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How does QC improve line counts when there is never any work? - Another QC


Posted: May 22, 2015

We are told in a very rah-rah manner to "Improve your line counts and this grid will be great!" There is not enough QC work to perform as it is when all we need is 150 lph. What will happen Saturday when we go on production and need to bang out the lines and there are no lines to be had? This is total madness for them to even attempt this. Making plans to get out ASAP.  

The work I do Friday will be considered meeting metrics if I do 150 lph at 99%.  That same work the next day will give me minimum wage, less than a teenager at McDonald's.

QC lines - anonmt

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It seems to me you are making India wages now which is what they want to pay everyone! So glad I got out. Nuance just s**ks. A horrible place to work.

QC line counts - frustrated MT

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Welcome to my world. Good luck finding something else.

They will get what they pay for. No more going - the extra mile to complete that report.

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Garbage in, garbage out. 50 blanks from a cell phone dictation? That's what they will get back. Stuttering, confused ESL? Blanks and nonsensical sentences is what they shall receive. Yes, my QC friends, all in the name of patient safety!

I agree. sm - Another QC

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Nuance wants my pay to be minimal, my effort will be minimal to match the wage. They surely don't expect great care to be taken at that salary, do they? I'll do the least possible to get the report out reasonably accurately and don't care at all about filling in blanks. Judging by the way we are scored, they care more about a comma in the "right" place than blanks filled in, anyway.

How does QC improve line counts when there is never any work? - Another QC - QC2015

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Please note that you have to have a min of 180 lph to be on the grid as our lines are x0.5, which means you have to divide your hourly lines by 2. So, the goal amount of 187 we had before put us at the very minimum on the grid.

So why bother with quality anymore - SoonToBeExQC

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If you can't make the line count you drop down to minimum wage. If you get one major error you get dropped down to minimum wage. Why bother with trying to do a good job anymore. Why bother with going that extra mile to get that blank or figure out that lab value. Doesn't matter anymore.


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