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VR at Transcend - missy

Posted: Nov 18, 2009

Did VR develop Alzheimer's? It has lost everything. I am tired of no commas, periods, and everything else it reverted back to since its infancy. It is really true that now you can transcribe faster than you can edit. Does anyone even care? Do you know how many times you have to stop in the middle of labs to put in punctuation? This has been going on for over a month and I haven't noticed any big push to get it fixed. Just another way to make sure we stay poor. No one seems to care that nothing works right at this company. I shudder every time I see there is an "upgrade" because it just means that 15 more things will be broken while they make the terrific enhancements that never work right.

Seriously? - JJ

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You are complaining because you have to fix a report? If the system was perfect, they wouldn't need you. Isn't this our job? We are VR editors, we edit the mistakes...duh! Honestly, I get some reports that only need a couple of things fixed and others that are a mess. This is the job I signed on for. What were you expecting? I hope the reports continue to need constant editing because if the system gets too good, we are really done!

I 2nd that motion!! (nm) - MyT_WannyMT

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Maybe the complaint is the fact that we have to fix - tiredofit

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You're totally right. If there was no fixing, we wouldn't have a job. Maybe the complaint is that the amount of time it takes to 'fix' the report is increasing, yet the MTSOs still have the mentality that since we're only 'fixing' we don't need to be paid full rate. I can't speak for the OP, but my complaint isn't that we have more work, but are STILL paid half rate for more and more 'fixing.'

Some people have excellent VR reports, but that definitely is not the norm. All I can say to those who can't understand the frustration of being paid half rate for almost as much work is...Seriously??

should be isn't the fact. nm - tiredofit

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I also complained about the errors on VR until - Lady

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my immediate supervisor said exactly the same thing, when it becomes perfect then no job. I do not mention again. If no periods, no commas, whatever I put them in. The VR for the most part is an excellent tool to use and I could care less if doing hundred lines per hour if it adds up to a nice dollar amount at the end. I like the bottom line and that is it.

Okay, now I really have to say, seriously???? - sm

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To quote your post, 'You could care less if doing hundred lines per hour if it adds up to a nice dollar amount at the end.' How is 100 lines per hour going to add up to a nice amount at the end when only making 4 cents per line for VR? YOU'RE MAKING A WHOPPING $4 AN HOUR for all those extra periods and commas that take time to put in when the VR should be doing it in the first place. Do you realize most teenagers make more money than that babysitting??

That should have been in the hundreds of lines - Lady

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I never make only $4.00 per hour, believe you me. That was a sentence that should have been written a little different.

When you spend just as much time fixing - sm

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a VR report as it would take to type it, for HALF THE PAY, then you have a right to complain!

#@$%!@$ greedy MTSOs...

time spent fixing - sm

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is more than straight typing the report? I would find this a total waste of time.

I've been told many times in similar situations to simply delete the text and type it.

I know which dictators I get that come up screwy on the VR reports, so I don't even waste my time trying to edit those ones. Just typing it saves me a lot of time, even though I'm getting paid my VR wage diong it. I would much rather do this and get more lines in than waste time trying to edit bad reports.

Some companies do not allow you to just delete the - work and retype, even at reduced rate

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A computer will never learn like this so you would continue to see the same issues day after day and doing what you said you can do just means longer it will happen and you are the one who loses the $$$$.

This must be management and what they are trying to tell us - Missy

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is that they do not intend to fix this problem that developed about a month ago, we just have to take twice as long to edit as it would take to transcribe it in the beginning and get paid less.

I am not management - JJ

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You are paranoid thinking that I was a management post. Give me a break! I work for transcend making my little 4 cents a line. I don't know what problem you are talking about needing to be fixed, but it doesn't take me longer to edit. I edit about 2500 lines a day and do about 100 standard lines (only get a few a day). So I can at least make my $100 a day. It is not that big of a deal to me that I have to put in some commas. I happen to like editing the mistakes because it means I have a job. Did you miss my original point somewhere? I don't why so many of you can't make any money. If the work isn't there, that makes sense, but if you have work, why can't you make any money even if the report is a total mess? I don't find it hard even with the ESLs and everything else that sucks. Oh well!

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