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Corrected Incorrectly? - anon

Posted: Jan 17, 2011

So I have a pretty good editor, I don't dislike him at all. Every once in a while though, he will correct something that I didn't do wrong, either by missing something else in the report, or just marking something red that I had already typed in my original report becuase it was left next to another blank, etc. This has only happened about 3 times in 4 months, but it concerns me because it is very important to me that I look good and maintain high quality standards so that I can get where I want to be in the future. I am not sure what to do. I always email my editor when this happens but usually don't get a reply. I don't want to email the manager because I am afraid it will look bad/petty on my part, or like I am "telling" on my editor. Any advice?

Yuck. This sort of situation usually doesn't have - anon

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a perfectly satisfactory solution. Your QA guy isn't going to change.

I think in your place I'd get myself out of a defensive posture at the receiving end of this stuff--and keep myself out. Any reaction should always be positive. Your position needs to be the high ground that comes with being known by your managers/supervisors for genuinely excellent work. Then this stuff won't hurt you.

Be seen as the kind of person who fixes problems instead of the kind who's involved in them. Instead of contacting for negative issues, mainly contact when you are able to help (offer to share your template for an impossible dictator, the name of a new referring physician nobody can figure out, etc.) Managers love people who make their work easier and don't love the others.

In the meantime, is there any way you can change anything to dodge some of these QA marks? I had a QA once who would only allow 2 commas in any sentence and a dictator who liked to drop long defining clauses and phrases into the middles of a pair of sentences joined with a conjunction. QA would always pull out 1 offending comma, almost always one of the ones defining an adjective phrase, leaving the remaining comma separating one of the subjects from one of the verbs. There was no explaining to him why this was incorrect, and even less of explaining why the original version was correct, so I just started always joining the sentences with a semicolon: Voila! only 2 commas, so he'd leave them alone. (Yeah, he WAS dumb--a med school grad who couldn't pass the medical licensing exams, and we all knew why).

Good luck.

Where I work, any corrections made by QA - sm

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show up as to what was changed and corrected when viewed in the QA mode. Therefore, if anying I typed was changed, it would show the original transcription and the correced transcription. I found this out once because I had to look at a previous report for a correction and I saw here "CPAP" had been changed to "cPAP." I knew I did type it that way--it is in my autocorrect. When I questioned QA, they looked and could tell the the dictator had changed it from the original. Yours is probably set up the same way.

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