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How cherry-picking MTs benefit me. - Think about it.

Posted: Feb 07, 2014

On 1 account that I work on, there are a couple of dictators who are the worst of the worst. They actually should be reported to their superiors. Many times each day, these reports are downloaded by MTs who simply return them and rather have no work than try to decipher what these idiots spew out. I admit they are very difficult and many times impossible, as I see where QA returns them to the client with blanks, even after additional ears have given a listen.

What I have done is studied these reports, and their past reports of every kind, including the tests they dictate. I have created expanders for them. I have printed out samples. I have mastered their dictations, with very few blanks needed. I have tried to become an expert in the work that no one else wants. This has provided me with lines and hours that the other cherry-picking MTs are losing out on. Thanks guys.

cherry pickers - Debra

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I have been doing that also. One of our docs talks so slow he almost is going backwards!! I speed his reports up and can almost always decipher what he is saying and the times I put him in Q/A it is forwarded to the office with them still there. Another talks a 100 miles per minute--slow him down. I have had 3 co-workers who say they reject their jobs and when there are only 10 reports in the system and 7 are these two, that is 7 jobs I would not have had. Where is the challenge in taking easy street all the time??

Counter-productive - s/m

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Someone on my account always takes the only VR and leaves all the ST. Seriously, that makes no sense because I make twice as much when I am typing all day long. That lazy person is probably the same person who comes on here and cries that they are making below minimum wage! Put a little effort out and you will reap the benefits!

Cool - anon

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You're lucky to have access to past reports at least. It seems like it would be a nice feature to have in general.

There's a lot of that (cherry picking) lately - MT

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I am glad you brought up this cherry picking thing. Where I work since the new year there has been SO MUCH cherry picking it is ridiculous. I think we got new accounts. I went from ops and doing well on several accounts I knew for a long time and all of a sudden they disappeared. Then I started getting nasty discharge summaries from hospitalists from one hospital and it would not end. Knew there was cherry picking b/c they would all of a sudden show up from yesterday morning, etc. But the ops were gone from the present time. Then, when I complained I was given several new hospitals I never heard of and got ops but they eventually disintigrated to the worst of the worst again hospitalist discharge summaries. Not speaking English at all, or extremely convoluted, many mistakes. So this has become my day now the worst of the worst. Last time I said something e mail and on the phone I was told nothing new was going on. Now I KNOW there is cherry picking and the fact I said something probably added to my problem (getting more of the worst of the worst). I responded the way the OP here did and I do them with very little problem now but the point is..WHY SHOULD I. What am I a DOOR MAT? Instead of stopping the cherry picking and allowing everyone to do everything the system should even out, good with the bad. Why should the people who PUT UP WITH IT get all the bad. I was thinking of looking for a new job but it is the same EVERYWHERE. Sorry for my crabbing here, but I am glad someone mentioned this going on. I am glad I am not alone. Thanks for listening to me vent. Now I am off to work tonight where I will get the worst of the worst and try to make the best of it. After all I have a job.

Bravo! - you are not alone

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I could have written your post. I have not said anything to my supe. She knows it's going on and does nothing. Her pets just take the cream off the top and the rest of us get the dregs. I actually did a 1-hour trial one time of only those crappy reports. I made a total of 75 lines that hour. Why should we be stuck with the worst? She's afraid her pets will quit if they have to get their hands dirty. I would be more than happy to do those if they paid me more to do difficult dictators, like they did in the past. Pipe dreams, I know, but like you said, I have this job for now, it's not forever. Karma is a @@@@@.

I like that. You took lemons, and made - LEMONADE! nm

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Yep, those cherry-pickers leave a lot of lines behind - sm

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I don't ever complain about cherry-pickers. I LOVE THEM. I am glad to take those lines and hours they reject. While they think they are getting by with something by taking the easy reports, I have invested the time and made those difficult ESL dictators easy reports for me. They are not bothering me at all.

Some cherry picked reports are not ESL - smm

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On my account, these reports require more unpaid demographic work and the dictators mumble very fast, so there are multiple blanks to go to QA, bumping up your QA submission rate. Some MTs just skip over very long reports, very slow PAs or residents. There are many reasons for cherry picking, not just ESLs.

I never cherry-picked - Not in MT anymore, but...

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I never cherry-picked. I wanted the ESLs, bad dicatators, difficult work types so that I always had work. In fact, I never, ever ran out of work, except for maybe holidays. Sure, I had all the crud dictators and difficult specialties, but I had work and I got good at doing crud dictators and difficult specialties.

I quit MT (not because I didn't have work), but because of the peanuts I was (in recent times) getting paid for all my toil and trouble.

It works... sm - poorhouse

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When I worked in-house, it was just me and another lady doing the hospital transcription (not path, not x-ray). She was just a terrible co-worker and daily would pick the good jobs. So, I took the most difficult dictators and learned them. Then, when she would get stuck with one of their jobs and inevitably ask me what they were saying, I'd say, "Hmm, not sure." And she'd have to leave a blank. ha! There were a few times where I helped her out only because it affected patient care to a degree. Otherwise, she was on her own.

Nothing wrong with cherry picking - IC

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If you are an independent contractor, then you can cherry pick all you want. As an IC, you work for yourself. You can decide what you want to do and what you do not want to do. If you don't want to the job, then don't do it. If you do complete these unclear dictations, then you should charge the MTSO more money for the extra time and effort it took you to complete the crap. So, if you are an IC, cherry pick all you want. Do only the reports you want to do. After all, you are not their employee...you are your own employee....do what you want. You don't need to do extra work for the same pay.

They pay me by production... - cherrypicker

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I simply do not have the time to decipher the garbage that some of these doctors/facilities send through. I'm sorry, there are certain doctors I will not do and I send them back every single time. If you want to take the time to do them, more power to you. But I refuse. My time is more important that that. Since I am not being paid for my time, I will not waste it.

You can have the crap and the pennies that come with it.

Cherry picker, beg to differ - Some are not pennies. nm

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