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HELP Need feedback from MMEs - someone

Posted: Jan 21, 2010

I would like to know how much of your day is spent full listening to either ILP or MTs placed on 100%. If it is 75% or more how do you survive? Do you have any tips on how to get through them faster? I must be doing something wrong. Thanks.

I think many are leaving because it's too hard to - sm

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make any money being an MME.

Also: Dictators on 100% QA. - Usually 60-80%.

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It really varies, but on average from 60-80% 100% QA. I have had a few memorable shifts where very single job was 100% QA.

I see more ESL and other very difficult dictators on 100% QA than ILPs on 100% QA right now, but that seems to vary. It must depend on when they hire a new group of ILPs and then they all start out on 100% QA.

Only tip I have come up with is when you finally get a report that comes in for QA of blanks only -- focus your attention on going from blank to blank as fast as possible. Do not let your eyes wander because if you do you will probably see bad mistakes (esp in the ILP work) and then you will be morally obligated to do a 100% QA on that report too. Otherwise, I do my job and take the time it takes, and therefore do not meet the required quota of lines per hour. But I know I have done the best job I can under the circumstances.

You are not doing anything wrong - sister

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You are not going to make any money. Hope springs eternal.....but it is hopeless. There is no way to beat the system. This is a slave job.

Full QA - violetsky

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It varies all the time, but I know I haven't been getting more than 50 percent full QA. If you are getting 75-100 percent full-listen QA, someone is making it impossible for you to do your job, because it is *impossible* to meet the MME requirement of 350 lines per hour that way. If you are on 75-100 percent full-listen QA and someone starts giving you a hard time about not meeting production minimums, I would be very upset. It's impossible. People can't read 350 words per hour, much less proofread that quickly in a comprehensive manner. Google it, get some data on your side, and then complain. Loudly. That's what I would do if I were you.

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