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quality essay - sm
Posted: May 01, 2013
Is anyone having a problem coming up with words to write up a quality essay? They gave us the outline and everything, but they mention all their great tools, and I think of the report look up with all the errors, and think... Is this the quality you wanted?
I wanted to mention that penalizing us for QA use promotes poor quality, that putting us on a gazillion accounts promotes poor quality!
I guess I am just feeling to crabby today to write an essay. I just wish they did a random drawing instead of making us jump through hoops.
I had wanted to write about MM's quality hinderances. - but then they gave us parameters
[ In Reply To ..]I really wanted to write about my commitment to quality despite my horrifically low wages and despite the ways MM makes it more difficult through poor ASR with now "natural language" adding to the difficulties, and the patient always comes first.
But, what they really want is marketing material - See what our transcriptionists do to ensure quality and how important they think it is!
Since you couldnt write what you wanted, I hope you didnt - write anything at all. nm
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I did not write anything and have no plan too. - nm
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I don't plan to either.. - me
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks to their generous ASR pay, at the age of 60 I am now working 2 jobs. The little time I have left to spend with my family I will NOT spend writing a stupid essay.
Pffft on them! If they want marketing material, let - them pay an ad agency like everyone else! (nm)
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Again, if you cant write what you want to, dont write anything - nm
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We should come up with some nice sounding key words to - work into the essays, so when sista MTs sm
[ In Reply To ..]read the essays, we will know what is really being said.
Like the word encourage means bad platform. Writing - any form of encourage means SM
[ In Reply To ..]bad platform. Teamwork can really mean VR sux. Excellence or any form thereof can really mean low pay. Get it? Got any to add? The more the key words turn up in an essay, the more times you really mean the key word or phrase. A word game to play on MM by the WordMasters.
And wouldnt it be great if this type of essay was the essay - that won the contest? lol nm
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Or one good essay writing MT could compose a *form* - essay & we can copy it and submit. SM
[ In Reply To ..]There are a lot of possibilities here. I am suprised this hasnt been thought of before. I wonder how long it would take for MM to catch on? Do you think Princess Amy ( or the minion she appoints to the job) would even notice all the essays were the same???
There are ways to say what sounds like a compliment - (sm) - Meerkat
[ In Reply To ..]when first heard, but is actually a put-down. I used to have a landlady that I swear wrote the book on these kinds of "reverse compliments". She could make a comment about what you were wearing, for example, and at first you'd think she liked your outfit. But throughout the day, you'd feel worse and worse about it, and by evening, the light bulb would go on, and you'd realize she had said you had trashy taste in clothes!
One time, she and her daughter were talking about and comparing their hands, and their expensively-manicured nails, because the daughter fancied herself becoming a hand model on TV.
The landlady wanted to look at my hands. She managed to cough up what at first sounded like a compliment, but later was just a hairball. (Derogatory comment). She says, "Oh... well... your hands are.... IN-TER-ES-TINGGGG..."
A little creativity along those lines just might net someone the funniest and most derogatory winning essay ever.
My mother-in-law is the queen of that - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Her first comment to me...
"Its nice to know my son is looking at the inside versus the outside."
I hope they get ZERO - essays (nm)
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