(even though you aren't coming back to read this)

I suppose I should contact the Ph.D. I do transcription for and "gently" remind her that her usage of cognitive BEHAVIORAL therapy is inaccurate. Gee, wonder how long I'd be working for her after that?

I suppose I should also tell several other dictators that to use "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is inaccurate, and that saying "TMJ joint" is also redundant. I could probably go on for DAYS listing language usage errors that I hear in my work, not all of them by English as a second language speakers, and they've all had years and years of education.

Would anyone like to know what happens if we (the medical transcriptionists with my company) send a message through the error reporting system pointing out "unacceptable" personal dictation style to a doctor or other medical service provider? An office-wide e-mail gets sent out saying how very inappropriate that is. We are to fix their blatant language and grammatical errors, even if we have to do it for the remainder of our days as a transcriptionist. So maybe that's what we ALL need to do in here - fix everyone's "dictation" in our heads and keep our mouths shut.

I will always be a newbie too, because I don't see what blindly accepting what a rather small number of members does has to do with being considered an old timer. What are we doing here? Comparing "new" and "old" to "rebel" and "butt kisser?"

OK, put me right back at day-one newbie status for speaking my mind, because only "old timers" are allowed to say anything about feeling dissatisfied.