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TO SHDAs. U dont get line ct credit for all lines edited. U only - get credit for 43% of lines, even on 100% qa jobs.

Posted: Oct 07, 2014

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yeah... and you get 43% of lines for filling in one blank - and...

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you get paid 43% whether you fill in the one blank or not! If your so unhappy with it, leave it for those of us who wont complain!

that explains a lot - sm

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I get some reports where every blank I leave is filled in, don't know how you do it, but thank you!!! and then others where none of them are filled in.

I can't remember the last time I had a simple - sm

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report to QA with 1 blank...... Most are full of holes and in bad shape or need a full review. But that's all part of the job. I definitely make more money doing straight ASR rather than QA these days though.

Many jobs come to qa for adt issues. We dont get paid for - time it takes us to staighten SM

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out that mess. We don't get paid for the research we do, which MTs wont do, to fill in blanks. We don't get paid for any additions we make to a report. So when MT leave whole chunks of dictation that the qa fills in, she doesn't get paid for any of that.

The only time we get a report with just 1 or 2 blanks is when the MT sends that job to us, otherwise those reports go right to the facility.

It is just the sleazy way MM does business. And they don't want to pay make up pay but go on Performance Management and they cut your pay in half, thereby guaranteeing they will have to pay make up pay.

MTs dont get paid to research either - or to fix ADT

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And stop calling the MTs lazy if they send in a blank. You're no better than us, even if you did fill in a blank. If you were a good QA, you would realize that. When I worked in house, a girl called from home to have to boss listen to a word. 4 other people could not make out what was said. Me, with only 7 months experience at the time, heard the word and after I said it, then everyone heard it. That does not mean the boss with over 20 years experience was lazy, or the MT with 5 years was lazy, it just means they didnt hear it. Thats all!

The problem with ASR - sm

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Is that when it is wrong, it puts a preconceived idea in my head..Sometimes that creates a huge brain fart, so to speak, and I cannot for the life of me get past that to find the correct word. What helps me best with that is to immediately put a marker, try and forget what I saw, finish the report, and come back through.

I believe the 43% only comes into play when - sm

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calculating your line count quota, not pay. QA reports count for only 43% whereas everything else counts as 100% to meet your daily quota. You still get paid your agreed upon QA line rate for the report. At least that is my understanding.

This is correct! Original poster apparently misunderstood. - justme

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The original poster above is apparently confused and misunderstood something somewhere along the line. You are correct that the 43% only comes into play when calculating our lines per hour. We (QA) get paid for 100% of the lines we QA at either 3 cents per line or 4 cents per line, depending on the "Function Reason."

OP was about 43% of lines only are credited to - line count. Not about pay. SM

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So WHO is confused?

Does anyone even get QA jobs anymore? - SM

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I'll get a few a day, usually from India, but rarely more than that. I miss being an actual QA.

I'm early morning and get at least 2-3 hours of nothing else, usually all India's. - CT

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And only 43% of those lines are credited to your line ct. - sm

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Good thing I get paid for all of them. nm - CT

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Just checked my pay stub in Ultipro - sm

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I get 3 cpl for just filling in blanks and 4 cpl for doing a full QA on all lines that are submitted from the HDS (anything I type extra isn't counted). The jobs you do are listed right in Ultipro with the pay. I compared with lines in Fluency Manager and they all match up. I'm not sure where you are getting 43% of lines. Verify before you starting stirring things up.

Post is talking about LINE COUNT, not pay. MM got in trouble once - for dinking with pay, they are SM

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not likely to do that again. I am talking about 43% of lines are all that are applied to your line counts. So all that qa you are doing, you are getting LINE CT credit for less than 1/2 of those lines.

I was having trouble with my counts and couldn't figure out why they were not better. Then TL told me we only get LINE CT credit for 43% of the total lines. Just another example of MM being sneaky and sleazy.

Well, yeah. the SHDA didn't type those lines - sm

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Of course she wouldn't get credit for 100% of those lines. MM is not being sneaky or sleazy in that respect. Why would you get credit for someone's typed lines when you are essentially just reading the report with maybe a few corrections? It's not like ASR, where there is a correction every other word. The reason everybody thought it was about pay was because 43% line count credit for proofing isn't that big of a deal and nothing to get worked up about.

Obviously you have never been a QA or you would have a - sm

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better idea of the horrors they deal with. BTDT -- No thanks!

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