of someone trying to subcontract work they are subcontracting from someone else...or worse.


    What is unacceptable is when companies tout themselves as major players in the medical transcription field, or demand certain professional standards from their applicants, but cannot get their act together to perform professional, honest and effective interview/testing/hiring sessions. It just helps MTs to identify the people who lack respect for their time and efforts as an applicant, as those MTs can expect the same after being hired.


    Yep. And it is a bitter cup.
    x
    Because they are bitter that they can't. lol
    oo
    Bitter
    You certainly are one bitter woman. If you would have read what I said - I DID say I was making 4 cents less a line than I was making 20 years ago. I don't think you can read.
    Thank you. I think this is just a bitter person
    trying to cause more bitterness. I feel sorry for them.


    Actually I did go to college and I'm not bitter at all....sm
    Just realistic, as I said. Obviously you've not found the right company - there are out there, believe me. But the previous poster did say it correctly - if you were working in an office with your degree, you couldn't just jump up and run. An MTSO or company has a business to run, too. I schedule my appointments after my working hours - pretty simple it seems to me.
    well, now I know why you are a bitter, name-calling person.
    nuff said
    When I began 15 yrs ago, people were bitter. I
    aa
    I have posted on this subject, bitter?
    Oh, no, I could take now but I am 1 year short of full and it would be crazy to have Uncle Sam taking my money any more than he does know. I got the information up front- I know how much I will be getting when I do take my money, I know how much I get on a retirement account. Not bitter, just smart not to retire before I want to!
    I must be a bitter MT..Check out the ad on job seeker's

    Obviously Indian-based, but they want to train you to be an MT..check this part out..


    Transcription is fun for the right person as it allows you to write and if you love to write, then it is an enjoyable career. Some people who do not like writing because they are not creative still enjoy this medical online profession. Even people who hate writing like this profession because it allows for working at home on a flexible schedule.


    OKAY.. what planet are they from..Since when is transcription fun LOL...and I'm sure glad it lets me write whatever I want, because I just love to write..LOL and I get to use my creative ability also to write whatever I like. People who hate MT-ing just do because they hate to write and are not creative LOL. I'm sorry but this just cracked me up. I've thought a lot of things about transcription but FUN was never one of them. Lucky for me though, even though I don't like it, I get to stay at home and have a really flexible schedule..NOT.. lol...


     


    Why so bitter?? Does the truth hurt? nm
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    I did that with 2 kids with time mgmt and a high school girl who babysat 3 days a week after school
    nm
    geez you guys are bitter. Maybe she's trying to lighten

    Maybe she just has a fun personality?


    And with this awful bitter cold weather
    going ballistic on the drivers when they do return!
    Why does it seem that all divorced women are so bitter? It is not ALL men that are rats. You just
    found one that was.
    I'm not bitter. I've been remarried to a wonderful for 13-1/2 yrs.
    z
    Your tone sounds 100% whining and bitter.
    That's why I call your posts whining and bitter! The other poster stated her case in a mature way, using stats as her back up. No whining, no bitterness. I have not formed an opinion on the AAMT either way to date, but am leaning more pro-AAMT by just the style of postings - those supporting it come off as calm, professional, and mature, while those not supporting it sound emotional, bitter, and whining. Just my opine and reaction to the posts!! Debate much? Its a great skill, and long lost in America...
    You're sounding bitter about your cubicle.
    Be happy for her, be envious of her (I know I am), but bitter is unbecoming a professional.
    The cost of running a private school or any school is expensive....
    Why do you think public schools are so run down and can't find good teachers?  Because the government and people to not put forth the effort or $$$$ to improve the educational system.
    you sound just as bitter and defensive, so we're square. nm
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    who really cares? personable, angry, bitter, just do your work.
    I don't really know the purpose of a supervisor so I guess I don't really care what their tone is. I have been through MANY supervisors. I don't really care about their tone. I do my work no matter what they say or do.
    You sound like a bitter, jealous, uneducated female.
    Sorry, but I've been married to a blue collar man who beat the living crap out of me and destroyed my life in every way he possibly could. Turned my own mother against me, took my kids, laughed when I got cancer.

    I am now married to a lawyer who treats me like a queen. It's wonderful to live a stress-free, hate-free existance and my kids and my mom have finally come around so I'm looking forward to a wonderful holiday for the first time in 6 years.

    However, I would never say that ALL blue collar men are abusive, drunk, lazy slobs like my ex-husband is. That's generalizing and that's not fair, and certainly not correct.

    I also wouldn't say that all corporate executives are perfect men either. That is also generalizing.

