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making LESS than MMEs (working for free) - L&L

Posted: Feb 01, 2010

OK, 20 min until I clock out, I pick up a 1700-sec SR report. Can I possibly make it.

Endocrine consult, and I'm thinking ASR is not too bad. Then...when I get way down in the report, I see there are a bunch of QA markers. OH, somebody else already did this.

I skip to the QA markers and bust my butt to finish this on time.

I AM NOT AN MME. I don't know how I got this report.

I checked on my statistics to see how it turned out; as an MT, I have only "correction" and "transcrption" options. I don't know what MMEs get for QA work.

Anyway, I got credited exactly --- lines for 20 min of work. Not even 3 cpl but 0 cpl.

thanks again, MQ

Someone might have broken the job because - sm

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they didn't have time to finish it. I think that's the option that will let you out of the report while saving whatever you did to it.

You will still get paid for this at ASR rate. - sm

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I don't understand your complaint. You got paid for the entire report when another MT actually did most of the report. I'd called it a rare bonus.

I got credit for ZERO/0/nada lines for this report - L&L

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As I said above, I checked my statistics. It showed up under my corrected (not transcribed) reports where yes, I do get 60% ASR rate of the lines listed.

60% of ZERO (---) lines is, correct me if I'm wrong here, but not much more than nothing.

I have never seen a report with --- lines listed for it.

1/3 hour at 0/hr is ???

breaking reports and lines - sm

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The breaking MT gets credit for all the lines at the break. The next MT only gets credit for the lines after the break. If no additional lines are added to the report by the MT who does the final upload on it, no lines will be credited to them for the report.

I hate getting reports like this. I think these reports should be treated like an ASR one and the uploading MT should be paid ASR rate on the entire report, not just what's been done after the break happened.

Sorry I'm still carping, but this is what it looks like - L&L

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and I've never seen this before.

JOBID MINUTES COUNT SCORE
15.00 100
20.27 -
2 Job(s) 35.27 100

This is on my DETAIL listing.

very very very strange

press F11 and contact ccm - helpinghand

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You should try to contact your CCM right away with the job number and client name for that and then if you F11 it clears the screen and then you would get credit for transcribing the entire report.

Thanks, I emailed her hours ago...I just don't want it to happen - L&L

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EVER AGAIN

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