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Boy, Synernet, you really shouldn't let people - Awakened MT

Posted: Mar 14, 2015

work off their regular hours for OT! I'm just astonished at all the nice work there is off of my regularly scheduled hours this week!! I thought that kind work was all gone! Got my lines so easily. What an eyeopener. Don't doctors rotate shifts they're on to different times of the day? And weekends? Why are mine always the same no matter what day? Now I know. Looking to leave now. This is totally unacceptible to me. I now know without a doubt I'm being assigned work. Crappy work.

When you did OT did you let the help desk know, just wondering - MT

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Because if you did chances are you would not get the good work. If you did not then you got good work b/c they did not know you were on. However, if you do OT without informing the help desk you run the risk of having those OT hours taken away as you have not put approved by on your time sheet. There is a double edged sword to this. However, if you told them you were on for OT and got good work, chances are you were assigned good work. This is the way it seems to work. Now the elephant in the room: Did you notify them you were on for OT?

Yes. You have to. - Awakened MT

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cc

Crappy work. - Grandy

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Most companies are the same. Command Health sends out what is practically a book about how fair they are, but my friends who work there have found out that they are allowing their dumbest transcriptionists to pick off the easiest work, because "they do not understand terminology very well." This, of course screws over the other transcriptionists, who have to do the crap on a daily basis. If it isn't the dumb transcriptionists picking off work, it is the greedy team leads and managers, who want the easy lines for themselves. There is always a pecking order for work, set up so that the "special" people can make more money.

I was thinking of applying for a job with - peppermint pattie

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Synernet. My question is about the "crappy work" MTs are complaining about at Synernet. How "crappy" is it? I don't really care what type of work I get as long as I get work, but the MTs on here from Synernet make it sound like the work is impossible to transcribe.

It is a toss up - between

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the work and the top management

on any given day one is bad and the other badder

You can transcribe it eventually, but you won't - MT

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be getting your lines. If you don't mind crappy work (bad ESLs, mumblers, sound quality cutting out and fuzzy, sounding like they're in a tin can, slow speakers who change what they want to say and start over, fast talkers with lisps, etc.), then you probably should apply. You can take my place. I'm leaving.

you can get that anywhere. it is the nature of being an MT - geez

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Synernet cant make someone dictate perfectly. You are going to have good dictators and bad anywhere and everywhere you go to work.

You don't understand; that's ALL I get! - MT

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I understand there will be good and bad, but when it gets to be all bad, it's time to leave. You don't believe that. You think I'm just a lazy MT. That's okay, you'll find out on your own and then you can come on here with your frustrations because they won't listen. Synernet NEVER used to be on this board. They were a good company to work for. They were fair with their work and helped you be productive. The reason you're seeing them now more and more is because they will not address their problems. They are losing all the good people who used to make the place work. I guess I'm just wasting my breath. Kind of like talking to Synernet these days. If I hear, "we're working on hiring more people to help with our staffing problems and hope it will be better soon" one more time, I'll scream. They are ramping up for summer mandatory OT now. All summer long. Not this year for me. I have my plan in place. I've been working on it for a year. That's how long I've been unhappy there and hoping it would change. Not going to happen.

Thank you for your reply. I think it will be - peppermint pattie

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Synernet's loss when you leave because from your posts, you sound like a very dedicated MT and a good person.

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