Rants – a place to vent
Posted by Lynette on 05/05/2009
As a work at home MT, there’s not a whole lot of opportunity to vent about that horrible mumbler, the eater, the urinator, the stutterer, the unprepared, the cell phone and windows down, the ESL who thinks you’ll understand him if he dictates as fast as he can…. and the many, many other things that can push us to the brink of insanity like… the company that constantly messes with the pay scale, the nitpicking supervisor/editor who freaks out over the smallest of mistakes, the clinic who won’t stop harassing you so you can actually work…. etc., etc., etc.
Well folks, I have created this category for the explicit purpose of being able to rant about anything that has you screaming at your computer without the fear of repercussion. We all need to have a connection to other MTs who have experienced the same frustrations. There’s something about knowing you’re not the only one that can bring an odd sense of peace and ease the pain of that 3-minute dictation that took nearly an hour to complete.
This will be the only post in this category, so feel free to rant away in the comment section under this post.
The only rules I have are:
- Keep the subject matter limited to the aspects of our jobs — no religion or politics.
- Don’t name any specific names — this isn’t court, so we’re going to give the guilty parties a little anonymity.
- Try not to use any curse words, but if you must, please censor your rant with the cartoon version – @##$%.
Just let it all out hon, it really will be okay… just envision reaching through the computer and slapping them a good one while ranting… visualization can be very therapeutic. Oh, and don’t forget to bookmark this page so you can come back whenever you need to let off a little steam.
Melissa Wood said
hahahahah. Fabulous. I love it. I am not needing to rant right this second but I appreciate the forum for doing so in the future
Here’s to all the MTs and our right to rant!
Mandy said
How about the doc who underestimates the spelling capabilities of the MT and spells out e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g! He thinks he’s being helpful, but trust me, I can spell “Dupuytren’s contracture”. And the funny thing is that half way through spelling the term, he messes up and therefore as to start from the beginning; because I totally don’t know where you left off, not to mention the fact that my swift rhythmic phalangeal flow pounded it out before you stuttered. PERIOD.
Michelle said
I love it when their beeper goes off and they hold it right up to the phone to turn it off, but not before they fumble it around for a good 30 seconds so my hearing is shot for the remainder of their dictation.
Rachel said
Or how about when they let the phone just ring and ring while they dictate and I have one doc in particular that will tell you during his dictation “you hear that phone back there I’m not going to answer it so it’s going to be ringing during my entire dictation probably” and then he forgets where he was in the dictation and starts all over again.
Melissa Wood said
Today’s rant for me…. the 10 minutes I just spent transcribing laboriously only to have the nurse now say “oh, delete all of that and start over…” so I won’t get paid for all of that. GRRRRRRRRR. That makes me insane. It isn’t bad enough that I’ve listened to you stumble and say “uh” a million times but now, I don’t get credit for what I was able to glean out of you and you are now going to start OVER!!??!?!?!? did I say, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!?
and yes – that beeper in the ear has permanently damaged my hearing.
I fear I am going to have a grumpy day now with this start.