I actually got a pretty decent line count yesterday, but...... - dnr
Posted: Jun 07, 2011
I have finally said phooey and typed may parts of the ASR. It has been said, "but then the ASR won't learn". In my opinion, though, it has had more than enough educational opportunities to learn! Unfortunately can't F11 as I am already in the warning stage of "abuse". I put abuse in quotation marks because it is us being abused with not being able to just plain type out this cursed output. One document was indeed such a mess than I retyped 75-80% of it - it didn't "meet the criteria" for F11. But if you read MQ's criteria for F11, 99.9% of the documents do not meet the criteria. I have been told F11 jobs do not go back through for educating the ASR machine which I don't understand, but I really don't understand how their program/process works. Just know it is not working.
I did the same thing today. Took less time just - to "retype" it, but makes
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me mad to only get paid 60% of my line rate for straight typing.
Gotta fight back anyway possible. - Mad too
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I have to find a way to pay the rent! "Retyping" is only way I can get any nearly line count on ASR.
Of course, this doesn't mean they can lower our straight typing rate!! Don't even thing of it Kumar (Mr. CBay)!
This is what I do...sm - anon
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Sometimes if it is a shorter ASR report with every other word that needs correcting, I'll just put the entire report under a skip marker and then type it. Saves me a lot of time.
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