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I hate really short reports.. - frustrated


Posted: Aug 07, 2012

Most of the time if a report is a minute or 2 long, that's no big deal. But I just had a report that was all of 20 seconds. I spent more time in the ADT screen (verifing and adding in things the clinet wants) than I did proofing it (ASR report like always), and it ended up being a measly 2 lines. Wow, I just made a whole 8 cents. That will almost get me a package of Ramen noodles.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Love short reports and thank my lucky stars for help on long ones - just me #1

[ In Reply To ..]
Most of my reports are 10-15 seconds long to at the most 2 minutes. Luckily, I am not on a platform, as one service I worked for, it took 25 minutes to fill in all screens and stuff for a 2- to 3-liner report... I can only transcribe short reports and am so extremely thankful for the transcriptionist helping me!

I feel for you and hope your day gets better.


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