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Employee Satisfaction Invitation? - chillywinter

Posted: May 16, 2014

Anyone have any ideas why only certain select people were "chosen" to participate in the Employee Satisfaction Survey???

No invite - For me

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Survey - TiggerQA

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Check your junk mail. That's where mine was. Probably a sneaky way of getting out of all the horrific comments they know they'll get!

I have not received one either, and not in junk. - smt

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selective few?

Well, maybe my responses made an impact (ha!) - TiggerQA

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"Extremely dissatisfied" with just about everything, and I'm not an MT.

I dont think - I have a

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Junk mail in my MModal email and dont think they have my personal email.

DO NOT FILL IT OUT - see message

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I filled out the "anonymous" survey last year and it was like signing my own death certificate. Before that survey, I rarely ran out of work and always scored over 99%. I was still on the software my previous company used so I could see when my reports were being randomly checked and we did receive a score for each one. I usually had about three to four a week randomly checked.

About a month after doing that survey, I started having 100% of my reports checked and things marked wrong that weren't. I spent an entire weekend going through them and sending them to my QC. The grades were eventually reversed but in the meantime my accounts suddenly "slowed down" with sending work (all 9 of them)and every day I was OOW. When I did get work, it was extremely slow uploading (never had that problem before and IT couldn't figure out why??)so I dropped to an average of 147 lph.

That was the only time in my 17 years of transcribing that I ever got put on warning. I ended up having to go to part-time and eventually found another job when the person who scored all my reports incorrectly was promoted to QC and I was transferred to her team.

My responses to the survey were not mean or hateful at all. The only negatives I put on there were that the ASR reports required just as much or more work than actually typing them and that the pay for the transcription industry as a whole was pretty low.

If I could turn back time, I would have never filled out their "anonymous" survey because I'm certain it's not.

I really doubt the survey - had anything to do with it

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but if you want to believe that, go ahead.

I agree. Had the same thing happen to me. - Just because it was "anonymous" - S/M

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doesn't mean they don't know who fills them out. After I started getting harrassed, I pulled up my own copy (I copy EVERYTHING) of my "anonymous" survey form to go over it again.

The form had a mysterious number on the bottom, hidden amongst other things. I was suspicious. A few phone calls and emails to my co-workers confirmed my suspicions: The number was different for each MT. So although we hadn't given them our names, they still "had our number" in every respect.

No more employer surveys for me!

Agreed. Do not EVER trust those anonymous surveys - even surveymonkey. SM

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That was/still is the one used at a hospital where I was employed not that long ago.

I know for a fact those surveys are coded in some way or they trace whose computer it comes from if you're an employee with hospital-provided computers.

Do not ever trust anything from any employer that says 'anonymous.'

Do not also trust any kind of team representative or liason, or anything else if you're still employed in house anywhere. I did that, mentioned an idea to the MT advocate/whatever-she-was, and it went straight back to the manager and it all went downhill for me from there. She was a two-faced, backstabbing company shill, sucking up to the managers.

There was a time when people's opinions were respected even if they were different. Not any more.

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