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To the AP transcriptionists: Now that there is a line requirement and an hours requirement (sm) - wondering

Posted: Sep 25, 2012

what are you all doing when there is no work during whatever your shift may have been? Are you having to make up the hours elsewhere? (That could lead to potentially a lot of bouncing around the shifts trying to find work.)

Just trying.... - vwmt

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I went from productively working 4 hours a day to nonproductive 7 hours a day. Last week was really bad for me, but now I just guess what will happen will happen. I have less than half the lines I should have by this time in the pay period.

no work on my account :( - waiting patiently

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The account I normally transcribe on hasn't had a single job today. Not sure what's going on??

I'm no where near the required line count/hours (due to lack of jobs available)... getting nervous!!

do you think the QA team gets jobs.... - curious

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wondering if QA team/management who transcribes as well gets jobs sent directly to their queue and we get leftovers?

more I think about it..... - vwmt

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I think maybe you're right, especially since they said not to send the ones to QA with 1 blank on a 1 page report. And, I didn't get anything back from QA this week at all, so wondering if they're doing more typing?????? All I know is, I'm worried:-(

If that's what is happening - worried too

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management should have the decency to tell us so we can make our own work schedules accordingly. Sitting here waiting for jobs that will never make it to the common pool is a waste of time and VERY unfair.

So far (knock on wood), I've been able to - transcribe steadily during

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my shift. I've been dreading having to hop around to other shifts to find jobs, but so far it has not happened to me. I barely make the required lph and feel totally wiped out at the end of my shift, but I'm hoping I will adapt. Right now it feels like when I first started transcribing...so stressful.

what shift? - anon

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Did I miss an email? I thought we were free to work whenever as long as you work at least 20 hours a week and no more than 40.

By "shift" I just mean the times I normally transcribe. - Nothing dictated by management.

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I've always thought we were supposed to give K a rough idea of when we would be working, and that is what I mean by "shift."

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