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Now different line requirements for SR reports vs transcription - BH

Posted: May 27, 2010

Spheris minimum line count was 127.5 lines per hour, and after taken over by Medquist, they had a meeting. They said this was nothing to do with Medquist's higher line requirement, but they said if we do only SR work, then we have to do 192 lines per hour. Straight transcription is still 127.5 lines an hour. They do pay less for SR lines than transcription, but still as long as we got our line counts in during our shift, they were happy.

How do we keep straight our line count for SR and TR? Well, we count our line totals for the day and subtract the lines for transcription reports. Or you can do it by the hour.

I feel bad about this new development. I know I am not being shorted on my pay for these SR reports, but it's just that SR reports aren't all that easy. When an ESL dictates, what appears on screen is not what they say. In one report, the word "baby" appeared on the screen, but there was nothing about a baby in the report.

Do you realize - Spherite

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that at 127.5 lph you are only making 6.37 per hour? That is less than minimum wage in most states. Even at 192 lph, which is pretty darned hard to achieve, that is still only 9.60 per hour. Unless for some reason you are making a much better rate than me. I am at 7.5 cpl TR and 5 cpl SR.

They promised they were going to put my account through some kind of cleanup, but I have not seen any improvement in it at all yet.

I am not planning to stay much longer. I had what I thought were a couple of great days, great dictators, everything went smooth. Ended up at about 220 lph. That is only 11 dollars per hour, much less than my hourly rate was before. I fear it will never be the same again and have a plan to get out.

SR has ruined my job.

Good luck with that. MQ ASR is so bad, I usually - anon

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can't even hold onto the required 150 lph.

ASR - Old MT

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I can do way more lines on straight typing than with ASR. What are these people thinking?

Same here, 150 lph not happening - Adios

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I also am looking to move on. Just not going to get better. There is no way to justify how we experienced transcribers struggle to make the minimum lph on ASR. Of course, who do they have to justify it to? That is why I am getting out. No way to get justice at MQ. Aint gonna happen.

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