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work harder, work faster, work extra and STILL pull - the same amount of lines per pay period. why? sm

Posted: Dec 15, 2012

work is there, runs hot, runs cold, and I plow through it thinking I might earn an extra hundred this check....only to shake my head and wonder why I knock myself out trying. For what? Make my mgr look good to her boss, make the company look good to the account?? This helps me how?

Oh, I so agree with your post. sm - anon

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It is like running "backwards" in place.

I can find a few reasons in my job. Not sure if these would apply to your situation.

First, the percentage in VR versus transcription gets higher and higher, but the speech recognition gets worse and worse. Why is it getting worse? Counterproductive.

Secondly, my supervisor keeps switching my work around so I get horrible accounts I rarely work on while I see my primary account being worked on by others. WTH? Talk about knocking the wind out of my sails. Yeah, that would be the primary that I get mostly 100% on in my QA reviews. Force me into the backups with the unintelligible mumblers and poor sound quality and there goes my scores, speed, and bonus. I could see if there was no work in my primary, but there is a lot of work there.

to the above poster (anon) - You are so right... - they know what they are

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doing. They are trying to slow you down. I sometimes see headings in the report that make no sense at all, numbers that should be spelled out, wanting you to add additional information to the demographics screen such as assistant surgeon, which normally would appear in the report, but in order to keep from paying you for it, it auto-populates into the report after you upload it.

They bounce you around to keep you from working on the accounts you know like the back of your hand because they know thats where you will make more money.

Everything is VR now, even the stuff that shouldn't be. To get a straight typing report anymore is now like a treat. Sure they will offer you 10 cents a line for straight typing because they know you wont be getting any.

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