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In Re: 600 lines a day at Softscript - Inspector Clouseau says
Posted: Apr 01, 2012
If only this were an April Fool's...Have you tried looking at the line counts in the line counter for split jobs you do as another starting point for where your line count woes come from... Inspector Clouseau would like to know. LOL
what are you talking about? don't follow you with this. - nm
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oh, never mind, I see - geeze think you would keep it all - together? nm
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It isn't just Softscript. I'm willing to bet ALL MTSOs - are cheating us on line counts! (nm)
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been going on for decades. sm - nothing new really SM
[ In Reply To ..]I do know common letters (a,e)can be counted as many times on one hit as they set it, and omit certain strokes all together as in the case of 'not paid for spaces'.
That's the problem - it started out all fair and square until MTSOs boomed and got cut-throat with each other as well as the MTs.
I would not put it past the MTSOs to be doing things such as adjutsing high for the client's count/invoice, and setting low for our line counts/paycheck - on the same work produced.
Heck, are we sure the client is being billed per line if we are working the acount on a per line basis? or are they billed, say, per page or minute, if it averages out better for the MTSO who then pays us per line for those accounts that average low lines?
There really needs to be come policing and standards set - but it's a new age with these online professions-turned-bullcrap, and ain't technology grand?
Would you - explain this...
[ In Reply To ..]"I do know common letters (a,e)can be counted as many times on one hit as they set it, and omit certain strokes all together as in the case of 'not paid for spaces'."
What do you mean by counted as many times on one hit as they set it?
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