    You don't sound like a prize yourself with your judgmental nature, dear. Time to take a step back and do some self-evaluation and perhaps get some therapy.
    Bitter? I think the recruiter/owner had some valid points. nm
    x
    Explaining my occasional bitter-/crankiness
    I confess, I am one of those that will occasionally toss a snide comment in. I don't think I have ever gotten to the point of being brutally mean, but I have been snippy. And it may be petty and it may be unnecessary, but, in my case anyway, it stems from a frustration when obvious newbs post a question that at least in my mind seems simplistic (based on the s/l they are able to provide) and should either be a common knowledge type thing or else easily findable. After a day of plodding through ESLs, rapid-fire dictators, or reports that have more chromosome testing than I have chromosomes, I do get a little cranky when someone who probably only makes $50 less a week than I do posts on here asking what 'conjecture hard fail your' might be and respond in a somewhat less than mature way.
    You sure sound like an "angry, hateful, bitter old bigot" in posts above!!

    Geez, you're really getting close to the line of sounding bitter.
    May I suggest some counseling? The OP asked an innocent question and you took it like a personal attack against you.

    I've been a single parent and mind you I know how hard it is to be in that situation, but if someone asks a simple question like "what does your spouse do" most people who don't have a SO at the moment would have moved on to another thread and never given it a second thought.

    Seriously, time to do some self-searching.
    Hahaha I like it!
    .
    hahaha
    and they can call it USI (United States of India Trans___s/l iption Servises.  Their website can brag of the great work they do and services they provide for their customers.  Like a TAT of 24 to 72 hours, depending on how hard the doctor is.  They can boast that they will have a 2 percent accuracy percentage.  That is 2 percent if you want the lowest rate which doesnt offer QA services.  But your accuracy percentage can go up to almost 50 percent if their experienced QA team glances over your document and can hopefully spell everything right that you dictate.  And then there is the only 2 reports out of 100 typed discount where they could only type 2 because they couldn't understand the rest and they cherry picked!  And OOPS, there is the no one else to type it cuz the Indians didnt understand you either discount.
    HAHAHA

    You are all so arrogant.  Do you really think your abilities are sooooo keen that you can have this special sense of what poster is who?  Actually, I am the one ROFL because you all look so silly.  I AM a different poster than the other.  I dont work for MQ, just an MT who is SICK AND TIRED of hearing you gripe and complain like infants!  Not all MTs have bad attitudes and complain all day long.  And just because there may be 2 or more people posting good things doesnt mean they are really just 1 person. 


    Of course, if it makes you feel better to think that there could only be 1 person who is tired of hearing it, then go ahead and PRETEND. 


    HELPFUL HINT:  If you took all the time you spent complaining and applied it to work, MAYBE you could make more than the 2 dollars an hour you are complaining about. 


    HAHAHA Whatever do you mean by that?!
    HAHAHAHA

    There are quite a few good conversations to stay out of here. It's frightening, the character shown on this board! Amusing sometimes...mainly sad and frightening!

    I appreciate the information. Thank you!
    with a man who is on the down-low.....HAHAHA.nm
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    Hahaha! OMG!..................nm
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    hahaha, I like that !......nm
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    Hahaha....you
    soooo should write that note!  Hilarious post
    Hahaha Well, now have you had any MT experience at all?
    Any education from an MT course?

    You WILL have to learn! When I worked at the hospital and trained MTs, it was MUCH easier to train them starting on a specialty or two first, and I usually started with cardiology and orthopedics. Then went to neurology, oncology, infectious disease, and so forth.

    Again, that is MY experience and MY perspective. Others may tell you different.
    Illegal? Hahaha
    Your so-called contract was a statement of what your rate would be at that time. It did not guarantee you any specific amount of work nor pay for any specified length of time.

    Go seek help! Go seek an attorney! Throw more of the money you're losing to a cause you won't win.

    It's disheartening, I agree. Spheris has done it...know what? They're still in business and they still have great MTs (along with the pitiful ones as well). A few jumped ship when it happened; some came back. New ones came on board. The company moved on and is doing better.

    That is what will happen here. I'm not trying to downplay your reaction -- you are right to feel upset about it. But please, please don't waste more of what you are losing by seeking help where you won't find it.

    Regarding the F9 feature -- absolutely no company is required to charge clients and pay employees on the same definition...and yes, there is a difference - it is called making a profit. If MQ (or any other MT company) wants to charge clients for a flat rate, a per-minute rate, a per-line rate, a combination of flat rate per report + lines, etc., but pay their MTs only a 65-character line...then that is their right. It isn't any MTs business what/how MQ charges their clients. That's business, period. Not just this industry either.

