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Who are you to judge? Most people gripe about their spouses,

Posted By: yet go home to them n love them every night. on 2005-07-28
In Reply to: I stand my ground. sm - Sorry

Its called venting.    We're allowed to do that.


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    I see. Oh well, some people just like to gripe.
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    You can't judge people by what coast they live on....
    I am originally from the East Coast and I am NOT a "nasty woman". The writer was cold hearted yes....but it doesn't give you the right to blame the East Coast. You could live anywhere...it depends how you were raised in the long run. I was taught to always treat others as I would expect to be treated...imagine that from an East Coast momma! Have a good day.
    God gave us the ability to judge for good reason. Then told us judge not, lest thou be judged. NM
    :
    drinking spouses
    ranting with drinking will only go into abuse usually & you do NOT want to go through this nor do your children deserve to...contact your local YWCA on their Women helping Women programs. My prayers for some peace for you
    ALSO WORKS ON SPOUSES....*lol*..nm
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    Maybe it would work with deadbeat ex-spouses who refuse
    to pay child support.
    The question was for those with spouses or so's. Take your pitty potty to another party.

    IC's and SE's without spouses or significant others (benefits question), please read ... sm

    I've scanned the archives and either I'm not searching correctly or there's no substantial info posted on this. 


    For those of you who've made the career choice that either IC or SE is a good fit for you and who don't have a spouse or significant other on whom you can 'piggyback' for benefits, what provisions have you made for your medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and retirement funding?  In addition, if you've found a way to provide for this, how and where did you go about finding coverage for yourself as an independent?


    I'd really appreciate any help that you can give in this area as I have a once-in-a-lifetime SE opportunity available to me that I won't be able to take unless I can figure out a solution to this problem.


    Thanks in advance. 


    Love Judge Judy but love Judge Joe
    Brown. I often wonder how many of the people involved in Judge Joe's cases have to go home and look up in the dictionary what he said to them. Some of them just have blank faces staring at him when he is giving them a lecture, w/o a clue of what he is actually saying to them.
    cpl gripe
    I realize I am beating a dead horse here but what is the deal with these companies offering 6 and 7 cents per line starting rate.  Particularly one offering 7 cpl for 6000 lines in a 40 our period.  Plenty of employees hunting workers but not willing to pay crappola.  Or lets change it to 75 characters per line.  Or...we'll pay you chicken feed and YOU provide the equipment.  Makes you wonder if it is such a good offer why don't they sit down an try it for 6 cent.  I work a couple days a week for a facilty I used to work at just to help catch them up.  40 mile drive there.  I charge them .15 per line.  Revenge is great!  Makes me appreciate my current pay.  I am certainly not trying undermind anyone currently receiving this pay amount for I may end up getting that myself.  Just needed to vent.
    I only have ONE gripe with Wal-Mart..
    I don't care what they do or where they build stores.  Many things have come before them and put others out of business, and eventually Wal-Mart will be put out of business by something else new and innovative.  Think about when supermarkets came along.. That put all the little mom and pop grocers out.  Are you shopping at a supermarket in 2005 or worrying about the vegetable man and the butcher shop on the corner?  Of course not.. It's in the past.  The only thing that I cannot STAND about Wal-Mart is the way they accost you at the door as you leave and ask for a receipt to prove you didn't steal the soda or the milk that is unbagged.  I resent that, and no other store does this.  My DH walks past and says "if you believe I've stolen something, please call the police."  Do you know why they ask for the receipt?  Because it's their own employees who don't charge friends and family members, for large ticket items particularly.  I refuse to prove that I didn't steal something every time I leave the store.  My solution is to make them bag everything.  I swear, if I bought a car from Wal-Mart, I'd make them bag it !
    And if you got a $10 card you'd gripe, too. It's all you know
    *
    my gripe is with the airheads ... sm

    recently (holidays? flu season???) even doctors who are usually pretty good seem to have the attention span of a gnat ... so even something as routine as reading lab results becomes a two steps forward, um, oops, make that three steps forward, two steps back as they MISREAD ... Not to mention the folks whose attention to what they are doing is so lacking that they skip whole sections, which they may or may not realize before signing off.... 


    these reports are often followed by 20 second next "report's in which they remember that they want copies sent (I love waiting around for them to rifle through the chart to figure out who the other doctors on the case are too)  on which we make ZERO money at all -- they're not really addendums are they? --  but have to log, flag, etc.


