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My biggest peeve - Newatthis

Posted: Nov 18, 2009

More than anything, I hate it when they're eating and dictating. I can't verbalize how upset this makes me. I'm not asking the dictator to kiss my rear end, but right now I've got an ESL with an incomprehensible accent chomping and chewing in my ear. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Oh just wait - till they dictate while in the tub

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with their kids talking in the background.

on the toilet is the worse!!!! I had this happen twice! - tab

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the first time it took me awhile to recognize the sounds and the second time was just as gross!

Toilet talking - Stumped

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I have this happen so often that I can even tell you by name who washes their hands and who does not!

I also know who orders what at Starbucks, Wendy's (seems to be a favorite) and some place called Jamba Juice (?).

But I do have to say that chewing in my ear is my ultimate horrible dictation. I actually get palpitations!

How about a hot tub with bubbles and water splashing - wordlady

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and probably with a martini in his head. It was a heart catheterization procedure no less and I swear he was slurring his words.... now that is rude!!

Sounds when dictating - G

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I got a good one...I used to work for a group of neurologists and one of them used to dictate while he was hunting up in a tree. He would be whispering and and trying to steady himself on the tree while waiting for a deer to come by. Thank God he didn't keep dictating in between shooting. Same guy would dictate on the toilet too and it wasn't just #1, YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Wordlady, that's too funny! - suez

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Thanks for sharing...I'm sitting here at my desk shaking with laughter!! :)

X-rated dictation - Red face

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One of my MQ accounts was a large teaching hospital in SF. One time on a Saturday afternoon this doc was catching up on his late charts and his BlackBerry kept going off and it was obviously his girlfriend. He would keep saying he had to dictate and she kept calling back. Obviously I could hear only his side of the conversation, but it got steamier and steamier as he got more and more into it with each successive call. I cannot say on a public board what they were talking about, let's just say think Monica Lewinsky! Finally he stopped dictating and went off to meet the girlfriend. My face was beet red the rest of the day. Some things should be kept private, I think.

Holy cow. I think sometimes they forget - Newatthis

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...that someone is at the other end listening (no, I KNOW that they forget - otherwise they wouldn't belch, chew, etc in our ears. Or maybe they would; they just think we're not worth the slightest common courtesy)

I got one!!!! - Mookster

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How about a dictator talking so softly that you have to listen very closely to not miss anything and then all of a sudden a toddler screams in the background! That's always fun once you peel your headset off and your are deaf for a minute!!!! LOL.

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