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Let the nickpicking begin. - sm


Posted: Jan 10, 2013

well, I have now begun to experience the petty QA dings.   A lab value "of" vs lab value "is", and removal of a comma.  And in one report, three terms that are easily found were blanked as if QA did not know what they were.  Well I knew!  Man, I am so glad I am out of here.

I hear you.... - Rose

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I just posted below about Fiesa. I have been taking it with a grain of salt since it started, but I have had enough. I can't imagine who or how they came up with this quality assurance program, but it is really silly. I have decided that I will not check it from now on and just see what happens.

Same boat... - recentlyoutsourced

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I don't even bother looking in FIESA anymore, let alone the "major" error emails I get. FIRE ME...I would make more on unemployment! Thank GOD I start a new "paid by the hour" job the end of this month!

Nothing will happen. I don't check mine anymore. - mt2

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All it does is tick you off. I just log in, work to make a buck, and log out. I also do not work "mandatory" hours and I especially do not work OT. I have been job hunting since I started here.

I could see the point IF - sm

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We did the same speakers every day, same reports every day, made the same errors over and over. I get an urgent 1 point error about a dr I've done once in my life, have not done since, will probably never do again. I enjoy learning something new every day, but my brain can hold only so much information. The fact that (and these are made up names, although not far off from what I am exposed to ) Dr. Extreentuiyx is the signing physician for Dr. Vloopixxy is not something I can be bothered to remember, especially if the speaker himself refuses to fill that in in the report or even dictate it.

question - me too

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How do you not work mandatory hours and what is that?

Would I be nit-picking if I pointed out that the phrase is "nit-picking"... - anon

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Sorry... maybe I've been a transcriptionist too long. lol.. no offense meant.

But according to an online dictionary, "nit picking" is the act of removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from the host's hair.

Hopefully you get a chuckle from this.

LOL. pretty funny! IMO, the only reason for - this nit-picking is SM

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to prevent you from getting a bonus. They could care less if you somehow "learn" something from this. This is totally about greed. Many sociopaths run companies, did you know that? Very unfortunate it has come to this.

I agree with you 100% - anon

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They feel they have us on lockdown.. stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm hoping eventually the tide will turn and enough people leave the industry so that the ones who stay become valued again.


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