    I'm stunned at the number who seem incapable of not listening to the other people in the same room dictating and/or their conversations. Listening to people complain about not being able to use the hospital computer system (it's 2009 people, that excuse was old in 1999 and even tired 1989 --- again, it's 2009 ... get with it or retire already)


    I hate listening to dead air -- period.


    You know, just gotta have something to gripe about
    Having those reports pulled then DOES NOT MEAN we do not get feedback on certain reports OTHER than those times. I am really sorry to see others on this board who are so unhappy, hate their jobs, and otherwise just in such self-pity. If people unable to do VR at a rate to where they cannot make more than minimum wage, then past time for a new job.
    Don't mind me, I just need to throw a little fit and gripe a little!

    I HATE HATE HATE this dictator.  This is how he dictates if I were to strictly adhere to the verbatim rules of transcribing:


    PROCEDURES PERFORMED: Cysto, retro, uretero with stent placement.


    INDICATIONS:  This is a lady who had perc litho by Dr. X.  She had a perc tube. She had a nephro stent.  On the pull of the nephro stent, did an antegrade nephro and apparently had obstruction in the ureter which was a probable stone.  She was set up for a cysto retro Friday, but she ate, so she was set up for this morning. She understands the risks, options, complications, etc.


    HE DRIVES ME INSANE!  He has a very conversational style of dictating that makes it incredibly hard to make sense of his reports! He abbreviates everything, makes up his own words, and has been known to dictate one-word sentences!!!!!


    We need a firing squad for dictators like this! 


    Breath in, breath out.  Okay, I'm finished now.  I'm just having one of those days, crappy dictators, communication channels between my brain and my fingers have broken down, and I just need a nap!


    Back to work.


    I need to gripe or vent - please don't kick me off board

    I occasionally come on this board, as do some of my coworkers to get help with words, look around, etc.  I've never posted but today I'm fuming and frustrated.


    I just got done working a couple of extra hours at the hospital this morning, worked all day yesterday (overtime I might add) and do you know what my job has been on all this overtime? Correcting ALL of the outsource's work coming in.  What makes me mad is that all of us have been complaining to our boss and even to HER boss about all the mistakes this company makes - terrible dreadful DEADLY mistakes - and all we get back is "there is nothing we can do about it.  We signed a contract and we have to continue to use them until the contract ends." Which, by the way, ends in another year or two, I'm not sure.  But anyways, this outsource company (who is WELL KNOWN) does not even make an attempt to do our ESL doctors, who are not really that bad. I know there are harder doctors to understand as I have been doing this for 16 years.  The service sends the reports back with a ridiculous amount of blanks.  We go in and listen to them and basically redo the whole report, to which they get paid for it.  Then there are the easy docs - the so-called "hold your hand while I dictate to you" docs - and the service still has mistakes. 


    Our boss has asked on occasion if they are offshoring, which they swear they are not.  It was in the contract that they are not to offshore so they swear they are not and the mistakes don't look like they are offshore mistakes (the hospital used a company prior to this one that offshored - big difference in transcription mistakes).


    I just cannot believe that our hospital has had this company for a little over two years and not only are they being paid a ridiculous high line rate, but we are correcting all their reports and they still get paid!! We have asked if we can start deducting lines, but we were told that their contract states that that cannot be done because our boss has tried that.


    I have a friend that works at a hospital in another state that had an outsource service that was somewhat like the one we have, only they constantly lost reports and got paid for them, but she just lost her job because the hospital felt that there was no need to have all the overtime for the past year and the outsource service doing the overflow.  So they just hired a new outsource company, let all the transcriptionists inhouse go, and got rid of their current outsource service.  she is looking around for another job now.  She had that job for 9 years at the hospital, and because of the outsource service, the administration of the hospital looked at is as a huge $$ problem and just said bye bye.


