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• Does anyone else ever feel the "stress" from the office - Questioning
  • That's exactly the reason I worked at home for 15 years. - Couldn't stand the office henhouse
  • Stress in the office - Wit's End
  • You hit it on the head. Office has always been - Wow
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Now THAT'S what I'M talkin' about!  There was a time when workers/employees could actually influence, shape and at times, tip that balance you so eloquently satirized.  Ladies and gentlemen.  It would help us to realize that our issues are indeed political issues. 

You want to take back your job and get the respect you deserve?  Take back our country first.  Participate in the process.  Don't wait until next summer.  It is never too early to activate a political agenda.  It does not only belong to us.  It is the same agenda of those whose jobs have been or are going to be outsourced, a number of Americans that is expanding exponentially from what I understand.  It is the issue of hard-working folks that do not have medical insurance or other benefits that were commonplace only a few short decades ago.  It is the agenda of anyone who expects a living wage or better for an honest day's work and the ability to have, raise and educate their childern.  It is for any person who believes profit and prosperity are not the same and that neither arises out of exploitation or oppression, be it in the work force, undocumented immigrants, sweat shop workers overseas who our corporations engage and with whom we are replaced, not even the refugees, survivors, casualties and other such collateral damage our war produces. 

Look around.  Surely you will find agendas and their supporters with ease and in large numbers.  Speak out loudly and listen attentively.  Go to the polls next year as an educated voter and do what you believe is the right thing to do.  Keep trying until we get it right.   

This has been "a long time coming" as my late husband used to say whenever we would buy a new car.

Anyway, I'm looking for an excellent company for whom I can work out of my home, at my convenience.  I can provide 30-40 hours per week of service for you.  I will provide my schedule to you on a daily basis and I expect you to make sure that there are a sufficient number of good reports for me to transcribe during that time period.  I expect to be able to accomplish a minimum of 200 lines/hour.  I will give you 90 days to make sure that I am working with clear dictators and am able to accomplish this.  If there is no work available at the same time that I intend to work, I will not be available to "return later" when the work becomes available. 

You must have a AAAA rating per any ex-employee or ex-IC that comments or has commented about you on this forum or any other forum. 

You must have been in business for at least 15 years.  I figure, if you require me to have a certain amount of years of experience, I should require the same from you. 

You must NOT be located in California, Florida, New York, or Utah.  I just do not conduct business with those states.

My charges per line are dependent upon the difficulty of the reports and the clarity of the dictations.  I expect extra premiums for nights and weekends.

Please submit your resume along with 3 business references, 2 banking references and a better business bureau report.  Be sure to include your employer ID numbers and the name of the agency and address where your license is filed.  Please include the number of employees and ICs that you currently have working for you, including the dates on which the last 10 were hired and the dates on which the last 10 resigned, including their length of service and reasons for resignation.  Please be sure to include details regarding the accounts that you intend for me to work with, including worktypes and number of ESL/difficult dictators and any program that you have established for training of those dictators that apparently have no idea what they are doing or how to dictate a clear and concise report, especially with regard to basic dictation etiquette.

Be sure to include your work and home, day and evening phone numbers, both landlines and cell phone numbers, so that I can call you at my convenience.

I will review your materials and contact you if you meet my requirements.

Good luck.

Obviously, it is fictitious; it is not a job wanted ad.  It's simply my rendition of "turn about is fair play", based on a composite of the "help wanted" ads that I've read and experiences that I've had during the job search.

How ingenious..I think this is exactly what the "doctor" ordered!  I'm still .  Let me know where to sign up!

On a more serious note, however, it's sad that we have to seemingly resort to these measures just to get some attention.  Hopefully, the people who need this message loud and clear know, when they read this, it's meant exclusively for them!

Bless you!

System seemed nice at first but quickly turned out it wasn't.  Someone else I know told me hers kept locking up on her.  You don't have access to your Word entries and if you don't have a compatible shortcut expander, you have to start all over again in theirs.  That stinks.

I found my QA to be very, very picky, over the top, ridiculous things.  I don't think they want people to work for them because it seems you can't do anything right and I'm one who has been in this business a LONG time and no one ever complained about my work before. 

I was very disappointed as I had heard good things about MDI-MD.  Just goes to show what is right for one MT is not for another.

didn't make a lot of sense if you are going to be working an independent contractor because they don't take out any taxes at all, so changing dependents has no affect at all on your check.

Basically what the IRS is suggesting is just creative bookkeeping and you might come out better today, but come tax time and you reconcile eveything it will probably hurt you. 

is that part of the problem is that the bar has been raised as far as the skillset employees are expected to have these days. For one, computer skills are a given. It is just expected that every, even entry-level employees are proficient with computers, so the computer knowledge an MT has really isn't specialized. As far as terminology, etc., honestly learning everything I needed to know about the installation and government was harder, or as hard, as learning MT. With all the tools and communications available via computer, we are expected to be diverse and understand not only the intricacies of our own jobs but those of all the organizations that affect our jobs.

I had to learn just as many business & financial related acronyms as I did for MT including those unique to our organization, used in the financial/business industry, government/military, etc. Formatting documents etc. for business/government/military is actually harder than for MT. Learning all the financial, industrial, government, military terms, systems, and hierarchies was also much like learning MT. I started in an entry level job and was expected to pick all this up fairly quickly and pretty much on the job with no formal training because technology gave me access to all this information. This is all for a secretary/administrative support position.

My point is that since the last generation was brought up with computers, communications, and access to information so readily available, it has completely changed what is expected of office workers in larger companies. There are no more simple secretary jobs. I haven't been here two years just yet, and I am lead for an office of 50 people, expected to train 3 other clerks/secretaries under me and know everything about at least 25 different programs internal to my directorate and all the terms, acronyms, hierarchies, formatting, etc., etc., etc., related to it from personnel management to budgeting/financing, industrial production, government entities, private industry, etc.

I work with both government and private industry, as far as I can tell those in lower-level jobs are expected to be extermely diverse and well-rounded to support those in the higher-level jobs.  Those in the higher level jobs in some ways get paid more to be "expert" in their field but don't have to have nearly the skill set of the lower level employees. Most of those in higher-level jobs have been around a while, and the lower-level employees could honestly work circles around them. However, it is obvious, and everyone knows it, that as older workers begin to leave the workforce the younger/newer workers are going to be expected to know and do a lot more in the same positions simply because the base skillset of younger/newer workers is stronger and more diverse.

I don't mean to make light of what it takes to be an MT, but the business world has changed so much in the last 20 years that the bar has been raised in larger companies/industries as far as what is expected of workers. An older worker may have held the same position I am in now for 20 years, and she is not expected to have 1/4 the skillset they expect from a younger worker; yet, we get paid the same. They just expect younger workers to be more proficient in computer skills, technology, and information, and if you are not, you won't last long or go very far.

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

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!!!!!!!!!  

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!!!!!

 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.