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Do you keep a daily log of your work? - NKC

Posted: Oct 20, 2010

If so, what information do you log?

I keep a log of Job ID, dictator name, wt, and character count per report. I'm wondering how much my logging time cuts into my productivity. Especially, recording the character count because I have to go into document properties and write that down. I do that because there is no way for the MT to check her line count herself and our team lead to give us our daily line counts. So I like to make sure everything jives, if you know what I mean.

I'm just wondering out loud...

Just keep date and job#. Figure any info I need, I can get with these. - But then I have access to all past jobs. nm

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Like below poster, I do also keep notes if anything - out of ordinary happens. nm

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whatever time it takes, I think is worth it. - sm

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I keep a log with job#, WT, acct, and line count. I keep a running tab of my lph, and know how my production is, on track, going too slow, etc. But more importantly, if I get bumped from a report, or have other issues, I notate them. Recently I was called on the carpet about a major error in the way a job uploaded, and I had the information at my fingertips, in abbreviated fashion, of just what happened and it saved my neck. For me, a log is a have-to thing.

do you write it? - Depends

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I don't do anything that's going to cost me lots of time. I keep track of how many jobs I do to make sure the numbers match up and they always do at my company. No one ever asks for any other info and our platform is good so tracking isn't an issue.

However, I used to keep an Excel spreadsheet open when I worked for another company and I cut and pasted job#s with a code for the dictator for each job.

Yes, I do write it. I think I would be much slower - NKC

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if I had to cut paste into a spreadsheet. I don't know though, I may have to give it a try just to see.

The log has always been my pet peeve, but something that I feel is a necessity. I just wanted to see if other MTs keep a log.

Absolutely. In addition to lines typed, job numbers, - dictator (with a + or - to depict -sm

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whether they're good or bad dictators), I also put time started, times in and out, and more importantly, times during which I got NJA. I also make a note if the software is acting all schizoid, or slow.

I also keep separate logs online of emails between me & management regarding lack of work, etc. Just in case I need proof somewhere down the road that I just wasn't getting enough work.

Make sure it is YOUR email and not a company email acct. - If company acct. can be locked out in dispute. nm

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Yep, I use a steno pad and write/keep a page - sm - ECMT

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for each of my 4 dictators. Then I write done the time/length of the dictation, patient name, MR#, and when done the line count. Tally up the time of all my work each day too, some days 80 minutes, some 176 like yesterday (quite beat now). I advise MTSO of my counts which I get from the system line count report and they check it against their numbers. If I get in a massive amount of work all at once then I do a print screen of my work log instead of writing it all down, then cut and paste it into my steno pad, saves some time that way for sure.

No. Not normally. No doubt a personality thing largely, but - Pragmatist

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I just prefer to use that time making money and have never been that interested in monitoring.

I was systematically cheated by another employer and slow to catch on and start logging, as you'd expect, mostly because my own erratic work habits were masking the problem. Then a log was very useful, of course. And much longer ones kept by fellow workers also.

My current company does reliable counts normally, or I wouldn't be here. Even if a report is lost now and then, I'm still very solidly bucks ahead this way.

That said, when the system's acting up I will, or especially for a couple weeks prior to and after a significant change so I can see how it affects me.

Any issues to cover may be noted in the steno book I keep for work notes--if e-mails, getting tech on it, etc., aren't already sufficient. Mostly I depend on my reputation for solid work and figure if a company wants to fire me it'll find a way and if it wants to keep me it will.

I'm the same way - sm

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It's almost surprising that I don't because I'm a little OCD about other stuff, but this is just too much extra work for me. If you look at it pragmatically, if they're looking to screw you out of lines, they're going to have the line counts rigged anyway, so writing things down is not going to help a whole heck of a lot. Maybe I'm just lucky with the work situation, because if there is anything "unusual" that happens, my supervisor and I have open communication and email/IM trails, so I don't sweat it a whole lot.

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