    I needed to vent. Aaaaahhh, I feel better now, but I'm worried that with all our overtime and what the outsource service gets paid, that I'm going to end up in the same boat.  Even our boss has admittedly had some worries about it as well, but she keeps telling us that her boss says her hands are tied and is just as frustrated with the service.  It makes you wonder how it is that these services can be in business for so long, make sooooo much money and do this. 


     


    Kind of like an introductory rate? Well, then there's no room to gripe!
    Good grief.

    If it was said up front there would be reductions or adjustments later, then what's to complain about?

    You have options, to opt out, right? Or work somewhere else, right?

    Seems pointless to be upset over this.

    Great post. The biggest gripe I have heard from available
    Wrapping yourself in money will not keep you warm in old age. Just because a middle-aged man is bald or has a bit of a paunch, it is up to a woman to "light that fire". Go to it ladies.
    long walk, eat chocolate, gripe to husband :)
    x
    Were you wanting to bring up a transcription-related question, or just gripe? nm
    x
    give it time, dust is settling, they just have no place else to gripe yet. nm
    x
    Proof that it takes only 1 made doctor to gripe about 1 report and out the door you go! nmx
    x
    Who is anybody here to judge how somebody
    lives their life, how much money they make, or where they live?  Just because somebody doesn't live the way you do (or would like to) doesn't make it wrong, and she should be proud to be living where she wants and to wake up every morning in a place she loves.  My house isn't the greatest house, but I love it and am proud that I am able to be buying it on my own. I don't see the need for people to be putting her down after she was ASKED to share details of her home. 
    to sm and tm...do not judge until you have

    judge not, lest ye be judged


    does that ring a bell....hmmmm?


    Please don't judge
    For some it does not make sense to leave the home when you add child care costs, expense of a car, gas, clothes, food and so on. Please don't judge. I like to think when my daughter is grown up, she will appreciate that I was home for her not that she had a nice vacation (you seem to keep mentioning that)or the finer things in life.
    It is confusing. But it's the only way to actually judge how much you are...
    getting paid for the exact same amount of work. As long as you work with the same big block of text, it works perfectly.
    Judge Alex!
    !
    Does anyone like Judge Judy?
    I think she's mean and rude!
    Judge Judy
    I think she makes a lot of incorrect judgements based on insufficient evidence and also sometimes refuses to hear evidence in someone's defense. I dont like her. I dont watch her anymore either.
    I just think it's crappy to judge m
    someone's ability to responsible by their credit report, especially in these times when you can make the same amount of money as you have been and have just the basics (no luxuries) and everything has gone up and you scrape to make ends meet.  I know many people like this now.  I've even read articles on how people are in worse credit card debt than ever because of what I just described and they're bridging the gap by having to charge x amount each month to get by.  It's very sad.  Because one's credit is poor most often isn't because of a lack of responsibility or willingness to pay, just life happening.
    Well, if it is unchristianlike to judge and
    condemn others for what they believe, then why do the born again or saved christians believe God does all of those things? I do not choose to be born again or saved because I simply do NOT believe that God judges or condemns. I believe if I simply live a good moral life free of major sin, I too will go to heaven. And I also like to believe that God forgives; and of course I'm not talking about murderers or just plain evil people here. It is so odd because it is the born again christians stating that if you are not saved or reborn that you basically may not be accepted in heaven. Doesn't that make God seem just a bit like a judging, condemning and almost evil being? Very strange religion if you ask me. JMO.
    so quick to judge

    come down to earth people.


    can only judge from own experience
    Maybe the other is so, or maybe it is mgmt speaking, who knows. 
    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.
    and you Judge only Certain Posters as Fools?

    and only MQ Certain Posters upset and embarrass you?  why not address MQ Certain Posters rather than making blanket statements? 


    with all due respect you are backtracking big time and sliding a bit on the truth side.  read your posts over.  but that's okay.  kind of clintonish whether you like it or not.


