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I have never left this many blanks before and I don't even care. - Daisy

Posted: Apr 03, 2014

Treat me like _ _ _ _, and I just want to get my hours in and punch out!

Me too. I hate leaving so many blanks. - anxiously waiting to leave for a new job

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I have never left so many blanks in my entire 29 years of MT. I have been leaving so many that I would not have before, but I don't want to leave anything that I am 200% sure of and might be disagreed with.

I am sure the clients will be in an uproar soon and we will be receiving emails admonishing us not to leave blanks.

Effectively, my QAM has said to leave blanks for anything that isn't 100% clear.

I have never wished so much bad on anyone, but I look forward to a hopeful chapter 7 and the demise of the suits' jobs.

But then - mt

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Leave too many blanks and they will dock you....its a no win situation for us!

They do not dock your pay for too many blanks. - ONLY for too many to QA.

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So.....don't send the job to QA. We do not HAVE to send jobs to QA for blanks. The Standards and Guidelines does not say to send a job to QA for blanks, does not say that ANYWHERE. Please read it and then re-read it. It's not in there.

Unless the Client Profile states to send the job to QA, then send the job through to the client. Save urself some money, honey!

As an MME who gets your blanks, I can tell you - do not care or even try anymore. NM

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xx

Whose fault is it that they don't care? - Let me give you a hint

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It might be because they are treated poorly, paid poorly, disrespected & have been set up to fail. You reap what you sow. Your company did this to them. I got out of transcription because of people like you.

People like you...Wow - CT

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For a simple statement that it is obvious when people aren't trying anymore to make such a blanket statement is a bit of stretch. Please understand, a lot of MMEs have taken a pay cut right a long with the MTs, and an additional one when they signed on to QA reports. Why? Because if a single additional error outside of a QA marker is noticed within a report, the MME is to do a full review of the report and Global reports are coming through to domestic MMEs too. At what rate? Less than half! So, keep not caring, keep sending reports to clients full of blanks. Management tracks those too. Before long the policy will read MTs submitting reports with blanks in excess of 3/4/5 or whatever will be subject to corrective action, which will be wonderful, just great, as ASR continues to get worse, pay continues to drop, expectations continue to rise.

You do know an MME is not management, right? - Please do not generalize

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An MME does everything an MT does, but just has to do some QA also. Our pay is exactly the same as an MT. As an MME I make 8/4 cpl for transcribing/editing and 3/4 cpl for blanks/full review and we don't get credit for blanks filled in. This means that if you send a report with 1 line of text with blanks, and once those blanks are filled it becomes 10 lines of text, we still only get paid for 1 line. There are days when I make less than minimum wage.

When you say "your company did this to them," I don't think you realize that MMEs are part of "them" also. We aren't management. We aren't above MTs in any way. An MME is just another tier of an MT. Just as tier 3's do an extra worktype than tier 2's, MMEs do an extra worktype than tier 3's. We get audited just as much as an MT, on reports we type as well as QA'd reports. We get judged on the blanks we can't fill in just as an MT is. An MME doesn't score reports or audit reports. We are only to leave feedback and help the MT know what would fail them on an audit. Granted, there are some bad apple MMEs who like to mark silly things wrong and are rude, just as there are bad apple MTs. Just like MTs, there are also excellent MMEs, who strive hard to help out as much as they can and be friendly. In fact, I had my manager (who is the same manager as the MTs) send out my Skype address to ask me any questions. She did so, and I've helped quite a few MTs with words or formatting they are unsure of. I don't get paid for that. An MME doesn't want an MT to fail. We don't get paid extra or have an incentive for marking errors, and I'm baffled as to why some MMEs waste their time and money marking the things that they are supposed to leave alone, commas for instance.

For all the extra work some MMEs put in to help those that need it, it is more often than not we are seen as the bad guy, hated, chastised and disrespected on this board, with rarely any appreciation. Again, an MME wants an MT to pass audits. An MME doesn't want an MT fired and replaced by a global employee. Global employee work is horrendous. If you don't agree with a correction, the MME is being too picky, or if an MME is being rude, let your QC know immediately. MMEs need feedback also and we are appreciative of it as it means we have just learned something new. Picky MMEs need to take a refresher course and get retrained on what they should and shouldn't mark. A lot of them are old school QA who used to be paid by the hour. Rude MMEs have no right to be in the position they are in and definitely should be reported. They should be reprimanded for treating an MT with such disrespect.

"People like you" sow discontent and hatred among coworkers who should be banding together to get what they deserve.

People like you - meaning

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A person who so obviously judges another person without taking into consideration the reasons behind their actions. So save the impassioned plea for someone who needs to hear it. No one made you give a snarky comment about how you can tell she doesn't care, when she so obviously wants to be a good employee but CAN'T BE under these circumstances. If you understand her situation and still have to snark at her, that is even worse.

That wasn't my comment. It was somebody else's - nm

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I don't think they are the same people - oldmt

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Don't be so quick to think 2 posts are from the same people on an anonymous chat board.

It really sounds like you want this board stirred up - Cranky

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We need to work together, not accuse each other and make assumptions. Since you are no longer in transcription, why are you here?

I don't recall accusing anyone of anything - But I have as much

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Right to post here as you do. If you want to address the topic of being divisive, you don't need to look further than the MME who was cruel to the transcriptionist expressing her frustration.

pd for all lines in a proofed report - just to be clear -nm

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I accidentally sent one through to the doc - sm

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That was more blanks then full,,forgot to click the QA button..oops, waiting to hear about that one..dont care just waiting

When the docs complain about blanks, they should - sm

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be required to play back and listen to their own dictation so they better understand WHY...

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