    It IS your business that you be paid what you agreed to under your "contract". However, since they have adjusted their pay scale, that "contract" is null. You have the right not to accept it by quitting. You have as much right to nullify that contract as they do.

    This is an exchange -- skills and services for money. If either party doesn't care for how the other is conducting/upholding their end, or if circumstances change, either party can leave. It is called employment at will.

    Please, save yourself the money at least. Work on healing the heartache of it.
    Hahaha -- I'm confused on who I was even
    talking to...you or the one who answered below!!

    Oh well, I think we all got each other's points!!


    We are really dating ourselves here, huh?! Hahaha
    The mother of one of my son's friends said something to that effect to me the other day. She is a stay-at-home mom and they live only on what her husband makes. Great for them. They are very religious. Great.

    However, then she proceeded to tell me that if more women would just stay home instead of having to have their SUVs and their face lifts and their fashionable clothes, that the men could then make decent money to support their families.

    Once she caught the look on my face, she quickly made a notation that of course that didn't apply to women like ME who had to support a family by themselves. I just smiled.

    Again, if I have a billion dollars and want to work -- that's my right and my choice. I don't owe it to any man or any other woman to sit down and not take a job so they can have it!

    That kind of thinking is dangerous, in my opinion.
    hahaha! Thant's about right! nm
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    To Mac: HAHAHA - NO JOKE - sm

    I absolutely love DEAL OR NO DEAL - *ROFL* - so JOKE OR NO JOKE - answer is NO JOKE sweetie!!!


    *winks* @ Mac and laughs!!!! 


    HAHAHA ... That's funny - I meant 'obviously' ...sm
    I haven't posted on this thread before and there's SO much to read on it! LOL

    Thanks for pointing it out.

    BTW...I never said I knew everything! Gawwddd, if I DID know everything I sure as heck wouldn't be on this board!! Hahahaha
    Hahaha I know. I agree whole-heartedly.
    When I first started watching this board, I was shocked. I truly was. Shocked at how infantile a good majority of the posters seemed to be.

    Then, it became quite amusing. It is clear to me that what is going on is basically the Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde syndrome. These MTs must be nice, somewhat professional, decent to anyone who can see their face and know their names. However, give them a chance to be anonymous, where they feel no one will ever know, and their true underlying character surfaces.

    They are simply miserable. They feel cheated. They feel they cannot bank (literally, hahaha) on this industry because it isn't what they want it to be. They feel wronged in that they must do hard work for good money or do without. Hard work never hurt anyone; it's lack of it that destroys people.

    I have had some very good conversations with a few mature people on this board. People who are intelligent enough to hold differing opinions without being dysfunctional. People who recognize the difference between opinion and fact. People who do not subscribe to the infestation of misery in their attitude.

    These children on this board find it perfectly fine for their own opinions to be displayed here (complete with all the little icons and capital letters -- practicing for school, I'm sure -- and slang language) but the minute someone posts who has a different opinion they get all hysterical.

    Hahaha It's worth the amusement and the occasional good conversation.
    Her name is mother alright. hahaha
    Brace yourself.  You know it's coming.  It's Mother Busy MT'ing (???) Hammer (Preaching) Time!!!!    YOU WILL LISTEN TO BUSY MT'ING!!!!!
    Balls instead of chairs - Hahaha

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    I purchased one of those large inflatable exercise balls and use it instead of a chair.  It's a very refreshing change.  I did have to learn to balance a bit because in a chair you can move around, even when you're not aware of it, and the chair is stable but the ball isn't.  It also helps me keep better posture, is easier on the low back/sacrum, and I think it is helping my abdomen because you are working your abdominals and legs while sitting there. 


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    Hahaha. I just know I received it in an email
    and regardless of the author, it is well written and speaks my perspective perfectly!

    Thanks for the information, though!
    Disgusting commercial, huh?! Hahaha
    I use Brawny paper towels and Lysol Kitchen spray on counters and appliances. I use plastic scrubbies on the sink and anything I need to scrub up before the dishwasher and the put the scrubbie in the dishwasher as well. I spray Lysol on the sink and faucets before I go to bed.

    I started this when I saw Oprah's show on women who horde and won't clean/throw away anything. The experts she had on the show had checked one woman's kitchen sink for bacteria and compared it to her commode and the commode was cleaner! I about fell over. I have dishcloths and dishtowels but they are washed after every single use! Ewwwwww!
    Thanks.. just call me blind!!!! hahaha

    ROFLMAO - too funny!!!! HAHAHA!! nm

    HAHAHA! I LOVE the pic in your post! (sm)
    I darn near died laughing when I saw that pic. I needed that today, thanks!