Tips from Secretaries to Managers: Enhancing the Relationship [just the ones for shorthand on here to condense]
- When dictating, please parade up and down the room and practice your golf strokes, or better still, walk out of the room. We can understand what is said more distinctly.
- Please lower your voice to a whisper when dictating names of people and places. Under no circumstances spell them to us. We are sure to hit the right way sooner or later.
- Please dictate a paragraph and change your mind, with the corrected version following, particularly when using dictating equipment. It adds variety to our typing.
- Hours for dictation: during the lunch hour, or any time after 4:30 p.m.
DebbiAvon1
I've just joined the group and am beginning my practice of shorthand again.
When I was first studying shorthand in my twenties, my boss asked me to take notes at a large meeting of the maintenance staff of an airline. Being the only woman in the room, I very studiously sat during the meeting taking notes but missing a lot of what was being said. Afterward, I transcribed it or tried to. I couldn't read most of it. One guy even came up to me days later and said "did I really say that?" to which I just calmly nodded. Sometimes a little learning is a dangerous thing and faking it 'til you make it doesn't always work.
Presently I'm hoping my shorthand study will progress a little farther than what happened at that meeting...at least I'm hoping so.
byctygrl
A monastic convent of nuns were under a disciplinary rule of silence, but they were
permitted to write a few words in their own unique style of shorthand once every five
years. After her first five years a young novice wrote: "Bed hard!". Five years later as a
postulant she wrote:"Room cold!" After taking her final vows five years later she wrote,
"Food bad!" Finally five years later she wrote "I quit!" The Mother Superior answered:
"I am not surprised. You have been here twenty years and have done nothing but complain!"
DocBandstand11 JohnSapp JohnSapp JohnSapp
There once went a bloke to Japan.
The kanji was harder than planned.
Each time he did write
It caused such a fright
That he finally took up shorthand.
JohnSapp An ambitious college student once professed of his aspiring to become a great writer.
When asked to define "great," he said: "I want to write things that'll make people react on a truly deep, emotional level! Things that'll make them scream, cry, and howl in pain and anger!!"
He now writes shorthand!!
(Adapted from a Micro$oft error message joke : )
psetus
In highschool, my sister was obsessed with suntanning. Everyday during summer vacation, she would pester me for a ride to the beach so shecould soak in the rays, instead of taking advantage of the sunny one acre property we lived on. Annoyed, I protested one day that there was no difference between sunning at the seashore and sunning in the backyard, to which she replied, "shore-tanned is definately faster!"
JohnSapp
Interviewer: Tell me, are you left or right handed?
Applicant: Let's just say I'm shorthanded. : p
JohnSapp JohnSapp
When you come across every single person that asks "What the heck is that?!?" you can impress them by saying "It's the book Anne Of Green Gables written in shorthand!"
Then every stenographer you meet will be like "Wow! That's so cool!"
And every Anne with an E fan you meet will be like "WOW! That's SO cool!"
And if I met a stenographer that was pretty who was reading Anne Of Green Gables in shorthand and was an artsy, bookloving, kindred spirit, I'd ask her to marry me!! So really the point of Gregg Shorthand is to use it as a courting tool!!