Re: Adieu! Parting is such sweet sorrow . . .

From: Nae (pithy_at_millenicom.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:47:42 -0400

Rats ... where is that graphic of a flame stamping its foot and pouting
  ... when I really need it?

Nae

Phoebe wrote:
> [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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