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What is reasonable? SM - JustMe

Posted: Apr 23, 2012

I have a new job doing VRE. This is new to me and I am glad to have the chance to learn it since there are few straight typing jobs out there. However, I am shocked at how the reports look when they come to me. To say that I am doing heavy-duty editing would be an understatement! How much time is reasonable to spend on these reports? I am finding that it is taking me a great deal of time to correct them. It might be easier to just transcribe them myself in most cases. So at 3 cpl, I am making nothing. Even so, it would be difficult for me to let these reports slide past me with so many mistakes. How can one balance between doing a thorough job of editing and still keep up the pace and make a dollar?

yes... - hit the nail on the head

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That is what we all complain about!

JustMe, if it requires a lot of editing, your company is - exploiting you at 3 cpl. Some reports

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do require very little editing, almost scary clean, and those are what you should be working on at that rate. They have to know it's not sustainable, that people can't work for that money, but they'll just replace you with another short-term hire when you move on. Sorry.

A while ago when much but not all of my work was so bad I literally could type it as fast, or almost as fast, from scratch, I was paid almost 7 cpl. At that rate I made about as much editing as transcribing. These days I work with an excellent VR program at on of the biggest MTSOs which puts through only light-messy text (due to very difficult dictators and frequent sound quality problems) and make about 4.6 cpl.

I assumed... - LeavingMT

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that the statistics they have been gathering over the past years would indicate that VR is *not* saving 50% plus time as the pay rates seem to be 1/2 to 1/3rd of regular line counts. There are probably 2-3 dictators (and I work for five acute care hospitals) that I can change 10% or less of the report...the majority are 50% and some I may as well type the whole thing.

I think though in the end there are going to be like someone said in another thread someone always willing to do it for less for the "luxury" of working from home. And that's fine, it's how work is. But as to what is normal...I guess it depends on your ethics too.

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