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Soooo tired of cherry pickers!! - MT2020

Posted: Dec 07, 2009

Just had to vent.

MT2020 - sammysue

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I'm not "up" on all the tech lingo and slang. What is a "cherry picker"?

Supposedly.... - Old part-timer

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Supposedly, it is someone who chooses the dictations they want to transcribe, throwing back the long dictations and poor dictators. However, given that at MQ you get the next dictation in the queue, I've never understood how they think some people "cherry pick." Even if you throw it back, if you sign back on, it pops right back up again.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I wish someone would explain how someone can cherry pick!

oldtimer - sammysue

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I see. I don't see how that can happen either. Thanks for letting me know what it is. (I thought maybe it was a job of some sort so my next question was going to be "does it pay better than MT'ing?) haha j/k!!

In addition to which if you do skip jobs - your CCM will contact

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you at the end of the month and give you a warning because they show up on your stats. I think you can "break" a job and not have it come back though. But if you abandon it, it will always come back. So not only do I not understand how people can cherry pick, but I don't understand how someone would know someone is cherry picking. People are masked differently according to job types they do, accounts they do, if they're new and still in training. etc.

I think that's backwards - anon

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I think if you abandon it, it doesn't come back, but if you break it it does unlrdd you change an incorrectly entered WT you aren't authorized to do. You should change the WT before beaking the job or it will come back.

Not all companies are the same - MT

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There are companies where you can see the jobs that are available and have the ability to set your jobs anywhere from 0 to 5 to load and certain MTs wait till the docs they want come up then load 5 jobs at once then change their queue back to 0. This is cherry-picking.

But this is MQ board so assume OP - talking about MQ ? NM

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NM

Yes, that is cherry picking - MT2020

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And, you can send jobs back in Voicewave. How do I know they are doing it, when you get a job out of sequence, that just happens to be long. And my CCM says there is no way to know for sure who is doing it. They just assume it is a job released from hold by RSO. No, you can't skip in DocQScribe.

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