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100% error free work - ooo

Posted: Jun 13, 2013

Help. My self-esteem is in the basement. What do you do when you are doing your level best and still not achieving the 100% error free work required? I feel no one can do it. I quit as I was doing my very best..... What would you do? Since errors were never recorded in a percentage type review I have no idea what I did wrong? No feedback was included just told "little mistakes" - so I am guessing an a, the or an error in punctuation. My last company I did 98-99% error free. I just want some reassurance that I am not totally screwed up here. All I want to do is cry.....

That is such a ridiculous expectation. No one can do - sm

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100% error free work. I would like to know who this is to know who to avoid!

We are human - anon

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working in a field in which we are expected to be superhuman and since you know what rolls downhill and we ended up at the bottom... Please don't fault yourself for being human. I too feel like crap when I make an error and have to work on reminding myself I am human and the ones who tell me of my "mistakes" are human too and also make them.

mistakes - me

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If you think you may be making little mistakes in punctuation, maybe they can tell you what they were, so you don't do them again. I wanted to cry for 2 years and I did because of how "alien" some of these TSM's and QA people treat us. it's hard to find another job. Filing on line sucks cause they never answer. Get the local newspaper in your area and find a job the old fashioned way. You will be free of this depression most of us are going through.

ooo - Old Pro

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Please don't beat up on yourself. To ask for 100% accuracy is unrealistic, especially in this day and age of dictators who sometimes can barely speak English. I venture to say that if the person(s) who expected you to be perfect were held to the same standard, they would fail miserably. Please go out and do something nice for yourself.

What company was this and - what grading scale did they use

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Most of the companies have a very clear grading scale for errors and how they will be scored and what effect, if any, they will have on the score. For instance, using "a" instead of "the" might be marked as an error, but since it doesn't have any effect on the actual document, it would not have any points assigned to it, so if that was the only mistake made, then you would still have 100% for that document.

If the company you were working for does not/did not use clear cut guidelines like that for reviewing your work and if they did not give you any feedback on the errors you were making, then that's not a company you wanted to work for anyway.

Chin up. This was the company being jerks, not you being a bad MT.

original poster - oooo

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Thank you for your input. I actually tested for another company today and feel much better. The 100% didn't actually have a grading system- a mistake was a mistake!!! My last company before that had the error/scoring system which I did well on. I'm moving forward... I wouldn't put the company's name on here as to not to burn bridges. They were so nice otherwise. But I have learned one lesson in all this - ask what percentage do they want for returned work!!

100% error free work..YOU MUST HAVE WORKED FOR PHOENIX MEDCOM - PAL

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That is what they EXPECT!

So much is subjective! How ridiculous of these companies to set the bar this high! - PetesSake

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Really, one QA person thinks a comma is needed and another says the opposite. Of course, it's not really a sentence anyway, just a fragment, etc., etc. Then, grammar and punctuation rules evolve and add in different account specifics, and it's absolutely ludicrous to demand 100%! All it does is cause stress and anxiety.

Good grief, but it makes me loathe this industry. Don't blame yourself!

QA - ME2

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Totally agree with what's been said here.. Don't let these bullies get you down. If they had any sense or brains at all, they would know that threats and bullying only produce more stress and mistakes, and of course asking anyone to be 100% "perfect" is just ludicrous, especially with all the horrible dictators out there! :p

100% error-free work... keep smiling - anon

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Keep your chin up and just try. Nobody can be completely perfect all the time..... just try your best! Put on a smile and do not let anybody put you down.

I have a 99.9999% expected accuracy rate, and NOBODY can be 100% all the time. I catch my own errors staff and clients do not after they edit (punctuation or whatever, not major or minor medical) or even more after they edit. I find that makes me make more mistakes. Just know you tried. Keep the faith:)

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