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Good Morning Friends :hugs

Catch up time again for me.

DMC that is a lovely and funny story about your girl and her mini-vacation. She actually does not look very impressed in that picture.

Michelle I had a good chuckle at the broody under the passenger seat! Congrats on your broody and good luck with the hatch! Great photos of some good progress :clap

Kelsey Congratulations! :clap Loved the squirrel video!

Blooie Yes, we do need a 'love' button and I would have pressed it multiple times on your post and great news about Kendra being accepted into the speech program :clap I am sorry it may not have started out well though.

Debby I have no words so just going with :he

By the way, I also reckon BYC need a ‘Too funny’ button ;)

So, I was AWOL again yesterday.

As it happens, the second of the three transcription companies I applied to got back to me and advised “we would like to progress you to the next stage of our application process ….. “. They sent an application form and trial details for me to complete within 48 hours.

Now, while I am confident about the first company and I think my preferred option, I figured I might as well cover all my bases and continue to the “next stage” with the second company.

So, after completing the form, I go to print it to sign as electronic signature was not permitted. My 7 year old printer apparently ‘died’ sometime in the past 12 months :hmm I spent a fair while trying to revive it but no deal. So, quick dash into town to buy a new printer. Home to set it up. It’s first order of business was to scan the receipt for it and file it away as a legitimate business expense. Next, print, sign and scan the application form. Next, log onto their training site with the details they have provided for me to complete the trials.

I will mention at this point, some of the reviews I read online about this company indicate that some transcriptionists were not happy with them but I also wondered if the negative comments may be a result of not putting in 100% on their part. This is an industry where you get back as good as you put in and reward for result; so, if you are not successful, there is usually only yourself to blame.

Anywho, I log onto the ‘training site’ and create an account using the details they sent. Step 2. Complete Part I in the ‘My Courses’ section. I do not have a ‘My Courses’ :thLog out and back in again, nope still no courses. Managed to find the ‘Part I’ via navigation and even though I was given a password because “You will be prompted for a password for Part I’; no password required. I completed the 75 questions in Part I and on submitting, encountered an error message :hmm but I think it also recorded my answers as it said the ‘one attempt’ module had been completed and I could not sit it again.

Instructions then said to complete the Endocrinology and Ophthalmology exams with the passwords provided. Again, because of no ‘My Courses’ I searched for Part II and found it but there are no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology exams in Part II; lots of Clinical and Radiological and Emergency Assessment but no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology :barnie I messed around with it for a while, logged out and back in again but no luck. However, after the 4th or 5th relog, ‘My Courses’ magically appears :bow But, still no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology. I even thought may be I need to do all of Part II but the passwords provided were not working on the other exams.

So, I gave up and sent them a response with my attached application and screen shots of the errors and issues I encountered and queried how they would like me to proceed.

Not a good start I am thinking! Fingers crossed that Option 1 is a goer before Option 2 gets back to me again. However, I am intrigued to hear what their response is.

Anyways, all that took until mid afternoon when I gave up and sat down to watch the football and the boys won! :clap

Typical Sunday for me today. Finish housework, grocery shopping, watering etc.
 
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention …..

When I wandered down the stairs this morning to give the girls their breakfast, I said “Good Morning” to the baby sun birds as I walked passed the nest.

Hubby was downstairs at the time and says “I think they are gone”

Me: Gone? Gone where?

Hubby: I think they flew off.

Me: Flew off? When?

Hubby: Yesterday. They were learning to fly and one nearly crashed into me.

Me: You didn’t think to tell me? :rolleyes:

So, I checked the nest and sure enough, the babies have flown the coop!

I really would have liked to have seen them before they left; specially watched their ‘learning to fly’ antics and to say good bye :( But, no, not only did hubby not think to mention it to me, I was upstairs wasting my time with less than ideal instructions and training platforms :rant
 
Teila said:
Good Morning Friends :hugs

Catch up time again for me.

DMC that is a lovely and funny story about your girl and her mini-vacation. She actually does not look very impressed in that picture.

Michelle I had a good chuckle at the broody under the passenger seat! Congrats on your broody and good luck with the hatch! Great photos of some good progress :clap

Kelsey Congratulations! :clap Loved the squirrel video!

