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I wish they wouldn't send productivity statistics... - sm

Posted: May 03, 2012

It just ticks me off and makes me feel stalked. I find it extremely negative and not helpful at all.

Agree - old and burned out

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I'm not trying to go as fast as I can. At my age and after doing this for almost 40 years, I am trying to preserve my arms and hands so I don't get carpal tunnel and other physical problems from staying in one position for too long. I like to use the mouse occasionally because it gets my hands out of keyboard position. If they don't like it, you know where they can go.

I like it. - helps me get my butt in gear.

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I could use a swift kick every now and then.

statistics - fedup

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They don't take into account of having to look up words that you finally figure out the dictators are making up, new meds or old meds you have to look up because MModal still haven't listed them, having to listen to the report 10 times to figure out what they're mumbling, getting up to use restroom, stretch, eat, whatever. I just ignore them. Until they sit in my chair, they have no right to judge.

I was just thinking that this minute! - MT2468

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I am a relatively new hire but not new to the business. I got these stats today. I was thinking just now about the stalking thing. I thought I was being paranoid, but a little voice in my heart says I am right. It is a passive aggressive way of letting us know we are being keystroke stalked! No joke...

I work - for a different

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company that uses M*Modal. They watch EVERYTHING WE DO, but they can tell when we are looking things up in history, plus everything else, even how often we use each command code. I was freaked out and even put electrical tape over the webcam. But it is only their own program they are watching, right? Can they see when I pull up IE and do a search?

The company I work for doesn't count the time we are searching old reports in history against us.

About As Useful - Alias

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As their VR. I met all goals, and their suggestion to me was to use a shortcut I already use a hundred times a day!!! Another thing, nobody ever told me I was being monitored, but had a feeling something was running in the background, because of lag time in words showing up I had already typed. Sometimes I would have a whole line typed before any of the words would show up. There are times I have just sat back and waited for the words to show up. Now how's that for improving my production, Boost? Anyone else having that problem or is it just me?

inactive time - myass

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What I see is evidence of the amount of time we spend doing work-related activities that we are not paid for.

Thank you! - never thought of it like that

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I think we all should question this with CCM and put in for "downtime pay."

15% is actually the goal - slave wages

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not the average.

What is the average??? - probably 30%, hey?

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Dont know, just curious.

kinda what I'm thinking - slave wages

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we'll probably never know though.

My inactivity was 22% and I have gotten to where - I never leave this stupid

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chair. Must have been looking up old reports in DEP because I have been on unfamiliar account and have been spending a LOT of time in the old reports trying to figure out what anybody is saying. But a thank you for producing quality reports? Apparently not.

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