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I looked at my count thus far for "incentive" weekend and realized - DNR - just kill me now

Posted: Mar 07, 2011

My lph doing ASR is the same as my lph for straight typing!! - I'm not a fast typist anymore - hands a bit stiff at my old age. I've tried everything, including only using the keyboard and no mouse. Just too much stopping and starting - at least 3 times a line. And if it's a correction, extra time needed to highlight and type over. It felt so good to get a couple typing jobs as I had some continuity going - none of this herky jerky of stop-start-stop....... I've got my resume out there.

ASR handicaps us - Little did MQ think

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Contrary to what the Q thinks, not only is ASR more time-consuming, but it causes a whole new set of errors that we didn't have to deal with in straight typing. You don't just read the report, you have to look at EVERY-SINGLE-WORD. Then you have to go back over everything without audio to see if it reads differently. You could have blinked skipping a word. It is also scientifically known that we are able to read juxtaposed letters but still retain the meaning of the word without realizing it was spelled incorrectly. ASR is really slowing us down, but of course, the Q is blind to this, or maybe they blinked when they read the stats.

Would like to see published stats. - Adios

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Tired of the spin. Stats would be the only way to convince me ASR is what they say it is, and we should be able to make up the 40% they took away from us.

Sadly, they will never publish stats because it would show them for who they are. Only hope is to keep trying to get out of here.

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