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To those complaining of cherry picking - old and burned out

Posted: Apr 09, 2012

and really horrible dictation - what area are you in? I'm in the West and doing the worst crap I have ever come across.

My guess is that the Indians & newbies need the easy stuff... - so everyone else gets the garbage.

cherry picking - south area - fedup

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I think we lose all the good stuff to India and whereever else they outsource too also. sick of this crap. Need to send those Indian dictators to India where they can understand them.

I'm sure that's true in all areas, however - OABO

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I think the doctors who come from warm climates like India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East all gravitate to warm climates when they come here thus the work from California, the Southeast and Southwest tend to be the worst. When I worked on Denver accounts it was never this bad.

Good Guess - Indians and Easy Dictators

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I used to QA Indians' reports here at MQ (sorry MModal), and you can betcha they were the easy, easy clinic dictators. I could probably make $50,000 per year (even with ASR mess) if that's all I had to transcribe.

Prime example of cherry picking - sm

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Before working, pulled up reports in lookup and checked what jobs were in there. Started working. In 10 minutes, all of the "easier" dictators were missing from the batch of 60 jobs. I watched them disappear! Where did they go???

What is left for me... GARBAGE.

Your supervisor wanted to do them? - wheres_my_job

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I know EXACTLY what you mean. They make bogus claims of increased productivity - yeah, that's only IF you get a RANDOM assortment of work - not all the hard stuff, difficult dictators, missing demographics - I mean, if it's all hard stuff, you should get a "difficulty differential."

I think these MTSOs have nothing but contempt for us as human beings.

Other companies DO have a difficulty differential - anon

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It was one of the best compensation packages I've seen. Small company, not many people have heard of it but the work and the pay were both good. Tough reports (reports with known difficult dictators - accents, speed talkers, mumblers, etc - Op Reports, reports with grids to fill in, etc etc) all were paid more than straight forward, standard reports with easy dictators.

I dont think CCMs type/edit at MModal - nm

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Cherry Picking - Nature

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Those jobs go to MTs who do all the easy jobs and no foreign doctors or OPs. Yes, you can choose to do that...less pay per line, but more money, because you get all the easy doctors. Makes me mad too.

For what it's worth, I'm an MME in the western region - anon2

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And I just wanted to say what a great job you all are doing with these horrible reports and dictators on the system right now. I sometimes proof these reports and wonder how the heck you guys catch what's being said. You're all doing a great job with what you have to work with - nice work.

Thanks for your kind words, was kind of depressed about this this weekend. - MTnotpickin

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My MMEs in the west are always so kind and appreciative, as is my CCM. I really appreciated hearing this today, though. This weekend was especially difficult with one particular dictator who spoke no English at all and had a runny nose. Sigh. And it seemed for a long time I got many of those one right after another. Thanks for your kind words, they make it a little easier.

You're very welcome - it's well deserved - anon2

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In fact I'm QA'ing a report right now and I'm totally blown away by what the MT was able to decipher. I consider myself good at what I do, but I doubt I could've done nearly as good of a job with this report.

It's so hard to communicate this to you guys because everything is kept so anonymous in our communications but be sure to read your "general comments" on your QA feedback - I'm not sure about other MMEs but I always comment on good work because it totally blows me away sometimes. So just keep in mind when you get a bad batch of work, even if you leave a few blanks, it's truly amazing what you guys are able to pick up on, and know that your effort on these kinds of reports is seriously appreciated.

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