    You shouldn't be so quick to judge.
    Those of us who haven't got as high a pedestal as you have made mistakes in our lives. It is not the child's fault we made a bad decision. Single mothers have it really rough and I should know.

    The above poster did not make it sound like it had anything to do with her being a single mother.

    I am married now but, at times, have been the "breadwinner" if you will, for my family. Would that make it sound better?

    I don't want to be treated any better than anyone else, but I have had to do a lot of things.

    The recruiter made a mistake. She should have never put the offer out there if she wasn't completely sure.
    You can't judge a company by how often they hire. This could be
    due to new accounts no turnover.

    The truth is that most people look beyond the postings on this board and others because it is too hard to separate truth from fiction.
    Don't be so quick to judge Supercuts. sm
    The fact is there are bad hairstylists everywhere as much as there are fabulous ones. My sis worked for Supercuts for years , just recently left to start her own biz on the side after taking a cushy county job. She took a huge cliental with her also; she's really, really good at her job. The fact is places like Supercuts do so much more business than smaller salons and so generally those working there have a lot more experience than you might think. My whole family patrons our local Supercuts and most of the ladies there are really very good. There are one or two over the last couple years we have learned are not so good, so we just don't let them cut our hair. Can't beat the prices either.
    Love Judge joe brown!
    he's my fave
    Judge Mathis my favorite!
    What a sense of humor he has (plus sharp legal mind)! Both he and his bailiff--very cute!
    What does Povitch have to do with Judge Judy?
    :[
    disagree - all bibles say Judge not....sm

    Born agains that I have run into act like they have never sinned.....yeah....right....it's the reason they become born again to begin with, they wipe the slates clean once re-born as if the BAD never happened prior to them becoming born again.  Everyone that I have met (including the x-spouse who became born again after the divorce) just appears to me to be so darned hypocritical!


    Just my nickel's worth.


    Please dont judge all by the bad apples
    Some of us are happy with what we do and are happy to lend a hand. Not all, or even the majority of us are rude. There are just a few that like the attention on these boards i think.
    Don't be so quick to judge others by yourself busy-body MT!
    No joke.

    PS: Where do you get the TIME IN your busy schedule to prepare essays and lectures to MTs what with your "busy" MTing and getting degrees etc? How's dano? She seemed to back you up with essays also. Same hahaha. Worn out?
    I love Judge Judy. She tells it
    x
    I love Judge Judy! She's awesome!
    x
    On the contrary, Christians ARE expected by God to judge sin. sm
    There are numerous versus to back this up. There is a verse that says if we as Christians observe a fellow Christian falling into sin, we are to go to that person (in love, not condemnation) and try and guide them back onto the right path away from destruction. How are we to follow God's laws if we do not judge right and wrong? That verse has been taken so far out of context.

    WHAT WE ARE NOT TO JUDGE is another person's relationship with God or whether that person has obtained salvation or is saved.

    WE ARE EXPECTED TO JUDGE SIN. I'll be happy to dig up the verses for anyone who would like to see them.
    they cannot judge based on one doctor; keep looking/testing
    nm
    Whoa . . . another thing, don't be so quick to judge.

    It depends on the type of account you're on.  A lot of time the 300 lph MTs are working on short clinic notes for one or two docs or ER reports.  There's a big difference in the types of account you're on.  I work on an acute care account for a large teaching hospital.  I do H&P, consults, ORs, discharge summaries, echos, eegs, and about anything else they dictate for internal medicine and all the specialties, including infectious disease, radiation oncology, cardiology, neurology, etc., you get the picture.  Sure, I can fly on short clinic notes or ER reports, but then I get so bored I could scream.  My dictations are more technical and time consuming, but much more interesting.  I have to stop and research sometimes on the latest meds or procedures, but it keeps me on my toes!


    Okay, I understand that...but judge was wrong in the final decision.
    These judges need to get off their high horse. They're lawyers for crying out loud!

    Taken from article: Far too much injustice is perpetrated on individual plaintiffs and defendants because of questionable judges. Even more important, people's faith in government and in our society is seriously undermined by the presence of too many such judges presiding over our courts.
    Love Judge Judy!! - she does not mince words