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Dear MMEs - Lay off the comma nazism
Posted: Aug 12, 2013
This is to those nitpicky comma MMEs, so if you aren't one of the offenders, you can ignore this. Seriously, leaving a feedback marker for every single comma that should or should not be there in your opinion is wasting everybody's time and is making MT/MEs fear sending any sort of blanks and may make some of them guess for those accounts where blanks are sent automatically, compromising patient care, just so it doesn't get sent to you. You really should take your QA training again, because they strongly encourage to ignore commas unless it changes the meaning of the sentence. Even if you can't control your OCD, just leave a general feedback note mentioning over or underuse of commas instead of (in one report I had seen) 30! repeat feedback markers, all for commas. No, just no. While I'm at it, dashes, ignore them. If it really bugs you, just delete without a marker. These things are part of the reason why you get paid peanut shells. Your time can be spent more efficiently. This was talked about in training years ago. Really, this is why a lot of MTs hate the QA department.
Sincerely, a QC
That's what they get for promoting unqualified people to MME. - nm
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They only pay MMEs like 3 cents a line - Zoom Zoom
[ In Reply To ..]I don't think anyone is unqualified for that pittance.
Told in MME training specifically NOT to do this - anon
[ In Reply To ..]When I did my MME training a few months back we were told NEVER to comment on subjective punctuation markers. In fact, we were told to not comment on any sort of subjective or stylistic differences.
I would complain to their QA lead and they will hear about it.
Time to stand up! We "Comma Causies" must - beat back the "Comma Nazis"!!! ;D nm
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Good one! - ,,,,,,
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I, myself, would rather have . . . - anon
[ In Reply To ..]a Kamikaze or any other shot to help get through all this.
Fellow QC and I agree - Junk in the trunk
[ In Reply To ..]Who really cares anyway.
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