You are very, very funny! I love it! nm

• How many of you smoke while working? See message. - txmt
  • Yes along with drinking my pot of coffee! nm - Smoker
    • Ditto - have an airpot of coffee & my cigs - Indy-MT
    • Hey, that is me too. Nothing like a cig with your coffee :-) - ALMT
  • No, that is disgusting! - 2hot4u
  • Depends what you smoke. - Felicity
    • Great idea except you wouldn't get any work done!--nm - xxx
      • Work gets done...sm - HomeMT
      • Sure you would. And you wouldnt be as irritable about the slow talkers. - n/m
  • Absolutely not! - Zipper
  • Every day, all day nm - Me too
  • do you not know the dangers of smoking????? - sm
    • popcorn is the best because you can still type - still puffing
      • We used to think something similar to a hamster cage - lm
      • You are very, very funny! I love it! nm - amused!
      • THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE FUNNY - WA
        • For you and WA see my reply below. I did this - still puffing
          • Oooops. Meant to say for you and "greasy fingers." - still puffing
      • Oh, geez! Too funny! - greasy fingers
      • lol - ...
        • Well you can always strap one around your neck :) - still puffing
  • I'm original poster -forgot to mention that I do. - txmt
  • The only evil I find about smoking is. . . - still puffing
    • you left out one - Snow Bunny
    • There's one thing that I've seen stop many many people.... - SM
      • Funny, but..if you read a lot or know people...sm - Not quittin here
        • A college professor I had explained it like this... - SM
        • Guess that means my husband is doomed....quit 15+ years ago (46 now)--GF had lung cancer - due to mines though - sm
    • To quit - this works! - ex-smoker
  • No way. No stink'ems in my house. - ex-smoker
  • I do,,sm - ALMT
  • km - km
    • I do! - nm

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I helped my son out with his paper route the other morning because he was sick with a temp of 102.  I'm walkng around, almost done with the papers, heading home, birds are singing, sun is starting to shine and then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, VAROOOOOOOM!!!  About 4 cars go whizzing by, almost running me over, oblivious to their surroundings, obviously late for work again.  Checked my watch and it was 5:45 a.m.  6 o'clock shift running late again.  Can't get their Dunkin Donuts and make it to work on time unless they drive like a bat out of h...l.

I just laughed and laughed and thought, "Well geeeee, it stinks to be you doesn't it?  Now why don't you take time out to fill up with GASOLINE!"  HEE HEE!

I don't know why people are in such a hurry lately.  Why don't they just set their alarms 15 minutes earlier for Pete's sake?  I was taking my older son to work one morning and was at a red light at a very busy, accident prone, intersection.  The light turned green.  I always take a quick look left and right before going through the green light and I didn't even have time to glance to the left before the "A" behind me laid on his horn.  Of course then I got funny and drove like a granny, just to make him mad.  He ended up finding space to pass on the right and he gave me the finger.

love him, love him, love him.  in interviews and in movies.

Love NOT getting paid while sitting doing my nails too.  It's a real turn on.

I tell all my friends to try it -- sit in front of your computer while you have no money to pay your rent and instead do your nails, you get a real buzz down in the pit of your stomach.

I got into medical transcription for many reasons.  Yes, one was that I wanted to be home with my children, another was that I wanted to be in the medical field, and yet another was this just fits me.  Medical terminology and grammar are two things that have always come easily to me.  So, this fits.  I can work early, early mornings and late nights when they are asleep.  Also during afternoon naps.  Yeah, doesn't leave a heck of a lot of time for myself, but THAT is a sacrifice I am willing to make, leaving my kids for someone else to raise/care for all day wasn't. 

girlyman hater, I think you are trolling us here.

the country singer type I have no idea about, but a smart humble guy... science is a plus... bein' good lookin' can't hurt, but I dont want a sweaty singin' cowboy.

*just kidding, but this is how you sound.

Patient states, "I feel like s--t!"  I called my boss and said "I'm sorry, I cant type that in there." 

I used to work for an old cranky country doc that actually dictated the chief complaint as:  "Doc my b--ls are killing me."  I told him when I turned in the completed report that I had changed the chief complaint to:  Patient complains of testicular pain.  He just laughed and said, "That's why I hired ya!"

you confront an MT who is putting exactly 200 extra spaces at the end of each and every report and they are just DUMBFOUNDED that they are there. They have no clue as to how they could be getting there. So it stops. Then, before you know it, they are there again. Sorry, but they aren't magically putting themselves there. It's a macro, sweetums, and you're happy to be messing with "the man." Typically the same people will do it at the end of paragraphs, too, but of course with fewer spaces. Most of the time no one can see it, no one would think to look for it, but they're there.

The company I worked with called it "creating margin," aka the MT getting more money and happily shafting the facility that gets the transcription bill. Were the MTs told to not do that? Nope. They were not. Shame on the MT, and shame on the MTSOs who condone this behavior.

Last year I made 56,000.  This year I stand to make slightly more.  I have my own accounts and am self-employed.  Also, I do quite a bit of pathology transcription locally.  I have done rad also in my time.  I am getting ready to get my CMT.  You don't have to go to school for this.  As a matter of fact, many that do go to school know less than I do, as a lot of schools don't teach what they should these days.  It is just a basic fact.  Whether you go to school or not doesn't make you a good MT.  It is your work ethic and level of committment and actual experience on the job. 

Also, you sound so immature in your posts like you are really mad because someone can be successful at MT w/o going to school.  How silly is that? 

The idiots in the SUVs that have 4-wheel drive that pass you doing 70 in a blizzard.  Oh yeah, like it isn't SNOWING!  Hello? And your 4-wheel drive is designed to get you slowly out of mud, snow, etc., not race down the highway in a snowstorm.

I used to work 20 miles away down a major highway (45 mph speed limit).  I saw a total of 12 vehicles off the road in the snow last year in one week. All of them were 4-wheel drive SUVs.  Some had flipped over and landed roof side down.  Fortunately nobody had serious injuries, but these SUVs would just fly by my little car and leave me in total "white out".

I still don't get it how people who buy these hugh monsters think they are oblivious to snow.  It's slippery even if you're walking or driving a military issue Hummer.

You gave me a good laugh.  Thanks for that!!!!