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So...Synernet MTs how are you liking the new VR? - up and at em

Posted: May 21, 2014

So, what do you think of the new VR? Just wondering, because I know they are going to VR and I want to apply.

How do you like it? - NM

I believe they only - MT

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hire temp-to-hire now with a waiting period of 6 months before they offer you a job if you work out. I could be wrong. You would have to ask them. If you like VR then you will like them as they are going VR this year. Same as every other place. If you don't like VR then I would try to find a smaller service to work for.

They are not "going VR." They are adding VR, but it is sm - Synernet MT

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not all doctors on all accounts, at least not now and not this year. I am not a proponent of VR, but I also do not believe in giving out misinformation.

This is very true - MT

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VR there means just 50 doctor's licenses. The rest straight typing. So no need to panic. They are very busy with plenty of work. Apply and see if you like it. Couldn't hurt.

This is very true - MT

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Not all doctors will make VR because of slowness, changing their minds, can't understand them, foreign language, bad dictators, nit picky, etc. Those doctors will be straight typed by the lucky few that won't be doing VR. I've been through this before. The lucky ones on VR will be hounded to do at least twice as much for half the pay. Welcome to the new world of MT.

Only the beginning. Been there too many times. - anon

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Oh, not all going VR!! Not until the machine learns, then bye-bye to all the American/English-speaking physicians in no time at all. You will get the difficult dictators and watch your paycheck...less than minimum wage. Stand in line with the demonstrators for 15 dollars now...that sounds like the new wonderful.

VR is here to stay and nothing we can do about it, sm - SMT

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so I see no need to be so negative. I am no fan of VR, but just starting out I am easily doing 350 lines per hour. Granted, $14/hour is not going to get me a Mercedes, but it is not going to wreck me either, plus I am determined to get faster. So far, though, I have maybe had 5 VR reports, and I see no reason to get upset when I do not have to do so. I miss the days when I made $70,000 without hardly even trying, but it does me no good to sit here and cry over what will never come back.

Please take a look above - MT

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on this forum about the Landmark MTs doing VR. That's what's coming for Synernet. Been there. It's always the same. Those people at Landmark are not even experiencing the injured hands yet. VR is never good for the MT; only the service and the doctors. The only way you could ever make the lines they talk about is if you have the same accounts, same doctors, same format all the time day after day. For services where every note is different, every doctor is different, it is a nightmare for the MT. It's hard on your eyes, hard on your mind, and especially hard on your hands. Then they cut your pay like the only thing that's important in a dictation is how fast you can put out those lines. What about all that experience and knowledge you hold in your head after all your years in the profession? You have to know when something isn't right in the dictation. Production is now the bottom line. Some of those notes you will fix something in every line, but get paid half what you were paid before. Some of them you could have keyed faster without it. I still have trigger thumbs from my last job in VR. Glad I'm out of this profession now. It's not anything like it once was. It's just data entry now. Speed and production. I don't even blame the services. They are just trying to keep up.

Because someone cannot make a living at Landmark sm - Apples and oranges

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does not mean that applies to all companies. LM is notorious also for running out of work constantly. I hate VR just as much as anyone else, but not all companies operate the same as Nuance, M*Modal, etc., and I am willing to see what happens at Synernet. What is the alternative? Keep running from company to company trying to avoid the inevitable? Or take an even LOWER paying straight typing job at 5 cpl? Unfortunately, MT is on the way out, and for some of us that spells a pretty bleak future, but I cannot sit here and focus on the bad. Make hay while the sunshines and sock away all the cash I can. Synernet still has matching funds for its 401k, and every little bit helps.

I'm not impressed with Dolbey Fusion speech compared to others I have used. sm - Disenchanted

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Of course, part of it may lie with the people setting it up. Things that are supposed to be listed according to the account specs are coming in as paragraphs, so you have to change all of that. And unlike some programs, if you put a period to end a sentence (that the VR should have done), it doesn't automatically capitalize the next letter. I'm relieved that it will only be 5 or so docs on each account so far, but it is getting really annoying really fast.

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