Blooie Yes, we do need a 'love' button and I would have pressed it multiple times on your post and great news about Kendra being accepted into the speech program :clap I am sorry it may not have started out well though.

Debby I have no words so just going with :he

By the way, I also reckon BYC need a ‘Too funny’ button ;)

So, I was AWOL again yesterday.

As it happens, the second of the three transcription companies I applied to got back to me and advised “we would like to progress you to the next stage of our application process ….. “. They sent an application form and trial details for me to complete within 48 hours.

Now, while I am confident about the first company and I think my preferred option, I figured I might as well cover all my bases and continue to the “next stage” with the second company.

So, after completing the form, I go to print it to sign as electronic signature was not permitted. My 7 year old printer apparently ‘died’ sometime in the past 12 months :hmm I spent a fair while trying to revive it but no deal. So, quick dash into town to buy a new printer. Home to set it up. It’s first order of business was to scan the receipt for it and file it away as a legitimate business expense. Next, print, sign and scan the application form. Next, log onto their training site with the details they have provided for me to complete the trials.

I will mention at this point, some of the reviews I read online about this company indicate that some transcriptionists were not happy with them but I also wondered if the negative comments may be a result of not putting in 100% on their part. This is an industry where you get back as good as you put in and reward for result; so, if you are not successful, there is usually only yourself to blame.

Anywho, I log onto the ‘training site’ and create an account using the details they sent. Step 2. Complete Part I in the ‘My Courses’ section. I do not have a ‘My Courses’ :thLog out and back in again, nope still no courses. Managed to find the ‘Part I’ via navigation and even though I was given a password because “You will be prompted for a password for Part I’; no password required. I completed the 75 questions in Part I and on submitting, encountered an error message :hmm but I think it also recorded my answers as it said the ‘one attempt’ module had been completed and I could not sit it again.

Instructions then said to complete the Endocrinology and Ophthalmology exams with the passwords provided. Again, because of no ‘My Courses’ I searched for Part II and found it but there are no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology exams in Part II; lots of Clinical and Radiological and Emergency Assessment but no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology :barnie I messed around with it for a while, logged out and back in again but no luck. However, after the 4th or 5th relog, ‘My Courses’ magically appears :bow But, still no Endocrinology and Ophthalmology. I even thought may be I need to do all of Part II but the passwords provided were not working on the other exams.

So, I gave up and sent them a response with my attached application and screen shots of the errors and issues I encountered and queried how they would me to proceed.

Not a good start I am thinking! Fingers crossed that Option 1 is a goer before Option 2 gets back to me again. However, I am intrigued to hear what their response is.

Anyways, all that took until mid afternoon when I gave up and sat down to watch the football and the boys won! :clap

Typical Sunday for me today. Finish housework, grocery shopping, watering etc.
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Sounds like a pain. Hope you get the job you want!
 
Company 2 sure seems flaky. One would think that if they want people to work for them they would make sure their testing process works smoothly. Perhaps you should contact their first level support person (and tell them how to do the job if they are poor at it ;) )

Teila said:
I really would have liked to have seen them before they left; specially watched their ‘learning to fly’ antics and to say good bye
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Or you could have tree swallows. When I was working on the stall-> coop conversion there was a pair that had nested on top of a plastic light box nailed to a joist above. They seem to like almost NO room above the nest, I doubt the top of it was more than 2" from the floor above. In any case, I saw the babies often though they were quiet when I was around. Never sure if there were 3 or 4. I watched the parents bring food in and one day there was no food. Instead the parent flew to a wire near the wall and waited. Then went back to the nest and repeated that. Eventually the chicks got the picture and one by one dropped off the edge of the nest and flew. NO practice whatsoever, there wasn't even room in or above the nest for them to stretch and strengthen their wings. Impressive.
 
Teila, so sorry you missed the birds... non-bird folk never understand our fascination with them.... Every day I go to work I look for the quail, but sadly they are gone... But I have other birds to study now. folks at work think i'm a loon because I like birds. One of our young-en's (18 year old kid) noted that I eat a lot of boiled eggs... He was truly perplexed when I told him I grew them.
 

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