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Ever feel like you are being set up to fail - mom2huskies

Posted: Oct 02, 2013

I just cannot seem to get my line count up no matter what I do. I have an account that I am doing for the UK and it is a struggle. Being bounced around to a new BOB every 2 months or less does not help. I have got my second warning about my line count, never had this problem before. Oh well, maybe getting fired is not such a bad thing though.

Feel your pain - mt

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Too bad we can't swap accounts. - Transcribed in UK a looong time.

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Wouldn't it be great if we could just switch. Never gonna happen though. UK dictation is such a markedly different style and it takes a while, but if you can stay on it long enough you might just love it. Not if you have to switch back and forth between the US and the UK, though, that is really too much to expect of a person, esp if you are getting scolded for line counts. That is just craziness.

Yes. I try my very best every single minute of every single shift (sm) - Broke

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and struggle to get my minimum requirement. I have stopped proofreading and now just leave blanks without much researching because I just don't have that luxury. I never had this problem before. The platform I work on is so slow and I have so many accts that I can't even count and I'm at the point that I just do the best I can. In the past 6 months or so I have seen my line count take a nosedive, my benefit rate drop a couple dollars, failed my 1st audit in 15 years. Yup, I feel like I am being set up to fail.

Set up to fail....absolutely! - sm

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I have done MT for 25 years. My employers and/or doctors have always been very impressed with my work. I have made $30,000 to $40,000 for years until coming to MM, which was an acquisition. Now....I hope to make $25,000 if I can stand it that long. With the VR, EMR, over-staffing, and just plain mismanagement of the work flow, I have been reduced to sitting at the computer 10-12 hours a day trying to get in 8 hours work.

Accounts are pooled together with numerous pages of ridiculous specs. They could all be changed to a standard universal set of specs and the clients would never even notice. There are so many dictators to cater to now that it makes it impossible for you to become familiar enough with them to do anyone's reports without a lot of research. We also spend as much time on this research and the demos, or lack thereof, as we do on the report itself. This results in lesser quality reports even from the best MTs.

Sitting here for hours clicking a button to request reports is soooo very boring. I am losing interest fast.

As far as a 99.6% accuracy rate, really......? No one does that consistently. I don't care how many audits you do pass. If the company wants to, they can audit enough of your reports until you do fail.

Say you make 8, 9 or even 10 cpl. If there is no work, what is it worth? Can you work for 7 cpl as an IC and make more, even after you pay for your benefits, because there is more than enough work and no just sitting there clicking and button? I am beginning to think so.

Not only has MM reduced their MTs to this nonsense, as well as cutting their pay and benefits, they have reduced the quality of their work.... but that's okay I guess because they made TAT, but I do believe they are setting themselves up to fail as well because of their unrealistic expectations and total mismanagement of their accounts and employees at the same time.

Oh, and what I consider to be my true failure - sm

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While I am relieved to finally make the 1200 line requirement after 10 or more hours simply trying to get the work, it is a production that I am not proud of at all, and certainly should not be any MTs goal. I consider that my failure, caused by MM, and they are cheating themselves as well.

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