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Is there anything more DEPRESSING than - "National Transcriptionist Week"??

Posted: May 21, 2013

Most of us, I think, could be said to be "word people" - but the fact is, words are beginning to fail me. Here come the emails from "corporate" telling me how wonderful I am...

...and then I look at my paycheck.

...and then I get yet another "client specifics" PDF file consisting of the 33 million things I must always remember.

...and then I get yet more "OUT OF TAT - PLEASE HELP!" messages...

...and then I get another QA quibbling over the placement of a comma that even English grammarticians and professional editors disagree about.

A knowledge job, being paid at production rates that, relatively speaking, have been dropping for nearly two decades.

I'm probably going to get drunk for MT Week, but not to celebrate. I'll be drinking to forget.

Right there on the bar stool - with ya!

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Sad isn't it?

so sad - yes it is

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I remember when we actually got to celebrate MT week. Worked in an office for an MTSO with supervisor and fellow employees right there with me (unlike now, don't even know who works along with me). The manager used to take us all out for a dinner during MT week, and had lunch brought in from whatever food place we wanted at least one day of the week. So long ago. That is now all gone, along with our nice paychecks, raises and possible advancement within the company.

We used to get called into the conference room - where they had a catered dinner

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for us. I remember one year we had Suicide by Chocolate cake. Good ol'days!

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