Adieu! Parting is such sweet sorrow . . .

From: Phoebe (tripichik_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: 30 Jul 2004 04:41:30 -0700

[10 points to any readers who can identify the source of the quotation
in the Subject. No takers? Hmmm, somehow that doesn't surprise me.]

Why could I have predicted, Dani, that you would completely ignore my
previous post analyzing all the misrepresentations, twistings of
words, and just plain unintelligible sentences in your post. Did you
really think with the original posts sitting there, ready to be
requoted by anyone, that you could fool anyone into thinking that your
wishful interpretation of the post (that I was asking for help for a
troubled child) was the truth?

I'll take your silence as agreement with my analysis. I imaging
you're squirming in your seat over having written that silly sentence
that I dissected. What was that word you compeltely misused? The one
had good connotations that you used as if it referred to unpleasant
social habits. Staunchness?

Just for the record, I think Sheila's really smart. I think she and I
write very similar posts at places like Harrie's incredible
Productivity Talk board and that people appreciate it equally when she
and I share our various tips and tricks. We certainly have similar
interests in software and are proficient technical writers. I imagine
she gets the same sort of grateful emails that I get. It's just too
bad she's so insecure that the whole IQ issue got her knickers in a
twist.

Well, since yesterday's fun, 2 new projects have fallen in my lap. My
"free" time grows slimmer by the day -- when was the last time I had
the luxury of simply relaxing and reading a chick lit book start to
finish in an hour or 2?

I promised myself this last little peek here tonight, but I start a
new job on Sunday in addition to these wonderful new assignments that
just sprung up. It's nice how each new job I get is better than the
previous one. There are still some incredible employers out there.
Thank you, goddess, for the wonderful year you're giving me. It sure
makes up for last year!!

I suppose I'll be back some day; in the last 8 years, I've never let
it go more than 2 years between my brief bouts of involvement here. I
post a bit, enjoy a few interesting exchanges (remember the Dr.
Beckwith brohaha, when I got so many "you go, girl" responses online
and via email), but always remember the caliber of the people I'm
dealing with here and move on. I'll probably annoy everyone when I
continue posting interesting links, but don't bother arguing about it
since I won't be around to read the posts.

The people here who matter, we have each other's private email
addresses and IM's. We'll keep in touch.

BTW, I don't work for them, but I've been corresponding with the owner
of Accuscribe, and I wanted to say that company sounds like a lovely
work environment: owners with actual MT experience who do everything
possible to encourage more experienced MTs to help the less
experienced and who provide all the tools necessary for this on a
comprehensive Web site. If you're the type of MT who prefers to feel
like a real person when working for a national, a valued member of a
team instead of a log-in number associated with a certain level of
production, do check them out. They use DocQscribe and were in fact
one of if not the first company to use this platform (which will
undoubtedly become the gold standard in medical transcription) when
Speech Machines was the sole owner, before MedQuist's involvement.

On that last of so many helpful notes, I bid you adieu.

Giselle -- I wanted you to know, I have never forgotten your kindness
in paying for me to take the CMT exam way back when, when you wanted
to prove that you'd put your money where your mouth was, probably in
one of the many arguments about the value of the CMT that you have had
with Rae over the years. Yes, I know you think these exchanges are
valuable because newbies need to know about the CMT, but as I wrote to
you some time ago, it comes across as silly bickering rather than
anything that would convince a newbie to explore becoming a CMT. One
would think you could make your standard points about the value of the
certification and be done with it, but any advanced search in Google
Groups shows that the quibbling goes back and forth for 20?, 30? even
more posts? each and every time. Yawn indeed.

That's something I've never understood in all my participation in smt
and my views of even ickier places, like MTStars (think of that
"interesting woman" there, Nan) -- where do these frequent posters get
the time to do all this writing if they're also earning a living as an
MT? How can Sheila afford to throw away hundreds of thousands of
lines on her lengthy posts, which if keyboarded as part of
transcription work would earn her how many hundreds or even thousands
of dollars more per month? I'm not talking about the useful posts
about important software links or virus issues -- the important info
there can be tossed off in 10 lines or less. I'm talking instead
about Sheila's repeated, oh how does she say it, "I'll see you
arrogance and raise you . . .," posts, where she reminds us at
excruciating length that she's been transcribing since it was done
with a quill and ink and in that time has seen every possible
variation of doctor-as-god-syndrome behavior. Must be nice not to
have children to raise and for whom one must save for college and
possibly graduate school, minus the anticipated scholarships, of
course. Or maybe some frequent posters have the luxury of being
married to a highly paid professional instead of a fellow MT.

I hope the rest of you have fun in the sandbox. Please remember,
throwing sand always means it gets in someone's eye, and that hurts.
Wash your hands when you're done playing.

[And if you don't get that I've been deliberately as offensive as
possible in this post . . . then you're thinking just at the level I
would expect for a typical smt'er]

Ta.

She Who Must Not Be Named

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