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Is this blank challenge over yet? - just saying

Posted: Oct 13, 2014

So sick of the emails. I really do not care what number our "team" is in, I know no one on the team anyway. If they want to reduce blanks there are better ways - talk to the dictators like they promised years ago, improve the audio, improve ASR, yada yada yada. But no. Blame the MT instead. Silly contest. All it did was encourage folks to guess in order to win a pittance gift card. Hopefully they will keep the 99.5 expectation, the only good thing that came of this supposed fiasco.

The sad part - MT

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Maybe if they had MT calls maybe you could get to know your team members. Maybe each member on your team could contribute something that would make your work easier. That's what is wrong with this company. There is no communication other that stuff that is just plain stupid. Blanks contest? I agree with you. Get the Performance Coach to build up the repository so there will be less blanks especially on ops. Let the Performance Coach spend a day in fluency and see what you deal with every day. See if they could do it. Even have the HDSM sit and work one day and see where she would be at. All they do is send out feedback in a mass mailing which is totally ridiculous. Spend some time with each MT and get to know them. It might work wonders!!!!!!!!!

I thought we had someone building - sm

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The repository, but I have yet to see anything added..And I have dictators that literally don't speak a full word and fly through op reports..They are in the repository but I am so uncomfortable with just using the samples, as they are often incorrect as well. If I can't hear it for myself, I'm not putting it in there. Maybe they should give those inconsiderate doctors standard reports??

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