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I am just wondering if this is the new policy, or maybe just my little area of Nuance. It seems as if, despite my protestations, I am now forced to have 4 accounts, two of which I am unfamiliar and seem rather generic and never seem to have anyone working on them full time. On the other hand my primary and secondary are always decimated because so many people are on them now so I am forced to do the crappy overflow ones.
I really hate having more than 2 accounts, except when things are really slow, because with the razor sharp FIESA attacks, if you don't know the specs you are swimming in shark waters and you will get massacred.
Knowing the specs inside and out is one of the few ways we can increase production nowadays, and it seems by spreading the work so thinly and having these overflow accounts forced on us they are again working to lower our line count and set us up for FIESA triumphs (over us - it's obvious the biggest dynamic in this MTSO is now FIESA vs. MT or whatever they call us now).
I guess when there is no work (because they no doubt overhired or cannot manage the scheduling properly) I could study up on the specs, but still the very fact you are made to switch back and forth with massively differing specs and some really peculiar ones is an attack on our productivity and accuracy.
Anyone who has done this job knows that both client and MT are happy when the person doing the transcription knows the rules of that account, so I have to think again whoever is making these kinds of rules has never done the job, knows and cares nothing about what actually works for good productivity and happy clients. They are, again, just in it to depress our incomes and increase the ability to brag at the shareholder meetings. Ugh.